European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes Friday june 29,1990 i m it a a it ate it a Quot a it it a a f %  %. V a a As amps amp a of a wig we a. A. F a Mill ii mlis ill lip in la clip  a a print taken from the film shows the test bombing of an Airliner by Czechoslovakia s internal Security Agency. Czechs tested explosive linked to pan am crash to show says London apr Czechoslovakia a internal Security Agency tested semtex on a passenger aircraft in 1984 and found that just seven ounces of the explosive could destroy a plane in flight according to a British television documentary. Semtex a pliable odourless material designed for use As an Industrial explosive is suspected in the destruction of pan am flight 103 in december 1988. The explosion left 2/0 people dead. The hour Long a this week documentary for thames television was shown thursday night and offered footage of spectacular explosions filmed by the former marketing director at the factory that produced semtex. The tests in october and november of 1984 were an anti terrorist exercise said maj. Zbynek Hybl identified As a member of the parliamentary a special operations group Allied with the czechoslovak secret police. Hybl said Only four other people were involved in the tests which were conducted on a soviet built Ilyushin 18. He said the results were not passed to any terrorist group. Semtex named after an Industrial suburb of Pard Bice East of Prague is made Only in Czechoslovakia and president Vaclav Havel has confirmed the previous communist regime sold nearly 1,000 tons of it to the government of libyans col. Moa mar Qadhafi. The documentary said Hyble so special operations group was based in Brezany Castle near Prague where the Interior ministry also had a training program for third world Security agents. A we wanted to find out what strength of charge you would need to blow a Hole through the fuselage of the plane a said Hybl whose remarks were translated by thames television. A that was the most important piece of information we needed. We tried every explosive we could get hold of everything from military to civilian. A was far As the czechoslovakian explosives we had were concerned we discovered that a charge weighing 7 ounces would be More than enough to blow a Hole in the fuselage which would be Large enough to cause the plane to decompress in  those tests produced jagged holes about the size of a dinner plate in the plane. Scottish police have said pan am flight 103, a Boeing 747, was destroyed by a Small amount of explosive hidden in a radio cassette player. The documentary shows 8mm color film taken by Bohumill sole who said he retired last year As the semtex factory a marketing director. Hungarian Interior minister Balazs Horvath said tuesday that the former communist leadership had sheltered Ilich Ramirez Sanchez the terrorist known As Carlos who organized an attack on open Headquarters that occurred in Vienna in 1975. Former Interior minister an dras Yenkei described the charge As  East German Interior minister Peter Michael Diestel has said former communist Leader Erich Honecker and his Security chief made hospitality to West German terrorists a a personal  a suitcase carrying semtex and a barometric Detonator designed to explode at a High Altitude travelled on an Al a1 flight from Athens to Tel Aviv Israel and Back to Athens before it was discovered in january 1984. Retired army Captain killed in Spain by gunman san Sebastian Spain apr a suspected Bas que separatist gunman shot and killed a retired army Captain thursday on a Street of this Northern Basque City a police spokesman said. The shooting took place just after 10 . As Ignacio Urrutia 74, walked along a Street in the old Quarter of the provincial capital of san Sebastian said the spokesman who was not identified in keeping with Spanish custom. He said the gunman shot the victim in the head and then fled on foot. No group immediately claimed responsibility. But police said the attack bore the hallmark of the Basque separatist organization Eta which seeks Independence from Spain for the three province Northern Basque Region. The shooting came a Day after the burials of two suspected Basque separatists who paramilitary civil guard officers found dead of gunshot wounds tuesday in a Hilly Rural area in the Basque Region of Navarre. Soviet army sergeant Dies in shootout at kidnapping Berlin apr police killed a soviet army sergeant in a shootout after he kidnapped a family in an attempt to return Home officials said tuesday. The couple and their two children were freed unharmed but a police officer with an East German Antiterrorist unit was injured by flying Glass according to the government news Agency adn. The Soldier was armed with a sub machine gun and More than 800 rounds of ammunition when he fled a soviet weapons Garrison monday night in Magdeburg about 50 Miles West of Berlin. The Soldier took the family hostage later at a Campground in nearby Burg Magdeburg police chief Hans Joachim Stephan told adn. The soviet defense ministry in a report carried by the official soviet news Agency Tass confirmed the incident and identified the Soldier As s. Suvo Rov adn said. Moslem plan Slaughter of half a million sheep Liddah saudi Arabia apr Haifa million new zealand sheep will be slaughtered during this years moslem pilgrimage and the meat distributed among poor moslem in 24 countries a senior official announced thursday. Ahmed Mohammed Ali president of the islamic development Bank which oversees the sacrificial meat utilization program said the operation will Cost $37 million. The project began in 1983 to make use of meat otherwise left to rot in the desert. The slaughtering of the sheep commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Abraham revered by moslem As Well As jews and christians to sacrifice his son for god. Clerk convicted of stealing de Gaulle a birth certificate Lille France apr a court clerk has received a four month suspended prison sentence for stealing Charles de Gaulle a birth certificate from the office where she worked. Paulette Duriez 51 was convicted wednesday of taking the certificate Home with her last october and replacing it with a photocopy. One of her duties at a High court office in Lille was to assure the safekeeping of Legal documents. De Gaulle bom in 1890, was Leader of the free French forces during world War ii and was president of France from 1959 to 1969. He died in 1970.contras give up arms at peace ceremony san Pedro de lovage Nicaragua apr after nine years of civil War that claimed about 30,000 lives Nicaragua is finally at peace. A i feel proud and Happy As a nicaraguan woman and Mother because the boys have turned Over their arms so Nicaragua can live in peace a president Violta Barrios do Chamorro said wednesday after a ceremony in which top Contra rebel leaders gave up their weapons. A a we re going to disarm everyone peacefully without hate and without resentment a she said. During the ceremony formally ending the War about 100 rebel commanders turned Over surface to air missiles and automatic rifles to International observers from the United nations and the organization of american states. The International Force destroyed the Contra weapons with blow torches on the spot in san Pedro de lovage about 100 Miles East of Managua the capital. The town is in the heart of the Security zones established for the disarmament and voluntary resettlement of the contras. A today the War ends a presidential spokesman Danilo Lacayo said. Shortly after the ceremony 14 people most of them journalists were seriously injured when two helicopters carrying them Back to Managua collided during Takeoff. The Contra commanders were led by Israel Galeano who had turned Over a first Batch of weapons including 62  red Eye missiles to the head of the  Force Gen. Agustin Quesada. The contras who were trained and supported by the United states claim credit for forcing the former sandinista government to Call the feb. 25 election that Chamorro won. After losing the election the Sandi nistas allegedly distributed tens of thousands of automatic weapons to civilian supporters urging them to defend the conquests of the sandinista revolution. Chamorro pledged during wednesdays ceremony to ask local officials nationwide to a Tell me in will a where sandinista arms caches Are hidden