European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday november 16, 1987 salvadoran amnesty is protested Washington a the state department is considering a Legal Chal Lenge to the decision by an Al Salvador military judge to free suspects in the i98s slayings of six americans . Government officials said saturday. Our embassy is exploring every Possi ble Legal Means of re incarcerating the accused and assuring their prosecution said state department spokeswoman Sondra Mccarty. Here in the department we Are consulting with our Legal advisers on any other route we May take to ensure that these people do not escape  Nick Wise an aide to rep. Michael Dow inc a Ohio a Memler of the House to reign affairs subcommittee on Western hemisphere affairs said the state department told the congressman thai an Appeal under salvadoran Law is being prepared. 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Marine embassy guards and two american computer technicians. Since Serrano s decision we have stated cur belief Iii at the amnesty i these persons is morally wrong and politically damaging Mccarty said. We have repeatedly stated that while we understand the desire of the government of Al Salvador to comply fully with the Guatemala agreement we believe that persons who have committed crimes of terrorism against american citizens should not go  another state department official speaking on condition of anonymity said the department is consulting with the Legal eagles and examining what options the United states had. The amnesty provision approved late last month by the salvadoran Congress applies to those who have participated As the direct authors intermediaries or accomplices in the commission of Politi Cal crimes or common crimes associated with political  Nicaragua Costi Rica Honduras Miu Guatemala also have agreed to the peace plan. In releasing the three suspects Serra no said the killings arc reprehensible Here or anywhere but the Law is the Law and we must apply the  so far about 500 salvadorans have nazi War criminal Dies in dutch nursing Home Loo Sprecht Netherlands a Pieter Nicolaas Munten one of the Netherlands most notorious nazi War Crimi nals died saturday in a nursing Home that he had entered five months ago. He was 88. Munten a millionaire Art collector was convicted in the killings of dozens of jews in Podhor Rocc a Village in Poland while he was serving As a translator with a nazi is unit in 1941. The germans occupied Poland during world War ii. He was freed from prison in 1985 on Good behaviour after serving two thirds of his 10-year sentence and entered the nursing Home in july. For More than 25 years Munten and his wife Meta lived in obscurity in Post War Holland in a 40-room mansion 20 Miles outside Amsterdam. In 1949, he served an eight Mont prison term after being convicted of collaborating with the nazis and in the Early 1950s, Poland twice tried unsuccessfully to have him extradited for War crimes. In 1976, the Amsterdam daily de Tele Graaf interviewed Munten and re ported he would be auctioning off some of his artworks. The Story was published in israeli newspapers where it brought accounts of Menten s wartime past an israeli journalist who lost members of his family in the Podhor Rocc massacre provided documents and urged dutch journalists to delve further into Menten s background. It was their disclosures that led to a full scale criminal investigation. Menton fled to Switzerland but he was expelled As an undesirable alien i december 1976, and was brought Home to face  was brought to trial in 1977 in Amsterdam on charges that while attached to the is unit he had taken part in the massacre of at least 195 inhabit ants of two polish villages both now part of the soviet Ukraine. Menten was acquitted of atrocities in one Village but he was found guilty of participating in the nazi Slaughter of be tween 20 and 30 polish jews in Podhor Rece on july 7,1941. The dutch supreme court initially quashed his conviction on technical grounds. Menten was ordered released after a pretrial investigation disclosed evidence that he had received a Promise of immunity from prosecution from a dutch Justice minister in 1952. That ruling touched off protests by former dutch resistance fighters. Later the dutch government Success fully appealed the release ruling and an attempt to gain immunity from prosecution on the grounds of insanity. Menten was retried in 1980 and was sentenced to the 10-year prison term. Forecast he monday Cloudy uses attn widespread ram Andra showers during the  n Germany and me be Nehu. A pm duty shies we m partly Cloudy Rutn touted a Nyk were if to be Nulu. 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A party Cloudy a Manity Goudy a ram. 02 Dod says soviet  is to militarize space correction the location of the Bergheim Ger Many March for wednesday nov. 18, was listed incorrectly in the vol Smarch column last week. Bergheim is 10 kilo meters Southwest of Wuerzburg. The March hours Are 7 . To i p.m., with a Stan at the . Washington a the soviet Union has spent almost $80 billion on military space programs during the past decade and is dramatically expanding its ability to boost payloads into space according to a Pentagon study. The increase in launch capability is so great that it exceeds even the soviets Basic needs during the next 15 years according to the study which suggests that the soviets fully expect to develop space based weapons and other new systems that would need a ride into space. Clearly the soviet program Points in one direction the methodical Pursuit of a War fighting capability in space defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberg or wrote in a Forward to the report. And because the Western democracies particularly the United slates have directed a Large part of their space re sources and technology toward other goals and sometimes have lacked Clear goals we have allowed the soviet Union to come dangerously dose to achieving its military objectives in space he said. The 20-Page study released saturday by the Pentagon was prepared by the defense intelligence Agency at Wein Berger s request the defense Secretary who is stepping Down later this week intended to use the document to bolster spending for a Fleet of unmanned rockets and president Reagan s strategic de sense initiative program known As Star  Weinberger said he asked for a Sepa rate study because i believe that if presented with the facts the american peo ple will reject soviet propaganda about . Militarization of space and recognize the need to protect our National Security  the report said the soviets operate about 50 types of space systems for Mili tary and civilian uses. Been released under the amnesty provi Sion. On Friday another military judge said he granted Freedom to two men accused of occupying a radio station and announcing the slaying of it. Cmdr. Al Bert  Iii a . Attache killed May 25, 1983 while sitting in his car outside a University. No one has been charged in the killing. John s. Handwork of Beavercreek Ohio whose son Thomas was among the slain Marine guards said i still can t be Lieve it i still can t believe it if they let them get away with this in thai country then in re net another country where our Marine Security guards Are Safe. The other victims of the shooting were sgt. Bobby j. Dickson of Tuscaloosa All Cpl Gregory Weber of Cincinnati and Cpl Patrick r. Kwiatkowski of Wausau. A and computer technicians George Mey of Miami and Robert Alvidrez of Lexington mass. News updates spy s Challenge san Francisco up sex Navy Man Jerry Whitworth s 365 year prison term for spying was just what he deserved because he sold out his country to Money a government attorney has argued in defending his 1986 conviction. The 9th . Circuit court of appeals listened to arguments in the first hearing of Whitworth i Legal Challenge to his conviction and sen tence for his role in the John Walker family espionage ring a ruling will be issued later Alan Caplan Whitworth s attorney said his 365-year term i Leavenworth kan., Federal prison is cruel and unusual punishment because it Means he cannot be considered for parole for 60 years when he would be 108 years old. But assistant . Attorney Sandy Svetcov denied that the sen tence was excessive. Or. Whitworth got just what he deserved. He sold out his coun try for Money he said. Prado reopens Madrid. Spain up the Prado museum which houses one of the world s Best Art collections re opened saturday after an unprecedented 11-Day strike was ended. Museum workers called off their indefinite walkout Over salary in creases and other benefits on Friday after the government imposed a minimum services Law and ordered a Skeleton staff to reopen the Prado. Italy Canoe Accident survivors identified Vicenza Italy the three survivors of a fatal Canoe Accident saturday in Northern Italy have been identified Southern european task Force spokes Man said sunday. Spec. 4 Eric r. Brinkman spec. 4 Gregory c. Hatalsky and spec. 4 John r. Hendrix All assigned to the 167th signal co at Caserma Ederle in Vienna escaped the Accident without injury said Sec. Jaime Cavazos. The name of the Soldier who drowned in the Accident is still being withheld pending the notification of relatives he said. The Accident occurred on the Brenta River in Bassano Del grappa about 18 Miles North of Vicenza when a Canoe carrying the four soldiers capsized Cava Zos said