European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday september 3,1994 Idaho senator regrets remark twin Falls Idaho a . Sen. Larry Craig apologized for suggesting to a chamber of Commerce gathering that a free White human being is an endangered species in new York City. In a talk wednesday criticizing East coast environmentalists who push for endangered Spe cies act enforcement in the West the Republican said Laws Don t protect the nation s White Anglo Saxon human  it in t a new York City problem he said. The Only endangered species in new York City is probably a free White human  later in the Day Craig said new York is a very hostile environment that he tries to  he said he meant no offence to minorities and apologized thursday. It was a poor Choice of words on my part. Absolutely no offence was meant toward any person or group said Craig a first term senator. Protestants kill Catholic after Ira truce begins Belfast Northern Ireland a protestant extremists answered an Ira truce with a burst of gun fire and claimed responsibility Friday for killing a roman Catholic Man in Belfast. John o Hanlon 32, was shot to death while repairing a car thursday night on the first Day of the Ira s open ended truce called after 24 years of violent Resis Tance to British Rule in Northern Ireland. The outlawed Ulster defense association confirmed Friday that it fired the shots and also admitted shooting at a Catholic taxi Driver who escape unhurt. Gerry Adams the president of the Irish Republican army s political Wing sinn fein appealed to his sup porters to be Calm in the face of protestant provocation. " ".  Ira is a disciplined Force and will not be provoked by anyone who is trying to wreck the peace pro Cess Adams said at a news conference in Dublin. The protestant attacks came hours after prime min ister Albert Reynolds of Ireland appealed to Northern Ireland s protestant majority to join their Catholic neighbors in the moves toward peace. Protestant hard liners have condemned the peace process As an invitation to civil War but More moderate protestants who favor British Rule Don t want their Side to be seen As the Only source of violence. The violence can Only damage the cause of Union ism at this difficult time said Jim Wilson general Secretary of the official unionist party the largest party in Northern Ireland. These attacks explode the myth once and for All that the loyalists Are reacting to Ira violence said Alban Maginness a Belfast City Council member from the social democratic and labor party the main Catholic party. An opinion poll published Friday in the Belfast Telegraph found that Only 30 percent of those questioned and Only 9 percent of the protestants believed the Ira cease tire is permanent. Cuban aboard the Monhegan a this . Coast guard patrol Craft had a close encounter with a couple of cuban gunboats thursday As it rescued refugees just outside Cuba s territorial Waters. -. It was just mess with the coast guard " said it. Steven a. Banks the Monhegan s command ing officer. It s the first time i know of a cuban Border patrol nearing a coast guard  the gunboats approached the vessel from be Hind and came within 200 Yards of either Side. The incident occurred in International Waters about 14vi Miles off the cuban coast. International Law prohibits . Boats from entering cuban Waters within 12 Miles of Shore. Earlier thursday transportation Secretary Federico Pena said during a visit to key West fla., that cuban gunboats had been spotted within the Island s territorial Waters. The general policy is to sort of stay out of each other s Way Pena said. It s worked thus  the Monhegan which spent two Days in the Straits of Florida plucking hundreds of cubans from the water had rescued a total of 161 cubans on thursday when the first gunboat approached. The Monhegan s Crew set fire to a raft made of inner tubes Wood and a sail and was preparing to move on when the gunboat sped up and overtook the vessel. A camera Crew and about a half dozen other people on the gunboat s deck waved to the rafters who waved Back after first making profane Ges Tures. The cubans had been ordered to sit Low on the deck but stood up As the two 80-foot gunboats neared. They re animals muttered one Rafter. The first gunboat swerved near the Monhegan again and then proceeded to investigate a nearby aft -.-----. The second gunboat came up on Monhegan s left hand Side. Again the people on deck waved to the rafters who wave Tyck. That gunboat also went off to investigate one of the four rafts wit insight ,. Coast guard ship they were just checking us out Banks said. If they had had their gun covers off i would have been concerned.". Banks ordered his Crew to radio the gunboat to ask its intentions but received no reply. He also radioed the coast guard s Central command to re port the incident. The Monhegan was ordered to head North be fore picking up any More rafters even though that meant leaving adrift some rafts that had already been spotted. On wednesday the 110-foot patrol boat picked up 288 of the nearly 2,400 cubans found. All were transferred to a Navy ship for transport to the . Navy base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Cubans picked up at sea Are being held at the base indefinitely under a new Clinton administration policy. The coast guard picked up More than 1,4004 cuban rafters thursday As refugee advocates told a Federal judge that about 100 cuban children were being improperly held at a detention Center near Miami. The coast guard said a total of 1,484 rafters had been plucked from the Florida Straits by 6 . In a continuation of the largest exodus from Cuba since the 1980 Mariel boat lift brought 125,000 refugees to the United states in five months. Wednesday s total was 2,159. In Miami Federal court attorneys Robert  and Leopoldo Ochoa argued that Young sters held at Krome immigration detention Center West of the City should be released in keeping with a 1991 immigration and naturalization service policy calling for the release of undocumented minors after three Days except under unusual circumstances. These children Are at Krome and there Are relatives in the Community who Are willing to take them into their Homes Boyer told . District judge Federico Moreno. In Washington ins spokeswoman Patricia Cru Biano said the policy applies Only to unaccompanied children. Another hearing is set for sept. 22. Cubans prepare to Board a raft leaving Cuba off Havana s naut co Beach on thursday the same Day a coast guard patrol Craft was approached closely by two cuban gunboats. B-29ys Rescue flight postponed until Spring Copenhagen Denmark a after weeks of Rainy weather and uncertainty american salvages headed Home Friday after shelving plans to Fly a Vintage b-29 from Greenland this year. A spokesman said the California based team plans to return next april or May to the site on a Northern Green land Lakeshore where the bomber made an emergency Landing 47 years ago. They Hope by that time Spring Frost will have hardened the gravel runway enough to enable the plane to take off from the forbidding area about 620 Miles South of the North pole. They can t take off on a soft runway. They need dry weather or Frost to get a Ard surface said sgt. Kim Andersen of the danish Navy Liaison office at Thule a Greenland a . Air Force base. The salvages needed three Days with dry weather or daytime Frost to get a hard surface on a specially made grave runway. But for weeks Day temperatures have hovered around 41, and it has been raining intermittently. They really had bad Luck with the weather Andersen said in a Telephone interview from Thule about 220 Miles South of Daugaard Jensen land where the plane was abandoned intact in 1947. The decision to postpone the trip was made wednesday said Andersen the last Crew members left Thule on Friday for the United states. The team left Greenland at a time when the world s largest Island slowly plunges into a dark and blizzard beaten Winter. It was in such darkness that the b-29, named Kee Bird made an emergency Landing on feb. 21, 1947, after falling off course and running out of fuel. It had taken off from Ladd Field in Fairbanks Alaska for an 18-hour spy flight Over Greenland. Nobody was injured. After three Days in the dark Arctic landscape the Crew was rescued