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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, December 6, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                / the Baths and stripes tuesday december 6,i9b8 news update nuke cooperation Philadelphia a unofficial of the chernobyl nuclear Plant says he would like to Sec joint  reactor built to Nelp prevent future  think thai Only by joint efforts can we create a new Mode Type of  could exclude the negative Impact on he environment and the possibility of accidents such a three Milt Island and chernobyl Mikhail Bori Sauk Deputy secretory of Cherno Byl said in an enter View Orisyuk is one of 10 soviet Sand 11 americans on inc . . Global environment commission. The Summit of 340 americans and 5oviets began two weeks ago and will continue through  1986 Ftp onion and fire Al chernobyl was the world s worst nuclear Accident to killed at Leas 33 people sent a radioactive Clou around the glut and made an area within a 40-mile radius of the Plant uninhabitable. Embassy closure Sydney Australia a the expelled yugoslav diplomatic Laffon sunday night left Sydney on a flight 10 Belgrade As Yugo Slavia officially responded to in forced closure of its Sydney con  staff including a Security guard wanted in the shooting of a16-year-old croatian demonstrator outside the consulate on nov. 27.departed on a yugoslav airlines  had been driven out of the consulate Gates in Wool Lahra i Sydney s Eastern suburbs amid tight Security some seven hour earlier. Relations restored Nicosia Cyprus a the Union Jack started Hying Over the British embassy in he iranian capital of Tehran on sunday after an i it year absence inc official islamic Republic news Agency re  Flag of Britain was raised Over the downtown embassy in ceremony marking the return of British diplomats to the  diplomats looked after British interests when the embassy closed soon after the iranian Lake Over of the . Embassy in no vember 1979. Relations were further rupture last year when on iranian Diplomat was arrested in Britain on shoplift ing charges and a British envoy in Tehran was detained Only one Diplomat from each country remained when the two countries decided last month to re store full diplomatic lies. Master sergeant a p p a re h t s u i c i de crash victim reportedly claimed Israel . Had anti terror pact Washington up Amiram Nir the israeli link inthe Iran Contti scandal killed in a plane crash last week said in june thai he United Stales and Israel had a secret Couo Ter terrorism Pac in 1985 and 1986, the Washington Post re ported  told the poet thai he and Oliver North supervised activities under the agreement that president Reagan apparently kept secret from Congress. Such an Accord would give weight to North s arguments that his actions in the foreign policy affair were approved by superiors. North faces criminal charges that he conspired to divert .funds for unauthorized activities. Nir told the Post he expected North to maintain at a trial thai the joint operations financed by iranian arms sales Wen authorized by the secret .-Israet  agreement and to were  s lawyer declined to comment the Post said. But Secretary of state George Shultz appearing sunday on abcs this week with David Brinkley said there have been Al sorts of discussions with Israel about Many thine. Weare both opposed to terrorism. We both have Many interests in common. But As far As the sort of thing being interred in the Post article i have no information in  when pressed on Bow such an Accord could exist without Bis knowledge Shultz said apparently a lot of things happened in inc Iran Contra business that the Secretary of slate did know about. Nir who was travelling under the alias Pat Weber died i Rural Mexico in a plane crash wednesday that also killed a mexican passenger a Canadian woman passenger who also used an assumed name is recovering from her injuries in a mexican Hospital. The Pilot also survived. Nir who was a special counter terrorism adviser to two israeli prime ministers was instrumental in the first . Arms sates to i ran in late 1985. He persuaded . Officials that there were elements in Tehran s Radical islamic government who were interested in better relations with Washington i Israel had brokered that 1985 Deal but in Early 1986, the in Anin Frankfurt a 38-scar-old master sergeant was found dead tin his Gove Wem lease quarters Friday cd court apparently from a self inflicted fun Snow wound division spokesman ii id sunday. Master set. A Fel a. Wanless was As signed to he buy 3rd army div arty in Hanau said Daj in  is survived by. His wife a son and a daughter whose names were no available Jenerette  memorial service will be held at4 30 . Tuesday at the Hessen Hom Burg up Sam Chapel in Hanau be said. An investigation into. The incident i being conducted by military authorities. United slates started Selling weapons directly to Tehran i Effort to Purchase the Freedom of american hostages held i Lebanon by pro Iran moslem exr mists Nir described the .-Lsradi counter terrorism agreement i general terms daring 13 hours of june interviews in London with Post reporter Bob Woodward. He said president Reagan and Shimon Peres then the israeli prime minister had agreed Toth Accord / the Post Story said the one interview was preliminary an private but Nir i death removed the reason for the agreement to withhold attribution to Nir of inc information  / . And israeli sources confirmed there was such a agreement to conduct Covert operations together and the Accord could be an important missing piece in the history of secret White House per Lions in Reagan s second term. . Sources familiar with the agreement also said it was ctr disclosed to. Congress the Posl reported. A while hoi in spokesman told the Post there would be no comment on the agreement or any operations that May have been conducted under it Yossi Gal a spokesman for the Israel embassy Wei quoted As saying we have never maintained that Nir was operating on his own or As a renegade North Aid Bis sex Boss former National Security adviser  also told Congress that Nir came up with the idea of diverting profits from uric ran arms sales to the Nicaragua contras the Post reported that North appealed to Nir in no vember 1986 Ai the scandal was unravelling to take the blame for the diversion scheme and Nir refused. Liike Ollie Nir reportedly told the Post. He was under great pressure. To mix the Iran operation and the contras was stupid stupid  Nir also accompanied Poindexter s predecessor Robert me Farlane and North on their secret May 1986 Mission to Teh ran where the americans attempted to Trade arms for hos tages directly. .-born West Bonk settler Given. " Jerusalem a a Jerusalem District court judge sentenced a . Bom jewish settler on sunday to three years in prison for shooting to death an Arab Shepherd and wounding another palestinian in the occupied West Bank. Israel Zeev 38, an immigrant fro Chicago was the first israeli civilian to be convicted for the death of an Ara since the year old palestinian uprising began. He also was Given a two year sus Pended sentence. In the West Bank and Gaza strip seven palestinians were reported shot and wounded in Stone throwing clashes with soldiers on sunday. The army said it was checking reports of the injuries. Sin of the wounded were teen agers Hospital officials said. Five of the Jii ties came in the Gaza strip and two i Nablus. Inc West Bank s largest City. In handing Down the sentence judg Zvi Cohen ordered Zeev to pay a Fine of 30,000 israeli shekels about $15,000 tothe family of the slain palestinian Judy ,18. The fun fits the maximum allowed by israeli Law. The maximum sentence for manslaughter is 20 years. Zee already has spent nearly seven months in jail since tha May 5 shootings and israeli radio said he could serve a Little As two years with time off for Good behaviour. Tie was convicted of manslaughter Las wednesday another Palt Tinian also was wounded in the Sho Oung incident near Zeev s Home in the settlement of Shito in the occupied West Bani / the settler claims thai he fico in self do fens when stones were thrown a him but witnesses said at he time that the shooting appeared unprovoked. V some of the 20 settlers in the court room in israeli annexed East Jerusalem quietly Shook Zeev s hand after the sentencing. Zeev looked Calm and made rift comment his neighbor Avraham silvers who immigrated from Arizona told a reporter that the sentencing undermined the settlers needs to defend themselves against Arab Stone throwers eleven israelis and More iban 300 palestinians have been killed since the uprising began last december. Zeev s lawyer Jacob Weinroth said he would Appeal the sentence which palestinian leaders criticized As too  sentence is very Light said och Rantisi a former Deputy mayor Ofra Mallah which is near Shito. This Means a disrespect for the lives of human beings. It is the Law of the  the incident in Shito occurred when jewish woman called for help after she spotted several Arab shepherds in a Fiel Between the Arab Village of Tumut Ayya and Shilo 1s Miles North of Jerusa   Zeev came and fired at the  later told reporters the Man who was killed knew Zeev and shouted,."Israel, Don t shoot -. Zeev immigrated to Israel 10 years ago. He has six children. Swiss voters reject plan pc reduce. �. A " total of nation s foreign it. A. A Geneva a Swiss voters on sunday overwhelmingly rejected a draft constitutional amendment that Wouldhave Cut the nation s million foreign Resi dents by almost one third in the nem 15years.- for. A proposal to introduce the 40-Hourwork week also was decisively turned Down in this wealthy country where mos people work longer hours than in the rest of Western Europe the proposal came from the country s Central Trade Union federation both referendum railed when the were rejected by a majority of Switzer land s 23 cantons according o official results Early returns indicated at Tost 70 30 opposition in the popular vote on the Immi Gration measure which was drawn up bythe Small right Wing National action More than 80 percent of the voters conservative inner Switzerland turned Down the 40-hour work week. However nearly 60 percent of the electorate backed the proposal in Ticino Canton which Borders on Italy and in Jura can ton. \ turnout was unusually High More than 50 percent on a Rainy Day. The government had urged citizens to reject both draft amendments warning of serious economic consequences in a countr 1 already facing a tight labor Market National action had proposed reducing inc number of foreigners among Switzer land s 6,5 million people from currently itnilltonioabout700,000bytheyear2004  
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