European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes a a t. A a. Wednesday March 6, 1991german couple convicted of spying Dusseldorf Germany apr a German couple were convicted monday of turning Over valuable nato information to the former East German intelligence service and sentenced to prison. Joachim Preuss 46, and his 42-year-old wife Giscla were sentenced to 10 years and four years in prison respectively on charges of espionage. J Preuss worked As a civilian employee for the then West German air Force printing service where he had Access to highly sensitive material. He had provided material to East German Intelli Gynce since 1966, said chief judge Klaus world Wagner of the Diss Oldorf High state court. A a a a. Wagner said Preuss and his wife received a total of 180,000 Marks $120,000 for Selling secrets to the East germans. The Money was used in part to buy the couple s Home he said. Court records showed that secrets provided to the East. Germans included classified material about the capabilities of natos sophisticated Tornado Jet warplanes and numerous other sensitive documents. A Preuss a provided the enemy incalculable insight into the defense capabilities of the National forces Quot Wagner said. The East  Preuss several military awards and the rank of Captain in the now defunct country a former army Wagner said. Preuss apparently worked for the East germans out of both greed arid political conviction Wagner said. In explaining the Shorter sentence for mrs. Preuss Wagner said she had worked As an agent partly out of Devotion to her husband and also for the Money. Court records show that Preuss often took Home classified documents and photographed them to provide copies for the East germans. His wife acted As a courier to deliver the material. Wagner criticized Security at the printing Plant where Preuss worked. He said that when the couple were arrested in March 1990, investigators found 188 publications containing sensitive military information during a search of their Home. The two. Germany United last year. During the unification process and disbanding of the former East German intelligence Agency dozens of spy suspects came under investigation for working with the  to return remains of 7 More possible my As Bangkok Thailand up a a Vietnam has agreed to return seven More sets of remains believed to be those of american service members missing in action since the Vietnam War a . Embassy spokesman . A the socialist Republic of Vietnam has informed the . Government that it intends to repatriate on. March 6 seven remains which May be those of missing americans a a said spokesman James Williams confirming a statement by a vietnamese foreign ministry official monday. Williams said a . Military plane with a military Honor guard will Fly to Hanoi Vietnam on wednesday to receive the  total of 1,665 americans Are still listed As missing in action in Vietnam out of a total of 2,282 service Mem Bers missing from the War. Fiery crash of truck 2 buses kills at least 18 in Mexico Queretaro Mexico a a fiery crash involving two buses and a tractor trailer loaded with flammable painting supplies killed at least 18 people monday officials said. A _ a Many of the dead could not be immediately Deriti find because their bodies were badly burned. Seventy two people were injured. The paints and thinners on the truck ignited after the truck collided with a bus that a to attempting to pass it. The second bus was following close behind and rammed into the burning wreckage said a spokesman for the Queretaro state prosecutor Jose Antonio Leon it Leo. A a a a a a it a a the Accident occurred near the capital City of quere Taro on a Highway 125 Miles Northwest of Mexico  kills soviet who tried to Hijack plane to Sweden Moscow up a a Man who tried to Hijack a soviet Airliner agreed to release the passengers while the plane was on the ground and then died when his Home. Madi Oiom exploded the official Tass news Agency . Tass said the 31-year-old Man identified Only by the last name Dubo Vsev had ordered an Aeroflot flight from the Northern City of Kotlas to Leningrad to be diverted to Stockholm Sweden on monday night but the Crew landed in Leningrad. After negotiations the would be Hijacker agreed to release the 26 passengers on the plane but then his bomb exploded a during a detention operation a Tass said. The Man died on the Way to the Hospital. No other injuries were  bitten during try to separate fighting dogs London up a Queen Elizabeth ii was bitten when she attempted to break up a fight among her pet dogs at Windsor Casile Buckingham Palace . \ a during a weekend walk several of the Queens nine corgis began fighting. The Queen tried to restore order and in the skirmish the skin on the knuckle of her left hand was broken requiring three stitches a spokeswoman at Buckingham Palace said. Hearing the noise St Ajja members rushed to help the Queen the spokeswoman said. One of the rescuers the chauffeur of the Queens Mother was also bitten. Up in smoke renovation work turns into ashes monday at the Bardo Palace in Paris. The Palace which was destroyed by the Blaze was modelled after a tunisian summer Palace and originally built for the 1867 world exposition. The City of Paris had already spent $2.85 million to refurbish the  of yugoslav serbs flee Croatia fearing Slaughter Belgrade Yugoslavia apr thousands of serbs Wert fleeing Croatia after hearing rumours circulated by serb nationalists that they face Slaughter by croats news reports . Stipe Mesic a senior croatian Leader strongly denied the rumours that the serbs Are in danger accusing emissaries from communist ruled Serbia of a trying to spread panic arid chaos in an Effort to destabilize Croatia a Young  croatian authorities estimated the number of serbian refugees at 4,000. The serbian based state Tan Jug news Agency claimed however that 20,000 had fled to Serbia by late monday. Rivals for centuries serbs and croats Are now. Locked in a struggle for the future of this troubled Balkan federation of six republics and two province the clash Between Yugoslavia a two biggest ethnic groups / could explode into civil War. 1 Serbia a communist rulers want the country to be a centralized federation. Croatia a non communist leaders on the other hand Are demanding Yugoslavia be transformed into a Loose Alliance Sovereign states. Me Sie Croatia a representative on Yugoslavia a collective presidency said he walked out of a meeting of the body tuesday in protest of attacks on croat i a. A instead of discussing the Overall yugoslav crisis they Only wanted Quot to scrutinize croatian policy Mesic said in Zagreb the croatian capital serbian Media whose exaggerated reports often allege a a genocide against serbs in Croatia reported that tens of thousands of ethnic serbs were fleeing. Tan Jug said the serbs mostly women arid children were transported by cars and buses bearing serbian License plates. It said a a Welcome committee was formed for them in the serbian town of Patin on the Border with Croatia Mesic by contrast said refugees were returning Home after realizing they were not in danger in Croatia. A the figures Given by the serbian Media Are exaggerated a said Milanka Stojanovic a serbian woman in the town of Beli Man astir in Northern Croatia a we done to know who to  \ Serbia a communist controlled Media has waged a virulent propaganda Campaign for months charging that Croatia Scenter right leadership is a a fascist and seeks a a extermination of All serbs in Croatia. Serbs make up about 12 percent of Croatia a 5 million inhabitants. The claims play on the memories of older serbs who Are still haunted by the massacre of hundreds of thousands of their Brethren under Croatia s fascist puppet government during world War 11. Mesic has repeatedly stressed that serbs i Croatia face an imaginary  he said the Federal Interior minister who visited Croatia on sunday found no evidence of a breakdown of Law and order. We agreed that unrest and tension Are being incited by emissaries from Serbia whose aim is to destabilize crop to also pro Western government Mesic declared. Ethnic serbs in the West croatian Region of Krajina have been in revolt against the croatian government since last summer