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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 1,1966 for a Good time $600,000 Apphia a  shop on Zurich s ,0�e of new the s most exp Ento shopping Street  Kud nude Chronograph priced at 950,000 a Riu francs Boot . Made of a Kuit told a atop Fetics h As the most complicated Chronograph in the in red with around a dozen differ ent huk Timu. 1 it timepiece built around the Tarn of the Chenhu look 1,500 hours to Castnel Waldheim denies new report of involvement in War crimes Vienna Austria a president Kurt Wald hdm thursday denied be participated in nazi opera Tion against partisans in Yugoslavia or was approached by the soviets to work Tor their secret service his spokesman said the Washington Post reported in thursday s editions that Wash Simnad ended months of denial and acknowledged he played a role in the brutal nazi pad Totton operation that Cost thousands of lives in Yugoslavia. The Itaev . Secretary general had denied in it 13 Page memo t Ait to the Washington Post in april that hews involved in the 1942 operation staged to remove All 80,000 residents including 3,500 armed partisans from Kozara a mountainous area of Yugoslavia but the newspaper thursday quoted Waldheir spokesman Gerald Christian As saying that additional research revealed the president s earlier statement was incorrect Bui later thursday Christian claimed he Hod not made such comments Waldheim earlier this year acknowledged he had been in the Kozhaia mountains but Christian told the associated press thursday that Waldheim never was present during combat nation. He was unfit Tor Lias front and never had a Rifle to shoot  Waldheim never took part in any Way in actions against partisan or jews Christian said. The Post also quoted former yugoslav officials slaying yugoslav and soviet intelligence operatives had tried Blace Kaiung Waldheim in 1947 and 1948 int becoming a communist agent by threatening to charge hint with War crimes if he did not cooperate. But Christian said Waldheim categorically denied he was Ever contacted to work As an agent for the yugoslavs or the soviets a formal statement read to the associated press by Christian s Secretary said allegations Ace Ondino to which attempts Wen made by the yugoslav or soviet sides to enlist or. Waldheim for their secret service Are untrue. Such attempts were never made. The newly made eld accusations that Waldheim was implicated in War crimes in the Balkans Are with out any  e. German guards Stop 2 men trying to escape Berlin a two East germans tried to escape to the West thursday at Berlin s checkpoint Charlie crossing but were stopped by communist Border guards who took them away. West Berlin police said the two men both dressed in civilian clothes approached the checkpoint on foot and tried to scale barriers on the Eastern Side but were grabbed by the guards and shoved to the ground a police spokesman said. They were then led away. No gunfire was heard police said. They said they had no other details on the attempted  Charlie is the Bat known crossing be tween West Berlin and communist East Berlin malaysian court sentences drug trafficker to death Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a a 2s-year-old filipino construction worker has Beta sentenced to death for trafficking in 10,5 ounces of marijuana the National news Agency a mama reported thursday by Rama said sentence was passed wednesday by the High court in Kot Kinabalu 900 Miles East of Kuala Bumpur. Mandan Paibul was found guilty of commuting the offence on feb. 29, 19g4, at Man Haji a Shah on Labuan Island 850 Miles East of Kuala Bumpur. He was charged under a Section of the dangerous drug act that provides for a mandatory death sentence on conviction. It was not known if he would Appeal. New verses discovered to medieval heroic poem Munich api bavarian officials on wednesday announced the discovery of several new verses of in Nibelungenlied the medieval heroic poem that embodies German mythology and inspired composer Richard Wagner s most famous  Nibelungenlied a series of More than 2,400 verses about an evil family possessing a magic Hoard of Gold is said to have been written by an unknown aus Trian poet around the year 1200.language experts say the Nibelungenlied s rhythmic verses were important in development or the Gennan language and helped to record medieval history in Middle  newly found verses were discovered by Gerhard Schwertl. While working at the bavarian state Library cataloguing old papers and books that were stacked up in a storage area. 29 Indian women treated for exposure to fumes new Delhi India a Twenty nine women a Csc rushed to a Hospital thursday in Western Gujarat state after succumbing to toxic fumes from a chemical factory the United news of India  ammonia Lank at the Plant was the source of the leaking Gas according to officials in the port town of veraval the news Agency said. The women All vendors Selling prawns near the fac tory Felt dizzy As the toxic Gas enveloped the area uni raid at toe Hospital one of the women was re ported in serious  than 2,000 people were lulled and another 200,000 injured when lethal Gas leaked from a Union Carbide Plant in the Central Indian City of Bhopal in december 1984. New Delhi court convicts 6 of spying for Cia Dia a five government Uffia Alink to Wen convicted of spying ctn Lral intelligence Agency and have been sentenced to three year jail terms. The six were involved in a 15-year spy ring that regularly supplied classified in formation about India s military projects and secret monthly reports of the ministries of foreign affairs Petroleum chemicals and fertilizers. Judge . Jain said wednesday. One of the government officials . Tareen a director in India s planning commission was also convicted Oft ing secrets to a soviet diploma did it out of greed Lilia Tufto court testimony. Sii . Esprit Tsiyu officials implicated in the espionage were expelled by the Indian government soon after i Vestiga discovered the ring in 1977. The " them As William m. Decker David Parker and Doi and Bis wife. The soviet Diplomat who also left India was not identified. The judgment which other government  an eight year i f freed on bail in 1977, were after the court verdict another person allegedly involved Iii the ring . Reddy. Fled the country before he could be arrested. Jain found the six Gutty in five Sepa rate espionage cases and imposed the maximum sentence of three Yean in each Case. But the sentences will run concurrently. Besides Sareen the other convicted . Varshney also a i  of me prime minister Indira the aides Wen identified As Mahabir fraud .  and . Chaudhary a the government officials accused were suspended from their jobs in 1977. Jain ruled that for 13 Yean the convicts pasted on secret information to Cia operative in India about the own try s warplane and ordnance factories. They also supplied drawing of soviet artillery guns missiles and radars bought by India the judge said the Espi ii   punic Tolches police Ted menu and Choudhary while they were trading highly classified documents in the Public toilet of new Del i s Oberoi  hotel. The government seized and sold  of property of  last  uncovered another  had been spying for the i in 1985. Security agencies to Tan Espoo of ring Selling teem to franc the soviet Union and son react european nations  
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