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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 14, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 israeli jets destroy boat used by terrorists Beirut Lebanon up israeli warplanes Fri Day destroyed a suspected terrorist yacht along the Southern coast near Sidon. Local police sources said five people were wounded. The attack was the second in three Days by Israel warplanes on palestinian targets just outside Sidon a port City 24 Miles South of Beirut and the eighth strike on Lebanon this year. The air Force attacked this afternoon a boat used by terrorists South or Sidon said an Israel defense forces statement. According to All indications it was being prepared for terrorist activity against  the military said the planes attacked the boat in the Sinnit area at the Southern enhance of Sidon several Hundred meters from the Shoreline and the vessel was destroyed and All planes returned  Israel said it knew of no casualties. Sources in Beirut said two Low flying israeli warplanes bombed the area at 5 45 p.m., damaging several houses and wounding five civilians including three women. The planes showered the yacht with machine gun fire setting it ablaze the sources said. Oussama Saad the Leader of the Independent Nasse rite movement in Sidon visited the site and said is Rael is no longer distinguishing Between military and civilian  on wednesday israeli warplanes and gunboats bombarded palestinian targets just outside Sidon and Tyre killing at least two guerrillas and wounding eight other fighters and civilians. The guerrillas were aboard a rubber Dinghy heading southward when an israeli patrol boat spotted and intercepted them. The patrol opened fire on the rubber Dinghy forcing the guerrillas in to the Shore. In their seventh air strike on Lebanon this year israeli military aircraft hit palestinian bases in the East aug. Ii hours after a soviet made Katusha rocket crashed into Northern Israel. Sweet smell of publicity giant Blue ribbons make the Paris per fume House of Hermes look like a prize package. The publicity stunt was dreamed up to introduce a new scent called Bel Ami. On a Windowsill is a huge Model of the new perfume flask. North Korea of return remains of War dead Seoul South Korea up the american led . Come said Friday it was encouraged by North Korea s apparent willingness to return the remains of korean War dead including . Sol Diers. North Korea s official Central news Agency reported thursday the North korean government had an intention to Settle the Issue a . Come spokes Man said. The United nations command is encouraged that North Korea considers this to be a humanitarian Issue and for that reason has an intention to Settle the Issue the spokesman said. What conditions North Korea set to solve the Issue were not immediately known but one South korean source said the North proposed direct Contact with the United states. The command spokesman said the North korean demand was unsatisfactory saying return of the remains is a multinational Issue rather than a bilateral one and involves Many of the 17 nations that fought in the 1950-53 korean War. As part of its Effort to solve the Issue the command handed Over to North Korea information on  War dead at a meeting in North Korea aug. 19, the spokesman said. The information included the names of 380 americans 39 australians three belgians two colombians one greek five dutch nationals eight South Afri cans 167 turks 285 britons and 1,640 South koreans. Other information turned Over to North Korea included maps and charts showing the Loca Tion of 13 prisoner of War Camps and Apo Hospital in North Korea which were known to have burial Sites nearby. A list of 291 air crash Sites that resulted in 301 unaccounted for Crew members mostly americans. A list of seven former . Come cemeteries in the North containing 288 remains never returned to the . Come. A list of 2,233 . Come pos and 18 civilians still unaccounted for. A list of 308 personnel missing or killed in action whose remains Are believed to lie in the North. Command statistics show 36,772 .comd soldiers including 33,629 Ameri cans were killed in the War. There were some 225,000 South korean soldiers killed. Court voids 26 acquittals in Aquino assassination Case Manila Philippines a the supreme court Friday voided the acquittal of 26 people charged in the 1983 assassination of president Corazon Aqui no s husband and ordered a new trial. In a 50-Page decision written by chief Justice Claudio Teehankee the court said the acquittal of then armed forces chief Gen. Fabian c. Ver 24 other Mili tary men and one civilian was reached in a Sham trial orchestrated by then presi Dent Ferdinand e.  new trial into the slaying of opposition Leader Benigno Aquino is needed so that the truth May be finally known and Justice done to All the supreme court  and seven other justices voted to invalidate what they called the non trial of the  the court s three other justices disqualified them selves from the deliberations. The acquittals were without parallel and precedent in our annals and Juris prudence the supreme court said add ing that it cannot allow such a Sham trial and verdict and travesty of Justice to go  chemist reports developing easy spy dust test los Angeles a a government chemist thursday said he has developed a simple pocket size test to detect the spy dust that soviets allegedly used to track . Diplomats in Moscow. With the test any agent could follow another agent whether it be ours or theirs said . Bill Jsmes an analytical chemist at the National Institute of environmental health sciences in North Caro Lina. The technique requires Only a Cotton swab a test tube and a few Dropper bottles of chemicals which a a Tomato could Carv to Check if they were being tracked with the dust a chemical known As Ppd or  he said. Jameson said his test developed with scientists at radian corp. Is so sensitive that As Little As five billionths of an ounce of the tracking agent will turn a treated Cotton swab Pink. He said he does t know if the government is using his test to counter spy dust tracking attempts. Or. Charles Brodine an assistant medical officer at the state department and department spokeswoman son dra Mccarty also said they did t know. Or. Jameson is to be commended for coming up with a test that is a lot simpler and a lot less costly than the previous method which involved a Cumber some expensive Laboratory procedure Brodine said. In August 1985, the Reagan administration pro tested that soviets had sprayed Yellowish Orange Ppd powder on automobile steering wheels Tele phones clothing and other common items to track the movements and contacts of some . Diplomats in Moscow and Leningrad. The government complained the powder might mutate blood cells cause cancer and trigger birth defects. But in february . Officials said a study showed it was harmless. At that time they said it had been found on five cars used by americans in the soviet Union. Jameson said he and his colleagues performed that study at the state department s request and simultaneously developed the Ppd test. He disclosed the new test s existence thursday at an american chemical society meeting in Anaheim. A Diplomat testing for spy dust would rub a Cotton swab on a surface suspected of spy dust contamination put the swab in a test tube of methanol the add one drop each of the chemicals naphtha Resorcinol and hydrochloric acid. The swab turns Pink if spy dust is present and Al most like a Burgundy wine if it s very concentrated Jameson said  
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