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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes wednesday october 15,19b6 hews briefs Weinberger ill cancels meetings in Pakistan Islamabad Pakistan up1 . De sense Secretary Caspar Weinberger arrived tues Day for a three Day visit featuring talks on new american arms sales to Pakistan but he was forced to cancel appointments due to illness. Weinberger and his state department an Pentagon delegation Lew into heavily guarded Islamabad Airport aboard an air Force boeing707 after a 90-Minulc flight from new Delhi on the fourth leg of a world tour. . Embassy officials did not specify the nature of the defense Secretary s illness. Weinberger was greeted by foreign minister Shahabzada Yaqub and Leaden of Pakistan s .-supplied military. It is Weinberger s second trip to Washington s chief ally in Southern Asia. He first visited Pakistan in september 1983. East German sentenced for displaying clippings Berlin a an East German has been sentenced to eight months in prison for display ing a collage of news clippings alleged to Nave publicly degraded the slate order West Berlin Church sources have disclosed. The sources said monday that Lars mauke.20, of Jena in southwestern East Germany was arrested after posting a collection of clipping from the state run press on the outside of his apartment door. The sources could not say precisely what communist East German authorities had found unacceptable about the collage. Matane a stage technician was sentenced Early this month the Church informants said. Duarte says 976 killed in Al Salvador quake san Salvador Al Salvador a presi Dent Jose Napoleon Duarte announced monday that 976 people were kilted in Friday s Strong earthquake and a Sharp aftershock one of More than 1,000. Rocked the salvadoran capital. Duarte also said on nationwide television that8,176 people were injured in the quake and that almost 31,000 families were homeless. The president spoke hours after the Strong aftershock rattled san Salvador for three seconds at 4 29 . There were no reports of additional damage. The seismological station in neighbouring Guatemala said the tremor measured 4.5 on the open ended Richter scale and said it was Cen tired 156 Miles Southeast of Guatemala City in the Pacific Ocean off Al Salvador. Duarte had said in an earlier broadcast that a least 890 people were killed and about 10,000 injured in Friday s quake. Terrorists getaway car found near site of attack Karlsruhe Germany a German police tuesday night found the getaway car used by leftist terrorists who shot dead a senior aide to foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher a Federal prosecutor s spokesman said. The late Model red opel Wadett was parked in a District of the capita City of Bonn not far from where Gerold von Brau Muehl is was gunned Down Friday night after he got out of a taxi in front of his Home said spokesman Alex Ander Prechtel. The leftist extremist group red army faction claimed responsibility for the murder the first terrorist assassination of a ranking German government official in Bonn. No suspects have been wrested. Prechter chief spokesman for the Federal prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe said a briefcase wild a Bullet Hole in in Lay on the Back seat of the opel which was locked. The briefcase could be the one taken  by the terrorists after he was shot Prechtel said. Foreign ministry officials said the stolen briefcase contained no sensitive files. Gorbachev reviews Summit in soviet television speech Moscow a Mikhail s. Gorbachev told the soviet people to a nationwide television speech tues Day that the United states lacked the political determination to reach arms control agreements at the Iceland  soviet Leader in a 65-Minule address gave his first assessment of the two Days of talks he had wit president Reagan and the failure of the two superpowers to agree on reduction of nuclear arsenals. He said the meeting was useful but foundered on Reagan s refusal to give up Star  the space based missile defense  Reykjavik it is clearer than Ever for everyone that ski strategic defense initiative is the Symbol of obstruction to the cause of peace the epitome of Mili tary schemes of the unwillingness to remove the nuclear menace looming Over Mankind Gorbachev said. There can be no other  described what he portrayed As his efforts through out the meetings in Iceland to persuade Reagan to agree to what he called major measures which if they had been accepted would have ushered in a new epoch in the history of humanity a nuclear free  said he remains optimistic that the superpowers have not reached the end of the Road i their efforts to agree on arms control but he indicated that the next step is up to the United  calling the Summit useful lie said it prepared possible step Forward for a real shift for the Bette provided the United states at Long last adopts a Rod Islic position and Abandons its illusion in  Reagan spoke on television monday night an blamed Gorbachev for failure to reach agreements in Iceland. He said the United slates remains prepared to continue talks but will not give up work on the Star wars defensive  commentator Vladimir Alexeyev on tuesday suggested that the Summit could give impetus 10 the talks in Geneva Switzerland on limiting nuclear arms. The Summit meetings apparently reached Broa agreement to reduce nuclear weapons but the two leaders could not agree on the Issue of the american program for a space based defense system. Nobel from Page 1 and italian american biologist Rita Levi Montalco Inion the Nobel prize in Medicine on monday for their discoveries of growth factors in human and animal Issue. Eighty one names including 57 individuals and 24 organizations were under consideration for this year s peace prize. The five member prize committee chosen bythe storting Norway s parliament made the selection. The prize ill is year carries a Cash award worths290.000. In an interview in his Manhattan apartment Wiesel said the Honor made him think about the Young and the legacy he leaves them in his research i feel very strange toward Young people because almost feel responsible for them responsible because we have Given them a world which they have not Cre ated a world that we have destroyed. And now we ask them to build it  Wiesel said he hoped his award would improve awareness of the plight of soviet jews. I Hope that now More people will know that there Are thousands and thousands and thousands of jews in Russia who want to leave and join their families and Hope that As a result of that the soviet government will prove that it can adopt a human attitude a humanitarian attitude toward these people and allow them to go Wiesel  described As the spiritual archivist of the holocaust Wiesel has won numerous literary and human Rahu awards including the congressional Gold medal of achievement one of the greatest honors the United tales can bestow upon a civilian. President Reagan presented him with the Metta on april 19, 1985, in recognition of his leadership As chairman of the United stares holocaust memorial Council Bis work in advancing human rights and his contributions to literature. The ceremony was marred by controversy Over Rea Gan s plans to visit a cemetery in Pitburg. Germany containing Graves of nazi elite is troops among the War  was bom Eti Czer Wiesel in sight in what is now Romania. In 1944, the nazis ordered deportation of the City s 15,000 jews and the Wiesel family was ship Ped to the Auschwitz concentration Camp in Poland where his Mother and youngest sister were cited. He was separated from his two older listen i Auschwitz and did not learn of their survival until after the  and his father were sent in 1945 to Buchenwald concentration Camp in Germany where his father died after Buchenwald was liberated by the allies air april ii 1945, Wiesel refused repatriation to easter Europe and settled in France. He studied at the sorbonne and in 1948 he travel Edo Israel As a journalist to cover the foundation of the jewish state for the French newspaper l  became Paris correspondent for the Tel Aviv newspaper Edioth a Ronol in 1952 and in 1956 re ported on the United nations for the paper. He applied for . Citizenship in 1956, and published his first Book in Buenos Aires Argentina that same year. It was entitled and the world has remained silent and was written in yiddish. It later appeared sharply condensed As la Nuit i French and later was published in the United suits As  is credited As a Pioneer on behalf of soviet jewry. His Book the jews of silence a Penona report on soviet jewry appeared in 1966. Wiesel married Marion enter Rose also concentration Camp survivor in 1969. They have a Tea and a  the first award of the Nobel peace prize a 1901, there have been 19 Yean without peace Lau reates most recently 1972. Last year s Winner was an organization. International physicians for the prevention of nuclear War jointly beaded by a soviet and an american doctor. Alfred Nobel the swedish Amu  i inventor of dynamite who died in 1896,  prizes in his Wilt be Reagan from Page 1 news and Abc tvs today shows respectively maintained the optimistic assessment of the prospects for arms control that Reagan offered in his broadcast address monday night the a reported. Reagan said he insisted on America s right to put the defensive shield in space even though the arms agreement proposed would eliminate the missiles the Star wars system is designed to shoot Down. A likened it to our keeping our Gas masks eve though the nations of the world had outlawed Poison Gas after world War i Reagan said. Ski is America s insurance policy that the soviet Union would keep the commitments made at Reykjavik be said ski is America s Security guarantee i the soviets should As they have done too often in the Post fail to comply with their solemn  Reagan said that before the stalemate Over ski dra Matic Progress was Mode toward a 10-reduce All strategic nuclear arms Ino air launched cruise  and  during the fint five Yean of the Iber of such weapons would be Cut to half second five Yean All remaining offensive sties would be eliminated our ideas Are out there on the table be a won t go away. We Are ready to pick up where Wei there is reason Good reason feb Hope while we parted company with this american Pfluf on the table we Are closer than Ever before b i that could Lead to Taler world without nud Earv but Reagan said there were no plans a.  although the soviet agreed year i come to America for a meeting later this year there were no indication by or j " when or whether he plans to travel states a we toted he would lad Warr j "1 repeat Tonj Ipi that our invitation to adj Ful but that s a it Dixon the soviet no two  
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