European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 15,1953 the stars and stripes r Page sat least 30 die in Cairo Boulder slide Cairo Egypt apr thirty people were killed tuesday when a Mountain face collapsed and boulders the size of houses rained onto one of Cairo a poorest sections. Police said about 10 other people were missing. Dozens of victims were trapped under debris after a 200-Yard Wall of Limestone Rock buckled about 4 . Police and sol Diers worked late into tuesday night to Rescue survivors and pull out bodies. An 8-year-old boy Anton Lamai was rescued from the rubble 10 hours after the collapse. His father March said three other sons were killed by the falling boulders according to Egypt a Middle. East news Agency. Rescue workers were hampered by mud from the previous Days rain and bulldozers sent to Clear away debris could not get into some narrow streets of the Al Zaraya area which Means a a alleys in arabic. The death toll reached 30 by evening the Interior ministry said. Brig. Osama Mohammed Mansour head of the local police said 21 people were rescued from the debris. At least seven others in Homes at the fringe of the collapse also were injured. The boulders a some of them 20 feet High a demolished nine buildings and damaged four or five others beyond re Eair each two and three Story building used several families. Subhi Sader 21, whose House was left with a huge Hole said he was awakened by what sounded like an explosion. A we thought it was an earthquake a Sader said. A i woke up my Brothers and my Sisters. When All the dust went away we looked and saw that the Mountain had  it was not immediately Clear what caused the collapse of the Wall of Rock rubble is cleared tuesday from a Section of Cairo Egypt after boulders from a Mountain broke free and flattened a residential area. From the Moat Tam Hills which separate the Eastern Edge of Cairo from the desert. Rescue workers said that the face of the Mountain apparently had been weak ened by quarrying. Mondays Rains could have loosened the Rock further. The areas chief landmark is a popular tourist site the Citadel which was built by the Muslim conqueror Saladin in the 12th Century. A _ but few tourists visit Al Zaraya Home to Many of Cairo a a Balcun a those who make their living collecting garbage and Selling whatever can be  reportedly links Jackson boys los Angeles apr Michael Jackson a former maid reportedly claimed to have seen him in a Bath and Shower with naked boys and said the superstar would sometimes rub youngsters against his Crotch. Blanca Francia who worked for Jackson for five years said she quit in disgust two years ago according to the los Angeles times and the to show hard copy. Citing unidentified sources the times reported tuesday that Francia told investigators that she saw a naked Jackson with at least two nude boys once in a Whirlpool Bath and once in a Shower. She also said she found Jackson and another boy together in a sleeping bag the times said. Francia is not the first employee to accuse Jackson. Five former Security guards for Jackson sued the entertainer last month claiming they were fired because they knew of his alleged activities with boys. Jackson 35, remained in seclusion at his Nev Erland ranch monday. He returned Friday from Europe where he underwent treatment for an addiction to painkillers. Francia is scheduled to give a deposition today in a lawsuit accusing Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old boy. Jackson has said he is innocent. Francia told hard copy that Jackson called boys a rub bad and would rub them against his a private  she said she cleaned a a a hideaway where Jackson would escape with Young friends. A i saw Little things like rubbing a boy against his body. He had boys sitting in his Lap and rubbing them a she told the to show it was not Clear from the hard copy interview whether Jackson was clothed at the time. Hard copy producer Cheri Brownlee who read portions or the interview to the associated press refused to say whether Francia was paid. Ulster peace Hopes Are raised London apr prime minister John major and Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds will meet today the government said As both sides claimed to be near a common approach to peace in Northern Ireland. The agreement to meet in London a after two intensive but inconclusive meetings this month in Dublin and Brussels a raises Hopes of a promised joint declaration. A we Are very close to agreement. It is Worth persisting with in everybody a interest a Irish foreign minister Dick Spring said shortly before the Surprise announcement. The announcement from majors office tuesday night followed a Day of Telephone Calls Between the British and Irish leaders and 12 Days of closed door talks involving their closest advisers. The Irish government has insisted that any Anglo Irish statement must offer a real Prospect of persuading the Irish Republican army that its 23-year Campaign against British Rule of the province should end. But major looking Over his shoulder at Northern Ireland a pro British protestant majority is keen not to be seen offering any substantial Concession to the Ira. A i Welcome the meeting and in a concerned about it a said John Taylor an Ulster unionist lawmaker who said recent weeks of secret negotiations Between London and Dublin had infuriated his protestant Community. A a it a much better to bring the thing to a  but he added that if a a they be gone for a document to satisfy the Ira then certainly you have big problems on your  complicating any Brit Iiah Irish Effort aimed at placating Ira supporters is the substantial threat posed by protestant based paramilitary groups which have threatened to step up their killing Campaign against Northern Ireland a Catholic minority if Britain concedes anything. Already the so called a a loyalist groups have killed More people this year than the Ira. Nonetheless Reynolds team Hopes that a bold Brit ish Irish statement affirming the a a valuable goal of a United Ireland might persuade the Ira to Stop its killing thus allowing sinn fein the Ira s Legal political supporters to join negotiations on Northern Ireland a future. The British Are More Cool about that Prospect. Black Hawk hit by army officials flak Washington apr defense Secretary Les Aspin is considering phasing out the army a Black Hawk helicopter program lawmakers say. Seeking to head off that possibility 28 senators wrote to Aspin and urged him to save the program. They argued that terminating the Black Hawk would threaten a an entire Industrial base network Quot much of it based in Stratford conn., at Sikorsky aircraft with its 11,000 employees. A it appears that the department of defense May be preparing to abandon the future of Utility helicopter production a the lawmakers wrote Aspin. They noted that the Black Hawk is the Only army Utility helicopter in production and that Sikorsky is supported by a network of suppliers and subcontractors that Are a perilously close to  Sikorsky delivered the first Black Hawk to the army in 1978 in an Effort to replace the Huey helicopters used in Vietnam. Since then the Black Hawk has become the army a main mobility Workhorse. The letter responds to a confidential recommendation by the army to Aspin that Black Hawk purchases be phased out. The army is in the second year of a five year contract with Sikorsky for 60 Black Hawks per year. This year s defense budget contains $234 million for the second round of purchases. A congressional source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the army setting new spending priorities is asking to make a Radical reductions in the 60 that it is supposed to buy next year and to buy no Black Hawks in the final two years of the contract. Sikorsky aircraft a division of United technologies corp., apparently heard of the army recommendation and rallied its allies on Capitol Hilt