European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday. September 18. 1985 reunion of vets sex foes called unbelievable f  a a jewish Hauler on monday harsh Antici de a planned reunion of . World War ii veterans and former nazi soldiers. Former members of the . 70lh inf div arc plan Ning to meet with former storm troopers of the 6th is division North in bad Windheim Jermany later this month a i Hunter Simon Wiesenthal noted in Vienna. I raise my strongest protest against this  Mem Zalinski. President of the Berlin jewish Community told the associated press by Telephone. It s just unbelievable that such a meeting could take place in West Germany Well do what we can to Mobili a the Public to put a Hall to  Ignat Bubis the head of the Frankfurt jewish Community said he had not heard of the reunion. Before i could say anything. I d have to kno a  of the de tails he said. I would t want to give this any More publicity than it  wisc Plhal the head of the jewish documentation Center in Vienna said he cabled Cule or Holt. Of Lola wis. The president of the 70th infantry division association urging him to cancel the event Wiesenthal reported sunday that the groups will meet sept. 22 in Frankfurt then to to a . Military cemetery near Strasbourg. France to Lay Flowers. In Milwaukee. Omholt confirmed that american world War ii veterans plan to meet with veterans of the nazi is division this month in Hur pc. He said Organ s intend no affront to a i victims Omholt who was a lieutenant in a motor platoon wild the 70th, said his group plans to Send a 44-Mcmbcr delegation to Germany for a 16-Day trip but that Mem Bers do not condone nazi atrocities. Of course we Don t. Anyone in their right mind knows thai he said. And we respect the fact thai wisc Plhal s group arc the Hurt  Omholt said his group s trips to Germany began in 1977. Contact with the former is inti pcs who fought against the 70 h in Alsace Lorraine during inc Bailie of inc bulge in december 1944. Has been on an individual basis he said. Bonn opposition names Rau to run Tor Chancellor in j987 Bonn a the opposition social democratic parly leadership on monday night nominated Johannes Rau the popular governor of North Rhine Westphalia state to run for Chancellor in the 1987 Federal elections. The party s Board chose Rau who also is the vice chair Man of the social democrats As its Chancellor candidate at a meeting in Bonn. Party members must approve the Choice Al their National conc lion in August 1986, bul thai is considered a Mere formality. Bonn political observers and the news Media had been predicting the leadership role for inc 54-year-old Rau since his resounding re election Victory in May when he prevailed Over a Christian democratic challenger hand picked by Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Anticipation of Rau s nomination  last week when he met with soviet communist party chief Mikhail Gorbachev during an official visit designed to raise Rau s credibility in International politics. The German party s chairman Willy Brandt a former Chancellor announced Rau s candidacy at a press Confer ence attended by the North Rhine Westphalia governor and Hans Jochen Vogl the party s parliamentary Leader. Brandt said Rau would Lake Over Central functions in coming months and meet w ill Germany s five other social democratic governors and Vogel to draw up significant social democratic governing  but Brandt and Vogl ruled out any immedi Alc campaigning Noling thai almost a year and a half remains before the election. According to a Public opinion poll released last week Rau would take Over the Chancellor s Post from the conservative Kohl if the election were held now. In the poll which was published by the mass circulation weekly Magazine Stern 43 percent of the 874 respondents said they preferred Rau As Federal Chancellor while 32 percent chose Kohl. Kohl s coalition government has suffered from the coun try s continuing High unemployment and from an image of shaky leadership especially since the eruption of a communist spy scandal in the capital last month. Brandt sharply criticized the Kohl administration Al the press conference charging that it is avoiding inc responsibility to or Cal More jobs pro decl inc Environ Cal and preserve  observing nato Man Euver maj. Gen. Konstantin Tcherno Mudrin left and capt Arkady Bobrov observers from the soviet Union arrive Al Uilah Mersin in Northern Germany to observe the nato autumn Man Euver defiant  up to 60,000 soldiers from Germany Britain the United states and the Netherlands Are participants. World today China entering Active period of earthquakes scientists say pf.k1ng a scientists have declared that China is in luring an Active earthquake period while officials revised the death loll in a major quake last month from 63 killed to 71. The male run China news service Zhong Guo Tinwen she quoted the stale seismological Bureau As saying 20 Earlh quakes measuring 5 or above on the Richter scale have struck China this year nine of Ihm since August. The biggest of 7.4 magnitude struck pastoral Wuqian and Shufu count is in the Xin Jiang uighur autonomous Region about 100 Miles from the soviet Border on aug. 23. The casualty loll was first put Al 63 dead More than 100 injured and 16,000 left homeless by the worst quake in China in 10 years. The la list report quo cd the Seis nto logical Bureau As revising inc death loll to 71. 7 killed 10 Hurt when train hits tractor trailer near Prague Prague a seven people were killed and 10 were injured when a train slammed into a tractor with a Iraq scr carrying an unidentified number of people the czechoslovakian news Agency ctr reported. Four people were killed on inc spol the others died in a Hospital. Five of those injured were said to be in serious condition. All the Irain s passengers escaped unhurt. The Accident occurred near Pel Rimov some 15 Miles Southeast of Prague. It was allegedly caused by the failure of the tractor Driver to observer traffic rules Al rail Cross Ings. Ctr did not report of her details. Fashion designer Laura Ashley Dies after falling Down stairs Coventry England a Laura Ashley the founder of the victorian slyly fashion Empire that bore her name died at a Coventry Hospital nine Days Afler falling Down stairs at her daughter s Home officials said. A spokesman at Walsgrave Hospital said Ashley 60, had been in a coma and had nol regained consciousness since being brought to inc Hospital sept. 8 from her daughter s Home in the cotswold Hills West of London. Ashley and her husband. Bernard began their design business in inc kill Hon of their London Home in 1954. Later icy moved to Belgium. Three decades Laler the business is a Globe straddling Enterprise with 200 stores and 4,000 employees. France frees alleged terrorist expels him to Switzerland Paris a Bruno Briguet 35, of Switzerland an alleged member of the International error isl network run by Carlos was freed from jail in France and immediately expelled across the Swiss Frontier prison authorities announced. He was taken by car from the Clairvaux jail in Eastern France under escort by police and officers of the French counter espionage service. It was nol known where he crossed the Border. A Regul and Magdalena Kopp of West Germany were arcs cd in a Paris parking lot in february 1982, near a car thai held arms and explosives. They were sentenced two months later to five and four years in prison respect Lively. With Normal time off for Good behaviour Kopp we released and expelled lowest Germany last May 4. Briguet born in Minsio Switzerland was jailed in Israel from 1970 to 1977 for having supplied explosives for a terrorist attack. He was alleged in France to be a Carrier for Carlos whose real name is Llynch Ramirez Sanchez