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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday August 9,1988 world today Swiss report 133 spies caught from 1980-87 Bern Switzerland a Swiss authorities uncovered 62 cases of spying for communist countries in 1980-87, 20 More than in the previous decade a government report said  total of 133 spies including 47 foreign diplomats have been caught since 1980, the Federal prosecutor office report said. Of these 97 worked for communist  diplomats or International civil servants from communist countries were expelled from Switzer land the report said. Economic espionage has become As important a military spying for the soviet bloc in the 1980s, it said. Survivor of Bismarck Battle decides to sell medals London up one of Only three survivor from the Battle Cruiser Hood sunk in a world War ii gun Duel with the German warship Bismarck has decided to sell his medals the sunday times reported. Ted Briggs 65, said he and his wife could do wit the extra Money but he added mainly i Hope that the medals being offered like this will help to Perpet uate the memory of my lost comrades according to the  was 18 in 1941 when the Hood the Pride of the Royal Navy went Down with 1,418 of his ship mates. When Briggs 10 medals including the British Empire medal for naval service and Campaign and theater stars go on Sale sept. 28, there is a Chance they will repurchased by German bidders the report said. Dealers think a Price estimate of $17,000 could be conserva  Days after sinking the Hood the Bismarck was sunk by the British Fleet. East German evades dogs bullets in Border escape Linz Austria a a 23-year-old East German defected to Austria overnight despite Rifle shots by Czechoslovakia Border guards and trained dogs Pur suing him a police report said monday. Torsten Krischke an Industrial worker from an unspecified East German City was quoted by the police As saying that he wanted to join immediately his wife who has been living for some time in West Ger  report which did not provide any other details of the Case said Krischke who had arrived in Czecho Slovakia As a tourist took a regular bus ride to an area close to the austrian Border and under the shelter of night managed to climb three barriers of barbed wire before reaching safety in  to the Austria press Agency austrian police said they handed Over the East German to West German Border authorities so he can join his wife. French protest intrusion into journalist s apartment Paris up the French embassy in Warsaw has made a protest to the polish authorities after mysterious intruders ransacked the apartment of a French journalist based in the polish capital and beat up his father in Law the foreign ministry said monday. The Quai d Orsati said it will ask the Warsaw authorities to do everything possible to shed Light on the strange incident saturday night at the Home of Ber Nard Marguerite a correspondent for Europe 1 radio and la Cine  the raid Marguerite s father in Law Bronis Law Giecewicz 84, was badly beaten up while looking after the correspondent s two children. The reporter and his wife were attending a reception at the time. No indication w. German Ira terrorists collaborating Frankfurt West Germany a West Ger Man Security officials said monday they have seen no indication that the Irish Republican army is collaborating with West German terrorists. The officials reacting to a report monday in the London newspaper the Independent denied that a suspected West German terrorist was seen recently a British army Headquarters in West Germany. We have absolutely no indication that the Ira i working together with West Germany s notorious red army faction Raf said Hans Jurgen Forster spokes Man for the Federal prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe. Our indications Are that the Ira considers itself group of Freedom fighters and does not consider the red army faction s goals genuine Forster said. The mainly roman Catholic Ira wants to end Brit ish Rule in Northern Ireland uniting the predominantly protestant province with the overwhelmingly Catho Lic Republic of Ireland under socialist Rule. The leftist red army faction has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on american military bases and West German government and business targets. The Independent said monday that a Man believe to be wanted red army faction terrorist Werner Lotze was spotted last week at the Headquarters of Britain s armed forces in West Germany. It said he was seen walking freely around the base at Rhei Dahlen on aug. 2 despite a Security Alert at Al British bases at Home and abroad after an Ira bomb ing at a North London Barracks the Day before killed one Soldier and injured nine. The Independent said a photograph and detailed description of Lotze plus a report on the sighting Are now displayed at British bases in Germany. But a spokesman for the Federal criminal office i Wiesbaden said the photographs of Lotze and 17 other suspected West German terrorists were printed on police poster distributed More than two years ago. The spokesman Hans Georg Fuchs told the a that Lotze 34, has been a fugitive since 1978 and is suspected of robbing a Bank in Niernberg in 1979. Forster said the sighting was reported by a British Soldier last week at Rhei Dahlen. But when she was shown other police file photographs of Lotze the sol Dier ruled out the p9ssibility it could have been the same Man Forster said. A spokesman for the British army of the Rhine said there was nothing to substantiate allegations that he Lotze had been seen at  i can also categorically deny that anyone has Access to the restricted base areas spokesman Colin Tavner said. He said the poster with Lotze s photograph and Pic Tures of other suspected terrorists had been on display for a Long time. Bus crash kills 1 one person was killed and 20 others were injure when this bus veered into a ditch in Naples Italy sunday. The bus was carrying residents of Naples Home from a Day excursion they had taken to a near by Beach. The ditch had been dug so that workers could perform repairs on a water main. Bomb found under sergeant s car in Philippines Angeles Philippines up  specialists defused a crude homemade bomb found under the car fan american Serviceman parked at his Home outside Clark a . Military officials said monday. Clark spokeswoman capt. Maryellen Addick said a housekeeper found the bomb sunday morning under the reared of the station Wagon belonging to air Force master sgt. Francisco Calabia. Waddick said Calabia who is assigned to the 3rd aircraft generation so had not received any threats before the bomb was found but . Military police have cautioned service members to be Aler for suspicious  the bomb was made of two one Lite soft drink bottles wrapped in a card Board Box with an ignitable fuse an several handfuls of Loose nails Waddick said. One bottle contained a flammable liquid similar to diesel fuel. The other was filled with the same liquid and a powder believed to be a mix of ammonium nitrate and fertilizer. Local police and air Force official said they have not established any motive or arrested any suspects in the bombing attempt. An american Serviceman killed by fire from gunmen in a passing car near the base last month and his philippine wife was subsequently arrested and accused of having him murdered for his insurance Money. Communist rebels have gunned Dow three american service members near Clark in october and have threatened to kill . Military diplomatic and civil Ian personnel suspected of being involved in the Manila government s counterinsurgency Campaign  
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