European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday january 21, 1992 death sentence upheld for 1 of 3 exiles in Cuba Mexico City apr cubans Council of state upheld the death sentence for one of three exiles convicted of attempted terrorism but commuted that of a second infiltrator from Miami the official cuban news Agency said sunday. Prensa Latina said Eduardo Diaz Betancourt 38, would die before a firing squad describing him As the Leader of a three Man commando team caught Landing on a cuban Beach dec. 29. The report monitored in Mexico City did not say when the death sentence would be carried out. The dispatch said president Fidel Castro a Council cubans highest ruling body commuted the death sentence for another exile Daniel Santovenia Fernandez to 30 years in prison. Last week the cuban supreme tribunal reduced the death sentence of the third exile Pedro de la Caridad Alvarez Pedroso to 30years in prison. Prensa Latina said the Council of state met Friday to Rule on the appeals and the decision was disclosed sunday in Juventud rebel do the newspaper of the Young communists Union. Relatives and Many other world leaders had appealed to Cuba to spare the men. Santovenia Fernandez s family in Miami expressed Relief sunday at the commutation of his sentence. They had protested in the streets of Little Havana and went to Washington to plead for help from the state department which criticized the death sentences. A a we re very Happy. We re very relieved Quot said his sister Teresina Rodriguez. A in a jail there will be suffering. He a going to go through a lot. But at least now Well have a Chance to Sec him a a Diaz Betancourt apparently has no family or known friends in Miami and some anti Castro exiles have suggested he was an agent of the cuban government sent to provoke an incident. The Case has been a propaganda Bonanza for Castro a Campaign to discredit internal opposition. Prensa Latina said Diaz Betancourt was denied mercy because he left Cuba Only nine months ago and led the expedition which the government said was heavily armed and carrying 41 bombs when it was intercepted. The report said he enjoyed All the fruits of Cuba s revolution and then betrayed it after leaving illegally. He studied engineering Learned navigation and became familiar with the economic and social nerve centers that were targets of the infiltration attempt the report said. He also had a copious anti social antecedents a a having been arrested four times on various minor criminal charges Prensa Latina said. The other two men however were portrayed As victims of the counterrevolutionary Fervour of the cuban exile Community. Santovenia Fernandez 36, whose father participated in the failed invasion at cubans Bay of pigs in 1961, and Alvarez Pedroso 26, have lived in Miami since their youth. Bulgarian president Zhelev re elected Early returns show Sofia Bulgaria apr president Zhenyu Zhelev was re elected sunday in the first direct presidential elections according to preliminary returns. Zhelev a 56-year-old philosopher and Leader of anticommunist forces won More than 53 percent of the vote for the five year presidency said Nikolai Walcha Novofa the Central election commission. He said Zhelev a rival communist backed lawyer Velko Valkanov had 47 percent of the vote according to preliminary results with 46 percent of the ballots counted. The state news Agency Bra also declared Zhelev the Winner based on partial returns. Zhelev a slogan in the past few Days a a democracy or communism Quot a was an attempt to attract voters disillusioned by More than four decades of communist repression and mismanagement in this nation of s.9 million people. A one of the most important tasks to my mind is the implementation of the economic Reform toward creating of economic and social stability a said Zhelev in a Victory speech. A that would be the biggest contribution for National  in the first round of voting Jan. 12, Zhelev received 44 percent of the vote and Valkanov took 30 percent. Independent candidate Georges Ganchev got 17 percent in first round voting possibly preventing Zhelev from winning outright. About 73 percent of the 6.5 million people eligible to vote cast ballots in the first round. The turnout for sundays vote was not immediately known. Valkanov. 65. Was backed by the socialist parly the name adopted by communists following the fall of strongman Todor Zsivkov in late i9n9, Zhelev the candidate of the anti communist Union of democratic forces was elected by parliament for the largely ceremonial presidency in August 1990. Bulgarian president Zhenyu Zhelev raises a bottle of Champagne to celebrate his apparent re election. World american professor shot dead in West Bank from wire reports Jerusalem a a masked gunman on sunday shot and killed an american professor who had been teaching archaeology at a University in the israeli occupied West Bank for 16 years police and school officials said. Albert Glock 67, was killed while he was dropping off a package at the Home of a graduate student in the Village of Bir Zeit police spokeswoman Tamar Paul Cohen said. She said a masked gunman fired two shots at close Range fatally wounding the professor. A the died immediately a Paul Cohen said. Glock who was head of the Center for palestinian archaeology at Bir Zeit University was born in Gifford Idaho and spent much of his career in Illinois said Mark Taylor a Bir Zeit spokesman. Glock had taught at the University for the past 16 years. The school has been officially closed by israeli authorities for the past four years during the palestinian uprising. Nevertheless some 2,000 students Are still attending classes in makeshift off Campus classrooms. Police said the motive for the slaying was  goes to Pakistan Islamabad Pakistan a a . Navy Admiral was headed this week to Pakistan for More talks aimed at furthering military cooperation while resolving a . Aid cutoff prompted by uncertainty Over pakistanis nuclear weapons program. Adm. John Frank b. Kelso ii . Navy chief of operations is scheduled to meet senior pakistani military officials during his three Day visit which begins today Western diplomatic sources said sunday. Kelso also May Call on president Ghulam Ishaq Khan and prime minister Nawaz Sharif the sources said. The visit will be the second to Pakistan in three months by a senior . Military official. Gen. Joseph p. Hoar commander of the . Centra come made a four Day visit in november for similar talks.  relations have deteriorated since october 1990, when Washington suspended millions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Pakistan under the Pressler amendment to the . Foreign assistance act. The amendment passed by Congress forbids Aid to Islamabad because of questions Over the extent and purposes of its nuclear  luring scientists London a soviet nuclear scientists have been lured to Libya by salaries of More than $100,000 to work on top secret nuclear research a British newspaper reported sunday. The sunday express reported that Igor Cher Kiyev 46, who it said previously worked for the Institute of nuclear research near Moscow was quoted As saying he was working with three other nuclear scientists from the former soviet Union in Libya s Remote a Bari desert. The newspaper did not give any details of the nuclear research being conducted for the libyans. It said without attribution that the scientists Hud been warned not to talk about their work. It did not say when or where the interview was  rules out compensation for Comfort girls Tokyo up t Hief Cabinet Secretary to icon Kato on monday ruled out compensation for korean women enslaved to have sex with japanese soldiers during world War ii Kato also said Japan does not plan to investigate reports that chinese also were turned into a Leo Forl girls Quot Japan a term for those forced into prostitution. A compensation Between Japan and Korea was settled in a 1965 agreement a on War reparations when Seoul and Tokyo established full diplomatic relations Kato told a news conference. A the government regards the Issue As  during his recent trip to Seoul japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa repeatedly apologized for War atrocities. Kato reiterated Miyazawa a stance that victims Are free to seek reparations in the courts. Three korean women have filed suit against the japanese government and Are seeking $160,1 1 1 each in compensation for their suffering. During his first overseas trip As prime minister Miyazawa apologized Friday to South koreans National Assembly and earlier to president Roh Tao woo for the forced prostitution of up to 200.000 teen agers and Young women by the now defunct Imperial army. But he insisted compensation was up to the courts. Miyazawa said the japanese government would conduct a thorough investigation. Asked if Japan plans to probe reports of chinese a Comfort girls Quot and apologize to Beijing Kato said a the investigation is of Korea. We Are not considering other  several veterans who called a hot line to provide information on behalf of the women filing the court suit said chinese women were among those forced to pro vide sex for soldiers in military brothels. One Telephone a recalled a 10-year-old chinese girl. Following Miyazawa a departure from Seoul on saturday South korean foreign minister Lee Aang Oak said a unlike forced draftees the matter of a Comfort girls was not included in the discussions when South Korea and Japan Quot concluded the 1965 agreement Japan agreed to pay South Korea $500 million in compensation. None of the Money was allocated to some 1 million koreans brought to Japan As forced labourers or to the a Comfort