European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday january 15,1989 germans see no proof of illegality Bonn West Germany a the government acknowledged on saturday that . Documents indicate links be tween a number of West German companies and an alleged chemical weapons Plant in Libya but said there is still no proof any Laws were broken. West German experts returned Home after flying to Washington earlier in the week to examine . Documents on the libyan Plant. Chief government spokesman Fried Helm Ost said the . Information indicates a number of German firms As Well As companies from several nations made deliveries for the libyan chemical  but he said officials had not found evidence to warrant prosecution. West German officials have not acknowledged american claims that the libyan Complex at rata is a chemical weapons factory. Libyan Leader foam mar Qadhafi maintains it is a Complex for making pharmaceuticals. Ost did not identify the companies named in the documents. Two West Ger Man companies Are already under investigation for links to the libyan Plant. Government officials have maintained that even if there were indications of involvement in the libyan Complex proof would still be needed that the companies broke West German Export Laws. West German authorities have launched investigations into two Compa Nies that allegedly were involved in the libyan project Imhausen Cherie of Lahr and the now defunct Ibi Engi Neering of Frankfurt. Alleged participation by German firms in the libyan Plant has embarrassed the government and strained its relations with the United states. When the accusations first came to Light through american newspapers German leaders complained about a . Media Campaign against their country. However West German officials have since said they cannot exclude that German companies May have been involved in the libyan project. The news Magazine Der Spiegel re ported saturday that West German officials started receiving intelligence information about German complicity in the Plant in 1986, not last fall As government authorities have maintained. The Magazine said several times the West German Federal intelligence service urgently and concretely pointed to participation by German firms. The Federal government did not take reports by the German and american secret services  Der Spiegel did not identify its sources. A leading Federal lawmaker for the free democratic party Junior partners in Chancellor Helmut Kohl s coalition government called on saturday for a parliamentary investigation into the government s handling of the libyan Chemi Cal Plant affair. The scandal is growing every Day. However Ca sinc the grow casket of Pilot killed in raid leaves Italy for journey Home Rome a the Flag draped casket of an Ameri can Pilot killed in the 1986 bombing raid on Libya was rape Huhm by and damages the image of the Federal Republic Hildegard Hamm Britcher told Saarland Ischer Rund Funk radio in an interview. Hamm Britcher also complained about the Lack of information from the government about the affair. She said that if it turns out to be True the government started receiving Intelli gence reports on the libyan Plant two years ago then the German parliament has been very badly  Der Spiegel also said the Magazine has information that West German engineers Are helping Libya rebuild and improve military aircraft. The Magazine said the engineers Are doing the work through a sister company of the bavarian firm Intel. The Magazine identified the sister firm As Cettl of Liechtenstein. According to Spiegel the engineers have rebuilt two fighter planes for Libya a Mirage and a Mig As Well As a her Cules transport. Pact from Page 1 d Caske put aboard a . Air Force transport plane that left for the United states on saturday a Day after Libya released the body. . Embassy spokesman Mark Dillen said the body was identified Friday night As that of air Force maj. Fernando Ribas Dominicci who died during the raid Early april 15, 1986. Dillen said the plane was headed for Dover air Force base Del. The 33-year-old Pilot s Hometown was Utuado puerto Rico. During a Brief ceremony at the military Airport the . Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb and charge d affaires James f. Creagan who is assigned to the Vatican placed their hands Over their hearts As six marines carried the casket past them to a c-141 Star lifter. Dillen said he did not know Why the libyans said the body they flew to Rome on Friday was that of capt. Paul Lorence 31, of san Francisco the other airman aboard the Al 11 f. On saturday the italian news Agency Ansa quoted an italian forensic expert who helped identify the body As saying the identification was made possible on the basis of the comparison of Teeth with documents provided by . Authorities. Three italian and three american medical experts conducted the examination Ansa said. The plane was the Only one lost in the raids on Tripoli Libya s capital and Benghazi another coastal City. Seventeen other . Air Force bombers returned safely after dropping about 100 tons of bombs on the cities. Reagan ordered the 1986 attack in retaliation for what he called Libya s support for terrorists. Libyan authorities in what they called part of humanitarian initiatives presented the body to the vat ican on Friday in the rubble of the former Headquarters of libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi a target in the raid said Libya s Jana news Agency. The Tripoli site never was rebuilt. Lorence Ribas Dominicci Craft to Rome where italian authorities took posses Sion of the Gold trimmed White coffin in a simple ceremony at Ciampino Airport. A libyan Soldier in Green fatigues Laid a Wreath of red Flowers atop the casket before italian air Force officers carried it to a mortuary Van. The gesture takes place during International debate Over a libyan Plant that the United states says can produce chemical weapons and comes nine Days after . Fighters shot Down two libyan jets Over the Mediterranean. . Officials said the libyan fighters acted in a threatening manner. Libya claimed the planes were unarmed and said the attack was premeditated. Jana monitored in Rome and London said . Fighter planes buzzed a libyan airlines plane flying to Istanbul on tuesday. The Pentagon said it had no information about the incident. In Washington state department spokesman Charles Redman welcomed the return of Ribas Dominicci s remains and said the action was part of Libya s humanitarian obligations. Qadhafi was quoted As saying in a dec. 24 dispatch that he was returning the body especially since this occasion coincides with the end of the Rule of the Rea Gan administration their dispute but the Compromise reportedly put off the question of whether Mersin would be included in the new talks. Western diplomats have praised the human rights Accord which contains landmark provisions on human rights including enhanced religious freedoms clearer regulations on travel and emigration from the East bloc More Freedom of information and an end to the abuse of psychiatry. Western diplomats also hailed As a Triumph the achievement for the first time of a mechanism allowing Helsinki signatory states to raise human rights affairs with one another. The 1975 Helsinki final act was signed by the soviet Union the United states Canada and All european nations except Albania. Many of its human rights provisions have been Vio lated in the past by the East bloc. Western diplomats noted taht the new Vienna accords were made possible by the recent reforms in the soviet Union but stressed the test would come in whether the East s communist nations adhere to it. Human rights Are to be discussed at annual follow up conferences in Paris this summer in Copenhagen Denmark next year and in Moscow in 1991. The Moscow conference was disputed into the last weeks of the Helsinki review forum. The United states and Britain eventually agreed to go but Only if soviet reforms continue and Are institutionalized. Justice department s no. 3 official to leave Washington a associate attorney Gener Al Francis a. Keating ii said Friday that he will not be reappointed to the Justice department s no. 3 position in the new administration. Keating said the decision had been made jointly by attorney general Dick Thornburgh and the transition team for president elect George Bush. Thornburgh has a right to his own team. I would do the same if i were him said Keating a former assistant Treasury Secretary who became associate at Torney general last Spring. �.iv.wt. ,.u we. Occasion cum Uius Wim m cuu i Inci Uichi m  assistant in Lecam Ribas Dominicci s body was flown by military air a " Torne anti abortion protests Spur 700 arrests in 3 cities by the associated press selves together to slow police efforts As in new York protesters chanted Lay them carried away on stretchers of a., of homr  it Ianari Lone As we Rossl blvd can to save As Manv Down Tri peered fire alarms and halted Thev refused to  demonstrators chained themselves to fences stopped traffic and Sang hymns As they blocked the entrances of clinics in three cities saturday. More than 700 people were arrested police said. In new York members of the anti abortion group operation Rescue continued to defy a Federal judge s order to Stop blocking clinic entrances. Police said 565 people were arrested in demonstrations at six Sites. Some demonstrators chained them Selve Long possibly y babies As we can said Bob Chuvala an operation Rescue spokesman. In new Orleans about 70 of the 400 demonstrators blocking the doors of the Delta women s clinic in new Orleans were arrested on charges of obstructing a Public place police said. In Toronto about 80 people were arrested in a demonstration outside the clinic of or. Henry Morgentaler who led the fight for legalized abortion in Canada. In the second Day of demonstrations i Down trigger fir elevators said inspector Richard May Ronne a police spokesman. About 500 to 600 people stopped traffic for More than two hours while pro testing activities of planned parenthood s Margaret Sanger Center said sgt. Raymond o Donnell a police spokesman. About 225 demonstrators were arrested. The second biggest protest occurred at Lincoln s women services where police said 175 people were arrested most of the after they on Friday 275 members of the group were arrested in two protests outside the Sanger clinic police said. . District judge Robert Ward issued a permanent injunction against the group on tuesday forbidding members to obstruct Access to clinics performing abortions in new York City. Meanwhile in new Orleans protesters Sang hymns and carried wooden crosses while waiting to be arrested for blocking the Entrance of an abortion clinic