European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 6, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11typhoon kills at least 39, ravages Southeast India from wire reports Madras India �?1a typhoon that pounded Southeastern Indian coastal areas Over the weekend left at least 39 people dead 20,000 Homes in ruins and thousands stranded in flood swept areas local authorities said sunday. About 45,000 people were reported displaced in the former French Colony of Pondicherry alone. In neighbouring tamil Nadu state rescuers evacuated several thousand marooned residents to higher ground. Indians Southern railways said All train services to and from Madras the country a fourth largest City and capital of tamil Nadu had been crippled because of damage to railroads in the southernmost Indian  ferry runs aground Helsinki Finland More than 1,300 passengers were evacuated sunday from a finnish Terry Wasa Queen after it ran aground off the Northwest coast in a snowstorm. Quot there was no danger to anyone during the evacuation a a said Taito Rintala a spokesman for the Silia line ferry company. Quot the operation went smoothly in Calm  the ferry ran aground late. Saturday soon after leaving Vaasa 260 Miles Northwest of Helsinki. It was headed for Umea in Northern Sweden. The e ferry ran aground because of a faulty rudder Rintala said but there was no danger that the ship would sink. Quot most people continued their partying in the nightclub and restaurants on Board until we began the evacuation at 3 a.m.,&Quot Rintala  on kurd party assailed Bonn a several thousand people joined rallies and marches in various German cities saturday to protest the recent Banning of the extremist kurdish workers party pkg in Germany. A. Police said that about 1,000 kurd and germans demonstrated in Hannover about 1,500 marched in Stuttgart and hundreds of others joined protests against other cities. The protesters demanded the lifting of a ban. Against the pkg a marxist organization that seeks autonomy for the kurdish areas of Southeastern Turkey. The Bonn government banned the pkg a week ago claiming that it was responsible for Quot terror attacks not Only in Turkey but also in Germany where it is believed the the extremist movement was behind a recent series of attacks against turkish nationals and  topples Lenin Moscow a an explosion knocked Down a statue of Vladimir i. Lenin in russians North Ossetia province sunday a Day before president Boris n. Yeltsin was scheduled to visit the restive Region. The blast in Vladikavkaz capital of the province May be a message of Defiance to Yeltsin who is to arrive today. The area part of the russian Northern caucasus is a Center of resistance to Yeltsin a draft Constitution. Local leaders say it would not give the Region enough autonomy from Moscow. Last August explosives damaged the Bronze statue of Lenin the founder of the soviet state that oppressed some ethnic groups in the caucasus. This time the blast brought his likeness Down and shattered windows in nearby houses the news Agency itar Tass said. It was not known who planted the  blasts kill 63 Beijing a explosions at firecracker factories in one chinese province alone have killed 63 people and injured 52 others in recent weeks an official newspaper said. Saturdays Xinmin evening news of Shanghai seen sunday in Beijing said 26 people died nov. 25 in an explosion at a private firecracker factory in a Village in Hebe province near Beijing. One employee survived. An Accident two Days later at another Rural factory injured nine people it said. Altogether 18 blasts at fireworks factories in Hebe have killed o3 people since Early november. The Beijing City government outlawed use of firecrackers in most parts of the City beginning Dee. 1, partly out of safety  begins Tbilisi Georgia apr georgian authorities introduced bread rationing in their capital sunday and began distributing bags of flour to supplement the meager bread allowances. The action in Tbilisi followed a drastic Cabinet decision last week to reduce the daily per person allowance of 14 ounces of bread to 10 5 ounces and to compensate the loss with a 6.6-Pound bag of flour each month. Bread has become the main food of Many georgians but the mounting Energy crisis has Ted to a 30 percent slump in its production. The georgian Economy has been devastated by civil War and crime and the country a average monthly salary is around 40,000 coupons a less than $1. The georgian government Hopes that the distribution of subsidized flour will encourage people to bake their own bread. Despite the extraordinary measure chaos continued to reign around bread stores in Tbilisi on sunday and most of the City a 1.3 million residents were unable to obtain the , israeli slain in attempted hijacking of bus holon Israel apr a palestinian gunman tried to Hijack a bus South of Tel Aviv on sunday killing one israeli before a Soldier shot him to death officials said. It was the first major palestinian attack inside Israel since the israeli Plo autonomy agreement coming in the Wake of settler attacks on palestinians in the occupied territories. Later israelis gathered at the scene shouted Quot death to the  the extremist group islamic jihad or islamic holy War staunch opponents of the israeli Plo peace plan claimed responsibility for the attack in a leaflet issued in the occupied Gaza strip. The attack came just eight Days before the deadline for Israel to Start transferring Power to the Palestine liberation organization in the occupied Gaza strip and the West Bank City of Jericho. Thirty five palestinians and 12 israelis have been killed since the sept. 13 signing of the israeli Plo Accord. Deputy defense minister Mordochai Gur said an israeli Soldier was wounded in the bus attack and radio reports indicated that at least one other passenger was in Jurod. Authorities said the gunman driving a stolen car pulled in front of a bus idling at a bus Stop where about 20 people waited. He got out of the car brandishing a gun and a knife and began firing into the bus. Army sgt. Shlomi Malka who was Riding in the bus said the Driver pushed the palestinian out the door and Malka then ran to the Back and shot the attacker dead through the window with his m-16 Rifle As the bus pulled away. A eyewitnesses said soldiers at a hitchhiking Stop 20 Yards from the bus Stop also opened fire on the attacker. The Driver said he believed the Man killed was the lust one getting on the bus when the palestinian opened fire. In Ca Quot few people will get their flour immediately because it will take time to deliver the bags a said gig a Kik adze a manager at one of Tbilisi a seven giant state bakeries. Bread rationing announced by the government last month was postponed until sunday while the revised quotas were fixed fuel for delivery vehicles was secured and extra Security for bread outlets was put in place. Armed troops began protecting bakeries delivery trucks and stores wednesday amid a growing number of violent attacks on bakeries and fears  riots. Bread is the Only product that still receives a heavy state subsidy and is affordable for All georgians. Many georgians mostly pensioners and other elderly people were deprived of bread under the previous Quot first come first served distribution system As stocks were sold within minutes in often violent scrambles. Most of Tbilisi a bread stores have been reinforced with newly welded Metal bars to withstand the crush of people and to protect their staff from  prefer As London up a polled britons favor Prince Charles Over his son Prince William As the heir to the throne and just Over half believe Charles and his wife should divorce. The findings in a mail on sunday newspaper poll were collected from 1,033 britons on Friday just hours before Diana the Princess of Wales said she was cutting Back her Royal duties. The 32-Ycar-old Princess whose separation from Charles was announced by British prime minister John major last december said she was reducing her Royal duties because overwhelming inter Cost in her private life had become a hard to  according to the toll conducted late ast week 56 percent of those questioned said Charles a a should become King Prince William when Queen Elizabeth ii Dies while 31 percent backed 11-year-old William his eldest son. Charles won 63 percent support for whether he should become King if he divorced Diana. Thirty one percent were against such a move. Despite the level of Media interest in the lives of Britain a Royal family 71 percent of those questioned said Charles and Diana a separation had not changed their respect for the monarchy. Only 25 percent said the split had decreased their respect. A f French informed on holocaust poll finds Paris apr the French know far More about the holocaust than americans and Are less Likely to believe revisionist theories denying the murder of 6 million jews by the nazis according to a new poll.1 the poll conducted by Louis Harris France for the american jewish committee found that 5 percent of the French respondents said it was possible that the holocaust did not happen compared with 22 percent in a similar poll in the United states last year. Denying the holocaust is a crime in France. Ninety percent of the French respondents could identify Auschwitz Treblinka and Dachau As the Sites of world War ii concentration Camps compared with Only 62 percent in the United states. Auschwitz and Treblinka Are in Poland while Dachau is in Southern Germany. Asked about the Symbol Many european jews were forced to sew on their clothes during world War ii 88 percent of those polled in France correctly identified the yellow Star of David. Only 42 percent of americans knew the answer while 22 percent mistakenly thought jews had to Wear a Swastika. Quot the results in America Are the result of widespread ignorance a said David Singer research director for the american jewish committee. Quot americans have a pretty Loose grip on their own history so european history is even More daunting. For most americans the holocaust is just a detail a footnote in world War  the poll found that 79 percent of the French see the holocaust As relevant today. Singer said his organization which works to encourage the teaching of the holocaust in Public schools also plans to conduct a poll about the i holocaust in Germany c in France the holocaust has been part of the history curriculum for High school students since 1981