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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, March 23, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes wednesday. March 3, t98b sex Toshiba execs get suspended sentences Tokyo will a japanese court gave suspended prison arms to two for Mer Toshiba incentives tuesday and . Military exchanges stopped Selling the  s products because of its it inns of strategic material Toich soviet Union the Tokyo District court i ind the Toshiba subsidiary responsible for the exports. Toshiba machine f of 2 million yen i 15,700 for violating Japan s for eign a Changi c ont i l Law. Hiroaki Tanimura 51. Former Deputy head of Toshiba machine s engineering department As sentenced to a sus Pended one year prison Lerm and three years probation Hyt Iro Hayashi former head of the Mak no procurement department Drew a suspended 10-Munih prison term Anil three years probation. The defendants resigned after being accused of a cling corp ulcer Ronor Ollieu prop Cutler milling machines and related software to the soviets Between 198j and 1984 without obtaining government permission. . Officials charged that the illegal transaction helped the soviets produce submarines with quieter propellers Mak ing them harder to Ctm and jeopardizing Western ecu Riby. Exchanges at All . Military bases including installations a Europe were ordered tuesday to Tave Toshiba in Levi Fiona Sercos Anjo her products off their shelves As part of sanctions passed by the . Congress in december that prohibit the oct Artmont of defense from purchasing Toshiba goods Toshiba corp. Slock which has been recommended by Stock analysis recently As a bargain fell 9 yen tuesday to close at to yen. Toshiba machine Stock fell 2 yen in close at 13r yen. We believe Toshiba currently rep resents one of he Best values in the Japa Nese technology sector Shearson leh Man hut Ion Tvr Aie in a recent report. Toshiba sold �50 million Worth of Good to the defense department in Fis Cal 19s6, Only Smail fraction of in trial Vales $33 billion for that year. The . Senate has proposed a ban on All Toshiba exports to the United Stales for two in five years to Ichibu depends on Chr United Stales for about 9 percent of its total sales but Trie sanctions which arc opposed by the House of . Arc rolex petted to pass. A Toshiba spokesman in Tokyo said the ban on department of defense sales could have an effect beyond the loss of sales. This kind of damage cannot be counted in Dollar  said Ken Ishi Hara t Toshiba spokesman. The dam age is very significant. Besides the loss of Sale we arc suffering from indirect damage a worsening image among distributors of consumer and other electronics the Tokyo court said the damage caused by Toshiba sales was significant their act caused serious Adverse effects on Japan s diplomatic Anil foreign Trade policies air Ned at maintaining the note Trade s St m through  cooperation presiding judge Tosh  said. Defense lawyers argued that iroc soviets could have built similar machines and disputed a link Between the Titi Etc soviet submarines and tic Silc of Toshiba machines. World today new currency notes being issued by Vietnam Bangkok. Thailand not warning that a Strong Black Market Economy has the potential to Sab Utaga the policies of the it communist leadership Vietnam has issued a new series of currency notes. The Public response appears to have been what the government feared most a de Facto 30 percent devaluation of the Dong Vietnam s unit of currency. A Western businessman who Lias j my returned from to Chi Minh City Vietnam said the Dol Lar Worth Between 1,000 and 1,100 Dong several weeks ago was now being traded unofficially for  to 1.600 Dong. The official Exchange rate remains to Dong to the Dollar. There it also an ingerm Fiak c Chance rate for tourists and Trad ing partners. Jewish Council chief urges educating youth on past Uehlin Al the newly elected president of wot Germany s jewish Council monday said West German youth must be made More aware of the country s past to make them belter pre pared for future responsibilities. In intr Galinski 75, was elected us the new president of the jewish Council on sunday. He succeeds former president Werner Nachmann who died of a heart attack in january. I seek a strengthening of  Galinski said. The West German youth arc not responsible for the past. However for exactly that reason they must be made More aware of the past so that they can Lake on their responsibility for the future he said. British doctor who pioneered test tube baby technique Dies London a or. Patrick Sec proc the pin co log isl who pioneered the test lube baby technique has died the British press association reported tuesday 1 be was 74. The Agency quoting a family announcement said St pipe had been suffering from cancer. He died in a Hospital in Canterbury 62 Miles Southeast of London. St pipe and his partner or. Ruben Edwards were responsible for the world s first test tube baby Louise Joy Brown bom at Oldham in Northern England on july 25, i97g. The announcement of the birth of the physically perfect baby from an embryo fertilized outside her Mother s womb caused shoe Waves at the time. The test tube baby technique known As in Vitro fertilization has since been toed in clinics around the world. Steptoe and Edwards were made commanders of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth la � new year Honor list in 1987, just a week after the 1,000th test tube baby conceived with the doctors help was bom. I am not a win in or a Frankenstein Steplock said As Louise Brown t Birt j was hailed is a Miracle by some and criticized As a wrong use of scientific techniques by others including the roman Catholic Church All i want to a is to help women Whaso child producing mechanism is slightly  Louise now a healthy schoolgirl was conceived after an egg was removed from tier Mother Lesley Brown and fertilized of title the womb with the sperm of truck Driver John Brown. Resumed to the womb the embryo developed a Normal pregnancy. Sec toe and Edwards developed an internationally known private practice at their Bourn Hall clinic. In their Early years of research in the late 1960s and Early 1970s. They were ostracized by much of the medi Cal establishment and were once turned Down for a medical research Council Gran. Thai changed after Louise s birth. Besides being made a Cue ele toe last year received one of Britain s highest academic Honor and was made a fellow of the Royal society. In Vitro fertilization was devised rnai tiny to relieve or. Piukku Stepfon infertility in women with blocked or damaged Fil Topi an lubes the Normal tile of Conception. Under the procedure ova Are removed from the woman and fertilized with the prospective father s sperm in a Laboratory Dib. Resulting embryos often More than one then an implanted in the womb. Some embryos arc now Frozen for later use. There have been thousands of babies bom worldwide in otherwise infertile couples As a Resuli of in Viltro fertilization. Woman reportedly hid spy film in hair Spray can Bonn a a woman who put a Job wan cd and in a newspaper was recruited As a communist spy and trained to photograph secret documents with a camera disguised us a cigarette lighter officials said monday. The woman arrested Friday in Bonn hid film Laic it for in soviet Blue spy masters in a specially altered can of hair Spray prosecutors said. She used at least 26 locations in Bonn to deliver documents and pick up instructions from Oiler communist agents they added. Prosecutor Kurt  said investigators Etc ass Euing the damage to National Security caused by Elke fall who worked in lie West German chancellery from 1974-77 and in other ministries later. The suspect delivered notes copied documents and photographs from All of her professional duties to her intelligence run lets Rich Mann said. Falk is being held in investing live Cus Tody awaiting formal charges. Rebmann said. Security officials have not identified the soviet bloc intelligence Agency for which she allegedly worked. Falk wat a Secretary in the economic Coo operation ministry at the Lime of her arrest Friday hours after officials Dis closed the defection of a High East Ger Man transport official who apparently led authorities to her. So was the chief Secretary to Volkmar Koehler. No. 2 Man in the economic cooperation ministry until 1987 and later moved to tiie ministry s european Section officials reported. Ministry spokesman Manfred of a endur hid full had Access to Verf confidential and secret documents provided to the ministry by West German intelligence agencies. Rebmann told reporters Falk was recruited by a Man using the name Ger hard Tierne after inc placed an advertisement in a newspaper looking for work. On sunday tie mass circulation newspaper Bild reported that Falk began spying after thimme seduced her. In its monday editions Bild said Falk had Access to lop secret military and de sense documents while working at the chancellery quoting Security sources it did not identify Bild said she also had Access to fans copts of meetings Between former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and foreign Leaden including former presidents car Ter and Ford. According to Rebmann communist agents warned Falk in 1y85 that she might be exposed. She old Tsi Ger Man authorities she stopped spying at that Lime and destroyed her equipment but she ignored urgings by communist contacts to flee to the East he said. He said Falk was paid about ii 1,760 for the information she delivered. Bild quoted the Security sources As saying filk s activities represented the most serious Security breach since the arrest of guest her Guillaumo. A lop aide to former Chancellor Willy Brandt. Brandt was forced to resign � Chan cellar in 1974 after Guilliume was exposed is i try. Id the last major West German try scandal 13 communal agent were a re sick or disappeared Between August and december 1933. Among them was Hans Joachim Tiedge the Man in charge Oscat Chirum test German spies who fled to East Germany  
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