European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 07, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 ship a High is. Publisher Malcolm Fortes soars above Madrid Spain in his balloon version of Columbus ship the Santa Maria. Forbes flight celebrates a few years Early the 500th anniversary of the discovery if America. Red Cross doctors to Aid soviet Georgia Gas victims Moscow a the International committee of the red Cross is sending doctors to soviet Georgia to treat victims of a powerful Gas used against pro Independence demonstrators last month a newspaper said Friday. The foreign doctors Are being brought in because soviet doctors have been unable to determine effective treatment for patients injured in an april 9 clash. At least 19 people were killed when troops stormed the demonstration with Gas shovels and armoured personnel carriers. A 20lh victim died when he was shot for violating a curfew imposed to curb the unrest. Izvestia the government daily said the red Cross delegation was expected to arrive in the georgian Capi Tal Tbilisi on Friday to work with georgian doctors at a Hospital where the injured demonstrators Are being  activist Sergei Pandurov said by Telephone from Tbilisi that the delegation had not yet arrived. Soviet authorities have said a Gas known in the West As is was used in the demonstration. It is an incapacitating agent whose effects Are similar to a nerve toxin. Dozens of people suffering from problems with their nervous systems vision respiration and internal or Gans Are still hospitalized and some have begun a hunger strike to press authorities to reveal More about the effects of the Gas and appropriate treatment. Human rights campaigner Andrei d. Sakharov trav eled to Tbilisi on thursday and said he supports the red Cross help Pandurov reported. Sakharov is part of a team of newly elected members to the new soviet parliament who Are investigating the april 9 violence. Also on the Independent investigating commission arc historian Dmitry Likhma Chov and space scientist Roald said Eye. Izvestia said Sakharov and other commission Mem Bers met thursday with Georgia s health minister. Pandurov said they visited a Hospital on Friday. It is the second fact finding trip Sakharov has made to a nationalist hot spot in. The soviet Union. Last year he visited Yerevan. Armenia to help mediate a Dis Pute Over Magorno Karabash part of neighbouring Azerbaijan that armenians claim is theirs. Gas sickened cleanup Crew Moscow a powerful riot Gas has sickened a third group of people Long after troops used it to crush demonstrations in the georgian capital of Tbilisi on april 9, a soviet newspaper reported saturday. Komsomol Skaya pravda said the latest victims Are 60 workers who were hospitalized after they cleaned up millions of Flowers strewn by people mourning those killed in the riots that apparently had absorbed the Gas. It was the third incident in which people were poisoned Long after the confrontation in place where soldiers threw canisters of the unidentified Gas. Several of the latest victims were in comas the newspaper said. Previously several dozen people including children became sick at a Schocie and a theater Institute where soldiers had sprayed Gas. Komsomol Skaya pravda said 230 people Are still hospitalized. At least 19 people were killed when soldiers moved in on the demonstration using Gas shovels and clubs. Saturday s edition of Komsomol Skaya pravda called on officials to reveal the name of the Gas so doctors can treat the injured. A postscript noted that National officials announced As the article was being prepared that troops used a Gas known in the West As is. We Hope that this will help the patients it said. Western experts described is Gas As a riot control Gas which can cause respiratory failure or death. A Carer guns convicted of spying for Cia to be freed under Pardon Managua Nicaragua a three people convicted of spying for the Cia will be freed by a presidential Pardon approved Friday by the National As Sembly. It was the second time in Little More than a week that nicaraguans convicted of spying for the Cia were ordered released. Those pardoned Friday by the sandinista co milled Assembly were Guillermo Quant Tai Mario l Aldi on and auxiliador Riva Urbina. The document containing the government motion says the Pardon was proposed because the leftist Sand Kimsta government wants to continue taking firm Steps to reach total peace in the country. On april 21, a Day before president Daniel Ortega left for Europe to request More foreign Aid for Nicara Gua the Assembly sent the Pardon to a committee. The panel returned a favourable finding Friday and the As Sembly voted 80-2 to pass the motion. Quant sentenced in 1986 to 22 years in prison was vice president of the nicaraguan chamber of com Merce. In a news conference after his arrest head fitted passing economic data to the Cia and said he was recruited in 1983. Baldizon formerly an official with the Interior ministry was sentenced in july 1985 to 22 years in prison after his conviction on charges of working for the Cia and complicity in treason. He was arrested shortly alter the defection of his brother it. Alvaro Jose bal Dizon who was head of the Interior ministry s special investigations commission. Rivas a government employee was sentenced to nine years in prison on Jan. 9, 1985, after she was convicted on espionage charges. An appeals court on april 28 overturned the convictions and sentences of Mario Alegria Nora Aldana. Adrian espinales and Pedro Pablo us. The four were released from prison the same Day. Ouster of Khomeini s chosen successor explained Nicosia. Cyprus a serious differences dating Back As far As october 1986, led iranian Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to oust his designated successor in March according to the islamic Republic news Agency. The Agency monitored in Nicosia quoted Deputy parliament speaker Mahdi Karrumi As saying Friday that let ters showing Curt correspondence be tween Khomeini and Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri had been compiled to shed Light on Monta Cri s sudden Dis Missal. The 64-year-old Montazeri was to take Over As spiritual Leader of the islamic Republic upon the death of the 88-year Ruhollah Khomeini Hossein Ali Montazeri old Khomeini. Karrumi speaking at the Friday prayer gathering at Tehran University said Monla Cri s replies to Khomeini s letters were so contemptuous that every Friend who read them was shaken and cried in voluntarily Irna said. The letters and minutes of discussions Between the two clerics had been com piled by Khomeini s son. Ahmad and were apparently meant for publication Irna said. But it did not detail the subject of the correspondence. Karrumi said recent years had been very painful for the Leader of the islamic revolution because he saw his designated successor questioning the whole slate foundation Irna reported. Montazeri had become publicly Crit ical of the government in recent months and called for the liberalization of Iran s tightly controlled society. He had also Allied himself with the tiny Freedom movement of Mahdi Bazargan the first prime minister of the Republic in 1979, who fell from favor with the government because of criticism of its clerical leadership. The rift Between Khomeini and Montazeri highlights differences in the High est echelons of the government Hier Archy