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Show American Veterans Burial Is a Gesture of Friendship By Eric Waha Associated Press Writer In a TORGAU, East Germany gesture of friendship, an American veteran was buried Saturin an Blast day as he had wished German town where he and other U.S. soldiers met their advancing Soviet allies 38 years ago and cut Nazi Germany in two. Among his mourners was a contingent cf Soviet troops from a nearby barracks and American officers from i U.S. military mission in Potsdam, Blast Germany. Shortly before Joe Polowsky, a Chicago taxi driver, died of cancer last month, he wrote a letter telling relatives he wanted to be buried at Torgau, East Germany. Positive Effect Joe Polowsky being buried at Torgau on the Elbe River cannot but have a comforting, creative, positive effect upon events, he wrote in his letter. The burial would symbolize one of the few remaining ties" between the United States and the Soviet Union, he said. My view is that my burial ground at Torgau . . . was paid for with the spilling of the blood of the soldiers of the World War II Allies of East and West," the I wrote. U.S.-Sovi- et m Associated Press Leserphoto Joseph Polowsky, Chicago taxi driver w ho died of cancer, stands in jeep in 1S4S when his patrol met Soviet allies in Torgau, E. Germany. He ws buried hear Saturday. i I ex-G- Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation, Search of California Greyhound By The Associated Press A fully loaded Greyhound bus was stopped, evacuated and searched in California by an Air Force explosives team Saturday after a caller told the Highway Patrol there was a bomb on board, officials said. The incident was a reminder, on an otherwise quiet Saturday, of the violence that has marked the Amalgamated Transit Union's strike against Greyhound over demands for a wage cut. The California bus, on a run from San Francisco to Sacramento, was stopped near Dixon and was still being searched four hours later, said Carolyn Smith, a communications operator for the Highway Patrol. Bomb-Sniffin- Dogs g An explosives team from Travis Air Force Base brought in bombsniffing dogs, and the dogs indicated there was something present, but reported company al bomb threats since the strike began. Weve had a sprinkling of these," said Greyhound spokeswoman Dorothy Lorant. All of them have been false, thank God. Tony Martinez, San Francisco shop steward for the drivers union, said he doubts any of his members is responsible. I dont think any driver would go that far, he said. Attack in Philadelphia On Friday a bus leaving the terminal in Philadelphia was attacked by four unidentified men with a crowbar, leaving the windows smashed and the driver injured. Striking workers, meanwhile, continued to cast ballots on a pro In Providence, R.I., a striking driver was injured Friday night as about 50 pickets tried to block a Greyhound bus that was approaching the depot. Roger Bernier, 59, of Seekonk, Mass., was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, where he was treated and released. Union members claim a policeman threw Bernier to the ground, causing him to hit his head on the pavement. Police say it was uncertain how Bernier was injured. Greyhounds 12,700 drivers and other workers who belong to the Amalgamated Transit Union struck Nov. 2 over a proposed contract calling for at least 9.5 percent cuts in wages and benefits. Fargo Heist - Two MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) masked gunmen who robbed a Wells Fargo office on Thanksgiving Day made off with 36.5 million in cash, checks and negotiable bonds, making it the third largest holdup in the nations history, an audit showed Saturday. There was $65 million total loss," Lt. Glynn King of the Memphis Police Department said following a meeting with Wells Fargo officials who handled the audit King indicated Wells Fargo employees were being scrutinized as possible suspects in the theft King said a substantial amount of the cash was traceable by recorded serial numbers. However, he said it would take some time to determine the origin of the checks, since the thieves also took the security firm's deposit paperwork. Fireworks Warehouse Explodes, Killing 2 Continued From Page One er himself, and Donna Gruber, 19, an employee who was his cousin, were killed in the blast said William McKean, Suffolk County police spokesman. Their bodies were found just outside the wreckage, and police said they believed both had been trying to flee when the blast occurred. The injured included the founder of the American company and three other family members. All of the injured were later released from the hospital. sparked but firefighters extin- guished them. Observers said they heard at least three blasts. The families whose houses were damaged were offered overnight shelter at five recreation centers and Bellport High School, but as of 9 p.m. only six families had accepted, k McKean said. A area had been evacuated because of fireworks lying in the streets. in a one-ha- lf Police went square mile area around the factory Saturday evening, advising people not to spend the night there because of explosives, Caples said. He said police would patrol the explosion area throughout the night to prevent looting. two-bloc- door-to-do- The warehouse of the company, owned by fireworks makers, blew up at 11:10 am, officials said. Several small fires were The area was being searched for hundreds of fireworks believed scattered in the blast, some as far as eight miles away. If one were to explode, it would be enough to blow your hands off or knock your eyes out, said LL Thomas Compitello of Suffolk County Emergency Services. Lyons said his parents, who live about three miles away in Brookha-vefelt their house shake. The warehouse that blew up was about one-hablock long and there were several other concrete buildings nearby, he said. Karen Hermus, who lives across the street from the warehouse, said her house was severely damaged. Theres nothing left and I've got n, lf Pallbearers pallbearers were Charles Forrester of Greer, S C, Sad WilThe liam Bestwick, of Westpont, Vs. The Soviet veterans were two retired officers, Maj. Gen. Alexei Gorlinski and Col, Ivan Samchuk. Gorlinski said at the ceremony that he wanted to renew the pledge by American and Soviet soldiers, who promised, he recalled, at Torgau to dedicate their lives to furthering friendship between the people of the United States and of the Soviet Union so that wars would never happen again. Gorlinski, whose dark civilian suit decorated with military medals, said his countrymen felt great sadness at Polowskys death. Dangerous Storm Heads for Plains Millions Taken In Wells no bomb was located immediately, . posed contract. Union officials are scheduled to announce Monday reThe 43 passengers were loaded sults of the voting on a new three-yea- r onto another coach and continued offer, which reportedly contheir trip, Greyhound reported. tains a 7.8 percent wage cut. severhas The another, as God has loved you." I pray that both nations will not but learn pick up swords anymore, to live in peace with each other and with all nations of the world, the young man said. In 1955, Polowsky led a delegation of U.S. veterans to Moscow and to Washington to plea for an end to the arms race. An old friend of Polowsky, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin cf the Riverside Church in New York, said a prayer at the burial. Polowsky was one of the American soldiers who met the Soviet army at Torgau, on the banks of the Elbe, on April 25, 1645. The joining of the Western and Russian armies sealed the fate of Adolf Hitlers Third Reich. Twelve days later, Hitler was dead And the Germans had surrendered. Soviets Help Wheel Cart PoluWkky as buried about a mile from where the troops met. Two American and two Soviet soldiers who were part of tne troop linkup in Torgau wheeled the cart bearing Polowsky's coffin, draped with an American flag, to the grave. The only relative to attend the burial was Polowskys son, Ted, 23. Col. Roland Lajoie from the U.S. mission at Potsdam handed Ted Polowsky the flag that had covered his father's coffin. The Soviet and American officers saluted, and Polowskys son wept. About 200 East Germans from the area came to the burial. Two U.S. Marines stationed in West Berlin followed the pallbearers. After a riverside ceremony after the burial, Ted Polowsky quoted Christs admonishment to love one to get out, she said by telephone. The police are standing at my door yelling at me." Ray Braun, manager of an insulating company a block away, said the explosions collapsed his roof and blew out the doors and windows. My own employees were saying, Thats it, thats the end, he said. Braun said he rushed to the scene and found chaos. There were people running out of their homes There were babies being thrown out of windows. It was a real mess, he said. Charles Salit, a Long Island Lighting Co. spokesman, said power was restored by Saturday afternoon to all but a handful of the 7,000 customers who lost power after the alast. ot balf-dresse- d. By Roger Petterson Associated Press Writer The second dangerous snowstorm in a week lurched toward the Plains on Saturday, with blowing snow that closed highways, after throwing as much as a foot of snow on the central Rockies overnight and icing roads from Arizona to South Dakota. The storm that blew ashore from the Pacific on Thanksgiving and another that preceded it by a week Skiers Delight, B- -l were blamed for at least 40 deaths, who died of including two teen-ageexposure Saturday after a car crash in Colorado. Blizzard warnings were in effect for northwestern Kansas and northeastern Colorado, with winter storm waminp over eastern Colorado and its mountains and southeastern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming, parts of Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and northeastern New Mexico. The rs In southeastern Wyoming, blow- ing snow forced closure of Interstate 80 from Rawlins to Laramie and from Cheyenne to Casper. Chains were required elsewhere and the Highway Patrol advised against any unnecessary travel anywhere in the state. Many truckers on the major route across Wyoming, were sitting tight at Laramie, socked in for the second time in a week, said a truck-sto- p employee. east-we- st In central Wyoming, the national weather service said that 46.6 inches of snow have fallen this month at Lander, the most snow ever to fall there in November. The previous record of 38.8 inches was set in 1978. storms eastward movement prompted winter storm watches for parts of South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Wind gusting to 50 mph in Colorado Springs and temperatures only in the teens and 20s created a wind chill factor of around 20 degrees below zero. Havre, Mont., had a low of 5 degrees and the mercury fell to 6 degrees above zero at Williston, just N.D. 'A Dangerous Storm This is a dangerous storm, said Gary Franson, a National Weather Service forecaster in Denver. Anybody caught inadequately dressed or unprepared could die. Colorado Blanketed to a foot of snow fell on ColoraUp dos mountains during the night and on Saturday, with snow falling over nearly all of the state, the mountains got up to 15 inches more. The snow caused conditions and closed three state highways on Colorados eastern plains, from Limon to Colorado Springs and from Pumpkin Center to Colorado Springs. It also forced postponement of five state high school football championship playoffs. One of two runways at Denvers Stapleton International Airport was closed temporarily and two boys died Of exposure from lying in the open after they were tossed outside their car, which rolled over early Saturday north of Denver. near-blizzar- wind-drive- n d Its dumping outside. It's really coming down, Cathy peWolfe of Aspen Skiing Co. said Friday. This is the best snow in 10 years for an opening day. Faith Proves Fuel for Fears and Prejudices Much of Worlds Violence Shaped by Religions in Conflict i Continued From Page One cause people wont take too much change, he said in an interview. Edward Said, a Palestinian-bor- n Columbia University professor and leading American interpreter of Mideast culture, finds such an anti-Wereaction behind Lebanon's sectarian agonies. The Maronites in Lebanon see themselves as the representatives of as Christianity, Europe, the West opposed to the others, who are Arab, Islamic, he said. Weve never really gotten over the Crusades, added Kennedy. Here is a capsule look at religion and conflict around the globe: LEBANON For centuries a mountain refuge for persecuted sects, Lebanon today is an ecumenicaj slaughterhouse. Despite an overlay of superpower rivalry, the basic struggle still echa clash beoes the Crusader era tween dominant Western Christians and poorer Eastern Moslems. At least 17 recognized religious communities crowd this tiny land of 3.5 million people. They include about i million Shiite Moslems, almost as many Sunni Moslems, d 200,000 members of the Druse sect, and 1.4 million Christians, mostly members of the Maronite sect. The legacy is bloody and old. A century ago, tradition says, 20,000 Christians were massacred by Druses in the Chouf Mountains. in the period from More recently the 1975-7- 6 civil war to the after-mat- h of the 1982 Israeli invasion probably 70,000 Lebanese have been killed. Druse and Moslem groups, re st Islamic-de-scende- 7 ft garding themselves as a downtrodden majority, formed a largely leftist camp and allied themselves with d socialist, Moslem and ChrisSyria. The right-win- g tians turned to the United States. American Marines landed in Beirut in two crises, in 1958 and 1982, to help prop up Christian-le- d governments. Soviet-supporte- IRAN-IRA- This is not a conventional war," Iranian ground forces commander Col. Sayyed Shirazi has said. It is a war of faith. Irans border conflict with Iraq is the world's bloodiest war unconfirmed U.S. reports say at least 175,000 people have been killed over three years and is probably the most religious. It mirrors the historic schism between the austere Shiite sect of Irans Persians and the more pragmatic Sunni sect of most Arabs. At the warfront, Iranian signs point To Karbala, nearby site of a battle of 1.300 great Sunni-Shiit- e years ago. The Iranian war cry is Allahu Akhbar!" God is Great! And Iran's supreme leader. Shiite clergyman Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. has condemned Iraqs Sunni leaders as atheists. Traditional religious elders lead two major rebel groups. ARABS-ISRAELI- S Five major wars, tens of thousands of dead, international tensions all have stretching over decades grown from the clash of two peoples. Arab and Jew, over a strip of land each regards as its birthright. In some respects, the conflict is ethnic, economic and ideological, but the religious element is everpresent. Those who govern Israel cite Biblical title when they lay Jewish d claim to the West Bank of the Jordan River. And generations of Arab leaders have summoned their people to a jihad to liberate Moslem shrines under Israeli control. PHILIPPINES The traditional Moslem credo divides the world into the Land of Islam and the Land of War." The farthest frontier of the Land of War today lies in the jungles of Mindanao and the Sulu Islands, in the southern Philippines. Separatist guerrillas among that region's 2.5 million Moslems have been fighting to end domination and encroachment by the Philippines' Roman Catholic majority of 42 milArab-populate- lion. AFGHANISTAN When rebel tribesmen banded together in 1979, they called themselves Teiman Ata'had-Isla"Those who have sworn to fight for Islam. To the tribesmen, their Moslem fundamentalist struggle against A- fghanistans Marxist government and Soviet troops is a jihad, a holy war, against godless communism and Western-styl- e modernization. L NORTHERN IRELAND The guerrilla Irish Republican Army, overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, is waging underground war to remove Northern Ireland Protestant population 1 million, Catholics 500,000 from the United Kingdom and to unite it with the largely Catholic Irish republic to the south. Though usually identified as a Catholic vs. Protestant" conflict, r Northern Ireland's troubles have it is a nationalmany dimensions ist struggle, a campaign against economic discrimination and for civil rights, a revolution by IRA Marxists, a battle against terrorism of both sides. The sectarian streak is unmistakable, however. Old religious fears always loom near at hand, especially among the Protestants, who worry that a papist takeover of all Ireland would threaten their rights to divorce and contraception, would undermine Protestant education, and might even jeopardize their community's future. INDIA A teeming patchwork of humanity, India cannot escape religious friction and fire. In the eastern state of Assam, more than 3,200 people were killed this year in clashes between Hindu natives and Moslem immigrants from nearby Bangladesh. The smallest sparks can ignite religious conflagration. Last June, a Hindu wedding party in the city of Khurja set off firecrackers, and days of Moslem rioting followed. It was the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, when firecrackers signal the end of the daily fast, and the false alarm infuriated the Islamic faithful. Two people died and 50 others were hurt. Another religious conflict tears at India's heartland. anti-Cathol- ic Militants among Punjab state's turbaned Sikhs, a sect that rejects Hindu polytheism, demand more religious and political autonomy, including an independent, Vatican-lik- e status for their holy city of Amritsar. More than 200 people have been killed since 1980, includ ing Hindu priests hacked to death in their temples. SRI LANKA thousand years of animosity bes tween this islands two the majority Budgroups dhist Sinhalese and the minority boils over regularly Hindu Tamils in communal warfare. Last July, almost 400 people, mostly Tamils, were killed in rioting that erupted A ethnic-religiou- CUP after Tamil separatists ambushed ' an army patrol. 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