European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday february 23,1987 world today 7 aping Noldi Jean Marc Kun Willim left and Nathalie Monigon leaders of the French terrorist group direct action. Elite French police raid farm seize 4 most wanted terrorists Paris a an elite police unit a Cpl onto an isolated farm mar Orleans and without firing a shot arrested four of France s most wanted in Norm suspects seizing a stockpile farms explosives Money and incriminating documents the Interior ministry said sunday. Those reported arrested in the saturday night raid were Jean Marc Rou Iljan 34, and his companion Nathalie Monigon 29, whom officials identified As the group s longtime leaders. Also Arres cd were Jocylle a Ron 27, and Georges Cipriani. 35, police said. The pro Corn munis group has been blamed for dozens of ice Roris bombings and shootings Over the past eight ram including the assassination last year of Georges Esse president of he state run Renault automobile com Pany. A statement issued by the Interior ministry said he raid at the isolated farm culminated a Long investigation involving All police services. It said that the police sweep was carried out at 8 55 pm. Saturday and that the suspects offered no resistance. An important Stock of arms and explosives As Well As documents and sums of Money were seized the statement said. Several dozen men from the raid unit which stands for research assistance intervention Dis suasion arrested the four without firing a shot Al the outside Vilry Aux loges about 12 Miles from Orleans in North Central France. The four were armed but they did not use their Nap on police said. The suspects were expected to appear before a mag is Rule within four Days. Three of the four suspects were taken to judicial police Headquarters in Versailles in suburban Paris White a fourth was kept at the farm sunday while police continued their search of the premises in his pres ence As required by Law. Among the documents found were some dealing with the nov. 17 murder of Bosse. Direct action claimed responsibility for the killing just outside Bosse s Paris Home police said one of the six rooms at the farmhouse was specially prepared for holding a hostage police said. They added that several seized documents contained lists of people scheduled for kidnapping or killing. Officials said the raid was carried out based on information gathered by police intelligence. The farm was watched for some Lime. Al the beginning Only Rou Itlan and Monigon were seen. It was Only saturday night that Aubron and Cipriani joined their comrades police said. Both Rouilla and Monigon had been in custody but Rouilla was released in 1981 during an amnesty and Monigon was freed for health reasons. Photographs of Aubron and Monigon had been pos ted All Over France on nov. 19 by police who wanted them in connection with the Bess killing. Direct action is considered responsible for about 80 attacks since 1479. Most of the Early attacks involved bombing or shooting up Public buildings bul the group later turned to killing. On Jan. 2s 1985, Gen Rene audran the defense ministry official in charge of arms sales was shot to death. On Jan 15 of that year direct action said it had signed a common declaration with the German red army faction and announced the development of a communist guerrilla group in Western Europe to fight against nato and the Paris Bonn Axis soviets Honor Pasternak Chagall Moscow up the Kremlin has accepted Boris Pasternak author of the Nob prize winning doctor Zhivago Back into the official fold 27 years after his death. A soviet newspaper reported saturday the govern ment is restoring Pasternak s membership in the Union of writers and calling for the United nations to make 190 the year of in another sign of a cultural reawakening under so Viet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev the Sove Skaya Kultur soviet culture newspaper said the late exiled an is Marc Chagall would have a museum dedicated to his work in his native byelorussian and an exhibition in Moscow in july. C Chagall was a forerunner of the surrealist move ment his work was condemned in the soviet Union As counterrevolutionary and pro jewish Chagall died in 1985 Al the age of 96 in France where he exiled himself in the mid-1920s. His work has never been officially shown in the soviet Union even though it has been acclaimed worldwide. Chagall s works entered on jewish folklore. His two vast murals symbolically treating the origins of music and its Iru Imph were installed in the new York metro Politan opera House in 1966. On feb. 13, the soviet Union announced that next year it would publish doctor Zhivago Pasternak s epic about love and suffering in Post revolutionary Russia. It would be the first time the Book was printed inside the country. The novel which was smuggled out of the soviet Union and published in the West earned Pasternak the 1958 Nobel prize for literature. Bui it also earned him harsh condemnations from the Kremlin for its unfavourable depiction of the confusion surrounding the comr Nuniss revolution in 1917. Pasternak died in 1960 in virtual obscurity. His Book was made into a highly successful movie marring Omar Sharif As Zhivago and Julie Christie As his mistress Lara. 28 people drown in River As chinese ferryboat sinks peking up an overcrowded ferryboat Sank in a River in Eastern China killing 28 peo ple the China Legal news reported saturday. The newspaper said 56 people were on Board the vessel when it capsized Jan. 22 on the la gang River about 600 Miles South of peking. Seventeen woman and 11 men on Beard were drowned the report said. The remaining 28 Pas sengers were rescued by passing boats. The newspaper said the Accident occurred be cause the boat designed to carry Only 22 people was overloaded with passengers and goods. The owner of the vessel has been arrested Bonk to seek prosecution of embezzlement suspect Tokyo up the Mitsubishi Bank said it has not prosecuted a former executive charged with embezzlement in California because he promised to return the Money but the Bank now plans to take action against him in Tokyo. Hirotsugu Mizuno 44. Was charged in los Angeles with embezzling $45 million from Mitsubishi Bank of California to play the Stock mar Ket and Coyer race track debts and covering it up by creating nearly $ i billion in phony Loans. Mizuno a former senior vice president of the California subsidiary returned to Japan and was fired by the Bank after its Tokyo Parent company became aware of the irregularities. Colombian is candidate to be director of Fao Rome a the colombian government has announced it will present Gonzalo Bula Hoyos its ambassador to the . Food and agriculture organization As a candidate for director general of the . Agency the Post is currently held by edouard Saouma a lebanese. It has not been officially announced whether he will be a seeking a third term As director general. A spokesman Lor the fax s information division said Only that the candidate or candidates will be known in the first week of the elections by Fao member Stales will to held in november the 57-Ycarold Bula Hoyos has worked Wilh Colombia s diplomatic representation to the Fao since 1959 and was named As his country s first ambassador to the Agency in 1979, thousands of tired toads May take to the tunnels London a tunnels Are being built under a main raid West of London to give thou Sands of toads a Safe passage during their annual journey to reach Ponds where they mate and spawn. The Fauna and Flora Prestr valid society said sunday it is working Wilh a Concrete manufacturer to build the tunnels near a Cilcy on thames in a pioneering 1,000-Pound $1.500 plan to Stop the mass Slaughter of loads by traffic. If the toads use the tunnels the idea will be copied at other Toad risk Sites in Britain said a statement from the society which is based at London society already coordinates the National help a Toad across the Road Campaign which erects warning signs at nearly 200 Sites across the country where toads Migrate to Breeding grounds. Japanese area s tremors doubled from 86 period Tokyo a the number of earthquakes thai have occurred in an area Northeast of Tokyo this year is double the number for the same period last year a japanese newspaper reported sat urday. The 567 tremors in the Region recorded by noon Friday compared with 237 in the first seven weeks of 1986, the nationally circulated Asahi Shimun said. The paper said it obtained the figures from the Central meteorological Agency s Branch in Sendai in Northeast Japan s Miyagi prefecture. The number of quakes that could be Felt by most people stood Al 50 three times the figure for the same period last year the report said
