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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, August 27, 1989

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday August 27,1989 viewing the Edmund Fitzgerald an unmanned submersible robot using newly devel oped Villi of equipment sends pictures or the Heck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to explorers in a research boat off hit fish Point Mich. The Fitzgerald a 729-foot steel freighter took an water and snapped in two during a november 1975 storm sending it and All 29 Crew members to the Bottom of Lake  bodies were found. Florida seeking extradition of drug traffickers Tallahassee Florida up nov. Bob Marti Nez has asked the Justice department to seek extradition or 25 colombians wanted in Florida on major drug trafficking charges. The state is ready to prosecute the fugitives All indicted by state courts Florida department of Law enforcement commissioner Tim Moore said Friday he said Florida May by looking Tor several of the 10,000 suspected drug dealers rounded up by the Colombia government in the past week. The message we want to give the colombian government is that we support what they re doing and that Florida can deliver on prosecution Moore said. Pecan convict these people if we can gel our hands on  Martinez wrote to . Attorney general Dick Thornburgh saying Moore and state prosecutor Pete Antonacci have assembled the paperwork Tor the colombians extradition. Martinez cited the state s Success in prosecuting two colombians extradited in 1986 on drug trafficking charges. One Jose Cabrcra Salmi into is now serving a 60-year prison sentence in Florida. The other cocaine Kingpin Carlos Lender Rivas was recently convicted in a Jacksonville Federal Courland is crying a life term. Moore said state investigators and prosecutors were impressed by the colombian government s vigorous Pursuit of drug dealers. Praising president Virgilio Barco highly Martinez pledged his support to the government efforts to put an end to the drug Trade in Colombia. Armoured car Driver confesses to robbery shooting new York a the Driver of an armoured car that was robbed earlier in the week of $500,000 has c9nfcssed to the robbery and the shooting of a guard who was critically wounded authorities said saturday. Wycliff Warner 26, of new York City shot his partner in  tues Day and made off with the Money a it. Ethbert cording to a police spokesman sgt Burns. A Friend of Warners Rutht Joseph 28, was arrested Friday. Police recovered All but $200 of the stolen Money in the Bronx apartment of Warner s Girlfriend. The wounded guard. Billy Hack Worth 30, remained in critical Condi Tion at Jacobi Hospital Burns said. Burns said Warner fabricated the initial version of the robbery tuesday outside a Marine Midland savings Bank in the Hunts Point Section of the Bronx. Warner had said two men and a woman staged a traffic Accident to get him to open the truck door sgt. Frank Viggiano who led the police investigation said that after questioning Warner and giving him a poly graph test the suspect was confronted with inconsistencies in his Story. He then made some statements implicating himself in the crime Viggia no said. Warner was charged with attempted murder grand larceny robbery and criminal use of firearm the ,38-caliber handgun was recovered in Joseph s apartment. Burns said. Joseph was charged with robbery and grand larceny he said. After Warner shot his partner and had the Money he called his Friend Viggiano said. Guam holds . Responsible for Japan reparations Washington a Guam wants the United states to pay millions of dollars in reparations for the brutal japanese occupation of the Pacific Island during world War if a debt the . Government forgave in 1951 for diplomatic reasons. Although we feel that a moral obligation Falls on Japan we cannot seek Justice from the Japa Nese said Joseph f. Ada governor of the . Territory located Only 1,150 Miles from Tokyo. From 1941-44, Guam suffered through some of the most brutal treatment Ever inflicted on an american Community. Survivors recall massacres beatings forced labor and other horrors. But the United states most unfortunately gave away our right to reparation from the japanese in its 1951 peace treaty with Japan without anybody once asking our people Ada said. The Bush administration opposes reparations saying the . Government spent $8 million immediately after the War on 4,200 death personal injury and properly damage claims. There is no reason for the american taxpayers to pay further compensation for world War ii claims arising from enemy action said Larry l. Morgan of the Interior department which in 1950 took Over responsibility for Guam from the Navy. A Guam reparations commission appointed this year asked for compensation totalling $160 million to include payments for deaths injuries forced labor forced marches or internment. Best Sellers compiled by the new Yor Tolmei fiction i the Russia House  
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