European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world saturday september 24,1994 French firefighters find meteors weren t real from the associated press be Havre France a mock disaster staged by a local theater troupe fooled residents and Security officials into thinking two meteors had struck a town outside this port City. Arriving Early Friday at the site of the reported Impact in go Freville la Orcher real life firefighters encountered actors dressed As firefighters and soldiers. The set even included a car made to look like it had been struck by a meteor. A we weren to informed and it surprised us a said the regional director of civil Security Albert Jean Foulon a it Wasny to very Clever however the Deputy mayor of a Paul Lecoq said town officials had approved the stunt go Freville Jean in conjunction with sundays opening of a science fiction exposition. Local radio stations and newspapers were in on the stunt reporting the incident As though it were real. A night of fear a a read a headline in the daily Havre Libre. The radio reports prompted worried residents to flood civil defense offices with Telephone Calls officials said. 4 charged in attack Bonn Germany a Federal authorities said Friday that they have charged four youths with attempted murder in a synagogue firebombing that evoked memories of nazi pogroms against jews. The predawn attack March 25 in the Northern port City of Linbeck marked the first time a jewish House of worship had been set on fire since the nazi years. The attack captured International attention. Five tenants asleep in apartments in the building escaped after a neighbor alerted them Ana the fire department. Arrested on May 2 for the crime were Stefan Marcus Westphal 25 Dirk Brusberg 22 and Niko Rapiel and Boris Gotland Moritz both 20. Poland arrests suspected bomber called Gummi Bear by the new York times Warsaw Poland a a the police thursday arrested a 50-year-old Man suspected in the planting of four bombs in Krakow this month in an Effort to extort a half million German Marks. The Man identified As Sylwester Augustynek had signed notes identifying himself As a Gummi Bear a after the cartoon characters and the Jelly Candy and giving elaborate instructions for Money drop offs that always ended up frustrating the police. None of the bombs exploded. The police closed in on Augustynek after arresting two people near the Southern City of Katowice for sheltering him. His Trail led to the Baltic sea coast where he was. Said to be searching for identity papers under a different name. He was arrested Early thursday morning in the northeastern town of Kos Zalin where a clerk at the City records office told the police that the re was an outstanding arrest warrant issued against the bearer of an identity card. The officers did not initially know that they had arrested Augustynek until a fingerprint test at the police station confirmed his identity. He was to be taken to Krakow on Friday for questioning by local prosecutors and police investigators. Poland a criminal code Calls for a maximum sentence of life in prison for terrorism against the state. Japanese american unit Dachau survivors reunited Tokyo a for decades the deeds of a japanese american battalion in Southern Germany in the last Days of world War ii Lay hidden. It Isnit that they were a secret. Hideo Nakamine one of the soldiers says his comrades were simply too modest to Tell anyone. Now they Are telling. A we stumbled on a gruesome unforgettable sight the sight of emaciated people in their Black and White prison garb aimlessly wandering the Countryside a remembers Edward Ichiyama now a lawyer in Honolulu. They were jews a survivors of a death March from the nazi concentration Camps at Dachau. As Allied soldiers approached the nazis had marched 20,000 jews out of Dachau hoping to kill them All. But when the japanese american 522nd Field arty in came upon the marchers the nazis fled and 5,000 survivors were rescued. This week eight members of the 522rid and a handful of the jews they freed have gathered in Japan to remember the liberation. They also Are honouring the memory of Chine Sugihara a japanese Consul in Lithuania who ignored orders and wrote lifesaving visas for thousands of jews. The scene near Dachau resembled other liberation of jews at the end of the War except for one thing the liberators themselves. The japanese american soldiers knew racism firsthand. Their families were interned at Camps in the United states suspected of being disloyal to the american cause. The soldiers themselves had to push to be allowed to fight As americans. A one of the greatest ironies of the War is that members of one persecuted minority helped another persecuted minority a Ichiyama said at a gathering in Tokyo this week to Honor the 522nd and Sugihara. A if you took away the dead bodies it was like the Camps their own families were in a says historian Eric Saul of san Francisco. He is curator of an exhibit called unlikely liberators now touring Japan about the japanese american unit. The first panel contains this testimony by Dachau survivor Josef erbs a a big. Oriental Man saved my life. I was 18 years old 76 pounds at the time barely alive. He picked me up from the ground. Never before had i seen an asian  Saul a student of the holocaust says that until recently the Story of the 522nd was hardly known. Nakamine who now lives in Honolulu explained Why a other americans glorify their deeds but that a not our Way of doing  other soldiers of the 522nd say they were ordered not to Tell what they did possibly because the army did no to want the feats of japanese americans to be known. Japanese soldiers land in Zaire Goma Zaire apr japanese soldiers in camouflage uniforms landed in Goma on Friday ready to begin a new role abroad. Here to help rwandan refugees the 470 troops will coordinate with . Peacekeepers but they will take orders from their own officers. Japan a military presence abroad since world War ii had been limited to peacekeeping operations under . Command. A the time is changing a said col. A Koto Nasu a 47-year-old officer from Tokyo. A we can go anywhere in the world a to help  the troops landed in batches aboard Globetrotter travel Kenya airways chartered aircraft from Nairobi. Japanese Media set up satellite dishes at the Airport to capture the moment. 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