European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday september 6, 1978 Bonn asks for sky Jack legislation Bonn West Germany a West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt asked parliamentarians of 72 countries meeting Here tuesday to work towards worldwide adoption of an agreement to discourage aircraft hijacking. Schmidt spoke at the ceremonial open ing of the 65th annual inter parliamentary conference attended by More than 1,000 delegates from countries belonging to the 76-nation inter parliamentary Union. To bolster International efforts against terrorist hijackers it must be made Clear to potential criminals that they no longer will have a Refuge where they can stay without penalty and prepare for new at tacks Schmidt extradition wanted he appealed to other nations represented at the conference to join an Accord reached at the Bonn Summit of leading non communist Industrial nations in july under which West Germany the ., can Ada Japan France Italy and the . Agreed to punish or extradite hijackers. The Yipu conference was opened by president Walter Scheel after speeches by Schmidt German bundestag president Karl Carstens and sir Thomas Williams president of the inter parliamentary coun cil the Yipu s controlling body. The Yipu an organization dedicated to seek International peace and understand ing will debate issues ranging from disarmament to the elimination of colonialism in plenary sessions starting tuesday after noon and ending thursday next week. Draft resolutions Call on National Parlia ments to help eliminate illiteracy condemn White ruled South Africa for its apartheid policies oppose the nuclear arms race work towards outlawing terror ism help alleviate debts of developing nations and seek International agreements fixing fair prices for third world raw material exports. Stimulate National economies at the opening ceremony Schmidt also called on parliaments of the seven coun tries represented at the Bonn Summit in july to approve Laws needed to put into effect Summit pledges by their governments to stimulate National economies. He reiterated West Germany s opposition to South african apartheid saying the Pretoria government must know that time is running out for a peace Ful Reform through the constructive Dia Logue of All population Bonn is using its economic ties with South Africa to press for peaceful change but we believe a policy of sanctions promises Little Success he said. Indian army soldiers guide a Flat Bot Tomed Craft Down the grand trunk Road on the outskirts of new Delhi re accused of smug no floating to safety moving refugees from flooded Sites. Many thousands had to leave areas in undated by the fast rising Waters of the businessman pleads not guilty in Moscow visit to Pope Yasuna River As India s Monsoon struck leaving a big toll of deaths injuries and destroyed Homes. A Russ prelate Dies during Moscow a american business Man Francis j. Crawford took the witness stand in a City court Here tuesday to de fend himself against charges he was part of a Large scale currency smuggling ring and said testimony against him so far was fabricated. The Mobile ala., native was the last person the court heard in a Day Long ses Sion with a break for lunch. The trial continues wednesday with More witnesses to be called. Crawford told newsmen the testimony by two russian defendants also on trial with him was a i have stated i have exchanged no dollars that were not officially through the Bank of Pilot s brain May be linked to computer expert says London a Jet fighter pilots May someday be in direct Contact with ground based computers via electrodes attached to their Heads a norwegian scientist said Here . Carl sem Jacobsen of the norwegian brain Institute made his prediction in a paper delivered to the International Congress of aerospace Medicine. Today s aircraft in an attacking role is an advanced technology fighter and cannot be flown efficiently without the Pilot receiving electronic support sem Jacobsen told his colleagues. It is a reminder that we have moved from the Industrial revolution to the elec tronic said a computer linkup would make it possible for the computer to freeze the plane s instruments and advise the Pilot to reconsider if action is contemplated on the basis of insufficient information. He said that such a system would re Duce Pilot error and would improve flight safety. It will be possible by electrodes attached to the Pilot s head with coded sensory inputs As messengers to have the Pilot Fly the plane through direct communication Between the brain and the computer said the is no question that direct communication Between the Pilot brain and the computer will greatly improve the reliability of the data transferred Between the system and the i foreign said some of the evidence introduced in the Case had been forged and that key documents that would prove his innocence were missing. He said the prose cution s Case was full of the Start of the session Moscow City judge lev Mironov asked the 37-year-old representative of International Harvester in russian do you plead guilty i do not plead guilty Crawford whispered to his translator who relayed it to the three russians Vladimir Kiselev his seamstress wife Ludmila and a Cash Ier in a souvenir store for foreigners Alia Solovyova All pleaded guilty to the charges against , the first witness called Testi fied that he met Crawford through a Mutu Al Friend in Early 1977 and from then traded currency with him in violation of govern ment wanted to buy Dollars. Crawford wanted to buy rubles. On both sides there was Mutual Benefit and interest said Kislev a $177-a-month factory worker. Crawford was arrested june 12, apparently in retaliation for the arrest of the two alleged soviet spies. Denying that he had broken any soviet Laws he said he was a Pawn in a political chess the two russians Are scheduled to go on trial in Newark . On sept. 12. Western reporters in contrast to the trials of soviet dissidents four Western reporters were admitted to the courtroom tuesday along with Crawford s american Fiancee Virginia Olbrish of the Embassy staff his american Legal adviser Peter Maggs Consular official Robert w. Pringle and Commercial attache Stephen sind. He is charged with buying 20,000 rub Leson the Black Market for $8,500, or about a fourth of the Legal rate. Vatican City a the head of the russian orthodox delegation to the inauguration of Pope John Paul i metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad and Novgorod died of a heart attack tuesday during an Audi ence with the Pope the Vatican announced. He was 49 and had been suffering from a heart condition since an attack in 1971. Vatican officials said the metropolitan collapsed As he was sitting in the Pope s private Library during an audience for the five orthodox Church delegations to the papal ceremony sunday. The officials said the body was taken to the Small Church of St. Anne inside the Vatican and the Pope continued the series of audiences he was holding for the delegations from other churches. Nikodim was chairman of his Church s Synod on questions of Christian Unity and inter Church relations and As head of the Moscow patriarchate s ecclesiastical relations department he represented his Church at Many International conferences abroad. He frequently visited the United states. He had been a member of the executive committee of the world Council of churches for the past 15 years and had held major offices in the Council. Nikodim was born Boris Georgevich Rotov in Frolove 100 Miles Southeast of Moscow and was ordained a priest Deacon in 1947, when he was 18. After graduating from the Leningrad theological Seminary in 1950, he went to Jerusalem in 1956 As a member of the rus Sian theological Mission and eventually became its father Superior. He wrote a Book on the history of the group s work in the holy City. He returned to Moscow to become head of the patriarchate s chancellery and then was named Deputy chairman of the ecclesiastical relations was consecrated a Bishop in 1960 and an archbishop the following year
