European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 11, 1985 the stars and stripes. Win i i i Dukj i no o i no mix la o i a Turco rights group to fight death penalties for gis amnesty International i seek to have German courts try capita cases re i m of Vicky de reav1s staff writer Frankfurt amnesty International will nut its weigh behind saving gis from the death penalty a spokeswoman for the German Branch of the organisation announced wednesday. During the presentation of the organisation s annual report at the Frankfurt bunk fair spokeswoman Rigi Etc i a scr said we shall increase pressure upon the Federal government Here to Lake jurisdiction where ii ran. In ass involving american soldiers who might face a death penalty if tried by . Military  the Book fair widely regarded Asil c most Ripon ant annual even in inc  Book Trade opened wednesday. Representatives of 6,440 publishing Compa Nies from 77 countries Are attending the fair. Erncr said the organisation was influenced in its Deci Sion by the Case of Todd Andrew Dock a 3rd Arrond div private first class who was sentenced to death in a no vember 1984 court martial for the stabbing death of a Butzbach taxi Driver. The idea is in keeping with amnesty International s opposition to capital punishment and supports a . Resolution that urged All countries to move toward its abolition Erncr said. Germany does not have a death penalty. The main subject of the 470-pa what amnesty International called the increase 470-Page annual report is a Calle "   of the new report cites abuses of human rights in 130 countries around the world. That s sin More countries than last year or scr said. She said he statistics did not necessarily mean that human rights Are being violated More than Ever but that amnesty International s reporting is getting belter. Erler stressed the factors that hinder the group s work and reporting particularly in totalitarian systems. We learn very Little about what s happening in China Iran and Iraq although we re certain that there arc Many executions held  among inc countries criticized in the report the United states was cited for the increase of death penalties handed Down and carried out since 1983. As of dec. 20, there were 1 .464 persons in the death cells in 33 slates which is the highest number Ever re corded in the .," Erncr said. We fear a great number of those sentences will be carried  the report also critics cd the United slates for the abuse of prisoners by guards the turning away of Salva Dorans asking for Asylum and what it called discrimination against the american Indian movement. Few countries to  in the report. Germany comes in fur criticism for its handling of tamil Ian Refu gees from sri Lanka. Turkish foreign workers ill conditions in certain prisons. In South Africa of the 114 persons sentenced to Ovath i i i were  that s what we mean by discrimination a Cine part and parcel of a totalitarian sys tem s use of the death penalty Frier said. The soviet Union was cited for killing prisoners by refusing them medical assistance Chile and Turkey for torturing prisoners to death. The critical areas in the soviet Union arc Freedom of speech and religion. People arc still exiled and imprisoned for the attempt to exercise one or the  she said. Amnesty International s strategy is to Mav Blic the cases it has decided to adopt t ruler said. We Only adopt cases where we have ample proof the prisoner has acted nun violently in his opposition to his government. We re often a skid if our work helps. It docs. We know from political prisoners who have gained their free Dom that publicity for their Case often stopped torture. That s Worth something Zirler said. Belize welcomes its Queen a Decd Elizabeth ii of great Britain it Tatrn bouquet of flow upon her arrival wednesday in the Central Amer ican country or Belize. Standing next to her is Belize s got nor general. Dame my Nita e. Cordon. The Queen was to Isit the former British Colony for three Rayj at the beginning of her 26-Day Caribbean tour. On Friday the Queen was to depart for Nassau Bahamas for a meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Goti moment. Hitler was living Corpse near the end doctor says Chicago a Adolf Hitler suffered from heart disease and the degenerative ailment called Parkinson s disease and almost certainly would have died from them if he had t Killil himself first says the Only surviving physician who was with him in his Berlin Bunker. The two conditions would almost certainly have soon killed him had he not cheated inc world by taking his own life Only Days before the russians marched into his Bunker said or. Ernst Gunther Schunck now 81 years old. Schunck said he saw Hitler for the first time Early on april 30, 1945, the Day of his suicide. He said he found that heart disease and Parkinson s had rendered the a i Leader a living Corpse a dead  gone were the Powers to Charm to fascinate to Bend others to his steel will. He was a wasted nun with hunched shoulders and dead eyes he said. Schunck who lives in Aachen Germany is publishing a scientific analysis based on his studies of the extensive medical records compiled by Hitler s personal physician or. Thodor Morell. The physician who said he was present at Hitler s last medical consultation says the German Leader was neither insane nor physically dependent on drugs though he used staggering numbers of injections during his final years to keep going. Hitler was not a drug addict in the strict sense of the term Schenck said. He used Many drugs but he never became addicted to any one. But he was psychologically dependent upon the idea of drugs As  Schunck s remarks appear in a copyright Story in Friday s Issue of the american medical association s american medical news whose National affairs editor. Dennis l. Bro interviewed him in Germany. Medicine cannot explain Adolf Hitler but it can offer some fascinating  Schunck said. Medically Hitler was Nei ther unique or unusual lie was the slave of some very common  among those maladies besides heart Dis ease and Parkinson s disease a degenerative brain disorder characterised by muscle rigidity and tremors were depression and an inflamed Colon said Schunck. He was a 40 Kcjr uld colonel in charge of German army nutrition when he was summoned to stockpile food for Hitler s Bunker in april 1945. Schenck who spent 10 years in a soviet prison after world War ii has tilled the Book about his research patient a Adolf Hitler and his private physician professor Thodor Gilbert  it is to be published in German later this year. Schunck s research complements some of the findings in a 1983 Book by British author David Irving called the secret diaries of Hitler s doctor based on the diaries and reports of Morell who attended Hiller from 1937 through 1945. The medical reports which alone filled 50 boxes before being transferred to Micro film indicate that Hitler took 92 different medications from 1941 through 1945, Schunck said. To keep his Energy up. Hitler took almost daily injections of vitamins mixed with glucose and caffeine. For colds he took co Deine and cocaine Schenck said. Serious problems such As cramps and colitis required painkillers like morphine and Strong barbiturates like Luminal Schunck said. For his heart problem. Hitler used  and digitalis. For his tremors Belladonna was the primary drug Schenck said. Irving had said Hitler look 75 different medications including strychnine and Bella Dona. During the last four years of his life and applied in thu to himself under Moreil s supervision to treat a ringing in his cars. Hahn lands in 9th place at Start of gun smoke 85 nell1s fab Nev. Is five f-16s from Hahn a Germany landed 1.8 seconds after their scheduled time on Targal this week placing them ninth among the 17 teams competing in gun smoke 85. Although the time on target was the first official event of the biennial fighter gunnery meet the results do not count toward the final standings in the Competition according to a Safe news release. The Only other Safe team competing in gun smoke 85 is the 81st tac fighter Wing from Raf Woodbridge and Raf Benl Walers in England. The Slot s a ios arrived at 11 15 04.42, 4.42 seconds off their scheduled time to put them in i5lh place according to capt. Gail Hayes a Safe spokeswoman. Winning the event was the 75th tac fighter group Ang of Baltimore. My. The contingent from the 50th tac fighter Wing arrived at Nellis fab at 10 00 01.80 sunday after a in hour night from Hill fab Ulah the release said. The 45-member Hahn learn had up Cal the previous 2"j weeks at Hill Fine tuning their aircraft practising and getting Over Jet lag said Cape. Jack Giese a Public affaire officer Ai Hahn. The second event of the meet inc tool Box Competition docs not count either but the Hahn team knows it is in the top six because a second judging was required late tues Day. The Winner will be announced at an awards banquet oct. 18 at Caesars Polacc in Las vegas. The shoot out was scheduled to begin wednesday but rain on tuesday prevented several teams from flying prac Tice sorties. The fighters were to hit the Range thursday in the first Day of the two Day Basic bomb delivery profile called the Box pattern. On saturday the teams will Fly inc tactical bomb delivery profile or tactical pattern. The navigational attack profile the Mosi difficult be cause the Crews do not know their Roules or Large is until just before Takeoff will begin tuesday