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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday october 21, 1977 Bonn posts photos of 16 terrorists continued from Page 1 Hospital where she is recovering. Bender said raspe and Baader shot themselves with pistols but was unable to explain How the weapons were smuggled into the prison West Germany s most secure. A fierce gun Battle broke out around Rome University thursday As thousands of Legal Challenge feared left Wing students pulled red kerchiefs Over their faces and traded bullets with police. At least seven persons including four policemen were wounded by gunfire. There were about 25 arrests. The fighting broke out when police barred the students from marching on the West German embassy to protest what they described As the cold blooded murder of the three terrorists at Stamm Heim prison. Among those wanted is Susanne Al Brecht 26-year-old daughter of a prominent Hamburg lawyer. She has been identified As one of the killers of Frankfurt banker Juergen Ponto a family Friend last  Small band remnants of the Baader Meinhoff gang is also blamed for the assassination of the government s chief prosecutor Siegfried Buback in the wave of Dod asks delay in Union ban Law Washington up the Pentagon has asked Congress to postpone legislation it sought in March to outlaw unionization of . Armed forces. Officials said the switch was prompted by the possibility of Legal Challenge. The Pentagon wants to see if its oct. 6 directive prohibiting Union activities works Pentagon manpower Boss John White told a surprised House armed serv ices investigation subcommittee wednes  turnaround sparked a hostile com Mittee reaction. Secretary Harold Brown asked in March for legislative underpinning said committee chairman Sam Stratton . We got it. Now he does not want it. Why Stratton shouted at White. Secretary Brown has the right to change his mind White replied and he has. We Are satisfied that the directive is enough and believe the legislation is no longer  Stratton said legislation prohibiting creation of military unions could provide a More permanent ban and said the sub committee might approve the legislation whether the Pentagon wants it or not. Anyone can attack legislation warned Pentagon lawyer Deanne Siemer. Brown who asked for the legislation two months after taking office prefers using the departmental directive Siemer said. Officials fear the legislation will be in validated by the courts thus paralysing the department s efforts to meet the unionization problem she said. Korea probe told of lobbyist ties with Ford aide congressman Washington a a former South korean intelligence agent testified thurs Day that he was told in 1975 that korean Rice dealer ton Sun Park had links with a High official of Congress and an assistant to the  the president referred to was later identified As Gerald Ford but the names of the assistant and the official of Congress were not disclosed. There was no indication the witness was referring to ton Sun Park s links with Betty Ford s personal assistant Nancy Howe. Howe her husband James and their daughter were guests of Park in the dominican Republic in 1975. Howe later committed suicide after White House officials began an inquiry into the trip. The former korean Central intelligence Agency agent Kim Sang Keun said he was told of those contacts on april 20,1975, by Washington area manufacturer Hancho Agency says pollution control will lift prices Washington a the Environ mental Protection Agency says the aver age consumer in 1983 will spend about $10.50 a year More for paper products and $19.26 a year More for an automobile be cause of pollution controls. The figures were based on two Epa re ports on the costs of meeting air and water pollution control in the paper and steel industries. The steel Industry will have to spend an estimated $5.8 billion to build pollution controls required by Law the Epa report said. By 1983 these costs if passed through in the form of higher pries will increase the average steel Price by $9.60 per ton an increase of about 2.6 percent the Epa said. Adm. Shear confers in Italy Rome up . Navy . Harold c. Kim who he said was running a Kycia financed operation to influence Congress men and government officials. The former Kycia agent testified that the businessman wanted to report immediately to Seoul that . Reporters were begin Ning to learn about ton Sun Park s in fluence buying efforts. Under questioning from an ethics com Mittee investigator Kim Sang Keun said Hancho Kim told him the reporters might discover Park s contacts with a High offi Cial of Congress and an assistant to the  a committee investigator later said Ford was the president referred to by Kim Sang Keun. The committee is making a Point of not exposing any allegations against Congress men in the first round of hearings and the former Kycia agent was told in Advance not to name the High official in Congress or the assistant to the president. Former House democratic whip John j. Mcfall and present democratic whip John Brademas have acknowledged getting $4, 000 and $5,000 from ton Sun Park but say they have no reason to believe there was anything wrong with that. They say they knew ton Sun Park Only As a party giving korean businessman and did no favors for the Money. There have been references in the past to contacts Between ton Sun Park and some executive Branch official but there has never been any Public indication who the official is. The former intelligence agent said the businessman were so concerned about the possible disclosure of ton Sun Park s operations that he telephoned Kycia head quarters in Seoul to report what was Hap pening. Kim Sang Keun was the first witness thursday. The committee said the next witnesses will be . Lee a former aide to korean Rice dealer ton Sun Park the wives of reps. E. De la Garza dtex., and John t. Vyers rind., and former Kycia director Kim Hung Wook. Was directed from Kycia Headquarters in Seoul. Earlier special committee counsel Leon Jaworski said there were compelling Indi cations that the South korean govern ment was engaged in attempts to influence congressmen. He said that in 1973 korean embassy representatives were told of a plan to  off american congressmen. A former South korean agent in Washington told the committee that the korean Central intelligence Agency directed the latest operation. The former agent Kim Sang Keun said the Kycia supplied $600,000 for operation White Snow conducted from August 1974 to april 1976, with the results reported to Seoul. Kim said the Kycia reported its Progress directly to president Park. Anti government anti capitalist violence that began six months ago. The German gang also apparently was linked to the arabic speaking hijackers who took Over a Lufthansa jetliner last week since both Schleyer s kidnappers and the hijackers demanded the release of the same 11 German terrorists from West German prisons. The government did not comply and a West German commando team res cued the 86 hostages aboard the Airliner in Somalia Early tuesday killing three of the hijackers and seriously wounding the fourth. Schleyer s body was found after Tele phone tips sent French police to a car parked on a quiet Street in the alsatian town of Mulhouse 10 Miles from the Ger Man Border. An official autopsy in Mulhouse thursday revealed that Schleyer was killed by three bullets fired Point Blank into his Skull. The Mulhouse Public prosecutor said Schleyer had been dead for about 36 hours indicating that he was killed during the Day on tuesday. Schleyer was ambushed sept. 5 on a Cologne Street by at least five persons who killed his three bodyguards and Driver. A communique sent by Schleyer s killers to an Ultra leftist Paris newspaper said his death is not commensurate with our Sor Row and our anger after the Mogadishu and Stamm Heim  it indicated he was shot tuesday. Radical palestinians in Lebanon issued a warning saying West Germany s anti terrorist commandos who rescued the hijacked hostages would be the target of vengeance attacks. West Germany s top anti terror specialist Gerhard Boden compiled the list of suspects. Besides Albrecht three other women on it Silke Meier Witt Sigrid Sternbeck Angelika Speitel Are wanted for the Ponto slaying. The other female suspects Are Brigitte Mohnhaupt believed to have taken part in a shootout in the Netherlands in which a dutch policeman was killed Friederike Krabbe Adelheid Schulz Juliane plam Beck Inge Viett and Elisabeth von Dyck. The male suspects were listed As Rolf Heissler Christian Klar Willy Peter Stoll Christoph Wackernagel Rolf Clemens Wagner and Joerg Lang. The police and other Federal and state Security officials will seek the murderers with All their strength and without ceasing and most certainly will catch them government spokesman Boelling said in a Tele Vised statement. Pilot group head seeks . Talks on hijacking e. Shear nato s newly appointed com mrs. De la Garza and mrs. Myers we Remander in chief of Allied forces Southern called to testify about offers to them of Europe paid get acquainted Calls on ital Money while they were visiting Korea with ran president Giovanni Leone defense their husbands. Minister Attilio Ruffini and defense chief Kim Sang Keun has testified about of staff Gen. Andrea Viglione. $600,000 influence buying operation he said Hong Kong a the head of an International pilots group who has called for a worldwide strike to demand new Mea sures against hijacking flew to new York thursday to meet with . Secretary general Kurt Waldheim. Derry f. Pearce president of the inter National federation of airline pilots associations has called for an urgent session of the United nations to discuss ways of com batting air hijacking. He has urged member associations in 64countries to strike from 8 . Tuesday until 8 . Oct. 27 to press the  strike Call was prompted by the slaying of capt. Juergen Schumann by terrorists in Mogadishu Somalia after his Lufthansa jetliner was hijacked last  commandos killed three hijackers and rescued the hostages  has Given member associations until sunday to decide whether to join the strike if the United nations does not con Vene the session immediately. He said wednesday that one third of the Assoc including the . Group were discussing the question. Waldheim had agreed to meet with Pearce either Friday or monday. The Secretary general has urged All nations to tighten Security at airports and on planes and to ratify International treaties to cur airborne terrorism. Waldheim said the general Assembly has agreed to expedite consideration of measures against the taking of hostages. The Issue was scheduled for debate in mid november in the Assembly s Legal committee but now it is expected to be on the Agenda next week. Alaska hit by earthquake Palmer Alaska up an Earth quake has rumbled through the Anchorage area shaking buildings but causing no damage. The Alaska tsunami warning Center re ported the quake s magnitude As 4.5 on the Richter scale. The epicentre was about 115had agreed to strike and that Many Miles North of Anchorage the Center said  
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