European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 11,1991 the stars and stripes world b Page 3 Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid a kidnapped cleric considered Israel s Best bargaining Chip appears in a taped interview. Israel airs interview with Sheik in bid to set up hostage Swap by Daniel Williams los Angeles times Jerusalem a in a late hour attempt to free a flier missing for five years Israel broadcast a video taped interview monday with Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid in which the imprint to hostage holders in Lebanon to release the eid in which the imprisoned Muslim cleric at _ a israeli Pilot in Exchange for his Freedom. Obeid was abducted in South Lebanon in 1989 for use As a bargaining Chip to get Back seven missing israelis. Only one of the seven air Force navigator Ron Arad is believed to be still alive. Israeli negotiators have worked doggedly to have Arad included in the recent round of hostage releases brokered by the United nations. All the . Hostages now have been freed As Well As other westerners believed still alive a save for a pair of germans. A i am not opposed to the release of Western hostages or any other hostages a said the bearded Obeid. A but it should not be separated from my Issue and those of my Brothers being held and of course from the Pilot who is held of course in  a defense ministry official said the broadcast did not indicate a Deal is near if anything it indicated the opposite. A things Arentt going Well a he said. The interview the first by Obeid was taped two weeks ago when it appeared Israel was being left out of the fast moving hostage negotiations. Since then the last two americans in Captivity have been freed including Terry Anderson the chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press and the longest held . Hostage. Before the release of Anderson and american Joseph Cicippio the israelis freed 25 lebanese prisoners in response to a a personal a Quot from . Secretary general Javier p6rez de it Ealy  Cuellar. The Only word received about Arad was a statement from a shiite militia Leader in Lebanon that he was in syrians hands. The report was treated with scepticism in Jerusalem. Nothing was heard about three other soldiers who Are believed dead and whose bodies Israel is committed to retrieving. 5 killed 30 injured in mass . Pileup from wire reports Pontefract England a five people were kilted and at least 30 injured tuesday As freezing fog and ice caused two multiple car accidents police said. Police and ambulance spokesmen warned that the death toll could Rise As workers struggled to Rescue people trapped in the mangled wreckage of a string of accidents in the Pontefract area 190 Miles North of London West Yorkshire police said three people were killed in a 60-Vchicle Accident on a freeway near Pontefract. Two others died in a crash involving a sem truck and 13 other vehicles on another freeway about two Miles South of Pontefract. Police said there were 11 other accidents within a two mile radius of the pileup. Syria expels nazi Hunter Paris a Syria on monday expelled nazi Hunter beat Klarsfeld after detaining her for demanding that the government Stop harbouring a nazi War criminal the French foreign ministry said. Klarsfeld was arrested in Damascus after holding a protest in front of the syrian Interior ministry against the alleged presence in Syria of Alois Brunner. She was flown to France and landed in Paris on monday evening. Brunner former chief of a transit Camp in Dancy France was convicted in absent a in 1954 for crimes against humanity for his role in deporting 120,000 jews during world War if. He was condemned to death. In recent years Brunner has Given interviews and been photographed at his heavily guarded Home outside Damascus but Syria has repeatedly denied his presence on its territory. Klarsfeld says he is living under the name Georg Fischer. Limits on drinking Geneva a the european Headquarters of the United nations announced tuesday that it will strictly limit the hours when alcohol can be served in its bars restaurants and cafeteria. The announcement by the secretariat at the .�?Ts palais Des nations Complex said no alcoholic beverages May be served before 11 30 . And Between 3 and 5 . As of Jan. 1. This is aimed at a reducing alcoholism at work a the statement said. Alcoholism was declared a problem by a special working group in 1986.plan to allow japanese troops abroad shelved Tokyo apr faced with stiff opposition the governing Liberal democrats have Given up on efforts this year to pass a Bill that would allow japanese troops to take part in International peacekeeping party officials said tuesday. The Bill a postponement is an embarrassment for the governing party As Well As for prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa who promised after taking office last month to get it passed quickly. The Bill which would authorize the dispatch of japanese troops overseas for the first time since world War ii passed parliaments lower House but has been stalled by opposition lawmakers in the upper House. A unfortunately i done to think you la find anyone praising Miyazawa a leadership now a said Yuko Kurihara a member of the prime ministers party faction and a supporter of the troops Bill. He said that if the Bill is eventually scrapped next year Miyazawa a Cabinet might have to resign. President Bush is to visit Tokyo next month and the Bill a passage would have provided Miyazawa with a response to criticism that Japan is not pulling its weight in International politics. Japan came under fire for not contributing personnel to the Allied forces in the persian Gulf War. Polls indicate a majority of japanese still oppose the dispatch of troops abroad. Leftist opposition parties say such a move would violate the postwar Constitution which renounces the use of military Force to Settle overseas disputes. The government has also been stung by criticism from important asian neighbors such As China and South Korea that endured japanese aggression during world War ii. Together with the Komito or clean government party the Liberal democrats have enough votes in the upper House to pass the troop Bill. But they angered opposition members two weeks ago by ramming it through a lower House committee touching off a shoving  prove Pilot not in photo Hanoi says Bangkok Thailand up a a joint .-Viet-namese search team has found the Teeth Bones and helmet of an american Pilot proving that the aviator was killed when his plane crashed 25 years ago and cannot be one of three men shown in a recent photograph official Hanoi radio reported. A in the process of excavating we have found proof such As a pilots helmet pieces of aircraft wreckage some Bones and Teeth proving that the Pilot is dead a said to Xuan Dich the director of the vietnamese office seeking evidence of the fates of americans missing in action in Vietnam. Dich speaking in an interview with Hanoi radio said . Experts have agreed that the finds confirm the death of Pilot maj. John Leighton Robertson in the sept. 16,1966, crash about 45 Miles Northeast of Hanoi. . Officials this week said some Bone fragments were found at the site but were not immediately available to confirm the report that Teeth had been found or that the remains had been identified As those of Robertson. The radio report said the evidence disproves claims that Robertson was one of three men shown in a recent photograph said to be americans held prisoner in Indochina. It added that excavation of the site was to be completed today. The Case was Given High priority after members of Robertson a family said they believed the Man in the photograph was their relative missing for Over 25 years. The radio also interviewed Sarah Collins a physical anthropologist with the . Army Central identification Laboratory who said vietnamese officials a Are working very hard and they made Good preparations for the  the radio said the owner of the Orchard where the excavation was carried out had two sons who Are among the More than 300,000 vietnamese still missing. The official Vietnam news Agency denied a report in the International Herald Triune this week saying that a former soviet Kab agent had Ted a group of soviet personnel to Vietnam to interrogate . Prisoners of War after 1975. The Agency quoted the vietnamese Mia office As saying that All american prisoners were returned immediately after the signing of the Paris peace accords in 1973