European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday August 24, 1966 a photo anniversary rites philippine president Vinson Aqulyn walks with her son. Benigno Aquino Iii after unveiling � statue saturday of her Ian nuo band a hour 20,000 people cheered Sirej hatched her unveil the 11-fool bronc Monument in the Center of the Ibin politician s Hometown of Conception. 55 Milts North of Punili the ceremony marked the third anniversary of the aug. 11,198a a win lion of the former senator is Manila s Airport As he returned from three years to Hintry exile in the United stilts. China imprisons american 67, for espionage peking up a 67-Ycnr-uld american linked i n intelligence a enl has been sentenced a chinese minorities 10 12 years in prison on charges of Pung for Taiwan officials said saturday. I a. Embassy officials said Roland Shinsu Loo is the first american to he convicted of spying and imprisoned in China since the in nations re established diploma it1 relations in i971. In an extraordinary special program. Chinese to Devi non broadcast a 15-Minulf feature report on the arrest trial and sentencing of Loo and two chinese men and a woman. A letter shown in he documentary gave Loo s address As Angeles. Tic program showed film footage of the Stocky Hosp mailed chinese american meeting with he chinese contacts and during hit sentencing before a packed courtroom to 12 years in prison. He showed no Emolion. Sources said Loo was arrested six or seven months ago and was sentenced last month. Ning Nianwei 41, an Engineer with the peking construction engineering Institute was sentenced to 10 years in prison the documentary said. Her husband Vul Difu. 4s, director of the peking science and Edu cation film studio received a the acc Yeai sentence Zhu Jun i 43, a resident of inc Eastern City of Hangzhou. Was sentenced to 10 years in prison. It said Ning who was befriended by Loo in 1983, passed on military. Political and economic secrets. Some of the documents were from tic communist party Central committee and the ministry of finance the program said. Wocl today India s parliament passes Law designed to Stop dowry murders new Delhi. India api parliament passed a Tough Law Friday that outlaws dowries in a bid to Stop the practice of burning to death brides who do not bring of much property to their marriage As the Groom s family wants. The Bill which still needs inc signature of president Zail Singh to become Law provides for life imprison ment for some dowry offences and makes some of them non bailable. Bride burning already is considered murder and can be punishable by death Bui such killings usually Are Kamouh Agud As cooking accidents and rarely arc proved. Reliable statistics on the number of dowry deaths Are not available but reports of alleged Bride burnings appear in Indian newspapers almost daily Many social workers sociologists and feminists say the Bill is a Small and inadequate step. They maintain that Only educating the Public and the establishment of a powerful women s rights movement can ensure dig nity for brides and Slop dowry murders. During the debate Friday some members of parliament denounced Indian mothers in Law As most often responsible for pushing their sons id murder their wives out of dissatisfaction with the dowry. . Kurien of the governing Congress party branded the Mother in Law As inc most venomous person in Indian society and demanded that Mold Trvin Law be barred from an advisory Board provided by the new Law. Dowry although an ancient marriage custom has increased among the Indian Middle class in recent years because of growing consumerism. Traditionally the dowry was seen As compensation to the Groom s family for taking in the Bride feeding and caring for her but in practice the Groom s family often sees it As a Chance to make a major economic step Forward. A Bride s dowry historically included saris for the women in her husband s family Small amounts of Cash for inc men and cows or even a Bullock for the head of the household. Today it is Likely to include Gold jewel by motor scooters refrigerators television sets and recorders. In those cases where the dowry is considered insufficient the Bride often is harassed and is sometimes tortured by her husband Mother in Law and other members of her new family. If she commits suicide or is murdered usually by setting her highly flammable Sari on tire her husband is free to marry again and accumulate another dowry. Nazi pilgrimage fear voiced Munich a the Obers Alibcag. Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler s Mountain Retreat near Berdines Gadon in the bavarian Alps May become a memorial for nazi sympathizers a local pow Ician warned Friday. Tourists from Wisl Germany and abroad have complained that Newsstands and souvenir shops in the Berches Gaden area sell brochures and other items glorifying the nazis said Peter Kurz. s social democratic representative in the bavarian parliament. Berciles Gadon is bidding to stage the 1992 Winter olympic games. In a statement issued in Munich. Kurz said he had written to Germany s president. Richard von Weizsaecker and bavarian minister president Franz Josef Strauss urging them to prevent Berciles Gadon from becoming a place of pilgrimage 10 Kurz said the brochures arc printed in German English and French according to Yufit by Choc Sagaden authorities have not gone far enough in enforcing Germany s ban of the nazi Emblem. The Swastika. The swastikas have Only been passed Over on the covers of brochures and they Are it ill being sold said Kurz. Ober Salzburg with its Berghof Mountain Villa hotels for guests and Homes for the nazi Leader s close aides became Hitler s favorite Retreat after he came to Power in 1933. Since the War and Germany s the site has become on of Bavaria s featured tourist attractions. . Favors strengthening military ties with Australia Wellington new zealand up new zealand cars want closer military lies to Australia because of the breakdown of inc anus Alli Ance with the United states a defense inquiry committee reported Friday. Most new zealand is would also defend austra Lia and Britain before they would defend the United states. The report issued by the committee Laid. The merits of a closer defense relationship Wilh Australia might contribute to the building up of a More satisfactory consensus and ultimately per haps to the. Objective of a bipartisan foreign and defense policy the committee reported the four member committee set up last de Cember heard Public submissions and con ducted opinion polls on defense attitudes. Train Engineer injured by Small Caliper gunfire Munich a the 38-year-old Engineer of an express Tram in route to Athens was injured when the locomotive was hit by Small Cali Ber gunfire while speeding through Bavaria slate police said Friday police said the incident took place thursday at 9.05 . Between Augsburg and Munich As the Hellas express was travelling about 125 mild per hour. The hols came near the Lown of Gro Eden a. The Engineer was slightly injured in the my by a shot fired through the right window of the locomotive police said. The Engineer continued on to a scheduled Stop in Munich where police discovered iwo More shots had hit the train at about window height police said. Engine starts accidentally trawler hits 20 boats Umu Iden Netherlands a a runaway trawler collided with 20 other boats Early. Friday after its engine started accidentally As it was moored in this Western dutch fishing port police said. Four Small yachts Sank because of the Accident in which nobody was injured according to t spokesman for the National dutch water police. Sixteen other vessels were damaged in the incident according to the spokesman. The Accident which involved the dutch regt lured trawler Catharine caused several hundreds of thousands of dollars Worth of damage. German Engineer accused of spy recruiting try Karlsruhe Germany up an unidentified 48-year-old construction Engineer from Munster was interrogated Friday in connection with an alleged attempt to recruit Ai t spy i woman with a Security sensitive Job in the German army officials said. The Man was being held on a warrant issued thursday by the Federal High court to Kurt Reb Man Federal prosecutor a court spokesman Slid. Hans Juergen Foerster the spokesman for the Federal supreme court said the Man ii inspected of trying to persuade the woman who worked for an army air reconnaissance unit to provide an unnamed East bloc nation with secret information. Foerster said the woman informed military intelligence officials about the alleged attempt to recruit her. Responsibility claimed for 2 bomb explosions the Hague Netherlands up a previously unknown group called into the Blue commando of the revolutionary cells claimed responsibility for thursday s bomb blasts in Amsterdam to protest the City s bid for the 1992 olympics police said Friday. Two bomb explosions Early thursday dam aged the Dulch olympic foundation s head quarters and a government owned satellite ground group s claim of responsibility was in an eight Page written statement,.amsterdam police spokesman Klaas willing said
