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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 12, 1988 the stars and stripes page3 Beauty from the Blaze a dream landscape like satellite sent photos of a Distant planet is created Here on Earth As smoke envelops Mountain peaks in Glacier National Park in Mon Tana. The raging Forest Blaze to Glacier is one of Many wildfires Llinat have charred about j million acres of land in the West so far this year. 2 e. Germans sex jewish militants admit role make it to West in 48 Kiing of Swec ish envoy 3 others caught Berlin a two East German men succeeded in fleeing to licit communist Homeland to the West but three others were caught in separate a templs 10 scale their nation s heavily guarded Border barriers police said sunday. Border police in Munich said sunday that a 25-year old East German student red to Bavaria state Over the czechoslovakian Border. No other details of the escape were released. On saturday a 25-year-old Man swam a canal to reach West Berlin he told police that a companion was arrested us he tried to climb a Border Fence. Police in West Berlin on sunday reported two other failed escape attempts. According to police reports a uniformed Man. Apparently an East German Border guard or customs officer was led away by troops at gunpoint after he was arrested near the final barriers to West Berlin. Police also reported thai witnesses in West Berlin told authorities they heard East German Border guards shouting. We have him Early sunday at another location along the Wall thai divides the City West Berlin police said they were treating the Inci Dent As another apparent escape attempt More than 314 people have escaped lowest Berlin or West Germany from East Germany this year according to figures compiled by a West Berlin group that tracks escape attempts. Report on Stroessner Asuncion Paraguay up presidential spokesman Juan Jose bin itch Rickmann said saturday that president Alfredo Stroessner is in Good health and will resume making Public ceremonial appearances this week Stroessner 76, has not been seen in Public since aug. 31. Jerusalem a two former members of a militant jewish group that was led by now prime min ister Yitzhak Shamir have admitted that they helped kill a swedish . Envoy to Palestine 40 years ago an israeli journalist said saturday. It was the first time that members of the under ground group Loam i ,.  .-.,. Crul Yisrael Israel m s1 Freedom fighters also it j3g t widely known As the Stern gang confessed to the 1948 killing of count Folke Bernadotte said Dan Margalit of Israel s state run educational television. Margalit said his information was based on his interviews with Yehoshua Zetlor and Meshulam Makover two of Berna Dolie s killers. One inter Berit Anotle View was shown Friday on educational to the Radical Loam i Herat i tract group headed by Avraham Stem was a splinter faction of the More mainstream group Airgun Vai Leumi the National military organization. The faction advocated guerrilla rebellion against British Rule in Palestine. In 1942, Stem was shot and killed by the British police and Loam i Herat Yisrael devised a three Man leadership of Shamir Yisrael Scheib Eldad and Nalan Yellin mor with Eldad sen ing As the group s ideologists. Margalit quoted Zellor As saying he decided to kill Bernadotte president of the swedish red Cross during and after the world War ii after the envoy raised far reaching Palestine partition ideas. Be Madoule was appointed in May 1948 to negotiate a cease fire and recommend a settlement in Israel s 194 8 War of Independence. Zetlor said he conferred with Eldad. And the two travelled to Haifa to discuss it with Yullin mor. Yellin mor demanded that after the killing the Loam i Crul Yisrael deny its rot and blame the slaying on a tiny group of zealots called the Homeland front Margalit  returned to Jerusalem and selected three men to join him and Makover on the Mission the late pc Joshua Cohen Ben Moshe and another Man who is still alive but refuses to disclose his identity Margalit said. They Call him the fifth Man the Gingi or the red haired  Margalit quoted Makover As saying the guerrillas arrived in to cars to the spot selected by Zetlor for the sept. 17. 1948, killing in downtown Jerusalem. Zetlor was driving a do Solo ear and the four others were in a jeep dressed in Khaki shorts and peaked Caps of the jewish army. There was also an australian journalist who told the group when Bernadotte s Convoy was due to pass Margalit said without elaboration. He quoted Makover As saying that when Bema Dalle s three car Convoy approached the narrow Street the jeep blocked its Way and three guerrillas jumped outside with Makover staying Chinu the wheel. They were supposed to find bar Adolte s vehicle. Each one looked inside a ear and in the lost vehicle Cohen saw the envoy Margarit quoted Makover As saying. Cohen thrust the muzzle of his machine gun inside fired and wounded a French .  he then backed up two Steps look a careful aim. Fired into the car and killed Bern Adolth Makover Ink Margalit that he ordered Gingi and mosh to fire at the tires of the remaining cars. When it was done they jumped into the jeep and escaped Margalit quoted Makover As saying. The killing was widely blamed on the Loam i Herat Yisrael group and the israeli government launched a nationwide Hunt for is members arresting 400 people among them Yellin mor. But the killers were never found  
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