European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday july 15,1988 news updates Deaver sentencing Washington a for Mer White House aide Michael k. Deaver was ordered tuesday to appear sept. 23 to be sentenced for lying to a grand jury and a House of representatives subcommittee about his lobby ing business. . District judge Thomas Penfield Jackson also scheduled a sept. 15 hearing to take testimony about dealer s problems with Al Cohol which the defense con tended impaired the former presidential aide s memory when he gave sworn testimony two years ago. A recovering alcoholic Deaver was convicted dec. 16, 1987, on three counts of lying to a grand jury and a House subcommittee about the lobbying business he formed in 1985," after resigning As president Reagan s Deputy chief of staff. War crimes trial Moscow up the trial of alleged nazi War criminal Alexan Der pose in accused of taking part in the murder of 330 soviet civil ians during the German occupation of 1942-43, opened thursday in the ukrainian City of Kharkov the official soviet news Agency Tass said. Pose in a soviet citizen Alleg edly deserted the red army in 1942 and joined the nazis. During their occupation of Kharkov to Sevin was made commander of a local police platoon involved in numerous massacres. The charges claim that he was involved in the november 1942 massacre of 200 soviet civilians in Kharkov s Sokolnik Forest Park in retribution for a partisan attack. It is alleged that he personally shot 35 people. The charges say he is responsible for the deaths of 330 people during the nazi occupation. The trial is expected to last longer than a week. Sailor found unconscious Dies at Naples Hospital Naples Italy is a 29-year-old Sailor died thursday morning at the Naples naval Hospital after he was found unconscious in his room at the naval support activity Barracks in nearby Ca Polichino. The Sailor a third class Petty officer assigned to the Carrier Eisenhower had been sent to Naples to undergo medical tests a Navy spokesman said. He said an autopsy was scheduled later thursday to determine the cause of death of the Sailor whose name was being withheld pending notification of next of Kin. He was pronounced dead at 8 06 . After attempts to revive him by Hospital staffers were unsuccessful. Franks takes command in 1st army div ceremony Katterbach West Germany maj. Gen. Frederick m. Franks or. Assumed command of the 1st army div thursday in ceremonies at the division helicopter Field. Franks comes to the division from the office of the joint chiefs of staff in the Pentagon. He replaces Edwin s. Leland jr., who was promoted to lieutenant Gen eral during the ceremony. Leland has been named As chief of staff of the . European come head quartered in Stuttgart West Germany. Galvin says russians still  for disunity in nato Alliance by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington the nato allies should not be tempted by soviet peace initiatives until Concrete actions begin to take the place of rhetoric the top . Military official in Europe told a group of lawmakers. There May be new thinking among soviet officials but it s the same old so Viet military that has not changed at All Gen. John Galvin nato s supreme Allied commander said wednes Day. They re still producing enough hardware to Field a tank division and four artillery regiments every  despite conciliatory statements in re cent months and the successful signing of the inf treaty the stated policy goals of the soviet Union remain eliminating All nuclear weapons from nato removing the . Presence from the continent and eventually dismembering the Alli Ance Galvin said. There is great temptation among some nato countries that have been faced with the soviet threat for 40 years to become Overly euphoric about the current promises of Reform in soviet society and military strategy Galvin told a meeting of the congressional military Reform caucus a bipartisan group of 140 lawmakers dedicated to increasing nato and . Defense capabilities. It can almost be compared to a hos Tage situation he said. Europe has been hostage to the soviet threat for dec Ades. After hostages Are set free they have a tendency to think of their captors As great Guys. So we need to be careful about How we perceive what s happening in the soviet Union and How we react to  Galvin said the soviets Bottom line has changed from we will Bury you to Why do you fear us and appears in almost every speech Given by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. They be finally realized that 40 years of Saber rattling has Only produced More Unity for nato but one of their goals remains the sowing of disunity within the Alliance he said. Galvin said that soviet attempts to make bilateral contacts with Natona tons were designed to crack Alliance Unity even if Only slightly. Those kinds of relationships work against the Alliance he said. For exam be if the soviets offer suggestions to pain As to what to do with the 401st tac fighter Wing nato should Tell them see you in Vienna. Well talk about it there under the conventional arms talks umbrella. Isolated action like that must be put into the context of nato Unity and responded to in that manner Galvin said. We have to stick together and be seen As stable. The soviets Are in transition not us. We re not transitioning into any thing. We have a sound strategy and we need to maintain  Hamad was wanted by Lebanon in 83 on murder charge Frankfurt court told by de Reavis staff writer Frankfurt Mohammed Ali Hamadi on trial for murder and air piracy in the 1985 hijacking of a Twa Jet was being sought on murder charges in his native Lebanon in 1983, according to evidence introduced in court thursday. Chief judge Heiner Guckenberger read a document from authorities in Lebanon that said an arrest warrant was issued for the defendant in 1983 on charges of murder and unlawful use of weapons. The document did not contain details of the alleged crimes and Hamadi said i Don t know anything about  he said he came to Germany because his life was in danger from political ene Mies the fal ingists and lebanese government troops who were looking for him. The Twa jetliner on an Athens to Rome flight was hijacked in june 1985. . Navy diver Robert Stethem of Wal Dorf md., was killed after the hijackers forced the plane to land in Beirut. The Sailor s parents Patricia and Richard Stethem have attended the trial since its opening july 5. Hamadi who came to West Germany in 1982, also testified thursday that he worked at a cemetery in Saar Louis in 1983 while his application for political Asylum was pending. He said he tried to commit suicide once by swallowing 10 pills and once by slashing his wrists because he was de pressed about his life in Germany and because of developments in Lebanon. Hamadi has said he returned to Leb anon in 1984 in part because his application for political Asylum was rejected. Hamadi admitted to the court wednesday that he had smuggled High explosives into Germany on two Occam Sions. On thursday he said the first time he successfully smuggled four Small bottles to Saar Brincken and hid them in the House of his brother Abbas. The second time he was caught and his fingerprints soon linked him to the Jet hijacking. West Germany rejected a . Request for Hamadi s extradition after two Ger Man businessmen were kidnapped in Lebanon in an attempt to free Hamadi. Hamadi s brother Abbas Ali Hamadi was convicted in april of the Kidnap Ping. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Dusseldorf court. Another Hamadi brother Abdul Hadi Hamadi is chief of Security for Hezbollah party of god in Beirut. The Hezbollah is a Radical shiite moslem group generally held responsible for the kidnapping of foreign hostages. Hamadi said thursday that he had been trained in the use of rocket launch ers and grenades but would not say where. He also said he had travelled in Iran to visit the moslem holy Sites but refused to Tell the court How Long his Sta was. Next week the court is scheduled to hear testimony from the brother Abbas Hamadi on the explosives and political connections. Of commissaries to test Market condoms Ramstein a West Germany is condoms will become Avail Able at All air Force commissaries in Europe late this year As part of a marketing test that runs through july 1. Well probably have them in the stores in november or Early december capt. Larry Davis an air Force commis sary spokesman said thursday. The birth control devices Are believed to help prevent the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome or aids and other sexually transmitted diseases. The army recently announced it will test Market the Sale of condoms begin Ning in january in 20 commissaries in the United states South Korea and West Germany including stores at Furth and Wiesbaden. During the test which will end at the stores m Germany feb. 28, the army stores will Stock 10 varieties of condoms. The selection of condoms will vary from store to store in the air Force sys tem. All will be stocked on the top shelf of each commissary s feminine Hygiene Section Davis said. Denise Gomes a spokeswoman for the army s european commissary system said condoms will be displayed at the end of health and Beauty aids sections out of direct sight of Small  in the army stores Gomes said six types of the condoms will be promoted with a Price Cut of 23 percent. Coupons also will be accepted for condom sales. The air Force has yet to decide How it will Market the condoms. Filipino rebels form Middle class9 death squad 4 Angeles City Philippines up communist insurgents announced thursday the formation of a Middle class death squad named after a Mur dered human rights lawyer designed cooperate in neighbourhoods around Clark a. The continued brutal attacks on the leaders and members of the Legal and peaceful Peoples organizations have left the Middle forces with Only three options said a statement distributed to reporters by the National democratic front or Adf political Wing of the outlawed communist party of the Philippines. Those options it said Are to drop out of the political struggle face the risk of assassination by vigilantes or submerge ourselves into the sea of the masses and become revolutionary. We have chose the last  the hit squad the Ramos Cura Bri Gade is named after a prominent human rights lawyer slain june 18 in Angeles just outside Clark a. Communist assassins claimed responsibility for the murders of three Ameri can servicemen in streets around the base last oct. 28. We would like to assure our Fello Brothers in the Middle class about our Good intention As Well As invite them to join us towards the attainment of Genu Ine peace said the statement signed Bynde spokesman Mike Forcadell