European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 6. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 sandinista contras continue talks Cardinal acting As go Between Santo Domingo dominican Republic a representatives of the leftist sandinista government and  c9ntra rebels scheduled a meeting with a mediator Friday in a continuing Effort to arrange a cease fire in Nicaragua s civil War. Negotiations which began thursday evening were expected to be drawn out and slow. The indirect talks arc the first attempt to Slop the fighting that has killed 40.000 people during the past six years. Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo the go Between inthe truce talks was to return to Managua the Nicara Guan capital Friday afternoon after hearing both sides outline their positions in a series of separate meetings. There were no fact to fact sessions Between the War ring parties. Roman Catholic offices in the dominican capital Are serving As the base for the rebel delegation while the sandinista team is at the nicaraguan embassy. The Cardinal shuttles Between the two places delivering each Side s views to the other. Obando y Bravo the archbishop of Managua and a leading sandinista critic said his primary task was to clarify some Points that still Are not very Clear in cease fire counterproposal presented to the govern ment delegation last monday by the rebels known As contras. The Cardinal said he would discuss those Point with the five member Contra negotiating team headed by Jaime Morales Carrizo then pass on their explanations to the government delegation led by Victor Hugo Tinoco the sandinista vice minister for foreign affairs. Morales is an adviser to the nicaraguan resistance an umbrella organi action representing several Contra groups. Among those groups is the nicaraguan demo cratic front or fun which Fields a guerrilla army of about 10,000 combatants. No High level rebel leaders participated in the Santo Domingo tasks. Tinoco characterized the Contra counterproposal As illogical and absurd and said it scared to have been manufactured in Washington. Nonetheless he said his government was disposed to make advances toward putting at least a temporary end to the fighting. The Contra counteroffer was made in response to a cease fire plan outlined by nicaraguan president Dan Iel Ortega on nov. 13 during a meeting in Washington with the Cardinal and House speaker Jim Wright d Texas. The rebels have described Ortega s plan As a demand for their unconditional surrender. Ortega s 11-Point proposal called for a monthlong truce starting saturday a Date that obviously will not be met. It would allow the contras to occupy three cease fire zones totalling 4,000 Square Miles but they would not be permitted to receive any further military Aid. Unlike the Ortega proposal which dealt strictly with the mechanics Ofa cease fire the Contra plan addressed political matters within the context Ofa Cen trial american peace plan signed last aug. 7 by Ortega and the presidents of of Al Salvador Honduras Guate Mala and Costa Rica. The rebel proposal Calls for a 41-Day cease fire Start ing tuesday during which the sandinista would be required to lift a 5-Ycar-old state of emergency Grant general amnesty end their military draft and guarantee full Freedom of the press including an end to subsidies to government news organizations. The contras also proposed that their own troops bellowed to remain in More than 30,000 Square Miles of Nicaragua or More than half of the country s total territory of 57,000 Square Miles. The rebels say they now control that much land a claim rejected not Only by the sandinista government but by most Western diplomats and journalists familiar with the War. Tinoco said the Contra proposal was outside the terms of the regional peace plan which docs not re quire the sandinista government to discuss political a alters with armed opponents. He noted that his government already had established a dialogue with its unarmed internal opposition and would discuss Only the technical details Ofa cease fire with the contras. Donald Reid Cabral the dominican foreign min ister said Tinoco had formally requested that Santo Domingo be the site of any further negotiations. Reid Cabral said he would support that request. The capital of this Caribbean Island nation was chosen for the first round of indirect talks after weeks of squabbling Over a site. The contras seeking to establish the legitimacy of their insurgency wanted the negotiations held in Managua. The sandinista opted for Washington contending it was appropriate because of the Reagan administration s support for the rebels. The sandinista spearheaded a popular revolution that toppled dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979. Couple Trade piece of shuttle wreckage for seat at next flight Cape canaveral Fla. A a couple who found a piece of the space shuttle challenger while sailing in the Bahamas have reluctantly surrendered their prize in return for a guest spot at the next shuttle launch. Don f. And Naoma Lowe of Florence ., found the 2-by-3-foot Section in june. The National aeronautics and space administration identified it As a piece of a Section that covered the in flight mane vering engines. Mrs. Lowe Friday said the couple would have liked to have kept the piece but gave it up under pressure from Nasa including a threat to seek an Fri warrant to retrieve it. Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch on Jan. 28, 1986, killing All seven Crew members. Debris fell into the at lactic Ocean and about 235,000 pounds was recovered and is stored in two unused minuteman missile silos Here. Nasa spokesman Dick Young said Lowe had written the Agency to ask for an authentication of the object. Because officials want to examine every piece of challenger wreckage he said they asked that Lowe turn it Over. He said Lowe agreed and a Nasa plane picked up the deems on thursday. Mrs. Lowe said in a Telephone inter View that she and her husband had found the piece on a Rocky ledge on a Coral Island in the bahamian Abacus Chain. She said that by consulting the report of the presidential commission that investigated the Accident the Lowes we Reable to identify it As a piece of Challenge italian sculptor Dies Rome a Pericle Fazzini 74, the italian sculptor whose monumental statue the resurrection is the Back drop for Pope John Paul is weekly Gen eral audiences died Friday of heart fail ure the family reported. We wanted Nasa to verify it be cause we wanted to display it in museums in this area because Ron Mcnair was born just 23 Miles away she said. Mcnair was one of the Crew members killed in the explosion. He was born in Lake City  Mrs. Lowe said that in August her Hus band mailed pictures of the piece to Agency offices in Florida and washing ton. She said a Nasa official phoned about three weeks later and said the Agency was interested in examining the piece. On dec. 2 we received a Call from Nasa about 4 30 p.m., saying someone would be Here the next Day at 9 30 to pick up the piece she said. The next morning two men arrived at the House. They had no documents no written in formation so we did t give it to them. We received three More phone Calls she said. We were told we had until noon to turn it Over or that a warrant would be filed with the Fri. My husband said he had no option but to give it up so he drove it to the Airport and delivered  according to Young Steve Van meter one of the Nasa officials who went to Florence said a decision was made to resolve the situation by noon or turn it Over to the proper Federal  Steve does t recall the exact words he used Young said. She said the Lowes believed the debris was theirs because they found it in an other country. She said they were disappointed but not bitter at the outcome we re christians and Good citizens of this great country. They have promised us a picture of challenger and because of our willingness to give up the piece they invited us to be Nasa s guest at the next space shuttle launching. For that we Are very grateful and we will be there and enjoy it. Our two grandchildren will love it passport photos of mystery Man and Mayumi Richiya Kal probes baffled about suicide s identity Manama Bahrain a the fingerprints of a mystery Man who killed himself with Poison last week do not match either of two suspects in a 1983 North korean spy scandal in Japan officials said Friday. Japanese officials had suggested ear Lier that he might be one Rotthe two korean using the japanese name Akira Miyamoto. The dead Man and his female com Panion who survived took Poison be fore being questioned about the disappearance tuesday of a South korean jetliner that May have been bombed. They were passengers on part of the flight and were believed to be koreans living in Japan. No Trace has been found of the Boeing 707, which thai officials believe crashed either in Jungles near the Burma thai land Border or in burmese Waters of the Andaman sea. Korean air lines flight 858, which originated in Baghdad Iraq was bound for Seoul with stops at Abu Dahabi Amman Jordan and Bangkok Thailand. South korean officials have said they believe the plane which had 115 people aboard was destroyed by a bomb and that communist North Korea was responsible. Takao Natsumi the acting japanese ambassador told reporters Friday in Manama the fingerprints were matched against those of Kunzo Kozumi and Akira Miyamoto but did not match i ther of those  fingerprints of the Man and woman travelling on forged japanese passports As father and daughter were sent to Japan As part of the expanding investigation of the bizarre affair. The woman is in a military Hospital in Bahrain. Both bit into Poison capsules hidden in cigarette filters As they awaited questioning tuesday about the missing Airliner. They were arrested at the Bahrain Airport before boarding a flight for Rome. The two were on the Kal flight from Baghdad to Abu Dahabi on sunday and later the same Day flew from Abu Dahabi to Bahrain an Island Sheik Dom in the persian Gulf. Two japanese diplomats and a South korean to cd to interview her after she regained consciousness thursday but Natsumi said she refused to talk. Their false passports identified the woman As Mayumi Hachiya. 27, and the Man As Shinichi Hachiya 69. The real Hachiya told police in Tokyo he had known the korean some years ago in Japan