European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 k a a the stars and stripes Friday december 21, 1991 terrorist suspect charged in 79 attack on Haig Karlsruhe Germany a amps a the German Federal prosecutor has filed charges against a suspected terrorist in the 1979 bomb attack against Gen. Alexander Haig then nato s top commander in Europe Susanne Albrecht a suspected red army faction terrorist also is scheduled to face charges in connection with the 1977 slaying of banker Jurgen Ponto and the 1977 attempted attack on the Federal prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe. The trial is scheduled to to held in Stuttgart the attack on taig took place in the belgian town of Bourg where the attackers hid a bomb in a Street. The device exploded when the amen can general s car sped past injuring a bodyguard. Albrecht 39, was arrested in june 6 in East Berlin after a 13-year Hunt by police. She voluntarily surrendered to West German police on july 5. She had been a resident of East Berlin for 10 years was married to an East German and had had a child seven other suspected Raf terrorists also were captured last june in East Germany. They arc Henning Beer Monika Helbing Werner Lotze Silke Maier Wilt Freiherr Ekkehard von Seckendorff Sigrid sle Nebeck and Inge Victot. An investigation against Ekkehard von Seckendorff has been dropped. The other seven suspects remain in custody. Lotze has been charged by the bavarian High state court in Munich with nets of terrorism including murder. The dates for Albrecht s court hearings have not been set. A the red army faction an extreme left terrorist organization was an off Shoal of the Baader Meinhoff group of the 1970s according to sonic accounts suspected members of the Raf  Albrecht and Victot were Given help to. Go underground by the East German ministry of state Security known As the Stasi officials suspect that they lived in East Germany since 1980, with the full knowledge of the communist regime under false names and papers. Albrecht has been in pretrial confinement since her arrest and is assisting prosecutors. Because of her cooperation it has been recommended that she be Given what is called Crown witness status which could result in a  a a a a a a. A a a extra Chris Mas Maii run for some Europea n patrons rheingau Germany a amps a army and air Force postal patrons in Germany Belgium Luxembourg and the Netherlands will get a second Chance to receive last minute mail on Christmas eve thanks to a a operation Santa Claus a Quot additional mail truck runs from the Frankfurt Aerial mail terminal to army postal centers and air Force bases ave been scheduled for monday allowing unit mail caters the Chance to hold a second mail Call patrons Diguid Check with their local postal officials to confirm their service hours on Christmas eve corrections because of an editing error a Story on air Force Job reductions incorrectly reported the services plans for further cuts. About 9,000 authorizations have been identified for withdrawal in fiscal 199e officials said additional announcements on cuts May be made during the fiscal year some air Force commissary Holiday hours were incorrect in yesterdays newspaper ii Christmas eve the Spang Uhlem a store will be Ope ii from 11 Ami to 3 . The Rhein main a store will be open wednesday from 11  6 . On new years eve the spa Dahlem commissary will be closed and the Vogel Weh store will be open from 9 . To 4 . Federal e rust Sites in Germany have squabble Oyer the by Mary Neth staff writer Post cold War troop reductions hardly begun and already there a a spoils. At stake is ownership of the bases caverns and depots used by nato forces. The German Federal government is at Odds with mayors and state ministers All have been greedily eyeing the properties since the first whisper of possible Allied departures. In Frankfurt members of the social democratic party started making a pitch a year ago for Early return of the . Military shopping Center they d like it used for housing development. In Rheinland Pfalz state officials trooped off to Washington in March with a wish list of 10 areas they want for Industrial development. Few cities or states however have dared dispute the German Federal governments claim to the land. The Federal officials intend to sell the properties to state and City governments at full Market prices. Certainly no one took Giessen a lord mayor Manfred Mutz seriously when he insisted that his City has the Legal right to Rivers Barracks at no Cost. Then Mutz came up with a blockbuster. In search of a Means to Back up his scoffed at claim he headed to the City archives. There he found a con tract dating Back to the third Reich that gives Giessen ownership of among other properties an in regal part of Rivers Barracks. The German Federal ministry of finance is anything but pleased and disputes the legality of such contracts. But heartened by the Giessen find mayors All Over Ger Many Are sending out search parties to scour Dusty Are chives. 7. A 1. According to the German news Magazine Der spic gel officials in Karlsruhe tub Ingen and Darmstadt Are now searching for similar third Reich documents feeding military bases to City leaders. In Darmstadt the search is on for a document believed to exist that gives the City control Over the 271-acre Ernst Ludwig Cavern. Quot Darmstadt was so completely bombed during world War ii that locating the contract May be difficult a a City official said. In Frankfurt a search also is planned. We arc certainly going to investigate our archives to see if similar deeds exist a said a representative of Frankfurt lord mayor Voker Hauff. A that would be quite a  the chances of Success Are Good. Quot the nazis were painstaking record keepers and most of the facilities used by nato forces were previously held by the wehrmacht a said Folkert Sauer a spokesman for Giessen s Mutz. The Giessen property contracts Sauer said Date Back to the 1930s. They state that when the property no longer is needed by the military the cily will have the right to buy it Back at the Price paid by the nazis the spokesman said. The 25,2 pfennig Price per Square meter less than 2 cents a Square foot is ridiculous by today a standards. In Frankfurt for example apartment property is Worth 1,000 Marks per Square meter about $64 per Square foot. Sauer said 10 areas Are affected by the Giessen document. Quot the Federal government has the right to the use of the properties a he said. A it could stick Federal offices on them if it wants to but it does not have the right to sell them a in Bonn a spokesman for the ministry of finance scoffed at the Archive finds. None of those old contracts he said is Legal. A fall were overwritten in 1960 by a Law that gives former properties of the third Reich to the government a a of course that a what the ministry would claim a Sauer said. Quot we however Are not convinced. Accords ing to the Legal interpretation Giessen has received these contracts cannot be nullified by the 1960  Sauer conceded that its More than just a Legal Issue. A a it a also a political Issue a he said. A the old contracts give us new leverage though. Before we could Only say a please  now we must he included in serious discussions about the disposition of the property.�?�. Ride military styles amps l Emmett Lewis or. Letting his Reindeer rest up for Christmas eve Santa hitches a ride on a . Military vehicle for a tour of the Ben Franklin Village housing area in Mannheim Germany. He a being escorted by members of the 4th bit 8th inf the merry old gent threw Candy to children along the snowy route Syracuse n.y., a a former inspector with the army corps of engineers european division pleaded guilty monday to accepting a $30,000 gratuity payment from a German electrical firm in 1985, Joseph a. Hullender 60, faces a maximum two year prison sentence and a $250,000 Fine. He is scheduled to be sentenced in . District court for the Northern District of new York on feb. 15, a Justice department statement said Hullender was charged in a two count indictment with accepting $58,000 in gratuities from Jakob Nohl company in june and december 1985. He pleaded guilty to the first count of accepting the $30,000 Cash payment. The payment was made in return for his recommendation that a consortium of German contractors be awarded a $3,67 million contract to renovate Frankfurt army regional medical centers electrical system. Jakob Nohl later obtained a subcontract from the consortium. The second count involved the remainder of the $58,000. That count was dropped in a negotiated plea agreement according to a spokesman from department of defense inspector general a office in Wiesbaden Germany