European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday january 9,1994 re at a glance Shannon Faulkner is fighting to be come the first woman in the Cita Del corps of cadets but the school in South Carolina is not surren Dering its 152-year-old All male tradition easily. Sec Story on Page 6. Of cleanup begins Crews in puerto Rico tried to Stabi Lize a crippled Barge that dumped Oil into the Ocean off san Juan and began cleaning up a Beach Black ened by the spill ". Pages seeking answers Black politicians and others met in Washington o.c., in a desperate search for answers to the crime rav aging Many . Communities. Pages popular feline Theo theoklitos receives applications for credit cards and is a finalist in a sweepstakes. But the 6-year-old Black cat is unimpressed. Page9 astronaut wife sued an astronaut and his wife Are the targets of a suit filed by a woman who says the pair harassed her after she gave birth to a child she claims the astronaut fathered. Page 11 More flooding feared a thaw and a forecast for rain renewed worries of More flooding in England. Page 12 Viacom  the Ante Viacom increased its Cash offer and agreed to merge with blockbuster entertainment As its bidding War Over Paramount continues with the ivc Home shopping network. Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers. 17 classifieds. 24-27 commentary 15 faces n places 17 Horoscope 26 letters. 14 Money matters. 20,23 Mutual. 21-23 sports. 29-36 weather 16  rebels suspected As car bomb rocks mall Mexico City a a taxi packed with explosives blew up in a Park ing lot underneath a shopping mall Here Early saturday barely a Day after rebels were implicated in two bombings East and West of the capital. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the car bomb explosion which red Cross spokesman Joaquin Ibarra said injured at least one woman left a Hole in the floor and damaged about 20 stores. But suspicion fell immediately on re Bels involved in guerrilla fighting in Southern Chiapas state. A police spokesman would say Only that the bombing was being investigated. The army estimates 105 people have died in fighting in the South since it broke out new year s Day most of them re Bels. Saturday s explosion followed the by Nam iting thursday night of two 400,000 Volt electrical lines in nearby Puebla and Michoacan states. Callers to newspapers and radio stations said the rebel group was responsible. It came shortly after Midnight after a top government official went on National television and radio Friday night to accuse the rebels of trafficking in arms am bushing soldiers and extorting Money from indians in Southern Mexico. They Are two faced Friendly and civil with tourists in san crist6bal de Las Casas and extremely violent and bloody with our indigenous and Mestizo mixed race compatriots in oco Singo Deputy Interior minister Socorro Diaz said. Some leaders of the Zap Atista army for National liberation have been identified As highly trained combat experts Many of them foreigners or with links to leftist guerrilla groups in Central Ameri Ca she said. Others Are from the poverty stricken Southern state of Chiapas where the re Bellion erupted Jan. 1, but were manipulated or pressured into joining she said. The rebels who take their name from the Early 20th-Century mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata say they Are fighting for poor mayan peasants for socialism and against Mexico s elite. An american artist who was visiting relatives in the town of Hui Tan when it was seized by about 200 rebels last Sun Day said he doubted the government s Contention that the uprising was the work of outsiders. There were Only Tzotzis indians in Hui Tan and their weapons were very primitive Randy Browning of Dallas said. I spoke to some of the rebel Lead ers who said they decided to fight be cause they were dying of hunger Worms and  . Embassy personnel got word Browning was in Hui Tan and arrived in an unmarked Van tuesday after rebels had left to evacuate him  family. Meanwhile heavily armed troops continued to Block highways and soldiers con ducted House to House searches Friday for Indian rebels who appeared to have re treated into the Mountain forests and Jun Gles at least for now. The mountains of Chiapas state which Borders Guatemala and the Pacific Are sprinkled with caves and other potential hideouts. The army appears to be hunkering Dow for a Long haul bringing in new equipment daily. Journalists meanwhile reported fresh rocket attacks East of san Cristobal about 450 Miles Southeast of Mexico City. In Mexico City about 10,000 demonstrators Many carrying signs and banners Back ing the rebels marched Down a major thoroughfare Friday evening. Traffic comes to a halt Friday at the 1-95 North South split near Providence ill As snowstorms continued to plague much of the East havoc from Page 1 hours. Schools and offices opened late or not at All. Hospital pharmacist Jackie Lannotti who had to get to work skipped City streets to take the commuter Tram but her walk to the station had its own hazards. I still fell a couple of times she said. In Lancaster pa., people were sliding All Over the place. There s been a steady Stream of ambulances said Joan Hess at St. Joseph Hospital. It s mostly fractures bumps and bruises from people falling on  and those who stayed Home had their own problems. About 34,600 Monongahela Power co. And appalachian Power co. Customers throughout West Virginia had no Power Friday night and officials did t know when it would be restored. And a lot of West Virginia residents had time on their hands schools closed statewide Friday for the fourth Straightway. There is however an upside. Business at just for travel in Stamford conn., shot up 25 percent last week. There s been a lot of people calling saying can i get away Friday or sat urday to someplace warm " co owner Thomas Rusin said. I just had someone at my desk who said i have to get away from this mess As soon As possible " untouchables7 author Fraley Dies at 79 fort Lauderdale Fla. A Oscar Fraley the writer whose meeting with Eliot Ness Over drinks spawned the novel the untouchables died of complications from a hernia and stomach sur Gery. He was 79. The Philadelphia native wrote about 30 books with two in the works when he died thursday night. The untouchables was written after Fraley a former United press International writer spent a night drinking with Ness a Federal agent and Chicago mobster a Capone s Nemesis. He started telling me All his Al Ca Pine stories Fraley said in a 1987 inter View i said Why Don t you write a Book he said you write it " the Book published in 1957, became the basis for the movie and television series of the same name. Other books included Hoft the real Story two untouchables sequels and Golf instruction books written with Lee Trevino and Sam Snead. Fraley retired in 1965 after 25 years with up including coverage of four olympics. He is survived by his wife Imogene two sons Michael and Timothy and on grandchild. J Fraley was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Gulf Stream