European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday March 5, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 palme s killer May have had accomplice taxi Driver reported seeing Man being driven away police say Stockholm Sweden a police said tuesday a taxi Driver told them the killer of prime minister Olof palme ran to a getaway car and was driven away. The report from Stockholm police commissioner Hans Holmer was the strongest indication yet from investigators that the killer of the swedish Leader shot in the Back Friday night As he walked from a film premiere had an accomplice. Holmer speaking in a news conference broadcast by swedish radio also announced a 570,000 Reward for information leading to the arrest of palme s killer. The taxi Driver Holmer said saw a Man seat himself As a passenger in a car which drove the taxi Driver was Able to note Only part of the vehicle s registration number and police did not want to pro vide a description of the car yet Holmer said. He made no More specific reference to the car s Driver and ended the news conference before he could be questioned about the Driver. Holmer said the Reward was being offered partly be cause i Hope there Are people sheltering or who have sheltered this Man who Are willing to turn him meanwhile a Laboratory specialist said tuesday that local police Hunting palme s killer failed to Contact specialists at Sweden s forensics Laboratory to help identify one of the bullets fired by the Assassin. Had they contacted us we could have thrown Light on the situation said Aake Albrink chief of the arms department at the National forensic laboratories. Palme the 59-year-old head of Sweden s powerful so Cial democratic party was shot with a .357-caliber mag num revolver As he walked Home with his wife Lisbeth in Central Stockholm. Mrs. Palme 55, was slightly wounded. Ingvar Carlsson who had been Deputy Premier and now is acting prime minister was chosen unanimously monday As the social democrats new Leader. Palme had held the Post since 1969. Dagens Nyseter a Stockholm daily said tuesday Sev eral mistakes have been made by both police and govern ment Security officials. In a lengthy editorial the newspaper said Security surrounding palme should never have been so lax. Stockholm police said a Bullet recovered saturday from the slaying site did not match the 500 types they had on file and its unusual construction could make it harder to find palme s killer. But Albrink said his Laboratory run by Sweden s National police had such bullets in its collection. Stockholm police Are not obliged to Call us he told the associated press. But if they had we might have avoided the speculations about the bullets. Albrink identified the Copper jacketed Bullet that killed palme As a Type manufactured by the Winchester firm in the United states but he said he could not further identify it without seeing it. Dagens Nyseter also said in its editorial another question to ask is Why All escape routes out of Stockholm were not alerts at Border Points and the Stockholm Airport continued but Security officials said someone who planned carefully might have gotten through because the controls were not airtight. Police have said the killer apparently had stalked palme for some time and the attack was meticulously planned. On monday they said the Holger Meins commando terror group a West German group had repeated its claim of responsibility in the palme killing bringing to three the number of reported claims of responsibility. Two came from someone claiming to speak for the Holger Meins group the third by a person claiming to be from a related West German group the red army fac Tion. Swedish police said monday they had been told of a Call to a news Agency in London by someone claiming the Holger Meins commando group had killed palme and later said they had Learned of another Call also to a Lon Don news Agency by someone purporting to be with the Holger Meins group. Police would not comment further on either report. The swedish foreign ministry on monday confirmed reports that a caller claiming to represent the red army faction telephoned a swedish Diplomat in Bonn about three hours after the killing to claim credit. But West German officials questioned the authenticity of that Call. The Holger Meins group an offshoot of the red army faction occupied the West German embassy in Stock Holm in 1975, an action that ended in violence. The group s supporters later blamed palme s government for the subsequent death of one of the terrorists involved. The leftist red army faction formerly known As the a photo a Security guard follows acting swedish prime minister Ingvar Carlsson monday in Stockholm Sweden. Baader Meinhoff gang has carried out assassinations bomb attacks and robberies for nearly 15 years but oper ates almost exclusively within West Germany. The social democrats said palme s funeral would be held March 15 in Stockholm s Waterside City Hall an elegant 1920s building better known As the site of an annual Royal gala banquet for Nobel prize winners. 2 sides Trade criticism As arms talks end Geneva Switzerland a the fourth round of arms talks ended tuesday after six weeks of negotiations. The chief soviet envoy said the United states was uncooperative and the top . Delegate blamed the soviets for slow Progress. We introduced a lot of proposals Here. And we regret that there was no positive response by the american Side said Vik Tor p. Karpov. We still Hope for a cooperative spirit but we regretfully Don t have it he said. We Hope that maybe next time there will be More the fifth round of talks is scheduled to Start May 8, said the head of the . Delegation Max m. Kampelman. In an unusual Public criticism of his negotiating partners Kampelman said the reason for slow Progress was that the soviet delegation has not acted to Ful full the commitments undertaken by president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev at their november Summit in Geneva. The round ended with less accomplished than we had hoped Kampelman said. He said however that positive factors included a commitment by both sides to Speed up work toward on agreement on medium Range nuclear forces. Kampelman Reading a prepared statement said the United states began the fourth round Jan. 16 determined to carry on the program agreed on at the Summit. Our determination we regret to say was not earlier Karpov and Kampelman smiled and exchanged banter across the negotiating table but declined to shake hands for photographers. Negotiations which began March 12, 1985, Are divided into groups on defense and space weapons medium Range nuclear forces and strategic nuclear weapons. Negotiators Are under some pressure to come up with an Accord before a second superpower Summit can take place. Gorba Chev has hinted that a second Summit per haps by summer is linked to Progress in arms control talks but the United states has said such linkage will not work. The 90-minute session was attended by All three chief . Negotiators and their aides and two of the three soviet negotiators. Yuli a. Kvit Sinsky who Heads the negotiating group on space and defense was absent and was believed to be in Moscow a . Source said. Asked whether he thought an arms control agreement could be concluded in time for a summer Summit with Reagan and Gorbachev Kampelman said there s no reason Why not. It depends on the Resolution of the As the round began Gorbachev proposed a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons world wide by the end of the Century. The United states countered with a plan to scrap medium Range missiles in Europe and Asia by the end of the decade saying that it could not accept the entire soviet proposal but that parts of it showed prom ise. The soviets since have dropped their insistence that an agreement be linked to an end to . Research on a space based mis Sile defense shield. That Effort officially known As the strategic defense initiative is known popularly As the Star wars pro Gram. Ending it has been the soviets top objective at the arms talks. But with the Star wars obstacle apparently out of the Way of an interim agreement other problems cropped up. Gorbachev s plan Calls for a freeze on British and French nuclear forces which the United states rejected. . Officials said that while the British and French mis Siles Are aimed at the soviet Union they cannot be included in talks that do not in clude those two countries. Nato said the chief american delegates to the arms talks was to Fly to Brussels to Brief senior officials at the nato head quarters. Kampelman Maynard w. Glitman and former Texas sen. John Tower will address the North Atlantic Council comprised of the ambassadors to nato from its 16 member countries As part of regular . Consultations on the year old arms negotiations. Lack of showers food overcomes 200 marchers Claremont Calif. Up about 200 of 1,200 marchers had dropped out of the Cross country trek for nuclear disarmament As of monday Many irate Over a Lack of showers and Over procedures for food rationing officials said. A pro peace spokeswoman said the marchers who spent their first two nights in massive Campous at a University parking lot and a county Park slept monday night at six churches in or around Claremont a Small College town about 4q Miles East of los Angeles. They will soon face the desert their first grueling stretch in the nine month 3,235-mile walk. Actor Robert Blake who has promised to stay with thereat peace March of 1986" for its nine month duration Drew cheers when he announced at an afternoon Park rally that Long awaited portable showers had arrived. He also said the California Highway patrol had agreed to escort the caravan on a grueling stretch across the Mojave desert to the Nevada Border. Officials said about 200 of 1,200 participants in the great peace March who set out saturday had quit Many complaining about the rationing of food and the Lack of showers during the first two Days. Some of the marchers did t realize the conditions they found themselves under nor did they put Forth what was expected of them said pro peace spokeswoman Cathy Lurie. But these things certainly Haven t dampened spirits in any significant Way. The commitment of most of the marchers is so Strong these things will be joining Blake As a speaker at the rally was John Mcguire president of the Claremont colleges who welcomed the marchers and told them As an educator i want to thank you. As a father i m convinced that Only through efforts like this can there be a reversal in this terrible Tim of
