European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday. January 28,1994 fashion designer reportedly scraps trip because of fears from wire reports Berlin top fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has reportedly cancelled a Public appearance in Berlin for Security reasons after he infuriated muslims by using verses from the Koran on a strapless gown. Muslims in several countries protested against the revealing dress with verses embroidered on the. Front. It was worn by German supermodel Claudia Schiffer in Paris this month As part of the Chanel collection. Chanel has hired a bodyguard to protect Schiffer because of threats she received since modelling the gown Schiffer s Mother told Bild newspaper this week. The Berlin daily newspaper by said wednesday that Lagerfeld had decided not to come to the German capital to accept the newspaper s culture prize today for Security  in a front Page Story by added that he had been threatened by Muslim  Lagerfeld a German designer who works in Paris has apologized for using the koranic verses and said he was told the verses were from a love poem. Bridge segment completed Copenhagen Denmark Europe s longest rail and Highway Bridge was completed wednesday when the four mile link Between the danish islands fyn and Sprog was finished. The Span constitutes one third of the planned Bridge and Tunnel link Over Denmark s great Belt Strait. Two other sections of the 11.2-mile link Are under construction to connect fyn to the Island of zealand where Copenhagen is located. Construction of the entire project began in 1988 and is to be completed in 1997. Police probe Belfast killing London gunmen broke Down the door of a House in South Belfast Early thursday and killed a 51-year-old Catholic Man in what May be the year s first sectarian killing in Northern Ireland. Later thursday morning the Royal Ulster constabulary reported an explosion in the Center of Londonderry Northern Ireland. Initial reports said damage was not extensive but one Man was taken to a Hospital. V details of the shooting were not immediately released. 3 blazes hit shopping area London fires broke out Early thursday in three big stores in Oxford Street London s main shopping thoroughfare and anti terrorist police were called in to investigate. No one was Hurt. Scotland Yard said the fires broke out in the Mother and baby Ware store Mother care at the a a department store and in the Silverdale establishment a travel goods store. Television reports said incendiary devices were believed to have started the fires but no group claimed responsibility animal rights militants and the Irish Republican army Are two groups that have frequently firebombed stores. Children s bodies found Budapest Hungary a mass grave uncovered during construction for the world expo 96 in Budapest has revealed the bodies of 50 children the daily Magyar Hirlan reported tuesday. The children aged 4 to 6, Are believed to have been buried in 1945, the last year of world War ii. Experts said the grave contained no hint about the children s identities or the Date of burial. German rightist sentenced Berlin a German court wednesday sentenced a rightist skinhead to eight months in prison after convicting him of shouting anti semitic slogans. The 29-year-old Man had previously been Given a two year suspended sentence for beating up and robbing two algerians with a gang of skinheads. The Man was arrested last year after shouting anti semitic statements while intoxicated at one of the German capital s main train stations. Berlin s lower court found him guilty of inciting racial hatred and sentenced him to the eight month term. Emergency personnel converge on a supermarket in Nice France on wednesday after its roof collapsed. Rescuers abandon search in ruins of French Market Nice France a rescuers gave up Hope of finding More survivors under a collapsed supermarket roof thursday and cranes started Clearing away 1,500 tons of Concrete slabs that killed at least two people and injured 97. Authorities said they feared at least four More peo ple might be in the rubble of the roof which collapsed at 4 . Wednesday. Rescue Crews used dogs to find about 20 survivors. But by 3 . Thursday cranes were ordered in to begin Clearing away wreckage at the Casino store on Nice s Seaside Boulevard the promenade Des Langlais. Rescue Crews have Little Hope of discovering More survivors said the governor of the Alpes Mari times Region Maurice Joubert. No signs of life have been  thirty people were hospitalized including five in serious condition officials said. Stephane Bouillon a regional government official said rescuers amputated a Young woman s  at the scene. It was not immediately known whether the woman was trapped in the rubble at the time. Some survivors said they Felt a slight trembling just before the collapse but authorities said they had no clues yet to what caused the disaster. Investigators focused on construction work under Way since december to enlarge the store. But the Casino Chain s chief executive Georges Plas sat said that the expansion had not directly weakened the original part of the store and that safety experts had approved the site a few Days ago. He said the building was about 30 years old. Laos called less cooperative than Vietnam in tracing mias Hanoi Vietnam a Laos is not cooperating As Well As it could in accounting for americans missing in action from the Vietnam War . Sources said thursday. President Clinton has made resumption of economic and diplomatic ties with Vietnam contingent on the fullest possible accounting of 2,238 american mias in Indochina including 505 in Laos. . Officials have said Vietnam is not holding anything Back. But some Mia and veterans organizations said Hanoi could put pressure Ori neighbouring Laos to open its Borders which Vietnam controlled during the War. Air Force maj. Roger Overturf a spokesman for Mia operations said that by any objective Standard the level of cooperation in Laos is not As great As it is in  nonetheless he said detachment command ers reported that laotian cooperation remains Good. But . Sources contradicted this saying the laotians were blocking vietnamese witnesses from crossing the Border into Laos to help locate missing . Airmen. The sources who insisted on anonymity said Laos would not allow . Teams into a Western quadrant of the country bordering Vietnam where 80 american air Craft were downed while supporting a South Vietnam Ese invasion of Laos in 1971. Overturf did acknowledge that during a joint opera Tion by the United states Laos and Vietnam in de Cember Laos did not allow vietnamese witnesses who the americans thought might be helpful to Cross the order. Overturf said the United states is still pursuing the Issue. Three teams totalling 30 . Specialists began the latest search operation in Laos on Jan. 12. There Are eight teams totalling More than 100 americans in Viet Nam. On wednesday the teams in Vietnam completed the biggest operation since the end of the War. Laos allows americans Access to one or two prov inces at any Given time while on the just completed operation in Vietnam . Specialists covered 15 prov inces. There have been Only seven operations in Laos in the last two years compared with 27 in Vietnam. In that same period Laos has returned 37 sets of remains believed to be those of americans compared with More than 100 turned Over by the vietnamese. In both operations this month the . Teams retrieved remains believed to be those of americans. But pending forensic reviews officials would not disclose How Many. Relatives of mias and veterans organizations opposed to lifting the Trade embargo accuse the Vietnam Ese of withholding information. The United states backed South Vietnam during the War which spilled Over into Laos used by North Viet Nam As a staging area and Supply base. Hundreds of . Aircraft were lost Over Laos. The United states Cut off diplomatic and economic ties in 1975, when the South fell to communist North Vietnam