European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday novembers 1993 the stars and stripes Pago Chancellor Helmut Kohl parliament speaker Rita Sussmuth Hamburg mayor Kenning Vos Chenu and the Prol Dent of Germany � supreme court roman he nog my to right gather at the memorial s dedication sunday. War memorial in Berlin stirs bitter memories Berlin a paying homage to War dead Isas Complex in Germany chief aggressor in two world wars As its attempts to reconcile with an ugly past. The National War memorial dedicated in Sun Day s Rainy chill is , the Choice of Day was problematic. Sunday was memorial Day and that meant the usual Trou Bles with Neo nazis. Police arrested More than 140 extremists on sunday who tried to defy a ban an rally South of Berlin at the site of world War h s last big Battle. But the shrine itself set in old Central Berlin in a neoclassical Temple with a nazi history was the dominant that it docs not adequately separate victims from persecutors the Leader of Berlin s jews boycotted the ceremony. So did leftists and nazi Vic Tims groups. About 200 protesters shouting Ger Man criminals Are no victims heckled Chancellor Helmut Kohl president Richard von Weizsacker and other dignitaries sunday after they Laid wreaths inside the the roughly 1,000 people who gathered across the Street from the Neue Wache new guardhouse building Many associate with prussian militarism Many were opposed to having a memorial at All. The Centrepiece of the Neue Wache shrine is a Bronze statue of a grieving woman holding a so lulled in War an enlargement of a 1937 work by a the Kollwitz an ardent pacifist whose works were banned by the nazis. Mother with dead son has urns bearing thrashes of an unknown Soldier a resistance fighter and a death Camp victim at its feet. The statue sit bathed in Light behind doric columns in an otherwise empty proposing the shrine last year Kohl insisted it soldiers in Berlin take part in the dedication of the memorial to victims of War and dictatorship. Be dedicated simply to victims of War and tyranny a phrase that lumped together is soldiers with jews they killed in Gas Chambers As Well As German civilians killed by Allied bombs and later victims of East German heated debate it was agreed to specifically name on one of two tablets at the shrine s Entrance the jews gypsies and homosexuals murdered by the nazis though neither Adolf Hitler nor the nazis Are mentioned. But for some that was not a joint memorial to those killed in War and the victims of nazism one no longer differentiate Between the guilty and the innocent said up Sci Vadehra Jonas spokeswoman for the former victims of nazi persecution. Also boycotting sunday s dedication was the leftist Alliance 90-greens party which called on berliners to attend alternative rallies such As a commemoration atthe ruins of former Gestapo Headquarters. Doomsday Zzz is leaving god in jail Kiev Ukraine a confounding the prophesies of a ukrainian doomsday cult and its imprisoned Liv ing god the world failed to end sunday afternoon. Members of the White brotherhood had expected the highlight of doomsday to be the suicide and resurrection of their self styled Messiah Maria Devi Krystos. Instead of ascending to heaven in a huge Ball of flame Krystos spent sunday in prison where she is facing charges of hooliganism and seizing state property. Police arrested Krystos and her husband cult founder Yuri Kory Volohov along with about 60 followers wednesday inside the 11th-Century Cathedral of st. So phia in Kiev. Two busloads of police monitored the Square outside Ukraine s oldest Cathedral sunday an hospitals braced for some sort of reaction from cult members to doomsday or its failure to materialize. Two women who came to the Cathedral were arrested on suspicion of belonging to the cult. No Ball of fire. No resurrection. Just a quiet Day. Krystos whose name was Maria Tsvi Hun before she declared herself the Messiah in 1990, claims a following of tens of thousands of people worldwide. Officials suspect Krystos a former communist youth Leader and journalist and her husband of giving mind altering drugs to their followers Many of them teen agers who left Home to join the White brotherhood. Jerusalem a Israel accepted the Plo condemnation of the killing of a jewish settler but pressed Yasser Arafat on sunday to exert More control Over the occupied territories before the implementation of Day before peace talks were to resume israeli police minister Moshe Shahal said the chairman of the Palestine liberation organization must rein in the radicals especially those from the extremist Hamas and the islamic jihad groups which oppose Israel Plo peacemaking. This is what we expect from him and this is his is How we will know How the agreement will Prog Ress and what will be the extent of his validation on the ground Shahal said after the weekly Cabinet meeting. On saturday. Arafat issued a statement denouncing the oct. 29 killing of jewish settler Haim Mizrachi that Israel says was carried out by members of Arafat s own Fatah faction of the Plo. Israel said the condemnation the first time Arafat denounced a palestinian attack in Israel or the occupied lands would enable peace talks to resume. When the Plo condemns terrorism it is definitely necessary and Good but it is not enough. The Plo needs to show at least preliminary signs that it is starting to Andis capable of controlling the area said environment minister Yossi Sand one of the most Liberal members of the Cabinet. Since the sept 13 signing of the agreement eight israelis have been killed. Only Mizrachi s death has been linked to the Plo. Foreign minister Shimon Peres called Mizrachi death an exception and said the Plo As an organization is fulfilling its obligation to halt also sunday an Arab israeli legislator said that Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat will hold a Sec Ond Summit meeting next month in Cairo Egypt. Abdel Wahab Darawsheh a member of Israel s parliament from the Arab democratic party said the two leaders will Meetin the first half of december to narrow the Gap that has developed in peace talks Between the two and Arafat met oct. 6, when they announced the formation of negotiating committees to work on implementing the Israel Plo Accord signed in Washington. The Accord Calls for an israeli withdrawal from the occupied Gaza strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. Jackson beats it As press goes wild London a Jacko you can t hide head lined the sunday Mirror. But pop superstar Michael Jackson appeared to be winning his hide and see game with the world s Media sunday. Jackson dropped out of sight Friday after announcing he was cutting Short his dangerous world concert tour to get treatment for an addiction to reports said he left Mexico City for London and possibly Switzerland where his Friend actress Elizabeth Taylor owns a chalet. But there were no sightings of the elusive Singer or his and camera Crews staked out the exclusive charter clinic in London s Chelsea District for second Day sunday. But the clinic which provides drug rehabilitation treatment and guarantees privacy resolutely refused to say whether the Star was there. I cannot confirm or deny that Michael Jackson inhere duty manager Jane Pitcaithly said. It is not offi Cial policy for us to comment on patients who visit our clinic. We sign an oath of in a recorded message Jackson said his painkiller addiction was caused by anguish Over the investigation into a 13-year-old boy s claims that Jackson sexually molested him. The allegations Are being investigated by los an Geles police. Jackson spokesmen have said the abuse claims emerged after the Singer rejected a $20 million extortion attempt by the teen Ager s pop superstar was to have performed sunday in san Juan puerto Rico his first appearance on . Soil since the molestation investigation began. Britain s tabloids speculated that Jackson was fleeing from possible arrest. Drug treatment Star faces life on the run said the sunday express. Hunt for Jac Kothe fugitive said the news of the world. The mail on sunday said Michael Jackson was in hiding last night. His world tour scrapped and his life in
