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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, September 7, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes saturday september 7, 1991 Kab promises to discuss envoy who vanished in 45 from wire reports Moscow a the Kab promised thursday to let agents break their vow of silence to help investigate the Fate of swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who vanished after being arrested by the soviets in 1945. The new Kab chief Vadim Baratin agreed to release the names of former Kab officials who were involved in the interrogation or investigation of Wallenberg and to let a joint swedish soviet team interview them. A the soviet swedish commission will have the possibility to meet and talk with All the people who Are now alive and who in one Way or another Are connected to the Wallenberg affair Quot said maj. Gen. Nikolai Stolyarov the pkg by a no. 2 official who was appointed last week along with Baratin. The Kab move was a drastic departure from past stonewalling and reflected the High level changes in soviet government since the failed coup against president Mikhail so Gorbachev. Baratin replaced the pkg by a former hard line Leader Vladimir Kryuchkov who was arrested for taking part in the coup attempt. Stolyarova a briefing and a separate news conference by swedish ambassador Carl Otto Orian Berner came a Day after Baratin released More documents about Wallenberg who was credited with saving tens of thousands of hungarian jews from the nazis in world War ii. The soviet news Agency Tass said Baratin turned Over a five hitherto unknown documents from the soviet state Security committees archives on Wallenberg but it did not give details on what the papers contained. The soviets arrested Wallenberg in Budapest in 1945 As a suspected spy. They Long denied knowing anything about his disappearance but then told Sweden in 1957 that he died in a Moscow prison a decade earlier. This has been widely disputed and witnesses claim to have seen Wallenberg alive in the 1980s. Stolyarov said the new documents did not confirm Wallenbergh a death in 1947, but added they a do not contain testimonies referring to him being alive after 1947.�?� Berner said the new documents shed no new Light on Wallenbergh a disappearance but called their release encouraging. A i am fairly convinced we have everything the present head of the Kab knows exists a he said but added a that does no to necessarily mean everything has been Given to  Wallenbergh a half brother Guy von Dar Del said he was encouraged by a Katina Sac tons saying the new Kab Leader was a fundamentally different from those of the past. A but How far this has gone in the Organiza Tion we done to know Quot he said at the news conference. Von Dardel also met thursday with new soviet foreign minister Boris Pankin who kept close contacts with the Wallenberg committee when he was soviet ambassador to Sweden the Tass news Agency said. Tass said Pankin also promised to help Clear up the Fate of Wallenberg who would be 79 if he were  War grave a diver examines the Hulk of a world War i British submarine e49which was sunk in 1917 after striking a German mine off Scotland a Shetland Isles. The sub Marine was recently discovered looted on the seabed. It is in an area which is currently attracting the attention of Oil exploration  12 on Conoho Jet thought dead Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a searchers combing thick Jungle found the wreckage Friday of a corporate Jet carrying . And British Oil executives Ana their wives officials said. All 12 people aboard were believed to be dead. The Jet owned by Conoho inc. Of Houston disappeared from radar screens wednesday afternoon As it prepared to land in Kota Kinabalu Sabah state for refuelling on its Way from Tokyo to Jakarta Indonesia. After a three Day search the wreckage was found 30 Miles South of Kota Kinabalu said a Conoho spokesman speaking by Telephone from Houston. The spokesman declined to give further details but reports from officials connected with the search said All nine passengers and three Crew on Board were found dead. The passengers were seven americans and two British citizens. Department of civil aviation c Rector Mohd Adnan Yahya said the weather was Clear when the plane disappeared and it was unclear Why the aircraft crashed. Conoho said the passengers on Board the Grumman Gulf Stream 2 aircraft included four of the Oil company a executives their wives and an administrative assistant. The Jet left Tokyo for Jakarta on a business trip wednesday morning and was to refuel in Kota Kinabalu Malaysia. The aircraft was 35 Miles South of Kota Kinabalu and 910 Miles East of Kuala Bumpur when it  life Quot this East German traps Days of putt putting Down the autobahn Are Over. However its owner has Given it new life As a Street Side Garden. Greenery sprouts from the roof and climbs Over the Hood of the Auto parked on a Street in the East part of Berlin on thursday. World Tutu s son sentenced to 3v2 years in prison from wire reports Johannesburg South Africa Trevor Tutu son of anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu was sentenced thursday to Svi years in prison for threatening to explode a bomb aboard an air plane. Tutu 34, who has been involved in several confrontations with authorities in recent years remains free on bail of $1,700 pending Appeal. He was convicted wednesday on three counts of violating the civil aviation act and one of criminal injury. According to court testimony Tutu asked to get off a South african airways plane during a Stopover in the Southern City of East London on oct. 8,1989. When he was refused he pushed Crew members out of his path and went into the terminal building. When attempting to re Board the plane he refused to pass through a Metal Detector and threatened to a activate a device in his Luggage on the aircraft according to testimony. The flight was delayed for four hours while Airport personnel searched the plane. They found  workers return Ottawa a Canadas 46,000 postal employees who crippled mail delivery across the country with a 13-Day Campaign of rotating strikes agreed to return to work at Midnight thursday after the government appointed a mediator to resolve the bitter labor dispute. Labor minister Marcel Danis told reporters that the Canadian Union of postal workers agreed to resume work during the mediation process. The Canadian Union of postal workers began rotating strikes across the country on aug. 24, after negotiations with Canada Post failed to make a breakthrough on a four year contract. Key issues of Job Security and Canada posts replacement of full time jobs with casual and part time labor remained unresolved. The Union also rejected a Canada Post proposal that it accept a Lump sum payment to compensate for the Lack of a collective agreement in the last two years  
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