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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 or news briefs the stars and stripes thursday August 13,1987 2 Germany reportedly Exchange accused spies Bonn a West Germany wednesday exchanged a lop soviet bloc spy and two other communist spies for two accused West German agents held in Eail Germany government sources said. The sources said West Germany released its three prisoners including Piaster spy Manfred Rotsch. 1o East Germany in a Swap at cric a Hauson a Border crossing 9s Miles Nort Casl of Frankfurt. The sources spoke to he associated press on condition of anonymity. Rotsch 63, was convicted of espionage in september 1984 and sentenced to 8w year in prison. Prosecutors said he spied for the soviet Kab for 17 Yean giving he communists secrets about the sophisticated Tornado id fighter while working for the Messerschmit Boelkow Blohm aerospace firm. The sources described the two other communist agents As Small  in return the East germans turned Over lowest Germany Crista Karin Schumann 52, an East German physician jailed since 1979 on a conviction of spying for West Germany. She reportedly has been in failing health and West German officials have been working id gain her release. The East germans also turned Over an employee of West Germany s  captured in East Germany and held in prison there according to the West German government sources. Calif. Jewish leaders Dro papal visit Boycott los Angeles a soul Cali far a s jewish Community says it Hajj topped its plan to Boycott Pope John Paul los . Visit next month now that he has a to meet with american jewish dignitaries Rome. The decision opened lfa0r r to jewish participation in a gathering in Taii gels on sept. 16 of the Pope and non Crupin religious leaders. We look far Walno welcoming and meeting with the Pope of rabbi Harvey Fields chairman of the  committee of the Southern California by fed of rabbis said monday. Americ jewish leaders had demanded Amentini Junth the Pope to discuss his decision to  president Kurt Waldheim at the of lican in june and he Vatican agreed Iasi to such a meeting it is expected to take late this month. South african Union says 86 of its officials arrested Johannesburg South Africa a the Black miners Union said 86 of its officials were arrested wednesday in the first mass detention since the nation s largest Legal strike began three Days earlier paralysing Gold and Coal production. Cyril ram Phosa general Secretary of the National Union of mineworkers said the arrests were made at a Union building in Klerk Dorp Southwest of Johannesburg. The entire local leadership has been arrested said ram Phosa. Both sides in the strike said wednesday thai no new negotiations were planned. The Union says 340,000 workers Are on strike at 44 Gold and Coal mines while the chamber of mines says about 230,000 of the nation s 600,000 Black miners Are striking at 31 mines. Aerial View shows a burned on bus and part of a Small plane s fuselage and wings lying in the parking lot of the Mcdonald s restaurant in Munich one Day after plane crash hat left seven dead and 14 injured. Toll from Page 1 luring burning wreckage for about 100 Yards. The Pilot who was making simulated landings by instrument at the nearby Airport in order to renew his License was killed along with his two passengers employees of the German Federal aviation authority who were checking the Pilot s fitness. The cause of the crash was unknown. Five experts of the Federal aviation authority arrived in Munich to invest  spokesman for the authority said such test flights Are no More dangerous than Normal flights. However residents of Munich were asking Why Large Busy air ports arc chosen for such tests. The Low flying plane hit the Large Mon the roof of the restaurant setting the restaurant ablaze. It then fell into the parking lot and rammed a City bus setting the bus and five cars on fire. The Impact pushed the bus into the restaurant. Ten of the injured were passengers on the bus. The bus passengers fled through inc windows Franz Klein who worked at a nearby automobile scr ice station said. I ran Over with a fire  i was sitting at the window in Mcdonald s with my husband when we saw the burning bus coming toward us a woman said. The heal was melting is windows. We ran Nuquid. 0" r Imon Mohile was burned  about 20 customers and 10 Mcdonald s employees got out of the restaurant and were uninjured inc police spokesman said. Pilot from Page 1 that i m not  did reiterate that the rules governing com Bat engagement put the decision whether to shoot in the hands of Navy pilots and ship officers in the Gulf. Weinberger said the rules which were detailed publicly after an american warship was attacked Acci dentally by an iraqi warplane in May state that if a belligerent plane or ship put itself in a position from which it could deliver a lethal attack the commander of the american ship or plane was authorized on his own to make the determination that hostile intent had been exhibited and to take appropriate action they said the Sparrow missiles fired by the f-14 did not hit the iranian aircraft because the iranians alerted by repeated warnings and by radar signals that the missiles were being pointed at them look Standard evasive action. At the Lime the missiles were fired a Convoy of three kuwaiti tankers flying the american Flag was moving through the Strait of Hormuz accompanied by four Navy warships and various aircraft. One part of the team a reconnaissance plane had just flown North along the iranian Side of the Strait checking on inc silkworm anti ship missiles there. As the reconnaissance plane moved Back toward its base in Oman accompanied by two f-14 fighters several iranian f-4 phantom jews took off from the Bandar Abbas air base on the Strait. The officials said some of the f-4s headed toward the reconnaissance plane flying Low and fast a Standard lactic for pilots trying to avoid detection. The Speed of the iranian planes their Low attitude their direction of flight and their refusal to acknowledge warn Ings from ships and aircraft All indicated possible hostile iolent the officials said. Shootings from Page 1 whose name was not immediately released was shot Lite tuesday As he and a group of five people crossed Trutt Avenue. She said the suspect drove by stopped and asked what did you Sayr members of the group answered  the suspect then allegedly fired two shots into the victim who died Early wednesday. In los gatos two cars and a Tanker truck were headed South on Highway 17 when a sniper opened fire tuesday night with a .22-caliber Rifle said los gatos police department sol. Don Dequine. Dequine said hat one car had its rear window shot another sustained a Bullet Hole just below the Driver s door and the truck received a Hole in the cab. In Southern California s Orange county three women were waiting in a vehicle at a traffic Light on Laguna Canyon Road when a dark red or Brown com pact car drove by on their right Side and shot at the 1978 Volvo police said. Meanwhile a civil rights group attacked the slate department of motor vehicles new policy of revoking License Tor those arrested in freeway shootings before they get a trial. It s kind of like guilty until proven innocent said Joan Howarth an attorney with the american civil liberties Union in los Angeles. But local Law officers applauded the move saying they Hope it will put the brakes on the recent spate of Highway violence. The div has revoked the licenses of six men since the Highway violence began in mid june. In the san Francisco Bay area on tuesday Contra Costa county supervisors offered their own plan totem the shootings. The Board offered a j 10,000 re Ward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Highway snipers the offer followed several reports of Highway Vio Lence in the county  
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