European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes March killings were israelis Tell lbs vice president world today Jerusalem not a vice president of lbs Ernest met sunday with senior israeli officials and said he received a detailed explanation How two lbs cameramen were killed in a tragic mistake by an israeli tank Shell in Leiser met for two hours with Uri the spokesman for prime minister Shimon and Raanan Gissin of the Israel defense Leiser said after the meeting if the Israel defense Force account is to be the shooting could have been a tragic the israeli tank Crew could have been far enough away so that they could not have identified the camera he told the israeli account does not jibe with what we were and Are continuing to from witnesses in who said that the israeli tank commander could easily see that the lbs car was a press with a press and that no shooting was coming from around the two lebanese lbs cameramen were killed thurs Day outside the Southern Village of far Melki when an israeli tank fired a Shell at their car during an israeli Security sweep for lebanese guerrillas in the Leiser said he has asked to speak with the tank com to visit the area where the incident happened and to discuss the shooting with Peres and defense minister Yitzhak those requests Are being considered by israeli he commenting on sundays Saver said i was sorry that conclusions were drawn before we had had a Chance to discuss the matter Leiser said that he came Here to look into the matter and to possibly meet with the prime minister and to make sure that things like this do not happen he received a detailed account from who explained that there was terrorist activity emanating from this area the night before the As a action was taken the next Day to locate the terrorists in that the if had warned journalists a few Days earlier about the danger of moving in that the if also warned the local population not to move around during their what according to was that the tank commander saw from a distance of a mile or in an area where there was to be no what he thought was someone lifting a and he this was the result of a very dangerous situation being faced by israeli we Are extremely there was no intention what Soever to deliberately shoot at during the course of the our interest has been to facilitate free coverage and safeguard taking them into Lebanon in armed Leiser said of the israeli explanation we got the first More or less Complete explanation from their Point of with of what they said that the tank fired at what they saw As movement and what they thought was a weapon being they said the tank was Between tworan Dahal and three Kilometres the israeli said does not jibe with that Given by a lbs employee who survived the and conflicts with the account of three other who said the israeli tank was Only 500 Yards he added that the lebanese witnesses said the israeli tank commander was close enough to Tell that the car had a press sign on it and that the men were taking there is a great Deal of resentment within official israeli circles Over the lbs reaction to the affair and its Strong and repeated denunciations of israeli even president Chaim Herzog on sunday criticized the lbs a noting when reporters enter a Battle they know they Are putting their lives in lbs has cancelled plans to broadcast its morning news program from Jerusalem during the week of easter and passover to protest the killing of the two according to the Jerusalem lbs had invested More than in preparation for the lbs had a gut said a senior israeli who declined to be they came to their called us every name in the punished and then they said they were sending someone Over to investigate what at the same Many israeli officials con in conversations not for that the original israeli army statement about the incident was seriously in that it contained few details about the killings and lacked any sense even the newspaper a stong defender of the called sunday for a thorough investigation of the As suggested by ethiopian emigrants March in Israel to protest rabbis requirements Tel Aviv not several Hundred emigrants from Ethiopia marched in Jerusalem on sunday to protest what they described As insensitive and insulting requirements being forced on them by under civil Law in the chief or Rab Bis is the competent authority in matters of per Sonal status in the jewish a spokesman for the ethiopian who say they have been practising the jewish religion for said the rabbis Are requiring them to undergo ritual Cere monies before being accepted As the who have questioned whether the ethiopian jews intermarried while they were in Call the ceremonies renewal of the but the rituals Are the same As those required of a and the emigrants have objected to the aspersions they feel Are being cast on their status As devout chanting in we dont want they marched from the israeli which was not in to the offices of the jewish Agency for which is in charge of the disposition of and then to the seat of the chief tension in the Community was heightened last week when hasidic jews at the wailing Wall in Jerusalem chased away ethiopian jews who had gone there to attained High rank in nazi intelligence Ulster command a photo Tony a former commander of Britain crack special air service Sas the counterinsurgency will take Over soon As the army second in command in Northern the defense ministry said who led the Sas from 1974 to will be promoted to major general when he assumes his new duties As commander of British land forces in Gandhi blames opposition for riots that have killed 13 new India a prime minister Rajiv Gandhi said saturday that opposition parties Are responsible for the hindu moslem rioting that claimed 13 lives last week in the Western City of those people who have lost in the recent elections have unfortunately come out onto the they Are not prepared to accept the verdict of the Gandhi was quoted As saying after completing a two hour tour of the Gandhi governing Congress party won a massive majority in Assembly elections Early this month in Gujarat of which Ahmadabad is the Gandhi announced a government donation of rupees about to the riot and said his governing Congress party would organize peace commit tees in two people were fatally stabbed during curfew relaxation bringing the we Klong death toll to army troops continue to patrol the the violence began last monday during a student led general strike against an increase in Job quotas in colleges and the government for socially disadvantaged the protest turned into a communal riot when demonstrators began shouting derogatory former British spy reveals he was double agent Australia up a former British spy located by a historian acknowledged monday that he was a Dou ble agent during world War ii and tipped off the allies to the German invasions of Russia and the Channel Charles Evans reluctantly told a radio interviewer he had risen to the highest lev Els of nazi intelligence during the but he said he feared the exposure of his quiet retirement in Australia would endanger other British agents still in the was tracked Down in Mel Bourne by English historian and Nigel working from clues in an Anonymous letter in which the former spy took Issue with a Book by West about the British intelligence the Melbourne newspaper the age published an account monday of the historians conversations with West has written seven books on including three Best according to the Evans used information obtained As a lieutenant colonel in German intelligence to advise the British within 24 hours of the Date in june 1941 that Hitler would turn against Josef Stalin and invade he also tipped off Allied intelligence to the nazi occupation of the Channel islands off England Southern coast the Only British territory taken by Germany and sent information about a nazi coding de vice called Enigma which the British smuggled out of Germany other secrets unearthed by Evans included nazi plans for such weapons As the by effective Tiger tank and the pilotless Al Buzz bombs which devastated he also warned London about a spy called Cicero who was stealing secrets from the British embassy in Evans expressed fears in a radio interview that publicity about his life would help the soviet Union uncover Active British agents of his generation who infiltrated German Intelli gence in the same Way he you they May still use the same he now that i am the first thing that will happen is they will Start investigating any person who has been to an English Public private schools in Britain Are known As Public West told the age that no one had Ever heard of an Allied agent rising so far in the nazi intelligence system Ana that Story would Force a rewriting of a Large part of world War ii he said Evans was studying languages at an exclusive English and was already proficient in German when he was recruited in 1933 by sir Hugh a Friend of his he Learned later that Sinclair was head of he suggested that i consider studying to be a doctor at Heidelberg in Evans told he seemed to know if i went to i would be recruited by the German secret after graduating in Evans joined the German military intelligence and Rose rapidly to the rank of lieutenant he did so Well he was ultimately decorated with the Iron at a time when he was passing vital secrets to
