European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday december 21, 1986 the stars and stripes a candid camera an Man is shown holding up a Bank in Florida South Africa wednesday. He was arrested Early thursday after robbing three Banks we Lhnn Fin hour. He was caught alter film of the robbery was televised. Is Page Italy will probe Dean rugs Between . Envoy Libya Rome a Premier Buttino Praxi has ordered Italy s secret services to investigate dealings Between Libya and a Farmer . Envoy to the Vatican the newspaper la Siam a reported Friday. Italian newspapers reported Robert Mcfarlane and William Clark both former National Security advisers to president Reagan authorized former ambassador William a. Wilson to pursue High level contacts with Libya. The state department described As unauthorized a meeting held last year in Libya Between Wilson and col. Moa mar Qadhafi Leader of that North african Arab nation. La Siam a a newspaper based in Turin Friday quoted Praxi As saying i have asked for a report Anai await an answer from italian secret services on Wil son and Libya the reason for the reported inquiry was not Clear. No one was immediately available in Praxi s office to comment on the la Siam a report. Libya s ambassador to Italy Abdel Rahman Shal Gram said he had no direct information Aboul the matter but believed Wilson went to Libya two or three times. Disclosures in january that Wilson met Qadhafi embarrassed the administration which had barred travel by . Citizens to Libya the United states accused Libya of backing terrorist attacks at airports in Rome and in Vienna Austria on dec. 27.1985. Secretary of slate George p. Shutlz told reporters in March the meeting was unauthorized. Rome s la Republica earlier this week quoted an Tonio Badini diplomatic counsel to Praxi As saying he discussed the .-Libya Issue with then National Secu Rity adviser vice adm. John Poindexter at the Tokyo Summit of Western leaders in May. Poindexter resigned last month after revel unions fan operation within the National Security Council in which arms were sold to Iran and some profits were diverted to nicaraguan rebels. La Republica said Poindexter told Badini it we an error committed when Clark was in my place. So Wilson was authorized to Contact the libyans. It involved an idea born among american businessmen who thought it might be possible to influence Qadhafi through business deals. In Washington Friday White House spokesman Larry Speakes said we Haven t been Able to find anybody Here who was aware of Poindexter telling Wilson to go to Libya in response to a question Speakes also said Reagan did not authorize Wilson s trip. La Siam a on thursday quoted foreign minister Giulio Andreotti As saying that in november 1985, Wilson formally asked him to obtain an appointment in Tripoli Libya for Wilson. Andreotti was further quoted As saying he never thought the request was a personal initiative by Wilson but rather a gesture by the . Government. La Republica quoted unidentified sources this week As saying Mcfarlane and Clark gave Wilson the go ahead to initiate contacts with Libya. The newspaper said that in december 1985, Mcfarlane told Wilson to end the contacts with Libya be cause they were not Wilson resigned in May As ambassador to the vat ican. Army will Send 250 engineers to train 3 months in costo Rica by Norman Black a military writer Washington the army is about to deploy roughly 250 engineers toccata Rica for three months for a training exercise that will involve the construction of seven Bridges the Pentagon said thursday. The exercise will be conducted in cooperation with the Cosla rican ministry of Public works and transportation and will get under Way in mid january the Pentagon said. The work will be performed in southwestern Costa Rica near the Pacific coast town of que pos far from the nicaraguan Border the Pentagon said. The United slates has been conducting military exercises in Central America for several years As Parton tin administration Effort to underscore . Opposition to the leftist sandinista government in Nicaragua. The upcoming exercise in Costa Rica however has As its main purpose providing the Costa Picans a coastal Highway that can be used year round the Pentagon said. Completion of this Bridge project will provide valuable training and assure Costa Rica of year around Overland Access to towns in the area ,1 the Pentagon said. Costa Rica now relies on the pan american High Way for Access to the Southern part of the country but that Road is subject to landslides because of Rains and earthquakes in the area the Pentagon said. When this Highway is closed the Only Overland Access to Southern Costa Rica a a secondary Road along the Pacific coast the Pentagon said. During the Rainy season this Road is often impassable Between Donimica and save Gre because of High Waters in the Palillo Nuevo and portion the government of Costa Rica has decided 19 spend almost $1 million on the lumber and materials for Bridges and invited . Army engineers to assist in the work the Pentagon said. Cocaine found in dog Box gifts at Rome Airport Rome up Airport guards found 33 pounds of cocaine shipped from car acas Venezuela in a dog Box and in packages of Christmas toys addressed to an orphanage authorities said Friday. Police arrested three suspects including agents of a shipping company who arrived to collect the dog Box containing a full grown great Dane. In was the second time in a week that cocaine arrived at Leonardo a Vinci air port from latin America in a dog Box. Authorities said they found More than 13 pounds of the narcotic in the Box of a German Shepherd shipped last week from Buenos Aires Argentina. They an tried an Argentine woman named Rosa Blanca a Bregu. The Doe Box in which the great Dane travelled from Caracas contained More than 23 pounds in a false Bottom authorities said a Check of unclaimed cargo shipped from Caracas turned up another 10 pounds of cocaine in packages of toys including a skateboard that arrived a week ago. The shipping Label said it was sent via the world shipping co. From the Parish of our lady of Corocolo in Caracas to the orphanage of St. Joseph in Rome but the orphanage knew nothing of the supposed gift authorities said. Police arrested Pietro Belziti. 39, and Francesco Condemi 43, who an employee of the shipping company. A search of their quarters produced paper that led to Carlo Samoni 38. Builder who allegedly ran the Rome end of the cocaine snug Glide operation in Sansoni a apartment Sulho Ritie said they found Scales and envelopes for packaging the cocaine and instructions for turning it into greek sanitation workers end 1 Day walkout Athens Greece a More than 20,000 Sanita Tion workers resumed to work Friday ending an 1i Day strike that left thousands of tons of garbage piled up around the country. We consider that most of our demands have been met and a majority of the Union considered it besi to end the strike a spokesman for the Union represent ing the sanitation workers said. He said it would take at least 10 Days to clean up the trash that accumulated on the streets in Greece s major cities since the strike began on dec. 8. According to the spokesman the government pledged to meet most of the sanitation workers demands and release 29 men jailed on charges of disobeying a Back to work order. If tried and convicted the workers. Can face prison terms of up to 10 years for defying the order issued tuesday by Premier Andreas Papandreou. Most of the men were arrested wednesday when More than 200 sanitation workers dashed with police outside a garbage dump on the Northern outskirts of the capital. The nation s 15,000 garbage collectors. 10,000 Street cleaners Park employees and Road maintenance Crews were seeking a 20 percent wage increase improved pension benefits and assurances that 11,500 pan time workers would not be Laid off
