European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday March 3. 1989 news updates boat tragedy blame Rio de Janeiro Brazil a a tour operator a Mechanic and two boat owners were responsible for the deaths of 55 newyear s eve Cal curators who drowned when their boat Sank of Copacabana Beach a police report said. The 3,439-Pagc report released by Rio do Janeiro police chief Clio Saboya after a 74-Day investigation said the four men were directly responsible for the deaths of 55 passengers on Board the Bateau Mouchk in. The four volume report blame Alvaro Percira a Costa and Faus Tino Puertas Vidal. The boat s co owners cruise organizer Francisco Garcia Rivoiro and Craft Mechanic Edson Oon calves de Carvalh ofor negligence Luz said. China reaction Beijing a China said saturday that it welcomed presi Dent Bush s selection of James r. Lilly As ambassador to Beijing. Lilly a former intelligence offi cer in Beijing who has also worked in . Missions in Taiwan and Hong Kong was ambassador to South Korea from 1986 until Jan uary. Terrorists strike May provoke sympathy attacks official says Bonn. West Germany a jus Tice minister Hans Engelhard indicated Friday that he feared a hunger strike by six jailed left Wing terrorists could unleash terrorist attacks by sympathizers. This hunger strike must not claim any lives neither of those who Are on the hunger strike nor through new terror Engelhard said in a parliamentary debate. Meantime thousands of people marched in Hamburg to support the hunger strikers. The demonstration was organized by the Green party and other leftist organizations. Jailed members of the red army fac Tion West Germany s most infamous far left terrorist gang began a hunger strike feb. I to protest what they say i unfair treatment in prison. Federal officials insist that conditions for the jailed terrorists Are neither worse nor better than those for other inmates. The hunger strike has added fuel to a nationwide debate on How to Deal with terrorists who have renounced their crimes. 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President Richard vow Izsa Cher announced that he was pardoning Angilika pc incl despite a Public juror created Over the pardoning last year of two other former red army fac Tion terrorists. Speitel has been serving a life term for killing a police officer in1978. The greens which called Friday s de Bate favor broader use of pardons in cases of reformed terrorists and have been clashing with Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Christian democrats Over the Issue. We Are of the opinion that things must change. The state is losing nothing if it creates a humane Justice system Antic Vollmer the greens parliamentary speaker told parliament. She also said the hunger strikers have indicated their readiness to rethink their past lives and reiterated her Call for government officials to meet with the prisoners. But Paul Laufs a lawmaker with Kohl s party said the hunger strikers arc Only trying to win a Public relations vie report of be re eased on Indira Gandhi slaying new Delhi India a prime minister Rajiv Gandhi reacting to opposition demands announced Fri Day that a classified report on the 1984 assassination of his Mother and predecessor Indira Gandhi will be made Public. The report will be presented to the lower House of parliament when it re convenes on March 27, Gandhi told the chamber. Gandhi has weathered four Days of opposition inspired political turmoil after a major Indian newspaper published excerpts from the assassination probe which had been kept secret for reasons of National Security. The government reacted by sus pending 63 opposition members from the House after they protested on wednesday against suppression of the report. Earlier Friday 80 members of Gandhi s Congress party said they had obtained detailed portions of the report and would insist that Gandhi hand Over the entire report to parliament. The inquiry into mrs. Gandhi s assassination was conducted by supreme court Justice . Tha Karand paralleled police investigations. However the government refused to release Thakkar s report in 1986, Cit ing National Security. Opposition members of parliament began demanding the report after the Indian express the nation s largest Selling English language daily published excerpts on tuesday and sought Lory Over the government. The jailed terrorists arc just continuing their struggle against our nation with different tactics and methods said Laufs. Twenty eight red army faction in mates originally began the hunger strike in various West German prisons but Only two of the current six protesters Are from the original group. Members of the red army faction carried out a series of assassinations and bomb attacks that peaked in the late 1970s. Since then a handful of hard Core red army faction terrorists along with a few dozen sympathizers have carried out sporadic attacks on . Military installations West German businesses and government officials. The most recent assassination attempt occurred in Bonn last september against a High level finance ministry red army faction claimed responsibility for the botched Shotgun attack against . To link a powerful government official to mrs. Gandhi s murder. The Bombay based newspaper quoted the inquiry As saying that Rajindra Kumar Dhawan mrs. Gandhi personal Secretary for More than 20 years had consciously or unconsciously. Facilitated the com Mission of a excerpts from the report made available to the associated press said the Needle of suspicion significantly Points at his Dhawan s complicity or Gandhi said the reported version of the inquiry is fueling wilful Distor Tion malicious innuendo and irresponsible character assassination. To put a Stop to this it is important that the full text of the report be made the report also accuses Dhawan of lying during questioning and giving unconvincing explanations about entries in his diary including the name of one of mrs. Gandhi s two assassins. The 52-year-old Dhawan was Dis missed from the Post after the assassination but he was brought Back into the government last month As a key aide to Rajiv Gandhi. Dhawan has refused comment on the allegations. But senior government officials. Including Home minister Buta Singh told parliament that Dha wan was innocent Dhawan was not in any Way involved in any crime and conspiracy connected with the assassination Singh said. Of to help drive to Aid the homeless Washington a using footage from the classic film the wizard of of the National association of social workers launched National Campaign Friday to highlight the Issue of homeless Ness especially As it affects families with children. The Point obviously is that Dor Othy discovered there s no place like Home " said association spokeswoman Lucy Sanchez referring to the role played by Judy Garland. In the film Dorothy is swept away by a Tornado from her Kansas Home into the fantastic land of of. But for 3 million americans Home is no place said Sanchez. The association selected the wizard of of theme to assure that the Public does t become de sensitized to the Issue of homeless Ness when families with children represent the fastest growing Seg ment of the homeless population said the association s executive director Mark Battle. The Campaign comes As Holly Wood readies a 50th anniversary Celebration for the 1939 movie. The 30-Sccond Public service announcements will air on radio and television stations during March and april. The association is a 120,000-Mem-Bcr group of social workers employed in hospitals business Industry schools and government agencies. Czech president suffers mild stroke Prague Czechoslovakia a president Gustay Husak has suffered a mild stroke and is recovering in a Hospi Tal the official news Agency said Friday. The Brief report from the ctr news Agency was the first confirmation that Husak who replaced Alexander Dubcek As communist party Leader after the 1968 soviet led invasion was ill. Husak 75, relinquished the party leadership to Milos Jakes in december 1987, but he remained a member of the 13-Man ruling politburo. There has been persistent but unconfirmed speculation that Husak May quit the politburo at the Central committee meeting scheduled for thursday and Friday. Husak presided Over the normalization policy that followed the 1968 inva Sion and partial occupation of Czecho Slovakia by Warsaw pact forces crushing Dubcek s Prague Spring economic re forms. In the Southern City of Bratislava Dubcek s wife said Friday that Dubcek has been denied a visa to attend the communist party Congress in Italy. Anna Dubcek said by Telephone from the couple s Home that her husband had planned to leave Friday. In Italy a spokesman for the Congress told the associated press that the party Wil protest if Dubcek docs not receive a. Visa before the Congress ends on wednes Day. " " "
