European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 world today the stars and strikes wednesday May 11.19bb Ethiopia s red Cross severs International ties Addis Abara Ethiopia a Ethiopia s red Cross society has Cul lies with the International committee of the red Cross cuing its refusal to release drought Relief supplies after the government Cupelle foreign Aid workers from the War Lorn North. Eros chairman Daw ii Zewdie announced the break in a speech marking red Cross Day and the 125th anniversary of the International red Cross movement. Since appealing indefinitely to i arc for re consideration or its Iland has proved to be unrealistic and in Light or the emergency situation involved the ethiopian red Cross society has deemed it necessary to disengage itself from the joint Relief of Crinion with i arc Daw ii said. The Geneva based All Swiss i arc was part of a massive Relief Effort to save an estimated 7 million ethiopians from starvation following severe crop failures last year. 30,000 leaflets land in Western Japan Field Tokyo api a Large balloon containing Al least 30,000 leaflets written in the hangul alphabet used by both North and South Korea has lamed in Western Japan police said Mon Day. An official of the Takase police in Kagawa prefecture said a woman working in a Field heard a loud bang and saw a flying object when she looked up. The of decl fell into the Field. Inc official quoted the woman a saying. Lie said police later found a punctured bal Loon and a Vinyl bag containing 17.6 pounds of leaflets and three pictures but he refused to de scribe the items. Kyodo news service reported Hal the leaflets praised North korean Leader Kim 11-Sung and said the pictures were of a South korean Delec Tor. E. German guards using new Mobile platforms Munich al1 communist East German Border guards Are using a Mobile observation Pla Funn to patrol the heavily guarded Frontier that divides Wesl Germany and Lias Germany West German Border police in Munich said comm Unis guards have been observed using the new platform a living Ifie Fronner Wilh Havana in Southern Cwm Germany. West German Border police said the High pall firm is fined to a trailer Al inched to a vehicle. When fully emended on inc trailer the platform is Aboul i "2 feel High. The pallor a apparently of designed m aug ment watch Lowers reeled along inc Frontier. Banks to provide soviets $2.08 billion line of credit Nonn a West German Banks have agreed to Gram the soviet Union a Ilos billion line of credit to help modernize us consumer goods Industry a Hanking spokesman says. Harold sch Mil. Spokesman for Deutsche Bank said Deutsche Bank a the Lead financial Insl Lulion in a consortium Hal will provide the line of credit. There will be discussions Wanh other Wesl Ger nun Banks Over this in the next few Days Schmo said monday. The credit will be for financing the modernisation of the Soviel Union s consumer foods and food processing Indus int a he said the package was arranged a Yuri Modrovsky chairman of the so in foreign Trade Bank and Deutsche Hank co chairman f. Wilhel in christians. It followed three Days of talks in Pihs Tedorf Between soviet officials and veil German industrialists and Bankers last week. Murder charges May result from killings in Gibraltar London a British commandos who killed three unarmed Irish Republican army guerrillas who were on a bombing Mission in Gibraltar March 6 could face murder charges the attorney general of Gibraltar said according to a report tuesday in the times of London. The paper quoted the British Colony s attorney general Eric As saying in an interview Hal he would Insl Gale prosecutions if further evidence showed the guerrillas were Shoi dead As they tried to surrender. It said this Lethwaite s remarks counter allegations Hal Gibraltar authorities arc trying to Whitewash the actions of the commandos of the army s special air service regiment who reportedly carried out the slayings. H said is aware of what if called a concerted Campaign by sources in prime minister Mir Garect Thatcher s government to justify the shootings following allegations thai the guerrillas Pui up their hands before shots were fired. On april in thames television ignoring govern ment demands for a postponement aired a program in which an alleged eyewitness said the guerrillas were shot without warning apparently As two tried to sur Render and inc third tried to run away. London based thames is part of the commercial Index Condeni television network. The program. Death on the Rock was shown throughout Britain. On May 5, the British broadcasting corp., also ignoring government protests aired a program in which alleged eyewitnesses also said inc guerrillas were shot As they apparently tried to surrender. This was shown Only in Northern Ireland. The slayings of Mairead Farrell. 31 Daniel Mccann 30. And Sean Savage 24, triggered violence i n roman Catholic areas of Northern 1 Roland in which two soldiers and seven other people died. The Irish government criticized the Gibraltar slay Ings on grounds the commandos apparently made no attempt to arrest inc guerrillas. British opposition Par ties and the London bused human rights group amnesty International also criticized the slayings. Thatcher condemned inc iwo to programs As Iris by the real danger of such interviews is thai witnesses whose evidence is vital to the mailers under investigation Are questioned without any of the safeguards in Nur courts of Law or before tribunals of the statements by the alleged eyewitnesses in the two to programs appeared to contradict a statement March 7 by foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe. Howe said the guerrillas were challenged As they walked toward the nearby Spanish Border and were slain because they made movements which led Security personnel to believe i hair lives were in danger w Lulu a Pill let nun s la Bod of Klinl i a by the a T "11 tid a " " Ciiab Tiik uffizi a lit new in Ollil 1 killed 14 Hurt As blast rips Citibank office in new Delhi new Delhi. India a an explosion ripped through Citibank s main Ofick in downtown new Delhi tuesday killing one person and injuring Al Leasi 14, notice and Hospital officials said. Police Al the scene said they were still investigating ill came of the blast which occurred at the american Hank about ii is . We 1 ruled out Hal in was a said a . Deputy commissioner of police. An expert team is coming and they will advise then no immediate claim of responsibility for try Blasl. Thirteen people injured in the explosion were and Mizied to ram Manohar Hospital. Another person was a Ken to the All India inst Luie of medical sciences. Three of those admitted to ram Manohar Hospital were in critical condition. Or. Saroj Sha Masaid. The uni cd news of India quoted unidentified police sources As saying Hal the dead Man was either an afghan or Arab. The nationalities of the other victims were nol immediately known. The Bank is staffed almost entirely by indians although Many foreigners use its services. The office opened late last year on the third floor of a new 12-Slory office Tower. The building overlooks the capital s Central Connaught Circle shopping Arcade. One Man who said he had been inside the Bank at the Lime of inc Blasl said in was crowded with people waiting in lines to Sec tellers. He said Al least two of the injured were women. He declined to give his name. Most of the damage was Al the Northern Corner of the office where foreign Exchange transactions were handled. Pieces of Glass littered the sidewalk and the Street in front of the building owned by the government run life insurance corp. Of India. The major damage appeared 10 be confined to he Citibank office
