European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world wednesday August 3,1994 Young girl Dies 26 Hurt in tour bus truck collision from the associated press. Neu Ulm Germany a a bus carrying children collided with a truck and smashed through a Guardrail into oncoming traffic Early tuesday. Killing an 8-year-old girl and injuring 20 other children and six adults. The collision on the a7 Highway 72 Miles West of Munich occurred at 5 . As the belgian tour bus bringing 48 children to Italy tried to pass the truck police said. A a the colliding vehicles smashed through the rail and into two oncoming cars. Two other cars Slid into the flaming wreckage police said. The Road was still closed in both directions six hours later. 81,338,000 in Germany Wiesbaden Germany a Germany s population grew at a rate of Only 0.4 percent in 1993 because of a decline in the arrival of foreigners and an excess of deaths Over births. The population numbered 81,338,000 at the end of the year. The net inflow of foreigners was 471,000 in 1993, Well Down from 788,000 in 1992. The population had grown 0.9 percent in 1992, before the conservative government passed Laws restricting the flow of refugees. The Federal statistics office said monday that the country registered 99,000 More deaths than births in,1993, higher than the 1992 figure of 76,000, 4 Safe in 2-Jet collision Montreal two British Royal air Force jets collided monday night Over Northern Quebec but there were no casualties officials said. The crash occurred As the two tornadoes were returning from an exercise in Alaska. One of the aircraft made an emergency Landing and both occupants escaped uninjured said capt. . Lacasse said Early tuesday. The two people in the other plane managed to Quot escape their Craft and were located in dinghies a emergency flotation devices carried by the planes a in a Reservoir near James Bay 500 Miles North of Quebec City Lacasse said. _ _ Dylan Thomas widow Dies London a Caitlin Thomas a boozing brawling partner in marriage to the poet Dylan Thomas died sunday in Italy. She was 81. The former Caitlin Macnamara free spirited daughter of a Bohemian family from county Clare married Thomas in 1937.they had three children a Llewelyn a Ronny and Colm. A hours was not a love Story proper. It was More of a drink Story predominantly a drink Story because _ without the first Aid of drink it could never have got onto its rocking feet a she wrote in a Memoir published in 1982. It was a famously discordant marriage with infidelity on both sides and angry scenes in Public. Dylan Thomas who was notorious for extraordinarily bad behaviour died in new York in 1953, collapsing after a night of heavy drinking in Greenwich Village. He lingered Long enough however for his wife to burst into a Hospital rom where he was being attended by his mistress. A a a is the bloody Man dead yet a she reportedly asked then bit an attendant and fought with a bystanders until she was subdued. A after the poets death Thomas found a More settled life with Giuseppe Fazio a sicilian movie director. They had a son Francesco when she was 49, but she named him Francesco Thomas and fought to gain a share of the Dylan Thomas estate for him. Attending mondays commemoration of the Warsaw uprising Are from left British prime minister John major German president roman Herzog polish president Lech Walesa and . Vice president a1 Gore. German Leader asks poles to forgive nazi atrocities Warsaw Poland apr a nation free for Only five years marked the 50th anniversary monday of the Warsaw uprising a valiant struggle against the nazis that might have succeeded had Stalin not held Back his advancing army. Germany a president issued a Public apology at the ceremony for the suffering his nation caused Poland it world War ii but russians president stayed Home. Sirens sounded across the City at 5 p.m., the hour the order to attack came Down on aug. 1, 1944. Veterans All across the City stood silent Many from the very spots where they had fought and watched friends die. With German president roman Herzog at his Side polish president Lech Walesa said Germany Russia and Poland must strive to overcome their bitter past. A history has bound us. We have to overcome our past. We have to learn lessons from history a he said before lunch with dignitaries including vice president a1 Gore and British prime minister John major. Herzog expressed shame As he toured the capital that nazi troops levelled. Quot i ask forgiveness for what germans did to you a he said in a speech to survivors of the uprising polish leaders and foreign dignitaries. Historians have questioned whether the doomed 63-Day revolt world War ii a biggest uprising on German occupied soil was a waste of 200,000 polish lives a nine in 10 of them civilian. But the revolts leaders in the underground Home army Loyal to a London based exile government said they had no alternative. Home army fighters had in previous weeks freed Eastern cities Only to wind up in soviet  uprising a desperate attempt at self liberation by 40,000 hopelessly outgunned fighters became a Symbol of National resistance through the 44 years of soviet domination that followed. A i _ Herzog had accepted Walesa a invitation to attend the anniversary though surveys showed half of the poles opposed his visit. President Boris Yeltsin of Russia turned Down a Sim Ilar invitation saying he was overloaded with work. Poles took his absence As an indication of continued Rocky relations with Russia which has opposed Poland a fervent desire to join nato. Yeltsin sent his chief of staff Sergei Filatov who said Russia a has the Power and determination to take account of the shameful mistakes of the past and not to let them be  Filatov read a letter from Yeltsin with a similar tone but there was no apology for the soviet domination that followed the doomed uprising. The revolts failure allowed Josef Stalin to Cement control Over postwar Poland which remained under communist Rule until 1989. Many poles fear resurgent russian expansionism and getting the cold shoulder from Yeltsin makes them More nervous about Moscow so intentions. In contrast Germany is now Poland a leading advocate in the West pushing for its inclusion in nato and the european Union. About 6,000 veterans of the uprising Are alive today. Some came Long distances to take part in mondays commemorations. Many had chosen postwar exile rather than returning to a soviet dominated Poland. A a death sentence from the communists awaited me if i had come Back a said Bogdan Francki 72. He settled in Kingston Ontario. _ Gore called for burying historical enmity in Honor of the uprisings victims and survivors. A a they deserve our unbending resolve a he said a to build a Europe where past hatreds will vanish in the warmth of new understanding tolerance Mutual forgiveness and common  j _ a a a a a no veterans were allowed to March before foreign dignitaries in the Days main ceremony monday eve Ning. The uprising occurred More than a year after a revolt in Warsaw a jewish ghetto erupted april 19, 1943, the first armed civilian uprising against the German occupiers in  of Turk probed for drug rightist links Bonn Germany apr a 20-year-old Turk was beaten to death and burned at a Campground outside Cologne in an attack possibly linked to drugs or right Wing violence police said monday. Witnesses said they heard people shouting a Burn the turks a before Dawn sunday at the Campground near a Lake. No one got involved and the Many a charred Corpse which had been doused with gasoline was found later by a Fisherman. Cetin Apduhan 20, was identified by his  prosecutor Rainer Gliss said Apduhan was questioned in a drug investigation in 1992 in Bremen where he was last known to have been living. Drugs might be be Hind sunday s slaying Gliss said but a right Wing attack can to be ruled out. Quot a broken baseball Bat Lay next to the victim who apparently was beaten to death. Police had no suspects. T right Wing youths have terrorized dozens of campgrounds in Germany this summer. Skinheads severely beat two youths saturday night one in Brandenburg state and the other in Sachsen Anhalt. In both cases police made arrests but. Released All suspects for Lack of evidence. _. Twelve members of the Viking youth Neo nazi group arrested saturday while performing military drills in the _ Woods near Weimar were All free by monday morning. Civil rights activists have accused police of not taking the violence seriously enough and have demanded the suspects be jailed while evidence is collected. Frequently youths picked up for xenophobic violence Are release and involved in More violence  authorities say violence has declined Thi year. Through july 14,758 acts of right Wing violence occurred an average of about four per Day according to the Federal office to protect the Constitution the Ger Man equivalent of the Fri. The office recorded 1,814 violent attacks in 1993, in eluding eight cases of murder. So far this year no death have been pegged on right Wing extremists. V