European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday february 17, 1967 news updates students return Madrid Spain a the majority of Spain s High school Stu dents resumed to classes monday after More than two months of Mas Sive nationwide demonstrations Call ing Tor education reforms. The students want the immediate abolition of University Entrance examinations a minimum wage for students and investments of up to $750 million to upgrade and construct Public schools and create More scholarships. The education ministry said most of the 2,1 million High school students were Back in school Mon Day. 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A 0 3d 00 s s7 .11 44 � to to a Olaof Fri a roof Uny Laoj no t american girl injured when to explodes Frankfurt an american de pendent in Frankfurt was injured Sun Day morning when the family television set exploded and caught fire a spokes Man at Gibbs housing area said Mon Day. Community officials had no details of the mishap on monday. However the Frankfurter Allie mine newspaper re ported in ill monday editions that a i year old girl suffered first and second degree Burns on her face id arms in the 11 35 . Explosion. She was taken by German ambulance to the army Hospital in Frankfurt the paper said. According to staff sgt. Samuel Wilder who serves As housing area assistant mayor neighbors managed to throw the burning television out of the window keeping the tire from spreading. Sex Bonn officials convicted fined in flick scandal trial Bonn a a court monday found to former economics ministers Otlo lambs Torff and Hans frit Crich guilty of tax evasion capping Germany s biggest and longest running political scandal. Lambs Arff a top ranking member of the free democratic party was fined s 100,000 for his role in the flick corporate payoffs scandal. The three judge panel of the slate Superior court in Bonn headed by chief judge Hans Henning Buckholz  $35,000. Eberhard von Brauchitsch a former manager of the giant flick holding com Pany also was convicted of tax evasion he a i fined $305,555 and was Given a suspended two year prison sentence. The trial was the most important to arise from the so called Hick affair involving allegations of influence peddling by what was the country s largest privately owned Industrial concern. In 1995, the stick Empire was sold to Deutsche Bank. The conviction could Cloud political comeback plans by Lamsdorff economics minister from 1977to 1984, his business oriented free democrats arc the Junior party in he government of conservative Christian democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl. In Reading the Verdi the chief judge said it was not proved hat Lamsdorff or Fridrichs accepted bribes or were involved in corruption but that they favored flick in tax decisions. Lamb Dorit and i two co defendants had been on trial for corruption and lax evasion for 17 months. All pleaded inno cent. There was no immediate word on whether they planned to Appeal. Lamb Dorit 60, resigned As economics minister in june 1984 after he was charged in the scandal. Prosecutors said Lamsdorff Ai party treasurer and Frider Clu As chairman of docs incr Bank helped flick and other Campaign contributors Dodge taxes by laundering donations that exceeded the maximum on which a deductions can be claimed they were not accused of keeping the Money themselves prosecutors said Lamsdorff helped numerous companies avoid about $720,000 in taxes on political contributions by setting up elaborate Money land Cong schemes. Lamb Dorit said he did not believe the arrangements were illegal under Ger Many s complicated political donations Laws at the time. In addition both men originally were charged with corruption for allegedly accepting bribes from Brau Chilson in Exchange for allowing flick $444 million in tax Breaks on the 1975 sate of itt 29 per cent stake in the Daimler Benz Auto Mobile company. Prosecutors never accused Lamsdorff and Fridrichs of keeping any of the bribe Money saying they passed it along to the free democrats. The court in Eft feet cleared the defendants of the corruption charges last summer saying the prosecution had not proved them. Prosecutors charged Brauchitsch avoided taxes for flick through pay ments made to the free democrats throughout most of the 1970s. White House denies special group was involved in ran Confra scandal Washington up the White House monday denied a special organization called project democracy which was first proposed by president Reagan was involved in the Covert Iran aryans Contra Aid scheme. I Don l think that the things that Oltie North might have done have a damned thing to do with project democracy said the while House official who asked not 10 be identified. Marine it. Col Oliver North a National Security Council staff member was fired following allegations that funds from he secret Sale of weapons to Iran were diverted to the nicaraguan rebels or contras project democracy reportedly the pre cursor of the National endowment for democracy was established in 1982 to give Federal Money and other assistance to democratic institutions worldwide. Published reports said North operated an array of Covert programs abroad that he referred to As his project America. There s no connection Between the current endowment and the Iran Contr operations Carl Gershman president of the endowment lord United press ulema tonal sunday we Are a non profit Pri vate institution and have nothing to do with what was discussed in the new York  the times sunday said a Covert Side existed in the project and it gradually evolved into a nearly Independent foreign policy Branch Complete with its pwn leased ships and air planes communication sys tems Bank accounts and secret envoy. That new York times Troty hat Noth ing in it said the White Home official adding thai nothing hat Oaks May Nave referred to As project democracy bad any thing to do with he program. There is no substance to he Story the official said project democracy went out of business when the National endowment for democracy was set up the White House official said american sought in 3 stabbings Bidav Walczak staff writer Frankfurt German police Are searching for a deranged and dangerous american Man in connection with the sub Bing of two German women feb. 8 in Frankfurt and another in Mainz last octo Ber. The Man described As Between 25 and 30 years old with Short Blond hair at tacked the two women just after mid night feb. 8 without warning As they were sitting in a subway station in therbor Ahern Section of the City police said. Wielding a Sis Inch Long Inife the at Tacker Slabbed one woman in he fac and left Side and the other above the ear. One woman broke away and managed to reach an Croe Seney to while the other fought Back. Police arrived minutes later but the attacker escaped. Both women were taken to a local hos Pilai and have been released. A German Man who lives nearby re ported a Man fining the police description threatened him minutes before the subway attack. But the knife wielder backed off when he discovered the Long haired German was a Man police said. Peter Rossmar the detective investigating the Case Laid he Man s description of the suspect matched that Given bythe two women. He said All three wit Nesses described the Man As wearing an earring in the form of a Confederate Flagin his right ear. Rossmar said both the German Roan and one of the women heard the suspect speak English with an american  said they have no evidence however that the suspect is in the military. The Aback in Mainz took place in parking garage where the attacker dubbed the woman As she was my acting her  knife wedged in be woman Back. Police said the woman a Lucky to be alive by is no longer hospitalized. Rossmar said police have not released composite sketch of he suspect As yet German police ask anyone having in formation about the suspect to Calth Frankfurt office of the criminal investigation come at 069-1565137, or the German police at 069-7554179. Demjan Juk goes on trial in Jerusalem Jerusalem a former , autoworkers Ohn Demjan ulc went on rial monday on chains he was the guard Ivan the terrible at a nazi death Camp and participated in he Tor lure and lulling of 850,000 jews during world War , who says be is innocent entered the courtroom smiling and waving minutes before the three judge panel took the Bench. He embraced his Ameri can attorney Mark o Connor an kissed hit son John jr., 21, several times. The trial is being held in a converted movie beater to accommodate hundreds of Spectator. The proceedings were broadcast live on Israel s major radio station and were videotaped for later use in israeli classrooms a 26-Page indictment charges dem Manjuk 66, with brutalizing victims be fore turning on the Gas chamber engines at the Treblinka death Camp in nazi occupied Poland in 1942 and 1943. He u accused of crime against in jewish people crimes against humanity War crimes and crime against persecuted  Demjan Juk pleaded not guilty when his trial began nov. 26 and contended hews a victim of mistaken identity. The trial was recessed the same Day to give the defense time to prepare its Case