European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday May 25,1989 pullout from Czechoslovakia continues with Little fanfare bohos Udov Czechoslovakia a a train Load of red army t-72 tanks pulled out of Czechoslovakia tuesday after a modest ceremony featuring a soviet military brass band playing russian Folk songs and mothers appealing for peace. A Banner in russian Reading. Have a Nice journey fluttered in the Breeze. No speeches were made. Soviet troops first came permanently to Czechoslovakia after they led a Warsaw pact invasion in August 1968 to crush Liberal reforms known As the Prague Spring under former communist party Leader Alex Ander Dubcek. A woman resident who declined to give her name told reporters we want peace and if the Guys up there want to fight it out among themselves let them. We Don t need armies for other women who said they had sons about to do their compulsory military service echoed her Call for peace. The first stage of the present pullout was completed March 17, when an airborne battalion left the slovak City of Zvolen 240 Miles cast of Prague. That departure went unpublicized in Czechoslovakia s state run Media. Another battalion was with drawn with slightly More ceremony from the moravian City of Olomouc near the polish Border 10 Days ago but czechoslovak authorities have not trumpeted the withdrawals As much As communist leaders in neigh Boring Hungary. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has announce plans to withdraw 50,000 soviet troops from Eastern Europe by 1991. According to soviet it. Gen. Yuri Shch Cpin there army chief of staff 264 vehicles and 887 soldiers have left Czechoslovakia to tuesday. 23 tanks pulled out of the Small Village of Krupka near Moho Sudev about 60 Miles from Pra gue. Altogether. 1.500 men. 192 tanks and 20 fighter planes Are scheduled to leave Czechoslovakia in 1989, Shch Epin told reporters at bohos Udov on tuesday. He said the tanks withdrawn tuesday would retaken to the Black sea port of Kovoros sysk some to be scrapped and others used for unspecified non Mili tary1 purposes. You can Sec with your own eyes that we Are not Only talking about wanting peace but taking Concrete Steps Shch Cpin said. We would Welcome a similar initiative from nato hospitalized Khomeini Iran s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was pictured tuesday on Tehran television. He was propped up in a Hospital bed before being operated on to Stop inter Nal bleeding. Parliament speaker Hashemi Rassan Jan reported wednesday that the 89-year-old Leader doing hell after the operation. World Toda norwegian fishermen net French submarine Oslo Norway a a norwegian fishing vessel snared a French submarine in its trawl net about 40 Miles Northwest of the Shetland islands Norway Southern defense command said. A defense command press spokesman Jan Aarsheim told the National Nib news Agency that nobody was injured in the incident off the islands Parton the British Isles. Woman held hostage 2 Days by folding chair Stockholm Sweden a a woman was trapped for two Days in a deck chair that folded up on her while she was Sun bathing on her Balcony the swedish news Agency to reported tuesday. The chair s cloth Tore and the chair folded As the 80 year old woman sat Down leaving her with her Hea Between her Knees the news Agency said. The incident occur cd saturday in Malmo in South Ern Sweden. On monday a caretaker saw her sitting in a Peculiar fashion on a Balcony across the Street according to the report. He alerted the police who forced the woman s apart ment door open and let her out of the chair. The woman who was not identified was hospitalized in a state of Shock it said. Pakistan investigating Case of mystery missile Islamabad Pakistan a pakistani military experts arc examining debris from an unidentified mis Sile that fell deep inside Pakistan territory this week a defense spokesman said wednesday. Brig. Riaz Ullah chief of inter services Public relations confirmed reports that some Type of Large missile fell in a Remote area near the Village of Thakkar in Western Punjab province on monday. No one was Hurt and there was no property damage Riaz said. Pakistani English language newspapers quoted army chief Gen. Mirza Aslam beg As saying that experts were eyeing the possibility that the missile was an enhanced soviet made ss-1 sub b fired from neigh Boring Afghanistan. There also was pc curation it could have been a wayward Agni ballistic missile which India successfully test fired for the first time also on monday newspapers said. German journalist beaten tracking Down Chile Story Santiago Chile a a West German to journalist and two chilean aides were beaten by sever Al men who blocked them from approaching a Secre Tive German Colony in Southern Chile a chilean Law yer reported. Sources at the West German embassy in Santiago confirmed the reports of the attack tuesday near Colo Nia Dignidad dignity Colony near Parral 211 Miles South of Maximo Pacheco who represents the human rights group amnesty International said the attackers severely beat the journalists and destroyed their said the attackers also destroyed the pass port and other documents of Werner Dol Shau the journalist who was working for a television station owned by the Magazine Der Colony leaders have been accused Here and abroad of widespread human rights abuses. French War crimes suspect arrested in Abbey Paris a Paul to Cuvier accused of commit Ting crimes against humanity As head of a French pro nazi militia in Lyon during world War ii was arrested wednesday morning in Southern France police sources said. The sources said Rouvier 74, was captured at an Abbey near Nice. There have been persistent reports for years that extreme right roman catholics were protecting him. In Nice police confirmed that Rouvier was under arrest and being questioned at Headquarters but re fused to provide further information. We Sec this with great satisfaction beat Klarsfeld France s Best known nazi Hunter said of the arrest. It s a great Bravo for French Rouvier was sentenced to death in absent a in 1945 and 1947 on convictions of collaborating with the nazis and executing and torturing members of the resistance As Lyon head of the Milicic. The Milicic had worked closely during the nazi occupation with the Gestapo which was at the time headed in Lyon by Klaus Barbie who was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity in 1987. Because Rouvier was not caught the 1945 and 1947 sentences against him could not be carried out due to a20-year statute of limitations. President Georges Pompidou quietly pardoned Tou vier in 1971, restoring his rights As a citizen. Rouvier went into hiding two years later when new charges were raised. Charges of crimes against humanity were filed against him in 1981, and an International arrest warrant was issued. The new warrant lists six charges of crimes against humanity including the slaying of Victor Basch the 81-year-old president of France s league for human rights who had taken Refuge in the Lyon area. Investigators determined that when Basch and his wife were arrested by tour ice s Milicic in january 1944, they were judged too old to be deported and they were killed on the magazines and newspapers have published Exten Sive accounts of tour ice s Protection by the Catholic Hierarchy until 1967. The address on his official identity card was the archbishop s Headquarters in Lyon and Church officials reportedly lobbied for the 1971 Pardon. Since tour ice s return to hiding there have been reports that he came under the Protection of Funda mentalist catholics with extreme right political views. In an Odd twist a death notice for Rouvier was published in a Grenoble newspaper in 1984
