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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 28 the star3 and stripes monday. November 10,1986 Danes say Iran got 5,000 tons in . Arms.  j _. T j "  1_  Omli aft Al Tali if ail Al a Copenhagen Denmark not a global Waich on shipments of arms to the persian Gulf indicated last Spring Itiat Many thousands of ions or american made weapons were quietly being sent Toiran an executive of the danish seamen s Union said  was far beyond the Normal shipments from Arras dealers and smugglers and i would say you cannot have those amounts being shipped without the govern ment of the producing country being aware said Hen Rik Berlau vice president of the Union. The Union which tries to track the use of merchant ships in International arms traffic has no documentary proof of official american involvement Berla stressed. He conceded that private dealers not govern ments traditionally engage in the lucrative weapons Trade. But he maintained that governments Are Well aware of the traffic in today s volatile world. If the United Stales does not know about All these shipments the should be very worried he said. Governments know they Jusi look the other  weapons traffic and the purported role of the United Stales in dealing in replacement parts with the iranian government have become major controversies in recent Days. The danish Union which is concerned about its members safely and is Active in danish poli tics of the left says it has established a Clear idea of the shipping patterns although not of the purported governmental intrigues. Berlau said that in daily checking of the Union s 5-year-old computer system used to Monitor increasing danish merchant traffic in arms two changes became Clear. One was the far larger shipments of amen can made arms discernible since last Spring. The other waste opening of a direct route in weapons traffic from Israel to Iran last september. He said his Union had monitored close to a dozen shipments of More than  tons of weapons he said these were tracked to Iran from the ports of Telamon in Italy Piraeus in Greece and Eilat in Israel. Of the shipments from Israel Berlau said weddin t believe it at first but it became  he added that nine such shipments had been reported by danish merchant seamen aboard the ships and by Union officials and sources in the ports. One such ship the Morse unloaded 460 tout of military cargo from Israel in Sandra Abbas Iran last week he said adding that another such ship was Enro Ute but he would not identify it lest the seamen aboard be endangered. Other ships plying the Isra Emo Iran arms Trade he said were the Arctic the else the and the Karen a in reporting the Eilat shipments if Tau  danish seamen said that israeli officials took great pains to eliminate All traces of the originating port even w Erans Ferrina the Crew s foodstuffs from contain endearing Israel labels. The ships were also checked by Security men who swam under the hulls he  of the Union which has 5,500 members said they were increasingly concerned about T traffic s danger to merchant seamen and the use Codan ish Regis Erca ships Asa result of a Union we Hunt tothe ministry of maritime affairs Berlau said a Dan ish ship loaded with arms for Iran the Mana the was turned Back from her course oct 30 after rumours that Iraq was prepared to bomb  said the Union had pressed the danish govern ment to prosecute 16 shippers in recent Yea and that parliament was about to take up a proposal for tighter controls on the use of danish merchant ships by arms  included having transport ships hide out for week or two in the red sea to make Survey dance More difficult with Laws non existent or unenforced he continued a shipper can easily bribe a functionary in Home third nation embassy for what is called i end user certificate that disguises the True destination. Prime minister resigns in Egypt Cairo Egypt up prime minister Ali Zulfi beleaguered by Lite nation s economic problems submitted the resignation of his 14-month-old Cabinet sunday to president Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak asked Atef Sidky the govern ment s chief accountant to head a new  s sudden resignation was announced by information min ister Safwat Al Sherif following an emergency meeting of the 33-Mancabinet, formed on sept. 5,1985. Zulfi did introduce some mod est economic reforms but they failed to Stem the tide of inflation estimated at 20 percent annually or to cover a chronic deficit in the balance of payments his resignation comes at a time when Egypt is negotiating with the International monetary fund Foran additional is billion loan to cover the drop in foreign currency income. Beirut terrorist warrants issued Beirut Lebanon up prosecutors have issued warrants for the arrest of six suspected terrorists in the 1983 bombing of the . Embassy in moslem West Beirut that killed 64 people including 17 americans an wounded More than 100, officials Taid  authorities continued to look for the Sis suspects sought in the attack. A report from the prosecutor office said the culprits Booby trapped a truck belonging to . Embassy. The vehicle bad been stolen in the Bahrani area of Southern Lebanon. On april 18,1983, a bomb concealed in a truck destroyed most of the us. Embassy in Beirut the islamic jihad a group Loyal to Iran s Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho Meini claimed responsibility for the attack. A person whose identity  be determined drove the vehicle to Beirut and blew himself Pat the is. Embassy. Shultz from Page 1 situation raises serious questions about who is making foreign policy decisions. I m afraid the lesson May be implicitly that taking american hostages pays he  Secretary of state Henry kiss Inger said to negotiate for hostage makes it More Likely other hostages will be  administration officials Slung by re cent reports of Covert . Arms Aid to Nicaragua s Contra rebels engineered Bya National Security Council official and a while House endorsed disinformation Campaign against Libya would speak Only on the condition of anonymity when questioned about the new for eign policy eruption. Pure speculation a senior state department official said when asked about reports that Shultz May quit. Shults threatened to quit before when faced with the Prospect of having to take a lie Detector test As part of Ananti leak policy. In reaction to the re ported disinformation Campaign Shult declared he never lies a proposition that would be jeopardized if . Allies seethe Iran arms Deal As contradicting his appeals that they not Deal with terrorists. A White House official insisted that Shultz has been involved from the plan s inception. A  the White House did not muzzle anyone the official added. Saying that speculation on the Situa Tion could endanger americans still held in Lebanon the administration kept quiet about whether is. Military hard Ware was traded to secure Liberty for David Jacobsen freed last week and the earlier releases of the revs. Benjamin Weir and Lawrence Jenco Reagan was spending an extended weekend at the Camp David presidential Retreat and did not plan to return to the White Hou until monday. Shults and Reagan Are scheduled to meet wednes Day after Szultz returns from a one Day trip to Guatemala. Departing Aquino places military in readiness to repel any attacks Manila Philippines up presi Dent Corazon Aquino on the eve of her departure for Japan directed the armed forces to repel any attacks against the government and warned sunday she Wil Call the people to the streets if a military coup takes  Aquino s orders armed forces chief Gen. Fidel Ramos placed the 230,000-member military on red Alert the maximum state of readiness Ai 6  for Aquino s four Day visit to Tokyo said his spokesman col. Hones Tolz Leta. Isleta said Ramos discussed Security measures for the capital in Aquino s absence during a two hour High level com Mand conference at military Headquarters. He said a Security Force of 7,000 to6,000 men had been assembled to meet any  a nationally televised address to the 7th annual world denial Congress at seafront convention Center Aquino said she will not allow the military to be destroyed by a handful of misguided it Philippines since taking Power feb. 25.emenis, if in fact they Are planning to do if it should be necessary i shall once  said that through Ramos i have instructed the commanders in the fiello repel any attacks against our units or any centers of government As Well As an threats to the Security of our people. To our people i say. Be Calm but also be vigilant. What we have won no one can take away from us unless we let them said Aquino who noted Hal the country again was awash with rumours As she went on her third trip outside the sunday s pro football Imago 33, top by 3 a Wolms Langham Ramom Iannou 24. Mott 10 Hon a Fagund 30. Mufu Pool sin Yolk pm 28. Junta 1 4 bulb a 1s, pm ugh 11, we Tavako 11 Jimh bn/1 More ask you to take to the streets. I a the president of All our people. I shall protect and do All in my Power to pre serve their rights and freedoms and the democracy they restored Aquino  s remarks were the strongest yet on persistent rumours of a coup plot allegedly ordered by her rebellious de sense minister Juan Ponce Enrile who has been critical of her handling Ofa 17 year communist  and Ramos led the people pow ered revolution that drove 20-year Rule Ferdinand Marcos into exile in Hawaii Aquino said the coup rumours were fuelled by a few self appointed Messiah who would want to dictate How this government shall be  police said More than 20,000 filipino sunday massed at a downtown Square in a show of support for Aquino and he Campaign for the ratification of a draft Constitution in the feb. 2 plebiscite. Germans recall night of nazi terror Bonn up cities in both West Germany and Easl Germany sunday commemorated the 48th anniversary of the night of broken class when nazis went on a vicious rampage of death and destruction against jews. Nov. 9, 1938. Was a night of horror throughout Nan Germany. Synagogues As we As jewish shops and Bomes were attacked under orders of the nazis. Dozens of jews were killed As the tried to escape the flames of the hundreds of shops synagogues and Home set afire under nazi orders. At a synagogue in Frankfurt sunday Hermann alter a member of the Board of directors of the jewish Community said during a commemoration service i halt would be a mistake to establish proposed Monument in Bonn for All Vic Tims of world War 1lhe said the victims and the killers should nol be mentioned in the Sam breath. The commemoration of the night of destruction murder and terror was marred in the City of Kiel where police said Unidene Toflea vandals had pain Ltd the slogan away with jews and nazi Swastika on the Wall of m House on which there is a Tablet Marling the 48-year-old event in Dresden Helmut ant preside of the Union of jewish mini Uniti in but Germany Laid n Wreath  night  
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