European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Park will Roll Manassas a. A the Walt Disney co. Unveiled plans thursday for a theme Park where visitors would relive great moments of history on a 100-acre site in the rolling Hills of this civil War Battlefield Community. Confirming widespread speculation Peter Rummelt president of Disney design and development co., said his company either has purchased or has options of 3,000 acres for the theme Park. Rummell acknowledged that a Host of zoning environmental and transportation hurdles faces the project but he told a packed news conference that we Don t plan on failing. We re Here because we think we can Suc Rummell declined repeatedly to cite any estimate on serbs free 2 to Speed evacuation Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a bosnian serbs on thursday re leased two Security men they had abducted from a . Armoured vehicle ending a stalemate that had left More than 100 would be serbian evacuees stranded. One bus carrying evacuees left the Sarajevo bus station and a second was to follow later in the Day said Ray Wilkin son spokesman for the . High com missioner for refugees. Wilkinson had no details about the freeing of the two men both croats who were plucked from a . Armoured vehicle monday. They had been guarding a delegation of croats including the roman Catholic archbishop of Sarajevo who were heading North to Cool croat Muslim tensions. Serbs stopped the Convoy and pried open an a Mored personnel Carrier with crowbars. About 350 serbian civilians had been permitted to leave Sarajevo on monday in the first such evacuation in six months but a final group of More than 100 were left stranded until the two men were freed. A surge of shelling tuesday and wednesday in Sarajevo killed at least 17 people most of them children and time Friday november 12,1993 says i the Cost of the investment which would be Disney s third in the United states in addition to Disneyland in an Aheim calif., and Disney world in Orlando Fla. K it s still moving around Rummelt said of Cost Esti mates. It is in the hundreds of millions of dollars but he said he expected that the Park which would open in 1998, would generate $1.5 billion in tax revenues to the state and to Prince William county Over the next 30 years. Disney had looked at As Many As 15 Sites before settling on Haymarket va., two Miles from the site of the Battle at Manassas or Bull run Rummell said. The Loca Tion is about 40 Miles West of Washington . Although plans Are for the Park to be dominated by period piece exhibits and to feature plays and re enact ments of historical events it also will have some of the rides and attractions that Mark other Disney operations. The attractions will include a detailed civil War Era Village that will be the Hub of Disney s America Rummell said. A presidents Square celebrating the birth of democracy and those who fought to preserve it. A native America exhibit exploring the life of the nation s first inhabitants and including a White water River raft expedition. A civil War fort in which guests could experience the turbulent times of War an that would include an exhibition on the historic Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac battleships. A . Armoured vehicle leads a bus with civilians through Sarajevo s Airport thursday during an evacuation of More than 100 people. Wounded about 100. A 9-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl whose legs were shattered by tuesday mortar attack on a Sarajevo school were airlifted to Italy on thursday for treatment. Wilkinson said each child had suffered two broken legs and might face amputation. They can t be treated properly Here he said. Wilkinson also reported plummeting morale in War torn Mostar after the destruction of a treasured 16th Century footbridge and severe shortages of food and Medicine. Even grown men were openly in tears and despairing of the future of the town Wilkinson said citing reports from a Field officer. He said morale took a massive blow tuesday when a barrage of croatian tank fire destroyed the famed Stone Bridge Over the Nereiva River. Possible suicide pact prompts Alert Frankfurt Germany a authorities tight ened Security at German prisons thursday and put jailed red army faction terrorists under special 24-hour guard to prevent them from carrying out a mass suicide officials in Munich in Southern Germany and in Kiel in Northern Germany confirmed that they had evidence that hard Core members of the leftist . The officials who requested anonymity said the in formation came from red army faction suicide pact reportedly includes Brigitte Mohn Haupt who was arrested on nov. 11,1982, and is serv ing a life sentence at a prison in Lihach near Munich. Mohnhaupt is considered a Leader of about 10 hard Core terrorists serving life sentences at prisons scattered around the country. Officials said it was not Clear if her arrest Date had anything to do with the Date of the scenario is similar to that which preceded the deaths on oct. 18,1977, of terrorists Andreas Baader Gudrun Ensslin and Jan Carl raspe in Stuttgart set Amrheim prison when word of joint suicide plan was also leaked the statement said. Officials have said Baader and the others killed themselves in a suicide pact. However red army fac Tion sympathizers have maintained Over the years that they were murdered. The hard Core red army faction group include convicted terrorist Eva Haule who is on trial in Frank Furt for the 1985 car bombing of the . Air Force Rhein main a. Some truckers protest Rise in fuel prices by the associated press. Independent truckers across the United state staged scattered protests Over diesel fuel Price increases thursday and two trucks were hit by gunfire. Some haulers chose the driveway Over the Highway rather than risk violence. We be pulled All our trucks off the Highway said Randy Buck of Buck cargo co. In san Diego. Leaflets circulating for weeks at truck stops across the country warned of a widespread shutdown of truck traffic. There were no confirmed reports of any far reaching shutdowns by midday. Two trucks were hit by gunfire in Northwestern Ohio. Neither shooting caused any injuries. Many Industry officials said they expected Only sporadic demonstrations. Wildcat demonstrations in the past occasionally have resulted in Highway shootings or altercations at truck stops and some Independent trucking operators said they would not be sending their Drivers out thursday. We re worried about them said april Baer who dispatches is Independent truckers from her Eugene ore., office. There la be those crazies out there that will try and Stop diesel prices Rose As much As 40 cents a gallon in some parts of the country recently because of new fuel taxes and a requirement for More expensive cleaner burning fuel. Madame Tussaud s eyes times Square London a Madame Tussaud a the famous London waxworks is negotiating with new York business and civic officials to open another museum in Manhattan s times Square the company said thursday. Juliet Simpkins a spokeswoman for the Tussaud group in London said the company had drawn up plans to build a museum on 42nd Street and had submitted a proposal to the times Square development project. Whatever we do in new York will be totally different from what we have on show in London. The settings themes and personalities will All be different naturally with More of a focus on America and new York in particular she said. Our discussions Are Well advanced Simpkins said but declined to indicate the size of the investment How Large an exhibition was being planned or when it might open. Madame Tussaud s is one of the most popular London tourist attractions drawing about 2.3 million people annually to the site on London s West end where about 350 Wax figures Are on display. The London museum adds and retires about 20 figures each year according to Simpkins. Tussay ads also operates a museum in Amsterdam Netherlands
