European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes wednesday March 29,1989 waiting for Art lovers or police the life if a Street artist is similar the world out. Ere a pedestrian mall in Moscow May have More than ate Anil Ilien wait Tat customers to a null by. But this Cuslan Mars to worry about. They say they time met with s i in artist and other artists and poet on the arbat increased Iru ubic from he police lately. 2 bulgarians from re staff go Backhoe Sofia Bulgaria a two bulgarian staff Mem Bers of the radio free Europe broadcast ing station have resumed to Bulgaria because they were shocked by working conditions and humiliated by their employers inc official state news Agency Bra has said. The two were identified in the officially released report As Pavel Grozdanov Gla Russanov control pro Gram editor and his wife Marusya Dimitrova sole a a senior editor at the radio station based in Munich West Gentian. Re a radio network financed by the . Govern ment broadcasts daily programs to Ilic soviet woe in the languages of those countries. In a sunday report Bra said the couple and their two children Alexander and Milona had returned to this country it did not say when. A spokesman for re indicated monday that Gla Russanov were surprised by the reverse Gla Russanov 42, was hired by Kef to 1982 after fleeing his Homeland on a visitor s visa to West Ger Many the official said. So lava aged 41, was hired inc following year. She is a bulgarian born French citizen who lived in Paris before moving to West Germany the re official said. We decided to leave inc Fri Federal Republic of Germany and to return to our Homeland due to our bitter disappointment with the working conditions and environment at radio free Europe with the Harrow ing atmosphere of relationships Amon the bulgarians working there and with the humiliating behaviour of foreign a plovers toward the bulgarian employees who Are forced to turn the betrayal of their country into a vocation Anit. An occupation the two were quoted As saying. Lebanese Christian army repels syrian attack Kab hut. Lebanon a the Chris Tian army command said tuesday that its troops repulsed a tank led onslaught by syrian forces and their allies against Christian positions Southeast of. I Beirut killing 15 syrian soldiers. Monday night s abortive attack was the first ground offensive reported in three utes of fierce clashes Between christians and moslem in a new round of Lebanon s 14-year-old civil War. It targeted Christian army units in the. Strategic Hilltop resort of Sun Al garb Southeast of. Uci rat. A spokesman for Gen. Michel Aoun s command said. Thi spokesman who refused to be named said lost two soviet designed t-54 tanks and a Battery of Multi bar Bush support sought in drive to oust syrians from Lebanon by the associated press the commander of Lebanon s Christian army units has asked presi Dent Bush to support his Durre to expel All syrian troops from his country officials said monday. In a Teller o Bush Gen Michel Aoun said be was determined to 1 achieve the withdrawal of All foretell imps from Lebanon said nne official who saw this Feller. The officials poke on condition of anonymity. A Clad rocket launchers in the attack. The Christian voice of Lebanon radio station said syrian backed pales Irisia n guerrillas of col. Sacco Mousa s Fatah uprising and militiamen of druse War lord Walid jump unit s progressive socialist Pany also took part in the attack. The syrian army command in moslem West Beirut withheld comment on the report a lebanese police spokesman said the department usually was not in formed on the syrian army s Ali Vilics Hul the spokesman said police stations reported ferocious shelling of the army s area of operations from syrian controlled the whole Sun Al garb sector was in flaws fast nigh. The army s response was fierce the spokesman added. To said two killed and 12 wounded in overnight artillery clashes Between syrian gunners and Christian army units in and around Beirut the syrian attack and the daily Shel Ling Duel raised casualties to 116 killed and 362 wounded since March 8. Hijack suspect sentenced for having knives / Mohammed us hid Piraeus Greece a a pales Tinian sought by the United Stales in the 19b2 bombing of a pan am jumbo Jet was sentenced tuesday to Diphl months imprisonment for keeping makeshift knives in his prison cell. Mohammed Rashid 39. Has been jailed in this Athens port since his arrest last May. He is awaiting an extradition decision from Greece i supreme court a three member coun of appeals found Rashid guilty of possessing Ille Gal weapons two homemade stilettos. The knives were discovered by guards during a search of his prison Block feb. 17,Rashid originally was acquitted of the charges on feb. 20 but was retried. Afler Piraeus District attorney Anlo Nis Roussos contested the verdict. We find him Guilly of illegal weapons Possession but Grant him a few mitigating circumstances Judic an Lonis papa Theodorou said before read ing the sentence. The judge said the court found that Rii staid held onto the weapons be cause he honestly Felt he feared for his life the court also gave Rashid he option of paying a 96.000 drachma j620j Fine instead of serving the sen tence. We Doii l know what the 1 to pal Estine liberation organization wants. They May want to pay the Fine or they May want him to serve it out. We can pay the Fine when we want his Law yer Spyros Fitrakis told the court. The Plo has provided Rashid with a translator and has supported him since his arrest a lie Athens Airport last May. Fitrakis said his client will remain jailed regardless of this decision As he is still waiting for the supreme court decision the nation s highest court has twice delayed issuing a decision on Rashid s extradition. The illegal weapons sentence Cou d further delay his turn said chooses not to pay the Fine. He Wouldhave to serve the sentence before being sent to the United states. Rashid is wanted by the United Stales in he bombing of inc jumbo Sci Over Hawaii. A japanese can Ajer was killed and is other people were injured in the midair blast. The trial took place under tight Security with dozens of sub machine gun opting police officers throwing a. Security cordon around the court House. An army helicopter buzzed around the building during the trial. The palestinian claims his real name is Mohammed Hamdan and says he is an officer in the Plo s military Branch i am innocent and am not a terrorist it is the . Congress that thinks i am and it putting pressure on Greece to Send me there he told reporters
