European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday april 17,1989 Ausa convention targets Day trippers they be gof something for everybody. " .1 " Tim. Tnrrtitll1 to flfl1 fat. I it Iby David Tarrant staff writerw1llingen, West Germany several thousand corporate representatives and civil ians arc expected to attend one of the largest european conventions of the association of the . Army officials said in opening Day sunday. The Ausa conc lion also represents one of Europe s largest armaments shows attracting More than 100 exhibitors ranging from giant multinational Wear. Convention giant exhibition Hall at the hotel convention Center 40 Miles West of Kassel has been turned into temporary shopping mall where participants can stroll past displays of computer hardware weapons military clothing and even tourist bureaus. The . Army s Natick research development and engineering Center which designs combat rations clothing and equipment is taking the Opportunity to get instant feedback on rations from soldiers. Susan Gagne a food technologist was warming up. _., fam a la int of my nip to to Short companies. Susan Wagne a too iecnn0iobm, �=�.,.,� -h3c is Fri a army leaders such As n athe unmarried Large gathering poses a number of challenges for Security which is being handled by the 501 Simp co of the 1st army div in Ansbach Twenty four military policemen and Eightcy Norguard personnel have been in Willinger since Hurt Day to Temte a variety of Security measures ranging from traffic management to preparations for emergencies said 1st la. Do Wayne Hill. Buthie hot ticket for the event will be a grand prize drawing for a red 1989 Saab 900 Turbo convertible. I be got my $25 Worth of tickets Scott said dutch level spying charge . The Hague Netherlands a dutch Interior minister Cees Van Dilt has accused the soviet Union of stepping up its espionage Effort in this Natona Tion where soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev enjoys great popularity a dutch newspaper reported saturday. Soviet spics arc especially targeting the Young generation of diplomats peo ple in inc student movement and entrepreneurs in High technology industries Van Dijk said in an interview with the Rotterdam newspaper Valga Mccun Dag Blad. The espionage activities of the soviet Union have demons tray increased said Van Dijk whose ministry runs the Domestic Security service the nether lands1 main counter espionage Agency. Last week the government confirmed it had expelled a soviet shipping Ogent identified As of. Karpich Crnkov for trying to bribe dutch officials into disclosing Classi fied informal he was officially stationed in Amsterdam the soviet official had been working mostly in Rotterdam a major shipping Point for secret High technology equipment. No details of Karpuc Chenkova s espionage activities were disclosed nor did Van Dijk elaborate in the saturday inter Union has a stronger interest in the political and military development Irethe Netherlands than it used to. Van Dijk said. he said the soviet Union lacks technological expertise it also wants to know How the West perceives a.,. Goa chert Reform program and Howe claimed that Gorbachev s policy of that relates to military Reform and the Sovi the Netherlands is one of several nato nations that need to decide on the modernization of the Alliance s Short Range nuclear missiles. As in West Ger Many that Issue has conic under increasing Public pressure Here because of Gorbachev s popularity. A recent pol showed the soviet Leader was better liked and trusted by the dutch than the nation s own Premier Luud Lubbers. That could explain Why the soviet Al Union has spurred on the increased espionage with the outside world Are vitally important to the communist party in Moscow he Dijk did not give any specifics on the alleged increase in the soviet Pym Effort but noted thai there is is also in creased interest in computer hackers who illegally gain Access to classified computer , Nav Semun Tirawi in Iran reportedly helped plot Jet bombing London a a newspaper re ported sunday that the bombing of pan am right 103 was conceived Dur ing a meeting last year Between libyan Leader col Moa mar Qadhafi a palestinian group and Iran s revolution Ary guards. The sunday Telegraph attributed it information to . Intelligence sources. The palestinian group the popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command headed by Ahmed Jibril. Has been a prime suspect in the bombing the newspaper said . Intelligence news update tamils seek talks Colombo in Lanka a tamil rebels offered saturday to hold talks with the government unending their War for Independence and president Ranasinghe Prema Dasa responded by asking the group to Send their leaders to meet with him. The tamil offer came hours after an ambush blamed on the rebels left. 21.soldiers dead. The alack Broughto 79 the number of people killed in three Days of violence. A spokesman for the liberation tigers of tamil Eclam. The largest Ana most powerful tamil rebel group said saturday that the group sent a loner 1o to hold talks. Officers tracked and monitored Iheme eting Early last year in Libya where the participants discussed the coordination of their operations against . Targets. It said libyan officials in Europe provided logistical support for the bombing which was planned and car ried out by the palestinian group. ". Officials believe they no have the names of members of the Ter ror network the newspaper crisis looming before president Bush is what he docs about it it did not elaborate on the Pur ported participation of the revolution Ary guards the fanatical corps formed by Iran s Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A bomb ripped apart the Boeing 747over Lockerbie Scotland on dec. 21, 1988, killing All 259 people aboard the jumbo Jet and 11 on inc ground. Another British newspaper the observer reported sunday that pan am has refused to disclose to investigators details of a review of its own Security carried out by hired Consul tanks two years ago. The weekly said it had obtained sections of the report by the israeli Secundy consulting service Dpi which it said criticized what it called pan am a misguided Security concept and warned that the airline was highly vulnerable to most forms of terror the newspaper said Dpi. Hired in1987 for $460,000, recommended Security improvements on pan am air liners but it said that according to the House subcommittee activities and transportation the consultants advice had not reenacted on before Lockerbie. 1,000 evacuated near German City when train with chemicals derails Rotenburg Wesl Germany a a train carrying explosive chemicals derailed near the Central train Lalion of this Northern cily forcing evacuation of More than 1,000 residents Early sunday. Police said the first attempt to lift three overturned tankers carrying explosive chemicals failed because the cars were crushed together like an Accord a larger Crane was brought in and succeeded in lifting the three tankers from the Ravine in which they had tankers were taken away from the Accident scene by truck. Jurgin Erdmann of the Federal rail Road office said the Busy Bremen Ham Burg line was reopened before Nightfall and those evacuated from the area we retold they could return id their Homes. Regional government director Ger hard Blume said there appeared to have been no leaks from the overturned tank swedish magnate Dies Stockholm Sweden a Al Bert Bonnier jr., head of a family Empire thai has dominated the press and much of the cultural life in Sweden for decades died saturday following an illness the National news Agency to reported. He Waszil. Hers that arc owned by Dow chemical co. No one was injured in the Accident Laic saturday but 22 cars derailed including the tankers carrying poisonous and explosive chemicals used in making dyes and solvents. J police said More than 1,000 residents of the area were roused from their Homes and evacuated to the City Hall Early Sun Day because of the danger of explosions during the sensitive operation to right the overturned tankers. Rotenburg lies along the Wommer Iver about 18 Miles cast of Bremen and. Has a regional population of More than140,000
