European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 1o the stars and stripes world wednesday december 14,1994 top German general to head nato committee from the associated press Brussels Belgium nato on monday selected the head of Germany s armed forces  Naumann As the next chairman  Western Alliance s influential military  will take Over in 1996, replacing British Field marshal Richard Vincent. The committee reports to nato s highest political panels on the Overall conduct  Alliance s military affairs and is the primary source of military advice to nato s  military committee s members include the top armed forces commanders  16 Nat nations except France and Iceland. Part  chairman s task is developing military contacts with the former East bloc nations. During his three year term the chairman is also nato Stop military spokesman. Naumann will be the fourth German to hold the position since it was created in 1963. Fall kills . Geologist Katmandu Nepal a 38-year-old american geologist was killed when he slipped into a Crevasse ii a Himalayan Peak and his body had to be left on the Mountain. R Kurt Eliot Schmierer of Seattle died on Moun Dorje Lhakpa after High winds forced a joint nepalese american expedition to abandon it attempt to scale the 22,987-foot Mountain. Schmierer died dec. 5, said fellow team member Gregory Collum 39, of Seattle. Schmierer s Crampon came off his Boot and he slipped Collum said. Teammates tried to pull Schmierer out  Crevasse but he apparently had broken his neck and died  other climbers were unable to retrieve Schmierer body Collum said. Aid reaches afghan town Geneva the first Convoy of humanitarian Aid in 22 months has reached refugees in the Northern afghan town of Gunduz the . Refugee Agency said tuesday. Some 20,000 blankets and3,000 strips of plastic sheeting were delivered monday said a spokeswoman for the . High commissioner for  is a really big breakthrough. There has been no Convoy there since february 1993,"spokeswoman Sylvana Foa said. The convoys were suspended after Aid trucks were ambushed and shot at.-,  ,. The Camps at Gunduz hold about 12,000 tajik refugees and a similar number of displaced afghans. Blasi kills hurts v Istanbul Turkey a car explosion in front of a mosque in downtown Istanbul left one person dead arid another one injured tuesday police said. A police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the victim and the injured were believed to be the same people who had planted the explosive under the vehicle which was packed with religious publications. An abandoned car stands almost submerged monday in the floodwater that overran the Glasgow suburb of Paisley. 3 feared dead in scottish floods Glasgow Scotland a three people Are missing and feared dead in flooding in Southwest Scot land and about 100 others cannot return Home be cause their houses Are underwater authorities said monday night. About 4vi inches of rain fell Over the weekend the highest rate of downpour since records began in 1888, the Glasgow weather Center said. Rain continued Tofall but at a lesser rate monday. Police named the three missing As Jamie Mcclement and John fury both 17j and Ian Graham 35. Mcclement and fury were in a car that plunge from a Bridge into the rain swollen Kelvin River near Kilsyth 12 Miles Northeast  port City of Glasgow on sunday. Graham fell into the Nith River near Dumfries 60 Miles Southeast of Glasgow and was swept away. Glasgow is 350 Miles Northwest of London. Rescue workers searched in vain throughout monday for the three missing males. Police said that at the height  floods sunday,645 people were evacuated from their Homes in the worst affected areas in and around Glasgow. Most re turned Home As the flooding subsided monday. But about 1 do had to spend a second night monday with friends and relatives or in accommodations provided by emergency services because their Homes remained underwater. /. / the flooding closed about 40 roads in the area shut Down five sewage treatment centers and severely disrupted train services. _. I -.". -.-,. -. Swiss born abstract artist Max Bill Dies at 85 Zurich Switzerland a Max Bill one . Leaders of Geometric abstract Art has died. He was 85. Bill described by the new York based Art news Magazine in"1989 As the leading Light  Concre Teand constructivist Art movements remained Active until his death with several major projects under Way. The Swiss born sculptor Painter and architect who was to celebrate his 86th birthday dec. 22, suffered a heart attack at Berlin s Tegel Airport on Friday As he was about to return Home to Zurich an Airport spokeswoman said. He died on the Way to the Hospital. He studied under Walter Gropius at Germany s famed bauhaus school and was inspired by Paul Klee be Corbusier and Piet Mondrian among others. The director Jeanne Conard present their 5th annual Christmas concert tonight wednesday 14 december at the Georg Mouer Haus san str. 10, Darmstadt behind the Staat theater tickets dm15,- adults dior students available from info stand Luise Center Darmstadt John f. Kennedy Haus Darmstadt or Telephone 06151 902062 Gina or 902753 Emmanuelle to Reserve ticket sales 19.00k admission 19.30k Christmas and music for Advent from America England Italy Russia France with sing along Community carols too German Leader assailed Over right Wing Calendar by Deutsche Presse Agenter Bonn Germany a minister in Chan cellar Helmut Kohl s new government got into trouble tuesday for publicly backing a right Wing Calendar that Calls for re creating nazi Germany s 1937 Borders. Clau Dia Nolle Kohl s minister for youth family women and senior citizens allowed a letter of support to be published in a right Wing Catholic youth Calendar called komm Mil come along. I had no idea about the Content  Calendar. I would not do it again today Nolle 28, said before addressing a Bonn rally on fighting racism. In a letter of support published with the Calendar Nolte wrote it impresses me How you bring Young people closer to Christian Catholic  the Calendar is regarded by Many Ger Man Catholic leaders As dangerous be cause it spreads right Wing extremist ideas an Ard television network re port said. On tuesday the German Catholic conference of Bishops repeated its rejection  Calendar and its contents. The Calendar Calls for re establishing Germany s 1937 Borders with the return of territories lost after world War ii. The areas include Silesia Pomerania and Southern East Prussia which Are no part of Poland and Northern East Prus Sia which belongs to Russia. The Calendar describes these territories As pol ish and russian  the Calendar also prints the full Origi Nal text  German National Anthem including the controversial phrase deutschland deutschland Liber Alles Germany Germany Over every thing. This part  Anthem is no longer Sung at Public occasions. Distributed by Scripps Howard news service