European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday. December 22,1989 flight 103 bombing suspect convicted of earlier bombing Uppsala Sweden a a swedish court thurs Day convicted Mohammed Abu Talb. A palestinian suspected in the bombing of flight 103, of terrorism charges in connection with a fatal 1985 attack on an airline office. The 35-year-old palestinian was sentenced to life in prison for the july 1985 bombing of a Northwest Ori ent airline office in Copenhagen. Denmark. The at tack killed one person and wounded More than 20. A co defendent. Marten Imandi. Also 35, was convicted of charges in connection with the Copenhagen attack and was sentenced to life in prison. In Sweden life imprisonment usually Means 20 years at most. The court found Imandi guilty of murder for placing the fatal explosive and convicted Abu Talb As an accessory. The convictions were part of a series of Legal actions that ended thursday against a terrorist ring involved in bombings of u.s., israeli and jewish targets in Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Netherlands in 1985. They were acquitted of another bombing in Stock Holm in 1986. The court also sentenced Mahmoud Al Mograbi 24. To six years in prison and his 23-year-old brother Moustafa to a one year sentence for their involvement in the 1985 attacks. By coincidence the verdict fell on the first anniversary of the bombing of flight 103, the pan am Boeing 747 that went Down in Lockerbie Scotland killing 270 people. Abu Talb is a suspect in that bombing. Abu Talb s possible connection with the disaster surfaced when it was established he had been on the Mediterranean Island of Malta two months before the explosion when investigators believe the bomb May have been prepared. Shreds from clothes wrapped around the bomb could match clothing that Abu Talb brought Back with him from Malta. Scottish police seized is bags of clothing from his Uppsala Home nov. 27. Abu Talb. Born in Beirut Lebanon is a former egyptian army Soldier who deserted to join the pales Tine popular struggle front. Police have taken extra Security precautions at air ports around Sweden this week in anticipation of a possible terrorist attack to Mark the flight 103 anniversary. Experts warned that a guilty verdict could heighten the risk. Meanwhile a swedish newspaper reported thurs Day that further evidence had been uncovered linking Abu Talb to the pan am explosion Over Lockerbie. The Dagons nah ctr newspaper said police found a 1988 Calendar with the Date dec. 21 circled the Day the plane was blasted by a barometer triggered explosive concealed in a radio tape player inside a suitcase. Scottish police tried to question Abu Talb on tues Day but he refused to cooperate. The officers reportedly left Sweden and were clue Back Afler the holidays to continue their probe. Santa mailbag Sheldon and Devon Douglas of Grafe Wohr West Germany have been Good boys this  least that s what 3-year-old Sheldon writes in his letter to Santa. Sheldon and 7-month-old Devon would like some toys but Sheldon also asks Santa. Can you also Send my mom and dad some toys others writing to Santa in care of the stars and stripes Are  Waits Rodnay  Sharm Stwan Trudl oilman Backy Frakas Jordan Palmar  san Cruz Maha Aamador Jana cons Macau a mount Yan Taho Brian Man atoll Foobar Trawal Zachiary truly _ Romanno Mcelya  try Santano Pana Yount Andy Curnyr Jarma Scancar Daffa Robson Wynm Uwarda Ralana Roarda Telanna Low dual Baar Patrick Henry Skaga co Munny Pra Arnol Mampatta Jim Hanri Katia  Canto Manama Kyd Gumti niy8anct� Dmit Glairan Yamello  caftan reunion Brian Jaquon twi Carool window wonderland Sis elfin Baleen Santa and his Reindeer Fly Over numbers High school in this year s coloured paper christinas window to three Story stained Glass window has been put up. Students Eric polls Roger Jones and Ian Johnson com led  Art teacher Joseph so plated the final design but 70 other Art Rino says it s the 26th year that a students also worked on the project Sears yanks toy simulating explosion of challenger Boise Idaho a scars. Roebuck and co. Says it is immediately pulling off the Market a toy that simulates a rocket Booster blowing up. Four Boise children had complained the toy represented sick humor after the 1986explosion of the space shuttle challenger. Scars spokesman Gordon Jones said wednesday that the building blaster toy is removed from Sale. We will not fill  Jones said the toy was pulled out of concern that we May have offended some  he said the company had As Many As 100 complaints. The sons of Christa and Gary Sanders Jared 13, sch. 9, Spencer 5, and Cody 3 spotted the toy in the scar Holiday wish Book Catalon and wrote scars and president Bush to complain. We Don t want children learning to blow up space shuttles they wrote. The National aeronautics and space administration got the Sanders letter to Bush and submitted a complaint of its own to scars. Jared praised the withdrawal of the product but said that s something they should have thought of  the toy available Only through the toys analog was advertised in the wish Book As simulating a countdown gone awry. Construct the rocket pad and prepare missile for launch. Ticking timer detonation de vice destroys the entire  John Bliach a vice president of the manufacturer pc incr products inc., said from Cincinnati that the company had no intention of equating the toy with the challenger. He said the company found that lids like to build things and like to Knock them  Jones said two of her Loys in the build ing blaster series a communications lower and a Bridge also were withdrawn. Man who burned son s hands pleads guilty to child abuse by the Cox news service West Palm Beach Fla. An at Lorincy for a Lake Worth Man called it parental  but a prosecutor said that pressing a 7-Ycar-old boy s hands on a hot stove was aggravated child abuse. Assistant state attorney Betty Rysch had intended to show a jury color photos of the boy s fingers. But Barnett Rick tvs decided to plead Guilly after the first Day of jury selection dec. 5, when he realized the Case would receive publicity. Circuit judge James Carlisle sentenced Rick tvs to four years probation. The judge also ordered him to seek incr apy and banned him from using physical punishment on his three children. Ricketts refused to discuss the Case. Ricketts attorney Paul Herman said Ricketts believes he is innocent. He did not intentionally inflict harm on the child Herman said. The elder Ricketts pressed his son s hands on a hot stove feb. 10 after he Learned his son had tried to snip hair from the head of a classmate. The boy s sister said in court records that her brother screamed and that their father said he would Cook him in the  the boy told investigators that he was kept out of school for a week and forced to stand in the Kitchen All Day holding a Large Book. He was allowed to sit Only when eating sleeping or using the Bali  hours after pleading guilty to child abuse Ricketts was Back in court seeking visitation rights. I would like to see my children he said crying. They Are my  a therapist who treats All three children testified thai the boy is  boy s Mother who is separated from Ricketts cried and said the boy burned the family s Home in  fear for my son she said. I hide my knives because four months ago i caught him in bed at 3 . With a Steak knife to his stomach. He wants to jump out of car  judge Edward Fine ordered the boy to be examined by a psychiatrist but said he would allow Ricketts to visit his children on fridays during their therapy my feeling is As hard As it is on the adults it s harder on the