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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 world today the stars and stripes thursday october 29,1987 Irish electrician convicted of making bombs for Ira London up an electrician accused of being a master bomb maker for inc banned Irish Republican army was convicted tuesday of conspiring to cause explosions. Gilbert Mcnamec 26. Of Crossmaglen in county Armagh Northern Ireland was convicted by an old Bailey judge of conspiracy on several counts including the 1982 Hyde Park bombing that killed four members of the household cavalry. Me was sentenced to 23 years in jail. Mcnamec denied being a member of the Ira or of making bombs for inc group although his fingerprints were found on bomb making equipment. Soviet Grain Harvest will fall Short of record Moscow up the soviet Union s Grain har Vest will be close to last year s 210.1 million tons but will fall Short of a record because of a month of Rains. Abel age Begyan one of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s close economic advisers conceded that a re Cord amount of Grain has been grown in the country bin inc Rains in the urals Kazakhstan and Siberia made it impossible to take it in  in some regions it is still out in the Fields Agen Betsyan said. The final figure is not yet available hut indications Are that it wit be close to last year  e. Germany pays firms swedes for seized property Stockholm Sweden a East Germany has compensated swedish companies and individuals for property it confiscated More than 40 years ago thes Vinska Dag bladet newspaper reported tuesday. The East Gentian who seized inc property when Germany was divided after world War ii settled on a payment of 70 million swedish tremor is i million after two Large companies waived half their claims during the Long negotiations. More than half the compensation will go to the companies swedish match co. And Esab. The paper said. Prober declares John Paul i was not murder plot victim Rome a Pope John Paul i was not a victim of a murder conspiracy a senior Vatican Cardinal said tuesday. Ii Sabato. A weekly religious affairs Magazine quoted Cardinal Silvio Odd As saying the Pope was in poor health before he died in 1978 after Only 33 Days As pontiff. The Cardinal said inc Pope was struck Down by the weigh of his Job. The Magazine said the Cardinal look part in an unofficial investigation into the Pope s death and gave the interview to counter any new speculation that he died from unnatural causes. British author David Yallop recently appeared on italian television on a program about John Paul s death. Yallop s Book in god s name presents largely undocumented evidence that John Paul i did not die of a heart attack but was murdered because of his plans la liberalize some roman Catholic doctrines and make changes in the Vatican Hierarchy. Oddi a 76-year-old italian was quoted As saying he and the late Cardinal Antonio Sam orc conducted an investigation in the Days following inc Pope s death based on interviews with various people including his doctor in Venice where the pontiff had served As Arch Bishop before assuming the papacy. In a tent of the interview released by the Magazine in Advance of publication Oddi defends inc Vatican s decision not 10 conduct an autopsy. He said it would Only have Given credence logos sip. Everyone would have said we were doing the a Lopsy because there was something suspicious. Those who wanted to see machinations at any Cost would Nave said the autopsy was falsified if it found the Pope died of natural causes Oddi said. Asked what conclusion he presented to the cardinals assembling for the election of John Paul 1 s successor Oddi replied thai the Pope was in a poor health Ana inc weight of his responsibility struck him Down. He could t stand up physically. We also Learned that thai year he did l Lake a vacation and was extremely  Oddi also said he knew of no plans by the Laic Pope 10 revolutionize he Vatican Hierarchy. The Cardinal also said Pope John Paul i had sup ported Pope Paul Al s encyclical that banned contraception. Yallop s Book claimed that John Paul i had been preparing to liberalize inc Church rules on birth control. Deep Gas drillers run out of funds Stockholm Sweden a a swedish Macri. Can learn that drilled one of the world s deepest holes nearly 4 Miles has run out of Money in its search for & new Energy source an ancient and Little known Type of natural Gas. The drillers however say they Haven t Given up Hope of proving the theory behind the project. Thomas Gold an american astrophysicist involved in the project maintains that commercial quantities of non Fos Sil deep Gas could be hidden in the Earth s cruel. When the Drill slopped in september at 20,790 feel there were indications although no scientific Evi Dence that a deep Gas Reservoir existed said inc project s Leader Tord Lindbo. His company. Dala Djup Jas prov Brrning Kab bored for a year through the Granite beneath a Centra swedish fir Forest under the supervision of drilling expert Perry Moore of Oklahoma City. Bui Lindbo said he Hopes Valte fall will decide to raise the extra s3.1 million needed to Drill Down to 24,600 fed. Investors Are studying the proposal. The natural Pas used today for Healing and cooking comes from animals and plants that lived to million to 400 million Yean ago. Gold who worked for the . National aeronautics and space administration on preparations for the first Moon Landing speculates that another form of Gaj May predate life on Earth having developed from the Mailer that forms the planet s Interior. Bonn does t intend to join . Embargo against Iran Bonn a Germany Doss not plan to join in a . Trade embargo against Iran a government spokesman said wednesday. We Are not considering anything of this  spokesman Herbert Schmuck Ling told the associated press. Schmuelling said the United slates has not asked Germany to join in its embargo which was announced in Washington monday there has been no such request that i know of Schmulling said in a Tele phone interview. Germany maintains Strong Trade tics with ran and the persian nation is Bonn s second largest Oil supplier after Britain. Britain supplied 6,067,000 tons of Oil for inc first half of he year. President Reagan in announcing the embargo against Iran said it would in clude a ban on the importing of iranian Oil to the United slates Ana on the exporting of products that could be used for military purposes. Reagan said that he was imposing the embargo for what he called Iran s aggressive disregard for the most Funda mental norms of International  mayor of Panama City frees 70 prisoners in bid for peace Panama City. Panama up seventy political prisoners have been re leased in a move described by the mayor of Panama City As a gesture aimed at maintaining peace in Panama which has experiences wide ranging civil disobedience we want to see if we can maintain this situation of peace because if they the prisoners relapse they la have problem and it will be More diff ult for them to get  mayor Jilma Noriega de Jurado said tuesday in an interview on a television station owned by the Mil itary. Noriega do Jurado said the detainees were released from the Panama City jail and the Pacific prison Island of Cotta. She did not identify those released or say How Long they were held. The mayor said she was instructed by the government to order the release even though some of the detainees including prominent publicist Alberto Conle had received sentences thai were not commutable. It was not the intention of the presi Dent or any National authority to Vuin them for an indefinite period the major said. Speaking after his release tuesday of Kroon. Conic said thai he was held for a week and spent 12 hour in Handcuffs when he was arrested after arriving Al the Capi Iii i International Airport. They did not comic or even my non elemental human rights Conle said. Martians in Paree in Paris two  visitors claiming id be from Man Ute Little if Rull in front it tic for dying Saucer which Hal Fly found Purling spot right in rent the Eiffel Tower. No coat for Uura Ibe Nguc inv can an part of an advertising Cain Julyn for Reader s detest Magazine  
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