European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday March 6.1967 israeli attache refused credentials by Canada Ottawa a Canada refused wednesday to accredit an israeli Diplomat who was cited for breach of duty for railing 1o prevent the 1982 massacres at the Sabre and shatilla refugee Camps in Lebanon officials said. Gen. Amos Varan had been nominated to serve As non resident israeli military attache in Ottawa a Posi Tion that requires approval by the Host country Yaron has been military attache at the israeli embassy i Washington since list August. A foreign affairs ministry official said in was the first Lime in More than five years Canada has refused to accredit a proposed Diplomat. The official who commented on condition of anonymity declined to give specifics of the earlier Case other than to say it involved a proposed ambassador. Canadian officials refused accreditation for Yaron 47, during a meeting with representatives at the israeli embassy in Ottawa said Raj Canna Dodd a spokeswoman for Canada s foreign office. Foreign Secretary Joe Clark said refusal of accreditation is not done very often but it was done in he said israeli officials were informed it would not be appropriate thai Gen. Varon be accredited to nothing would be served by going into the Back ground of he decision Clark said. The israeli embassy in Ottawa has no resident Mili tary attache whose duties Art usually handled by the attache in Washington. Yaron was expected to continue his duties in the United states. Israeli officials in Canada and in Israel withheld comment on Yaron s rejection pending further study of he matter. Clark told reporters he did not expect the Case to affect relations Between the two countries. Dodd also would not say Why the application was turned Down. You can draw your own conclusions she said. The massacres occurred sept 16-18, 1982, in Bei rut Lebanon while invading israeli troops us rounded the palestinian refugee Camps. More than 700 men women and children were killed by lebanese Mili Tiamen Allied with Israel. An israeli commission investigating the massacres blamed eight leading israeli figures for letting the Mili Tiamen enter the Camps and Tor failing to heed initial reports of a massacre Yaron was in command of the troops encircling the Camp the commission said by virtue of his failings and his actions Brig. Gen Yaron committed a breach of the duties incumbent upon him by virtue of his he was banned from holding a Field command for three years. The inquiry s report led to the resignation of Israel s armed forces chief Gen. Artel Sharon and to reprimands to several High ranking officers. Runoff from the Rhine an armoured Bonn police car splashes Abend on patrol Down a flooded Street in front of be German App Hen l thursday. High Waters from he Rhine River covered Many roads blocking them to traffic. World today teacher in China loses Job after having 6th child Beijing a an elementary school teacher inthe Eastern province of a Hui was dismissed from her Posi for violating China s family planning policy by giving birth to a sixth child an official newspaper said. The newspaper. China women s news said the teacher Han Shiying told her husband Xie Xhu Ahi Early last year that she had gotten pregnant they decided they could afford to have another child although they already had five children the paper said. She remained in her Home until the end of october when the child was bom. Late at night on nov. 2, the husband put the baby under a Bridge near the Village Entrance when some villagers passed by he cried out in sur prise that he had found an abandoned child. The truth was revealed after some suspicious Villag ers wrote a idler to the Village mayor prompting an investigation. French gang attempts theft of Bank s automatic Teller Pontois France a a gang stole an Auto Matic Teller from a Village Bank carry thursday by smashing Down the Wall with a stolen earthmover an hauling out the Cash dispensing machine Bui they lost it in a film style escape from police in which the earthmover sideswiped a police car sending it into safety barriers. The violent Man Euver tipped the Cash machine out of the earthmover s bucket the Driver abandoning his Carthin Over escaped in a stolen car driven by other gang members police said. The police who Hud been alerted by Bank alarms and Calls from villagers recovered the Cash machine still full of franc notes and took in Back to the Bank in marines 25 Miles West of Para. Customs officials in India seize 111 pounds of Gold Bombay India a customs officials seized111 pounds of Gold from a filipino couple and an american woman thursday and claimed in was the single largest Airport Gold haul in India s history. The officials later recovered an additional 22 pounds of Gold from a hotel room taken by the Hus band of the american woman. The total haul would be Worth about $792,000 at current three were identified As Alfanso a Maturgo and his wife Maria of the Philippines and their Cousin Aurora my tar a naturalized . Citizen. They had concealed the Gold in tailor made jackets. The three told interrogators they were 10 deliver the Gold to my Jar s husband Andre Misiarz a 35-year old . Citizen of polish origin the customs official said. Police raided mid Lurz s hotel in the City and recovered 85 Gold pieces and foreign currency Worth $200,000. Poland expects 22 nations to observe War games Warsaw Poland up Poland said wednes Day it is expecting observers from 22 nations to watch its first major military Maneu vers in the Northwest of the country Gen. Leslaw Wojtasik told a news conference to March 9-13 Maneu vers code named Opal-87 will be of a defensive evidence recovered in raid links terrorist groups Karlsruhe Germany a weapons and explosives seized in a feb. 21 French police raid prove German and French leftist terrorists have cooperated on a logistical level German sources said wednesday. But no evidence has yet been found to Back a Magazine report the French terrorist group direct action planned 1o Kidnap former German Chancellor Willy Brandt during his easter holidays in Southern France this year. Four lop suspected members of direct action were seized in the feb. 21 raid Ona French farmhouse. German Federal police officials trav eled to France right after the raid to Check the seized evidence for clues to the whereabouts or activities of red army faction terrorists. Among the items found in the isolated farmhouse near Orleans France were to revolvers and a pistol that were Token in a robbery of a weapons store in Mixdorf Germany in november 1984, German Security sources said As we know the red army faction was behind the robbery we assume they supplied these weapons to direct action one Security source old the associated press he spoke on condition that he not be named. French authorities also discovered15 cartridges of explosives taken in a theft of More than i too pounds of dynamite from a Quarry in Belgium in june 19s4. Sources said some of the explosive materials stolen from the Quarry turned up in a failed attempt to Bomba nato officers raining school in Oberammergau Germany in Decem Ber 1984. German police had blamed the red army faction for the attempted attack. Also seized in the farmhouse raid were a German personal identity card and Agerman Driver s License. The cooperation Between the Raf red army faction and direct action was precise and occurred essentially on the logistical level said one Security prosecutor s office spokesman Alexander Prechtel said German authorities asked French police about the Munich based Quick Magazine s report that direct action had planned to Kidnap assured us they had found nothing of the kind Prechtel said. But he stressed French police still had not sifted through All the sacks of material confiscated at the farm red army faction and direct a lion jointly claimed responsibility for the aug. A f98i, bombing of Rhet Mlin Afi near Fin Kim that killed two people and injured 20
