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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, August 31, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday August 31,1987 aviation adventure a photo arable  who will be 90 id Jin Tury pre pares to Tike to the skies Boce High Wycombe England of till stunt Pilot Nigel Lamb Macfarling re Dort of Bristol won i experience of a life time in a. Sanlor citizens Competition lint was sponsored by Brillh rail. Sanunu espionage treason trial starts in closed Jerusalem court Jerusalem up Mordochai Sanunu a Lech Nicias accused of setting information about Israel s of secret nuclear program went on trial sunday be Hind the closed doors of a Jerusalem court. Mounted police guarded the courthouse in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem keeping reporters and photographers at Bay As armed guards sneaked Sanunu a convert to christianity into court. The 32-year-old moroccan bom nuclear technician charged by Israel with espionage and treason was transferred from i police Van to the courthouse under a Burlap cover draped Over the Entrance civil rights lawyer Avigdor Ferdman who is defending Sanunu demanded thai the trial be opened to the Public. A three judge panel hearing the Case rejected the ret Uesi. Amnesty International the London based human rights group sent an expert in International Law and an interpreter to Jerusalem to Monitor the proceedings but israeli authorities declined to allow him into court. Simon Saver Israel s major crimes chief was the first witness to take he stand for the prosecution in the rial which is expected to con Tiniuc through september. Sanunu who faces a Man mum sentence of life imprisonment is accused of Selling secrets about Israel s nuclear Industry to a British newspaper. The sunday times of London repo cd on oct i 1986, that Israel has been making nuclear warheads for 20 years compiling he world s sixth largest nuclear arms stockpile alter the United states soviet Union Britain France and China. Prosecuting attorney Uzi Hasson Wilt try to prove that Sanunu sold israeli nuclear secrets to the sunday times after losing his Job at the dimona nuclear Plant in the Negev desert the government denied press reports that Mossad the israeli secret service kidnapped Sanunu in Britain and brought him to Israel to face trial but officials have yet to reveal How Sanunu came to be in Israel. Feldman Sanunu s attorney said confessions obtained from his client since he arrived in Israel in  inadmissible because of the special circumstances of his arrival Here. Israeli authorities said they issued a warrant for the arrest of one of Sanunu s Brothers Cir who is currently living in London. Heir Sanunu was quoted As saying he no longer believes in israeli Justice Sanunu s other brother Asher told reporters out Side the Jerusalem courthouse that the main Issue of the trial was nuclear weapons. Even now he prompt in Europe is growing about nuclear weapons but in Israel the Issue has never been  world today soviets to be allowed to open checking accounts Moscow a starting dec. I most soviet families May add balancing he Check Book id heir list of chores. The communist party newspaper Prada has said that people living in the russian Republic which encompasses Moil of the soviet Union s land and people May open checking accounts. Checks May be written for manufactured goods and Domestic services and All stale run stores and cooperatives must accept them he same As Cash pravda said. Refusal 1o accept a Check in payment will be Quali fied As a violation of the rules of soviet Trade it said. Having a Check Book should help families better organize their finances it said. Sex minister announces candidacy for president Belfort. France a former education min Isler Jean Pierre  on saturday announced his bid for he socialist party s Choice As presidential candidate in next year s election.  became the second socialist party official to announce his wish to become president of the French Republic joining the popular politician Michel Ricard. Unlike Ricard  said he would with draw his candidacy should socialist president Francois Mitterrand choose to run Tor a second term in the Spring elect ions China says girl raised by pigs now Normal Beijing a a 13-year-old girl who spent her infancy being suckled by pigs has returned to Normal life after three Yean of special training China official news Agency said. Wang Xian eng a peasant s daughter from North Eastern Liaoning province has Learned 10 read 600 chinese characters count to 100 and sing children i songs the Xinhua news Agency said. The report said he girl was bom to a deaf father who had no affection for her and a mentally retarded Mother. The family has no close neighbors. While an infant she was left to live with the family pigs sucking pig milk crawling like a pig and imitating pig behaviour the report said. When firs tested by psychologists in 1983, the then 9-year-old had the intelligence of a 3-year-old, with no Conception of sexes and colors. The psychologists found her mental growth had been distorted by living with pigs. Welshman tries to avoid faxes with ancient Law Llangollen Wales a a welshman has tried to avoid paying Back taxes by invoking a Saxon oath last used in 1086 and citing a nigh Century de Cree that West saxons were free from English Law. John Pierce 45, an Engineer and Fanner had hit son Ian. Wear the Robes of a Sanon Nobleman poem Phaize his Point in court. Pierce argued that is farm lies in a strip of land immune from English Law according to the will Hal King Alfred he orca ital at his death in 899. Acting on current legis7hion, he Langol in Magis trates court ordered p rce to pay $1,949 in last year s property taxes and $ t ,540 in court costs. Pierce had refused to take the Standard oath on the Bible demanding instead a ceremony involving a Saxon oath the last known use of which was in 1036. The court declined to accept the substitute oath and he was not permitted to testify 5 in . Police band take port in Ira March Bun Doran Ireland a five members of the new York police band marched with Irish Republican army Yimpa thirs in county Donegal Sal urday to commemorate the deaths of 10 hunger sinkers in Northern Ireland s Maze prison six years ago. La Vias the fourth consecutive year that members of the police department j Emerald society pipe band participated in the March starting at Bun Doran a sea Side Village near the Irish Border and less than than in Miles from the spot where the Ira assassinated lord Louis mount Bai ten eight years ago Mountbatten. Cousin of Queen Eliza Beth ii was killed aug. 27, 1979, when a bomb exploded on his boat near mul lag More county Sligo. Saturday s Marth was organised by the local a Block committee and a breakaway group from i he sinn fein the Legal political Wing of the outlawed Ira. Thi commit tee s name refers to the shape of the cell blocks of Maze prison where 10 people died in the 1981 hunger strike. The five Bondsmen All retired police in Plain clothes joined about 200 March ers watched mainly by visitors on their summer vacations. As Many As 40 police had been expected to appear and in uni form. Dan Danaher a retired new York police department dime live. Said fewer members participated in the March this year because of the increased Cost of travelling to Ireland. The policemen have met widespread anger in Pas , particularly from Irish police whose colleagues have been i lied in Ira violence. Organizers say the rally commemorates the deaths of the hunger strikers Lead by Bobby Sands. But critics say in real aim is to gloat Over the death of Mou Baiten an Alicd Kim minder in world War ii last Viceroy of India and a very close member of the Queen s family. Sinn fein organised a separate rally in Bun Crana that was attended by american lawyer Martin Galvin publicity director for nor Aid. The  Irish Northern Aid committee  
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