European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b world the stars and stripes sunday april 7,1991 150 sex Stasi agents working for Germany from wire reports Bonn. Germany a at least 150 former employees of East Germany a disbanded ministry for state Security Are working for the German government an official confirmed Friday. The respected newspaper die Welt reported Friday that about 150 former employees of the Stasi As the Agency is commonly known were hired by the governments administrative Branch office in Berlin in 1990 the newspaper said their contracts expired in january 1992 tens of thousands of former East germans worked for the Security ministry but Only a por lion of that number worked As spies. Police Alert shoppers London a police alerted shoppers in Arn Dale mall in Manchester to the possibility of further violence saturday after a wave of bombs struck the shopping Center. Nine bombs went off in the Complex Friday morning before shopping hours. No injuries were reported. A. V. Police said that shoppers should still be Alert for a suspicious packages left unattended. Manchester police cordoned off a Large part of the City some 200 Miles Northwest of London As bomb squad specialists searched for More firebombs. A a a a a a a knife wielder gives up 1 Catania Sicily a a Man held the archbishop of this Eastern sicilian City at knife Point saturday saying he desperately needed a Job italian. Television reported. The intruder surrendered to police after three hours As hundreds of agents surrounded the building the report said. Ral to said archbishop Luigi Bommarito 64, was Cut on one Finger of his right hand but a Man who answered the Telephone at. The office said Bommarito was unhurt. The Man who  give his name described the intruder As a a nuts and said he was in police custody. Whites quell March Johannesburg South Africa a anti apartheid protesters staged four marches to prisons saturday to demand Freedom for political prisoners but cancelled a fifth March after a minor bombing and As right Wing Whites gathered with clubs and rubber whips White extremists also tried to disrupt one of the four marches that proceeded As scheduled but were arrested by police. They were later released with a warning. Deadly train derailment Mexico City a a train derailed Early saturday near the town of Santo Domingo in Central Cuba killing at least 25 people cubans official Prensa Latina news Agency reported. The Agency quoted a radio station radio re Belde As saying the number of injured May be As High As 150. Plo sentences turncoat to die for assassination Tunis Tunisia apr the Palestine liberation organization has sentenced to death the turncoat bodyguard who gunned Down Salah Khalaf the groups second in command on the eve of the Gulf War palestinian sources reported. Hamza Abu Zid 30, will be executed in Yemen after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ends in mid april the sources said Friday on condition of anonymity. Tunisian authorities believe that Iraq paid Zid to kill Khalaf who questioned Plo chairman Yasser Arafat a policy of aligning the palestinian cause with iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The Plo claims however that palestinian dissident Abu Nidal ordered the killing of Arafat a chief ally in the Plo. Abu Nidal and Arafat Are sworn enemies and have sentenced each other to death. Zid who once worked for Abu Nidal broke ranks with his former Boss in the late .1980s and joined the Plo where he became a bodyguard for Khalaf also known As Abu Iyad. On Jan. 14, Zid killed Khalaf Plo Security chief Hayel Abdel Hamid and Abdel Hamidas chief bodyguard Abu Mohammed Al Omari during a meeting at Abdel Hamidas Home in Carthage Zid took Abdel Hamidas wife and daughter hostage during a tense six hour standoff with tunisian police. The family was liberated unharmed after police stormed the House and arrested Zid. Palestinian sources in Tunis where the Plo has its Headquarters,1 said that tunisian authorities quietly turned Zid Over to the Plo about a month later. He was transferred to the plots military Headquarters in Sanaa Yemen and was tried for the murder of Khalaf arid Abdel Hamid by a military tribunal the sources said. The sources did not reveal what information had been gleaned from interrogations of Zid or when the trial and conviction took place. The death of Khalaf sparked rioting the the israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza strip and further isolated Arafat As the Blo came under criticism for its support of Iraq. A a. A a a a a. Khalaf who founded the Fatah movement with Arafat in 1959, had reportedly counselled Arafat to distance himself from Saddam. During one visit to Bagh. Dad Saddam reportedly tried to have Khalaf arrested. Quakers aftermath two children stand in the remains of their House in Moyo Bamba Peru after the House was destroyed in an earthquake. Moyo Bamba was a a practically destroyed and 90 percent of its Homes were damaged said its mayor. Rainy weather saturday held up shipments of Relief supplies for the Northern andean City Devastey by two Strong earthquakes thursday and Friday that killed 38 and injured 750. Says sex agent Sofia Bulgaria up former bulgarian communist Leader Todor Zsivkov directly ordered the 1978 Poison umbrella murder of dissident Georgi Markov in London and the killing was carried out with Kab help a renegade former soviet intelligence official  Kalugin a retired top Kab officer who was stripped of his pension for criticizing the secret police told bulgarian television Friday that he was present when Zoh Ivkovi a request was relayed to soviet officials by Vladimir Kryuchkov who is now Kab chairman. The Kab has denied previous charges of involvement in the sept. 11, 1978, killing As Well As other allegations by Kalugin now a member of the soviet parliament and a key figure in the soviet opposition. Kalugin spent 30 years As a Kab officer including time As Deputy chief of the Kab Mission in Washington. He was chief of foreign counterintelligence from 1973-1980. A one Day in 1978 1 was in then Kab chief Yuri Andropov a office together with Kryuchkov who at the time was chief of the intelligence department and his Deputy general Musatov a Kalugin said. A fhe Markov Case came up among other matters. A Kryuchkov said to Andropov that a request had come in from the bulgarian Interior minister Dimitar Stoyanov. For help in liquidating Georgi  Kalugin said Kryuchkov explained to Andropov that Markov had been close to the Zsivkov family and knew details of the bulgarian leaders personal life and was currently working for. The British broadcasting corp. And airing anti communist and anti Zsivkov opinions. A upon hearing this  got up from his desk and began pacing Back and Forth. Finally he said a i am against political killings a no matter who and Why requests them a a Kalugin said. A however Kryuchkov emphasized that the request came from Zsivkov himself and that the minister of internal affairs was just transmitting it a Kalugin said. A the insisted that it would be inappropriate to turn him Down keeping in mind the close connections Between our two services. A finally Andropov said that the Kab could help the bulgarian comrades with equipment and advice just As Long As it did not get involved  Kalugin said that instructors were sent to Bulgaria to train and equip Markov a assassins with a Poison Pellet delivered through an umbrella. Markov died in London after his leg was punctured with an umbrella by a passing stranger. An autopsy showed a Pellet had been implanted in his thigh. Kalugin said the umbrella was a special device created by the Kab for the implantation of pellets with deadly Poison adding the Kab a still has a Laboratory for the creation of such deadly devices and the potential for killing people or seriously harming their