European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes world tuesday september 20, 1994 bomb set off near bus kills Athens policeman from the associated press Athens Greece an explosion next to a bus carrying police officers and civilian employees killed one policeman and injured 10 other people Earl  police spokesman said a blast rocked the bus at 6.40 . In Athens working class Peri sos districts it stopped to pick up personnel of their Way to work. \. Police officer Apostolos Velios 40, died of his injuries soon afterwards. Velios who was head of Athens police personnel department was getting into the bus at the time of the blast. Among the injured Only the bus Driver was in serious condition. Public order minister Stelios Pap themelis said police believed the explosion was caused by a bomb set off by Remote control or by a timer. An Anonymous Call to Athens skai radio an television network claimed that the leftist november 1.7 terrorist group had carried out the  said police did not believe the Call was genuine. A urst stretches 9,924 feet Jena Germany a Butcher in the easter German state of Thi Ringen which is proud of its sausages made a bratwurst 9,924 feet Long sunday with the innards of 170 pigs. It s a world record said Butcher Erhard Petersohn but More than that. Above All we want to show that Thuringer s butchers deliver Quality products he said. And then we want to defend ourselves against the supermarkets that want to push us into a Corner with their cheap  Peter spin s sausage almost 2 Miles Long wound. Around a Horseshoe shaped Grill on which he and colleagues roasted it during the old City fest in Jena a City of 100,000 about 120 Miles Southwest of Berlin. Most of the 1.5 tons of bratwurst was Given to Homes for the elderly. Local records say the previous record for bratwurst was 9,165 feet produced last year by a Butcher in Erfurt the capital of Thi Ringen state. Americans in saudi Arabia warned of possible threat Riyadh saudi Arabia a the . Embassy has advised american citizens in saudi Arabia to take sensible precautions after a previously unknown group purportedly threatened them with kidnappings and bombings. The embassy circular was sent out thursday Accord ing to several recipients interviewed sunday on Condi Tion of anonymity. It said the embassy was still unable to verify the authenticity of the supposed threat from the self styled battalions of Faith which gave saudi authorities until today to free Sheik Salman Al och 37, a mosque preacher. If the authorities do not respond the group says twill launch bomb attacks against Western interests such As embassies Banks and companies and Kidnap american and european citizens the circular said. Diplomats and saudi opposition sources say Al ode was among several clerics arrested last week in a crack Down on Muslim fundamentalists agitating for a stricter enforcement of islamic Law in the already strict King Dom. The arrests were made in Bur Aydah in the Al Qasim province a hotbed of Muslim fundamentalism. The . Embassy was in Contact with saudi Security authorities who have assured us that they Are taking All Normal necessary Steps to protect foreign citizens in saudi Arabia said the circular we do not have Independent confirmation or corroboration of the above information at the same time we believe it  for All americans to increase their Security awareness and to take sensible precautions it added. It promised further Contact with american citizens should there be additional information about this sup posed  some 40,000 americans live in saudi Arabia one of Washington s key Arab allies. According to supporters of Al Odeh last week s arrests in Bur Aydah involved several Muslim clerics who had refused to sign pledges to conform to a ban on their activities. The supporters who spoke to the associated press by Telephone thursday said they had never heard of the battalions of Faith but assumed they were sympathizers with their cause. The sources refused to be identified. Sweden s leftists returned to Power Stockholm Sweden a swedish voters have brought Back the social democrats to end the country s economic crisis but the leftist party will have a Tough time making major reforms. After an election Campaign dominated by economic issues the social democrats captured 45.6 percent of the vote sunday according to late returns. Ingvar Carlsson who will return to the prime min ister s Post three years after voters dumped his social democratic labor party said there Are Only slim chances that the social democrats will link up with another party to get a majority in parliament. A social democratic minority government would Send jitters through the Stock Market and weaken Carlsson s ability to push major reforms through the 349-Membef legislature. The social democrats whose free spending built up Sweden s welfare state after world War ii now talk like fiscal conservatives seeking unpopular tax increases and budget cuts. Sweden has a $170 billion National debt a staggering sum for a country of Only 8,5 million people unemployment has reached 14 percent and inflation appears to be heating up. Weekend specials. 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He came to our Home and he heard about what the germans were doing to jews said Ganor who is visiting Japan with recipients of Sugihara s visas and some of the japanese american Soldier who liberated the Dachau concentration Camp in Germany where Ganor was imprisoned for four years. The group plans to go to Sugihara Birthplace of Yotsu in Central Japan for a ceremony to pay tribute to the late dip Lomat and the japanese american Veter ans. Sugihara died in 1986, but his widow Yukiko will attend. The holocaust Oral project of Sanfrancisco which organized the trip has also put together a photo exhibit documenting Sugihara s deeds. Sugihara whose diplomatic career was ruined by his issuing of transit visas to jews was until recently an All but forgot ten figure in Japan. Interest in him was revived by the Oscar winning movie Schindler s lint about a German industrialist who saved More than 1,000 jews Sugihara s Saga began soon after he met Ganor and other jews in the summer of 1940. Nobody Ese would help us said Ganor who was 13 at the time. The so Viets ordered All the consulates to evac uate but Sugihara got a 20-Day Extension and started writing out these visas Dayan night for All the people lined up out Side his  a dutch Diplomat had already Issue destination visas for the dutch territories of Suriname and Curacao despite the fact that those places already were Ger Man controlled Ganor said. Combined with Sugihara s permission to pass through Japan the visas were convincing to russian authorities and thousands of polish jews were Able to Cross Siberia and sail to Japan eventually winding up in Shanghai China. For a month the japanese Diplomat worked from 8 . Until Midnight writ ing visas. Sugihara knew he was saving live with every stroke of the pen Ganor said. When his family had to leave he kept issuing them even As his train pulled out and then he gave out the Blank forms and his signature Seal so More could forge visas. Ganor still has his Sugihara issued visa. He treasures it although he did not manage to escape the nazis with it. Fleeing he tried to pass himself off As a pole but since 1 was lithuanian that made me a soviet ineligible to leave an the Kab pulled us off the  the end of the War found Sugihara i Prague Czechoslovakia where he was imprisoned by the soviets. He later re turned to Japan where he was forced in1947 to leave the diplomatic service be cause he had defied repeated orders to Stop writing the visas. It was t until october 1991 that his Story was publicized and the foreign ministry rehabilitated him