European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 3, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9u.s. Pays $260 million claim to Iran the Hague Netherlands apr a state department official handed Over $260 million in checks to Iran on monday in compensation for weaponry Washington impounded during the 1979 Tehran hostage crisis a . Embassy official said. It was the largest single claim Ever paid to Iran by Washington at the Iran United states claims tribunal in the Hague. The embassy official said the two nations will now turn to settling the bulk of Tehran a multimillion Dollar claims arising out of the . Foreign military sales fms program that armed pre revolutionary Iran. The official spoke on condition of anonymity. The payment coincided with mondays release of american hostage Joseph Cicippio after More than five years of Captivity in Lebanon. But both sides at the tribunal have consistently de Nied any link Between its financial arbitration and the hostages held by pro iranian shiite muslims. Mondays payment was for fms claims relating to .-made weapons that were bought by Iran shipped Back to the United states for repairs or adjustment and then impounded by the . Government. The Materiel included a submarine Jet fighter engines helicopters and missiles much of it now obsolete. Iran had set the value of the impoundment claim at $600 million including interest. The settlement totalled $278 million but the agreement called for $18 million of that to be transferred into the so called Security account which pays off claims against Iran arbitrated at the tribunal. The Algiers accords which set up the tribunal and brought Freedom in 1981 to the 52 hostages held by islamic militants at the . Embassy in Tehran dictates that the fund be kept at or above $500 million. The . Agent to the tribunal handed Over the three . Government checks to a representative from the Bureau of iranian Legal services the iranian government Agency at the tribunal. It was also the largest amount Ever paid Iran by Check in the 10-year history of the tribunal. The arbitration panel is the Only forum for official contacts Between Washington and Tehran since the two nations broke relations during the 1979 hostage crisis. The fms group of claims is by far the largest before the tribunal which was set up to arbitrate thousands of claims arising from the iranian revolution and the consequent expropriations and freezing of assets. Still pending Are two huge fms claims by Iran. One is for . Weaponry ordered and paid for by Tehran but undelivered because of the . Embargo As Well As for overcharges. The other is for unspecified damages resulting from the embargo. Missing name on Wall leads son to his father Las vegas apr Scott Amon a quest for his father began when his Mother  find his name on a Monument for soldiers who died in Vietnam. It ended saturday with a tearful meeting at Mccarran International Airport a and Amon a wedding where his newfound father was Best Man. A a he a the handsomest Man in be Ever seen a Amo said after an emotional embrace with 46-year-old James Warnack who dated Amon smother in the 1960s before he was shipped to Vietnam with the marines. A for us this is Day one. It starts Here a said Warnack who flew from Ohio to meet his 26-year-old son and take part in his wedding saturday night. Amon smother Patricia Pierce of Carson City also was at the Airport with her husband James. Accompanying Warnack was his wife Charlotte. A we both have Happy marriages and now Well be Parent partners which is Nice a said Patricia Pierce 45. She said the quest began in april p1 when she went to see the travelling Wall memorial in Carson City. A Mutual Friend had told her in 1965 that Warnack had been killed in action but she  find his name on the Monument and the Marine corps refused to provide any information to Settle her doubts. Remembering he was from Ohio she called the department of motor vehicles there and located him in Streetsboro. A the was a Little angry with me because i Hadnot called him sooner a she said. A then i explained to him that i thought he was dead and he understood. Then i started crying and he told me to Calm Down and that everything was of  they met in Hemet calif., in 1964 when she was 18 and he was a 19-year-old Marine. They dated for a few months before he was sent to Vietnam. Then she discovered she was pregnant. She had Scott and later married. Statistics astrology indicate High chinese birth rate in 92 Beijing up officials warned monday that at least 24 million babies will be born in China in 1992, when a Fertility Peak will be magnified by the chinese desire to Bear children during the auspicious year of the Monkey. Coupled with slowing mortality the surge in births will add at least 16 million to a population that will surpass 1.16 billion this year said state family planning commission chief Peng Meiyun. The number of women in or entering the Peak childbearing Ages of 20 to 29 will soar next year to a record 123.7 million Peng said and 13.25 million women will turn 23 years old a the age at which chinese women Are statistically most Likely to give birth. Peng hinted the birth rate could gtd even higher saying 24 Mil lion births was a conservative estimate. Exacerbating the situation is the widespread belief in chinese astrology. Millions of chinese couples Are believed to have timed their pregnancies to avoid having children during 1991, the unlucky year of the Goat and deferring childbirth until the year of the Monkey. Couples Are limited to a single child in China a cities and generally Only two in Rural areas so Many chinese go to great lengths to assure their children get an auspicious Start in  mass the Rev. Ante Mihaljevic celebrates a roman Catholic mass on sunday in an underground shelter in the front line Village of costar Yugoslavia which has been under heavy shelling. Meanwhile . Special envoy Cyrus Vance arrived in Belgrade on sunday for talks on sending peacekeeping forces into War torn  Soldier guilty of countryman s murder by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau a Canadian Soldier was convicted monday of the stabbing murder of an 18-year-old Canadian civilian that occurred april 28 in Lahr. A five officer court panel found the Soldier master Cpl. Christian Deneault 26, of , Quebec guilty of second degree murder in connection with the death of William John Clapp according to a forces spokesman  maj. Norbert Cyr. Deneault an infantryman assigned to the 1st in Royal 22nd regt was the first of three defendants to be tried for the murder. The others Are master Cpl. Francois Leclerc and pvt. Eric Laflamme also of the 1st in. The second trial is expected to begin in january Cyr said. A second degree murder conviction mandates a life sentence but the court must decide when a convicted defendant May become eligible for parole. That first eligibility must occur no sooner than 10 years into the sentence and no later than 25 years. The court continued deliberating monday afternoon to determine de Neault a parole. The panel heard 48 witnesses including Deneault and Leclerc testify during the five week general court martial Cyr said. The murder occurred on a Lahr sidewalk after Deneault and the other two soldiers had left la Bourn a local bar following an evening of heavy drinking. Leclerc testified that three of them had assaulted Clapp who was known informally As William Bartholomew and that he saw Deneault wielding the knife that killed Clapp Cyr said. A taxi Driver found Clapp lying on a sidewalk moments later about 12 50 a.m., with what doctors later Learned were seven major Stab wounds. Court testimony revealed that Clapp was Able to Tell people that he did t know his attackers but he died As Tescue workers were preparing to take him to a Hospital Cyr said. Also according to testimony Cyr said Deneault had said while at la Boum that he wanted to kill an anglophone a person who Speaks English out after the murder he told another Soldier he thought his victim was a German. Clapp was the Stepson of another forces member however and his native language was English. Convicted forces members begin serving their sentences at the Canadian forces service detention Barracks in Edmonton Alberta where they can be held for up to two years less a Day before being transferred to a Federal Penitentiary