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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 8 world today elephant defending calf kills Botswana official Kasiane Botswana Kupij an elephant cow defending her calf attacked and killed a Bot Swana veterinary service official in Choc National Park the Botswana press Agency reported tuesday. The veterinarian and an assistant both ending a motorcycle braked suddenly for the elephant calf on a Bush Trail in the Northwestern Park and stalled the engine the Agency said. The elephant cow apparently fearing for the calf safely charged the men Goring one and killing him. The assistant fled on foot to Ngoma Village and alerted soldiers of the Botswana de sense Force. Choc s chief game Warden Tsahwa Wologo Masjedi warned visitor against travelling through the Reserve on motorcycles. W. German airline begins service within country Frankfurt West Germany a Aero Lloyd began scheduled flights linking four West German cities monday to become the first regu Lar Domestic competitor of the stale owned air line Lufthansa. _ ,.,. The Frankfurt based air earner established regular services Between Dloss Oldorf and Ham Burg Frankfurt and Hamburg Frankfurt and Munich and Hamburg and Munich. On its four Domestic Rouls. Aero Lloyd is offering Only Economy class seals at prices about i5 percent lower than Lufthansa. Auro Lloyd which is already known within West Germany As a charter Carrier plans to expand its Fleet from 11 to 15 planes by the Middle of nest year. 12 s. Koreans charged in insider trading Case Seoul South Korea a government prosecutors monday said they have charged 12 Slock Exchange officials and securities traders with illegal insider trading that earned Thorn huge profits. Five officials from the Korea Stock Exchange and one from the Jaewoo and Shinyoung Securi ties co. Were arrested and six other member of the securities firm were charged but not detained the prosecutors said speaking anonymously. Those arrested included Kim soon git 43, the head of Jaewoo s Yodido Branch and Arm Duk won. 42, acting chief of the Market division of the Korea Stock Exchange Ulicy said. Ulicy did not say when the arrests were made or where the officials were being held. The 12 were accused of having illegally exchanged classified Slock information that earned them $570,000 in profit Frum transactions involving $12.7 million in Blue Chip stocks prosecutors  in Turkey Iran to receive Aid from dec Brussels Belgium a p tie european economic Community announced monday it Wilt provide j57s, in emergency Aid to help displaced people in Turkey and an additional 5267,500 or refugees in Iran. V the Money will go to help the turkish red Crescent and International red Cross. Teacher pleads guilty to shooting turkish Leader " Ankara Turkey a a 32-year-old schoolteacher pleaded guilty monday to shoot ing Premier Sturgul Ozal As he was delivering a speech four months ago. Kartal Demirag issued the plea at the suit of his trial and said he was sorry for his act. I ask him Ozal to forgive me Demirag told the court. Demirag fired at dial twice while the Premier was delivering a speech Al hit motherland party s general convention. One of the shots hit the microphone in front of the Premier and the other i his right thumb. Twenty other people and the gunman were wounded a bodyguards returned the fire. Demi rag was captured Al the scene. Wednesday november 2, t9b8 sex Junta leaders sentenced for falklands War fiasco Buenos Aires Argentina a a evil Ian court stripped it. Gen. Leopoldo gallic i. The former military president of his rank monday and sentenced him to 12 Yean in prison for mismanaging the 1982 falklands War with Britain. In partial confirmation of an earlier ruling by the highest military tribunal the Federal Appeal court gave the same sentence to the other members of Gal Liceri s Junta adm. Jorge Isaac Anaya then Navy commander and Brig. Gen. Basilio Lami Dodo who was chief of the air Force. The military tribunal s verdict automatically went for review o the civilian appeals court which can revise civilian or military judicial rulings and even act As a court of first resort. Defense lawyers said the convictions probably will be appealed to the. Supreme court. Judge Horatio Cattail president of the four Mem Ber panel said All three officers were equally responsible for la mistakes omissions and negligence that led to defeat in the 74-Day War Over the islands Argentina Calls the Malvinas gallic i Anaya and Lami Dodo constituted the third military Junta to Rule after president Isabel Penan was deposed in March 1976. Appeals court judges a quilted three other officers who were instrumental in carry ing out the War Gen. Mario Benjamin Menendz and Omar Parada and vice adm. Juan Jose Lombardo All no retired. The Case stems from the Junta s decision to invade the South Atlantic islands april 2, 1982, and the con duct of the War until Man Condez surrendered his troops june 14 als Lanley capital of the falklands. In May 1986, the supreme Council of the armed farces convicted Galtieri Anaya and Lami do of of negligence and incompetence sentencing them to 12, 14 and Highl years in jail respectively and stripping them of rant Menc Nycz Parada Lombardo and seven other officers were acquitted. Paltani president of the appeals panel said sentences for the three Junta members were made identical because doing otherwise risked inciting the protagonists in the Case of a similar conflict to act independently losing sight of the fact that. Only a joint action would make possible a  prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo alleged when the Appeal began july 26 that the armed forces were ill trained and poorly led and acted independently of each other. He focused on Anaya s decision o withdraw the Navy from combat after a British submarine Lank the Cruiser Belgrano in May 1982, and after the failure of Parada who commanded army troops on the islands to establish a command Post officers called by the prosecution testified that Gal tic i did not believe Britain would fight o regain the islands or thai the United Stales would help the Brit ish. Sex Argentine Junta Leaden from tap i. In. Leopol do Galliert adm. Jorge Isaac Ana a and Brig Gen. Basilin Lami Dow listen to their sentences monday. Gatliu i 62. Claimed Argentina almost won the War and charges of mismanagement were unfounded. In an emotional a cos Csc oct. 17, he said would 1 do it again Given the same circumstances and conditions would 1 proceed in the same manner the answer is yes. I u. Gen. Galtieri would proceed the same wayasldid."". Argentina has claimed the islands since 1810, the year it asserted Independence from Spain. Britain has ruled them since 1833, the Chilly windswept archipelago is Home to about 1,900 shepherds and fishermen. Possession conveys rights to natural resources including abundant fishing Fields and possible Oil deposits. Rangers wounded in futile Effort to save rhinos from poachers Nairobi Kenya a two Park rangers were seriously wounded in a shoot out with poachers who shot at least five White rhinoceroses authorities said. The English language newspaper the Standard reported tuesday that the rangers were wounded in a 45-Minutc Battle sunday night with about 30 poachers Al Mem National Park 140 Miles Northeast of the capital Nairobi. The poachers escaped after hacking off the rhinos horns which can sell for up to $24,000 each in the far East where they arc used to make traditional medi Cines. In the Middle East the horns Are fashioned into ornamental Dagger handles. People watched Over hem Day and Nihl a kenyan wildlife source said of the rhinos. The rangers were wounded trying to defend them Kenya sent a paramilitary unit to Cru National hark o track the rhinos poachers said a government wildlife source. He declined to provide details. Gunmen in the last week also slaughtered and hacked the tusks off five elephants in Southeastern Tsavos East National Park and eight elephants in  Range 155 Miles North of Nairobi wild life sources said. Their deaths bring to about 150 the number killed since april according to published data. Wildlife officials estimate the toll 11 much higher in sunday s Bailie five  killed said George Maholia minister of tourism and wildlife. Sev eral wildlife experts who  condition of anonymity put the number at is. The killings Cam despite increased Ami poaching efforts by the government since August when Mihono revealed that 92 elephants had been slaughtered in the previous three months and the government launched a highly publicized Campaign to Stop the killing. The White rhinos which unlike the Black Rivino arc jul indigenous to Kenya were imported from South Africa about 20 years ago to Start a Colony and they lived under guard in a special Reserve m the part. There still arc an estimated 30 to 40 White rhinos on private ranches i Kenya. The while Rhino numbers have not been reduced sharply As Nave those of Black rhinos which were thought to number More than 60.000 in la Early 197cj.today the Black rhinos numbering about 800 throughout Africa Are considered an endangered species. Most of Africa s while rhinos live in South Africa where experts estimate he Herd Al about 3.000 Strong. Twenty five to 30 of the animals live in a private Park in Solio ranch near the Equator Southeast of mount Kenya according to the daily nation newspaper both types arc a dark Gray with their visible differences tying mostly in Horn size and lip shape.,the while mine s born is longer  
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