European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 03, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday january 3.1990 israeli minister keeps Job after Compromise ends crisis Jerusalem a defusing a political crisis that threatened the coalition government. Prime minister Yitzhak Shamir tuesday cancelled his decision to fire science minister Ezcry Cizman for alleged contacts with the pales Tine liberation organization. In a political Compromise. Weizman had agreed to quit the decision making inner Cabinet. The announcement came after Shamir summoned Weizman tuesday. The agreement ended two Days of intense efforts to save the coalition of the conservative liked bloc that Shamir Heads and the Center left labor party of which Weizman is a senior member. The crisis was the worst to shake a liked labor Alliance defense minister Yitzhak Rabin. Uncertain about Case against Weizman in six years and concerned a major Issue thai hns split the nation How to resolve Israel s festering conflict with palestinians in the occupied West Hank and a a strip. On sunday. Shamir gave Weizman written notice that he was fired As of Tucklay acc Nus of contacts with Cheplo in which Weizman allegedly divulged secret israeli strategy that he Learned in meetings of the 12-Mcmher inner Cabinet. Wei Man told reporters after the five minute meeting that Shamir had not confronted him with evidence of the Plo contacts. Firstly the crisis is Over. Secondly All attempts to say 1 am guilty or not i Don t accept because for me guilt is a matter of being brought to court or Weizman told reporters. Weizman 65, a former defense minister who defected from liked said Shamir took Back the dismissal letter. Under the Compromise. Weizman will remain science minister in the Overall 26-Membcr Cabinet but will no longer sit in sessions of the inner Cabinet where govern ment strategy is decided. Labor had demanded that Weizman not be ousted with out a Chance to Sec and respond to evidence against him. Labor leaders were split however Over How far to go i defending Weizman who has openly advocated talks with the Plo despite government policy against any dealings with the organization. Defense minister Yitzhak Rabin who was reportedly shown the evidence told labor party colleagues monday he was Uncertain whether Shamir does not have a Case against Weizman said the Compromise that ended the crisis was worked out by Rabin and vice Premier Shimon pores. Labor s chairman. I m a party Man. And i had to listen Tomy colleagues. It was hard for me but 1 had to accept this Weizman said. Shamir s evidence against Wei Man including his alleged Exchange of messages with Plo chief Yasser Arafat was gathered by the Shin bet. Indicating the secret service had been shadowing the Cabinet minister for some time. Israeli Media reported. Shamir claimed Cizman s contacts with the Plo were undermining Israel s efforts to launch Middle East peace talks. Shamir s strategy is based on excluding the Plo from negotiations. According to Israel radio the most serious accusation was that Weizman advised Plo leaders in a Telephone Call to Tunis Tunisia that if they take the right Steps they will even get Jerusalem which Israel has declared its capital. Weizman sharply criticized Shamir for leaking the accusations without showing him the evidence. "1 am already accused of Selling Jerusalem without anyone showing me proof he said on the radio before the two met. Bbl radio begins broadcasting lady Chatterley s Lover lit Udo to sexual morality in the 1960s. The Choice of the original lady Chat Crecy s War to launch the 42nd year of bbl radio s a of at bedtime was one of its most daring. In a London a thousands of britons started listening to lady Chatterley s Lover As their bed time Story monday night Complete with sexually explicit passages and four letter words that have outraged anti pornography campaigners. The British broadcasting corp. Decided to go ahead with its 15-part radio adaptation of the unexpurgated version of . Lawrence s novel despite efforts by the country s leading to watchdog. Mary while House. To keep it off the air. In addition to broadcasting the first part of lady Chatterley s Romp Down the Primrose path with the gamekeeper. Bbl radio 4 preceded it with a nearly 2 hour reconstruction of the i960 trial at which Penguin books was charged with obscenity for publishing the sexually explicit version. Both programs started with warnings they contained words and descriptions of sexual acts some listeners might find offensive. It took 30 years from the first printing of lady Chatterley s Lover in Florence Italy to the celebrated Penguin edition of i960 and another 30 years before that version was judged fit to be heard on radio. The uncensored version was published in the United states in 1959. The Penguin trial gave the All Clear for the Book s full publication in Britain and was regarded As one of the key events that led to u More permissive attitude Lover boo _. Highly unusual move the Choice was approved by the bbl Board of governors which a pen t nor Mally get involved in such program decisions. Listeners to a Book at bedtime have heard a wide Range of titles from the classics to popular literature. Recent titles include the James Bond thriller on her majesty s secret service and John be Carre s the Russia House read by the author. The bbl says an average of 250,000 listeners tune into a Book at the audience is predominantly Middle class and Over 50. Lawrence said after he wrote lady Chatt Crecy s Lover that he knew it would bring Only abuse and the bbl said it is expecting fresh protests. Of course some people arc going to be offended but there in t much i can do about that except no broadcast the Book Michael Gren controller of radio 4, was quoted As telling the sunday Tele graph. I think it is much too important an event in English literature to go on being overlooked. As for the offending words Well you can hear them on television most nights he was quoted As saying. World today 4 West German tourists killed in italian Alps Bolzano. Italy up four West Ger Man tourists died in three separate incidents in italian Alpine regions police said. Two visitors identified As Wilhelm Bruno Mich. 24, and Stefan Wolfgang Paupini 26, both from Augsburg West Germany were found dead in a farmhouse near Val Gardena where they were spending the holidays with friends police said. Investigators said the pair apparently died from breathing fumes that escaped from a Porta ble Gas Heater used to Ward off temperatures that dropped to below freezing saturday night. Police said others in the House discovered the two victims after smelling Gas. In Val Pust Cria near the austrian Border a skier identified As Reinhard Ochsner s3, from Munich West Germany was found dead in his hotel room. Police said he took a fall on the ski slopes suffering severe internal injuries. A teen Ager Christof Priester 15, of Somme rach. West Germany was killed in the same re Gion when he skied into a tree police said. Police take to horses to Stop nude sunbathing new Delhi India a police losing their War on nude sunbathing by foreign tourists in the Beach resort of Goa went Back to nature to escalate their fight they re going on horse Back. Mounted police patrols will be trained in arresting the culprits on the Beach the United news of Ndia reported tuesday. It quoted a police official As saying the five horses were brought from new Delhi 850 Miles to the Northeast in an Effort to halt nudism and drug peddling on Goa beaches frequented by hippies and anti social there was no explanation Why police on horseback might succeed where their comrades on foot and in motor vehicles have failed in the former portuguese enclave on India s Western coast 170 Miles South of Bombay. Pope dedicates first Day of year to world peace Vatican City a hailing 1990 after a year so Rich in profound changes the head of the roman Catholic Church on monday dedicated the year s first Day to peace and the in Mph of life Over violence and revenge. Pope John Paul ii after a mid morning new year s Day mass in St. Peter s Basilica shed his Gold embroidered Robes and Miter for a red Cape and White Skullcap and came out under a chill noon Sun onto his private study s Balcony Over looking St. Peter s to his prayer were tens of thousands of romans tourists and pilgrims who filled the Cobblestone Square made restive with a 100 foot High tinsel draped tree from Austria. The Pope spoke of the the contemporary world s expectations for peace the expectations of our Days so full of significant deeds son m profound 1989 was warmest year in Britain in 330 years London a Britain last year basked in its warmest weather since records were first kept 330 years ago the meteorological office said mean temperature in Central England Rose to 51.2 degrees in 1989, breaking the pre Vious record of 50.9 degrees set in 1949. Meteorological office spokesman Barry Par Ker said last year was the sunniest since 190v and the driest since 1976. While the maximum temperatures were not As High As 1976. The summer Many of us remember with glee the weather was consistent All the Way through the year Parker said adding that april was the Only month considered very cold. The government s records compiled since 1659, show the Winter of 1989 was the 20th Century s warmest the Spring ranked 10th warm est and the summer and fall were the seventh warmest this Century
