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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes monday september 25.1989 Iran official wants saudis punished for executions Nicosia. Cyprus a the speaker of Iran s parliament reiterated sunday that Saud Arabia must be punished for beheading 16 kuwaiti Shipic moslem convicted of planting bombs in the holy City of Mecca. Tehran radio quoted speaker Mahdi Kami Bias saying that the House of Saud must expect punishment and vengeance for its  the saudi announcement thursday that the kuwaitis had been executed was the first official word from the saudi government that arrests and a trial had followed the july 10 bombings in Mecca. One person was killed and 16 other injured in the blasts. The kuwaitis in recorded confessions taped before their executions and aired on saudi Tele vision last week said that they had received explosives and training from iranians including two at the iranian embassy in Kuwait. The allegations were denied by Iran. Bodies of jetliner victims begin arriving in Paris Paris a the first bodies brought Back from the West african desert site where French Airliner crashed last week arrived Sun Day in Paris for identification and autopsy the French government said. With evidence piling up that tuesday s crash of inc Uta do to Airliner was caused by a bomb prosecutors opened an investigation on the murders voluntary destruction of goods use of explosives and other crimes in connection with a terrorist Enterprise of subversion or damaging the Security of the  All 171 people aboard right 772 were killed when it exploded in midair Over Southern niger. The flight was in route from the Congo to Paris after a Stopover in n Ndjamena the capital of Chad. The aulos is should show whether the Passen Gers and Crew inhaled gases. That information would give investigators a clue to the kind of explosives that might have been used to blow the plane apart at an Altitude of 30,000 feet less than an hour after its Takeoff from n Ndjamena. Hugo from Page 1 morning services sunday. Nearby storm damage was apparent with massive Oaks blocking a Road and dam age to Homes , churches in Columbia were collecting items to Send to communities badly damaged to the  in Charleston were still operating on generators sunday but South Carolina electric & Gas  to have electricity restored to five hospitals by the end of the Day spokeswoman Mary Green brow said. By sunday morning traffic in Charleston was heavy apparently including some sightseers. In the City s historic District the hum of generators indicate residents were working to clean up the mess the storm  in the state could top $3 billion according to tourism and City  North Carolina gov. Jim Martin sent 200 National guard and other Security officers to Charlot Teand asked president Bush to declare a Federal disaster area in 51 North Carolina counties. Bush already has declared several South Carolina counties disaster  Hurricane left at least 27 people dead in the Caribbean and was blamed for an additional 24 death sin the Carolinas Virginia and new York. The deaths included a woman and her two children who were killed sunday in Rural Clarendon county when their Wood Frame House caught fire. Careless us of candles which were being used because the family had no electricity was blamed for the fire county fir chief Carter Jones said. Authorities reported 20 incidents of looting and 30arrests in North Carolina since Hugo struck 89 arrests were made in South Carolina including 27 in Charles ton where the National guard began patrolling Fri  troops will remain on the streets of Charleston just As Long As we need to to maintain the safely for people South Carolina gov. Carroll Campbell said. At least 960,000 people in the Carolinas remained without Power As of saturday and Utility officials said it could be weeks before Power is restored everywhere. Colombian judges threaten to strike for More Protection Colombia a Colombia s 4,600 judges threat ened sunday to go on strike if they Don t get More Protection against death threats from drug Barons. Also sunday the son of a crusading newspaper Edi Tor who was killed by drug traffickers accused colom Bia s Congress of being cowardly and corrupt in the government s fight against the powerful cocaine cartels. Residents of the capital endured another night of bombings As dynamite exploded in a theater a City bus company s garage and a neighbourhood Headquarters of the governing Liberal party. The three bombs injured two people National police said. Since the government declared War on drug Traffick ers just Over a month ago 103 bombs have tilled six people and wounded 130. Colombia s judges said sunday through their Union the National association of judicial workers that there must be immediate attention to the danger the face or they will go on strike within a week. In the last 10 years 220 judicial workers including about so judges have been murdered Many by drug traffickers. The Union said in a communique that Union officials would meet monday with acting Justice minister Carlos Limos Simmonds and that a strike would be called unless action was taken to protect the judges. Monica do Gruiff who resigned As Justice minister last week after being threatened by drug traffickers got promises in Washington earlier this month of $19 Mil lion in Aid and equipment to protect Colombia judges. The judges Union said it has been told nothing about the . Aid for Protection. The judges make about $400 a month which Man have said forces them to take the bus to work in this country where a compact car costs $20,000. The anti drug crusading newspaper Al esp celador in a column by its editor Juan Guillermo Cano accused Colombia s Congress of being cowardly and corrupt. It is not a very admirable Congress. In fact it i cowardly Cano said in a signed column published sunday in the Bogota daily. Cano s father Guillermo Cano was killed by drug traffickers in 1987 when the newspaper called on the government to crack Down on the traffickers. Colombian newspapers have reported that 25 colombian congressmen have been denied visas to the United states because of links to drug traffickers. The . Embassy has denied comment but the report has caused a juror in Colombia s legislature. One of the country s most notorious drug suspects Pablo Escobar Gaviria was an alternate member of Congress from 1982 until 1986. An alternate member votes during the absence of a congressman which is frequent in Colombia Dollar from Page 1 emphasized this part of the communique in a briefing for reporters but he refused to say what specific actions inc countries would be willing to take if the Dollar goes  their communique the finance ministers said they discussed the historic events now in Progress in some of the countries of Eastern Europe especially in Poland and Hungary and expressed their Strong support for plans to create More open and Market based  they urged the polish government to reach Quick agreement on a loan package with the 152-nation International monetary fund and said they stood ready 19 support such a program through bilateral and multilateral actions including debt  third world debt the communique praised Bra by s latest initiative for achieving substantial  it was the group s remarks on the Dollar that were most eagerly awaited by financial markets. That s a much stronger statement against any risen the Dollar said economist David Jones of Aubrey g. Lanston and co., a government securities dealer. Would expect on the heels of that statement More aggressive Dollar Selling from Central  said the g-7 countries would Likely be willing now to accelerate the decline of the Dollar when it i falling on its own not just counter any Rise. And he speculated that Japan and Germany would show More willingness in the months ahead to raise their interest rates to influence Exchange  increase in japanese and West German interest rates would make investing in those countries More attractive and would thus raise the value of their cur  g-7 has issued statements in the past pledging to hold the Dollar Down. But efforts have been largely unsuccessful despite heavy intervention in currency markets the buying and Selling of currencies to in fluence Exchange rates. The volume of private currency trading has grown so huge that it dwarfs any buying or Selling that Central Banks can do. Since the last g-7 meeting the Dollar has appreciated by about 10 percent against the japanese yen and 3 per cent against the West German Mark. The Dollar on Fonda bought 146 yen and 1.95 Marks Well above what is presumed to be the upper limit of the trading Range sought bythe g-7 140 yen and 1.90 Marks. A Strong Dollar hurts the Trade deficit by raising the Price of . Goods on overseas markets while making foreign goods cheaper for american Consumers. Summit from Page 1 announce the Summit while dripping with rain. Scow Croft was at his Side. That done he hopped Back into his Golf cart an sped off Wilh Raynor to the Banks of the nearby Kennebunk River for More than 20 minutes of unproductive fishing in what was by then a driving rain. See related photo Page 5. After insisting for months that he would not brushed into a Summit by the soviets or political critics at Home Bush said the time was finally right to set int motion the diplomatic groundwork needed to stage a formal Summit in the United states. While the precise Date has yet to be determined pegged perhaps to the Progress of negotiations on conventional forces in Europe Bush said that the plans arc set and that Washington would be the proper place to meet. Because the last full fledged meeting was held i Moscow in 1988 the luncheon meeting last december in new York with Gorbachev Reagan and Bush was not Given full Summit status Baker said thursday that the next meeting would be held in the unite states. Bush promised a Summit covering a wide array of subjects but placed particular focus on prospects for movement in arms control at the end of a week that saw Senate democratic Leader George Mitchell accuse him of timidity in dealing with the soviets and the Reform movement in Eastern Europe. Shevardnadze and Baker reached agreement on chemical weapons Accord and several other Points. The agreements include Exchange of data on chemical weapons by the endow the year and visits by inspectors of the other Side s stockpiles and plants by june 30. In a second phase there would be More intensive on site inspections of the submitted data. An umbrella agreement in principle that there should be verification of missile plants and information exchanged even before a treaty to stash Long rang nuclear weapons is completed. Advance notification to the other Side of exercise with Long Range bombers and other strategic weapons. A ceiling of 10 Mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles on launchers at any one base. Some of the launchers would be exposed for monitoring. Cooperating to enhance the Power of the International court of Justice to Settle disputes. Two agreements to facilitate movement of Eski mos in Alaska and eskimos in Siberia for visits across the Bering Strait. Agreement on interpreting International rules worship movements  
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