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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday november 8,1s88page 28 news briefs haitian army colonel Dies poisoning suspected port a Prince. Haiti a col. Can Claude Paul the forcibly retired commander of Haiti s most feared army unit who was indicted on . Drug charges died sunday under suspicious circumstances a family Friend said. He was 49. Radio Haili inner said Paul a 29-year army Veteran and one of Haiti s most powerful Fig ures died of a heart attack about 3 . In i Home in suburban Fern Haliw the Independent station gave no other details. A family Friend said there was speculation Paul was poisoned possibly before having a heart attack. The Friend who would not be identified fur Thor said Paul s housekeeper and Gardener  and taken to the Peti Onville police Sta Ion for questioning about the colonel s death. Paul was tired sept 30 after a coup led by non commissioned officers ousted Haiti s Mili tary Leader la. Gen. Henri Namphy replacing him with it Gen. Prosper Avril. The coup Lead in said they were outraged by the slate sponsored murder and Torru lion Namphy tolerated. Paul had commanded the 700-Man Dessalines battalion the most brutal unit in Haiti s 7,000 member army. It had been linked to the Tonton Machutes the hated private army of the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship. Germans pause to remember nazi horrors of Kristal nacht Sakharov from Page 1 for Zazif Milanov a 50-year-old mathematician from the Southern russian City of Makhachkala who wore a Sig around his neck saying free Sakharov two Days after Sakharov was Scal into internal exile in january 1980. Sakharov s rip comes less than two years after he was freed from internal exile where he had been sent because of his outspoken opposition to the soviet invasion of Afghani Stan. He is travelling without his wife pc Luna by incr who saw him off with a kiss at Sheremet Yeso Airport in Moscow. Sakharov was starting his trip with a visit is Bon nor s daughter by a previous marring a. Tatiana Yan Kelevich her husband Efrum and their two teen age children in suburban Newton. Sakharov is expected to visit Bonner s son Alexei sumy nov Semyonova s wife Liza Aleks Cyva and their 4-year-old daughter Alexandra in the nearby town of Westwood. It will be his first meeting with his granddaughter. He is also scheduled to undergo a heart examination and May receive n pacemaker at Massachusetts Gener Al Hospital. Bonner had cardiac bypass surgery at the Hospital in january 1986, Sakharov is expected to travel to new York then Washington where he will participate in a Board meet ing nov. 13-17 of the International foundation for the survival and development of humanity the first such session outside the soviet Union. Berlin a the Justice minister monday urged West germans to remember the horrors of Krisi Allnach the night of terror fire and shattered Glass 50 years ago that began the nazi extermination of 6 million jews. The perfidious invention of the word Reich Kris Tal nacht permitted the nazis to play Down the horrors of this night West German Justice minister Hans Engelhard said. He spoke at ceremonies in Braunschweig marking the night of nov. 9-10, 1938. When nazi thugs at tacked and burned jewish Homes synagogues and other property throughout Germany. During Krist Allnach or Crystal night. "30,000 jews were arrested and most of them were sent off to concentrations Camps Engelhard said. He declared that "91 jewish people were murdered and Many others tormented 267 synagogues were burned out or destroyed and thousands of Homes and businesses were  both West Germany and communist East Germany Are holding hundreds of solemn observances. East Germany s official news Agency adn reported on ceremonies in Berlin and in Halle and Leipzig. The City fathers of Leipzig and members of the jewish Community on monday paid tribute to the Vic Tims of the fascist racial madness in the pogrom night of 50 years ago it said they placed wreaths at the site of the synagogue destroyed during the pogrom As Well As at the new jewish  East Germany which has not paid reparations to holocaust victims has Given extensive coverage to the anniversary. The East germans emphasize that Adolf Hitler persecuted communists As Well As jews in Bonn the free democratic party issued n statement saying the events of the pogrom night of so years ago form a part of a our German history As a terrible expression of racial hatred inhumanity and  the party is Junior partner in Chancellor Helmut Kohl s coalition. Historians agree that Crystal night was the first major step in the Effort to annihilate european jews. The nazis boastfully named it for the shards of broken Glass thai filled the streets. An american jewish Leader said East Germany s Observance of the anniversary indicates that the communist state has begun to accept its responsibility. We Ore a lamely pleased by the actions taken by the East German government in highlighting a moment in history that was the beginning of the Holo Caust said rabbi Philip Hial of the new York based Union of american hebrew congregations. About 32,000 jews live in West Germany but the number of practising jews in East Germany is Esti mated at no More than 450-600. Austria where Hitler was born also is observing the anniversary. We must clearly state that Vienna in 1938 was a Large exercise Field for any measures taken by the nazi criminals whose aim was the step by step destruction of Normal relations Between people Paul Grosz president of the Austria s jewish Community told a news conference in the austrian capital jewish leaders and Vienna City officials unveiled five commemorative plaques sunday. An anniversary exhibit is to open wednesday at the museum of history and a Monument to the victims of War and fascism will be unveiled nov. 24 in Albertina Square behind the opera House. Vienna had 200,000 jews on Crystal night which occurred eight months after Hitler annexed Austria to the third Reich. About 7,000 jews now live there freed from Page 1 him parole on the grounds that he is innocent. I feel Good a lot better but i m not Home yet Owen said As he was escorted by Federal marshals from the baggage claim area at Kennedy Airport. Moments earlier the smiling convict had been allowed an emotional reunion with his parents Raquel and Emust Owen who hugged him in a three Way huddle for Sev eral minutes. Owen a free Lance photographer who once worked for vice president George Bush was sentenced in april after being convicted of bringing 4 pounds of cocaine into Spain from Chile in a false Bottom suitcase. He was returned to the United states under a 1983treaty that provides for the Transfer of prisoners be tween the United slates and Spain when a citizen of one country is convicted of a crime in the other. Owen worked As a 1984 summer intern in Bush s office and had bean admitted to the . Army Intelli gence school at fort Hua Chuca Ariz he was arrested March 13,1987, on his arrival in Barcelona he has maintained he was an unwitting courier. He said he had been in Chile shooting travel brochure photographs on an assignment arranged by Jorge Bara Hona of Washington . As part of a plea bargain Deal with . Officials Bara Hona told a Federal judge that Owen knew nothing about the drugs and had been set up to carry the suitcase. His declarations led to the indictment in Virginia of three others in the plot. Alt Are at Large. The Barcelona court that convicted Owen in april refused  
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