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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Pages the stars and stripes tuesday May 27,1086 Rabin rejects Thatcher Call for elections Jerusalem a defense min ister Yitzhak Rabin on monday  Europe for tailing to help improve conditions in refugee Camps Amii rejected a Call by Britain s prime minister Margarct Thatcher to allow elections in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. In a major policy speech sunday night Thatcher urged Isaac la give inc i a Mil lion palestinians living under military Rule in the West Bank and Gaza a greater role in the control of their affairs and called on Israel to allow mayoral elections Rabin said Israel would not be Billing to allow elections. Snid in looks to me very strange that the first place in the whole Arab world thai there would be free elections would be under so called israeli military occupation while in All the Arab countries Here is not one elected mayor said Rabin. In the half hour session Rabin said he brought up the Lack of financial Aid provided by european countries for the West Bank and Gaza strip. From Europe All there is is talk and very Little assistance Rabin old reporters. Injured recovered and honoured maj. Gen. John ii. Mitchell Rightus commander in Berlin and . Ambassador o Germany Richard Burt and Bis wife can is join in Berlin purple heart presentation ceremony. Thirty sol Diers who were injured april 5 in a terrorist bombing it the la Belle disco in Berlin received the awards monday it the is. Military Headquarters in Berlin. Jewish group displays document naming Waldheim Geneva Switzerland a the world jewish Congress on sunday displayed whal in said was a copy of a , War crimes commission report saying sufficient evidence Enisley to try Kurt Waldheim for the deaths of hostages in world War ii. Israel Singer Secretary general of the world jewish Congress said the group displayed the document on the former , Secretary general "10 show that we Are not the accusers. The accusers Are the . War crimes  the wac has accused Waldheim of signing documents dealing with the killing of civilians in Yugoslavia and knowing about deportations of jews from Greece to nazi death Camps when he served with the German army in the Balkans in 1944. Elan Steinberg the wac executive director said a photocopy of tic seven Page , document was Given to him several Days ago by non government sources who asked to remain  the United nations which received the War crimes commission documents when the commission was Dis banded in 1948, gave the Waldheim file to the govern ments of Israel the United Stales and Austria in response to formal requests. Austria made its copy available to Waldheim a Candi Date in the june 8 Runoff election for the austrian presi Dency. Reporters at sunday s news conference were allowed to take nates on the document and photograph it but not make a photocopy. The . Report is based on a file from the yugoslav War crimes commission in 1947. A name on the document displayed Here was Kurt ?  Steinberg was asked about the question Mark and he said the commission apparently was not certain How to spell the name since Waldheim was not a prominent figure Al that Lime. The document said the . Commission found sufficient evidence to justify Waldheim s prosecution on allegations of murder and putting hostages to death u said the finding was based on evidence provided by the yugoslav commission. Waldheim has acknowledged he served As a lieutenant with a German army group in the Balkans and said his Job was to read Over Field reports to attest to their accuracy. He has denied he was in a position to give orders. In another development in Israel the Jerusalem past quoted Waldheim As rejecting assertions by israeli Justice minister Yitzhak Modai that he was an accessory to nazi some envoys exempted from new Berlin Check news update Berlin a ., British and French diplomats apparently will be exempted from a communist East car Man move to Start checking passports of Diplo Mats entering and leaving the heavily guarded enclave City a . Official said monday. It Loots like the new policy is not going to affect the British French and ., which is who we were primarily concerned with spokesman Thomas Homan of the . Diplomatic Mission in West Berlin said. Western diplomatic sources said during the weekend that the East German foreign ministry had informed foreign diplomats based in communist governed East Berlin that starting monday they would have to show their passports when entering or Leav ing West Berlin. Previously East Berlin accredited Diplo Mats travelling to and from West Berlin had Only to show East German Border guards an identity card specially issued by the East Berlin foreign ministry. So far they the East germans have Only required other countries such As Zam Bia and others to show passports and our people Haven t been bothered. But we re still watching it very closely because we Don t know yet How this will affect for example the canadians or other nato partners Homan said monday. 3 terrorists sentenced Rome a three members of the red brigades error group were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Mur Der of a prison Warden italian newspapers reported sunday. The Rome court of Assize handed Down the sentences saturday against Francesco Donald Carlo Caravaglia and Barbara Fabrizi in the dec. 3, 1982, killing of Germana Stefanini 57, head Warden of the women s Section at Rome s Reb Ibbia prison. According to court testimony the three terrorists held St farm hostage at her apartment to coerce her to help free imprisoned red brigades colleagues the newspapers said. When she said she had no Power to intervene they shot her dead the reports said. Climb still popular Portland Ore. A mount Hood continues to attract climbers de spite the deaths or nine people when a Spring blizzard hit Oregon s tallest Peak two weeks ago. Mountain guides City recreation officials and mount Hood National Forest officials say that they have seen no cancellations by climbing parties and that the May june climbing season on the ii.235-foot Mountain East of Portland remains in Lull swing. The two 16-year-old students from Oregon episcopal school who survived three Days and nights in a Snow Cave Are recovering in Portland hospitals. Inmate freed by copter flying Over Paris prison Paris a a helicopter swooped into la Santa prison in Paris monday dropped a line to a 34-year-old inmate and flew him out in a hold Daylight escape. A second prisoner also tried to escape but was caught officials said. He was identified Only As Hernandez. Officials identified the Escapee As Michel Vautour. He had been serving an to year sentence for armed robbery and attempted murder and had escaped three times be fore said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. Police said the helicopter flew into the left Bank prison about 10 45 . And hovered Over a prison building. Two people were aboard the copter one armed with a machine pistol police said. The people in the helicopter dropped a line to Vautour then flew away with him police said. The second would be Escapee did nol have time to gel aboard police said. A witness near the prison who saw the escape said the helicopter hovered for four or live minutes Over the build ing where two men in warm up suits presumably the inmates were crouching. One of the men in a Bluc and Rcd warm up suit then grabbed one of the skids of the helicopter the witness said. Another Man dressed in yellow remained on the roof of the building the witness said. The guards did not immediately react because the prisoners were blocked by a Chimney and they did not shoot said the witness. There was no explanation Why the account of the escape Given by the witness differed slightly from the police re port the witness did not mention the Escapee grabbing a Tine lowered by the chopper. After the escape the helicopter landed at a soccer Field in the Porte d Orleans area of Southern Paris and was abandoned  
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