European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 0 b 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 30 years in prison. Prensa Latina said the Council of state met Friday to Rule on the appeals and the decision was disclosed sunday in Juventud Rebelde the newspaper of the Young communists Union. Relatives and Many other world leaders had appealed to Cuba to spare the men. Santovenia Fernandez a family in Miami expressed Relief sunday at the commutation of his sentence. They had protested in the streets of Little Havana and went to Ashington to plead for help from the state department which criticized the death sentences. A a we re very Happy. Were very relieved a said his sister Teresina Rodriguez. Quot in a jail there will be suffering. He a going to go through a lot. But at least now Well have a Chance to see him. 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 cubans revolution Ana 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 Quot copious anti social antecedents a haying 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 Val Chanov of 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 a was an attempt to attract voters disillusioned by More than four decades of communist repression and mismanagement in this nation of 8,9 million people. Quot 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. Inde Fie Dent 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 party the name adopted by communists following the fall of strongman Todor Zsivkov in late 1989. 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. One 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 pales Bir Zeit University was and spent much of his Ca said sunday Kelso als Tinian archaeology at Bir Zeit University bom in Gifford Idaho and spent much of i reer 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 unclear. Kelso 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 Day. It May Call on president Ghulam Ishaq Khan and prime minister Nawaz Sharif the sources  visit will be the second to Pakistan in three months by a senior . Military official. Gen. Joseph p. Hoar commander of the . Central 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 . Libya 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 libyans 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 had been warned not to talk about their work. It did not say when or where the interview was  leaves open Comfort girl question Tokyo apr prime minister Kii Chi Miyazawa on monday did not Rule out possible compensation for korean women forced to serve As prostitutes for the japanese Imperial army in world War ii the Kyodo news Agency reported. Miyazawa a statement to top government officials followed a stinging attack by North Korea blasting Tokyo for refusing to thus far consider compensation for the korean women involved. The Rodfong Shimun the ruling korean workers communist party a official paper said in a commentary that Japan was evading its responsibility by making the question of compensation a court matter. Quot Japan a argument is unjustifiable either from the viewpoint of International Law or moral ethics a according to the article carried on the korean Central news Agency from Pyongyang and monitored in Tokyo. Quot this is the height of shamelessness. Quot they remain dishonest not waking from their old dream and no sign of sincerity could be seen in their  later monday Miyazawa told top government officials that during his recent visit to South Korea officials had not clearly asked for compensation because Korea had renounced claims for War reparations under the 1965 treaty normalizing relations Kyodo quoted party sources As saying. But he added he could not Call the problem settled Kyodo added. Officials at the prime ministers office said they could not confirm the remarks. During his visit to Seoul last week Miyazawa apologized for the suffering afflicted on the korean women. It was the first time Tokyo acknowledged military involvement in the War time crimes. His apology followed years of denial that the government was involved in recruiting what Japan called Quot Comfort  Japan paid $300 million in compensation for wartime wrongs when it opened diplomatic relations with South Korea. It does not have diplomatic relations with North Korea. Tokyo has said individual compensations Are a matter for the courts to decide. Late last year three women filed a lawsuit in Tokyo demanding compensation for their suffering As prostitutes for the japanese during the War