European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday january 22, 1992 Shamir won t Back Down on building settlements o jewish settlements by Clyde Haberman the new York times Jerusalem a in a direct Challenge to Bush administration Calls for his government to Stop building settlements in occupied lands prime minister Yitzhak Shamir declared defiantly on monday that a this construction will continue and no Power in the world will prevent this  his finance minister Yitzhak Modai went a step further. Modai said that if the United states insisted on a settlement freeze As the Price for $10 billion in american loan guarantees that Israel says it needs to absorb new jewish immigrants he would rather forgo the assistance. A it is impossible to give up this hold on the land or undermine it for reasons of absorption or the populations welfare a Modai said. A a we la have to suffer  while the substance of what the israeli officials said was not new the timing was significant. Having lost his parliamentary majority on sunday when two far right parties walked out of his governing coalition Shamir seems headed for National elections in the next few months and his Union promising remarks monday opened his political Campaign. He has apparently decided that talking Tough on settlements especially before a group of cheering settlers in betar Ollit outside Jerusalem will do him enough Good with israeli voters to outweigh the harm it is cause him in Washington. A we see the construction in All of Judea Samaria and the Gaza strip and in All the land of Israel a Shamir said As he planted a tree at the settlement. Judea and Samaria Are the biblical names that Israel uses for the West Bank. A we will build and i Hope very much that we will also obtain guarantees a he said. A in any Case in a sure we will continue to absorb  the prime minister chose to take his uncompromising stand on settlements just As Israel is turning to Washington once More to provide the loan guarantees. Jewish settlements in the West Bank Israel s prime minister Yitzhak Shamir has vowed to build More jewish settlements in occupied territories despite opposition. The population in the West Bank includes More than 1 million arabs and 112,000 jewish settlers. Sources the West Bank and Gaza Atlas geography of Israel almost certain to they Are intended to help Israel borrow billions of dollars from commercial Banks to resettle an estimated 1 million immigrants expected from the former soviet Union by 1995. When the Aid Issue first arose in september president Bush asked Congress to hold off debate for 120 Days to avoid ruffling the budding Middle East peace process. Now that period is about to expire. As before a Pivotal Issue is the Shamir governments insistence on putting settlements in the West Bank and Gaza strip despite warnings from some israeli diplomats and american jewish groups that the construction endangers the assistance package. World opposition party Leader plans to Challenge Kohl from wire reports Bonn Germany a bios Engholm the Debonair pipe smoking Leader of Germany a main opposition party said monday he would Challenge Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the next election. A a in a running a said the 52-year-old chairman of the social democratic party or spa. As Leader of the party Engholm would have been the traditional candidate to Challenge Kohl in the 1994 elections but he had not stated his position until monday. There had been growing speculation whether two of the party a other top leaders a including Oskar Lafontaine Kohls rival in the last elections a would take up the Mantle. Engholm a nomination must be approved at the Spda a convention next year but that is assured. Engholm who is also governor of the Northern state of Schleswig Holstein was named to succeed Hans Jochen Vogel in May 1991 As Leader of the left of Center social democrats. Paris brakes prostitution Paris a police on monday closed four roads through Paris largest Park to nighttime traffic the first phase of a crackdown on prostitution in the Bois de  closures announced last week Are intended to curb the activities of an estimated 500 prostitutes Many of them illegal immigrants. Some major thoroughfares through the Park will remain open to accommodate commuters and to allow free Access to a handful of restaurants. Army weapons stolen Vienna Austria a dozens of weapons including automatic pistols and Sharp shooting rifles have been stolen from an austrian army depot in East Tirol defense ministry officials reported monday. Thieves had broken Down a Wall and stolen some 100 weapons austrian radio Orf reported. Officials said the warehouse a former customs House in Martitsch was not secured electronically and had been broken into sometime sunday night., about 13 weapons left outside the building have led police to believe the thieves were disturbed during the robbery Orf said. Kab questioned Only one pow Vietnam says Bangkok Thailand up Vietnam allowed a soviet Kab agent to interrogate one american prisoner during the Vietnam War but it denied soviet reports that such interrogations took place after the release of prisoners in 1973, official Hanoi radio reported. A there was no interrogation of . Pos by Kab personnel after the . Troop withdrawal in 1973 and after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975,&Quot the radio said monday night quoting a note from the vietnamese government to the . Office on missing service members. The office is in Hanoi. The message specifically denied a statement by soviet maj Gen. Oleg Kalugin saying that personnel of the soviet secret police and intelligence Agency questioned a number of . Prisoners of War in Vietnam from 1975-78. A the vietnamese Side has affirmed that this was an ill intentioned fabrication Quot the message said. It said however that the vietnamese government had conducted a serious and careful investigations Quot into the charges by Kalugin. A the result of these investigations showed that there was Only one Contact Between Kab personnel and a . Pris Oner of War by the name of Eugene Andre Weaver a it said. This is believed to be the first time Vietnam has admitted that soviet agents questioned an american prisoner during the Vietnam War. The message said that Weaver was captured by communist forces near Hue on Jan. 31, 1968, during the tet offensive. A it said that soviet intelligence Learned that Weaver was of russian origin and asked to meet him. A Kab official identified As Oleg Nechiporenko met Weaver on one occasion in january 1973, but no further meetings took place because Weaver refused to meet the soviet intelligence agent again. The message said Weaver was turned Over to the United states in March 1973 As part of the general prisoner release following the signing of the Paris peace accords. It said this was the Only meeting Between . Pos and soviet agents. Kalugina a account already denied by Kab officials directly involved with Vietnam has stirred More interest in the question of whether any . Pos were held by Vietnam after 1973 and whether some might still be held. Vietnam has repeatedly denied such charges.2 terrorists named in German banker s death Berlin a Federal prosecutors announced tuesday the names of two red army faction terrorists wanted for the 1989 bomb slaying of prominent banker Alfred her Hausen. A Reward of $47,000 was announced for information leading to the capture of Andrea Klump and Christoph Seidler both 34. Klump and Seidler have Long been wanted As red army faction members but not specifically in connection with the her Hausen slaying. Also sought Are two other men a known Only by the first names Stefan and Peter who were not on wanted lists. It was the first solid Lead made Public in the killing and resulted from information supplied by a Man who admitted he had helped the terrorists prepare for the attack said the Federal prosecutors office in Karlsruhe. Her Hausen head of Deutsche Bank Germany a biggest commercial Bank was killed nov. 30, 1989, by a bomb explosion in bad Homburg. His Driver was seriously wounded. It is one of a series of unsolved red army faction killings including most recently the shooting of Detlev Rohwedder head of the Agency privatizing state owned assets of former East Germany. Rohwedder was killed by a sniper last april 1 at his Home in Disseldorf. Authorities lately have warned that the red army faction could strike again and commentators often Point to the Lack of Success in tracking Down the group which has attacked . Generals As Well As leading German business and government figures. A previously we be not had any arrest orders in this Case a Hans Jirgen Forster spokesman for the prosecutors office said by Telephone from Karlsruhe. Forster said the information came from a 35-year-old Man from by in the states witness Forster said