European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes Friday june 21,1991 by 11 i i world i Medellin Colombia apr a ban on extradition and a Promise of leniency in his pocket the world s most powerful drug Boss settled thursday into a luxurious prison outside this City he has ruled by the Bullet and bomb. A a billionaire cocaine lord Pablo Escobar was quoted by a colombian journalist As saying he decided to surrender a because i could not remain indifferent before the longings for peace of the vast majority of the colombian \. The government has waged a costly two year War on the country a drug traffickers that has demoralized colombians and Escobares surrender wednesday was widely viewed As part of a Deal aimed at ending the bloodshed. The 41 year old Medellin cocaine Cartel Boss turned himself in just hours after a popularly elected government panel writing a new Constitution voted to ban extradition of criminals ,. Colombian drug Bosses have used intimidation and bribery to stay out of their own nations jails but feared extradition to the United states where Escobar is wanted on murder and drug trafficking charges. At a news conference in Bogota on wednesday night president Cesar Gaviria insisted his governments leniency toward Escobar docs not mean it has abandoned the War on drugs. A your policy does not constitute nor will it constitute ,�?� he said a no country has paid a Price As High As Colombia in the Battle against drug in the first comment by a . Official Robert Martinez the Leader of americans drug fighting efforts said thursday that Escobar a represents All that a evil that a bad with drugs and questioned colombians treatment of him. A a Quot a a a a a a a. A. Asked about Escobares prison Martinez told abcs a Good morning America a that a there arc questions ,. Is this going to be Pablo a Hacienda or is it going to be a real prison Are the barbed wires out there to keep people out so he can do business or to incarcerate him so that lie can to do business a the prison originally planned As a drug rehabilitation Center has private Baths gardens a soccer Field television and game about colombians ban on extradition Martinez said Washington a had hoped extradition would have been part of their criminal Justice system a officials in Colombia said they expect the cocaine Trade to continue to flourish. Escobares network is thought to be responsible for about half the 600 to 800 tons of cocaine smuggled out of co Tombia every year. Escobar is accused of having a hand in hum dress of murders in the past 20 months including those of 107. People killed a a Escobar in the bombing of a Domestic jetliner a presidential candidate a Justice minister and.10 percent of Medellin a police Force. If convicted of the charges against him Escobar could receive a maximum sentence of 30 years in Pris of but court officials said Escobar Likely would serve no More than eight years. Critics question whether the generous terms of his surrender were too High a Price to pay and whether they will achieve peace in the drug War. There is no guarantee he wont continue to run his violent drug ring from behind bars. Jerusalem apr Josef Menicle the infamous nazi doctor at the Auschwitz death Camp May still be alive despite claims that he drowned in Brazil in 1979, a previously unpublished israeli police report said. The report Points to discrepancies in the medical findings that led american German and brazilian forensic experts to conclude jointly that the Skeleton exhumed from a brazilian cemetery was a within a reasonable scientific certainty that of Menicle. The report was submitted to the israeli Justice and police ministries in 1986, but was never published. An English version of the report was distributed this week to journalists by candles children of Auschwitz nazi deadly lab Experiment survivors which campaigns to continue the Hunt for Menicle a . Forensic dentist who examined the Skeleton disputed the findings of the israeli police report wednesday. Quot the evidence is really overwhelming it was Mengele said Lowell Levine who was sent in 1986 by the . Justice department to investigate . He is currently the director of the forensic sciences unit of the new York state police. He cited evidence from fingerprints and dental records. A a from the political standpoint 1 can fairly understand Why the survivors who were tortured by him. Do not want him dead but instead want him to be brought to the bar of Justice a Levine said Mengele known As a the Angel of death a is accused of sending about 400,000 people to the Gas Chambers and of conducting cruel medical experiments on Camp inmates. He fled to South America in 1949, and lived in Argentina Paraguay and Brazil. In 1985, it was announced that Mengele had drowned six years previously and his friends directed police to a grave marked a Wolfgang Gerhard in the Einbu cemetery near Sao Paolo. R the police report was written by Menachem Russak formerly israelis chief police investigator of War crimes. In it he claims that enough inconsistencies exist to a suggest an Assumption that the body discovered ,. Is not that of Josef Mengele.Russak an Auschwitz survivor was the israeli on the multinational team of experts that went to Brazil in 1985 to verify the announcement of Ming Clef a death. The . Office of special investigations also has not Ublish cd the findings according to Ephraim Zurcoff cad of the israeli Branch of the nazi Hunting Wiesen Thal Center. Zuroff says the Russak. Report raises questions. But he said he docs not think it undermines the forensic evidence. A. A Russak confirmed the reports authenticity but declined to elaborate on it. Miriam Zeiger a survivor of Meng Clef a experiments and head of the israeli Branch of candles said the report was handed to her twin sister by an Anonymous person at a Jerusalem conference earlier this year. The 60-Page report questioned several forensic findings from the Bones at Emu cemetery. It said the Skull was too Small one leg was Shorter than the other and contained no Trace of Mengeler a boyhood Bone disease. It also challenged the dental records used to identify the Skeleton. Ress chooses Rao As Leader from wire reports new Delhi India a the Congress party which is expected to form the next Indian government named Veteran politician . Narasimha Rao As its Choice for prime minister thursday. Party lawmakers unanimously chose Rao 70, As their parliamentary Leader at a meeting in the. Central Hall of the circular British built parliament House. A. The party a parliamentary Leader will automatically become prime minister if president Ramaswamy Venkataram Calls on the Congress party to form the next government a an action Venkata ram is expected to take. 5 die in Pakistan blast Lahore Pakistan a a powerful explosion ripped through a passenger train on thursday killing five people and injuring 30, pakistanis of finial news Agency said. A the entire area Felt a powerful blast the train car was completely destroyed a said a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity the train was at Wazir Abad station about 56 Miles West of Lahore when the bomb exploded. No one claimed responsibility for the attack and police had not made any arrests. Bullet Hole found in Jet. Johannesburg South Africa a Lufthansa Boeing 747 flew from Johannesburg to Frankfurt Germany with a Bullet Hole in its fuselage after being shot by a member of the South african police officials said thursday. The March 17 flight was uneventful and the Bullet Hole near the front of the plane was not discovered until the Jet reached Frankfurt. A Bullet was also found. Forensic tests done in South Africa determined it came from the weapon of a police officer police spokesman capt. Eugene Opperman said thursday. The shooting apparently was accidental. Heat wave hits Athens Athens Greece a a heat wave and air pollution that spared above danger Levels sent More than 150. Athenians to the Hospital wednesday with breathing problems. The government did not As in past years an Qunce emergency measures to reduce pollution Levels but advised people to avoid driving their cars in the City Center. Emergency measures in elude Banning private cars and taxis from the Center of Athens and reducing Industrial output. The environment ministry said Ozone peaked at 304 micrograms per cubic meter of air and nitrogen dioxide hit 384 micrograms. The state set danger level for Ozone is 200 micrograms while the emergency level is 300, the same Levels for nitrogen Dir oxide Are 200 micrograms and 500 respectively. Ira gunmen kill Soldier Ulster Northern Ireland a the Irish Republican army said thursday it had killed a British Soldier who arrived in Belfast to discuss wedding plans with his Girlfriend the Royal Ulster constabulary said. The Soldier a London native in his 20s and a member of a Parachute regiment was visiting the City on leave when two gunmen shot and killed him monday night in the Home of his 17-year-old Girlfriend an Ruc spokesman said. Vienna Austria apr provincial gov. Jorg Haider who shocked the nation by praising nazi labor policies vowed wednesday not to resign but to topple those in Power As the a Robin Hood of austrian politics. A Day after the Federal government urged Haider who Heads the right leaning austrian Freedom party in Carinthia a parliament to step Down the populist Leader was cheered by thousands at a rally in Klagenfurt the provinces capital Haider provoked nationwide controversy when he said a an orderly employ ment policy was carried out in the third Reich which the government in Vienna cannot the comment was made during a debate in Carinthia a parliament on labor policy in which social democrats criticized his Tough stance on limiting jobs for foreigners. Politicians from All other parties and non partisan austrian president Kurt Waldheim sharply criticized the governor and demanded that he resign. A specially arranged debate in the National parliament earlier on wednesday turned into a Broad condemnation of Haider s political stance. That led to Strong Calls for his resignation to avoid further damage to Austria a image abroad. But Haider repeating earlier statements told a rally of about 8,000 sympathizers Quot i will not resign. I stand in his one hour speech in Klagenfurt Haider did not seem to regret his comments about nazi labor policies saying a the who does not recognize historical truth makes lies socially a main target of his vitriolic attacks was Chancellor Franz via Nitzky a social democratic party the senior coalition partner of the conservatives in the Federal government. Lashing out at alleged corruption involving former socialist ministers Haidera said that a the decent ones Are labelled criminals while the indecent ones stay in he claimed that the main weapon of the social democrats was a the manipulation of truth a method of referring to the firestorm of criticism directed against him Haider depicted hims ii As a the victim of a medieval
