European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes sunday. September 17.1989 4 with weapons Arsenal charged suspected of colombian drug link Mew Brunswick a four for tuesday. Galion offence. I Nas sports and an Arsenal of Canadian authorities said they were investigating Rodriguez was to remain i Edmundston. Be k men with venezuelan passports d n Arsenal f weapons were charged with arms offences Friday while investigators tried to determine whether they arc linked to the colombian drug Trade. A . Official said two of the four suspects arrested in this Canadian pulp processing town on the North Border of Maine arc known to be colombian the arrests wednesday launched a flurry of suspicion that the four came to this Eastern Canadian prov Ince to interfere with a hearing thursday for two colombians suspected of cocaine trafficking. On Friday police led the four men into a provincial court in Edmundston where they were charged with a variety of weapons offences. A fifth Man linked to the Case was charged in Saint John. Innocent innocent one of the handcuffed men told reporters. No speak  another said. Authorities have identified the four As Tito Sanchez Elovio Manzano. Osvaldo Gonzales and Wilmer Ramon Zanabria. Court documents did not state their Ages or hometowns. All were being kept in custody for bail hearings set scoffers flock to shetlands Sumburgh head Shetland islands a hundreds of British Bird spotters headed for the Shetland islands after their Birdline Telephone information service reported the presence of a rare great knot wading Bird. The Bird spotters nicknamed switchers and armed with powerful binoculars telescopes and expensive cameras compete among themselves to log sightings of rare Birds around Britain. The great knot is an asian Bird measuring just Over 10 inches in length. Birdline reported that one was seen Friday at a spot called the Pool of Virkie near the Sumburgh Airport on the Southern lip of the Remote Shetland islands 100 Miles off  British Domestic news Agency press association reported that it was the first recorded sighting of a great knot in Britain and Only the fourth for the whole of Europe. The news Agency said previous european sightings were in Spain in 1979 and Denmark and East Ger Many in 1987.birdline said the great knot is thought to have been blown off course by Easterly winds while migrating from its Breeding grounds 5,000 Miles away in North cast Siberia to its Winter Range mainly in Southern China Indonesia and Australia. Many birdwatchers were expected to be frustrated in their bid to reach the Shetland islands by the weekend. One Veteran switcher. Ian Mills from Whittum in Northeast England said the word has gone round that All nights to Shetland tomorrow saturday arc booked solid so it looks As if the majority of us will miss out this  s very frustrating that such a crowd pulling Bird should have turned up at such a hard la get to place. This is one of those once in a lifetime opportunities. If it had appeared on Mainland Britain thousands of people would have been along to Sec  of Canadia whether the suspects had any connection with the colombians accused of cocaine trafficking. The hearing for those two was held thursday in the provincial capital of Fred Crichton 125 Miles Southeast of Edmundston. When authorities arrested the tour wednesday a search of their vehicles Unco Rcd an Uzi sub machine gun. Soviet and israeli assault rifles and More than 3,000 rounds of ammunition. Also seized were six automatic pistols a .22-Calibcr pistol tear Gas a deactivated japanese grenade and an electric Zap gun used to Knock people out. No drugs were found however. Police said that they also found a fifth passport and that a fifth Man was arrested thursday who also had venezuelan papers. Police said they seized two hand guns at the  Man identified As 33-year-old William Jose Rodriguez of Caracas was charged Friday in Saint John with possessing a restricted weapon. Authorities said he was expected to be charged later with an Immi Gration offence. Rodriguez was to remain in custody for a bail hear ing  United states and Colombia Are in the midst of a crackdown on colombian drug traffickers who pro vide most of the cocaine sold in the states. The mounted police say colombian drug cartels have been routing More drugs through the maritime province because the United Stales has tightened up its Borders. Canadian authorities said it was not known How or when the suspects entered Canada. The suspected cocaine traffickers Jose a Galindo Escobar and Fernando Augusto Mendoza Jarmillo both 36, were arrested in april after police made Canada s largest cocaine seizure. They found about 1,100 pounds of the drug inside the nose of an air plane at a makeshift Airstrip outside  thursday s hearing the two were ordered held for trial next month on charges of Impo Tim cocaine. Authorities used dozens of Rifle toting officers for heavy Security at the hearing because of worries prompted by the arrests. Tennis anyone British prime minister Margaret Thatcher takes to a Tennis court shoeless while opening a Tennis and fitness Center in London. The sports facility which has 12 courts is run by David Lloyd brother of former British Tennis Star John Lloyd. Thatcher said it was the first time in 40 years thai she had Pluyd Tennis. World today Singapore drug traffickers May get death penalty Singapore a traffickers in opium Mari Juana and cocaine who arc caught in Singapore Proba Bly will get the death penalty after the government amends its drug Laws. Home affairs minister Shanmugam Jayakumar said Friday. Jayakumar said the changes were necessary because of the growing International drug problem. We have invested a tremendous amount of Man Power Public Money and Energy in keeping our streets free of drugs. However because of the worsening glob Al situation in drugs we have to be even More Vig Ilant he said. The government plans to Amend the misuse of drugs act to further tackle this problem Jayakumar said. This will include capital punishment for opium cannabis and cocaine  Lufthansa air France sign cooperation agreement Paris a France s state owned airline air France and West Germany s Lufthansa said Friday they have agreed to expand cooperation in preparation for european air deregulation after 1992. The two airlines also disclosed that they arc talking with american airlines with a View to enlarging their foothold in the lucrative . Commercial aviation Market. The cooperation agreement signed in Paris be tween air France chairman Bernard Attali and his Lufthansa counterpart Heinz Ruhnau stops Short of any Cross shareholding agreement Between the two airlines. Nagasaki mayor snubs visiting . Navy ship Tokyo up a . Navy ship s visit to Nagasaki the City destroyed by a . Atomic bomb at the close of world War 11, became strained saturday when the Nagasaki mayor refused to participate with the ship s commander in a Ges Ture of reconciliation and protesters told the commander go  mayor Hiroshi Mot Oshima refused to accompany Peter g. Roberts commander of the visiting . Guided missile Frig ale Rodney m. Davis when Roberts placed Flowers at the base of a Monu ment in the Nagasaki peace memorial Park a City official said. Mot Oshima skipped the ceremony be cause Roberts would not clearly state whether his ship was carrying nuclear weapons said Motoko Yamauchi an official at the Nagasaki atomic bomb museum in a Telephone interview. Roberts went ahead with his plans and log Lucr with about 20 . Sailors placed a single Wreath of Flowers on a tripod near the base of the peace Park s Central  the american sailors approached the Monument about 50 proc slurs including 20 claiming to be survivors of the atomic bombing chanted go Home in  of the protesters held photo graphs of family members killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on aug. 9,1945.Roberts put his hands together in a Brief prayer and saluted the Monument As the protesters continued their chant. Shortly after Roberts left the protes ters angrily threw the Wreath to the ground and stamped on the  can never allow the commander of a ship that could be carrying nuclear weapons to enter sacred ground Yamauchi  your own family died in the bomb ing and a ship possibly carrying nuclear weapons comes to visit you cannot accept in quickly she  the incident Mot Oshima met Roberts and asked him if his ship the first . Navy  visit Nagasaki since 1974, was carrying nuclear weapons Yamauchi said. Roberts noted that inc . Policy is 10 neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on ships Yamauchi  answered that he wanted the United states to abide by Japan s non nuclear principles Banning the production storage or transport of nuclear weapons in japanese territory and would not go to the peace Park with Rob erts. The japanese news Media has reported Hal the Rodney m. Davis is capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Japan s non nuclear policy has never been adopt cd Inlo Law and the japanese government has never pushed inc United states to verify the absence of nuclear weapons at inc numerous . Military facilities in  years the Issue was dormant but it was acc Cully resurrected when the Japan socialist party which has strongly sup ported the non nuclear principles won a National election in july. Mot Oshima has been at the can scr of controversy since late last year when he accused emperor Hirohito then dying of cancer of responsibility for Japan s involvement in world War  received several death threats from rightists opposed to any open criticism of the emperor