European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and Stripe Germany to pull troops from Somalia by March 31 from wire reports Bonn Germany a Germany will withdraw its remaining forces from Somalia by March 31, when the last american troops ate scheduled to leave the government announced monday. About 400 of the 1,700 German troops posted to Somalia already have returned and the rest will be gradually withdrawn said government spokesman Dieter Vogel after a Cabinet meeting. The first heavily armed German Force to deploy outside nato since world War ii was sent in july to provide water and supplies for 4,500 Indian troops at belch Hun in South Central Somalia. But the Indian troops were never deployed at be let Hun so the German troops instead dug Wells and built houses and roads for the  Back . Films Madrid Spain a More than 1,800 Movic eaters in Spain were closed monday in a 24-hour strike to protest new regulations approved by the Spanish government to protect the european audiovisual Industry. The owners of the cinemas reject the provision in a new Spanish Law that forces them to Snow one european film out of every two from the United states. Business people from the Spanish film Industry claim european files Are not As profitable As those from the United states. They criticized the exclusion of the audiovisual Industry from the Gatt Accord reached last week. Spanish directors actors and politicians joined a wide group of european intellectuals who fought to preserve european culture and keep the movie Industry out or the general agreement of tariffs and Trade. Killing at least 17 people and injuring 30 Early monday police said. A a doors were locked and Only one exit emerita least 17 die in disco fire Buenos Aires Argentina a fire swept through a discotheque that was packed with hundreds of teen agers celebrating the end of the High school year Killi monday police said. It ors were locked and Only was available for the More than 500 people inside officials said. Survivors said they frantically tried to break windows to escape. A we began to run All Over a Fernanda Castro 19, told a local radio station. A everybody fell on top of each other and that was the  workers walk out Dolmen Germany a hundreds of postal workers walked off the Job in More than a dozen German cities tuesday placing logjam in the Christmas mail flood to protest stalled contract talks. The workers oppose plans to Cut 60,000 of 300,000 jobs in the letter and parcel services of the stale owned Bunde Spost and the government is not backing Down. The Job cuts Are part of a series of Money saving measures the Federal government insists Are essential if Germany is to Rideout a deep recession. As an 18th round of talks began tuesday in this Western City the postal workers Union said 1,600 members from Saar Brincken in the Southwest to Erfurt in the East were leaving Post office boxes empty and abandoning walk up windows. The Union said 50 mail cars were not dispatched from Frankfurt during the night shift. About 3v4 million letters and packages Are shipped nightly. From the City. The Job action might continue tuesday night and today depending on Progress in the talks said Union spokesman Rudi  plans Lebanon visit Vatican City Pope John Paul ii said tuesday that he will visit Lebanon in the Spring and Hopes also to visit the holy land. John Paul announced his travel plans in a year end message to cardinals. 1 the trip to Lebanon had already been reported by lebanese officials. The Pope has accepted in principle an invitation by israeli officials but such a trip is apparently linked to the establishment of diplomatic relations with Israel. The Vatican on monday confirmed that a historic agreement to forge such links will be signed dec. 30 in Jerusalem although forma relations will still be several months away. Wednesday december 22.19931 3 demonstrator a stomp on an american Flag during a March commemorating the dec 20,1989, invasion or Panama. Protesting panamanians remember u.5. Bombing Panama City Panama a Ana one Marcher in a Santa panamanians stomped on an american Flag Claus suit carried a sack of toy guns to protest the . Bombing of a neighbourhood four years ago in the invasion that overthrow Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega police estimated that As Many As 7,000 people participated in the protest monday beginning with a us mitc March by demonstrators wearing Black and waving panamanian flags. A gringos Are assassins leave Panama alone a the rowdies marchers chanted. Several Young demonstrators painted messages such As a Yankees no a on Walls and buildings As they marched by. Officially about 500 people in the neighbourhood of Corillo died dec. 20, 1989, when . Troops attacked the Central Headquarters of the panamanian defense forces then commanded by Noriega Panama a de Facto ruler but Independent human rights groups and relatives of the panamanians who were kilted insist that at least 1,000 perished. Many residents and business owners from the neighbourhood of Corillo remain angry that the american a government has not reimbursed them for property lost during the attack. Noriega sought Refuge in the Vatican embassy but was turned Over Jan. 3,1990, to american troops. He was taken to the United states where a Federal court tried and convicted him of drug trafficking and related charges and sentenced him to 40 years. Avalanche risk shuts Many ski slopes Grenoble France apr an Avalanche Alert throughout most of the French Alps caused by warm weather prompted Many resorts to close slopes monday. Two off Trail skiers died in Snow slides. The unseasonable weather which followed Early Winter storms last month set record High temperatures in Southern and Central France. Heavy Rains pushed Many Rivers Over their Banks and police said a 63-year-old woman drowned after falling into the arly River near Albertville. Yellow and Black flags signalling Avalanche danger went up throughout much of the Savoy Region of the Alps Over the weekend As Holiday skiers began heading for the slopes. Officials urged inexperienced skiers or those unfamiliar with the terrain to hire a guide. Jean Luc Maihos 28, of Paris died in a Hospital in Bourg Saint Maurice overnight saturday after he was trapped under a Snow slide for an hour officials said. He was skiing at Aiguille Gap 7,500 feet High. The area was a a risk four on an Avalanche probability scale of five introduced by european ski regions this month. Two other off Trail skiers set off an Avalanche above the Valandry resort sunday police said. One of them 19-year-old Loic Coliat of the Savoy Region suffered a Skull fracture when he was thrown against a Boulder by the slide. He was airlifted by helicopter to a Hospital in Grenoble and died monday officials said. French authorities issued an Alert sunday night for a Strong risk of avalanches throughout most of the French Alps and said the situation would remain dangerous through monday night. Around Val dts Ere one of the locations of the 1992 Winter olympics ski lifts were closed because of High winds. At one resort la Plagne rain sent the Avalanche risk scale to five. French search beaches for detonators Paris apr vast stretches of Atlantic coast Bernes were closed to the Public monday As search teams hunted for dangerous detonators that washed ashore after falling off a cypriot freighter. More in in 1,400 have been found. Authorities in three administrative regions a i nest re Morbihan and Loire Atlantique a barred Access to More than 180 Miles of Beach to anyone not participating in the search. At fast 650 people in the three departments took part in the search including soldiers civil defense explosives experts police officers and firefighters environment minister Michel Barnier said the detonators came from the Mary a a cypriot registered freighter that lost part of its cargo in the English Channel on a voyage from Germany in september. Barnier assailed the ships Crew for failing to no Bijj Rrene authorities at the time of the mishap. He said the ship was carry ing 34,000 detonators intended or use in construction projects the swedish made detonators labelled As explore and dangerous Are about 5 inches Long. Police said they could maim or kill if set off by someone who tinkered with them