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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 21 vol. 49, no. 67 Good morning wednesday june 20, 1990 a a 25 daily and sunday d 8693 reprisal terrorist attacks feared 9th suspected terrorist arrested in East Germany Berlin apr East German police have arrested yet another suspected red army faction terrorist a suspect in the 1981 bombing of a . Air base and the ninth reputed member of the group captured in less than two weeks. East Germany a Interior minister said a tip from a former member of the Stasi the nations now Dis banded secret police had led police to Henning Beer 31. It has been widely believed that the Stasi helped fugitive members of the left Wing West German terrorist group resettle in the East where they were harboured by the hard line communist government. The same tip led authorities to see terrorist on Back Page Berlin apr German officials on tuesday warned of possible terrorist attacks after the arrest of a top West German fugitive suspected in a bombing at Ramstein a in 1981. See related Story photo on Page 8. Henning Beer 31, was the ninth suspected member of the Ultra leftist red army faction terrorist gang captured in an unprecedented sweep. For the first time East German authorities used information from a former High ranking secret police officer to make an arrest. Despite the arrests there is growing concern about possible reprisal attacks by the several dozen still Active members and supporters of the red army faction. Interior minister Dietmar Schlee of West Germany a Badin Wirt Temberg state told reporters in East Berlin he fears the police crackdown will Lead to such attacks in his country. Red army faction members often have claimed responsibility for their actions in the name of a commandos Quot who have been killed or imprisoned. East Germany Interior minister Peter Michael Diestel said that since the arrests started june 6, his office has been receiving up to five Anonymous death threat letters a Day. A but we will continue to do of Job a see attacks on Back Page the hijacked soviet Airliner sits on a runway tuesday at Helsinki Airport. Accused is Oleg Kozlov inset photo. Man gives up after hijacking soviet plane Helsinki Finland apr a Man demanding to be taken to the United states hijacked a soviet Airliner with 60 people on Board tuesday and threatened to blow it up authorities said. He later surrendered and sought political Asylum. The 55 passengers and five Crew members safely left the aircraft parked beside a runway at Helsinki Airport and surrounded by police. The Hijacker gave up an hour later after talks with finnish officials. In Moscow soviet Deputy aviation minister Mik see hijacking on Back Page army child smother differ on abuse Issue by John Millar Wurzburg Bureau bad Kissinger West Germany a an emotionally disturbed 8-year-old says his Mother abuses him and army officials find themselves squeezed tightly into a dilemma. Do they step in believing a child a account or do they stay away accepting a parents assurances in the Case of 8-year-old Matthew Hebert army officials believed the child and took him from his Mother Karen Kwarciany. Its a Case that pits Parent against child family against the military and individual rights against the Legal systems of two nations. See related Story Page 9. Mrs. Kwarciany says the army kidnapped her son a boy who a psychologist says has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. She believes that she and Matthew have been victimized by a system that cares too Little for the niceties of the truth of preserving families and of protecting Legal rights. She has support from friends her chaplain and a military official. A a in a angry a mrs. Kwarciany says. So is her husband sgt. Terry Kwarciany pronounced Core see on be. A a we re angry at the system. We re angry at the people in it a he says. A i love my son a mrs. Kwarciany says. A and what they be done especially with his past history has Only made things worse. That a what upsets me. Its destroyed my whole  Matthew was taken without warning april 18, she says and placed in Foster care while his Stepfather was on temporary duty in the states. Mrs. Kwarciany has not been charged with a crime nor is there any Clear indication she Ever will be. For six weeks All she had in the place of her child was a Legal document written in German. She says military Community officials never gave her a Chance to argue her Case. For the first month she never saw Matthew. For its part the army acted according to its guidelines and in the Best interests of the child Schweinfurt military Community spokesman George Ohl says. The continued on Page 9hungarian suggests Conrad aided peace Budapest Hungary apr the director of military intelligence in Hungary has suggested that a former . Service member a spying for the East bloc May have helped the cause of peace. Retired army sgt. 1st class Clyde Lee Conrad 43, was sentenced to life in prison this month by a West German court that found him guilty of passing secrets to Hungary and Czechoslovakia from 1975 through 1985 in return for $1.2 million. The trial judge in the Case said Conrad who was convicted of treason had a endangered the entire defense capability of the  a icon Rad a High treason could have prompted a War a judge Ferdinand Schuth said. But Brig. Gen. Janos Kovacs who has directed hungarian military intelligence since october said the spying probably led to better East West ties a because the information Conrad produced made it Clear nato was not planning to attack the soviet Union or its allies. A the interesting Paradox was that Conradus information helped prove that there Are no offensive nato plans and this led sober thinking people to reassess the situation and to develop a new approach a he said in an interview monday. Kovacs said that As far As he knows just one person Istvan Belovi is in cil in Hungary for spying for the United states. Belovi is a former assistant military attache in the hungarian embassy in London. The news Magazine Besz Eloe carried an interview with Belovi in its june 16 editions that quoted him As saying he contacted the Cia a because he was shocked at the volume of nato secrets making their Way to the soviets via hungarian intelligence  Belovi is due to serve another 15 years  
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