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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes tuesday september 3, 1991 germans seize machinery from ship bound for Libya Bonn Germany apr German investigators seized machinery bound for Libya at the Northern port City of Hamburg in july and were trying to determine if it was intended to help Moa mar Qadhafi build rockets officials said monday. German authorities stressed there was no indication the company Fritz Werner was guilty of wrongdoing. The machinery a an Industrial oven jihad a fiber wrapping machine a was to be shipped on a libyan registered freighter said Hans Josef Blumensadt chief prosecutor in Wiesbaden. The offices of Fritz Werner owner of the shipment also were searched and documents confiscated after the machinery was seized july 16, Blumensadt said. Officials at Fritz Werner which is based in Geisen Jerusalem apr Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii will soon return to the Middle East to try to resolve disputes holding up a proposed Arab israeli peace conference israeli news reports said monday. However president Bush denied the reports saying monday a there Are no plans to Send Baker Back to the Mideast. Speaking at a news conference called in Kennebunk port Maine to announce . Recognition of the three Baltic republics Bush also said he did no to think the turmoil in the soviet Union had adversely affected Middle tourists in the Black Forest Village of Schonack Germany Are attracted to the shop of watchmaker Josef Dold who set up his business inside this 21 Viz foot High families Honor Seoul South Korea up a relatives and friends offered Flowers and prayers in the first on site memorial services for the victims of a korean airlines Kal jetliner shot Down in 1983 after straying into soviet airspace with 269 people aboard. The rites which lasted for an hour were held sunday aboard a soviet provided passenger ship in Waters some 45 Miles West of Sakhalin news reports said. They were attended by 94 relatives of Heim near Wiesbaden could not be reached for comment. But Volker Franzen of the Federal economics ministry said company officials told investigators the equipment was for civilian use. A we have to see what the equipment is intended for a said Franzen. A the company itself is interested in Clearing this  Franzen and Blumensadt said no evidence has been found proving the equipment was meant for military use. Franzen said no Federal Export permit is required for the machinery but investigators were trying to learn if it could have a military use. The seizure followed a tip by unidentified a intelligence sources that the goods could be intended for rocket production Franzen said. East peace prospects. A the Ball lies in other courts a he said. The daily Edioth Ahro Noth said Baker was expected to arrive in Israel this weekend and Israel radio said he would begin his latest shuttle among Arab capitals on sept. 12. The peace conference would be held under . And soviet auspices and attended by officials from Israel Syria Lebanon Jordan and Egypt. The main stumbling Block has been Over terms under which the palestinians would participate. Cuckoo clock House. On the hour and half hour the 32-Inch Long cuckoo comes out of the window at the top of the tiny building. Memory of Kal world69 killed Over weekend on highways in Spain from wire reports Madrid Spain a sixty nine people were killed on Spanish highways Over the weekend As vacationers returned to the big cities traffic officials said monday. The Highway death toll for july and August was 1,292 people. Traffic division recorded 53 accidents with fatalities from 3 . Friday to Midnight sunday. Another 66 people were seriously injured in those accidents while 44 others were slightly Hurt. Officials said 20 percent More people died Over the final big Holiday weekend than the same weekend last year when 57 people lost their lives. Still officials said spaniards planned their ret urn Home better this Yea Vand there were ewer Highway traffic jams. A Large percentage of the summer accidents occurred once vacationers had actually reached their destinations involving Young Drivers who drank too much and sped to and from  Good idea poll says Berlin a Germany May be one nation but its inhabitants apparently still think of themselves As two different Peoples. A newspaper poll published monday indicated that most people agree Unity was a Good idea. Just 21 percent of Western germans and 12 percent of Eastern germans think they were better off when Germany was two countries. But the poll conducted for the mass circulation tabloid Bild found that 65 percent of the former easterners surveyed still think of themselves As a East germans a rather than just germans. Likewise 60 percent of the West germans polled also still retained their old geographic identity. Interestingly Young Eastern germans a who weren to around when Germany was divided in the ashes of world War ii a were More Likely to think of themselves As separate from Western germans. It. Seventy six percent of the people Ages 18 to 24 thought of themselves As East germans rather than just germans compared with 51 percent of the people older than 65 years. The poll was based on interviews with 1,000 people the newspaper said. It did not give a margin of error or say when the poll was  has surgery Amsterdam Netherlands a american televangelist Robert Schuller underwent emergency surgery monday after suffering a stroke during a Stopover Here an associate said. Paul Dunn vice president of the dutch reformed Church of America said Schuller was in stable condition at Amsterdam a free University Hospital. Reached at the Hospital Dunn said he and another associate discovered Schuller unconscious in his Amsterdam hotel hours before they were scheduled to Fly to Rome for a meeting with Pope John Paul ii. Schullerts 22-year-old broadcast the hour of Power emanates from his Crystal Cathedral Church in Garden Grove  victims and the rest foreigners. The memorial services sunday were arranged after the repeated petitions by relatives of the korean victims to both their own government and soviet authorities. A spokesman for the Kal bereaved families association said its members would now shift their efforts to finding out the exact circumstances surrounding the Downing of the civilian jetliner. The korean victims and 35 others including korean and soviet officials. During the ceremonies bereaved family members tossed Flowers into the sea wept and offered prayers for the souls of their loved ones reports from korean Pool reporters said. Wails Rose when Kim Sujie 22, daughter of the airliners co Pilot Kim i Choi read a a goodbye daddy Quot letter in which she said a father rest in peace now As i have grown to be a College senior and lady a the reports said. She was a Junior High school student when her father was killed. The Kal jumbo Jet flight 007 originating in new York strayed into soviet airspace while in route to Tokyo from Anchorage Alaska on sept. 1, 1983. It was shot Down by soviet Jet fighters near Sakhalin. All of the 269 aboard perished. Of the total 106 were korean citizens Bush denies israeli report saying Baker returning to Mideast to resolve disputes big clock Little shop  
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