European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world thursday september 1,1994 v re a files of athletes 72 games seek German Aid Munich Germany a families of 11 israeli athletes massacred at the 1972 Munich olympics Are demanding about $40 million in compensation from Germany a government spokesman said tuesday. In a letter to the bavarian state government attorneys for  said their demand was based on new information from undisclosed file indicating that state local and Federal authorities were liable for not providing enough Security forthe athletes. International olympic committee director general Francois Carrara speaking in Paris called the demand a  but Gunther schuster spokesman for the bavarian government said the Only Legal action thus far was a letter from a Munich Law firm de manding compensation. Apparently there must have been negotiations for Many years Carrara said we Are not involved in the suit at All. We be just been in formed that s  restored synagogue opens in Frankfurt amid worries Bonn Germany a with Joy and foreboding the jewish Community of Frankfurt has reopened the renovated West end synagogue one of Germany s larg est and a crowning Symbol of jewish assimilation when first built in 1910. J the six year $5 million renovation by architect Hen Ryk Isenberg restores the Brilliant Blue Gold and a Luoise Floral columns and Walls of the synagogue in a Cecil b. De Mille style marriage of Art Deco and egyptian  the Interior was burned by nazi mobs in 1938, and Allied bombing left Only the outer Walls. After world War ii the synagogue was refurbished in a Plain style for the shattered jewish Community that remained the new renovation was begun it 1988, a time when the 30,000 West German jews Felt confident of the postwar country s grounding in democracy Salomon Korn an architect and adviser on the renovation said in an inaugural speech monday. " but the outbreak of right extremist violence in the Wake of German unification raises questions about whether we were right he said. Isenberg left the High Plain windows from the 1950 refurbishment As symbolic reminders of the nazi devastation and the jewish Community s still Uncertain standing in German life Korn said. In March right is Fig youths burned a synagogue in the Northern German dry of Linbeck in the first attack of its kind in Many years. Scores of jewish cemeteries and monuments Nave been vandalized by right Wing hooligans in the past three years. Once again jews Are painfully reminded that their right to exist in Germany is in question Korn said. Symbolically the restored building combines the traditional jewish notion that a place of worship be a tent in the desert with the modern acceptance of per manent temples outside Jerusalem said Ignatz Bubis Leader of the jewish Community in Germany. The original 1910 synagogue was an expression of the extraordinary Comfort Many jews Felt in Germany Only a few decades before the holocaust. Secure in their identity As Loyal germans of jewish Faith Reform jews built handsome temples whose Middle Eastern motifs symbolized their feeling that the new holy land was Germany Korn said in an interview. The West end synagogue burned nov. 9, 1938, the Kristalyn Takht in which jewish places of worship and property around Germany were trashed and hundreds of jews were beaten or dragged off to concentration amps. Cable car Accident kills Lone occupant from the associated press Rome a Cable car on the Tramway that ascends Mont Blanc crashed on the French Side tuesday killing its sole occupant a worker,.ltalian news report said. ,.-. Another car full of tourists had arrived at an intermediary station Joist before the Accident police said. The tourists waited in a Lodge until rescuers brought them Back to the Jase on the italian Side of the Mountain which straddles France an Italy. Previous news reports had said the car was stranded above the slope of the Mountain. State television said bad weather had apparently discouraged the usual crowd of tourists from taking the ride for the Alpine View thus avoiding a worse disaster. Election triggers riot i Tapa Mexico upset Over alleged election fraud about 200 men armed with rocks Sticks and machetes blocked the Highway and stoned vehicle sin this town in the edgy Southern state of Chiapas. About 1,500 others seized City Hall. The protesters tuesday were upset Over results of the aug. 21 election. Locally the results showed the ruling party candidate Eduardo Robled Rincon winning As governor with 51 percent of the vote mexican and foreign observers reported hundreds of to in irregularities but Are not sure the results were significantly affected. Nationally institutional revolutionary party candidate Ernest Zedillo won the presidency and the party kept its 65-year hold on Power with a Strong majority i Congress. Mushrooms kill 4 Komsomolsk on amur Russia four people have died of mushroom poisoning in the russian far East As the mushroom picking season opens Theita Tass news Agency reported tuesday. Doctors unsuccessfully tried to save two men monday in this City 120 Miles West of Russia s Pacific coast. Two other peple died recently in the nearby City of mushroom gathering is a popular pastime for Many russians in the late summer and Early fall