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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday june 26.19s8 Pope s death Camp speech criticized Lorch Austria a one Day after facing severe criticism from jewish leaders Pope John Paul 11on saturday cited jews and christians killed by the nazi and called the victims suffering a gift to the  the jewish leaders said they objected to the omis Sion of any specific reference to jewish suffering in the pontiffs speech during his visit Friday to the former Mau Hausen death Camp. Roman Catholic relations with the jews have dominated the pontiffs second visit to this Alpine nation that is observing the 50th anniversary of its annexation by nazi Germany in 1938. In Vienna so protesters disrupted a theater performance of the Deputy a play highly critical of therole of Pope Pius Xii in dealing with the nazis. The protesters said it was improper to stage the play during the pontiffs visit to Austria. John Paul travelled saturday to the town of Lorch 25 Miles from the czechoslovakian Border. Not far from Here is Mau Hausen where christians jews and others were persecuted for Many Ria news briefs Crew unhurt As copter ditches in persian Gulf Washington a an army special operations helicopter was forced to ditch m the persian Gulf alter encountering mechanical problems Pentagon officials disclosed Friday. The thursday night incident the first involving one of the secret Mh-6 copters in the Gulf occurred during a routine patrol and did not involve any hostile fire officials said. Both crewmen escaped injury and were picked up later in Good condition the Pentagon said. The helicopter Sank. It. Col. Keith Schneider a Pentagon spokes Mon identified the Craft Only As a . Helicopter operating in the Central persian Gulf on a routine surveillance  air Force no German Hurt in head on collision Sembach West Germany an air Force no and a German citizen were seriously injured in a two car head on collision near sem Bach a saturday a base spokesman said. The service member. A sergeant stationed with the 66th combat support group was in stable condition at lands Uhl army regional medical Center. The German was taken to a Hospital in kaisers Lautem and no condition report was available. The Accident occurred shortly after 8 . On German Highway 40, three Miles from the base. German and . Forces police Are investigating the cause of the Accident. Is Bookstore inventory stars and stripes bookstores will be closed on monday june 27, for inventory. The newspaper May be bought at cafes Burger bars vending machines and other vending Points. Sons including their religion he told 80,000 people at a prayer service. Their suffering was a gift to the  pontiff on Friday visited Mau Hausen Austria s most notorious nazi death Camp where thousands of jews were among the 110,000 inmates who perished. His speech there prompted immediate criticism. The failure of pop John Paul to make any specific reference to the suffering of the jews while visiting the site of the infamous Mau Hausen concentration Camp is a matter of deep Shock to the jewish Community said Elan Steinberg executive director of the world jewish Congress. The president of the austrian jewish Community Paul Grosz added late Friday we had hoped that the Pope would evoke in a Clear manner the particularly tragic character of the jewish situation in the con text of the  an estimated g million jews died during nazi Rule. The pontiff cited four concentration Camp victims by name Alt of them roman catholics. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarre told reporters saturday that the pontiff had no intention of slighting jews. Navarro said the pontiff mentioned the jew who died at Mau Hausen during a Brief Slop at a me Morial plaque set up in their memory. On thursday the pontiff met with president Kurt Waldheim despite protests from some jewish Leaden. The austrian president has faced allegations of complicity in nazi War crimes but has denied wrongdoing. The Pope spent Friday night in Salzburg � Scenic City in Northwestern Austria. He has been delivering his speeches in German throughout the trip. About 85 percent of Austria s population of 7.5 Mil lion people is roman Catholic. During the play late Friday night about 50 protes ters stood up during the performance. This whole play is a just a lie they shouted. Police intervened and took two of the protesters into custody. Rolf Hochhuth s play alleges that then Pope Pius Xii failed to do enough to prevent the holocaust. Aquino oks return of Marcos to stand trial 2 papers report Manila Philippines a president Corazon Aquino has agreed to allow exiled former president Ferdinand Marcos to return to the Philippines to face trial two Manila newspapers reported saturday the Manila bulletin and the Manila chronicle quoted Aquino s press Secretary Teodoro Benigno As saying that Aquino made the Assurance to two Swiss lawyers before she visited Switzerland earlier in june but the reports did not say when criminal charges against Marcos will be filed or when Aquino will allow him to return. Aquino consistently has refused for Security Rea sons to allow Marcos to return to the country Al though she has said he will eventually be allowed to come Home. The president had said she would allow Marcos to return now Only if he and his family swore allegiance to her government and resumed the Money he allegedly stole during his 20-year Rule. She said later she would abide by any court decision if Marcos lawyers in the Philippines raised the matter of his return to the courts. Benigno was quoted As saying that Aquino has to accept the possibility of Marcos returning  the Swiss lawyers Are helping the philippine government Trace Money Marcos and his family allegedly placed in Swiss Bank accounts. Marcos has been living in Hawaii since he was toppled by the civilian military revolt that swept Aqui no to Power in february 19b6. The Swiss government has Frozen assets of Marcos and his associates in Switzerland but has not released information on them to the philippine government because of Legal challenges posed by Marcos lawyers and Swiss Banks. The unidentified Swiss lawyers said the information will not be turned Over unless and until there is an Assurance that formal charges will be filed against him Benigno was quoted As saying. Swiss Law allows the lifting of banking secrecy Laws Only in Case of criminal prosecution. Aquino s government repeatedly has said it will file criminal charges against Marcos whom it has accused of stealing up to $10 billion in government funds. But the government has not done so because of Aquino s refusal to allow Marcos to return. Philippine Law does not allow trial in absent a. Canada from Page 1 Ling the senior soviet military attache and barring three other soviet diplomats from resuming. The Kremlin s withdrawal of 25 of its 39 soviet workers could have a crippling effect on the Canadian Mission in Moscow. Soviet authorities pulled out All 260 soviet employees from the . Embassy in mos cow on oct. 22,1986, in retaliation for . Expulsions of soviet diplomats. The pullout forced american diplomats to do the cooking cleaning driving translating and answering phones at the Moscow embassy and the . Consulate in Leningrad. The Tass announcement did not make Clear whether Canada could replace the 25 soviets withdrawn. The Tass dispatch accused the Canadian military at tache Larry Bowen of engaging in activity thai does not correspond to his official status diplomatic jargon for spying. Seven former embassy diplomats were told they would not be Welcome Back in the soviet Union Tass said the soviet Union rejects spying charges levelled against soviets in Canada As  the Canadian embassy declined comment on the latest Kremlin move. Payoffs from Page 1 recorded and videotaped and that Money changed hands. The sources meanwhile said that games also was videotaped at meetings with consultants in which highly confidential documents relating to Pentagon contracts allegedly changed hands. The Washington Post reported that Cohen Deputy assistant Secretary of the air Force for tactical systems is Amon those cooperating in the investigation. Sources close to the Case said this past week that Gaines is cooperating in the investigation. Those sources continued to make that assertion saturday while other sources and the Post said that while Gaines gave a statement to investigators earlier he is not cooperating with prosecutors at this Point. Meanwhile defense news reported in its june 27 editions that Paisley when he was the Navy s procurement chief under Navy Secretary John Lehman initiated a change that effectively eliminated All but one company from a key procurement program in 1986. The change was to drop plans for Sepa rate competitions on All six components of the Aegis weapon system and instead go with a Winner Lake All scheme. The system protects ships from airborne sur face and underwater missiles. The result of the change. Defense week quoted several unidentified Indus try officials As saying was that hundreds of millions of dollars in Navy contracts for the Aegis system went to Sperry corp., now Uniss corp., one of the firms involved in the Pentagon bribery investigation. Defense week quoted sources As attributing the shift that favored Uniss to Paisley s close association with Willi Mcalvin a consultant to the company. The publication quoted several sources As saying that Galvin had boasted about having wired the Aegis Competition in Sperry s favor. In related news rep. Barbara Boxer said saturday that the Pentagon defense contractors and the Reagan administration howled about congressional at tempts to Reform the procurement pro Cess for example a ban on military procurement officials quitting and immediately going to work for the defense Industry. The Pentagon defense contractors and the administration were unabashed in their contempt toward congressional reforms the California lawmaker said in the democratic response to president Reagan s weekly radio address. Now in this terrible scandal there has apparently been the ultimate con tempi As Many As 50 consultants buy ing secret information to destroy Competition and cheat All of  information allegedly obtained by consultants including Paisley was in some cases classified and was in other cases proprietary information about specific companies the government has said in a search warrant Tor one company involved in the probe Mcdonnell Douglas corp. The information was sold to various defense contractors to give the recipients an advantage in competing for contract Worth billions of dollars. About 75 to 100 Pentagon contracts May have been tainted according to prosecutor Henry e. Hudson. Cohen s attorney Seymour Glanzer declined to comment saturday about an aspect of the investigation when asked about the videotapes of alleged payoffs to his client and whether his client was cooperating with la government  
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