European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday May 3, 1986 dutch police arrest explosive carrying Man Amsterdam Netherlands a a japanese National arrested at Schipholt Airport for the Possession of 2.2 pounds of int and six electronic detonators arrived Here on a right from the yugoslav capital of Belgrade a police spokesman said Fri Day spokesman Rik Hirs said the suspect who was Only identified by his initials y.u., in line with dutch police practice was in Possession of a Belgrade Amsterdam return ticket at the time of his thursday afternoon arrest in the Airport s arrival lounge. He boarded a Jat the yugoslav National airline flight from Belgrade to Amsterdam on thursday morning Hirs said adding the return portion of the ticket carried no departure Date. We have no idea yet How the Man could have brought the explosives aboard the plane Hirs told the associated press. So far it had not yet been determined what the potential target of the explosives was or whether the Netherlands was the suspect s final destination said Hirs. When arrested outside the customs area the suspect who according to his japanese passport is a resident of Athens Greece was carrying a tin containing the int and a transistor radio in which six electronic detonators were concealed according to Hirs. The part of the arrival lounge where the arrest took place is open to the general pub Lic. The Man is denying that he knew he was carrying explosives and is refusing to say anything else said Hirs who added the suspect had been questioned through a japanese interpreter All Friday morning. But there is proof that the tin belonged to the Man Hirs said refusing to elaborate on the nature of that evidence. Asked whether the suspect was believed to have accomplices in the Netherlands Hirs said authorities did not expect any further arrests in connection with the Case. Hirs said the name of the Man had not been found on any list of internationally known criminals or terrorists and it had not been established whether the Man belonged to any such organization. The dutch authorities were checking the British airports crack Down on Security conduct random searches of baggage London a Britain introduced tougher Security measures at its airports Friday including random searches of bag Gage going into aircraft cargo holds. Aviation minister Michael Spicer visited Heathrow Airport the world s busiest in terms of International traffic and watched random searches of baggage destined for a flight to Kuwait and then for flights oper ated by pan american airways and trans world airlines. Bags checked in by passengers were searched in their presence with Airport staff selecting flights and passengers at ran Dom. Any passenger travelling through a Brit ish Airport must now expect his bags for the aircraft hold to be inspected even though i m afraid that May cause some delays Spicer said. Any passenger on any airline can expect his bags to be checked but what we concen trate on Are flights by airlines which Are at some sort of risk he added. Spicer said passengers should pack their bags themselves not let anyone put any thing else inside plan on arriving earlier at the Airport keep bags locked and not leave them unattended. Speaking to people Here today i have found that they Are not outraged at All. They too want to make sure that aircraft and airports arc As Safe in the future As they have been in the past the minister said. Air ministry officials said Security chiefs will select flights for baggage checks. Instead of leaving their bags at Check in desks passengers will then have to take them through the Security posts at the pass port control Point where they will be searched by hand. The officials would not reveal How Many flights a Day will be subject to such checks. Spicer denied the new procedures were a response to an attempt to blow up an israeli i Ai Hight from Heathrow on april 17 with a bomb in a travelling Case. It was discovered when i Ai Security guards searched the bag. But reporters based at Heathrow said that since the incident baggage transfers Between flights Are More thoroughly checked and the ratio of random hand searches of hand Luggage and passengers after passing through scanning machines has been stepped up from one in 10 to one in three. 7 killed in India in apparent retaliation for government raid on sikh Temple Amritsar India a police said Friday that six hindus and a moderate sikh politician have been killed in apparent retaliation for the government s raid two Days ago on separatist radicals living in the Golden Temple. Sikh militants demanding a separate Homeland had vowed a crippling response to the 13-hour assault on the Temple the holiest of sikh shrines. Five hindus were shot dead at a Grain Market in the Tarn Taran area of Amritsar District and a sixth was wounded in the big Howind area outside the City thursday night police said. They said the wounded Man later died. Gulzar Singh a sikh member of prime minister Rajiv Gandhi s Congress i party also was shot dead by assailants at his Home in asitha police said. Of Punjab state made a Quick tour of the Golden Temple Complex Friday amid tight Security but he did not Survey the areas most heavily damaged. He made no com ments to reporters. About 700 to 1,000 armed police and commandos stayed in the Complex after barn Ala left. A group of reporters toured the Complex thursday and saw two rooms in the inner Sanctum charred by fire and Many Bullet holes around the promenade in its Center. Broken locks and doors apparently shot off by the raiders Lay on the ground and blood stains were visible. Police said Only a few shots were fired in the 13-hour assault which killed one person and wounded two others. Radical leaders claimed at least six people were killed. Sikhs will never forgive this. A crippling imply will be Given to the hindu rulers of Delhi said a statement by two self pro claimed terrorist generals Manbir Singh and Tarsem Singh. State authorities ordered the raid after five Radical sikhs living in the Temple on tuesday declared Punjab a separate sikh nation called Khal Stan. They called for an Independence struggle against India and vowed to set up a government inside the Temple. An estimated 1,200 people mostly sikhs died in that Battle. On oct. 31, 1984, mrs. Gandhi was assassinated by sikh members of her Security Force. Radicals regained the Temple in january and in the past two months More than Iso people have been killed in sikh raids and sikh hindu riots. Rajiv Gandhi who succeeded his Mother As prime minister on thursday praised the raid saying we will not allow the voice of fanaticism to be raised in any Corner of the country " Man s identity with Japan Greece and Yugoslavia according to Hirs. In the Hague the Justice ministry which had partial responsibility for a terrorist Alert that began earlier this year denied any knowledge As to the motives or intent of the suspect. We Don t know anything More than do said a ministry spokesman. Immediately after the discovery of the explosives on the suspect s person the dutch army bomb disposal squad was called in while part of the Airport s arrival lounge was evacuated for 90 minutes. Hirs said the arrest was the result of recent information that caused us to step up our Security measures and to increased vigilance in he declined to specify the source of the information. News update insurance scam Harrisburg a. A a former High school principal has been found guilty in the 1979 slay Ings of an English teacher and her two children who prosecutors said were murdered As part of an insurance scam involving the defendant and another teacher. Jay c. Smith 57, a former Princi pal at upper Marion High school was found guilty of three counts of murder by a Dauphin county com Mon pleas court jury in the deaths of Susan Reinert and her children. The jury then deliberated about four hours before recommending that Smith be sentenced to death. A grand jury had alleged that Smith conspired with former English teacher William s. Bradfield or. To carry out the killings in part to col Lect some of Cinert s estate and $730,000 in life insurance benefits. Bradfield who was romantically involved with Reinert and also worked at upper Merion High school was the beneficiary of the insurance policies and Reinert s will. He was convicted on three counts of murder in 1983 and is serving three consecutive life sentences. 10 sailors going Home new York a ten South american seamen stranded for five months on a rusting cargo ship abandoned by its owner will be going Home soon now that the freighter has been sold. The court Carrier docked at a Brooklyn pier since december was seized by the government last month on behalf of the Crew which had not been paid since november. A panamanian businessman was the High bidder when the 277-foot vessel with a Load of Cement was sold for 1140,000 at a Federal auction. The court Carrier arrived at the port authority s pier 7 on dec. 12 two weeks late after an explosion damaged its engine off Cape Hatte Ras Village of Maritha sikh Rai damage f Hait Surjit Singh barn Ala head of the Modr real fanatics t Ras. Ate sikh Kali dal party and chief minister Delhi country. Democrats press for a meeting on Waldheim s status Washington a democrats on latest request for a meeting. The Justice department on wednesday re that he discovered a diary in the Nal the House judiciary committee on Friday attorney general Edwin Meese said last by f e the congressmen s first request to meet archives with a Pace at the front Tomt with ii Nimr. I. A c i., with Meese or Jensen Savinn in a nuts he non. Wilh him i Tenn Cilc for in entries. Renewed their request to meet with the attorney general or his chief Deputy on the status of austrian presidential candidate Kurt Wald Heim. A letter from is members of the panel was sent to the Justice department following re ports that documents found in the National archives indicate Waldheim was responsible for a German unit s War diary that includes a notation of an order to kill greek partisans captured in Battle. Judiciary committee chairman Peter Rodino d-n.j., joined in the lates attorney general Edwin Meese said last monday he would not act before sunday s austrian elections on a recommendation by the Justice department s top nazi Hunter Neal Sher that Waldheim be barred from entering the United states. The congressmen want a meeting with Meese or Deputy attorney general Lowell Jensen soon after the austrian elections to discuss what . Policy is going to be re Garding Waldheim said Juuls Gen Ochowski an aide to rep. Charles Schumer democrats. The buffed the congressmen s first request to meet wit saying it woul b pre mature to meet since Sher s recommendation has not reached the top of the department. Until recently the former . Secretary general had not disclosed his world War 11 service with the German army in the Balkans. Numerous nazi atrocities were committed against jews and yugoslav partisans during the time Waldheim served there. Richard her Stcin a history professor at the University of South Carolina told the new York times and Abc news on thursday tha National archives with a Page at the front that says Waldheim is responsible r the entries. The diary s entry for aug. 8,1943, said a German Mountain division had been or dered to shoot bandits resistance fighters captured in Battle while others suspected of joining the resistance were to be deported to forced labor Camps said Abc and the times. Waldheim has said that he was aware of brutal anti partisan activities during the War but was far away from the scene of the fighting and took no part in it
