European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday september 7.19b8 defense chiefs Frank Cir Lucca and Qin a incl listen i their Nul ional anthems. China denies being major arms exporter uetj1ng a China s lop military official speaking to reporters tuesday before meeting with defense Secretary Frank Carlucci said China is not Amajor arms dealer. China is a developing country. China can Only Sella Little. It is Only a Small traction of what the United Stales has sold defense minister Qin Jiewei said. China s sales of missiles to Middle East nations. Including silkworm missiles to Iran have been criticized by the United Stales. According to . Figures China sold about $2billion Worth of arms last year mainly to developing countries China docs not provide information on it arms sales Qin said China and other third world countries sell Only conventional arms but the United Stales i Selling advanced arms such As the f-16" Jet fighter we can t compare the two kinds of arms he said. Deputy chief of staff Xuxin also talking to re porters in the great Hall of the people insisted China strictly regulates its arms sales. First icy Are for defense. Second they lire for maintaining stability and peace not War he said. Cartucci arrived monday for a five Day visit to discuss International and bilateral issues. China is exp cycled to Call on the United states to remove restrictions on technology transfers and approve Export licenses for , companies wanting Touse chinese Long March missiles to launch satellites. East German marchers demand right to go West Berlin up about 200 East German demonstrated in Leipzig monday night for the right to move to West Germany. West German press re ports said tuesday. The demonstrators marched in a heavy rain through the Center of the Eily to the Markl Platz Market Square where police in civilian clothes hailed an attempt to form a human Chain. West German newspapers reported from Leipzig in Dis patches attributed to witnesses. The witnesses said they observed no arrests. The demonstrators began their March after at tending a service with about 600 other people in the lutheran Nikolai Church. The demonstration apparently was limed to Coin cide with the annual Leipzig fall Trade fait which Hegan sunday and is attended by Many people fro Western countries. A similar demonstration was held in March Dur ing the Leipzig Spring Trade fair after a service in the Nikolai Church. Dissidents and East germans who have applied for permission to leave frequently use the relative Freedom Given the lutheran Church to hold so called peace services. The vast majority of East germans Are Prates Tant. Meanwhile another East German has fled the country. West German police reported tuesday the new night raised the number who escaped in four Days loll. A spokesman said a 22-year-old Man wan Rescue monday by a West German yacht after he spent 30 hours swimming in he Bailie sea. The Man who was taken to a Hospital for treat ment for exhaustion told police he had spent hours clinging to a barrel. He had put on a diving suit for Protection from the cold. The West German news Magazine Der Spiegel units latest Issue has reported 250,000 Easl germans want to leave and have applied to the East Germanov Crimeni for permission to move id the West. The Magazine in a report attributed to Church sources said a Quarter of a million people have lost Ait Hope of things improving and want to get out. The Spiegel said one reason for the growing Dis Content frustration and hopelessness is the govern ment s rejection of the Reform policies of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The aged comrades in the politburo have Dugin the Magazine said. They believe now As before they can sit out Comrade Mikhail s ideas of glasnost and Pyrc Stroika if hey Only hold out Long  the official East German communist party news paper a cuts ecu Lochland published tuesday a Dis Patch from Moscow reprinting critical statements published in the soviet newspaper Izvestia on Gorbachev s Reform policies. The Hast German newspaper cited letter saying nothing has changed and the people arc lived of waiting god Hoff claims Gorbachev got Reform idea from him Tripoli Libya a libyan Leader Moa mar Qaddafi says his country an the soviet Union arc moving in the same progressive direction and contends his ideas of socialist Reform have influenced soviet Leader Mik Hail s.  an interview with the associated press Qaddafi also challenged anyone to prove . Accusations that he sponsors terrorism and said his relations with Washington May improve under George Bush or Michael Dukakis. Asked about Libya s relations with the soviet Union its chief arms supplier Gad Hafi said we arc very close to each other friends we re specs the policy of each my Nimitr Qadhafi other s  both of us arc going in the Sam direction in the progression of socialism Gad Haft said adding i believe Gorbachev is affected bythe Green  the Green Book is a collection of the colonel philosophy on the revolution he. Has led in Libya since coming to Power 19 years ago this month in a coup Qadhafi fielded questions in his office at the Babel azizia or heavenly Gate military compound in Tripoli. Soldiers were posted in Walch towers nearby and tanks were housed in camouflaged garages. He said he would like to visit the United Stales if things were diff enrol an characterized americans who believe president Reagan Scharge that he sponsors terror ism arc very simple people ignorant  i Challenge everyone in the world to give evidence thai Libya backs terrorism he said Reagan accused Qadhafi of sponsoring the december198 attacks that left 20 peo ple dead Al airports in rom and Vienna. . Warplanes bombed Libya in april 1986 in an at tack that killed 37 people including Qadhafi s is month old adopted daughter. The raid was intended to punish Libya for its Rolein the april 5 bombing of a West German nightclub in which two american soldiers and a turkish woman were wiled a july 11 terrorist attack that killed nine people Ona greek cruise ship was linked to Abu Nidal who is believed to travel frequently to Libya. Accused bomber s hearing delayed Athens Greece a a court on monday postponed a hearing on a . Request for the extradition of a palestinian accused in the august19 82 bombing of a pan am jetliner in Hawaii. Mohammed Rashid 39, is wanted in the United tales on charges he planted a bomb that killed a 15 year old japanese boy and injured nine people. Rashid was arrested Al the Athens Airport may29 and convicted july 14 of entering Greece on a forged syrian passport. He was sentenced to seven months in prison. Appeals court judge Stavros Gardikiotis pre siding Over a three judge panel hearing the . Extradition request cancelled mondays hearing and set a new one for oct. 4, h was the second postponement in the Case. The appeals court postponed the hearing to ask japanese authorities in Tokyo to Send them a copy of a visa application allegedly filled out by Rashid i Iraq in july 19s2. . Officials allege thai Rashid obtained a visa i Iraq to visit Japan and planted the bomb on the air Craft while it was in  court earlier had requested a copy of the visa application from the japanese embassy in Baghdad but officials there said the visa was missing. . Officials believe Rashid also was involved inthe 1986 bomb blast that killed four americans aboard a Twa jetliner flying Over Southern  in Greece believe thai the july 11 terrorist attack on a greek cruise ship which left nine people dead was an attempt to win Fui hid s release