European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes wednesday september 25, 1991 Effort renewed to limit refugees into Germany Bonn Germany apr the government monday renewed Calls for curbing the number of foreign refugees allowed into the country following a weekend of attacks on new immigrants to former East Germany. Chancellor Helmut Kohls government is alarmed Over the rising tide of right Wing violence in Eastern Germany but also partly blames influxes of people seeking Asylum. However the opposition social democrats fault Kohls government for doing Little to discourage anti foreigner sentiment. The leftist greens say Calls for limits on refugees encourage xenophobia among germans. Some 30,000 refugees have been arriving in Germany every month. At least three refugee shelters and Homes for foreign labourers in former East Germany came under siege by Young Neo nazis during the weekend reviving disturbing memories of xenophobia during the nazi years. In response the Kohl government on monday urged a speedy Resolution of the Asylum Issue. The government has called for revising Germany a Liberal Asylum Laws under which the country must accept All applicants who can prove political refugee status. The main political parties Are currently negotiating possible cuts in the number of refugees permitted to stay. A the Asylum problem cannot be solved by police officers a said Kohls chief spokesman Dieter Vogel. On saturday and sunday youths hurled gasoline bombs and rocks at police guarding a shelter for labourers from Vietnam and Mozambique in the East German Community of Hoye Swerda. Hundreds of leftists who came to support the foreigners battled with the right Wing extremists. There were two serious injuries and 32 arrests. Authorities in the state of Sachsen appealed to the defense ministry to let the 230 residents of the shelter move into army Barracks for their Protection. Asylum shelters in the East German communities of Resendahl and Jitter bog were also attacked Over the weekend police said. One person was injured. Late saturday night leftist protesters battled with right Wing extremists in the East German City of Cottbus leaving one person seriously injured. Police say the radicals May have been plotting an attack on foreigners. Vogel Kohls spokesman said the government a condemns with greatest severity the anti foreigner riots of this past but he also said the government was ill equipped to Deal with the problem because of the Liberal Asylum Laws. The social democrats say a change in the governments attitude May solve the problem of xenophobic violence. A the right signal needs to be Given that we wont tolerate xenophobia that we wont tolerate these kinds of attacks that we wont tolerate terror against foreigners and Asylum seekers a said Herta Daubler Gmelin a Deputy Leader of the social democrats. Where 5 people died occupants of a residential House in Karlsruhe Germany look out from windows above an apartment that was gutted by a fire Early tuesday morning that left five Young people dead and five others injured. The Blaze destroyed the seventh floor of the 10-Story building before firefighters arrived. About 60 residents mostly youths lived in the apartment building. Authorities said the cause of the fire was not immediately known. World France sending troops into strife torn Zaire from wire reports Paris a France has sent 450 troops to Zaire to protect the foreign Community from worsening civil strife in the african nation the French foreign ministry said tuesday. Two companies already Are in place and another is in route the ministry said. One of the companies consisting of 100 to 150 men took control of no Ajili Airport close to the zairian capital of Kinshasa official sources said. Among the French troops taking part in the operation were 100 paratroopers who arrived in Kinshasa by River after flying to Brazzaville the congolese capital on the other Side of the appoints aide Moscow a president Mikhail s. Gorbachev appointed Andrei Grachev As his new press Secretary monday replacing Vitaly Ignatenko who was put in charge of the Tass news Agency following the August coup attempt. Grachev 50, is a Well known reformer who worked for Alexander Yakovlev a longtime adviser to Gorbachev. He has been a prominent and vocal proponent of Gorbachev s reforms since the soviet Leader took office in 1985. Grachev fluent in English Spanish and French is a graduate of the Moscow state Institute of foreign relations. He has worked at the Young communists newspaper Komsomol Skaya pravda and several youth organizations Tass said. He also served As the soviet representative in the world federation of democratic youth. Grachev was Deputy head of the communist party Central committees International department before his appointment As Gorbachev a new spokesman.4 charged with murder Dublin Ireland a police on monday charged four men with the murder of a German tourist. The four men All from Dublin Are Richard Mcdermott 41 John Mcallister 39 Donal Bates 25 and Paul Mcdonagh 24. They Are charged with killing Georg Plappert 26, of Munster who was camping with a Friend in Dublin a Phoenix Park on aug. 14. His companion Rolande Steven 25, from Recklin Hausen Germany was beaten like Donald Duck Stockholm Sweden a Donald Duck was the Winner among the Odd parties that received protest votes in last week s general elections. Dallas to Star Cliff Barnes hockey Star Boije calming and musician Frank Zappa also had support a newspaper said. When swedes go to the polls they can either use printed ballots handed out by election workers from the established parties or write the name of an alternate party or candidate on a Blank ballot. Such votes Are valid. But since the Odd parties receive Only a handful of votes each they never have a Chance of entering parliament fifth Man admits to spying in Britain for Kab London up1 a after years of speculation former civil servant John Cairncross has been exposed As the a fifth Many recruited from Cambridge University in the 1930s to spy in Britain for the Kab. Cairncross 78, admitted his past to the British newspaper the mail on sunday and also has been identified by his Kab controller col. Yuri Modin who was attached to the soviet embassy in London after world War ii. Less than a week ago Modin had refused to name the a fifth along with Kim Philby sir Anthony Blunt Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean Cairncross made up the five known in russian Slang As Pia Tchorba. All of them Cambridge graduates they were singled out for priority status by Moscow. Cairncross was chosen because of his Success at passing military intelligence to the soviet Union. The former top soviet agent told the newspaper from his Home in France a i was made one of the five during the War. I Hope this will finally put an end to the a fifth Many after confirming Cairncross As the missing link Kab controller Modin refuted the Long held belief by British intelligence sources and Kab defector Oleg Gordievsky that the five were part of a spy ring calling it a a a coincidence that they All studied at Cambridge University. A the five were not a team of agents or a communist party cell. They All worked independently a he told the newspaper. A it now seems to me that ignorance Over this was one of the reasons Why the investigations by Mi-5 in 1951 into these five spies took so Long a he said. A they will now go into history As one of the greatest successful spy operations of the although admitting to being one of the five Cairncross said he did not pass any significant information to Modin after the War and insisted that he was a a Small cog in the intelligence machine. A i was providing information at the time to help Britain a allies a the russians a to win a Cairncross said. A it was German intelligence i was Modin 69 and now retired said he first met Cairncross in 1947 in a London pub when the briton worked for the Treasury ministry and the russian had just been posted to his nations embassy. They continued their relationship until 1951 when Cairncross was interrogated after the disappearance of spies Burgess and Maclean to Moscow. He was again interrogated by Mi-5 in 1964. A we stopped work with the fifth Man in 1951,�?� Modin said. A we had to because he was the revelations come after years of speculation and intrigue about the relationship and sequence of events Between the five men and their Kab controllers. Modin is the latest former Kab official since the end of the cold War to fill in the missing details about the Cambridge spying connections that were discovered after world War ii
