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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday decembers 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 trial set in nazi record theft Case court Case against 4 begins monday by de Reavis staff writer. _ the trial of four men accused of steal ing and Selling thousands of nazi War records from inc  Berlin document Center is set to begin monday in Berlin. Alfred Darko 48, former chief of the reproduction Section Uthe Center is accused of stealing and Selling More than 4,000 documents for High in pcs to Deal Era in nazi Memorabilia in West Ger Many. Switzerland arid the United slates said act lev Achhammer spokes Man for the Berlin state court. The other defendants Henry Derger Herbert Borrmann and Andrea he skin All Are dealers in world War ii Memora Bilia. H listen is one of i he Best known dealers in West Germany. Achhammer said authorities have been Able to deter mine the number of stolen documents As . To clean up contamination at uranium Plant Cincinnati a a Federal judge Friday approved a precedent setting order requiring the depart ment of Energy to be subject to Ohio environmental regulations in a 11 billion cleanup of the Agency s Fer Bald uranium processing Plant Ohio attorney general Anthony Cylc Brizze or. . Sen. John Glenn a Ohio said the decree negotiated by Federal and state attorneys is historic because it gives inc stale a court order to pressure the Energy department to clean up the Plant. Ccle Brizze and Richard Shank the director of Ohio s environmental Protection Agency said the state will use the order to Force the Energy department to clean up the Plant and pay for its Cost estimated at. Is billion. -.-. . District judge s. Arthur Spiegel signed the agreement Friday morning in Cincinnati. De Brezic said. The Accord Coveris the feed materials production Center in female which state officials blame for contamination of air and water at the 1,050-acre site 18 mites North of Cincinnati. The Plant enriches uranium for nuclear Power plants and for the government s nuclear research. A similar agreement was reached last week for a $50 million cleanup Ofha ardous wastes Al the Portsmouth gaseous diffusion Plant in i in con. Picton Plant site manager Eugene Gillespic said this week that although the agreement will be enforceable by a court in has not been incorporated in a consent decree. The 37-year-old feed materials production Center sits above the great Miami River aquifer a water source for 2 million people the Energy department has admitted that the Plant had emitted at least 300,000 pounds of radioactive uranium dust into the atmosphere.,Shank said the stale is concerned that contaminated wastes from the Plant could pollute the aquifer. Water Sam bet can 10,000 and 30,000 and not inc 80,000 figure reported earlier in Iii press he said. Authorities believe they can prove Darko a citizen of the Ivory coast collected 30,000 Marks about 117,500, for his alleged part in inc thefts from the Center s basement Archive Achhammer said. We also know that the dealers sold the papers for considerably More he said we know that a package of 2,000 documents was sold to England for 100,000 Marks $58,480 if convicted on the charges of grand larceny the men could face from three months to 10 years confinement Ach Hammer said Achhammer said police have nol been Able to confirm earlier published reports that some of the files sold for As much As $ 12 million or that the files were used to blackmail prominent germans. The Story of the missing documents first was reported in february in the West Berlin newspaper the Berliner Morgen Post. The Berlin document Center which is headed by Daniel Simon an american contains Between 25 million and 3d Mil lion records from Germany s nazi period. The Center is in inc process of copy ing the archives before turning All documents Over to the West German government. Moused in the former nazi Central phone tap Center for Berlin the Cente receives some 4,000 inquiries from scholars and government agencies a month. The Center houses nearly Complete Nad party membership files and files of Adolf Hitler s elite is and a troops. The is was Hitler s special police Force and the a was has private army whose members were known As storm troopers. Dental records from the Center we retaken to Brazil several years ago to identify the body of Joseph a Englc he is doctor colled the Angel of Auschwitz by inmates of the notorious concentration Camp. A Englc conducted macabre pseudo medical experiments on Camp prisoners. According to inc Moryc Posl report documents pilfered from inc Center were used in 1983 by Hiller diary Floijer Kon Rad Kujau who palmed his bogus Jour nals off to Stern msgr inc for More than15 million. The Berlin document Center is located in the sch Lundorf Quarter of the american sector of Berlin. Access to the collection which has been operated by the . Slate department since 195j,has been restricted to scholars and government agencies. The trial is scheduled to Convene for five sessions and is set to end dec 21, Achhammer said. Ohio Cov. Richard Celeste Ullh a concerned neighbor or the uranium Plant he United states will clean up. Lie Plant s operator said in would Lay off 350 workers because of decreased demand for its product spokesman Pete Kolky said the layoffs will affect about 2jo hourly and about 100 salaried employees. He said the layoffs were not prompted by a strike by the Plant s 625 Union production workers which has idled the facility since oct. 7. Some employees foresaw difficulties in cleaning up the Plant if workers arc Laid off. It will about destroy he place As far As cleanup goes said Bob Warren who has worked Al the per Bald Plant for seven years. Was Longhouse Laid off 70 employees at the Plant in april because of declining orders for uranium . Mayor s wife Dies in Peru wreck Lima Peru up the wives of inc mayors of Cuzco Peru and of Jersey City .t died thursday in a train crash that left nine people injured. Aulhorn lies said they feared sabotage by guerrillas caused the wreck ".  Anna Cucci. The wife of Jersey City mayor Anthony Cucci died when a single Diesch pow Rcd Wagon carry ing tourists who had gone to see incan ruins jumped its tracks outside the City of Cuzco 350 Miles South cast of Lima Lite government run National train company said in a statement Doris mayors do Chacon the wife of Cuzco maj apr Carlow Chacon also died in the Accident authorities said the two mayors Jersey City councilman Jaime Vasquez and inc six other people in the rain car were injured in the crash train company spokesman Alberto Al Faro said.  Alfaro said the group was returning from the ruins of the incan City  Pitchu when inc Wagon derailed 5 Miles from Cuzco /. A train company spokesman said police had found an Iron plate attached to the rail where the Wagon jumped its tracks and believed it had caused the Acci. Lent. " nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the Accident but authorities were investigating whether rebels of the shining path movement were to  insurgents have waged a guerrilla War in Peru for eight years local hires at Dodds get new benefits by William j. Bartma washing Bureau Washington some locally hired teach ers in the military s overseas schools soon will be Able to qualify for Long Soughs routing and other allowances under an  worked out with Union officials this week to qualify for the benefits primarily hous ing and transportation to the United states every two years teachers must Transfer to a school that is outside commuting distance from where they presently live. Presumably the teachers would then have to move to new Homes closer to their new  Austin general counsel to the overseas education association said the agreement with the department of defense dependents schools brings his Union closer to achieving full Bene fits for local hires. It becomes divisive when one teacher is getting a substantial amount of Money for doing me same thing As others arc  Austin said local hires have complained for years about not receiving the allowances. The will be made available to All local hires including those represented by the rival overseas federation of teachers. Teachers hired from inside the United slates automatically receive the benefits. But those hired while already overseas Many of them spouses of  and civilian person Nel do not receive inc allowances beginning with the 1990-91 school year local hires who Transfer to schools outside commuting distance of their present Homes will qualify for the benefits which include a housing allowance of$8.0poloj35,000. This agreement we think is a major break through Austin said. It will allow local hires who Transfer outside of i hair commuting Dis Tance to get full  outside their commuting distance can vary with each installation. For example the distance Between Augsburg and Frankfurt in West Ger Many a four hour trip by car would easily qualify Austin said. He said the transfers covered in the agreement would be those equivalent to permanent charge of station arrangements. / Union negotiators failed to achieve retroactive allowances for local hires who already have transferred. But the school system agreed to give those teachers the first Chance to move when the program becomes effective. They will get prior Ity consideration for moving he said. Dodds officials did not have an estimate of the projected Cost of the agreement  
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