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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 28, 1992

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    European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday january 28, 1992 Ira reportedly laundered Cash via Stock Exchange Wooldall soviet combat troops to leave Poland by nov. 15 Warsaw Poland a All red army combat troops will leave Poland by nov. 15, with a smaller contingent remaining until the end of 1993 to help supervise the transit of forces still on German territory the troops commander says. Gen. Viktor Dubynin said sunday that just 6,000 of the 45,000 troops of the former soviet Union remaining in Poland will stay through next year the Pap state news Agency reported. Those troops belong to transport and signals units he was quoted As telling a news conference at the soviet base in the Northwestern City of Legnica. Still unresolved Are questions about How much the soviets owe the poles for the buildings they used during their Long stay As legions of a domineering ally. The poles also want compensation for extensive environmental damage caused by the  tourism up 36% Bangkok Thailand a tourism was up 36 percent in Vietnam last year and the visitor Pool differed vastly from past years a most tourists were not from the former East bloc the official Vietnam news Agency reported. Of the 300,000 tourists in 1991, just 100 were from the former soviet Union and Eastern Europe according to the weekend dispatch. Before their democratic revolutions those countries had been communist Vietnam s closest allies and Trade partners for a decade. In 1991, the report said most tourists were from Western Europe Southeast Asia Japan Australia and North America. Tourists account for Only 30 percent to 40 percent of the total number of people visiting Vietnam the report said. Most arc asian business people and investors. The number of foreigners visiting Vietnam has increased substantially As the country develops More flexible relations with the outside world. One of the worlds poorest nations Vietnam desperately needs hard  crash kills tourists Nairobi Kenya a a Light aircraft crashed in a Southwest kenyan game Reserve killing seven people including two japanese diplomats and their wives police and embassy officials said sunday. The single engine aircraft crashed on Landing saturday in the Masai Mara one of kenyans largest and Best known wildlife sanctuaries a police official said. London up the outlawed Irish Republican army has used the London Stock Exchange to launder millions of pounds in currency gathered from racketeering in Northern Ireland the sunday Telegraph newspaper said. The newspaper said it discovered a Complex financial web that straddles the Irish sea from Belfast and Dublin to London across to Europe Over the Atlantic to North America and Down to South Africa. British police working with the Royal Ulster constabulary and the Irish National police Force the Garda have evidence of a sophisticated plot to Channel Ira Cash into the London Stock Market and Send it Back a clean a the Telegraph reported. One British company listed on the Stock Exchange with a turnover of More than $360 million is suspected of having been an Ira front and of having laundered up to $54 million in eight years the paper said. A spokesman for the Royal Ulster constabulary declined sunday to comment on the report other than to say that a 50-year-old Man was expected to appear monday in a Belfast court charged with false accounting and other charges related to illegal financial dealing. The Man had been detained since last tuesday under the prevention of terrorism act the spokesman said. A Garda spokesman declined to comment. The Ira has for 22 years waged a bloody bombing Campaign in Ulster and in England to oust Britain from its control of the Ulster province of Northern Ireland which has a protestant majority unwilling to join Catholic Ireland. The Ira and protestant backed paramilitary groups trying to curb its activities run numerous rackets and businesses to promote their campaigns of violence. The police investigation was delving into complicated share dealing through offshore companies the Telegraph said. It said in some cases investigators believed the Ira used South Africa to release Cash onto the London Market. The sunday Telegraph said it would not name the company it identified while the investigation was in Progress but said the firm had made numerous illegal share deals involving a Dublin financial institution. Security forces estimate paramilitary groups make about $11 million a year from illicit activities most going into the coffers of the Ira. On the Money making front the Ira has outsmarted the protestant paramilitary groups with some saying it rivals the mafia in its financial ingenuity the Telegraph said. The newspaper said share dealing was just one aspect of the iras gradual move toward up Market financial investment. There was increasing concern in London that an Industrial quoted company had been taken Over with Ira Money and had continued to operate As an apparently legitimate business managed try acceptable managers. Ira funds were used to buy a string of other private and quoted firms and the company now owns subsidiaries in Europe and North America the Telegraph  warns . Against attack Iran report says Nicosia Cyprus apr Libya will Arm the a Arab masses to resist if the United states takes military action against it a top libyan Leader was quoted monday As saying in Tehran Iran. Maj. Abdulsalam Jalloul right had Man to libyan president Moa mar Qadhafi also said a , Security Council Resolution demanding the extradition of libyans wanted for bombing . And French jetliners was unjust Iran a islamic Republic news Agency said. A in the Case of a . Attack on Libya Libya will Arm Arab masses and islamic movements to counter the United states and its allies a the official Agency quoted Jalloul As saying. The Agency said that he accused the United states of masterminding a conspiracy against Libya but that the plot would be confronted and the Battle against it would spread to All Muslim states. The United states and France have been pushing for economic sanctions against Libya such As forbidding Landing rights to its National airline but so far have refrained from calling openly for military action against the North african state. The Security Council Resolution passed unanimously Jan. 21, cited the demands for surrender of the suspects and urged the libyan government to respond to the request. Marchers in Londonderry Northern Ireland carry pictures of some of those killed in a civil rights Parade in 1972.thousands March in memory of bloody sunday killings Londonderry Northern Ireland a children carrying Black flags led thousands of marchers commemorating the 20tn anniversary of a bloody sunday a when British soldiers killed 13 people in a civil rights Parade. Relatives of the dead carrying White crosses bearing the names of those killed Jan. 30, 1972, took part in a procession that snaked peacefully through the roman Catholic Creggan and bog Side areas to a rally outside the City a Guildhall Twenty years ago the marchers demanding civil rights for catholics were trying to get to the Guildhall when they were halted and fired on by paratroopers. The soldiers claimed they had been shot at by gunmen during the illegal March. Thirteen people were shot to death that Day and a Man who was wounded died months later his name was included on a memorial to the dead. An official inquiry later ruled none of the people shot were armed. On sunday police mounted a Strong Security cordon around the City and used dogs to Check Guil Square for bombs before the crowds arrived. At the Square Gerry Adams Leader of the Irish Republican army Slegal political Wing sinn fein told the gathering a bloody sunday was not a mistake. It was the British governments answer to the reasonable demands for civil rights. It was premeditated designed and executed with deadly  the invitation to Adams to speak caused some controversy and not All the families of the dead attended the commemoration. Some complained it had been hijacked for propaganda purposes by the Ira which has been fighting a bloody Campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and unite it with the Irish Republic. Guildhall  
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