European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 23, 1991 the stars and stripes b sex hostage Teny Waite gives Santa John Hole a donation during a stroll in his  again denies links to North Deal London apr Terry Waite said sunday he knew nothing of the . Arms for hostages Deal and said he was tortured by his suspicious islamic captors. The former hostage in his first interview since his release nov. 18, said attempts to Trade arms for hostages were  but he refused to blame Oliver North the senior . Official who ran the secret project for his Captivity of nearly five years in Lebanon. In the radio interview with the British broadcasting corp., he said a there was no Way in which the Church could or would have any dealings whatsoever in arms for hostages nor for that matter in paying Ransom for  asked if he should not at least have been suspicious during his dealings with North Waite said he became a suspicious of nearly  a people Are playing games and governments Are playing games All the time a he added. A you just Are walking through a minefield and one Day you May tread on a mine. I trod on a mine and that s about  Waite 52, was seized in january 1987 while on what was his last Mission to Lebanon trying to secure the release of american hostages. Waite said after he was captured he was brutally interrogated beaten on the soles of his feet and kept chained. He was unable to walk or stand. His captors showed him mock executions and told him that he would be killed. Meanwhile Waite hugged old friends Sang Christmas carols and met Santa Claus on saturday during his first stroll through his Home Village of Blackheath in nearly five years. A a it a great to be Back a he said As he stopped to visit old friends and favorite haunts in this quaint Corner of Southeast London. Military moves in to halt riots in Cambodia capital phenom penh Cambodia apr the military cordoned off the downtown sunday and soldiers filled its streets repeatedly shooting into the air in an Effort to halt anti government rioting in its fourth Day. Reporters saw a Man wounded by gunfire in an area where several hotels Are located. Troops dragged the Man whose condition was unknown into a shop. The unrest has delayed an important meeting of the country s reconciliation body composed of leaders from the government and the three guerrilla factions it fought during nearly 13 years of War. The leaders arc trying to implement a peace Accord. Rioting also forced the government to postpone visits of foreign dignitaries including the chinese laotian and vietnamese foreign ministers said cambodian Deputy prime minister Hor Nam Hong. The military moved armoured personnel carriers and hundreds of heavily armed troops into phenom Penhos downtown area after four Days of unrest. Workers and civil servants protesting corruption and abuse by the vietnamese installed government have joined the protests. At least three people have been killed and 16 wounded by gunfire since saturday evening said doctors at two hospitals. The doctors who spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity said Manv of the wounds were from ricocheting bullets. A a we have requested the military to assist us Quot Hong told reporters. Quot i believe these events and turmoil will certainly delay the process of the Paris peace Accord Quot a 6 p.m.-to-5 . Curfew was imposed starting sunday he said. It appeared the military1 took Over sunday after police were unable to Deal with earlier rioting. Hundreds of rounds of gunfire rang out in the downtown area every hour As soldiers police and other people who appeared to be government Security officers shot weapons into the air to disperse protesters Irvine to gather. At East six armoured personnel carriers were seen at main intersections. Most downtown shops were closed. Phornvilai Carr an associated press photographer had the barrel of an automatic weapon pressed to her head by militiamen who objected to her taking pictures of them firing above the Heads of civilians on Street Corners. On saturday about 5,000 protesters took to the streets. Police opened fire when about 1,000 demonstrators attacked a police station witnesses said. One killed three wounded in Northern Ireland violence Belfast Northern Ireland apr a gunman opened fire sunday in a pub in a roman Catholic neighbourhood fatally wounding one Man and shooting two men and an 8-year-old child police said after a second Day of sectarian bloodshed in the province. A i saw the gunman standing Over the Little boy. He just stood there and fired a said one weeping pub customer. A imagine a Young child. This was bound to happen but i still can to believe it a said the customer who requested anonymity. The boy was reported in critical condition in a Hospital with a gunshot wound in his head. The dead Man in his Early 20s, was the fifth to die in a bloody weekend of shootings. On saturday a gunman killed Robin Farmer 19-year-old protestant College student who was helping out at his fathers shop in the Border Village of Moy. Hours later a gunman shot and killed two protestant men in a Belfast pub. There was speculation two breakaway Irish Republican army factions were responsible for the two attacks. Soon after the saturday pub shooting gunmen forced their Way into the nearby Home of William Johnstone a 28-Ycar-old Catholic and shot him to death in front of his wife a protestant. The outlawed protestant Ulster Freedom fighters claimed responsibility. At about midday sunday a gunman burst into the Devenish arms pub in the largely Catholic Anderson town area of Southwest Belfast and fired on the lunchtime crowd hitting three men and the 8-Ycar-old boy police said. A Patron said the gunman a just walked Over to the Young boy and shot him. It was horrific. People dived for cover. Some just stood there because they did not know what was going on. There was panic  a senior officer of the Royal Ulster constabulary at the scene said the attack was in revenge for the pub shooting at the Donegal arms on saturday night in which protestants Barry Watson 25, and Thomas Gorman 55, were killed. A when he appeared he did not pick out any specific target a said the officer. A the shot at everybody within  charges against political prisoners a ruse by e. Germany to earn Money Bonn Germany a East Germany a communist government convicted innocent people on trumped up charges to earn hard currency when West Germany bought their Freedom an official said sunday. Walter Priesnitz a state Secretary in the German Interior ministry who used to be in charge of securing the release of political prisoners told Bild newspaper that East Germany stopped the practice when Bonn found out about it and stopped paying to free prisoners. The Berlin newspaper Kurrier am sonntag said about 400 people were convicted on false charges and imprisoned As a political prisoners in the 1980s in former East Germany. The newspaper said West Germany was paying at the time $60,000 for the release of each political prisoner sentenced to More than a  Germany earned about $2.1 billion from such deals and had made the income a part of its state budget Kurrier am sonntag said. West Germany was known to be buying the Freedom of political prisoners from East Germany although it kept the transactions quiet. Priesnitz said that once the Bonn government Learned that it was paying for the release of prisoners convicted on fabricated charges it stopped the practice. A jury acquits Muslim in shooting death of Kahane from wire reports new York a an egyptian born Muslim was acquitted saturday night of killing extremist rabbi Meir Kahane founder of the militant jewish defense league and a former member of israelis parliament Al Sayyid nos air a naturalized . Citizen was convicted of four lesser charges including assault and illegal Possession of a weapon. Nos air 36, was charged with killing Kahane after Kahane delivered a lecture at a Manhattan hotel on nov. 5, 1990. He also was accused of shooting two people As he fled and coercion for commandeering a taxi. Pandemonium broke out when the verdict was announced. About two dozen nos air supporters sitting on one Side of the courtroom started Yelling and Prais ing Allah. A Young Kahane supporter on the other Side of the room began screaming a death to nos air death to nos air a right Wing jewish american groups sunday threatened to seek vengeance on nos air and the jury that cleared him. The jury reached the verdict in its fourth Day of deliberation following a five week trial. Nos air who lived in Cliffside n.j., was convicted of two counts of second degree assault for shooting a postal service police officer and another Man As he fled the hotel. Nos air faces a maximum penalty of two to seven years for each assault charge and the coercion charge. He also faces five to 15 years for criminal Possession of a weapon. Sentencing was set for Jan. 29,1992