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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, November 8, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday november 8,1988 Ortega blames . Managua Nicaragua a  div ii Efti Tol sat urday urged the new . Administration to Rosec the Central american peace agreement regardless or which p dirty wins tues Day s election. . Policy is d at interested in having peace in Central America and wan a Militi by solution that crushes the Sandi Nola revolution and the popular no Vemont in Al Salvador pm told reporter after a meeting nil salvadoran leftist leaders fhe blamed the United suits for the suspension 01 cease Fin talks Between his Saij Minista govern ment and inc .-backed Nicara Guan rebels known As contras in september j love Triangle Case Junction City. Kan. A a former Church Secretary has pleaded guilty to murder charges in the 1983 staying of her husband and admitted that she gave her for Mer minister thet Managun used Loskill him. \ the alleged love Triangle formed the basis of a television ministries Lorna Anderson Eldridge. 33. Entered the plea so second degree murder telling the court thai she and Thomas Bird blotted the 1983slaving of Martin Kanderson. The slaying and mrs. Eldridge s reputed love affair twill Bird were dramatized in the lbs ministries murder ordained in 1987. Mrs Eldridge fld Bird 38, Al ready Are serving prison terms. She pleaded guilty in Imbs to criminal solicitation in an earlier unsuccessful plot on her he stand s life an was sentenced to five to i g years. Bird who has no been charged in Anderson s a Cath. Was convicted in 1984 of criminal solicitation in the unsuccessful plot. He was sentenced to 2 k to seven years in that Case and to life imprison for murdering his wife Sandra in 1983. 4 still missing Cameron la. A Rescue workers have failed to locate four men who were aboard a helicopter Lial plunged into the calf of Mexico during Takeoff from an Oil platform officials said saturday. The men were presumed dead six men were aboard the helicopter when in crashed Friday during Takeoff from a Mobil Oil co. Plat form about 120 Miles off he  arc Boal rescued two of the men shortly after the Accident said Mike o Malley of Mobil Oil exploration & producing South cast in Dallas. Omalley said Rescue efforts to find the other four were hampered by 9-Fooi Waves Vietnam prediction Manila Philippines a a vietnamese politician predicted saturday Hal Bis country and the United Stales will normalize relations next year Clearing the Way for foreign investment needed to develop the War ravaged communist nation. The prediction was made by Nguyen Xuan Oanh a member of the vietnamese parliament who holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard. He arrived in Manila to Days ago from a monthlong lecture tour of the United slates. Oanh who also visited France and South Korea said his , visit was part of a tour of Western nations 10 persuade capitalists to invest in his country. Plo official says guerrillas n More attacks in Israel Kuwait t i the no. 2 official Gan Zalton said Plo plans Call for the in the Paje Sincu in croatian organization called sunday of increased military action in Israel afle Tjas week s israeli elections. Also sunday he fourth meeting of the islamic office for ixe Boycott of Israel decided to tighten the blockade against the jewish state. The Plo official Sah Khalaf made his comment in an interview with the kuwaiti daily Alatan. V Khalaf said the Plo leadership was considering stepping up Tref Ruggle in the israeli occupied territories against the fascist policy of the zionist entity \ the political and military plan the Plo is working out Calls for a in crease in military action inside Israel and developing Day to Day activities Jef the uprising in the occupied Terri to i i Airl. Ries he said t Khalaf a member of the centrals its three Day session committee or the a Fatah guerrilla or Svider procedures to re formation of a provisional palestinian government. The recent israeli elections mean that those who will Rule Israel far the next four Yean will be the extremist religious parties who advocate the expulsion of the palestinian and turning the occupied territories into a pure Arab land said Khalaf who is also known by Bis code name of Abu Lead. These new religious forces which May enter into a coalition with is reel s ruling liked in forming a Nej government will do their utmost/0quell the uprising. The coming stage will be diff full for Israel. It shows that isrow is a racist state which does not see peace nor understand anything Boot  the Boycott group is meeting in the saudi arabian capital of Riadh. Will con Lete the set Ling up of regional islamic offices for the Boycott of Israel and look into internal regulations governing the boy Cott. J by Elf Sharifuddi Pirzada Secretary genetic of the islamic conference organization called on All islamic states in hive not opened regional Boycott see to do so very quickly if Mea Iris against the zionist enemy Ere to prove effective. It is no longer a secret that the zionist enemy is. Continuing its Ali Empl to outflank the Boycott and escape its provisions through the establishment of economic cooperation with some foreign countries using special Chan Nels for the purpose Pirzada Wax quoted As saying in the Jidida saudi Arabia based Arab  said the Boycott against is Rael was becoming More important be cause the jewish state was attempting to establish a free Trade zone with the United Stales and a joint chamber of Commerce with the european economic Community to boost Trade. Israeli choppers blast guerrilla base troops kill 3 a Tinian commandos Sidon Lebanon up Israel helicopter git ships destroyed a Palestin Ian guerrilla Navay. Sunday hours alter israeli backed soldiers killed three commandos who landed in a rubber boat in the Security zone North of the coun try sources said. Police said four .-made cobra choppers fired about six air to surface missiles on a guerrilla naval base manned by Fatah revolutionary Council the palestinian faction led by terrorist Abu Nidath on inc outskirts of the port of Sidon 24 Miles South of Beirut. Police said the base was destroyed and two civilians were wounded. There were no imm Tiatco reports of casualties among the t several bolts and six civilian cars were damage a and a nearby shop was also destroy Dipo Liee said. In Jenu Blem an army spokesman said Sirj Ucli air Force planes attacked a terrorist Fla get. We israeli planes re turned Jefe by to a gift and inc target was destroy earner Security Kier pcs in Southern Lebanon said Sowich from the israeli backed South Lebanon Anny killed three palestinian commandos who landed the for rubber boat on thl coast near the rentier Village of Nav Bra within the Security zone and hundreds of Yards North of Israel. " the helicopter air strike came hours after israeli warplanes apparently on a reconnaissance Mission stared mock raids Over guerrilla bases near Sidon. Police said four israeli jets screaming at Low and medium altitudes passed us limes Over bases belonging to the pales Tine liberation organization s main Fatah group and other factions cast and . The warplanes appeared Over the area a Day after lebanese news reports said Fatah guerrillas had recently brought in unknown amounts of weapons.  drug charges released from presort . A. Barcelona Spain a american convicted of cocaine smug in a Case that attracted the attention , attorney Genera led prison sunday under a Deal that allows him to set rec his sentence in the United slates Pisan Owen 24, a photo a former summer Micro in Deal George Bush s office Modelo in Handcuffs and econ. He had been held arrest March 13, 1937, apart Airport. As he walked through to a waiting police Van raised his hands to so tufted Owen was taken lice Headquarters a fording to the offi cer in charge who demanded anonymity. It was beb eved own would spend the  and be fumed Over to . Marshals Mondavi in time to catch a flight to new a Orff Owen was convicted in. April of drug trafficking and sentenced to six years and a Day. At his trial on March 26, Owen Testi fied he was tricked into carrying a suit Case from Santiago Chile to Barcelona. Customs police found 4 pounds of co Caine in a false Bottom of the suitcase. H err and presi Carcel Ler police re since his Lona i Al he Anson Patio in defiantly was hand Barcelona to he said the people who had Given dim a free Lance photo assignment sent hrs to Barcelona after a few Days work Insan Lingo. V Jorge Barahona who gave Owen us assignment later Lold . Officials Vand others placed the cocaine in the suit Case without Owen s knowledge. Barahona provided that information to . Of-1 facials in return for a suspended sentence and a Promise he would not do turned Over in Spanish authorities. The Barcelona court refused to Admi Barahona s deposition As evidence in Owen s trial because plea bargaining is illegal in Spain. -.-". Owen s Transfer to the United states is allowed under an International treaty Spain and the United Stales signed in19s3. To become eligible for return. Owen had to drop his Appeal of the trafficking conviction. The prosecutor also dropped an a peal calling for an additional conviction on contraband charges which the three judge Barcelona coun earlier threw out. Owen s Allomby and the photographer s family in Annandale vap have refused to discuss the Case with report ers. The Spanish news Media have ques. Tinned the degree of . Interference in the country s Legal system after the per Sonal Appeal for Owen s release by then attorney general Edwin Mcnese i Cit ing Owen s ties to me Seand Bush some newspapers claimed the photographer was an american spy. During a weekly Cabinet meeting on oct. 28, the Spanish government agreed10 Owen s request to be transferred to the United Stales. In february a month be fore Owen s trial Meese travelled to a " 1 to sign a supplementary extradition Ity with Spanish Justice minister Fer Ido Ledesma. To that time Mcnese told reporters Hele livering n copy of Barahona s Ftp to Sedenna in the Hopes thai against Owen would be dropped Owen s conviction Mcnese Saidt Roui a Justice department spokes Man Tibt he regrets very much this action by we Spanish court. A think it s i Portall to stress that we continue to believe a in or Owen s innocence and we continue to Hope hat he will ultimately be  according to the . Embassy in Madrid As of six months ago there were six americans serving Tine in Spanish jails on drug related charges and another nine including Owen who were awaiting trial oni drug charges  
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