European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 11, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11 Beirut Lebanon apr former militiamen Are digging their camouflage fatigues out of the closet and bullets Are whizzing again in the Hills Overlook ing Beirut. Yes Lebanon a civil War is Over. This time around the lebanese Are Only playing at War using phony guns with exploding pellets filled with Pink and Orange paint. A one gets the same sensation of War the same adrenaline Tush. The Only difference is you done to die a a said George Abboud a 31-year-old former militiaman. Abboud owns the Obaye country club where he introduced the american game a month ago. He plans to seek government approval to stage an International paintball tournament in downtown Beirut a War shattered set Ting that would add a touch of reality to the game. A a a a in a sure our team will win. Its the Only sport that the lebanese can compete in internationally and win a said Abboud a maronite Christian who was 13 when he began fighting with real guns. A i wish we had paintball before the War. We  Nave destroyed this  in paintball the players use Carbon Ide powered a a Quot s thate Xii tearing victims with paint. Dioxide powered guns that fire Marble size balls that explode on Impact splat paintball started in the United states in the Early 1980s, but Abboud said he waited for the War to end before introducing the game to Lebanon. A the 15-year civil War which ended in bullets to october 1990, killed. 150,000 people displaced 500,000 others and caused at least $25 billion Worth of destruction. The lebanese even those who did not fight in the War have brought their expertise to the game. They Duck curse and take aim like True professionals. A some refuse to Wear the Olive Green uniforms provided by the club preferring their own authentic camouflage outfits. For some of the players paintball kindles dark memories of the Battles they once fought and their hair raising brushes with death. But it also provides comic Relief. A in real War you done to laugh. You kill and you can get killed a said Marwan Quot Dinard 28, a Mechanic who was a gun Ner with the lebanese forces a Christian militia. Pierre Gemayel 22, son of former president Amin Gemayel whose 198288 term saw Lebanon slide into one of its worst eras of anarchy said paintball is a Good training for people who want to learn How to  the country club is Northeast of Beirut in the Christian heartland. So far most players have been christians but muslims Are starting to join the fun As the word spreads. The dub has five paintball a combat zones a two wooded ravines a mock de Sert an empty building and a Rocky slope. Hie game and 80 a a bullets Cost $30. If an exploding paintball hits you you re out of action. The Winner is the a a militia with the most survivors. Tot in . Court Preston England apr one of two a year old boys accused of murdering a toddler kicked him in the face a forensic scientist testified wednesday. Scientist Phillip Rydeard said he experimented by attaching the boys shoe to a child size puppet. A the bruises on James Bulgers face Are entirely consistent with a kick or a blow from a shoe which contains distinctive features found in child a a shoe a he said. Rydeard a evidence on the eighth Day of the murder trial followed testimony from pathologists who said 2-year-old James journey across Liverpool ended with dozens of fatal blows to his Small body. The defendants whom the Media May identify Only As child a and child a Are accused of abducting James from a shopping mail feb. 12, walking and dragging him 2vs Miles and bludgeoning him to death on a Railroad track. His body was found two Days later. It had been sliced in half by a train. Rydeard said the Black shoe used to kick James belonged to child a who according to prosecutors told police that he was there but Only watched. Child b confessed to stoning the child prosecutors say. Both boys have pleaded innocent. They were 10 at the time of the slaying and Are the youngest children Ever charged with murder in Britain. If convicted they would be held indefinitely. On tuesday pathologist Alan Williams told a hushed courtroom that James suffered 42 external injuries including some caused by the train after he died from multiple head injuries. He said James was hit at least 30 times and was dead when he was struck by the train. Cultural treasure destroyed shelling on tuesday finally destroyed a 16th Century Bridge seen Here As it appeared last week in Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bridge which had been co Sld cred an architectural treasure had miraculously survived 18 months of War with some damage. On wednesday Bosnia a government began allowing 150 serbian civilians to leave Sarajevo. It was part of a program to allow some evacuations from the War torn capital. Shopping carts with brains Speed up checkout process Amsterdam Netherlands apr smart carts that let shoppers ring up their own groceries Are the latest Tim saving device aimed at cutting the nations checkout lines. The supermarket giant Albert Heijn is experimenting in one of its 600 stores with shopping carts that have computerized bar code readers attached. A it speeds up a process that some customers find tiring Quot said Mirjam Iverson of to the National research Institute. To developed the portable scanner system that allows shoppers to record the prices of groceries As they put them into the Carf. With the a self scan system they pay for their purchases without the bother of unloading the cart. Iverson said the scanners which have three buttons Are easy to use. One Button records and totals the prices another subtracts the amount if an item is put Back on the shelf and the third transfers the data into the store computer at the Cashiers Booth. To guard against customer mistakes and pilferage some shoppers Are selected randomly to go to a Standard checkout counter where the cashier totals the prices. A to use the scanners the customer has to have a special card Piterson said. A if a customer makes too Many mistakes he has to give the card  museum s Security measure apparently leads to break in Stockholm Sweden a an Art gallery preparing to open a major Joan Miro exhibit turned off its motion sensor alarms overnight so that a guard and dog could walk around More easily officials said wednesday. As a result a thief broke into the Malmd Kon Sthall in Southern Sweden on tuesday night but took Only a cellular Telephone said gallery chief Sune Nordgren. The break in occurred two Days after Sweden a biggest Art burglary in which thieves broke into Stockholm a museum of modern Art and stole $52 million in works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Police said there were no clues connecting the Stockholm burglary with the break in in Malmd 380 Miles to the South. In the Stockholm Case alarms apparently did not work and a guard with a patrol dog noticed nothing As the thieves Cut through the museum roof and lifted out seven framed paintings and a Bronze sculpture. In Malmd the guard dog did bark said Nordgren which May have frightened off the thief before he took anything More valuable than the phone. Nordgren said that the motion sensor alarms had to be turned off when the guard and dog were present but normally would be on when they finished their patrol. He said More patrols outside the building were requested to improve Security. The mir6 exhibit with 80 sculptures and three textiles on loan from the mind foundation in Barcelona Spain was to open saturday Nordgren said he said the exhibit which also features 154 original posters by mir6 from a private swedish collection is Worth several Hun dred thousand dollars