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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, October 30, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday october 30,19b8 update Tibet China talks Beijing a the chinese government said Friday it is trying to agree on a Lime and place for talks with the Dalai Lama Tibet exiled Leader. Chinese officials said in sep tember they were willing to hold talks Wilh the Dalai Lama at place of his Choice and he Dalai Lama agreed. However the Dalai Lama say stalks should be based on his june proposal that China allow Tibet autonomy in Domestic affairs a plan China has rejected. We have received the Dalai Lama s proposals for the time and place for talks. We Are considering them said we Jin Uang spokesman for the state nationalities affairs commission. His department oversees Tibet. The Dalai Lama spiritual Leader of tibetan buddhists and for Mer head of Tibet s theocratic civil government fled to India in 1959after an abortive uprising by tibetans against chinese Rule. Communist China sent its Rcd forces o take Over Tibet in 1950, acting on an an Cicil claim to sovereignty Over it. Packages can be mailed free to within theater 09 Apos by Deedee Arr non  Banu ka1serslautern, West Germany effective monday packages weighing up to 70 pounds May be mailed without charge from Ove Recas military Post offices to other Apo addresses within the same theater air Force postal authorities said  expanded free postage service known As Intra theater delivery system or ids was approved in june by . Postal service. A revision to regulations is under Way. It s Here. It s available for  is one of the things we be been lobbying for said air Force it. Col. James . Woosley. Commander of inc 7025th air postal so based at Kapaun air Sta Tion in Kaiser Lautem. The military has pursued the free Post age for packages with Intrain catch Desti nations since the privilege was granted for letters a few years ago Woolcy said. The new service will be available for packages sent to All Apo addresses be ginning Wilh 09, except for eight military a Ulvi. I. Mailing addresses in Greenland Cuba. It la be a piece of cake he said. The Bermuda islands Newfoundland and there s nothing enl a we Jive to do Nova  packages cannot exceed a total of 100 inches in length and Girth. Certified registered or insured packages Are not eligible for the free postage Woosley the packages will travel by air an ground transportation on a space Avail Able basis meaning they May be. Held unto 48 hours at any distribution Stop along the Way As available space dictates. Woosley said no significant increase i package traffic is anticipated with the availability off postage and no proce Dural changes will be required. Oil coca Iii Iii  that we Aren t already doing questions regarding customs for Sand mailing restrictions to other euro can countries should be addressed to local postal authorities. Spain to release sex Bush for Transfer to american prison temperatures. C1w.c Chi, nnldli.vl.1 North  Okli nral  qnulh.epillsbuoh.1  htwl.1  c jul Tuy Elf Lull Olf c october 28 i la is 30 w 38a to 7q 33 7 i n u 59 w 33 w is d0 5? 4 u m 3fai 4? u i a is m 7 19 i u u 67 65 40 go 3161 41 it he   fbcvrknl.1. Silow sin Liu   sin Cena sin Iri. Is Sli us to. Tucs Balje Dulsie hrffct.0 c Loudy i to u 4 29 is 19 u 33 u e7 61 41 i is 44 1 h 1143 a 19 u c3 3su to m 94 37 u in 3s 9 4 39 m 7 42js a u 41u � � a 65 is � it by 7 n � a 4471 a 51 39 49 37m so u 5071 19 u a it 34 Madrid Spain a the govern ment says it will hand Over for Transfer to a . Prison a one Lime aide in vice president George Bush s office who was convicted Here of cocaine trafficking. The decision in the Case of Conan d. Owen 23. A free Lance photographer whose imprisonment Drew the attention of then-. Attorney general Edwin Meuse was announced Friday by the Spanish Cabinet. A government spokesman said a Pris Oner Exchange agreement Between spam and the United states permits the trans Fer of Owen who was arrested in March 1987 when customs agents found 4 pounds of cocaine in his Luggage. It was not known when Owen of Annandale a will leave the Barcelon jail where he is serving a tix year term. It s normally a fast process said Helga Solo a spokeswoman for the Spanish embassy in Washington. A Means he s going to come Home said a relieved Ernest Owen Owen s father thai s the first thing. And we re extremely Happy about that after so Many false starts and false  once he is in he United Stales . Justice department officials could de cide to Grant Owen immediate parole. It s not Clear at this time How Long or where he would have to serve the remainder of his sentence said Justice department spokesman John Russell in Washington in keeping with our policy be will probably be incarcerated in a Federal institution and we will try Mohave him incarcerated As close to his Home As  Owen who worked in Bush s office in1984, was arrested March 13, 1987, at Barcelona s Al Prat Airport. Custom agents found the High Grade cocaine in a false bottomed suitcase he checked through on a flight from Santiago Chile to Barcelona. Owen who spent More than a year i Barcelona s 85-year-old Model prison before his trial last much told the court he had been conned into taking the suit Case to Barcelona from Santiago by Sev eral pop e in contracted him to take photographs Tor travel brochures. He testified he never examined the contents of the suitcase. A three judge tribunal deliberated 10days before finding him guilty of drug trafficking but cleared him of drug smug gling charges. There Are no jury trials in Spain. Owen was sentenced to six Yea Sand one Day in prison and fined $ 16,000. Following Owen s conviction Mees issued a statement saying the United states regrets very much Ihil action bythe Spanish  typically each country has its own Justice system said the statement by me Csc who resigned in August. We re Spect the Spanish Justice system. It is Dif Ferent from ours in certain respects but what we can Hope for is that we do have Good relations with the Spanish authorities and we Hope again we continue to believe the fact that he Man innocence will ultimately be known and under  the Case raised a juror in the Spanish press which saw the action of the . Justice department and the testimony by several agents of the . Drug enforce ment Agency As evidence Owen was working for the . Government when he was caught. He denied he was working for the  Owen s attorney appealed the sentence but later dropped the attempt. Under the prisoner Exchange agreement Between Spain and the United states All appeals must be exhausted before application u made for a Transfer. Ortega accuses . Of using rebels to derail efforts to rebuild offer storm european weather i  in i re c Loti i Tomt ii from a Bil if in Haj a 4i i la Ftp log  a if Ifni will ii Mut  to Earth a off fat it Huff 1h r in lit writ Puri Chuty it Ruiu Iri a thud incr Iii hts  46 51u if -i.vn4f.rn v m Kish up 7 � Wawi. To w a tilt c 29 h k d i Managua Nicaragua a president Daniel Ortega has accused the United states of ordering thousands of rebels to re in tar Nicaragua and sabotage reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Joan. Meanwhile in was reported saturday that some . Charities trying provide humanitarian Relief to nicaraguans Hurt by inc Hurricane claim they Are being hampered in their efforts by the Reagan administration. Taking advantage of the damage in trauma the Yankees have already or dered the infiltration of 3,000 Mercena Ries into nicaraguan to glory Ortega said Friday in a nationwide radio and television address. In Washington stale department press officer Anita Stockman denied the allegations. No . Military Aid is being provided to the contras Al this time she said referring to the rebels. Rebel spokesman Bosco Malano Rossard in Washington that the contras Are receiving Only . Humanitarian Aid. The fact is or. Ortega is trying to conceal the continuous buildup they have carried out with the help of cub and the soviet Union Matamoros said. Ortega said the Reagan administration had reared the contras and instructed them to sabotage and slow reconstruction work and delay the Coffee Harvest which is economically vital to Nicara Gua s already staggering Economy. Facing a threat such As this when Wear facing the consequences of this hum Cane nicaraguans Are obliged to mobilize organize to fulfil the of of defend ing the country Onega said. Some private . Organizations complained that the Reagan administration has refused to assist their efforts to deliver donated goods to Nicaragua and has even threatened to declare shipments of construction supplies As illegal under the . Economic embargo of the country. It s kind of appalling that the while House and the state department arc interfering in the process of disaster Aid Richard m. Walden president of opera Tion California a los Angeles based re Lief group organizing an Airlift to Nicara Gua this week was quoted As saying saturday in inc los Angeles times. While House and stale department officials denied any deliberate Effort Tob lock private Aid but they acknowledged that the administration has taken few Steps to assist the charities the times said. The soviet backed Sand Nisu govern ment and the .-supported contras agreed in March to Hall offensive opera Lions in their 7-year-old civil War. The government unilaterally has extended the truce on a month to month basis. The current Extension ends monday foe of late Shah Dies Nicosia. Cyprus a Ayatollah re Neltah Khatami who helped Over throw the late Shah of Iran has died at age 84, the official islamic Republic news Agency reported Friday. Khatami father of minister of culture and islamic guidance Mohammed Khatami died fan illness at a Tehran Hospital thursday Irna said. The illness was nol specified  
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