European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 world today the stars and stripes saturday May 14,19bs German envoy politician freed by colombian rebels Barranca Bermejo Colombia a a leftist guerrilla group freed a Weil German dip Lomat and a colombian politician thursday after holding them captive for id Days said police in this Eastern port cily. Siegfried Marker. 59, honorary Consul in by Carani Anga and Dario Pana the president of Santander stale Council Wen released unharmed in this City s cemetery police said. Marker said he was treated Well 41 % of britons in poll say terrorists should be shot London up forty one percent of Bri tons think terrorist should be shot an sight according o a poll published thursday. The Gallup poll conducted for the daily Tele graph found thai j i percent on the other hand believed that All possible measures should be taken o bring terrorists o trial and 8 percent did t know the poll was taken in the context of a March 6 incident in Gibraltar in which British Security forces shot dead three Ira guerrillas suspected of planting a car bomb. To the question do you think the Security services were justified or not in shooting the terrorists 61 percent said yes 21 percent said no and the rest had no opinion. To the general question do you think that terrorists should be shot on sight or do you think thai All possible measures should be taken to bring them before a court of Law 41 percent said they should be shot on sight. Police catch boy 7, speeding in stolen car Johannesburg South Africa a a 7-ycaf.old boy driving a stolen car was chased by police at speeds of up id 93 Miles per hour be fore being forced off a Highway state radio re ported Friday. The South african broadcasting corp. Said the boy who was not identified apparently stole the car in the Lawn of about 10 Miles West of Johannesburg. The 5abc said the Chase began when a traffic officer spotted what appeared to be a Driver Teri car speeding along the Road 2 win Asylum in Taiwan after hijacking chinese Jet Taipei Taiwan a two chinese men who threatened to a Tow up a Boeing 737 unless it flew from the Mainland to Taiwan were welcomed As refugees Friday because they risked their lira to seek Freedom and democracy Taiwan said. China thanked the rival government for returning the chinese Airliner and its 107 passengers end ii Crew members Friday nine hours after the aircraft was hijacked to a taiwanese military base. The air pirates meanwhile appeared on Taiwan television and said they would have killed themselves had their hijacking failed. Chan Ching Kuo 27, said in an interview on Tai Wain s official chinese television service that he and his companion lung Kuci Yun 26, used a toy pistol and a bottle of a phony explosive to Force the plane Lota Iwan thursday. I be said he and lung also carried knives. We would have committed suicide if we foiled Chang said on Cilc vision. We never planned to return to China the aircraft was hijacked thursday evening after it left the coastal City of Xiamen in fijian province for Canton the capital of neighbouring Huangdong prov Ince. Ii landed at an air Force base in Central Taiwan at about to . Less than six hours later the plane was refuelled and sent Back to Xiamen with the Passen Gers aboard. The hijackers remained in Taiwan and were granted political Asylum Chang was identified As a worker at an Arsenal in China s Southern Yunnan province and lung As a steel Mill worker in Southern Guichou province. A smiling Chang displayed a toy plot of and a bottle during the televised interview. He said he defected because he detested the brutality of government ipod Osman Shaw you Ming said Al a news conference that authorities were investigating the air piracy. It was the first hijacking of a civilian chinese air plane to Taiwan. The chinese communists and the Taiwan nationalists both Claire to be the legitimate rulers of China and have no direct communications links. The two hijackers Are our compatriots Shaw said. They have risked their lives to seek Freedom and democracy. We must respect their wishes and offer them Protection. Their motives were simple and Noble. Taiwan does not condone or encourage any Hijack ing behaviour Shaw said. He added we would have Chang Chlieb kno left and Long Knel Nui new to Btl hand in Triumph alter being trained Asylum. Been sending them to their doom if we turned them tuck to the the hijackers did not appear Al the Newt conference. In Beijing he Yizhou director general of the National Airliner civil aviation administration of China originally asked Taiwan to return the hijackers. After the plane flew Back to Xiamen however he thanked the civil aeronautics Bureau in Taiwan for the Quick return of the Airliner and those aboard with out mentioning he Hijacker. We Are very grateful to you for your help he was quoted As saying by China s official Xinhua news Agency. Xiamen in Southeastern fijian province is 136 Miles across the Taiwan Straits from Taiwan. Adopted son 3 others charged in actor s death Santo Domingo dominican re Public a George Rose s adopted is year old son and the youth s natural father were among four people charged with murdering the award winning actor police said the natural father said Rose had sexually abused his son Domingo Antonio Ralfe Vazquez As Well As other youths. Police and doctors also said cocaine was found on the 68-year-old Rose and that Laboratory tests performed in Miami showed traces of a cocaine derivative in hit body at the Lime of his death in a sworn statement police gave re porters on thursday Juan Antonio Vaz Quez Padilla the natural father of Ralfe Vazquez said the British bom Holder of a Tony award was held for eight hours on May 4, before being clubbed to death Vazquez said the killers tried to make the death look like the result of a single car Accident. Initial police reports had said Rose died As a result of an Accident. A statement read by police spokesman col. Aquiles Cruz Gomez at a news con Ference said Vasquez Ralfe and the youth s Uncle Maximo Padilla Vazquez were arrested. A fourth suspect is Sull Al Large. The statement said the three had confessed to police that they planned the crime when they noticed or George Rose fell certain amorous weaknesses far another 14-year-old the three appeared Al the news con Ference and told reporters they took part in the actor s death. What i really wanted was to take re Venge on the american Rose because of his homosexual activities since he was hurting a lot of boys in this sector in addition to mine whom he had already prostituted since the age of 11," Vazquez said in the statement. However Bea Garcia a longtime Friend and neighbor of Rose s in the North coast town of Sosa told the new York Tim in a Telephone interview that Rose had adopted Ralfe in january be cause he wanted an heir. He later had become disenchanted with the youth be cause he was not attending to a business in which the actor had invested $23,000. She added that two weeks before he was killed Rose told her he wanted to Moke changes in his will. A ique said Ralfe Padilla and an other Man he paid $200 agreed to take Rose loan isolated location and kill him. Rose who had lived in new York cily since 1961. Was a versatile actor who was at much at Home playing Shakespeare a he was in a comedy or a musical. He preferred the stage but also appeared in scores of motion pictures and television productions. Okuno reportedly resigns amid juror Over views Tokyo a a Cabinet minister who said Japan was not an aggressor in world War ii resigned Friday an official in his governing Liberal democratic party said. Sci Suie Okuno director general of the National land Agency submitted his resignation to prime min Uter Noboru Takishita said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Japan broadcast corp. Also reported Okuno s resignation. A remark by Okuno three weeks ago that Japan was not an aggressor in world War ii had drawn condemnation from China South Korea and North Korea. The Veteran politician is widely regarded u the no. 3 Man in government after Takeshita and finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa. Earlier Friday Okuno apologized to japanese officials for the juror his comments Nad caused but continued to stand by them. I May withdraw my remarks if they disrupt the diet parliament but what i said was not wrong he told a group of parliamentarians. To reporters Okuno said my comments have incurred criticism outside Japan and aroused friction in the diet. As a result the did. And other concerned bodies have suffered from the Bottom of my heart i am the report of his resignation followed press reports that the. Prime minister wanted Okuno to step Down voluntarily. Kyodo news service said Takeshita met with the 75-year-old Okuno Friday and brought up the option. It was also a reversal of policy for Takeshita. Who had avoided taking any action against Okuno since he said on april 23 that Japan had no aggressive intent in world War ii. Okuno had said Japan fought of protect Ruelf Al a Lime when the White race had turned Asia into a Colo the comment Drew condemnation from China South Korea and North Korea and threatened to Strain asian relations at a Tine when Japan s ties with its main ally the United Stales Are marred Fay Trade ten Sions
