European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday april 23, 1387 american accused As spy in Iran gets 10-year term Athens Fin eve Lull american Cili in John Pallis has been sentenced in 10 years in prison in Iran on charges of spying for the Central intelligence Agency. Inc official iranian new Agency Irna said wednesday. The news Agency said i Atlis was charged on seven Counis he is believed in he the first american Ever to he sen lanced for espionage in Iran. Irna said he entered Iran with a forged Ila Liun passport under the name of Giovanni Pallis after the 1979 revolution which brought spiritual Leader Aya Zollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Power. Paltis worked As an Engineer at a communications project Al Assad bad about 200 Miles Southwest of Tehran and was arrested on june 19, 1986, the news Agency said. He confessed to some of inc charges brought against him in a television interview about four months later the news Agency said. Paltis was charged with intelligence coordination with a Cia agent identified Only As Gerry Austin the news Agency said. It did not explain the term intelligence  other charges against him  gathering information on iranian communications Anil satellite Cen ters and spare parts needed for military communications systems and  pro ecu in Iran and transferring this  to the Cia. Jan also accused Liim of Collie Ling for the . Intelligence service information on iranian Oil held and Oil installations and the problems Iran faced in thew  Oiler charges included collecting information for inc Cia on the air do few s Stom Al the Assad bad communications Center and on the damage done to economic and Industrial centers in Iran by iraqi air attacks last year. He was charged with using a false identity and a forged passport to enter Iran Irna said. The news Agency did not say which if any of the charges were proved in the islamic court. Pauls arrest last year came about the time iraqi warplanes bombed Iran s satellite telecommunication Center Al Assad bad damaging dish antennas and Cul Ling off Iran s Telephone and telex links with the world. Bloody protest prisoners being transported to a Hospital in Vil Uriu Spain Slick their blvd Long Urnis out of the bus win Dows tuesday utter the bad Cut tit or a ins in jail a Prunest planned chunks in Pris world today passengers Safe after fire on Moscow subway train my is fowl Al a subway rain caught fire while approaching a tuition hut All passengers were evacuated without injury the Taw news Agency Ald. L a said tuesday Hal Paw engers in me last tar of hit train rang a hell that alerted the Driver in smoke it i hair car monday evening. The Driver alerted a Superior and lire fighting equipment was wailing at the Pavc Yelskaya station in Southeast Moscow when inc train pulled in. Taw Saiid dozens of it  Crews worked overnight 10 repair inc damage at the station after firemen extinguished the fire. The station was open Tor limited service Al 6 . Tuesday. The cause of the fire apparently has not yet he undetermined soviet dissident family of d to leave group says Frankfurt Jap Ovici dissident Anotoly Kryagin and his family have received permission to emigrate and will leave Moscow for Switzerland on Friday a Western human rights group said. The International association Tor human rights quoting dissident sources in Moscow said on tuesday the Kryagin family would Board a Jet for Zurich Switzerland Friday afternoon. Kryagin was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in i9hi for opposing the confinement of human rights activists in soviet psychiatric hospitals Kryagin also a psychiatrist was released from Pris on two months ago inc Frankfurt based International association for human rights said. Briton in Cyprus credited with saving girl s life Nicosia Cyprus a Quick thinking by Brit ish army Cpl. John Bailey foiled a machine gun attack on his land Rover and probably saved the life of a teen age girl passenger cypriot police and British Mili tary sources  was wounded slightly in his right leg and was discharged from a Hostila following monday s  passenger Linda Wilkinson 16, the daughter of a British army sergeant major was still hospitalized with Back wounds described As no  police sources on tuesday said Bailey 35, used his land Rover and a horse trailer he was towing As a shield during the attack. He swerved from Side to Side on a wide country Road As two masked gunmen in a car chased i n for More than a mile shooting All the time. Bailey told police he told Wilkinson to lie on the land cover s scat during the shooting which police said a probably saved her life. Minor chemical spill nto Rhine River reported Mainz. Germany up the slate government of Rhino land Pfalz tuesday reported a minor chemical spill in the Rhine River from the base Plant at Lud  stale environmental ministry said m3q pounds of the organic chemical feedstock Octan Dinitri accidentally flowed into Ilic Rhine monday while i was l eing unloaded at the chemical Plant from a rail Road Lank car. A base spokesman said the chemical. Used to make agricultural chemicals and pharmaceutical was biodegradable and would not Hurt the River s ecology. The ministry said downstream water purity testing stations selected no acute pollution after the spill. Tourists taking time to tiptoe through the tulips the Hague Netherlands a the tourist hordes have begun Ihei year by invasion of this Tulip strewn nation and the tourist Industry experts to recon. Or Tome of the business it Loit because of last year s terrorist and chernobyl scares. The Netherlands i in 7 Louiw season began unofficially during the Oliree Day Eilt Ivr weekend wish in estimatedbuo.ooq.65u.uou visitors from wait Ger Many France and Belgium. Dutrh tourist Hoard spokesman Rene Tirol Bertold the associated press tuesday. That a200,0111 More than came during la year s a stir Holiday and iou.oui1 Mure than expel Loti a urging la Brouwer. He believes the upsurge was due to the sunny Spring weather that sent the thermometer up to about 72 degrees fahrenheit. Over the weekend the Keuken Hof Gar Dens the nation s Best known Floral exhibit Drew an estimated 100,000 visitors on its own. The flowery Park outside the Hague ii a Ijiro Wolsic for dutch Honi Cul tur lists. The Multi Billon Dollar tourist Indus try is one of the Netherlands top earners and sufi Rcd major losses because of last year s Ler Ronsi incidents in Europe and the radiation Ware from the chernobyl nuclear put or Plant disaster in the Sot i i Ukraine. American tourists made up the largest group of san always last car. Wilhau thormities estimating Ilist 200,0l1 of 31, caused Only minor in in radiation in the nether lands