European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday. November 30, 1985 . Judge clears Way for raising of titanic London a a High court judge ruled Friday that the British government could not claim the salvaged goods from inc sunken liner Lusitania thus Clearing inc Way for an Effort to raise that other most famous Shipwreck inc titanic. Related Story. Page 18. In 1982, a British led team brought up s3.4 million Worth of Salvage from the Lusitania which was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast in 1915 with the loss of 1,198 lives. The government claimed thai under the ancient right of admiralty Droit it had first claim on any of the material brought to Britain. John Pierce. Welsh Leader of the Sal Vage operation feared such a right would threaten his project to raise the recently discovered wreckage of the titanic from the Bottom of the North Atlantic and re store it at the Belfast shipyard where it was built. The British luxury liner titanic struck an iceberg april 14. 1912, and Sank on its Maiden voyage taking 1,513 people to their deaths. Last september a French american team found the wreckage 560 Miles off Newfoundland More than 13,000 feet below inc Ocean surface. One survivor 80-year-old Eva Hart said she was revolted by the idea of Rais ing the titanic and that it would be like digging up a  sir Barry Sheen sitting in the  Ralty court ruled Friday thai the govern ment had no title to wrecks found in inter National Waters Only to those within territorial Waters. The judge said no one had a better right to the Salvage from the Lusitania than Pierce the two american business men who claim to own the ship s Hull and the two Salvage firms that took part in the 1982  the ruling. Pierce said i m astonished. The titanic is coming  f be said he will press ahead with operations to raise the ship using a system of giant air bags and Start work Wilh an International team in 18 months. Pierce 44, said he was very confident the titanic could be raised. As far As we know she s in a condition that she s re buildablc.". Not everyone is As confident the ship can or should be raised. American scientist Robert Ballard. Who was part of the Cam that found the titanic said at the time that any attempt at Salvage would be  it was thought the Effort would Cost More than the value of the ship or its contents. The team proposed making the site a Marine memorial. Hart from Chadwell Heath in the Southeast county of Essex said last sep tember thai she was tremendously relieved the wreckage would not be raised because i feel that s my father s  she was 7 when her father put her in one of the titanic s lifeboats then went Down with the ship. I m entirely revolted and so arc All the rest of the survivors and god knows there Are few of us left she said Friday. She said Pierce had telephoned her Fri Day morning to Tell her of his Salvage plan. I told him exactly the same and i think he thought 1 was quite crazy she said. I m not a sentimental person about Graves but this is something quite differ ent. If they bring up artefacts it will be tantamount to opening Graves and steal ing somebody s rings. Minister wants convicted agents returned to France Paris Dpi two French secret service agents sentenced in new zealand to 10-year prison terms for sinking a Green peace protest ship should be returned to France defense minister Paul Quiles said. Maj. Alain Rafart and Cape. Dominique Prieur were sentenced last week in new zealand for their parts in inc july 10 sink ing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor. A Greenpeace photographer drowned in the attack. The judge rejected defense lawyers re quest that the to be expelled to France. Our French officers who obeyed their orders must be returned to France Quiles said on a television news show thursday night. I wish that their stay in the new zealand prisons could be As Short As Possi  they arc not Guilly of sinking the ship he said. They were participants in a cer Tain Way in the operation but they were no guilty of murder. New zealand seems very worked up against our two officers and Are making them a question of principle. I believe that Wilh a Friendly country like new zealand with which we have Good relations notably commercial it should be possible to reach an understanding Quiles said. I am not saying let s make a Deal. I m simply saying let s talk and do something that is in the interest of each Side in this affair. We do not want new zealand to abandon its principles or lose  Quiles defended the decision to sink the ship As necessary to prevent the Greenpeace environmental group from interfering in French nuclear testing on muru Roa atoll in the South Pacific. The Rainbow Warrior was to have led a protest flotilla against the testing. Quiles named to the ministry after for Mer defense minister Charles Herne re signed Over the Greenpeace affair said the Rainbow Warrior was sunk by a third team of secret service agents first reported by the Paris newspaper be Monde and mentioned in the court proceedings in auck land. The responsibility was solely that of the dose French secret service and it was the famous third team that Sank the ship he said. Trains grind to halt in Tokyo As vandals Cut cables Tokyo a saboteurs alleged to be radicals sympathetic to striking motor men Cut vital cables along inc tracks paralysing inc govern men run railway in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan for much of the Day Friday. About 6.5 million commuters were left without their Normal transportation. After near chaos in the morning Rush hour service was res lord in time for the rid Home for workers who had turned to private railways buses subways cars an bicycles. While train service was shut Down a group of about 50 unidentified people Wear ing masks broke into the Saku Kabashi Sta Tion in Eastern Tokyo with steel pipes and hurled firebombs that seriously damaged he station said Tokyo metropolitan police department spokesman Tadashi Ito. No in juries were reported. I to Laid 48 people were arrested on War rants issued on suspicion of assembling Wilh dangerous weapons interfering with Public and police duties violating control Laws Over the use of Molotov cocktails and com mitting anon. Later police searched the Headquarters of a Radical leftist group and the striking Motorman s Union in connection with the attack and the sabotage that shut Down 22 lines of the Japan National railways All but two of them connecting Tokyo with sur rounding areas. Starting at about 3 20 a.m., the saboteurs Cut signal and communications Ca Bles in 34 locations in Tokyo and in Western Japan near Osaka officials of the National police Agency s Public relations depart ment said. The railway paralysis affected about 4 million morning commuters and before limited service was restored on All 22 lines by 5 p.m., about 6.5 million passengers had been affected Jar spokesman Takashi Miyashiro said. The Cable damage also halted operations in about 100 of the Jar s computer operated ticket reservation Cen ters. Kyodo news service quoted Jar officials it did not identify As saying 72 Public and private schools were forced to cancel classes while government offices Banks and private companies reported higher absenteeism than usual. Highways were jammed Long lines formed at private railways and major streets had what looked like parades of commuters walking to work. Another attack by saboteurs in Hiroshima caused delays of up to 2vi hours for High Speed Bullet trains Between Tokyo and the southwestern main Island of Kyu Shu Miyashiro said. Ito said detective and riot policemen searched through the Tokyo and Osaka offices of the Chikaku a or Middle Core faction a 1,300-member Radical leftist group. Masashi Kanta 32, a top Leader of the Chikaku a was among the 48 people arrested Ito said. Police also searched the Headquarters of the Chiba prefecture Motorman s Union a Radical 1,1 do member Union that was staging a 24-hour strike to protest a plan to turn the government run railway into sever Al private companies he said. The local Union split from the umbrella National Motorman s Union in the late 1970s Over political differences connected with the new Tokyo International Airport at Narita in Chiba prefecture about 40 Miles Northeast of Tokyo. The National e. Germany arrests 2 spies paper says Hamburg a two West German agents have been arrested in East Germany after being exposed by a West German counterintelligence officer who recently defected to the communist East according to a published report thursday. The mass circulation daily newspaper Bild said the arrested agents were East German citizens who had supplied the West German government with sensitive information involving East Germany s govern ment and ruling communist party. Bild attributed its report to and unidentified member of the special West German parliamentary commission that on thursday began hearings in Bonn on the recent communist espionage scandal in West Germany. The first witness Interior ministry Sutic Secretary Hans Neusel said West German National Security suffered no serious dam age from the defection of High ranking counter intelligence officer Hans Joachim Tiedge in August. Neusel said crisis management in the Federal counterintelligence Agency has run exceedingly Well despite Tiedge s escape to East Germany. In its report Bild said after Tiedge tipped off East German authorities the two top spies for West Germany were tailed by state agents for weeks before being arrested. The two agents Are Likely to be tried next year and could gut the death Penally if convicted said Bild. Bild is known for its Good contacts with officials knowledgeable on East West Diplo Matic and espionage matters. The report on the alleged betrayal of West German spies was to appear in its Friday editions but was Tel exed in Advance to other news Media. In the West German spy scandal 12 peo ple including aides in the Federal Chan Cellery economics ministry and president s office have either defected to East Ger Many or been arrested on suspicion of use a " aug. 6. In a testimony thursday Neusel maintained that the string of defections had no negative consequences on West Germany reps among other Western intelligence agencies Union groups about 34,200 Long distance and freight train locomotive driven. Later Friday the Chiba Union issued a statement disclaiming any connection with the sabotage acts. The attacks have nothing to do with the Union chairman Hiroshi Nakano Laid in the statement. The Chikaku a a group known for in violent tactics has participated in several bloody demonstrations against plans to expand the Narita Airport. On oct. 20,2j30 radicals clashed with about 9,500 riot police resulting in 241 arrests and injuries to 152 policemen. As part of its Overall anti government activities the group has been supporting Farmers whose land would be taken for the expansion work. Ito said the Chikaku a apparently staged the attacks on the Railroad in sympathy for the striking Union. The disruption of the Tokyo train net work was the worst since 1968, when demonstrating students hit several train stations at the height of protests against the  Security treaty. It also revealed a vulnerable Point in the nation s transportation network since most of the cables running along the Jar s 12,500 Miles of track Are not buried. In Tokyo and Osaka the signal Cable both coaxial and optical Are connected to Central computer train control system which cannot be operated without the com Puter. Pm announces Layoff of 1,723 employees Detroit a general motors corp. Said it will Lay off 1,723 workers be cause of falling demand for the Buick regal midsize car. The workers 533 at an Assembly Plant in Pontiac and 1,190 at a body stamping Plant in Flint were not Given recall dates. However pm expects to Call them Bock next summer spokeswoman Betsy Hayhow said. Production will be slowed from two shifts at 70 cars per hour to two shifts at so per hour she said. If