European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 2. 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 11foe on museum Montreal apr Canadas museum of humor has a decidedly unfunny problem its losing so much Money it must shut Down. The museum which has about 50 full time and part time employees has lost $200,00 l every month since it opened 10 months ago. On display Are photographs old films and other comedy Memorabilia mostly from North american comics. A a maintaining the establishment in operation could result in even greater financial difficulties a Francois Rozon a vice president of the Rozon entertainment group said in a statement monday announcing what he said would be a temporary closure. The Rozon group has invested $3.2 million into the project. It owes another $1 million and has guaranteed $4 million in Loans. The museum was seen As a Ufnar of Drain on the group founded by Gilbert Roan and a potential Handicap to Montreal a annual just for laughs summer festival. The festival run by a separate nonprofit corporation also founded by Rozon received an annual $500,000 Grant from the group. Critics said the museum was ill conceived and overpriced with attendance projections off by More than 50 percent.2 human hair Jerusalem apr israelis holocaust museum has received two rugs made from human hair that were originally in the Possession of nazi troops during world War ii officials said monday. Malvina Perata a 65-year-old widow from the Southern italian town of Salerno gave the rugs to the had Washem holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in december 1992. The museum did no to publicize the receipt of the rugs because it wanted to run tests first said curator Irit Salmon adding that the examination proved the hair was human. Perata said in a Telephone interview monday from. Her Home in Salerno that her father a train Engineer in Northern Italy brought the rugs Homey 1942 As part of loot stolen Fri fun a German army Supply rain. A my Mother used them for a few months As a bedcovers because they kept very warm a Perata said. However the family eventually began suspecting that the rugs were made from human hair a because they were so Beautiful and shiny a and when the details of the holocaust emerged the suspicions became stronger Perata said. The family kept the rugs each measuring about 1 Square Yard and weighing about 4.4 pounds in a closet wrapped in bedsheets Perata said. It the nazis routinely shaved the Heads of their jewish victims before sending them to their deaths in Gas Chambers during world War ii. Some 6 million jews perished in the nazi holocaust. In Germany the hair of holocaust victims was used for Gasket material and seals in submarines and other equipment. The nazis also removed the Teeth from holocaust victims to get the Gold fillings. Salmon said there was no Way of knowing whether _ the rugs were made from the hair of holocaust victims. Paul Brauner a forensic expert with the israeli police said the two rugs were apparently Cut from b larger piece and used As Wall hangings atone time. Brauner said no attempt was made to pinpoint the age of the hair. Seoul. South Korea apr protesters wielding steel pipes eggs rocks and cow dung battled riot police firing tear Gas in Central Seoul on tuesday after officers blocked 20,000 angry Farmers from marching to the . Embassy. At least two policemen were seriously injured and dozens of protesters and other police were Hurt in the most violent Street protest in South koreans capital since president Kim Young Sam took office a year ago. The Farmers were demanding a National referendum on the opening of South koreans markets to foreign Rice and other agricultural products. They blame . Pressure for South koreans agreement to the opening m Uruguay round global Trade talks. / two police buses were burned and two other police vehicles were destroyed by protesters using clubs and steel bars. One group of about 40 riot policemen was surrounded Ana disarmed by chanting demonstrators. Their Shields helmets and truncheons were burned on the Street. It was not immediately known How Many protesters were arrested. Simultaneously about 200 Farmers took Over the nations major North South Highway about 15 Miles South of Seoul and blocked traffic in both directions for an undetermined time the National news Agency Yon Hap reported. Violence erupted when thousands of Farmers marching from a rally to the . Embassy attacked riot police blocking a major Seoul intersection about five erupt in s. Korea anti-. Protests blocks from the embassy and about a half mile Fri the presidential mansion. A Down with president Kim Young Sami scopin Uruguay round a yelled Farmers jabbing fists in the air. A a a a a a a a a. Downtown traffic came to a standstill at the evening a Rush hour. Stores and boutiques closed and pedestrians ran for shelter. Clouds of tear Gas drifted Over the City Center. A. Police wielding 3-foot-Long truncheons fought to control the intersection. Ten Gigantic Green garbage trucks were set up As barricades and armoured multiple tear Gas launchers lined an right Lanc Boulevard. Some Farmers threw cow dung and dozens of protesters wearing yellow a Yankee go Home headbands _ threw eggs that splattered Over officers helmets and sometimes into their faces. At Nightfall six hours after the Farmers gathered for their rally fighting continued in City streets and narrow Alley ways. Students wearing bandannas and wielding clubs and steel pipes attacked police who fired tear Gas to drive them away. South koreans decision in december to open its Rice Market had touched off earlier angry protests by Farmers students and dissidents but this was the first protest in 1994 and the most violent on downtown City streets in a year. Korean Farmers claim imports of foreign Rice and other farm products would destroy the nations traditional farming culture and plunge Farmers into a crisis because they could not compete. Museum Irit Salmon curator of Jerusalem a holocaust museum examines a Rug made or human hair donated to the museum by an italian woman whose father acquired them during world War ii. A one of two carpet japanese Mart allowed to give son Devil of name Tokyo apr in a nation where conformity tends to come first a Man won a court Battle tuesday to give his son a name sure to stand out  Shigeharu satos highly publicized Case. Struck a sympathetic chord in a people who rarely take on the state. Sato named his 6-month-old son Akuma after a cartoon character who regularly comes to the Rescue of his band of ghostly buddies. Akuma in japanese Means Devil or Demon. Officials in the Akl Shima City office where Sato went to Register the boy s birth ordered him to change the name saying it might prove a problem for the boy later in life. Sato said he just wanted to make sure his child  be lumped in with a nation of satos and katos. A i believe Romance is an important part of a name a the 30-year-od barkeeper said in a recent television interview As the source of the controversy bounced on his knee. A i wanted him to have a name people would never  tuesday a family court sided with Sato and ordered Akuma a name restored to satos family Register a an official document required for All japanese. Hiroshi Fuchie of the Ukishima City office said his office planned to argue the decision with the Justice ministry. There was no immediate comment from the family. Like mothers and fathers around the world japanese parents put much thought into the names they give their children. But unlike in the United states where unusual names have become the fashion few japanese choose name Nhat would single their children out. Names usually fall into common constructions of japanese characters or chinese ideograms connoting such traits As fortitude strength Grace and Beauty. Even so Many people wrote to newspapers that they found nothing wrong with satos Choice