European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 philippine troops attack hostage takers Zamboanga City Philippines a troops backed by tanks and a Mored personnel carriers Friday stormed a military Garrison after moslem captors killed a general they were holding hos Tage officials said. A Hospital near the Garrison said at least five people were wounded. A wounded Soldier reported numerous dead and City police chief it. Col. Jovencio Gongora said several bodies still were in the compound. Gongora said he suspended the assault at dark. Bodies could not be recovered because some dissident moslem were believed still on the grounds. Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos told reporters in Manila the attack began after the military Learned the regional constabulary commander Brig. Gen. Eduardo Batalla had been shot and killed by a renegade moslem policeman. One of the wounded staff sgt. Rosen do Novelonio told reporters there were Many dead on the second floor of the Headquarters building where Batalla and his chief of staff col. Romeo Abendan had been held. There was no word on Abendan s Fate. Batalla and Abendan were captured thursday after Batalla ordered moslem policemen to surrender their weapons and face murder charges in a 1984 Inci Dent. House of representatives speaker Ramon Mitra said the military decided to storm the Garrison after the police men s Leader patrolman Rizal Ali rejected Mitra s last offer. Mitra had asked to see Batalla and verify he was alive. Ramos said the military Learned of a Kissiov cousins olympic diver Greg Louganis who taking a break from training in the wet few Rev Vul Al a i 4v a 1 of 4 Utji 1 too m a__4lT71 j j j won Gold medals in the 1984 and 1988 games seems to have won the heart of another top notch swimmer there a a bottle nosed Dolphin. Louganis Southern Florida area dropped in on the Dolphin research Center at mar athon for a pleasant swim session with Theresa and some of her friends. Talla s death from the governor of largely moslem Sulu province Tupay Loong who spoke with the kidnappers. Witnesses said tanks and armoured personnel carriers smashed through the Gates ahead of marines. Reporters saw captors resist with automatic rifles and grenade launchers and at least one a Mored vehicle was disabled by the firing. Reporters said a portion of the build ing where the hostages were held had been destroyed by tank fire. Officials said 30 to 40 armed men some of whom May have been moslem soldiers apparently slipped into the Headquarters building overnight to join Ali and an estimated 15 followers. The captors demanded to be flown to Iasi Island 120 Miles to the Southwest. Mitra said Ali reneged on an Over night Deal to end the dispute in Exchange for Safe passage to Palawan Island where he would surrender to military police. Ali was charged in the november 1984 slaying of mayor Cesar Climaco but was acquitted. Three weeks after Cli Maco s death seven people were killed Ina Marine raid on Ali s Home. Ali faces murder charges in those deaths. Last month Batalla received per Mission to arrest Ali. He and eight others were ordered detained by Batalla and All of them could be charged with murder or conspiracy to commit murder. Military officials claim Ali has been operating several illegal businesses in the Zamboanga area 560 Miles South of Manila. About 5 million moslem live in the Philippines which has a population of 59 million. About half Zamboanga s Resi dents Are Christian and half moslem. German College denies use of tissue samples from victims of nazis Bonn West Germany a an official at a leading West German University Friday said two microscopic tis sue samples used for medical education May have come from the corpses of nazi victims but he denied suggestions the institution widely uses such materials. A report by the West German television network Ard that West German universities still use body parts from nazi victims for medical instruction has touched off angry reaction among israeli officials. But administrators at three West Ger Man universities said they knew of no tissue samples from nazi victims at their institutions and a fourth tub Ingen said it has withdrawn from its Anat omy collection the two microscopic examples it had had in store. Tub Ingen and Heidelberg universities Are at the Center of the juror which was sparked by the Ard television report late monday night. The israeli Media also picked up on the Ard report saying the two universities use body parts from nazi victims including communists and the mentally handicapped for medical education. But tub Ingen University Chancellor Georg Sandberger said the Ard report is incorrect and that there was no wide use of such tissues at his University. We conducted an inquiry after the allegations. We found we had Only two items of microscopic tissues in our col Lection of Anatomy that May have come from the victims of the nazi regime Sandberger told the associated press by Telephone from his Home in tub Ingen. Subsequently i have ordered those withdrawn from the collection Sand Berger said. Sandberger says records at the school indicate the two tissue samples May have been taken from the corpses of a Young polish woman and a Young German who were decapitated in Stuttgart during the nazi regime. He said the tissues May have been left Over from the time when nazis delivered corpses of their victims to universities for anatomical study. Sandberger said in our collection now there Are neither body parts nor tis sues which we can Trace to this nazi the a attempted to reach Heidelberg University officials to comment on the Media allegations but the Institute was closed because of a local Holiday. The University Chancellor Siegfried Kraft was vacationing in the Black Forest and could not be reached for comment. Sandberger said the Media reports were mainly based on wrong information which was Given by one of our he was referring to Ulrich Drews a professor at the University. Israel to quoted Drews As saying especially at our University these Sam Ples taken from corpses of nazi victims Are very valuable for he was further quoted As saying they were prepared. In an almost artistic Israel to reported that More than a thousand bodies were sent to German universities for use in medical education during the nazis 12-year Rule. Soviets vowing to meet deadline on Afghanistan Islamabad Pakistan a the soviet Union s Deputy foreign minister promised Friday that the red army will be out of Afghanistan by feb. 15, an afghan guerrilla Leader said after meeting with him. However minister Yuli Vorontsov appeared to be reneging on a Promise that the soviet Union would not insist on a postwar role for Afghanistan s communist party said sing Atullah Mojaddidi Leader of the rebel delegation at the meeting. The two sides held a second round of direct talks in the pakistani capital and Mojaddidi said they agreed to meet again in a few Vorontsov promised that they will withdraw on the 15th of february. They confirmed this the guerrilla Leader told reporters after the talks. Vorontsov refused comment but when he arrived in Islamabad on wednesday he said the withdrawal deadline could be pushed Back if the moslem guerrillas continue fighting. They asked for a cease fire several times but we said a cease fire is not pos sible said Mojaddidi. But we said we can Stop attacking your military forces when they Are leaving the soviet Union sent More than 100,000 soldiers into Afghanistan in 1979 to help the communist government in its War with the guerrillas. Under a Accord reached in april the Kremlin promised to withdraw its forces by feb. 15. Half had been pulled out by August. Vorontsov and the guerrillas were atan impasse on the postwar role of the marxist people s democratic party of Afghanistan said Mojaddidi. Despite earlier rebel demands that the soviet Union Stop insisting there be a part for the communists to play in a postwar government Vorontsov continued to make a pitch for the soviet Union s proteges the afghan Leader said. They want the present regime to participate in the future government said Mojaddidi. But we can t allow that " the guerrilla fighters based in Paki Stan and Iran agreed prior to Friday s talks that president Najib of Afghanistan and his marxist party were anathema to peace. Vorontsov scheduled a news Confer ence saturday the final Day of his four Day trip. Mojaddidi who is chairman of a Loose Alliance of seven pakistani based guerrilla parties said the Only agreement that came out of Friday s talks was that we will continue the negotiations after a few he did not say where they would meet. The first soviet guerrilla talks were held last month in the saudi arabian resort City of taif
