European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday March 5, 1986 . Official says some roads May be closed in bad weather London a after seeing what he called Luna tic driving by some motorists on expressways a British Cabinet minister Kenneth Baker has said that the High Speed roads might have to be closed in bad weather. Baker the environment Secretary told reporters that when he drove from Surrey to a meeting in North London on the m25 expressway Only one Lane was open yet motorists were driving at 60 to 70 Mph and forcing slower Drivers off onto the snowbound  when people arc behaving As stupidly As that certainly some of the motorways should be closed Baker said. 17 people in India charged with Selling National secrets new Delhi India a seventeen people including 12 Junior government officials have been formally charged in court with Selling secrets to France the soviet Union Poland and East Germany. Judge . Bansal set March 31 As the Date to begin prosecution testimony in India s biggest spy Case since Independence in 1947. Eighteen people were originally charged in the Case but the court dropped charges against businessman Ashok Jaid Kha on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Police filed spying charges against the defendants last april. But under Indian criminal Law a judge must con firm the charges before the trial can formally begin. The 17 were charged with spying conspiracy and other violations of the official secrets act. Former greek official expelled from ruling group for criticism Athens Greece a former National Economy minister Gerasimos Arsenis has been expelled from the ruling panhellenic socialist movement Pasok for openly criticizing the government s economic austerity policy. A harsh statement issued by Premier Andreas Papandreou also accused the former economic Czar of cooperating with rebel socialists to create an anti Pasok Politi Cal  Arsenis 55, an Mit trained economist and International expert on foreign borrowing gave up a senior . Post in 1981 to serve under Papandreou in Greece s first socialist government. He was appointed governor of the Bank of Greece the country s Central Bank before becom ing National Economy minister in 1982. At least 8 soviet Union plants make Poison Gas paper says Hamburg Germany a the soviet Union has at least eight factories producing Poison Gas and it is helping its allies East Germany and Czechoslovakia to produce chemical weapons the Hamburg newspaper Welt am sonntag has said. In a report quoting unnamed nato officials the news paper said the West can prove the existence of eight Large factories producing chemical warfare agents in the . There Are hints As to the activity of an additional two such firms the paper said. It did not give the locations of the plants. The paper s report was dateline Brussels. Welt am sonntag said several different types of Poison Gas Are being produced at a Plant near Bitterfeld East Germany about 15 Miles North of Leipzig. Pakistani woman contests commercial flier prohibition Islamabad Pakistan up two Pilot trainees have been barred from continuing their studies under a new policy that prohibits women from being commercial fliers in Pakistan the Nawa a want newspaper reported. One of the two is contesting the dismissal. The two women were offered jobs As ground personnel in compensation the newspaper said. One rejected the offer and said she would contest the policy. Pakistan in recent years has limited women s rights to hold certain jobs and participate in sports. Waldheim denies taking part in nazi atrocities in Wii Vienna Austria a a spokesman for Kurt Waldheim acknowledged tuesday that the former . Secretary general had served in the Balkans As a German officer during world War ii but rejected allegations that he belonged to a nazi organization or had any connection with atrocities. Spokesman Gerold Christian said recent accounts link ing Waldheim to Adolf Hitler s . Security troops and to War crimes in the Balkans were timed to defame him during the current presidential Campaign. Waldheim . Secretary Gen eral Between 1972 and 1982, is considered a front runner for the Post and is supported by the people s party the centrist parliamentary opposition. The world jewish Congress said Kurt Waldheim tuesday in new York that Wald Heim has served with a German unit that transported Balkan jews to extermination Camps and committed other atrocities. Christian told the a that Waldheim As a first Lieuten ant had served As a translator in army group a commanded by Gen. Alexander Loehr who was executed by Yugoslavia for War crimes in 1947. Waldheim himself has acknowledged that he served in the unit but both he and his spokesman have denied that he had any part in deportations or crimes against civilians. Christian said Waldheim joined the unit in Salonika Greece in 1942 after being wounded on the russian front. Biographical data pieced together from military archives and Waldheim s statements published monday in Profil news Magazine show that he served with the unit from March 24 to nov. 19,1942. The Magazine also published a copy of a recently de classified military registration card showing that Wald Heim belonged to an ., or Sturmas Tielung unit and a nazi student group in Vienna in 1938. Waldheim was never a member of the ., or an affiliated organization or the s.s.," said Christian. The s.s., or Schut Staffel succeeded the Brown shirted . As Hitler s elite guards. He said whoever filled out the card apparently assumed that Waldheim belonged to the . Because he occasion ally Rode horses belonging �0 the group. This whole Campaign is aimed at embarrassing Wald Heim and is obviously paid for Christian said. He declined to say who he thought was behind the accusations. Somebody wants to link Waldheim to War atrocities and not a word of it is True Christian said. The socialist party which supports Waldheim oppo nent Kurt Steyrer for the presidency said monday it did not want to make an election Issue of Waldheim s past. However if it should come out that Waldheim for whatever motives has been telling a falsehood for decades then he would have to be seen in a new Light said socialist party Secretary Peter Schieder. War crimes researcher Simon Wiesenthal head of Vienna s jewish documentation Center said he had no incriminating evidence against Waldheim. The soviet Union would certainly have blocked his appointment As head of the United nations if there had been evidence of nazi ties or wrongdoing in his past Wiesenthal said.  exercises begin in area near nicaraguan Border Tegucigalpa Honduras up president Jose Azcona Hoyo who was sworn into office in Jan uary inaugurated monday the first joint  ran military exercises of the year honduran officials said. The exercises named Cabanas 86, Are being held in the Jungle near the honduran nicaraguan Border and Are the first joint military exercises since last August. Azcona who was sworn in on Jan. 27 after winning presidential elections in november officially opened the first stage of the Cabanas 86 Maneu vers the honduran government said. The president travelled to the area of the exercises and witnessed military transport planes parachuting Machin Ery and construction materials into the Jungle area 25 Miles from the nicaraguan Border honduran military spokesmen said. About 500 . Military engineers from fort Bragg n.c., arrived by ship at the nation s Caribbean coast and headed toward the Village of Mocoron in the Gracias a Dios province where they will build a Landing strip scheduled to be completed in a month. There was no information on the number of troops from either nation participating in the exercises their duration or the Type of weaponry to be utilized. Nicaraguan officials have constantly criticized the exercises which began in 1983, As a camouflage for american preparations and training for an invasion of Nicaragua. Honduran military sources indicated that the second phase of Cabanas 86, to be held in mid april will involve . Military personnel in Honduras in special operations with honduran troops. Since 1983, thousands of . Troops have participated in the construction of airports and highways and in combat training exercises with honduran troops in the Centra american nation. In one of the most extensive Maneu vers held in 1984, 7,000 . Troops landed at puerto Castillo under Simu lated Battle conditions during the Universal trek exercises. The most recent joint Maneu vers in which 1,900 . Troops and 1,000 honduran troops participated were the Cabanas 85 exercises that were held last year from june 7to aug. 29. Hotel owner goes to court seeks to get rid of Duvalier Annecy France a the owner of the luxury hotel where former haitian president Jean Claude Duva Lier and his family have been confined for the past month went to court tuesday seeking an order that the Duvalier and their police guard leave the hotel. Jean Tiff enat of the hotel de 1 Abb Aye at nearby Tal Loire was told by judge Leopold Lambotte that a ruling will be handed Down thursday at 5 . That is 23 hours after a Paris court is to Rule on Duva Lier s demand that the French authorities allow him to leave the hotel. Duvalier his wife Michele six children and other family members have been confined to the hotel by French authorities since they arrived in France feb. 7 on a . Aircraft that took the former president for life and his entourage to exile from Haiti. Duvalier s lawyer told the court in a Brief statement that Duvalier wished to leave the hotel and live elsewhere in France. He noted that Duvalier had asked the govern ment several weeks ago to be Able to leave but had had no reply. France agreed to accept the Duvalier for a week while they found another country to go to but no country apparently has been willing to accept them while Duvalier says he wants to  in France. Tiff enat s lawyer told the court that Tiff enat had had to cancel numerous reservations because the Duvalier had reserved the whole hotel. He had been unable to obtain any indication of the planned length of Duvalier s  at the hotel the lawyer said. Or. Tiff enat wants to be Able to handle his clients in Normal conditions the lawyer said. His lawyer asked the court to order that the Duvalier and their police guard be expelled if necessary by police