European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse To la Maffi prices vol. 50, no. 280 350 monday january 20, 1992 d 8693 Airan pulled urse strings of kidnappers report says Washington apr Iran not Only financed the imprisonment of american hostages in Lebanon but eventually paid the kidnappers $1 million to $2 million for each hostage released according to unnamed . Officials quoted in a report published sunday. The Washington Post said government officials interviewed since the release last month of Terry Anderson the last . Hostage held said that nearly All of the key negotiations regarding the hostages took place in Iran rather than Lebanon. The paper also quoted the . Sources As saying that first word of impending hostage releases came from the iranian foreign ministry through diplomatic channels several Days before each of the recent releases. The Post quoted the officials As saying . Intelligence traced to official iranian sources regular Money payments to the groups holding the americans. It quoted one of them As describing the $1 million to $2 million paid in connection with each release As a a per capital Reward for each release. A the Road to the hostages ran through Tehran a the Post quoted one . Official As saying. Asked Why Iran had to pay the captors for releases if it was already in control of the situation the paper quoted one of its sources As saying the iranians a want to keep these people Happy quiet and on their Side. They have Long term investments in Lebanon. They arc there for the Long in the end the sources said iranian of see Iran on Page 2 Atlanta Bash to Honor King draws 50,000 by the associated press an estimated 50,000 people turned out saturday for an Atlanta Parade honouring the Rev. Martin Luther King or. As the nation prepared to Mark the late civil rights leaders birthday with a Federal Holiday today. Small groups of White supremacists also marked the occasion with rallies nearby and in two other states. Actor Blair Underwood and rap Star Hammer were on hand for Atlanta a seventh annual Parade of Celebration honouring King. A i loved or. King and everything he stood for a Hammer said. The Parade was broadcast on Cable television see related Story on Page 9 webs superstition and the armed forces network. Police estimated the crowd at 50,000. Several blocks away about 40 Kun flux klan members held a rally at the state Capitol to denounce the Holiday. In Dubuque Iowa the site of Cross burnings after City officials announced their intention to attract minority families about 150 people heckled some 50 supporters of a White supremacist group the Mississippi based nationalist fire killed 19 gis from Europe we will not resort to violence. We will not degrade ourselves with hatred Hove will be returned for hate the Parade was led by nationalist movement Leader Richard Barrett of Learned miss., who said at a rally a King ism Means loser take All. Down with King ism and up with in Lawrenceburg ind., 18 Robed Klansman attended a klan rally in the City of 4,200 on the Ohio River West of Cincinnati. By Vince Crawley staff writer Europe based soldiers accounted for 19 of the army a 21 Friendly fire deaths during the persian Gulf War. As of late last week the Pentagon still refused to disclose the names of those killed by their own troops but journalists reconstructing the persian Gulf fighting have accounted for All 35 of the military a Friendly fire deaths a figure released by Washington in August 1991. Spokesmen say the army a policy which they described As an Effort to protect the privacy of those involved is to Tell no one but the nearest relative of the circumstances surrounding the soldiers death the Washington Post reported sunday in August the army announced the 35 deaths but did not release names. Of the 146 . Military personnel who died in the Gulf War 24 percent were Friendly fire casualties. About. 30 Europe based soldiers were killed by enemy and Friendly fire. All the soldiers who died in the following incidents were part of the Vii corps task Force that attacked enemy armoured divisions in Southern Iraq. On feb. 17, 1991, pvt. Robert d. Talley and gis on Page 2 an anniversary with horror final solution unveiled in Berlin 50 years ago by de Reavis staff writer Berlin a today is the 50th anniversary of the notorious wan see conference a meeting of top nazi officials who approved plans for the a final solutions a the total extinction of the jews. The outcome of the 1942 meeting not Only sealed the Fate of european jewry but also put the Mark of Cain on the German people for coming generations. The meeting was held in a Villa that was a Branch office of Interpol located on one of berlins lakes the Grossen wan see. The Host of the meeting was Reinhard Heydrich called the architect of the a final he invited 14 top officials a mainly state secretaries a to rubber stamp his plan. After the meeting 30 copies of the minutes were circulated to participants. And after world War ii the copy of the minutes that went to Ernst von Weizsacker at Germany a foreign office was found by the allies and used in the trial against people in that ministry a the so called a Case. Weizsacker served a prison sentence for his role in the third Reich. He is the father of Germany a current president Richard von Weizsacker. Heydrich 1904-1942an officer in the is held several Security posts controlled by the is. He was head of the Security service soothe secret state police Gestapo and the criminal police in conjunction with Heinrich Himmler. At the time of the meeting Heydrich was chief of the so called protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia a occupied Czechoslovakia. Historians claim the reason for the meeting was to find a More efficient manner for killing jews although massacres were being carried out in the East a particularly in Poland a by the firing squads of the special task forces nazi leadership had two complaints it was far from efficient and extremely demoralizing for the German troops. There Are reports that even Himmler could not stomach the Mas see Berlin on Page 3 Reinhard Heydrich a amp Salto
