European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rebels balk at cease Abidjan Ivory coast apr liberian rebel Leader Charles Taylor said tuesday his forces will refuse to observe a cease fire and predicted he would capture the capital of Monrovia by the end of the week. Taylor speaking in a Telephone interview with the British broadcasting corp., was responding to published reports that he had accepted a cease fire and the rebels March on the capital was suspended. A there will be no cease fire Quot Taylor said. Taylor whose men appear to have made Little Progress since reaching the outskirts of Monrovia a week ago said his National patriotic front is a progressing carefully because of the massive loss of  he conceded the final assault was taking a Long time saying a i understand that and i regret the Long time. But  were to move in and tear that City apart the whole world would be jumping ail Over  the French news Agency Agency France Presse which has a reporter with the rebels reported tuesday that the insurgents were executing members of president Samuel Doe s Krahn tribe and members of the mandingo people accused of supporting Doe. A Pool report filed by correspondents in the besieged liberian capital said government troops continued to kill suspected rebel supporters. A 19-year-old Man was bundled into a car and taken to a Beach where soldiers Slit his Throat the report said. The six month conflict which began with Taylor a invasion from Ivory coast on dec. 24, has become a tribal War. Does forces were accused of killing hundreds of civilians from the Gio and Mano tribes the main rebel support base. The rebels have accused does administration of being corrupt. Taylor said the rebels were sending a delegation to peace talks in Freetown Sierra Leone to hear what mediators from the economic Community of West african states Are proposing. The talks were scheduled to open tuesday but the rebel delegation failed to arrive probably because of transport problems. The economic Community group reportedly has proposed introduction of a multinational african peacekeeping Force in Liberia to oversee new elections. Taylor has opposed that. Thursday july 12, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 3 trabits last trip East Germany a Little trabant cars Are loosening of that country s restrictions taken his Well stripped car presumably seen More and More often these Days on and the nearing of reunion with West with some help on its final trip to a roads far from their origin with the Germany. However one owner has trash Container in East Berlin. Jailed Man linked to bombing of West Berlin disco report says Berlin apr an imprisoned Man with an Arab name has become a suspect in the 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing that led to the . Air raid on Libya a news report said tuesday. West Berlin officials called the Stem Magazine report a speculation that cannot be  but officials also said they had reopened their investigation As a result of new information. The april 5, 1986, bombing of the la Belle discotheque a popular spot for . Military personnel killed two . Soldiers and a turkish woman. More than 200 people were injured. Ten Days later . Warplanes bombed the libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi including a strike on the compound of libyans Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi. . Officials blamed Libya for the la Belle attack saying their information came from communications intercepted Between Tripoli and Qadhafi a a agents in Berlin. Stem Magazine citing West Berlin Security officials said the suspects name was being kept secret because he May become a prosecution witness. The Hamburg based publication did not say where he was jailed but reported he was being held in connection with a another criminal  recently there have been reports that the la Belle attack was planned and carried out with at least the knowledge of the former hard line East German communist regime. Stem said officials had been gathering information on the Case by looking into the files of the Stasi the former East German secret police. Investigators discovered among other things the name of a palestinian suspected of having transported the explosives for the la Belle attack from East to West Berlin. East Germany a secret police files Are a significant source of information for criminal investigators and have already aided in the arrest of West German terrorists hiding in East Germany. The West Berlin Justice department confirmed that officials recently had been poring through East German documents in the la Belle Case but did not specifically say they came from the secret police. Spokesman Cornel Christofic said West Berlin officials expect to find Materia that can be used As proof in the  report notes free flights by Fri chiefs wife Washington apr the wife of Fri director William s. Sessions accompanied her husband on 17 official trips aboard government aircraft but paid for Only one flight according to a report released tuesday Alice sessions accompanied her husband on a variety of business trips from Washington to destinations including key West Fla. Williamsburg a. San Francisco and new Orleans from aug. 11, 1988 through july 31, 1989, said the report by the general accounting office. While it did no to question the propriety of the trips the watchdog unit of Congress criticized the Justice department for failing to study the co Sipf using aircraft seized from convicted criminals to transport sessions and attorney general Dick Thornburgh. The Gao said it believed the department could save Money by leasing planes. Fri spokesman Robert Davenport said mrs. Sessions did not reimburse the Agency Lor the trips because she was accompanying her husband on official business. Davenport said mrs. Sessions did pay the Fri $280 to cover one leg of a trip that included a Stopover in san Antonio for personal business. Sessions made 36 trips generally to visit Fri Field offices and to make speeches to judicial and police groups. Thornburgh made 39 trips during the period aboard the government owned aircraft mainly to give speeches and attend meetings. Five months after the Gao began its study Thornburgh reimbursed the Justice department $2,128 for eight trips his wife took on the government planes the report said. The payment included $1,371 for six official trips that mrs. Thornburgh took during the 12-month period reviewed by Gao the report said. Thornburgh also repaid the government $1,032 in 1989 for personal trips he Ana his family members took aboard the aircraft. Justice department policy does not require mrs. Thornburgh to pay for trips on official flights a if there is an empty seat and the government would incur no extra Cost Quot said department spokesman Dan Eramian. A mrs. Thornburgh preferred in the exercise of an abundance of caution to reimburse the government for the trips Quot Eramian said. In a letter to the Justice department rep. Bob Wise d-w.va., criticized the Agency for failure to adopt a travel policy particularly regarding a issues such As what constitutes an a official purpose or a offi Cial function and when non official passengers should be permitted to Fly on government  Wise who asked for the report said seven months have elapsed since he was told a policy was being drafted. Eramian said a policy will be adopted adding a it would have been silly to put something together until we saw what the Gao recommendations  the Gao study said the Justice department failed to follow government guidelines when comparing the Cost of using government aircraft seized from convicted criminals with the Cost of using leased planes to transport Thornburgh and sessions. The Justice departments own analysis conducted alter the Gao began its study showed that the government was saving $500,000 a year to use the seized aircraft instead of leasing planes. A if we had leased an aircraft and spent an extra half million a year we would have received a larger dose of criticism a Eramian said. The Gao report noted concern for the Security of both Thornburgh and sessions quoting from a 1989 Justice department memo stating that the attorney eneral had been the subject of 13 threats during his first six months in office. 8