European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday june 7,1988 to hearings Are held on Waldheim evidence of War crimes Nof enough London a testimony Given at a televised commission of inquiry would be too weak to convict austrian president Kurt Waldheim of nazi War crimes an International panel of former judges has ruled. After Silling for nine Days and hearing 35 witnesses including former German soldiers the judges ruled sunday night we conclude unanimously that the Evi Dence which has been put before us is not enough to make probable that a Waldheim committed any of the War crimes alleged against him in this in  however the inquiry did find that Waldheim must have appreciated thai Many More captured italian officers and hostages taken in Yugoslavia in 1942 would be shot after he Learned that a Large number had been executed. But he had no authority Over them and on his own authority he could do nothing to Stop the shootings the panel said. Lapses and aberrations of memory such As or. Waldheim seems to have had about his service in Greece and the bal kans arc not in themselves evidence of guilt the judges said. Waldheim 69. Who served As an intelligence officer with the German army in Greece and the Balkans during the War did not come to London for the inquiry which failed to uncover any vital new witnesses or evidence against him. The inquiry was paid for by America s Home Box office and Britain s thames television toward the end of the studio filming prosecuting lawyer Allan a. Ryan acknowledged he had been unable to pro Duce new evidence. No investigation so far had concluded that Waldheim was a War criminal he said. Ryan a former director of the nazi Hunting . Office of special investigations argued however that the totality of evidence showed Waldheim was nol there making Coffee for these criminals. His acts facilitated their  Waldheim has vigorously denied the allegations since they surfaced in 198$, four years after he stepped Down As . Secretary general and 41 years after the end of world War ii. He is alleged to have been involved in massacres of yugoslav and greek civil ians and partisans deportation of greek jews to death Camps and the delivery for execution of captured British Comman Dos and greek resistance fighters. He also has been accused of involve ment in the burning of villages in Yugo Slavia and a notorious massacre there of about 70,000 men women and children at Koi Arain 1942. The judges decision was delivered by sir Frederick Lawton at the end of a 3 k hour to film titled Waldheim a com Mission of  we have not been asked to deride whether or. Waldheim is or is not guilty of a crime still less has it been our function to pass a moral judgment upon him said Lawton the 76-year-old for Mer lord Justice of Britain s Appeal court. A person does not commit a War crime merely because he knows others have committed such crimes nor be cause he worked with or alongside those who committed  his colleagues were Shirley Hufstedler a former circuit judge for the . Court of appeals and sex education Secre tary and West German Walter Hubner swede Gustav Petryn and Canadian Gordon Cooper. Ryan noted that an inquiry by a com Mission of historians concluded last february that Waldheim was not a War Crim Inal. The world a wish Congress for All their outrage has refrained very properly from saying that he was. But you Nave these other concerns is he a liar is he a dishonourable person is he a shifty arro Gant social climber Ryan asked. On sunday Waldheim met with King Fand in saudi Arabia and received saudi Arabia s highest decoration. Fund gave the austrian president a red carpet Welcome when Waldheim arrived saturday for a three Day state visit the King later hosted a banquet at which he decorated Waldheim with the cordon Kofkin Habdel Aziz. Philippine ban moves ahead Manila Philippines a the Senate gave final approval monday to a Bill Banning nuclear weapons and nuclear equipped warships from the country in a move aimed at . Military bases in the Philippines. Similar legislation is pending in the House of representatives. Nineteen senators gave their approval to the Bill on the third and final Reading. Three vol cd against the measure and one abstained. The Bill which received preliminary approval last month sets prison terms of up to 30 years for bringing nuclear weapons into the country and up to 12 years imprisonment for importing nuclear components. Supporters said he measure was aimed at the six american military installations in inc Philippines. As part of its defense policy the United slates refuses to confirm or deny whether it has deployed nuclear weapons in the Philippines. The three senators who opposed the Bill John Osmona Neptali Gonzalez and Mamintal Tamano said the measure would raise problems with the United Stales Over the future of the bases. The current bases agreement expires in 1991, and inc cons Lillion requires that any Extension be provided for by a bilateral treaty subject to approval by two thirds of the Senate. Last april the . And philippine governments began a review of the current agreement. A successful outcome is expected to influence the Philippines Deci Sion on whether to allow the bases to remain after 1991. Philippine president Corazon Aquino says she will Honor the agreement but refuses to say whether she will support an Extension music from the past a 4,om-Ycar-4 u is Stem appears la remarkably Good shape alter excavation by archaeologists on the greek islam of Crete. The indent musical instrument was discovered in a communal crave in a minoan cemetery. The minoans created in rope s lire advanced civilization which flourished on Crete from about 2800 . To 1100 , car acc says soviet threat remains Tokyo up defense Secretary Frank Carlucci said monday soviet reforms have nol eased the rus Sian military threat and the Western allies should not be fooled by the Good will coming out of the Moscow Summit meeting. Carlucci making his first Public address since at tending last week s Summit Between president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Gorba Chev s drive to improve soviet efficiency and Advance High technology could work to increase the soviet Mili tary threat. Sum Mitry is no substitute for Security Carlucci said in a speech before the Japan National press club Carlucci cautioned against Reading too much into Gorbachev s program of Reform known As acres troika. While perestroika is important let me emphasize that today we have not seen any tangible Impact of acres troika on the soviet military  Carlucci warned against accepting the soviet re forms As a sign that the West can Start relaxing defense efforts. If the end result is the Western Alliance relaxes its defense Effort and the soviet Union modernizes its Industrial and technological base and if sometime in the 1990s, it ends up As a society that can produce enormous quantities of weapons even More effectively than it does today then we will have made an enor Mous miscalculation Carlucci said. World today 2nd yugoslav journalist held on secrets charge Belgrade Yugoslavia up a military judge ordered the arrest of a second journalist with the activist youth Magazine Mladina on suspicion he betrayed military secrets the news Agency Tan Jug said sunday. The arrest of David Tasic came several Days after the arrest of Janez Jansa another journalist associated with Mladina and candidate for president of the socialist youth Alliance and sol. Maj. Ivan Borstner. Both Jansa and Borstner also were arrested on suspicion of betraying military secrets Tan Jug said. The three arrests were ordered by a military court in Ljubljana the capital of the yugoslav Republic of Slove Nia. Mladina the official Magazine of the socialist youth Alliance of the Republic of Slovenia has published several articles in the past several months criticizing Yugoslavia s armed forces British army establishes new bomb disposal unit London a there Are so Many old bombs around that the British army has set up a new regiment to Deal with them anywhere it s asked. The army says the new bomb disposal unit will be available to help dear explosive devices in Britain and other countries. The Royal engineers unit named 101 Engineer regiment started its formal life on sunday with a Parade ill Rochester Castle in Kent near its base. The army believes there is sufficient work most of it dating from world War ii to keep the unit Busy Well into the next Century. Bombs rained Down on Britain m the War and some times buried themselves without going off. Every month or so one is revealed by excavation and the army has to defuse it and then take it away and explode it harmlessly. Rotheby s gets $475,850 at first chinese auction Beijing a rotheby s auctioneers racked up nearly half a million . Dollars in sales sunday at its first auction in China. Organizers said the profits would go to renovate a half mile Section of the great  s super auctioneer Julian Thompson chairman of rotheby s International said after 73 chinese and Western works of modern Art and rare objects brought in a total of 1.76 million Yuan $475,850. After auction costs of Aboul $ 100,000 Are paid half the remaining Money is to go toward renovating the crumbling great waft and half toward projects to save the italian City of Venice which is sinking beneath the Waters of the Adriatic  vial a Paris Public relations agent organized the Sale