European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday August 28,1988 11 policemen charged in torture of drug agent Mexico City a eleven Jalisco stale policemen have been charged with beating a , narcotics agent in Guadalajara the Federal attorney general s office said tuesday. The policemen were charged with abuse of authority and injuring Victor Cortez jr., a . Drug enforcement administration agent after he was taken into custody aug. 13. None of the 11 is believed to be in custody a spokesman for he attorney general s office said late United states has lodged a diplomatic protest with Mexico claiming cortex was subjected to unprovoked brutal and criminal acts while in custody in Guadalajara 360 mites Northwest of Mexico City. Aquino to let moslem return for peace talks Manila. Philippines Upo president co Razon Aquino returned from her Tim official overseas trip wednesday and said she will allow a moslem separatist Leader to come Home from saudi Arabia for peace talks to try to end a 14 year insurgency in the South. The separatist rebellion hat claimed More than 60.000 lives since 1972, and Aquino Laid the would Grant Mora National liberation front Leader Nur Misdari a Safe conduct pass for a dialogue to end the insurgency in the Mindanao Sulu Region 300 Miles South of Manila. Aquino returning from a three Day trip to Indonesia and Singapore noted that unhampered travel guarantees had been Given to communist guerrilla emissaries negotiating an end to a 17-year rebellion by the 17,000-Slrong maoist new people s army. Kohl urges dec controls on influx of refugees Bonn a Chancellor Helmut Kohl a iced the common Market nations on wednes Day to negotiate a joint policy for stemming the flood of third world refugees into Western Europe particularly Germany. Kohl warned that the influx of economic Refu gees into the continent is rising and he vowed that Germany would take Sharp Steps to Block some of those arriving from developing regions. The influx of refugees into Germany a major Domestic Issue has led to growing numbers of racial incidents complaints that social services Are being overtaxed and Calls by prominent conservatives la tighten immigration Laws. Rocket science payload destroyed after launch White Sands missile Range . A a rocket carrying a scientific payload was destroyed 50 seconds after launch when its guidance system failed a White Sands missile Range spokeswoman said wednesday. Debbie Bingham said he suborbital Aries rocket had reached 77,000 feet saturday when it was destroyed Over a deserted pan of the Southern new Mexico Range which is restricted to the Public. She said the rocket carried an a Ray Telescope designed to study Distant Stellar objects. The rocket is designed to fall Back to Earth under a Parachute after carrying its payloads to a sub Orti ital level. Berlin workers unearth part of Gestapo Center Berlin a cleaning Wor Icen in West Ber Lin have unearthed a tiled basement Wall that was pan of nazi Germany s Gestapo torture Center during the third Reich City officials said wednes basement relic was discovered near the Berlin Wall at the Allied checkpoint Charlie crossing by Wor Lunen on cleanup duty for the City s 750th anniversary celebrations next year said City spokesman Ber Haid Schneider. The basement Section is situated nut to building which will be used for Dis plays commemorating Berlin 750th anniversary next year Schneider said. Soviets could neutralize ski easily scientist says Moscow Dpi the soviet Union says it can deploy cheap and effective countermeasures to neutralize the Star wars space baled defense system a senior soviet nuclear scientist said wednesday we cannot allow it Star wars Vitaly Goldansky. A member of the Academy of sciences and the committee of scientists for peace told a Moscow news conference. If we want to talk concretely about technical Mea sures to be taken to neutralize this defense it is very Clear first and Foremost that it is much easier to neutralize stationary objects launched into orbit rather than fast moving objects like nuclear missiles Gold Ansky said. This method would include space Means that would in a certain period of Lime be directed for the purpose of neutralizing the anti missile space de sense. I would say this is a much cheaper Way than Star wan Goldansky Laid. Although in appeared in the English language interpretation As a direct reference to space mines review of the russian language tape showed Goldan Iky used the general term space he said that while the United states is spending billions of dollars developing the strategic defense initiative he soviet Union could easily counter with out causing any damage to its Economy. ". Hopes to make the soviet National Economy bankrupt due to the arms race and anti missile defense Are futile because it is easy to find effective countermeasures loan abm anti ballistic missile program which Are cheaper. Without the serious economic expenditure of billions of dollars that is planned in the United states Goldansky said. The soviet Union already deploys what . Officials have termed a crude anti Sale Hiie device that would take several orbits to catch up with its target. The soviet Union has hinted at other ways of Induc ing the multimillion Dollar ski program to useless junk such i overwhelming it with Dummy mis Siles and coated rockets at a Cost of just i percent to 2 percent of the . Defense program. Monday the soviet chief of staff. Marshal Sergei aver Omeyer said the Kremlin would come up with a Surprise response to Star wars that would sen Washington scurrying to find another space based sys tem if it is necessary we will find a Quick answer and it will not be the Way the United Stales expects in it will be an answer that devalues the Star Ware program air Omeyer said. Cameroon from Page 1 refusing to be further identified said Many people were being evacuated. One doctor mid Many survivors had serious lung lesions and were in danger of getting pneumonia. The few hospitals in the Region overflowed with hundreds of casualties some sleeping two or three in a bed. In Geneva Switzerland the office of the . Coordinator for disaster Relief said 1,543 bodies had been counted and others were still being discovered. 1u figure showed 300 people hospitalized and 20,000 in All affected. Kenneth Trilby a Canadian Baptist missionary in Wum said after visiting the nearby disaster site tues Day thai Many bodies remained in the grass and mud huts and went unreported because no relatives were alive. In the Lakeside Village of Soublo he said More than half the Baptist congregation of 300 people died but. No one living on higher ground was affected. Disaster investigator Francois legume of the French National Center for scientific research i the red take water was due to panicles of latent mud indicating continuing underwater volcanic activity. Leguern said the disaster was caused by a huge bub ble of heavy volcanic Gas Long trapped in the Lake and released by an explosion deep Down in the Waters of the Tang dormant Crater. The Gas was heavier than the air so those on Low ground were the first victims he said. Horn said All witnesses agreed that the blast occurred late thursday not Friday As reported earlier. Because of distance poor Highway and no telephones new of the disaster failed to reach the outside world until the weekend. Troops in Gas masks scoured Village scattered across the Fertile but mountainous Region looking for disaster victims. Rogers from Page 1 the terrorist bombing of a West Berlin discotheque. The blast killed two . Soldiers. The United Stales has blamed Libya for the disco attack. Syrian president Hafez Assad has pledged unqualified support to Libya if the Radical North african nation is attacked by the United states again. Asked if there was fear of soviet intervention if the United Stales attacks Syria Rogers responded that May Well be. But i think that Washington has already Given a dear warning to the syrians immediately after the attack against Moa mar Gad Hafk the same could happen to you.1 but of course i Don t want to try to predict what the . Government s decision might unlike Libya which analysts in Washington have said has vulnerable air defences Syria Bas boundaries bristling with anti aircraft weapons. During the Stem interview Rogers was asked about .-built nato nuclear weapons deployed in Ger Many. The Issue of nuclear missiles his been an emotional one in Germany especially among Young leftists. Rogers responded for example in West Germany there Are More nuclear weapons stationed than we need and we will Correct that. We want to distribute in a More appropriate Man Ner those that we have Rogers said in the interview. "1 need the cooperation of the other allies. You see there Are countries in the Southern Region of nato that do not have enough warheads to deter the threat they face he added. Italy Turkey and Greece comprise nato South Ern Region. I am trying and a optimistic to reduce the Ber of warheads in the Federal Republic of Germany by half Roger added. He did not specify How Many nuclear weapons referred 10 As warheads Are stationed in Germany. Germany Baa received 108 new peril Ling i missiles and is scheduled to receive 96 cruise missiles a Parton a nato plan. In addition hundreds of older Model nato nuclear rockets Are believed to be stationed in Germany. Some missiles Are capable of being filled with More than one warhead. Purka in a Telephone interview from supreme Headquarters of Powers in Europe near Mont Belgium said the Stem interview look place i Rogers offices at shape. Scare from Page 1 Long planned activities As joint .-Egyptmn air exer Cise in the Mediterranean and a forthcoming trip to european capitals by . Ambassador Vemon Wal administration officials Laid they were privately delighted last week when the soviet communist party newspaper pravda and other soviet organs began to denounce the .-egyptian exercises As the first step toward a new attack on Libya. Defense department sources said tuesday that the 6th reel in the Mediterranean ii not mobilizing for any land of attack on Libya despite Tough tall in Washington. The sources said however hut the Fleet might conduct another set of flight Maneu vers in the Tripoli flight information Region off Libya after completing the .-Egypuan sea wind exercise on thurs Day
