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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, August 16, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday August 16,1986 3-Way air traffic linkup to Aid n. Pacific flights world today Tokyo up Japan the United slates and the soviet Union completed preparations thursday for a system to ensure the safely of civilian aim aft in the North Pacific nearly three years after a soviet War plane shot Down a stray South korean Airliner. Japanese foreign ministry officials said the system which was scheduled to begin operating Friday involved a communications network linking air traffic control centers at Tokyo Khabarovsk in Siberia and Anchorage Alaska to provide Swift response to airliners off course or in trouble in the North Pacific. The system is based on an agreement reached among the three nations last year to prevent another Downing of civilian aircraft. A korean air lines jumbo Jet strayed into soviet airspace on its flight from new York to Seoul Korea via Anchorage and was shot Down by missiles fired Bya soviet Jet fighter West of the soviet Island of Sakhalin on sept. 1, 1983. Korean air lines is now known As korean air. The Jet plunged into the Northern sea of Japan a photo6th anniversary Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa right observes a moment of silence after placing Flowers at a work ers Monument outside the Lenin shipyard la Gdansk Poland on thursday. The ceremony was held to Mark the sixth anniversary of the Start of the strikes that to the free Trade Union s birth. Killing All 269 people aboard. Moscow said the plane Kal flight 007, was on a spy Mission. South Korea denied it. Aviation officials believe the plane flew into soviet airspace because of a navigational error. Under the three Way agreement commercial airliners on trans Pacific flights will be allowed to use radio signals transmitted from the Southern Kamchatka pen insula in the soviet Union to determine their positions. Direct communication among the three flight control centers has been established completing preparations for implementation of the agreement the foreign ministry said. Joint action will be taken by the three air traffic control centers to prevent accidents if a commercial plane deviates from its course or faces an emergency while flying Over the Region it said. The wreckage of the downed South korean jetliner has not been recovered despite extensive air sea search operations. 40 face arrest in Chile probe of death squads Santiago Chile a a judge ordered the arrest of a former Junta chief 37 Active or retired military officers and two civilians saying they formed a death squad that abducted communist leaders a dec Ade ago. Thursday s indictments were praised by chilean civil rights activists who said it was the first judicial action in 13 years of military Rule to support charges that the armed forces had systematically kidnapped and eliminated dissidents. Carlos Cerda Fernandez a civilian appeals court judge said a three year investigation of 10 missing communist activists determined that top military com Manders formed a group named the joint command to Battle the communist party. Cerda said he issued arrest warrants for 17 Active or retired air Force officers two in the Navy 14 in the paramilitary police and five in a separate detective  civilians including a communist who became an informer also were indicted. It was not immediately known if any of those accused had been taken into custody. All were accused of belonging to an illegal Organiza Tion and 17 of them also were accused of direct participation in the 1976 abductions of 10 leaders of the communist party of Chile who were never seen again. The Best known of the 10 was Juan Fernando Ortiz a University professor and member of the parly s Cen trial committee. At the same time the judge transferred the cases of 27 other people who disappeared to other courts. Cerda said the supreme court refused to help him investigate those cases. Those ordered arrested include Gustavo Leigh a former air Force chief and a key member of the ruling Junta from 1973 until 1978, two other air Force Gener als and a police general All now retired Cerda said. Exiled heir to tribal throne makes return to Uganda Kampala Uganda up Prince Ronnie Mutebi heir to the defunct throne of the powerful Uganda tribe in southwestern Uganda returned from exile thursday amid Calls that he become King. Mutebi whose father Edward Frederick my Tesa was Kabaka King Freddie of the Bagan a before the country s five monarchies were banned by former ugandan president Milton Obote in 1966, was escorted to Kampala from neighbouring Kenya by officials of the National resistance movement Namin Power in Uganda since january officials said. Traditionalists among the Naganda especially tribal elders have been pressuring to allow Mutebi to return to Uganda to Lake the throne. Crocodiles Are lucrative for Indonesia study shows Jakarta Indonesia up Crocodile Breeding shows great Promise As a Way to enrich residents of the untamed indonesian province of irian Jaya according to a government feasibility study published Friday. The study published by the National news Agency Ankara said the Crocodile population of irian Jaya which is the Western half of the huge Island of new Guinea is 2.6 million scattered Over an area of 13,443,538 acres. It quoted provincial forestry official . Pang Gambean As saying Crocodile Hunting is the main source of income for irian Jayan natives. Italian police confiscate equipment at radio station Rome up police thursday seized Tele phone and recording equipment from a far left Wing political party s radio studio which has been running a phone in show in which people Are invited to Swap insults abuse and obscenities. It was the second Day in a Row that anti terrorist police raided Radical radio run by Italy s Small but vocal libertarian Radical party. On wednesday police seized tapes that featured Neo fascists and Ultra leftists exchanging obscenities and invective. Authorities said the raids were not aimed a shutting Down the station but simply at putting the controversial phone in show on hold. Iranian cleric denounces moslem morality squads Athens Greece up a prominent Irani an Clergyman Friday lashed out at fanatics an hard liners who were going to extremes to Force women into the islamic veil residents in Tehran said. Howato Heslam Akbar Hashemi Raf Sajani the speaker of the iranian parliament told a prayer congregation that it was not Correct for Iran s morality squads to Stop cars and ask couples sitting in them what their relationships were. " the attitude must be that they Are two mos lems travelling in a car a Sfanjani said. The Tehran residents reached by Telephone said a Sfanjani s remarks followed a series of ugly incidents in the iranian capital recently in which women were insulted by fanatical morality squads on Flimsy grounds. Simon employs a simple trick to make a million Auckland new zealand up Simon a 14-year-old student was not considered very Bright that is until he made an automatic Bank machine Deposit a million dollars into his account. Tony Kunowski corporate affairs manager of the United building society a savings and Loans institution said Fri Day that a student from Selwyn College a High school he identified Only As Simon had tricked one of United s Teller machines. Kunowski said Simon decided three weeks ago to try to make a United Auto Matic Bank Teller machine accept a fake Deposit for 1 million new zealand Dol Lars . S650.000. The boy placed a piece of cardboard from a Lollipop packet into a Deposit envelope and inserted it into the machine while punching in the amount of the de posit. A few Days later Simon checked his account and found to his amazement the Money had been credited Kunowski said. He withdrew $10. No alarm Bells rang and no police appeared so he withdrew another $500. But his nerve failed and he redeposited the Money. On tuesday this week Simon with Drew s1,500, Kunowski said. On wednesday Simon s nerve failed again and he confessed to one of his teachers Kunowski said. The school s headmaster Bob Ford took Simon to see executives at the United building society. It was not known if any disciplinary action would be taken against Simon. Kunowski told reporters that Simon got away with the deception because of delays in reconciling All transactions in automatic tellers around the country with United s Central computer sys tem. The delay in toting up the figure would normally be four weeks Ana that was How a Schoolboy could keep a fake million dollars in his account without anyone batting an eyelid he said. We Are now looking very closely at our internal systems. Human error May also be involved Kunowski said. We Are not amused but we Don t think this is the tip of an iceberg he  said Simon had not been consid ered one of his brightest pupils at least until   
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