European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes world i wednesday september 21,1994gunman slays up to 8 on Busy Beijing Street South Africa gets pledge of $150 million from . From the associated press Cape town South Africa a Britain will spend $150 million to help build Post apartheid South Africa prime minister John major told parliament on tuesday on the first official visit of a British Leader to South Africa in 34 years. Britain would not a stand idly on the sidelines and wait to see How the South african transition to democracy develops major said. His speech was interrupted several times by applause. Major said the Aid would be granted Over the next three years with the equivalent of $100 million going directly to reconstruction and development programs and the rest channelled through the european Union and the Commonwealth development corp. Sarajevo Airlift halted Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a the humanitarian Airlift feeding much of Sarajevo was suspended tuesday after an aircraft was shot at just hours after the Mission resumed. And in a foretaste of another Winter of War a residents of the capital were left without water heat and in the dark again tuesday because of serbian reluctance to restore utilities to Sarajevo. With the bosnian capital relatively quiet following the worst fighting in half a year Over the weekend . Officials had lifted a one Day suspension of Relief flights. But they reimposed it after discovering Bullet holes in the fuselage of a French Supply plane after it flew out of the ruled of Karlsruhe Germany a Germany a highest court ruled monday that stickers describing soldiers As murderers Are Legal. The line a soldiers Are murderers comes from the pacifist Early Century German poet Kurt Tucholsky. The court ruled that the line is not an insult to German soldiers and annulled a lower court ruling that fined a conscientious objector for pasting the sticker to his car during the 1991 persian Gulf War. The Man a teacher was fined 8,400 German Marks about $5,526 after a court in Kassel ruled that the sticker was insulting to the German claim bombing Athens Greece a the leftist revolutionary popular struggle on tuesday claimed responsibility for a bomb that killed a senior police officer and injured 10 other people. The Urban guerrilla group set off a bomb by Remote control next to a police bus monday As it stopped to pick up officers and civilian employees on their Way to work. Public order minister Stelios Pup themelis announced that the government was offering a $2 million Reward for anyone with information leading to the eradication of terrorism in Greece. Revolutionary popular struggle in a letter to a newspaper claimed responsibility for the attack. This is its first slaying since it first appeared in 1973.ex-official arrested Rome a a former Interior minister who once was one of Italy a most powerful politicians was arrested tuesday in a major sweep intended to smash alleged ties Between politicians and the mob. Nearly 100 people were picked up in Dawn raids including the former Interior minister at least three former lawmakers several leading businessmen and suspected members of the Camorrah the Naples counterpart of the mafia news reports said. The most prominent figure arrested was Antonio Gava who from 1987 to 1991 headed the Interior ministry a top Law enforcement worker suspected Tokyo a a Man already Given a suspended Erison sentence for making thousands of Crank Calls As been arrested again this time for pestering his former employer with 6,500 Calls in one month police said tuesday. Between aug 9 and his arrest monday Susumu Suzuki 46, allegedly made As Many As 1,200 Calls a Day from Public phones to the company that had fired him a year ago said police in Takasaki 60 Miles Northwest of Tokyo. He faces charges of interference in business Beijing apr a Man opened fire with an assault Rifle at people of a Busy Beijing Street tuesday killing As Many As eight before police shot him dead. Thirty people were reported wounded. An iranian Diplomat and his son were among the eight deaths reported by the official Xinhua news Agency it was unclear if those killed or wounded were hit by the gunman or caught in the Cross fire As he battled with shootings were highly unusual in a nation that keeps a tight grip on its citizens relies heavily on the death penalty to punish criminals and strictly enforces a ban on guns. But violent crime has increased with the country a transition to a Market Economy which has created social disparity and widened Access to guns. Police officials reached by phone re fused to talk about the shootings which occurred As morning Rush hour began. The Xinhua report a which said 30 people were in Mexico City apr a cuban refugee was killed and another injured when they tripped a land mine while trying to flee the . Navy base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba a mexican news Agency said quoting cuban defense forces. The no Timex dispatch from Havana on sunday said the cuban was killed in a no Many a land of densely sown mines that ring the american base on cubans Remote Southeastern tip. It did not say when the incident occurred. Prensa Latina the cuban government news Agency also reported a refugee had died during an escape at Jared a was Brief and the Beijing evening news mentioned the incident Only briefly on its front Page. In China crime is usually not covered in detail by the state controlled Media until it is solved. Witnesses said a Man carrying an automatic Rifle possibly an ak-47, ran Down the Middle of second ring Road near the iranian diplomatic compound shooting intermittently. An asian Diplomat whose apartment faces the Road said the gunman hailed a minivan taxi and got into the Back when the Driver and a passenger tried to flee the gunman shot both the Diplomat said. The gunman got out of the car and ran Down the Road pursued by police on foot and in patrol cars. The Diplomat said he heard five to 10 minutes of shooting. Film footage shot by a Canadian camera Crew showed at least one person lying dead on the pavement and another an elderly woman who was bleeding profusely being loaded into an ambulance. Tempt but did not say when. . Military officials in Washington and at Guantanamo said monday that they could not confirm the reports. Frustration at being barred from the United states and at conditions in the Camp have led to protests and at least a few attempts to flee the base through dense minefields. A we try to keep them in the Fence but they know and we know if they want to get out they can a said maj. Rick Thomas an army spokesman at Guantanamo. A we done to conduct a head count every hour. We re not running a help citizens flee is port moresby Papua new Guinea apr ships rescued thousands of residents from beaches near the devastated port of Rabaul on tuesday As two erupting volcanoes continued to spew thick Ash dense Black smoke and poisonous fumes. Most of the City a 30,000 residents and people from surrounding villages fled just before two volcanoes erupted monday around its once picturesque Harbor triggering earthquakes ant fierce electrical storms. Witnesses said the City had been devastated by a 3-foot layer of Ash. Much of it had mixed with Rainwater to form Gray mud that had collapsed Many buildings and Trees under its weight. Flooding was also reported. # officials said that communications with Rabaul had broken Down and that there was concern Over a Small number of pc pie still in the City 500 Miles Northeast of Quot port moresby the capital of the nation North of Australia. 1 a it is absolutely frightening and incredibly lonely a Michael Jansy an australian National told the Sydney morning Herald earlier. Volcanology its said two volcanoes mounts Tau Vur and Vulcan have produced huge Clouds of Ash and dust rising into the air from opposite sides of Rabaul Sharbor. A Vulcan is blowing its head off on the Southern Side and Tau Vur is the same on the Northern Side a Peter Sharp a a Crew member of one ship that rescued about 2,500 villagers during the last two Days told australian associated press by radio. After its eruption Vulcan produced three separate craters All spewing out huge amounts of debris. Rabaul on the Island of new Britain is situated on the Side of an ancient Volcano. Dial t for trouble a Little Joe Williams has a hang up when it comes to phones and that a the problem a he does no to hang up. The 1-year-old recently pressed a redial Button on his grandparents phone in Beccles South England reaching relatives in St. Lucia West indies. Little Joe can to talk yet however so when the relatives did t receive a reply they Hung up. The youngster did no to and left the phone off the Hook for 25 hours. No one realized his deed until the family received the phone Bill which came to 936 British pounds nearly $1,507. Cuban refugee reportedly killed by mine
