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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes Friday june 5,1987 Barbie gathered prisoners for train woman testifies world today Lyon France a Klaus Barbie personally assembled prisoners shipped to nazi death Camps on the last deportation train to leave Lyon under the German occupation a witness testified wednesday Al the for Mer local Gestapo chiefs irial. Alice  78, a retired physician said she Walch cd Barbie through the peephole of her cell a Mon Lluc prison and by climbing on a shelf to Loo through a High window into the prison courtyard. " saw Barbie and his learn she said. He was with four of his men. It lasted an hour or two. He had Theair of a Boss who was making sure everything went  Barbie 73, is accused of committing crimes against humanity White he headed the Lyon Gestapo from 1942-44, one of the charges relates to the deportation Convoy that left Lyon on aug. 11, 1944, barely three weeks before he City was liberated. Hundreds of jews and resistance members take from Mon Lluc and Many More people from two other crowded Lyon prisons were fucked 10 the Perrache station Early that morning and loaded on a train headed North. Diverted and delayed by Allied bombings and Resis Tance sabotage of the rails the train took an irregular Iron reportedly has pane to supervise deals for hostages Paris a Iran has formed a committee to supervise Exchange deals involving foreign hostages in Lebanon a French newspaper quoted a lebanese Edi Tor As saying. Today it is the iranians who hold he key to be hostages Hassan Sabra editor in chief of Lebanon Ash Shiraz Magazine was quoted by be Matin As say ing in 3n interview published wednesday. They want Money and arms. In no Case can heir the hostages lebanese jailers make the decision o free them. Only Iran can do  Ash Shiraz is the publication thai first revealed contacts Between the United Stales and Iran to free Amer ican hostages touching of Floc Iran Contra affair Sabra said in the interview thai iranian Leader Aya Zollah Ruhollah Khomeini himself had be up a com Mittee charged with supervising inc hostage  the committee includes iranian parliamentary speaker Hashemi a Sfanjani usually considered he second most powerful Man in Iran Khomeini s son Ahmad and Mohsen Rida commander in chief of the revolutionary guards Sabra said. Twenty four foreigners eight of them americans arc missing and believed held by Radical moslem groups in Lebanon. Some of the groups have close ties to Iran. Iran and Syria have both said in the past that they have some influence Over the captors of Western hostages in Lebanon and freed French hostages have usually passed through the syrian capital of Damascus on their return Home. Path finally crossing the French German Border More than a week after it left Tyon most of the jews eventually arrived Al the nazi extermination Camp Al Auschwitz Poland. Women from the resistance were diverted to inc Raven Bruek Germany Camp while resistance men were taken to scamp Al so Withof Germany according to testimony. The investigating magistrate who prepared the Cas against Barbie said in his report thai there is no precise count of the number of people deported in the aug. 11convoy. It is also unclear How Many were tilled but he said it probably was More than 400. There Are 109confirmed deaths All from a Lisl covering Only jews taken from Mon Lluc.  who was not deported said she was tortured at a Bulluc under Barbie s direction. Her fingernails were pulled Oul and a thumb broken she said. I accept what happened to me she told the court explaining thai she knew As a resistance member she was Likely to be treated roughly i caught on a Mission. But she said with a trembling voice she would never forget a Small pretty blonde woman and her 4 year old child taken away by Barbie apparently to their deals. That i la never Pardon she said. That s nol War that s demented. Off Kyo a fitting souvenir is Iacre � better Way to Mark b daring Pilot s Landing to Moscow s red Square than with a to shirt West Berlin teen Man shirt marking us fowling of German teen Pilot Mattylu Rosl last week in red Square. The shut says  Airport re Square opening 28th of a 1987." Western intelligence suspected of aiding rust s flight paper says Hamburg a the German Pilot who landed plane on red Square is being interrogated constantly by the soviets who suspect Western intelligence Agen cies May have helped plan his flight a Hamburg news paper said wednesday. They question him morning noon and evening far hours the mass circulation Bild newspaper said in a front Page Story quoting Kremlin sources it did not identify. They arc 100 pc cent certain thai Malhias rust was put up to it by a group or organization to damage the soviet Union the newspaper said. Rust 19, flew More than 400 Miles to Moscow from Helsinki Finland May 28, and landed his Cessna 172 near the Kremlin Wall. He was taken into soviet custody shortly Alicr he landed and since then has been allowed Only one meet ing with German representatives. Soviet Media have Given indications thai he will stand trial for his flight to red Square and have questioned whether his trip had a political purpose. German government spokesmen have said they do not know what rust s motives for the flight were or whether he was acting alone. German foreign ministry spokesman Juergen Chro bog said the government is seeking rust s release but the soviet Nave not indicated whether or when height be allowed to return Home. Bild Aid rust was slowly becoming demoralized and nervous under the constant questioning. 10 was Man Hopes to be 1 St Black voted to Italy s parliament Milan Italy a a native of Nigeria who says he wants to end racism in Italy is trying to become the first Black in the italian parliament. Michael Olu Schirm Ajayi 38, who has lived in Italy for 13 years said in an interview published in corriere Della Sera a Milan newspaper that his candidacy is a message of  a message against racism against the exploitation of minorities those asians South americans africans who enter Italy clandestinely to escape hunger and who some people consider Only bodies to work Ajayi a quoted As saying. He is running for the chamber of deputies the lower House of parliament in election Scheda cd for june 14-15. The candidate said he is married to a woman from Turin has two children and became a citizen last year. Soviet City s party Boss executed for taking bribes Moscow up the former communist party chief of the Central asian City of Bukhara was Cue Cut cd by firing squad for accepting and giving bribes the Tass news Agency said wednesday. The report on the Man Abdu Nakhid Karimov said thai others in the bribe taking operation had been convicted and More were under investigation. The soviet supreme court passed the sentence of capital punishment deals by firing squad after finding that Karimov abused his office by systematically taking Large bribes from officials and by himself bribing a number of  Bukhara is an ancient City in Uzbekistan. The Cen trial asian Republic has been the scene of an extensive crackdown on corruption including the posthumous condemnation of the former Leader of Uzbekistan Sharar Aspidov Turkey sues . Museum for return of treasures Ankara Turkey a Turkey has filed Sui against the metropolitan museum of new York for the re Liim of a 2,600-year-old collection of Gold and Silver antique pieces a ministry official said wednesday. An Istanbul daily Milli Yel reported that the Turk ish government has hired a new York based Law firm Botchin Hays and slay and filed the suit in new Vork Federal court. Turkey had said earlier it planned to sue for the return of artefacts it contends were smuggled out of the country. The two sides had begun negotiations on the dispute in july 1986. Turkey claims that the pieces were illegally dug out in inc Western province of Usak by villagers in 1966, the treasures were then sold to on International antiquities dealer who in turn sold them to the museum for $1.7 million according to turkish officials. Britain orders Iran to close its Manchester consulate London up Britain thursday ordered Iran to close its consulate in the Northern City of Manches Ter and told inc consulate s staff of five iranian Diplo Mats 10 leave the country within seven Days. The actions announced by the foreign office herein connection with the 2wiour detention and batting last week in Tehran Linn of Britain s no. 2 Diplomat there Edward Chaplin. The British move stopped Short of a full break in relations. Iran has appeared to link the seizure of Chaplin to a separate Case in Britain in which an iranian vice Consul in Manchester Ahmed Ghassemi was charged with shoplifting. The expulsion of the iranian staff from Manchester will mean that Ghassemi will have to leave Britain and will no longer answer for the theft charge officials said. The British diplomatic action docs not affect the iranian embassy in London which has a staff of More than a dozen  
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