European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world saturday december 17 1994 eager marines american marines train thursday during the joint  exercise eager Mace in Al Mutala about 60 Miles North of Kuwait City. Some 150 marines and their vehicles were flown from warships to the site of the Kuwait army a 6th brigade where they stormed abandoned buildings. Above Lance Cpl. Richard Skiff left of Indianapolis Cpl. Francisco Martinez of new Jer self and Lance Cpl. William Dowling of Spring Texas take up positions to cover the Landing of fellow marines. At right two marines from Tustin Marine corps air station calif., conduct an assault. . Troops seize from cubans Nuevo Emperador Panama a . Guards Are confiscating baseball bats Metal tubing from cots or anything else that the 8,500 cuban refugees in detention Camps Here can use for weapons service members say. Telephone lines from the Camp to the outside also have been Cut. The move follows rioting last week in which about 200 american service members were injured by cubans angry at not being admitted to the United states or another  the soldiers also have confiscated bulletproof vests Gas masks and riot Shields stolen by the rioting refugees the soldiers said. 7. The rioting cubans attacked the american troops with baseball bats cot tubing rocks and gasoline bombs. Made from fuel siphoned from a truck they seized. 7 London apr operators of the Channel Tunnel on Friday announced introductory fares from $73 for round trip train journeys that will take cars under the sea Between England and France. The so called a ale shuttle service which begins thursday will compete with ferries sailing Between Dover England and Calais France. The 35-minute train trip is about 40 minutes faster than the average ferry crossing a with no possibility of seasickness. A while we will not enter a Price War we Are confident that we will attract customers to our fast reliable and hassle free transport system a said Christopher Garnett commercial director of eur Tunnel pc. Two refugees drowned trying to swim the Panama canal and about 28 others were injured. The number of refugees still at Large after the riots is Uncertain because they destroyed record books but it is believed to be 11 to 31. The cubans Are among tens of thousands who fled their Homeland last summer on homemade rafts. Most were sent to the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay.  a. A 7 a panamanian president Ernesto p6rez Balladares has reiterated that All cubans in Panama must be gone by March 6. So far 70 refugees have been sent to Spain and 177 elderly sick or orphaned pre teens have gone to the United states. Six refugees were sent wednesday to the United states As part of the Federal program allowing pro visionary entry to seniors children and the ill. Rate of $73 the fares which eur Tunnel describes As a a special promotion Quot will apply until March when new prices for the Peak summer season will be announced.1 a same Day round trip will Cost $73 for a Carload of people while a five Day return ticket will be $112, eur Tunnel said. A round trip with no time restrictions will Cost $204. Current off season ferry fares Range from $31 round trip for a Day trip to about $214 for a no restrictions ticket for a car and eight passengers. A ale shuttle will operate 12 hours a Day until Early january when it begins round the clock service. Passengers will have to Book in Advance until the end of March. Neo nazi gets 18 months for hate crime in Germany from the associated press Bonn Germany a Germany a most notorious Neo nazi was convicted thursday of inciting racial hatred by denying that the holocaust occurred and sentenced to 18 months in prison. The state court in Munich found Ewald Althans 28, guilty of inciting racial hatred spreading banned nazi propaganda and offending the memory of the dead. 7. 7 Althans was convicted of making and distributing documentary films that glorify Adolf Hitler insult jews arid deny that the nazis Ever killed 6 million jews. A. �?T7 7 7.7 7 a a -. Among those appearing in the films Are Fred Leuchter of Malden mass., who builds electric chairs and lethal injection devices Ernst Zue Ridel a German extremist living in Canada and David Irving a British revisionist historian. Althans is awaiting trial on similar charges in Berlin. A. A 7 a a 7. / a 7 Quot a burglar warns cheap victim Hong Kong a having broken into a garment factory and found nothing of value a disgruntled burglar left a note warning the owner to do better next time or else. A put some Money Here next time or ill set fire to your factory. You make me do this for nothing. I can to even find 10 cents a said the note in chinese. It was written by you Kin Fong 33, who was later arrested and admitted to a string of burglaries. At his trial thursday he pleaded guilty saying he needed Money for his child and pregnant wife in China and for a drug habit. The District court jailed him for three years 3 drug dealers hanged Singapore a two thai men and a Hong Kong woman were hanged Friday for drug trafficking raising to 92 the number of people executed in Singapore under a Law that punishes heroin smugglers with a mandatory death sentence. Vinit Sopon a 38-year-old merchant arid Pairoj bunsom 30, a worker were hanged at the Changi prison where All executions Are carried out in Singapore always before Dawn. Both men were arrested in november 1991 at a local hotel where they tried to sell 1.3 kilograms 2.9 pounds of heroin to an undercover narcotics officer a government statement said. Thev were convicted in 1993 and an Appeal was turned Down in March this year the Central narcotics Bureau said. The Hong Kong woman Tsang Kai Mong Elke was arrested at the Singapore Airport in july 1992 when customs officers found 8.9 pounds of heroin in her suitcase. She also was convicted in 1993 and lost an Appeal Jan. 26. Buddha to be Gem of statue Beijing a China plans to build a Buddha statue using 352 pounds of Gold 22 pounds of Platinum and 132 pounds of Silver an official newspaper reported thursday. The Buddha which will be 9v4 feet tall also will use a a Large number of diamonds rubies and pearls the Guarig Ming daily reported. I said the project was being undertaken by the Jinzhen jewelry co. And the Royal jewelry arid of Zhenzhen bordering Hong Kong in South China. Tie Buddha will be built in Jian men also in South China the report said. Red Gross crash kills 2 Luanda angolan a red Cross plane carrying Aid to hungry angolans crashed thursday at a coastal Airstrip killing its american and Swiss pilots the red Cross said Quot a red Cross statement said the plane a dc-3 chartered from German company so aviation services crashed on Takeoff from the Lobito Airstrip 250 Miles Southeast of Luanda. N tie pots Daniel Reid a 42-year-old from Lal Tornia and Swiss Roland Halter 33, were killed when be plane slammed into Brush lands next to the Airstrip the statement said. No other passengers or Crew were on Board. The plane was carrying 4.6 tons of humanitarian Aid on what should have been a routine 30-minute int from Lobito to Ganda 90 Miles Inland