European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday april 16,1986 Swiss Honor Haiti s request world today to assets Bern Switzerland a Swiss authorities announced tuesday they have moved to freeze any assets that deposed president Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti might have in Switzerland. The action was requested tuesday by the new haitian government in a telex to the Swiss Federal police a Justice ministry statement said. Haiti asked for a freeze on any Duvalier accounts in Banks in Geneva Zurich and Lausanne the statement said. It did not list the Banks or How much Money was believed involved. On monday a Justice ministry official said Swiss officials met last week with haitian government representatives who Are tracking Duvalier s foreign assets. Justice ministry spokesman Joerg Kistler said the two sides had been in communication since their meeting. He would not disclose the Day the meeting was held or the names of the participants. Swiss government sources said privately the haitians were a government Legal adviser and Justice ministry offi Cial and were briefed on what assistance was possible under Swiss Law. The sources did not indicate the amount of Duvalier assets said to be involved. Duvalier fled his Caribbean Island nation feb. 7. He has sought Refuge in several countries including Switzer land but All refused. France agreed to give him temporary Haven for nine Days while he found a country that would take him permanently and he has been there since. A private Swiss group that monitors capital transfers said at the time it had no information that Duvalier had transferred personal funds to Switzerland. Swiss Central Bank statistics showed haitian Central Bank deposits in this country of $10 million. Last week s meeting followed the government s unprecedented freeze order on assets linked to Ferdinand e. Marcos former president of the Philippines who fled his country feb. 26. That freeze was announced March 25. A representative of Corazon Aquino the new president of the Philippines arrived in Bern the Day after the order seeking information on How to claim hundreds of millions of dollars Marcos allegedly moved to Switzerland. Jean Genet convicted criminal controversial dramatist Dies Paris a Jean Genet whose life and works made him one of the most controversial French writers of the 20th Century has died his editors at Galliard publishing House said tuesday. He was 15 years old. The cause Date and place of his death were not immediately known. Genet was a dramatist poet novelist and convicted criminal. A seedy brutal world peopled with homosexuals convicts pimps and thieves was created by the works of Genet himself a homosexual and admitted prostitute. French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre devoted a Mam Moth Tome to Genet s work his poetic Genius and moral complexity  Sartre wrote with each Book this possessed Man becomes a Little More the master of the Demon that possesses  Genet was born in Paris on dec. 19, 1910. Abandoned by his Mother at birth he was raised by a Foster family of peasants in Central France. At age 10, Sartre wrote the quiet and obedient Jean had an experience that would determine the coarse of his life. Accused unjustly of Petty theft Genet resolved to become a thief. One act of juvenile delinquency led to another and the Young Genet ended up in Reform school where he remained until the age of 21. He joined the foreign legion but deserted after a few Days taking some officers suitcases with him. I loved stealing but prostitution appealed to my easy. _ g 0ing ways � he wrote in a thief s journal published in 1949. Between the two world wars Genet lived As a vagrant travelling throughout Europe and living among beggars and pimps when he was not in jail. He was arrested and expelled from Poland. Between 1940 and 1948 he wrote four works from prison our lady of the Flowers Miracle of the Rose Popes Fune Bres and  in 1948, he was sentenced to life imprisonment but was pardoned after a group of prominent French intellectuals including Sartre Andre Gide and Jean Cocteau intervened on his behalf. Genet was Best known for his skills As a dramatist. His first play Deathwatch showed the hierarchical relationships Between criminals. Other plays included the maids the Balcony the Blacks and the  Genet London s Heathrow Airport operating its 4th terminal London a London s Heathrow Airport has brought its new fourth terminal into operation and Busi Nessman Christopher Palmer the first passenger through received a round trip ticket for a supersonic concorde flight to Mark the occasion. Palmer arrived on a British airways flight from Tokyo the first flight to use the new $310.8 million facility. The plane flew via Anchorage in Alaska. Described As Europe s most modern and sophisticated Airport terminal the new half mile Long facility took 13 years to design and build. It can handle 4,000 arriving and departing passengers an hour and is designed to increase capacity at Heathrow the world s busiest International Airport from 30 million to 38 million passengers a year. Accused greek Navy officer cleared of Selling data to soviets Piraeus Greece a a military court in this port City has cleared a greek Navy officer accused of Selling Western military secrets to the soviet Union. We unanimously find him innocent because the punishable action of which he was accused was not proved during the trial presiding judge col. Athanassiou Gam Beris said. It. Vassilios ser Pissios 34, smiled As the judge read the decision and told his wife seated next to him Justice has been  ser Ephessios was accused of Selling classified information on nato military strength greek weapons systems and american made missiles to the soviet Union Between 1976 and 1985. 41-year-old letters by Hirohito give reasons for Japan s loss Tokyo a emperor Hirohito wrote in a letter 41 years ago that Japan lost in world War ii because its people overestimated their own country and despised the United states and Britain Kyodo news service has re ported. Kyodo said it had acquired copies of four letters two written by the emperor and two by his wife Empress Nagako from an unidentified former Imperial household Chamberlain. All four letters were addressed to their eldest son Crown Prince Akihito it said. Kyodo said that in one letter written a month after Japan surrendered to the Allied forces aug. 15, 1945, Hirohito wrote our people believed in the Imperial state too much and held Britain and the United states in con  it said he added in a sept. 9, 1945, letter our military men placed too much significance on spirit and were oblivious of  40 policemen suspended in hindu Stampede s aftermath Hardwar India a at least 40 policemen were suspended from duty for failing to control the crowds that stampeded at a religious festival. Forty seven hindus waiting to Bathe in the sacred Ganges River were killed in the Stampede authorities said tuesday. An emergency meeting was held to review the performance of the police in charge of Security arrangements at the Kumph Mela a religious festival held every 12 years. Festival officer . Mishra said at least 40 policemen including three officers were suspended for failure to control the crowds monday As they stormed to the River Banks. Survivors told reporters the police merely watched As thousands of pilgrims surged through a Bamboo barricade in a Rush to the River at Dawn monday considered the holiest time to Bathe. Several witnesses also blamed the High death toll on the Lack of proper medical facilities. Or. Haricharan Sharma said half of the victims would have lived if oxygen cylinders had been Handy. The 47 dead included 33 women according to the utter Pravesh state government. More than 40 people were injured in the Stampede. Several newspapers quoted survivors As saying police men stripped female victims of their jewelry before taking them to the Hospital. One witness ram Naresh told the Patriot newspaper that the policemen came Down like vultures and stripped women of jewelry. An unidentified Man was quoted As saying that Gold ban Gles and earrings were snatched from the body of his wife. Millions of hindus have taken a Bath in the Ganges a ritual believed to give deliverance from sin. About 4 Mil lion hindus bathed at Hardwar on monday undeterred by the Stampede. Sari Clad Indian women join millions of other hindus dipping into the Ganges River at Hardwar and praying. A photo