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A-8 Green Bay Press-Gazette World Thursday, February 5, 1998 3 "Today there are 20 people screaming against those who took over our skies Rev. Lorenzo Casarotti, Italian priest By Vania Grandi Associated Press i CAVALESE, Italy As an angry nation demanded an accounting, U.S. officials promised today to cooperate fully with Italians investigating why a Marine plane sliced a cable car line in the Alps, sending 20 Europeans to their deaths. Residents of this small ski village in the Dolomites, who say the roar of jets often jolts them awake at night, mourned the dead at a memorial service today. Among the 1,000 people attending the service 100 yards from the cable car station was Gen.

Richard C. Bethurem, commander of NATO ing process can begin." Speaking before residents, elementary school children and official delegations, an Italian priest summed up the feeling of many that their long complaints about low-flying planes went unheeded. "The skies are not for the most powerful or for the most aggressive," said the Rev. Lorenzo Casarotti. "They are for everyone." "Today there are 20 people screaming against those who took over our skies.

The people of Cav-alese, officials have screamed about this. They went unheard," the priest said. The Marine EA-6B Prowler swooped through the valley just above the treetops on Tuesday, severing the cable with its tail at a point about 300 feet above the ground. The plane returned safely to the U.S. air base in Aviano, 60 miles to the east "Everyone hates how they fly through here at supersonic speeds, instilling fear in all of us," said Renzo Alegretti, a 63-year-old retired union worker.

"They are crazy, completely irresponsible. It was an accident waiting to happen." Italian politicians and local officials are just as outraged. "This is not about a low-level flight, but a terrible act, a nearly earth-shaving flight, beyond any limit allowed by the rules and laws," Premier Romano Prodi said Wednesday. The defense minister, Beniamino Andreatta, said the pilot should be charged. Several influential lawmakers said U.S.

bases in Italy should be closed and Italian and American investigators were looking into the accident. The mayor of Cavalese, a town of 3,600, proclaimed a day of mourning today to honor the victims, which included eight Germans, five Belgians, two Italians and two Poles. All ski lifts in the Val di Fiemme area shut down along with most of Cavalese's stores, restaurants, and other businesses. Conine IFraonEi's If Laos: Americans Were a threat to our government BANGKOK, Thailand Participants at a religious meeting in Laos led by American aid workers were detained because they slandered the country and threatened its stability, the Laotian government said Wednesday. Laotian authorities released the three Americans and two other foreigners Tuesday and gave them a week to leave the country.

The Americans Jerry and Meg Canfield of Fort Smith, and Kenneth Fox of Arizona worked with Partners in Progress, a Little Rock, humanitarian evangelical group affiliated with the Churches of Christ. Leftist group takes credit for attack TOKYO A radical left-wing group took responsibility today for a rocket attack at Tokyo's main international airport and mocked security measures taken for the Nagano Winter Olympics. In the Monday night attack at the airport 40 miles east of Tokyo, three homemade rockets were fired into a cargo plane area, injuring one airport worker. Two of the projectiles exploded. The attack came as athletes, officials and spectators were arriving at the airport en route to the Winter Games in Nagano.

Police said they had no immediate evidence the rockets were aimed at disrupting the games, which start on Saturday. No arrests have been made. Rescuers find first bodies from airliner CLAVERIA, Philippines Working in a thick, wet fog, rescuers today found the first bodies and a wing from a DC-9 airliner that crashed high on a steep Philippine mountain ridge. Government officials, meanwhile, grounded all seven remaining planes operated by the airline, Ce.bu Pacific Air, until the cause of the crash is determined. All are old DC-9s previously owned by other airlines.

Rescuers offered little hope that any of the 104 people aboard the twin-engine plane had survived Monday's crash in the southern Philippines. U.S. Embassy officials confirmed today that at least two Americans were on board the plane. Wire service reports 1 1 Nazi camp erased diary's image air operations in southern Europe, who expressed American condolences. "There's an ongoing investigation, a cooperation of Italian and U.S.

authorities," he said. "It's our wish that this investigation comes to a quick ending, so that the heal rim saw the red-and-white checkered diary given as a gift by her parents. This was a time when Pick and Anne would spend afternoons eating ice cream and playing hopscotch and pingpong. During school recess, Anne would sit and write in her notebooks. She'd reproach anyone who dared ask her what she was up to with the biting reply: "Mind your own business!" Pick recalled.

In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding from Nazi occupation in Amsterdam. After World War II, Anne's father Otto, the only member of the family to survive, published his daughter's diaries, which document the two years in hiding. Since then, the diaries have become the subject of films, books and even a musical. Broadway recently revived the play, The Diary of Anne Frank. Pick motions toward her bookshelf in her sunny Jerusalem apartment, laden with books devoted to the subject of Anne in English, Hebrew, German, Dutch and Japanese.

In October, the story of Pick's 1 ALMJI I vsiiiiuiiuuu menu: Hannah Goslar Pick, left, knew Anne Frank in her days as a young schoolgirl. Pick, 69, has pub-' fished a book of her memories of Frank. She reports that Frank was a shadow of her former self in her final days at the Nazi Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Below, this file photo shows Pick, standing, and Frank as they play a game of hopscotch prior to World War II. AP photos i i a i .1 i 4 its (I? "Today, everyone thinks she was someone holy but this is not the case at all." A Hannah Goslar Pick, Anne Frank's friend an icon.

She is disappointed by the sanitized picture of Anne. "Today, everyone thinks she was someone holy but this is not at all the case," Pick said. "She was a girl who wrote beautifully and matured quickly during extraordinary circumstances." "However, not everyone wants to hear about the Holocaust. It's easier to read Anne's diary." Anne Frank's diary still inspires young writers A-1 2 friendship with Anne was published in the book, Memories of Anne Frank; Reflections of a Childhood Friend. Pick, a widow with three children, is 69 the same age Anne would be today had she survived.

She remembered Anne as sharp and witty, but not extraordinary. "She was a normal girl, but her sister Margot was an outstanding scholar and the more intellectual of the two," she said. Pick marveled at how the world has transformed her friend into Israel to reject plan for homes for Jews U.S. project had disturbed Palestinians Shared nwonment Shared mm-. JERUSALEM (AP) In her final days in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Anne Frank was crushed by the loss of most of her family and spoke in hushed whispers a shadow of the spirited teen-ager the world came to know through her diaries.

Hannah Goslar Pick whose story of growing up with Anne is the subject of a new book last saw her friend in early February 1945, about a month before Anne died of typhus in the camp and two months before Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the Allies. The two girls were held in different sections of Bergen-Belsen, separated by a tall barbed wire fence. From time to time, they pressed up to the fence to speak to each other. "I have no one," Anne once told her friend, weeping. At the time, the Nazis had shorn Anne's dark locks.

"She always loved to play with her hair," Pick said. "I remember her curling her hair with her fingers. It must have killed her to lose it." Just 2'2 years before that, in June 1942, Pick had been at Anne's 13th birthday party and with Jewish neighborhoods, so Jews now slightly outnumber the 160,000 Arabs in the disputed sector. But construction within existing Arab neighborhoods has been rare. Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that construction should proceed and that he would not interfere.

Settlers working with Moskowitz expected to start building within six months, Israel's Channel 2 TV reported. Legally, the government could override the Interior Ministry approval but this could be politically difficult for Netanyahu, whose parliament coalition is dependent on right-wingers who favor the settler movement. In Ras al-Amud, two dozen Israeli peace activists protested Wednesday against the construction, saying it would trigger clashes. Palestinian leaders also warned of possible violence. "This is an extremely dangerous decision," said Palestinian Cabinet minister Hanan Ashrawi.

Moskowitz, reached by phone in Miami on Tuesday, would not say what his immediate plans were but said Jews should have the right to live anywhere in Jerusalem. is SQUARE und Tour generations. ommitment. JERUSALEM (AP) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior adviser indicated Wednesday the Israeli government w(ould override plans by an American millionaire to build 132 homes for Jews in disputed east Jerusalem. jThe plans, approved by the Interior Ministry, were condemned by Palestinians and prompted fears of a potential standoff.

i "There will not be any construction" in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood, David Bar-Illan said Wednesday. "There have been many indications that (the project) will disturb the balance of life in Jerusalem at this point." At issue is a plan by Miami millionaire Irving Moskowitz, a patron of right-wing Israeli causes Who owns nearly four acres in a neighborhood of 11,000 Palestinians in east Jerusalem, to bjiild 132 apartments for Jews. A second plan approved simultaneously calls for the construction of 1 ,020 homes for Arab residents. Jerusalem is the most explosive issue dividing Israelis and Palestinians. Israel captured its eastern sector in the 1967 Mideast war and says it will never give up cpfitrol over the whole city, has laced east Jerusalem a iff I ft.

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