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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page2i the stars and stripes tuesday october 4,19bb news updates Sanunu s brother London a the brother of jailed israeli nuclear technician Mordochai Sanunu has been re fused politick Asylum in Britain the British a toss association news Agency reported Early sunday the Agency said the decision Means that Cir Sanunu could be deported thit month. Israel has is sued a warrant for his arrest and he faces up to is years imprison ment for Piibe Lily discussing his brother s nuclear secrets Case Sanunu applied for Asylum on grounds thai he faced persecution in Israel for telling London s sunday times that his brother was lured from London to Rome last year by a female a cult of Israel s Mossad secret serve fend then abducted. Last March after a seven month Setrel trial Mordechai Sanunu wis jailed for 18 years for betraying Ifraci s nuclear secrets to the newspaper. Anti Pinochet rally Santiago Chile up several Hundred thousand Ami Golem mint protesters rallied in a working cuts neighbourhood of the capital saturday in the largest opposition demonstration since Gen. Augusto Pinochet took Power in a military Coap in 1973. The Vernpn stration was organized by opposition Leaden seeking to defeat Pinochet in a National referendum this week that a to de cide we Elev to end his 15-year Rule or to give him another eight years in office As president. Yugoslav resigns Belgrade Yugoslavia a the former president of the yugoslav communist party re signed from inc party presidium on saturday and said he was unhappy with the simmering ethnic unrest Over a disputed province. The resignation of Bosko Krunic was reported by the official Tan Jug news Agency. It is the second time a lop yugoslav official has stepped Down it recent Days. The changes up car to boost the chances of Serbia s hard line party chief Slobodan Milosevic in his bid to gain lighter control Over the Republic s two autonomous prov inces Vojvod Injo and Kosovo. . Corn Sale Washington a an additional 200,000 metric ions of . Corn has been sold to the so Viet Union for delivery during the coming year the agriculture department said. The Sale brought the total of com sold to the soviets in the last month for delivery in the 1988-89 year beginning sept. 1, 10 More than 3.98 million metric tons. A metric ton is about 2,205 pounds and is equal to 39,4 Bush Els of com or 36.7 bushels of wheat or soybeans. The 200,000 metric tons of Corn would be about 7.sb million bushels. Com prices have been averaging about sz.61 per Bushel it the farm level according Louisda Esti mates meaning that the latest Sale could have a farm value of around $21 million. Panama begins seizing assets of deposed president Delvalle Panama City Panama a the government of Panama has begun Seiz ing he assets of deposed president Eric Arturo Delvalle an affluent business Mart the judge in charge of the confiscation said saturday. Judge Lorenzo Parker Dupuy said the Treasury department issued the order after Delvalle was formally accused of acts harmful to the people of Janakia including asking the United state to freeze $54 million the National Bankw Panama had on Deposit in . Banks. The freeze which helped bring Thi panamanian Economy to a near stand still this Spring coincided wild an unsuccessful opposition drive to Force Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega the nation s de Facto ruler to resign Parker who is in charge of executing the seizure said he began confiscating Delvalle assets on thursday. He said the government seized 18 race horses stabled at the hip Dromo president Remon in the capital. The judge said he did not know the value of the horses or the rest of Del Valle s assets. The Santa Rosa sugar firm one of Delvalie s main businesses was to be confiscated monday Parker told the associated press. Parker said Treasury Secretary Orville Goodin has ordered every Bank in Panama to freeze Dflvalle s accounts and turn Over his records by oct 7. Goodin also ordered All Public registries and notaries to turn Over any information the have on Dflvalle s business interests he said. Delvalle 50, became Panama s presi b Dent in september 19s5.Noriega had the National Assembly Enlace him last february when Delvalle sed to remove Noriega As head of the of Cense forces. Delvalle tried to get Ridor Lorica after a . Grand jury indicted vote military Leader on charges of drug trafficking and Money laundering. 1% United states still recognizes Del Vallec who has moved to Florida since his 01 Parker said the sugar firm which includes a Mill in Agu Dulce 110 Miles from the capital will continue to oper ate. Parker said he will protect the interests of investors and  a Santa Rosa executive Luis Narvaez said Del Vallec is one of 50 investors in the business. Narvaez said Santa Rosa is Worth about Iso million. Narvaez head of agricultural research said Santa Rosa produces Between 35,000 and 40,000 tons of sugar a year 80 percent of it refined. He said the unrefined sugar is sold in the United Stales. Santa Rosa employs about 1,200 peo ple be said. Parker said seizure orders have also been issued against the assets of two Del Valle associates Juan b. Sosa a former ambassador to the United states and Alberto Garcia de parries Consul Gener Al in new York. Both Are still recognized by the United states. The judge said the assets of Gabriel Lewis Galindo another former ambassador to the United states will also be seized. Galindo is a key opposition Lead out of orbit soviet nuke satellite Falls apart in Earth s atmosphere London a the soviet cos Mcm-1900 satellite which had been fail ing out of orbit disintegrated in the atmosphere Over Western Africa the British Home office reported Early Sun Day. The satellite burned up when it re entered the atmosphere at 11 15 . Brit ish time according to a spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity. There is no longer any danger of Brit am being affected. Contingency plans for the emergency service have now been stood Down the Home police and i about the nut police and Emp laced on Stani if he satellite Home office said. Ice which controls the defence was concerned powered satellite and incy services had been passing Over b have been Radii. Scattered Over general Amu not to touch the spokesman i y broken up while in debris that could Ive might have Besenic area. As a result a Ling Wjk issued to the Public Ajjie thief  the satellite took just two minutes to Cross Over Northern Ireland parts of Wales and across South pm England. Independent radio news reported it was apparently Loo Low to be tracked by radar. Cosmos a 900 was launched dec. 12 to study the Ocean surface but soviet ground controllers lost radio Contact with it in april. The official soviet new Agency Tass said the satellite s nuclear reactor was jettisoned earlier saturday to prevent a dangerous spread of radiation. South Africa defies Botha promised to release jailed dissident Mandela Johannesburg South Africa a the government sunday denied a report that president . Botha had promised the unconditional release of jailed african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela. Roland Darroll a spokesman for the for eign affairs department disputed a French news report that quoted president Mobutu Sec seko of Zaire assaying Botha made the Promise during the two leaders Summit meeting saturday in Northern Zaire. Darroll said Mobutu if quoted Erly was overstating the Gist of Thraum Mit discussion and May not Havasi ppr cited the qualifications set but by Botha regarding Mandela. / Botha has frequently said a would release Mandela in Exchange or a renunciation of violence. Mandela currently in a clinic in Cape towns recuperating from tuberculosis has refuted to repudiate the violent tactics of the outlawed anti apartheid movement he led before Bis imprisonment in 1962, Darroll speaking by Telephone from Pretoria noted that Mobutu and Botha have issued a joint communique that said Mobutu was encouraged to the flexible approach taken by Frei Dent Botha regarding Mandela s re Mandela 70, is widely Considene the most popular Leader among South Ca s disenfranchised Black majority. Since his hospitalization for tul Losis in August there has beep  that the government might him even without an explicit Tion of violence. The joint communique issued Botha and Mobutu also touched on an other major political controversy in South Africa the Fate of a group of Black prisoners on death Row known As the Sharleville six. According to the communique Botha re iterated that he would consider granting clemency to the six but Only Fler comple lion of a continuing appeals process. The six five men and a woman were sentenced  in the 1984 no tilling Fri Black Wiship official the Case has stirred Contro Veny because a key state witness now claims he was coerced by police into giving false testimony and because there was no evidence the six contributed physically to the death. The were convicted under the doctrine of con Mon purpose which held them responsible because they allegedly were Active Patiri pants in the Moo. Aneurysm patient awakens from coma Pittsburgh a a. 76-year-old woman has opened her eyes for the first Lime since aug. 31, when surgeons put her in a coma and slopped her heart to remove an egg size aneurysm near her brain. Cecilia Duffy of Pittsburgh has been co Matose since the operation during which surgeons reduced her body temperature by 40 degrees drained her blood and placed her in a sort of suspended animation that lets surgeons cure High risk aneurysms once considered inoperable the Early signs of Eye movement came last weekend and by week s end therapists reported Duffy is holding her be Dup and she s tracking with her eyes said or. Julian e. Bailes a neurosurgeon at Allegheny general Hospital. Bailes said the development does not mean Duffy is in route to a full recovery. He 1 she May continue to improve in coming " . Tie has suffered some neurologic itt Saites said. While a return to he Rubly Independent lifestyle b Possi ble blues said at ibis Point would tic topic within the next several Days Duffy is expected to begin rehabilitative therapy designed to help the injured brain heat  
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