European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes 12 will die for plot to oust Amin Nairobi Kenya a twelve per sons sentenced to death by a military Tri Bunal in Kampala for conspiring to overthrow president Idi Amin will be executed in Public on Friday Uganda radio announced tuesday. Amin personally signed the order for execution by firing squad of the former rank ing government and military officials the radio said in a series of broadcasts monitored Here. The court issued its sentence on  radio said the Public executions will be held under the clock Tower at 5 . Friday and will be photographed by authorized personnel. Anyone else attempting to photograph the executions will do so at their own risk the radio  clock Tower according to former visitors to Uganda is located outside the capital of Kampala on the Road to Entebbe. The radio said the 12 had been sentenced to death by firing squad after being convicted of  radio said two other persons also on trial had been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Two others were acquitted by the tribunal last week on the grounds that they had informed the authorities that a plot was in the making by the Uganda liberation front before their arrests last february. The treason trial started in the City Hall in the ugandan capital aug. 22 and the radio reported then that the accused had All pleaded guilty and had outlined to the court their roles in the planned coup. Those sentenced to death include it. Ben Gowanga a former intelligence offi cer Abdalla any uru a former chairman of the Uganda Public services commis Sion and Ben Ngoma a former Kampala businessman. Tass denies Toon claim of slight looting Moscow a Tass denied tuesday . Ambassador Malcolm Toon s charge that soviet firemen who put out the fire at the . Embassy on aug. 27 also did a Bitof looting. Without quoting Toon s charge the offi Cial soviet news Agency said slanders against the soviet firemen by some american diplomats were the actions of enemies of soviet american  know there was a degree of looting but it was insignificant the ambassador told a news conference last Friday. We have made a Complete Survey and Are satisfied that nothing of consequence was  he said the missing items included a cassette of the television serial roots franking and classification Stamps desk address books and a Sterling Silver medal lion from the ambassador s office. Praised bravery skill Toon previously had lauded the bravery and skill of the firemen. The enemies of the soviet Union Are ready to use any reason for anti soviet slanders said Tass. This time they were not even shy about casting a Shadow on the actions of the soviet firemen who according to the general opinion of witnesses american and soviet performed bravely and with determination while extinguishing the fir which broke out in the embassy of the United states in Moscow on aug. 27."the article mentioned Toon s official let ters to the foreign ministry and the Interi or ministry expressing gratitude for the firemen s efforts. Greenhorn hike Alps toll Summit is near so is danger Paris a Nasty weather and Rush of Green climbers turned this summer into one of the deadliest mountaineering seasons on record in the Alps. The surge of interest in ecology has made it increasingly fashionable for Young and not so Young europeans to head for the top of a Mountain often with Little idea of the dangers that await  addition unseasonably late precipitation Laid a Blanket of soft Snow Over the hard packed layer that usually gives climbers traction with their  top layer this year was treacherous. You go up Early in the morning before the Sun conies up said col Rene Kar Rivere of the French civil Security service himself a Veteran Mountaineer. And when you come Down later after a Little Sun the Snow on top melts fast and catastrophe the crampons Don t  Karr Tere estimated that As Many As five million frenchmen Are giving mountaineering at least an occasional try several times the number in the recent past. An in formal associated press Survey showed the climbing Boom extends across the  guides say that on some Peak Days this summer up to 200 persons scaled Kittens make debut Tom and Jenny Lynx Kittens born july 28 at London zoo were Given their first Outing monday on the zoo s new lion Ter races. The Kittens were born to Caesar and Queenie desert Lynnes purchased from the Amsterdam zoo. A photo the 15,748-foot it. Blanc High in thelps. The combination of weather and num Bers has produced Axi eath toll of some 329 persons in French italian austrian an Swiss mountaineering accidents so far this season according to incomplete statistics compiled by climbing groups and govern ment authorities. The French count of m is the worst on records kept by the French Mountain federation. Hannes Gasser a guide who head the Innsbruck Mountain climbing school said the unofficial austrian count of 41 t probably will reach a new record before fall snows end the season. The Swiss air Rescue service said it count of 94 Alpine climbing deaths is the worst since 1972. Italian mountaineering deaths Are estimated to number 110, considered by guides As a bad season Al though statistics Are not readily available on preceding years. Mountain men explain the High tolls impart by ready Access to High altitudes provided by improved roads and Cable cars or chair lifts. Almost anyone can make it to within sight of the summits and Many underestimate the difficulty of finishing the climb on foot. Olivier Guignard spokesman for Swissair s Rescue squads said Many of these novices Are not in Good enough physical trim for the Rigours of High Altitude climbing. Others Are  Short pants and sneakers we picked up one excursion is in the mountains wearing Short pants and sneak ers As if he was at the seashore said a seasoned climber in Trento Italy. Carriere said i be seen some of the mat 3,000 meters 9,800 feet with oxfords on. All that equipment boots crampons ropes and so on it is  but even veterans can suffer from shift ing snows or a slipped Crampon in warm summer Sun. One of the season s Best known victims was Jean Brunei an experienced French guide who plunged to his death aug. 12 when a climbing Cord came Loose. Or. Gerhard Mayer an austrian climber found dead aug. 30 on it. Blanc after a five Day Rescue operation by helicopter Sand Rescue squads was also an experienced Mountaineer. So was his climbing partner or. Werner Burger Meister who was with Mayer when he was knocked into Ravine by falling Snow. Daily express total now 440 240 More fired by British paper London a the daily express Britain s third biggest daily newspaper fired another 240 workers Here tuesday to bring the total dismissed in a four Day Dis Pute to 400. The dispute started saturday Over pay. It has turned into a trial of strength be tween the paper s be w management an powerful labor unions at the express and it prevented the paper publishing i London tuesday morning for the second straight Day. The express group was bought by tra Falgar House investments from Beaver Brook newspapers for $23.29 million last june after Beaverbrook s losses reached some $3.5 million in the last year. On saturday the management led by the new chairman Victor Matthews fired 160 engineers after a group of them refuse to break up a Union meeting called during their shift to discuss a wage claim. The management said the 160 men All members of the amalgamated Union of engineering workers had dismissed themselves by their action and barred them from the building. As a result of the dispute two million copies of the newspaper s sunday stable mate the sunday express were lost. In addition the monday morning edition of the daily express failed to appear in London and another member of the group the London evening Standard also failed sex Chicago Murf Coso gunned Down in Italy Reggio Calabria Italy a Giu Seppe Moscato a former mafioso from Chicago was killed by three Rifle shots inthe Back outside Reggio Calabria sunday night. Police speculated that the murder was a settlement of a mafia account. Moscato 55, was deported from the United states in 1960. In the late 1960s, he was confined to a Remote Village in North Ern Italy for two years because of suspected mafia  s aying was the second murder attributed to the mafia in 24 hours in this Region of Southern Italy. Rocco Aloisi 25, was killed by two pistol shots in the Mouth saturday night near the town of Locri. Police said this was a customary mafia method of execution for traitors. To appear  printing of the Northern version of the daily express in Manchester is unaffected by the dispute. The management therefore ordered extra copies to be printed there for distribution in the South of the country tuesday morning. The Normal total daily circulation of the daily express throughout Brit Ain is 2.3 million copies. But 240 express warehousemen and distribution men in London in a move to Back the 160 fired engineers refused to handle the extra copies printed in Manchester and brought to  management followed up the Refus Al by dismissing the 240 men who remembers of the society of graphical and Allied trades. The management said that despite meetings with senior officials of the Engi neers Union no solution to the dispute involving them had yet been found. The stoppage is the latest in a rash of disruptions affecting Britain s National circulation newspapers Many of which Are losing Money. The times and the financial times were shut Down by strike earlier this summer