European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes world tuesday september 27, 1994 Lifeboat Falls during Drill injuring 18 British workers from the associated press Cherbourg France a safety Drill gone awry injured 18 British employees of a ferry company sunday when their Lifeboat fell into the water suddenly officials said. Five of the injured were seriously Hurt prefecture officials said without elaborating. The Lifeboat was filled with 31 people participating in the safety exercise in the port of Cherbourg aboard the Pride of Hampshire car ferry owned by the company p and o european ferries said the officials on condition of anonymity italian workers to strike Rome Public transport workers Are to begin three Days of strikes today intended to press the government into spending More on salaries and equipment. Subway and bus service will be halted for eight hours in Northern Italy today in Rome and Central Italy on wednesday and in the South thursday. Hours of the strike vary from City to City. In Rome the strike is scheduled from 8 30 . To 4 30 . " -2 killed in Jet ski crash Ankara Turkey two tourists were killed Friday in a High Speed Jet ski crash at the Southern Seaside resort of mar Maris a British embassy official said sunday. Jane Baker 21, of Ireland and Peter Everett 22,of England were killed while racing on Jet skis off a crowded Beach near the town Center the official said " " two other English tourists Paul Stephen Grundy,28, and Dianne Thornten 24, were injured in the Accident. \. A turkish court sunday arrested Grundy a Manchester resident on charges of causing the Accident and sent him to a jail in the Aegean coastal City of Mulla the Anatolia news Agency  charges were brought against Thornten. 4 held in skin head attack Potsdam Germany police arrested four skinheads monday on suspicion of beating two turkish teen agers with baseball Bat while screaming foreigners out in an attack last week in the Eastern City of Brandenburg. Police were seeking a fifth skinhead in the wednesday night attack that left a 19-year-old Turk in the Hospital. A 17-year-old was treated in an ambulance. In other racial violence a gang of kurd attacked a group of turks who were going to a fall festival in Oldenburg on sunday night. The attack which involved about 30 men using clubs arid knives was a reprisal by the kurd for an earlier incident according to local police. As a result of the attack two turks remained hospitalized monday. Art gallery seeks ideas London Britain s state owned Tate gallery has invited 13 architects from Europe and Japan to submit ideas for its Mammoth new museum of modern Art. The $120 million project is scheduled to open in the year 2000 in a disused London Power station at backside which is on the Southern Bank of the River thames and across the water from St. Paul s Cathedral. We need much More space As the Tate can show Only about a Quarter of its paintings and sculpture the talc s director Nicholas scrotal said monday. A footbridge will probably be built across the River to promote a new tourist route that will include the Tower of London St. Paul a backside and the South Bank arts Complex. French drug raids net 20 Paris police arrested at least 20 people sunday and monday in three regions of France after seizing 220 pounds of pure cocaine confiscated at a Small port in Brittany. The cocaine originally Froni Colombia had a Street value of $56 million police estimated. Investigator said it was brought into France aboard a yacht from Venezuela. Large sums of French and american Money and a handgun also were seized police said. 26 feared dead in russian crash Moscow a a passenger plane carrying 26 people flew into rough weather and crashed in Siberia on monday apparently killing All aboard. It was the latest of More than a dozen aviation disasters that have claimed More than 500 lives in the for Mer soviet Union in the past 18 months. The Yak-40 Turbojet was flying from the Central siberian City of Krasnoyarsk to the town of Tura with 23 passengers and three Crew members said a spokesman with the ministry of emergency situations Anatoly  weather forced it to divert to the Remote Village of Vanavar the itar Tass news Agency said. The plane crashed in a Forest 25 Miles from Trie Village. The crash site is about 465 Miles Northeast of Krasnoyarsk 2,350 Miles East of Moscow. Two helicopters were sent to the site and reported no sign of survivors Streltzov said. Rescue fews said the plane was in pieces according to itar Tass. Investigators were expected to reach the site today. Since the collapse of the soviet Union in 1991, the National system of aviation maintenance and safety inspections has collapsed affecting civilian and military  v y./. " a worldwide the fatality rate for commercial Passen Gers is less than one in a million. In Russia the figure is 5.5 per million. Clinton style has dangers Bush a nos Berlin a former president Bush indirectly criticized the Clinton administration sunday saying Stop and Start policies could Lead to heightened aggression in a world of increasing turbulence. A Bush on a two Day visit to Germany basked in Praise for his role in German re unification four years ago. He was to receive full military honors monday in Bonn the germans credit Bush with recognizing Early treat East and West Germany would reunify after the collapse of East Ern european communism in 1989. In a speech sunday evening on Ameri Ca s role in the world Bush did not directly criticize president Clinton s for eign policy actions but he used phrases that critics Wield against Clinton. We must Lead not in a Way in which we appear to vacillate to Stop and Start Bush said to an audience of some 500 people from the German elite including president roman Herzog his speech was sponsored by the Aspen Institute a think tank based in Aspen colo., that is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Branch in Berlin. Weak policies could encourage aggressors Bush said. His example was Iraq Leader Saddam Hussein who never be � lived we would use  in a 35-minute speech Bush said the world scene was much More promising than during the cold War yet reawakened nationalism ethnic conflicts extremism and proliferation of nuclear and chemical Wear political prisoners reportedly used in n. Korean tests Seoul South Korea North Korea has used political prisoners in chemical weapons experiments and is trying to extend the Range of its missiles to most of Japan a South korean government report said monday. The report by the unification Board which monitors South Korea s reclusive communist neighbor gave no details or evidence for its claim that political prisoners were used to test the Quality of chemical and biological weapons. The report submitted to the National Assembly said North Korea is believed to have 1,000 tons of chemicals for use in War making it potentially the world s third biggest chemical weapons Power. The human fights group amnesty International says North Korea is believed to hold More than Loo too political prisoners in about a dozen concentration Camps known As dictatorial Dis tricts.". ,. The report also said North Prda whose mis Siles already can travel 625 Miles is trying to lengthen the Range to 1,250 Miles covering most of Japan. Former president Bush left shakes hands with Berlin mayor Eicr hard Diepgen in front of the City s Brandenburg Gate on sunday. On were insistent and dangerous problems. Bush believes the 12-nation european Union will continue to have problems setting policy and he urged Western nations to do As much As possible to help rus Sia through its political and economic reforms. Channel off idols try to plug up concerns London a owners of the Tunnel linking Britain and France said monday that it was designed to leak. But investors were not so sure and the eur Tunnel share Price fell sharply after news that Salt water is oozing into the undersea Tunnel scheduled to open to rail Way passengers mid november. The Tunnel is actually designed to leak said ally son Andrews a spokeswoman for the $16 billion project. The leak is not the problem it s the  Andrews said a series of Saltwater puddles devel oped on one track bed because of a Small number of blocks in the drainage pipes. It just Means that the water which would be normally draining away immediately is taking longer she said. She added that contractors were fixing the problem the amount of water was very Small and the Tunnel would open for expanded rail traffic on schedule. Construction of the 31-mile Tunnel dubbed the Channel under the English Channel Between Folkes tone England and Calais France has been dogged by delays and Cost overruns. Trains for people in freight trucks have been going through the Tunnel for several months. A License for services operated by National railways to take foot Pas sengers Between London Paris and Brussels Belgium is pending. Eur Tunnel expects it to be available by mid to late october