European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday november 24,1986 Kohl to Stop pressing for terrorist amnesty Bill Munich a German Chancellor Helmut Kohl saturday said he would Slop pressing for passage of a new Law this year that would Grant amnesty to terrorists who Lum male s witness. Kohl made the statement after Hie Junior coalition partner in his government the free democrats openly opposed the Chancellor by voting at a party Congress in Mainz Friday to water Down the state s witness proposal. The free democrats move made it one of the mos Public arguments Between the two panics since they formed a governing coalition in october 1982. Kohl a Christian Democrat said the Law us suggested by the free democrats was unacceptable and that he would put it aside for now while seeking to pass other provisions in an anti terrorist package be fore the end of the year. We must pass this package but without uie slate s witness provision for now. On thai Point half a Solu Tion is no solution Kohl told a Munich meeting of the Christian social Union the bavarian Arm of Fth Chancellor s Christian democrats. While Kohl avoided criticizing the free democrats Franz Josef Sirauss the governor of the stale of Bavaria charged that their vote on the slate s witness proposal was typical free Democrat  i favor continuing this governing coalition but the free democrats must give up their Zig Zag line Strauss said. Kohl s conservative Christian democrats favor a stale s witness provision that would allow prosecutors to Grant amnesty to arrested terrorists such Ai Germany s red army faction if they agree to testify against other terrorists in court the Liberal free democrats said the Law should Only provide for reducing charges against the state s witness and not allow prosecutors to drop them we cannot allow murderers to go unpunished Otto Lamsdorff a prominent parliamentary Deputy and former economics minister told the party con Gress. The Christian democrats first made the slate s wit Ness proposal following the oct. 10 murder of Gerald von Braun Kueht a top official at the German foreign ministry. The red army faction claimed responsibility for the death although a stale s witness system is used in the United Stales and some european countries it has no been pan of German Law. The free democratic leadership initially agreed to the state s witness proposal. But the party has recently been seeking to establish a separate identity from the Christian democrats in an attempt to win More votes in the upcoming Jan. 25 National elections. Other Laws in the anti terrorism package Kohl Hope to pass by the end of the year Call for tougher sentences for people convicted of membership in a terrorist organization and for expansion of the definition of such organizations. Nato nuclear capability vital German defense minister says Hamburg a the nato Alliance can t do without nuclear weapons or the strategy of flexible response in the face of so Yiwei superiority in conventional forces German de-1 sense minister Manfred i Woermer was quoted As say ing saturday. In an interview with the i Hamburg published welf am sonntag Woerner said i the Western military Alii-1 Ance cannot give up the op-1 lion of responding to a i Warsaw pact attack with i either nuclear or conventional weapons. He said that strategy i called he flexible re Woerner Sponic strategy would be called into question should the superpower agree to proposals discussed at their Iceland meeting including the possibility of Bann Ingell strategic ballistic missiles. None of the strategies of the past was valuable for Ever. That also applies to the present one Woermer was quoted As saying. But there s no alternative in sight that would Belte protect our Security. As Long As that is the Case we must not question it he said according to the news paper. We cannot completely reject nuclear weapons Woermer told Welt am sonntag. Well am sonntag is a sunday newspaper but it sent copies of the interview in Advance to news organizations in Germany on saturday. Woerner returned Tut week from a trip to the United slates during which he Mel with president Reagan vice president George Bush and defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger among others. I have resumed with the conviction that the Ameri cans understand that they must consider european Security interests while pursuing disarmament Woermer said that meant that the strategy of flexible response must be kept alive and that the close ties Between the . And Europe must be maintained he told the paper. India files $3.12 billion suit against firm in Bhopal disaster new Delhi India a the Indian govern ment sued Union Carbide corp. On saturday for $3.12 billion in damages from the Bhopal Gas leak that killed More than 2,000 people two Yean ago the United news of India Agency reported. The news Agency said the government filed a lawsuit in Bho Pii District court seeking damages in connection with the dec. 3, 1984, tour Gas Irak at a Union Carbide subsidiary s Uhopa pesticide Plant it was the world s worst Industrial Accident the government said claims of $3.12 billion were for damage to property and the environment and effects of exposure to the Methyl is Cyanate Gaa uni India claims it is the sole representative of he Bho pal us victims. In an earlier lawsuit against Union Carbide the government did not specify damage it sought in connection with the Accident. In Denbury conn., Union Carbide spokesman Kurt Mazu Roicy read a company statement that Laid the s3 billion amount is without foundation and totally inconsistent with the government of India s previous  the most recent lawsuit said about 2,500 people were killed and about 200,000 injured. The exact death toll is not known end official estimates have ranged from More than 2,000 to More than 3,000. The government action saturday a in response Toa lawsuit filed by the company nov. It in which Union Carbide partly blamed the Indian Tad Adhya Pravesh state governments for the leak. The Union Carbide lawsuit said Indian authorities should share liability since the pesticide Plant was designed according to their specifications and govern ment authorities permitted slum dwellers to Settle near the Plant Union Carbide owns 50.9 percent of Union Carbide India ltd., while Indian entities including Tome government agencies own 49,1 percent world  soviet War on alcoholism in merchant Fleet colled lax Moscow a authorities tit not join enough to combat drunkenness and Slack did Petife in the soviet merchant Fleet a group of prosecutors two accidents at Tea involving i Chipi this year have left at lout 400 people deader missing. Lart month soviet submarine caught fire in the mid Atlantic killing three crewmen. The tub liter tank while under Low fast report published in saturday s soviets tit Roquiya newspaper prosecutors from the Rumma Republic accused authorities of liking inadequate Steps to Hall violation of labor and technical Dit Cip Lijie instances of drunkenness and poor Quality boat repaid in the merchant Fleet estonian defectors reunited with daughter in Finland Helsinki Finland up the 3-year-Olddaughter of an estonian couple who defected to Sweden 28 months ago rejoined them in Helsinki the daughter was allowed to leave the soviet Union following Western pressure. Valdo Kand Pere and Leila Miller embraced their daughter Kaijia in the finnish capital when the defected while on an official visit with an estonian cultural delegation aug. A 1984. Since settling in Sweden the estonian ref gees had appealed to the soviets to Grant an Exil visa for i hair Only child who had been looked after by her maternal grandparent in the Eilo Uvan capital of Tallinn. Chinese astronomer links Accident rate to Moon peking a a chinese astronomer believes the phases of the Moon May affect the fre Quency of traffic accidents a newspaper reported Zhang Yuxiang of Ginsu province told a National scientific meeting in peking that each year has about 147 hazardous Days when the Moon is full new or in its first or last Quarter and the Day before and after each phase. Although the hazardous days1 account for40 percent of the year 60 percent of All traffic accidents occur then he said. The findings link ing the Moon to the Accident rate were published in the peking evening news Zhang also said 10 out of 13 serious train accidents in the world Between 1975 and 1986 occurred of hazardous Days he said changes in the Earth electromagnetic Field connected to phases of the Moon Anya Flient the Accident rate. 3 artworks by Picasso discovered in Spain Santiago. De composto Spain a heir doming the House of a pried who died recently in a Hamlet near this Northwestern Cit discovered three works by Spanish artist Pablo Pic. Ass stashed in a. Bade room a local paper reported saturday. The Voz de g alias paper said the family of the priest in the town of Priegue in Pon Levedra prov Ince found t painting from the Spanish Owler f Rose period a portrait of nil Cousin Maria Ruiz on Ramon Garalde authorized by the Pant Art critics association to Catalon Nicasso a works said there is no doubt of the artworks1 authentic Ity the paper said family Membri Aid they believe the priest Pur in Paris in i92o. The paper kid Mavalue of he works has not been determined. Anti inflation Price controls to be enacted by Brazil Rio de Janeiro Brazil Dpi a full will adopt t mice control policy similar to the one enforced in die United Sutt during world War a Aii Wrt at con Obin minister   after  of up to l20percecnoiobflei,. 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