European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday december 29,1986 world today espionage suspect Mordochai Sanunu last week displays a message for the press written on his Palm espionage suspect in Israel pleads innocent As trial opens Jerusalem up a former nuclear worker who allegedly spilled Israel s atom bomb secrets went on trial sunday pleading innocent to charges of trea son and espionage at a lightly guarded court session. Mar Duchai Sanunu 31, was kept out of sight of some 60 reporters at Jerusalem District court where his trial opened with the state s charges being formally read to him he denied All the facts in the charge Sheet said Sanunu s lawyer Amnon Zich Roni after the two hour closed session. A Date was Sci for the next stage of the trial but i am not allowed to Tell you when that  stale prosecutor Uzi Hassan and Zich Roni both said Sanunu was charged with treason and aggravated espionage. If convicted he could face life imprisonment because the state did not request the death Penally. Sanunu was brought to court in a police Van with while painted windows and he was escorted by another Van and two pol ice jeeps. Legal sources said inc trial would continue in about six weeks. Paramilitary Border police and plainclothes officers armed with sub machine guns kept journalists out of the court and away from the Convoy. Zic Hrani said his client was handcuffed apparently to Stop him from passing messages on to reporters As he did at a hearing in Jerusalem a week ago when Sanunu wrote on his Palm and held it up to pm Bologra Phars. Sudanese Banks complain of government harassment Khartoum. Sudan up private Banks in Sudan Are working in a state of terror and internal chaos because of government harassment of their senior executives the Banks alleged sunday. In a Stai Emend issued in Khartoum both private Bank employers and the main Union representing the staffs in All local and foreign Banks in the private Sec Tor said government treatment of executives had reached the level of defamation and created a state of internal  the two organizations were referring to a com Mitch of investigation set up by the attorney general last year to look into Bank dealings after allegations that they set up transactions harmful to the National  the question of what was written on his Palm did not come up said Zich Roni who is banned by Israel National Security Laws from revealing details of the charges. He is held in regular and Normal Condi  Sanunu a former israeli nuclear technician Dis appeared in London five Days before the sunday times newspaper named him As its main source in an ocl. S article that said Israel secretly has built up the world s sixth largest nuclear Arsenal Over the past 20 years. The question of Israel s a nuclear capacity will not arise in the trial As israeli Law maintains that someone can be guilty of treason or espionage even if the information involved was either misleading or wrong in his last court appearance Sanunu indicated to reporters that he was kidnapped by members of the israeli secret service Mossad in Rome after arriving from London on sept. 30. He was then spirited Back to Israel. His revelations prompted Italy to open an investigation into the disappearance and demand that Israel clarify whether he was in fact kidnapped. Is Rael already has assured London thai no British Laws we re broken. The israeli government responding to repeated in quiries about Sanunu s whereabouts announced nov. 9 that he was in israeli custody and had left Britain of his own  in did not say How he got to Israel. Last month israeli and British newspapers reported that a blonde american woman named Cindy had lured Sanunu away from London and turned him Over to presumed Mossad colleagues. There has been Little Public sympathy in Israel for Sanunu who has been widely depicted As a traitor and an opportunist. Sanunu who was born in Morocco had worked for 10 years at the dimona nuclear research Center in Israel s Negev desert before being Laid off in a Cost cutting measure in november 1985. In its ocl. 5 article the sunday times said Sanunu provided details and photographs to show that Israel has built Between 100 and 200 atomic warheads in a secret underground factory at dimona. As a master of longstanding israeli policy the government refuses to con firm or deny such reports. Sanunu was reported to have negotiated a Book contract with the sunday times with a fee in the neighbourhood of six figures. His first instalment reportedly was waiting to be picked up when he disappeared. Names of 3 gis killed in copter crash released Seoul South Korea a a . Military spokesman has released the names of three sol Diers killed when two . Army helicopters collided during nighttime Maneu vers South of Seoul. Spokesman Billy Fullerton identified them As Pilot chief warrant officer Leslie r. Carlson 37 of Dumfries a. Pilot warrant officer Vic Tor u fit Gerald 35. Of Colorado Springs Colo. And Crew chief e-3 Jeffrey a. We get. 22. Of Oklahoma City Otla. Three Oiler Crew members suffered minor in juries in the collision last week of two uh-60hlackhawk helicopters from the 201st aviation co. At Camp Humphreys about 43 Miles South of Seoul. The crash occurred near the army unit. Groups urge continuing human rights trials Paris a eleven european human rights groups have called on Argentine president Raul Alfonsin and Argentine parliamentarians to withdraw a Hill pending before parliament thai puts an end to trials against Security officials accused of human rights crimes. We can Only interpret the gesture of the president As a desire of bring to an end the search for the guilty said a statement by the groups saturday. The Appeal was launched by the French groups Christian action for the abolition of torture the association of parents and friends of French people missing or detained in Argen Tina the ecumenical in raid service and the commission of Solidarity of the parents of prisoners missing and killed in Argentina. In was supported by seven other groups. Thousands of argentinians fled to France Dur ing the years of military Rule in the 1970s, pastor declares painting 356-year-old Van Uycic Brussels a a Brussels pastor has unveiled what he claims is a 356-year-old paint ing by the flemish master Anthony Van Dyck that he discovered last year in the attic of his rectory. Where the painting comes from i Haven t a clue the Brussels newspaper met Laatsc Nicus quoted pastor Alois Lindemans As say ing. It came rolled up As part of the Church s belongings when inc old Church moved to its new building in 19j8. In is not even listed on the Register of Art works of the City of  Lindemans who found inc painting in the rectory attic in St. Agalha Berchem one of 19 suburbs in greater Brussels had it restored in secret by an Art historian Friend and presented Illo his congregation during a mass. It measures nearly 10 feel by 6 i feet and shows Joseph Mary and baby Jesus under a tree with Angels nearby. Rioting spurs crackdown in soviet asian area Moscow up the new Leader of Kazakhstan saturday Laid Down stringent Mea sures against crime drug abuse and alcoholism and the kazakh supreme court has called on local courts to crack Down on adults Selling Alco hol and drugs to minors in continuing fallout from riots that rocked the Republic 10 Days ago. The crackdown in the Central asian area came after the Tass news Agency reported thai students incited by nationalist Fervour rioted in the District s capital. Alma Ala dec. 17-18. Torching government food stores and Auto mobiles. The report the first of civil unrest in the Republic said the students were joined by hundreds of parasites and  the Tass news Agency said Gennady Kolbin. A russian appointed to replace a Long time kazakh Leader presided Over a meeting that Drew up a plan to Root out negative Phenomena and restore Law and order to the Republic As soon As possible