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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, November 13, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes wednesday november 13,1991 Maxwell family awaits final report private inquiry into death was not requested pain up a the Maxwell family is Ous death. He was buried in Jerusalem on sunday. Weeks to Complete. Madrid Spain up a the Maxwell family issued a statement monday denying some press reports on publishing tycoon Robert maxwells death while exhaustive investigations into the sudden death of the magnate continued in the Canary islands. In a statement issued through Mirror group newspapers the family said it had not called for a private investigation into maxwells death. The statement also denied reports suggesting that maxwells daughter Christine believed foul play was involved in her fathers death. A the family do not wish to speculate about the cause of the tragedy. They await the final results of the tests being carried out a the statement said. Meanwhile the 11 Crew members of maxwells 170-foot luxury motor Cruiser lady Ghislaine remained in Tenerife on monday while investigations continued into their backgrounds according to a spokesman for the civil governors office which ordered the probe. The Crew has been restrained from leaving Tenerife Island by court order since maxwells death. The 68-year-old publishers body was found in the sea off the canaries last week after a sudden mysterious death. He was buried in Jerusalem on sunday. A quite apart from any police investigations the Crew Are not free to leave because they have yet to ratify the statements they have made to the court a a court spokesman said monday. Today the Crew was to begin to ratify their statements to Isabel Oliva the judge heading the inquiry into maxwells death he said. None of the Crew nine britons an american and a danish woman had worked on the yacht for More than six months. The court official denied a report that Oliva had re 3uested that the National toxicology Institute in a rid Check for traces of substances known to attack the Central nervous system. A i would expect the Laboratory to be carrying out a whole series of tests but no specific requests As to what they should be for have come from Here a he said. The director of the Institute Manuel Sancho said that tests were being carried out to find any alien substance that might have been in maxwells  of this sort Are usually done on All bodies found in the water. It is quite routine a he said. He said he expected the tests to take about two weeks to Complete. Pathologists in Las Palmas issued a preliminary report saying Maxwell died of heart and lung failure. But they said this was subject to the further tests being carried out in Madrid. Julio Hernandez Claverie a Spanish lawyer representing the Maxwell family in the canaries who has talked with the yachts Crew said a a it a their View that it must have been an accident.�?�. Reports published in new York suggest Maxwell had taken out a policy that would pay $34 million if he died through an Accident but that it did not cover natural death. The Mirror group statement said a the insurance on or. Maxwells life is held jointly by Mirror group newspapers and Maxwell communication corporation and is not a family  it was also confirmed monday that a British Home office pathologist examined maxwells body hours before his funeral in Jerusalem. Ian West flew to Israel at the request of British insurance companies and with the full approval of the Maxwell family the Mirror group said. Berlin guards decided on their own to open Wall sex officer testifies Berlin apr East German Border guards Felt their work was futile and decided without official orders to open the Berlin Wall As a huge crowd gathered on nov. 9, 1989, a former secret police officer testified monday. The detailed background to the dramatic opening of the Wall which soon led to the collapse of East Germany a communist government and contributed to the end of the cold War in Europe has Long been unclear. A government official that night had made Public a vague measure to end travel restrictions on East germans. But it was not Clear that the Border would open immediately until thousands of people pushed through the Wail without resistance from armed Border troops. Bernd Berger a former secret police Captain who monitored morale in Border units told a court trying four guards for the last known killing of an Escapee that there had been no instructions from National leaders that night. Faced with growing crowds of people demanding to pass the Border troops finally decided on their own to let people through the Wall Berger testified. Months before the drama of nov. 9, 1989, Berger testified he had told his superiors that a a it a not the fault of the Bor Der troops if a mass of people come to the Border and want to  Early in 1989, Border troops reported a we done to know anymore what we should do a he said and they were working in a catastrophic conditions without political guidance. Berger said he knew a no one who was  his testimony supports the Contention of the four accused guards that none of them shot to kill Chris Gueffroy a 20-year-old East Berliner who died in an escape attempt feb. 5, 1989. Gueffroy a companion Christian Gaudian 22, was wounded. The guards face up to 15 years imprisonment if convicted on manslaughter charges. More than 200 people Are believed to have died in attempts to escape Over the Berlin Wall into West Berlin or while crossing the barbed wire Border area Between the two Germany. The Wall stood for 28 years As the Symbol of a divided Europe. Its opening climaxed a peaceful Peoples revolution in East Germany As thousands were escaping the police state by travelling through neighbouring Czechoslovakia into Hungary and on to then West Germany. Pc Uura my u amp Noi me xau ii or me Oor Gay and on to then West Germany. Unknown gunman stalks Mideast emigres in Sweden Stockholm. Sweden api a Immi. Us a re anti Simmio Minn sentiment is Oberlin Wall in Texas Sedwyn Benjamin right and Henry Cortez guide a 12-foot-tall, 2-ton Section of the Berlin Wall to a trailer for transportation to Rice University in Houston. The Wall was donated to Rice to Mark the second anniversary of the Wall s collapse nov. 9,1989. Stockholm Sweden a Immi Grants from Middle Eastern countries said monday that they fear new attacks by an unidentified assailant who has shot five foreigners at random in Central Stockholm. A look at my dark complexion. I feel Damn nervous a a Young turkish Man told a television reporter. The swedish press has dubbed the attacker a the laser Many because witness reports indicate his weapon is equipped with a laser sight which emits a red Ray of Light to facilitate shooting at night. The spate of shootings come at a time when anti immigration sentiment is on the Rise in Sweden which has a Long tradition of Liberal refugee policies. In the general elections last september a right Wing party advocating a reduction in third world immigration won seats in parliament for the first time. The attacker has shot and injured four people since july. The fifth attack which came Friday killed a 24-year-old iranian outside his Home. Police have said that the assailant apparently does t know his victims but picks foreign looking people at random  
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