European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 12.1958 the stars and stripes Page 3 Noriega arms buildup plan revealed Washington Ai l a Mccrel memo outlining a by panamanian turn Neman Manuel Antonio no in to acquire thousands of semiautomatic pistols has Chin leaked 10 an approx it inn Leader by a rebel member of Panama s military. The proposed acquisition of the Browning 9mm Pis Ink is pan of a sizable weapons buildup by Panama s i Vernic forces that Jot under nay shortly after Panama s crisis began six weeks ago with Noriega s ouster of president Eric Arturo Del Vallec. The memo was sent to Noriega on april 1 by Leo wanta. President of Americhina global management Osup inc. An arms exporting Firth based in apply Tom wis. Wan 1,1 told Noriega in the memo that the supplier of she weapons had advised that they Are re sly to Finali a the delivery of the pistols. The schedule called for the delivery of 5,000 pistols immediately and 2,000 per month thereafter until All units arc the memo did nol specify Kwiw Many weapons were to be sent All told. But a previous memo by Wonla poles Mark 40 massacre of officers Gdansk Poland up thousands of Pules sunday took part in ceremonies comm Moraline the Kalyn massacre of polish officers in the soviet Union in 1 to. In a Sermon to 8,000 people in is. Engida s Church the Rcv. Hnryk Jankowski a pro Solidarity priest called on authorities to reveal he Rulh about the Ratyn killings lie also demanded payment of indemnities in millions of poles forced into slave labor in inc soviet Union during world War 11. In Warsaw the Rev a Vel Piotrowski charged the authorities with hiding the truth about Katyn and requested apol Ogies from Moscow for Llic homicides Abou 16.000 polish officers Are be. Lic cd i have been killed in soviet Terri tory in 1940, and Llie bodies of about 4.500 were discovered in mass Graves at Katyn near Smolensk. Was icon historians and poles blame so View forces for the massacre considered the world s largest Unju ged homicide. Moscow has not changed ils Contin lion that the crime was carried Oul by iceman troops. Jankowski recalled thai fallowing the. Invasion of Poland by inc soviet army 17 Days after killer assaulted 1 Oland in 1939. Millions of poles were deported into Ovici territory. Independent Histo rians say about 3 million were used its forced labor and about i million died. Polish Sulho relics demanded and Gol indemnities for thousands of poles who worked As slave labourers in Germany during world War in but the payment of compensation by Moscow has never been brought up before. Authorities deployed contingents of Hal meted nol police around the Gdansk Church but inc crowd dispersed peacefully. We Haven heard the words of apol Ogies from those who did it the Kalyn murder said Piotrowski to 1.500 peo ple in the St. Stanislaw Kostka Church. Piotrowski said a genuine Friendship Between Poland and the soviet Union could be Hal if the Ruih about Katyn were revealed. The polish stale controlled press recently has published articles or Xvi it invasion of Eastern Poland in 1939, but the subject of Katyn hat remained largely untouched. We can l so the word Kalyn now and a certain Amu Ufi of Rulh about inc plight of poles in Russia has been re Cal cd but the rest of the truth has been he said. Obtained by the associated press last month said inc Purchase involved 30,000 pistols including the 5,000 to he in immediately. The list once is j39s each. The earlier memo was Given to the a by Panama s Ambas Dor to the United Stales Juan b. Sosa. Wanta had sent a Tel copy of the memo to Sosa. Unaware that the envoy had broken with Noriega and continues to regard Del Vallec As inc legitimate president of Panama. Sosa has refused to relinquish inc embassy co n replacement envoy named by the new government in Panama. Wants Scal the april i memo directly to Noriega bypassing the. Embassy in Washington a stamp in the upper left hand Comer of inc communication said in was received by the defense forces on april 5. The memo Wai leaked by a defense forces officer to a panamanian opposition Leader who turned Over copy to he a on condition he nol be identified either by name or location. The pistols Are manufactured by Fabrique nation ale. . Of Belgium and Are to be delivered from do i country 10 Panama according to the memo. The state department raised the Issue late last month with the Vician firm which said that it had not hid Contact with anyone from Aitie Richina. A . Official Laid. The . Government cannot legally Block inc Sale because the weapons Are nol of american origin. The official instilling on anon Niilyn said Americhina has not registered with the . Government a require ment he said applies to All american arms dealers. Wanta could not be reached for comment. The com Pany phone number thai appeared on Ted first memo was deleted from the second memo. The phone has teen temporarily according to a re corded announcement. Attic Only address Luied it a Post office Box. Concerning Panama s arms buildup a panamanian Pilot who selected from inc defense forces last month said he and two other pilots Elco 94,000 pounds of weapons to Panama from Cuba on Noriega s behalf. Another aspect of the military buildup is a training program for thousands of panamanians who have formed into Volunteer unit known As dignity Bri Gades to repel what the government says is an Immi nent . Invasion. Swaggart news conference television evangelist Jimmy a braggart accompanied Fly his ire Frances reads a statement Ann Nuncina his resignation from inc assemblies of cod Friday in Baton Kluge la Swa Krsul quit after the Church said it we de rocking him for reject inc a one year suspension from the pulpit. He nude a tearful Public confession feb. 21 of mural parody makes e. Germany see red brr1.in a the fast German communist party is nol laughing about a parody of its official paper that was smuggled in from West Cie Many and reported plans to turn police archives into 3 Public Library in a commentary saturday Neues deutschland the target of the parody accused a Hamburg Magazine of Gross intrusion in the country s internal affairs. The Magazine Tempo Lale last week admin cd that it had printed 6,000 copies of the parody edition and smuggled them into Easi Germany. The news papyri were distributed in East he rain and Leip Zig. Saturday s commentary carried the headline wretched the articles in the parody were written by East German dissidents now living in West Germany Tempo said. Neues deutschland said the conic its of Llie articles were so unspeakably primitive that they did not deserve a detailed response. One article reported on suggestions for the Sale of inc for tined and heavily guarded Wall that partitions Berlin into East and West. Of her articles reported on the dismantling of nuclear Power plants in East Ger Many on proposals to Send unemployed West germans to cast Germany and on the conversion of the state secret police Archive into a Public Reading room. . Scientists win dental research prize Stockholm. Sweden api two . Scien iils who pioneered the use of fluoride As Prolic icim against cavities have won an inaugural prize in denial research inc Karolin Sla ins Itule announced monday. The winners. Professors Harold Hodge and finn Brunc veld were cited for research that has led to a Radical reduction of caries in All populations that have been scientifically invest the �25,300 Price was instituted by a swedish research fund for the prevention of dental disease in collaboration with the Karoo N.V. Institute in Suic Holm and the swedish medical research Council ii will be awarded every Ihrck cars. The announcement said. The prize will be awarded at the Institute s graduation ceremony in the Stock Holm City Hall on May 31. Hodge it former head of the pharmacology and toxicology department of the University . N.v., was cited for his research on the biology of fluorides Mik ing it possible to add the compound to drinking water. Brudevold received the Pri for his studio on applying fluorides with tooth pastes and Mouth rinses which enabled everybody to reduce Canci attacks by Aboul half the announcement uhf
