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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday october 10,1994some cultists slain tests suggest \ Grange Piccot Switzerland apr autopsies on 48 cult members found dead last week indicate that at least some did not commit ritual suicide but were stain a Lead investigator says. Amone 23 victims found at a farm in the Western Swiss Village of cheery some were shot repeatedly in the head then hooded with plastic bags while another was pumped full of bullets investigative judge Andre pillar said saturday. Those bodies were found wednesday along with 25 others discovered inside three chalets in another Village. A a. A. A the deaths and five More in Canada Are believed to be linked to the cult known As the order of the solar Temple in Canada and the order of the solar tradition in Switzerland. A a there a a real disarray. We done to understand any More just How the drama took place a Piller said. A we have a lot of work to  a someone or a group of people went completely berserk at the farm he said. A one person had two Bullet holes in the head but no holes in the plastic bag on the head. Another had three Bullet holes in the head and one Bullet Hole in the plastic bag a he said. One body had eight Bullet wounds to the head. A that was certainly homicide a he said. Asked if All those found at the farm were slain he said a we can to exclude  some of the bodies at farm were found lying in a Circle and some victims were dressed in Robes prompting investigators to speculate that the group committed ritual suicide. Filler said that despite the global dragnet launched to find cult leaders Joseph Dimambro and Luc Jouret a i done to know if they re alive or  the investigations scope widened saturday with the discovery of an elaborate incendiary device at a Villa used by the cult in Southern France. The bomb was similar to the ones used to set fires at cult houses in Switzerland and Canada filler said. No one was at the Villa near Toulon and French authorities defused the device. A a the device consisted of bottled Gas fuel containers connected to electrical wiring that could have been detonated by a Telephone signal said sources close to the French investigation. In Morin Heights Quebec Canadian police said sat urday that three  whose bodies were found thursday in a House co owned by Dimambro and Jouret were killed several Days before fire destroyed it. A a a. A a. Police think two other charred bodies found in the House tuesday and believed to be linked to the cult Werc those of adults who committed suicide. Identification of the most severely burned could take weeks. Of the 23 bodies found at the Swiss farm Only 13 had been identified Piller said. Collector s double dose of Luck was in the cards thanks to . By Carlos Bongioanni staff writer Heidelberg Germany a Kimo Fernandez Felt like the happiest kid on the Block after securing a sports trading card autographed by . Simpson. The 31-year-old was even More ecstatic when he purchased another Box of Signa lure rookies trading cards and found a second autographed card inside. A i  believe my Luck a exclaimed a jubilant Fernandez. As an employee at the sports closet a trading card outlet in Heidelberg Fernandez had first dibs at the stores inventory. A when signature rookies first came out with their fall football packages 1 figured i might get one through them. I bought four boxes 18 packages a Box 432 cards total and anticipated getting an  card every time i opened a package. Nothing turned up so i gave up finding one a he said. A then i heard signature rookies was putting the . Cards in their tet Rad packages. We originally ordered two boxes and that a when i got my first  -. The store later ordered two More boxes a and the second card turned up. The store has ordered two additional boxes in Hopes of continued Good Fortune. Fernandez said that signature Rook is approached Simpson several months ago in his los Angeles jail ceh and had him sign 2,500 cards. The football legend is being held there without bail while standing trial for the slayings of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. The signed cards were then Dis Bur cd among 52,000 boxes of tet Rad multiple sport trading cards. The chances of getting an . Signature card arc 374-1, if buying single packages of six cards at $12.50 a pack. The Odds Are better at approximately 20-1 if buying an entire Box of cards for $210. Fernandez said he became interested in buying trading cards last octo her when he started playing for an american German football team in Bruchal. A it can become addicting a a. A Sis. Carlos Bonglo annl Kimo Fernandez shows off one of his of Simpson signature cards and others that came in a package he bought in Heidelberg Germany. Admitted Fernandez. A i spent about about $2,800 per card at retail shops in $1,900 this past year in cards but the the  a in a going to obviously keep one and use the other one to Send my kid through College Quot Fernandez joked. Resale value is about $3,200.�?T Fernandez said he has heard rumours that the . Signatures Are Worth skinhead gang terrorizes Berlin train passengers Berlin apr a group of about 20 right Wing skinheads rampaged on a Berlin commuter train beating and robbing passengers including a Man from Mozambique police said sunday. The skinheads beat seven people and stole leather jackets and jewelry from them. The 37-year-old Man from Mozambique was among those beaten and suffered slight injuries police said. The extremists also tried to push a Man off the train but a female passenger intervened and the skinheads gave up. Police arrested three other skinheads for damaging another train. A ghanaian Man was stabbed beaten and kicked out of a moving train in Berlin last month and lost a foot. German Ultra rightists have killed at least 16 foreigners since German unification in 1990. Aid resumes to Sarajevo in Effort to beat Winter Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr the International Airlift that keeps Sarajevo alive resumed sunday bringing Laid to a City with Only three Days supplies left a in an attempt to build up supplies ahead of Winter and a possible shutdown of the Airport by bosnian serbs 19 . Aid flights and two red Gross planes were scheduled. Eleven of the Aid planes from Ancona Italy and split Croatia had touched Down by noon said Peter Kessler a . Aid Agency spokesman in Zagreb Croatia. The resumption of Aid to the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina followed a sniper attack on streetcars in Central Sarajevo on saturday that killed one Man and wounded 11, including five children. Pools of blood stained pavement and two of the empty trams. A . Spokesman maj. Herve Gourm Enlon said the fire came from bosnian serbian positions around the jewish cemetery. Reinforced anti sniper teams patrolled near the Holiday inn along a sniper alleys on sunday to try to prevent a repeat of saturdays deadly attack. Some 1,100 shooting incidents were recorded saturday the highest totals in recent months he said. The warring sides had signed an anti sniping Accord in au-8us.l the Airlift which provides about 80 a percent of the City a food was suspended saturday just a Day after it was restarted following a two week shutdown. Forces from both warring sides each fired on planes Friday but no one was injured. Soldiers collecting for Ukraine school Friedberg Germany a amps a members of the . Military Community Are joining German citizens to collect donations for a school for the Blind in Kiev Ukraine. Donations sought include clothing classroom items and canned goods. Friedberg soldiers will make rounds once a week this month in Friedberg and Kirch Gons to collect items. Volunteers from Frankfurt and bad Villei will leave nov. 10 in a Convoy of trucks donated by German companies to deliver the goods to Kiev. For More information Call Jack b. Herron at Dan 324-3208 or 324-3508, or civilian 06031-81-3208 or 06031-81-3508  
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