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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday May is 1987  begin exercises in Bolivia la Ijaz Bolivia Dpi about 300 . Troops have begun military exercises with bolivian soldiers amid left Wing charges that the Maneu vers constitute  in he South american nation s affairs. The . Troops four helicopters and a Squadron of Light fighter planes Are Tak ing part in count in insurgency training and other exercises through my 25, said . Embassy spokesman Mark Jacobs a group of 17 left Wing political and Union leaders circulated a statement say ing the joint exercises which began monday demonstrated the Reagan administration s humiliating paternalism toward Bolivia. The statement called the Maneu vers an open imperialist intervention in Bolivia designed by the White House id place troops in South America. Jacobs said the Maneu vers Are strictly for military training. I Coutv just Point out thai Bolivia s Congress readily gave the executive Branch permission to hold these Maneu vers which would suggest that the parliamentary majority sees the Maneu vers As being of Benefit he said. The join exercises Are based in a sparsely populated Sam tropical Region near Bolivia s Northwest Frontier with Peru. An army base at san Buenaventura j6t Miles North of inc capital of la a is the Headquarters. Jacobs meanwhile denied reports that the . Forces would join in narcotics raids with the 1,000 bolivian troops taking part in inc Maneu vers. Land locked Bolivia is the world s Sec Ond biggest coca grower after neighbor ing Peru. Coca is used in making co Caine. Last july president Reagan sent 170 . Troops and sin assault helicopters to Bolivia for four months of unprecedented narcotics raids. Authorities said the raids netted 21 cocaine processing laboratories and disrupted the narcotics Industry. An outcry from the drug raids height ened Domestic political problems for Victor Paz Estensoro 79, an elected Center right president who is one of the United states strongest allies in South America. Maj. Gen. Bernard to effete of the is. Southern come based in Panama will direct the . Troops Jacobs said. Freighter aflame firefighters Buttle a Blue aboard a tired freighter tuesday in Hamburg Sharbor. After three hours the fire was under control. One of the 300 persons fighting the flumes was slightly injured. Soviet court sentences 2 nazis i i f. O. Ivorian a Nearen Rani to Dean for War crimes Tass says moms As favorite things world today Frenchman Dies survived 181/2 years after transplant Marseille France a Emmanuel Vitria who set a world record by living 8k years with a transplanted heart died Early monday of heart and respiratory problems doctors said. He was 67. Vitria died at 5 . In Salvador Hospital sur rounded by his family said his doctor Jean Ricoul Monties. We have lost a Friend and friends Are rare Mon ties said in a Telephone interview. Monties was part of the team that performed tha heart transplant on nov. 27, i96b, giving Vitria the bean of Pierre Ponson a 20-year-old Sailor killed in an Accident. Or. Edmond Henry who headed the trans Plant team since has died of a heart attack Vitria entered Salvator Hospital on april 27 suffer ing from respiratory problems Japan s imports of goods hit record level in 86 Tokyo up fuelled by he yen s Sharp appreciation and Low crude Oil prices Japan s imports of manufactured goods soared to a record High in 1986, a govern ment financed Trade organization reported tuesday. Particularly notable was a rapid increase in imports from the european economic Community particularly Germany and Britain and from what Are known As the asian newly industrializing countries which include South Korea Taiwan and Hong Kong it said. The Japan external Trade organization Jaid imports of manufactured goods in 19b6 hit an All Lime High of $52.8 billion up 31.4 percent Over the preceding year although total imports were Down 2.4 percent Al 126.4 billion. S. Korean Childre rank Moscow up1 a soviet court in the Republic of byelorussian has sentenced two nazi War criminals to death for wartime atrocities including the killing of soviet jews and the burning alive of innocent villagers the official toss news Agency said tuesday. The sentencing bring to at least 21 the number of former nazis sentenced to death for War crimes by soviet courts since 1979. Diplomats assume that most of the death sentences handed Down in the past eight years have been carried out by a firing squad. Tass identified the condemned former henchmen of the nazis Only As borscht Havsky and Voiovich who served from september 1943 in the 5th company of the 13th battalion of the nazi occupation army of the East which had its Headquarters in the byelorussian capital of Minsk. Both of the condemned were soviet citizens who joined the nazi occupation forces the news Agency said. Tass did not say when the two were arrested. The open trial which ended monday took place in the City of Vitebsk. Tass said the pair had participated in the gassing of at least 100,000 jews who had been taken to Minsk from All Over the soviet Union Poland Austria and Czechoslovakia. Other charges included Riding around Minsk in Mobil Gas Chambers and dumping half dead prisoners on the streets where they were stripped and shot in the head at Point Blank Range. Borshchevsky and Kotc Ich actively participated in these massacres. They also Sho Down Minsk prison inmates on orders of the nazis and Burnt exhumed corpses. The traitors participated in burning alive Resi dents of the byelorussian Village of Tols Cha Tass said. The two former henchmen of the nazis were sentenced to death by an open court session in the City of Vitebsk Tass said. The soviet Union does no recognize a statute of limitations for War crimes and in the past eight years has sentenced at least 11 nazi War criminals most of them former soviet citizens who joined the nazi occupation forces and served As Camp guards and police during the occupation. Last month after a 25-year Batik the United states deported to the soviet Union convicted War criminal Karl Linnas the Butcher of  Linnas was sentenced to death in absent a for War crimes committed As a prison Camp guard in Estonia. Linnas stripped of his . Citizenship by a . Court is planning an Appeal against the sentence. Soviet officials have hinted that a new trial my take place following the collection of new evidence of his crimes. Another War criminal who was stripped of his . Citizenship in 1984 and deported to the soviet Union Fyodor Federenko was convicted of War crimes and  to death june 19, 1986, by a ukrainian court. His final Appeal for a Pardon is pending in the supreme soviet the country parliament. The last former nazi sentenced to death by a soviet court was Vasity Tarakanov a soviet citizen who joined with the nazis after his capture. His sentence was handed Down in March. The soviet Media frequently has accused the United Stales of hiding former a is and has demanded the extradition of scores of suspected War criminals not Only from the United states but from the Netherlands Canada and Britain As Well. Seoul South Korea a South korean Chil Dren ranked their mothers no. 1 on a list of their 10 favorite things but put their fathers no 3, behind a serving of beef. The Korea times tuesday said those were the re sults of a recent insurance company poll of likes and dislikes of 5,245 children. Rounding out the list of favourites in order of prefer ence were friends dolls bicycles pianos computers toys and Fried Chicken. The children put Homework and exam at the top of their hate list followed by fights stealing punishment insults spankings hospitals injections and parental fights the poll reported. Most boys said they wanted to grow up to be scientists while girls said they would like to be teachers the poll found. Nationalists in Malta narrowly win elections Valletta Malta up Malta s pro Western nationalist party won a narrow Victory in National elections ending 6 years of socialist Rule on the Strate Gic Mediterranean Island. Final results Early tuesday gave the nationalists 1 i 6,902 Voles to j 10,937 Voles for inc socialist labor party of prime minister Karmene miss act Bonnici. The labor party won two More seals than the nationalists in Malta s 65-member single chamber House of representatives  showed. By a Consin Luliona amendment passed in january requires that the party that wins More than 50 percent of the popular vote by Given enough extra seals to give it parliamentary control  
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