European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news updates the stars and stripes tuesday. Aprim 1,1989 murders of patients Vienna Austria apr four nurses under arrest in connection with the la jest murder series in aus Trian poster history have confessed to 49 murders on patients at a , police said monday. The fourth nurse was arrested Sun Day after l he others had already and Mitu a to Hai ing killed 44 patients by injecting them ill overdo pcs of in Sulin or a sleeping medication or in wisc cases by forcefully infusing heir lungs with water. Police president i under tip said sunday. Austrian radio reported police were going through he death Hooks from lain. I to spinal where the nurses worked. It i was quoted As saying thai in other nurses or any doctors at the Hospital were under suspicion of having been inv owl in Whin i has described As the Bijj Geil known wave of killings in Kurnec. Quake in California Mill Itas Calif. Ai j a Mil earthquake an aftershock of a larger qiiiifu1 fast. Monday rattled windows but caused no reported damage in Northern California on sunday. V the  geological Survey said the i ii acc hit at 1 5n p.m., registering14 on the Koch Ltd scale. To Ltd Epifan. Or on Llie Calaveras fault seven mile East of malphas wits almost exactly the same As monday s quake measuring 4,9. Inc Agency said. Milpitas is Ghoul 30 Niilus Width . The open ended Richter scale Inea sures the Energy released by an Firulli i Iki by tabulating ground to lion. Each increase of one number As Ina Rise from 3.5 to 4.5, Means the wound motion is 10 times greater. A " 3.5 earthquake can cause slight dam i i in populated a reas. Korean discussions Seoul. South Korea apr South Korea tins decided to attend scheduled political talks with the communist North , despite controversy out a dissident s illegal trip to North. Korea vice unification minister Sang Han to said Mon Day. -. The decision followed local press reports that sow Korea  postponing the meet ing because of strained relations with the North Over dissident Lead Eromon Wjk Hwan a recent unauthorised visit to North Korea. Song old reporters some officials within inc government had wanted the meeting postponed but the government a coded to participate because in will he  to continue sincere Dia rogue with the North Fie added lie. Bdil Ved  also would come 10 the meeting Iran frees 70 pos Manama Bahrain Dpi Iran Mondej released 70 disabled and sick iraqi prisoners of wards a gesture of Good will to Mark the Tot i anniversary of the establish ment of the islamic Republic Iran s official Irna news Agency reported. Irna said he prisoners who included an officer arid one non commissioned officer flew to the iraqi capital of Baghdad via tur key aboard a Jet chartered by inc International com Millie of hered Cross. The Agency said four of the re leased prisoners refused to return to Iraq and were granted political Asylum in Iran. Short circuit blamed for fire aboard soviet nuclear sub Moscow a a Short circuit is believed to have started a fire on a soviet nuclear submarine causing several explosions that cracked the Hull and Sank the ship. Inc government newspaper in pc shia said monday. Tass reported two torpedoes armed with nuclear warheads were aboard inc nuclear powered submarine that Sank in the norwegian sea Friday arid killed 42 of the 69 sailors aboard. The official news Agency said there is no threat of radiation contamination. Inv Culta s report. Monday quoting an. Investigation report being prepared at Northern flee Headquarters in the Porto Murmansk said according to preliminary information the fire started be cause of a Short  the newspaper quoted defense min ister Dmitri t. Watov As saying that after fighting the fire for two or.three.-1 hours the Crew heard several explosions. It is possible that the Hull was cracked in a series of places,1- Izvestia said. The explosions Ray have occurred in seven pieces of special equipment 1 Szvcs tin said. 11 did not further identify them. The ship s log was saved and investigators arc going Over in to determine what happened the newspaper  had determined the exact location of the submarine it said. The newspaper report shed some Light on the Fate of the Crew. Soviet Media said previously that 42 of inc submarine s 69 Crew members including the explain died. A soviet ship rescued the others and took them to a Hospital in Murmansk. Inv Celia said four sailors went Down with the submarine and iwo of those who were pulled from  icy water died later Rescue teams found Only 19 bodies it said a spokesman for the foreign  previous soviet reports thai there was no danger of a radiation  spokesman added that no decision had been made yet As to whether it was possible to raise the submarine which Sank More than 4,500 feel in Waters about 310 Miles West of Tromson on nor Way s West coast. The question of lifting inc submarine up has not been decided Yel spokesman Gennady i Gerasimov told reporters. The official news Agency Tass said monday that investigators had found no fault with the Effort to extinguish the fire. According to the opinion of the government commission created to in Vii Gate this tragic event the Crew of the submarine acted bravely and intelligently Tass said. The soviets officially informed nor Way of the Accident nearly nine hours after the vessel Sank. The norwegian news Agency Nib claimed norwegian Rescue helicopters could have reached the ship several hours before soviet fish ing vessels if the soviets had asked for help promptly. Meanwhile Norway has prepared a list of 10 questions for the soviet Union about the construction and safeguards of the reactors aboard inc submarine.1 we Are not trying to pry into their military secrets but we Are concerned about other circumstances of safety said norwegian foreign ministry spokeswoman Sigrid rounds cd. Tass said hat the ship was armed Wii two nuclear tipped torpedoes but that. They were designed so thai there could be no radiation leaks even under the in tense pressure of deep water. Friday s sinking came live months after a reported near melt Down in a nuclear re actor aboard a Sovil icebreaker in Mur Mansk. According to inc newspaper Vodon transport a worker drained Cooling water from an operating reactor rather than one that was shut Down for repairs. Had the water drained 30 minutes longer a meltdown releasing radiation into inc air Over the Eily of 440,000would1 have occurred the. Newspaper said. Vav. German at of famed trial says he Carr f Frankfurt West Germany is a voice expert for the West German Federal police testified monday that he could not identify inc voices on two. Tapes recorded during die 17-Day Hijack  1985. ,. ? Mohammed i Hamad is on trial for his role in the hijacking during which a . Navy diver was murdered. The court examined a tape of the conversation Between the Jet cockpit and the Cirul Lebanon Airport lower just be fore and after Petty officer.12nd class Robert Dean sell hem was murdered. It cd Ces on 2 faces also saw a videotape of a hooded Hijacker giving a news conference in Cirul just before he last american hostages  ,. Or. Hermann Josef cd Rizal a voice Cunert Al the Federal police office in Wiesbaden said that because of inc Quality and condition of inc recordings in was impossible to identify either Mohe two taped voices As belonging to Hama i. In other words said chief judge Heiner  it might be. Hamadi or anyone else s voice.". Yes Btl Nicl said. Bernd Sauer tape specialist for the same West German Agency told the court after Eile Sivc  was highly unlikely that either of the two tapes had been manipulated. Defense ail Orneys had insisted on the tests to ensure that the Fri did not manipulate them. Hamadi has confessed to the Hijack ing but he claims that his accomplice. Identified by authorities As Hassane pc dding was in charge of the undertaking and murdered Lethem. German american clash leaves former go dead Thomas Milridge 2j. Of Danisl Flat West Germany is sought in Friday s Sla Jinp Darmstadt West Germany Sis a clash Between germans and Ameri cans during Friday s opening of the local Spring fair ended in inc death of one american a police spokesman said Mon Day. Jerry w. Brooks a 30-Jear-old former Soldier who lived in Stuttgart was Slabbed in the stomach and heart. He died in the ambulance in route to the Hospital. German police arc looking for a suspect in the Case Thomas m of ing of Darmstadt. Eight germans and about 10 Ameri cans were involved in the fight inc spokesman said. Brooks who works for a German firm was in own to attend a1 meeting of an american motorcycle club. He i survived by his wife Ingrid. Muring 21, had been picked up in his apartment on Heinrichs Iassc along with seven other men and later released when witnesses pinned responsibility on a 19 year old from the group. Police said they now suspect both Muring and the younger Man could have been involved. People with information about Muring can comae Darmstadt police at 06tsm011l5. No gets 7-year sentence for indecent acts Raf milden1ull, England master sergeant was sentenced to seven years confinement and reduced to airman Basic Friday after pleading guilty to six charges of indecent Liber lies with minors the 42- car old no also was Given a Bud conduct discharge and or dered to forfeit All pay and allow ances. He bad been formally charged dec. 2$ with exposing himself on Var ious occasions in his Home to six Young  judge it. Col. Charles Pearson had accepted the guilty plea on thurs Day and a jury which included enlisted members determined the sentencing Friday the maximum sentence lie could. Have received was 35 years and a Dis honorable discharge. The stars and stripes is withholding the Man s name to protect the identity of his family and his victims