European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Friday december 30,1988 news updates Seal epidemic pie Terbus a up seals roaming been wiped no German and 1since last Apt Hospital for so Fram 7,500 in Netherlands so percent of the he North sea have by inc viral epidemic thai has kept danish West Loti coastal Waters i Europe s biggest said wednesday. 10 8,000 seals have died in Iho Cli Dumic which has been linked to Lac virus that also r in dogs Accord Hart of the sea Hern dutch Vil causes dister ing 10 Mcnie clinic in this Lac. Seals arc stiff infection we ii Anir nals Immi. Poses them to infection i a dying of the viral undermines the system and cd Meurn Onia or liver said. Brennan Twork Washington a supreme court Justice William j. Brennan who in Derwent surgery id remove his Gall bladder two weeks ago resumed to work tues Day. I Brennan 821 was hospitalized Dee. G. He suffered from chills and fever. His condition initially was diagnosed As pneumonia but Doc ton later determined he had anon malignant Bill bladder Dis ease i tie looks get a court employee who declined to be identified said of the Justice. He s Back on the Job and Felling Arab proposal Abu Dahabi. United Arab emirates up United Arab Emi rates president Zaid Ibn Sultan an Kahayan the first Arab Leader to restore relations with Egypt Las year called tuesday for the return of inc nation to the Arab league. Egypt,1 with its International strategic weight should be Al Lowed to give in support to Ara causes through its return to the league Kahayan said in a policy speech to parliament. A fiyut s membership in the 21-member league has been Frozen since the 1978 signing of the Camp David peace accords with Israel. In response most Arab countries broke All relations with Egypt. In november 1987, Naha yanked most Arab countries in Restor ing ties citing the nationalistic stances of egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Of the Arab nations Only Syria Libya and Lebanon have no relations with Egypt v ,. Burger goes Home Washington a re tired chief Justice Warren e. Bur ser 81, was released from a Wash Egton Hospital wednesday after three Days of treatment Tor exhaustion and pneumonia. Tish Avery a spokeswoman forthe commission on the Bicentennial of the . Constitution tha Burger Heads said he is resting at Home. He s reeling much she mid he has been conducting commission business by Telephone but she did not know when he would return to work. Burger had been hospitalized since sunday. He has been chair Man of the Bicentennial commis. Sion since retiring from the supreme court in 1986. Ury indicts Florida Man Ospy conspiracy charge to a Federal grand jury indicted a Florida Man wednesday on a Chart thai he conspired to deliver intelligence secrets to agents of tic Eastern bloc. The indictment released by . At Torney Hinton r. Pierce accuser Serin Yildirim of scheming with j attics William Hall Iii from 1982 until dec. 28to pass the intelligence information to foreign , a 30-year-old army warrant offi cer was most recently assigned to an intelligence unit of the 24th in div at fort Stewart a. He was assigned to inc Sig Nal intelligence traffic analysts with a top secret Security clearance. Yildirim born in Turkey is described As a former army is in army custody at fort Mcado md., pending a decision on whether he will be charged under inc uniform code of military Justice. An coded speech and signals to avoid Detec Tion be indictment charges. Among other things the indictment army magistrate tuesday ordered Hall s charges that detention continued for 30 Days. ,." Hall hid classified document Onon tuesday Federal magistrate Paul dec. 5 and sold them to an undercover j Fri age whom he believed to be a so Viet intelligence agent for $30,000 ondec.20. Yildirim delivered s5.000 to Hall Dee to from his East German from january to july 1988, mall received More than $40,000 from East German agents in Exchange for. Document and information relating to the National defense of the United Staleshall was arrested in Savannah dec. 21. That same Day Yildirim was arrested at his Home near Tampa. Gane or. In Tampa ordered theold Yildirim of bal Lair Fla returned to Savannah. Tithe indictment charges Hall used his ass to classified National defense in action to steal and copy1 or carry away classified Yildirim thence to East German members or the conspiracy accepted for film soviet arid East German agents Money and hings of value i payment for me. Information employed secret drops Loyth Ciliate their activities and employed Coroller surveillance and mines still a threat shipping lanes x to. In persian Gilf . Officer warns Ping from iranian attack in july Ross said i Hope they re All gone but i believe More mines arc still Here in the Gulf he said. noted that Western Navy patrols have not ventured into Northern Waters where iranian and iraqi farces were Active until the aug. 20 cease fire ended the eight Yea War. We be searched up to Kuwait but no farther. Someone has to Check the Shatt Al Arab said shipping in the Gulf increases. . Officers have voiced fears that rough Winter aboard the fearless a mines Laid by Iran and Iraq Are believed to be still adrift in the persian Gulf where shipping is increasing following the cease fire a . Navy officer said tuesday. / it. Cmdr. John k. Ross skipper of thymine sweeper fearless mid the shall Al Arab waterway that forms the Souther Boundary Between pfc two countries is particularly risky. / about 180 Muncs have been discovered in the Gul Kince . And other for eign navies to protect ship reportedly freed Gohs still Haven t Turnell up Beirut Lebanon a there was no Trace wednesday of two French girls reportedly freed Christmas eve by Abu tidal s palestini an terrorist group after 13 months in Captivity triggering speculation they still have not been released. Walid Khaled spokesman for Abu Nidal s Fatah revolutionary Council said monday that Maric Laure be tile 7 and her sister Virginie 6, had been freed and were on their Way to pans by they never arrived in the French capital. Amid contradictory statements by the Fatah revolutionary coun cil one of the group s officials said wedge May in West Beirut com Rade Walid Khaled revealed the latest information on the two French girls yesterday. There is nothing new on them. Comrade Walid Khaled is not in town and cannot be Reachedkhalcd said saturday that the gift would be released within 24 hours in response to a Call i col. Moa mar Qadhafi the group s main financial Baer on sunday he said the girls were to be released outside Lebanon but refused to say where. St. On tuesday Khaled announced thai terrorist Mastermind Abu Nidal had met the girls at on if the faction s bases in Lebanon said goodbye to them and approved arrangements to Send hem Home he refused to say when the meeting took acc. The gigs were seized by Abu Idaj a gunmen aboard the yacht silk off the israeli occupied a a strip in nay Ember 1987 along with their Mother , and five belgians., a palestinian source said Khaled was intentionally making conflicting statements about the mis to divert attention from the reallocation where they will be set tree.". The source said without elaborating that the Tai is release Din an Arab capital in North Africa. Lucien Biti Erun head of a pro Arab French lobbying group visited Libya several limes in january and february in auf Fatm to work out a release of the girls. $. Khalid Sau when the europeans were seized thai hey were spying for Israel. But israeli news reports said the yacht wat hijacked while sailing off the libyan coast. \. Yafen Kiive birth to a girl in Captivity and re Porter a expecting another Eft ild next month. She half been living with Fernand Houle Kins one of the five belgians seized on the Silko. The girls father Pascal Metille is separated from their Mother that other four captives Are Hout Ekins elder brother Emmanuel his wife god Clicc and their two children Laurent 17, and Valerie 16. Seas could tear moored mines from their anchors to float South into shipping lanes. No ship has hit a mine since the Cesse. Ross declined to estimate Bow Many remain but us. Sources put the numbers High Sis 200, mainly in the North Ern Claire tit has cleared mines in North pm Watera Aid other sectors since the cease fire. Ross said 166 tacs 82 moored tothe sea bed and �4 floating were discovered Between july 1987 and the is believed Iran planted most of the mines. -. Foreign observers invited to witness soviet pullout Moscow a the soviet Union will allow foreign observers and journalists to watch the withdrawal of troops from Eastern Europe next year an official said in an interview published wednesday. President. Mikhail 5. Gorbachev announced1 dec. 7 in a speech to the United nations Gener Al Assembly in new York that the soviet Union will unilaterally reduce its troops by 50.poo.Washington hailed the Kun Klov a spokesman for he armed forces general staff made the disclosure that for Eigners would be allowed to watch the withdraw Al in an interview with the red army newspaper Krasnaya a Vida. Vunder Gorbachev s policy of glasnost or open Ness the soviets have allowed foreigners including journalists and diplomats to watch the withdrawal and destruction of medium and Short Range mis Siles under an agreement signed by Gorbachev and president Reagan last december. Naval aviation Pioneer Pride Dies of heart attack at 91 Arnold my. A retired adm Alfred met Ville Pride a naval aviation Pioneer and former com Mander of the is. 7lh Fleet in the Pacific died Sal urday of a heart attack. He was 91, Pride also was a former chief of the Navy s Burea of aeronautics and of naval air forces in the Pacific. The Somerville. Mass., native was one of the Crew of the Navy s first aircraft Carrier the Lang Ley and in 1922 was part of a Small group of test Pilot who made experimental landings and talc Moffson the ship. While a Junior officer on the Langley he devel oped arresting gear to Stop Landing aircraft once they had touched Down. -. j he retired from Active duly in 1959, and settled in Arlington a
