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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, February 4, 1992

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes tuesday february 4, 1992 terrorist scandal forces red Cross Leader to resign Paris apr the director of the French red Cross was forced to resign monday Over her organizations role in bringing palestinian guerrilla Leader George Habash to France for medical treatment. Georgina Defoix a Friend and confidante of president Francois Mitterrand is among five High level officials who have lost their jobs in the socialist governments worst scandal since French agents Sank the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. A they asked me to leave. I am not leaving today. I will leave the red Cross Friday following some meetings and consultations a said Burtob who last week resigned As adviser to Mitterrand. Several French red Cross leaders had called for her resignation saying she tarnished the organizations image by supporting a request from the palestinian red Cross to Grant entry to Habash on wednesday after he suffered an apparent stroke. Habash left France for Tunisia on saturday. He had been treated at red Cross Hospital Henry Dunant and his care was arranged by the palestinian red Cross and its French counterpart. Frances top anti terrorism investigator had wanted to question Habash about an arms Cache found outside Paris in 1986. French authorities allowed Habash to leave because he was not named on any National or International arrest warrant despite Many terrorist attacks staged by his followers. The foreign ministry refused comment on a tunisian newspaper report that Habash Leader of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine had been to France for treatment several times before with false papers. The Independent be Temps based in Tunis a where the Plo has its Headquarters a did not give the dates of the supposed visits. Ibrahim Souss the plots representative in Paris and Abu Ahmad Fouad a popular front official in Tunis both called the newspaper report false. The scandal is the worst for Frances socialists since the Rainbow Warrior was bombed in new zealand to Block a protest voyage into the Pacific area where France tests nuclear warheads. The attack by two French agents killed a Greenpeace photographer and led to the eventual resignation of defense minister Charles Herne. Former president Valery Giscard Deestaing head of the Union for democracy complained that the firings of the five senior bureaucrats punished the wrong people. A they would never have made such a decision without the authorization from their ministers he said. A the political responsibility rests with the  the socialists already had been expected to lose badly in regional elections March 22 because of disenchantment Over unemployment and the Economy. There has been speculation that Interior minister Philippe Marchand and even perhaps foreign minister Roland Dumas might be forced to resign. Going ape fireworks Light up the sky at Midnight monday As Bering residents celebrate the year of the Monkey which begins today. The chinese Mark the Start of their new year with fireworks and by posting wishes for Luck and wealth on their doors. It is also a time for shopping sprees. The noise of the firecrackers is traditionally used to scare off evil spirits bring Good Luck and Herald the beginning of the year. World6 killed in rampage by yugoslav Soldier from wire reports Belgrade Yugoslavia a a yugoslav Soldier went on a killing spree sunday killing six people in Bosnia and in Herzegovina Republic. Drago Milicic an army reservist used his automatic Rifle to kill three Federal army soldiers in their Beds at 3 . Sunday in Bike Lina. Then he drove a military vehicle to his native Village of Modran where he went to the House of his Girlfriend and killed her father Mother and brother. Police said Milicic was drunk. A military police patrol arrested him and army authorities opened an investigation into the  pact of d Frankfurt Germany a steelworkers reached a tentative Compromise with employers monday for a 6.4 percent increase in wages a Union spokeswoman said. The agreement if approved would Avert the first major strike in unified Germany. Steelworkers in balloting last week overwhelmingly supported their Union the powerful in metall in calling for a strike. But Union officials had said it would take up to a week before the walkout would  shipment halted Warsaw Poland a a freighter bound for Syria was loaded with czechoslovak made tanks and ammunition at the port of Szczecin the Pap news Agency reported sunday. The shipment including 12 t-72 tanks several dozen tons of ammunition and spare parts was taken aboard the danish vessel Nadia a which left Szczecin late saturday. It was the second shipment of czechoslovak made arms for Syria that passed through Szczecin this year As part of an arms Deal to deliver about 150 tanks and an unspecified amount of ammunition. The first shipment left in mid january aboard a German freighter but the vessel was stopped in the Mediterranean by a German warship. The shipment apparently was not covered by proper Export permits and the ship was being escorted to the German port of  reportedly weds Jerusalem a palestinians in the occupied territories monday welcomed unconfirmed reports that Palestine liberation organization Leader Yasser Arafat 60, recently married his Secretary thus ending decades of Bachelor Hood. Hanan Ashrafi spokeswoman for the palestinian delegation to Arab israeli peace talks said she could not confirm an item in the daily newspaper Dediot Aharonov that Arafat secretly married 28-year-old Soha Tawil a Jerusalem born palestinian he met three years ago at the Plo offices in  urged to reinforce holocaust message bad Honnef Germany a concerned about new signs of anti semitism in some segments of the populace the head of the american jewish committee said sunday that Germany needs to do More to ensure the holocaust a lessons Are not forgotten. Alfred h. Moses president of the committee said Neo nazi attacks and surveys indicating millions of germans Are anti semitic underscore the need to remember the holocaust. A we Are Here to reinforce the message of the importance of tolerance and acceptance of differences a said Moses who leads a 75-member delegation visiting Germany for talks with this nations leaders. Moses said that message should be a built into the institutions of Germany. So that there san ongoing process that will perpetuate the important lessons that have been Learned from the sorry  a if it the message is not institutionalized it will die with human memory a Moses said. A number of developments in United Germany Are worrying the committee. Neo nazi attacks against foreigners have abated from their daily frequency of three months ago. But they continue sometimes with ghastly brutality. One of the most disturbing occurred last month in Berlin. According to news reports two assailants Cut off the Tongue of a Young pole. Moses said that the jewish Community is also worried about new findings by opinion surveys about anti semitism in Germany. According to two surveys commissioned and published by the newsmagazine Der Spiegel one in every eight germans is anti semitic 42 percent believe the nazis had a Good and bad sides and 42 percent done to think Germany has a special responsibility toward jews. Moses said the German government is obviously committed to tolerance and other democratic principles. A to our Way of thinking Chancellor Helmut Kohl is a particularly Good Friend of the jewish people and of the United states a Moses Tola the associated press after giving an address at the Konrad Adenauer foundation in bad Honnef a Bonn suburb. But Moses said he is worried that germans in general May Start losing a grip on Why it is crucial to remember the holocaust. A your concern is what happens with the next generation a Moses said. Moses said he will be talking with Kohl and other German leaders about How to a apply the holocaust a lessons to the problems of  Moses said he also hoped to ask a various German institutions about holding a conference on anti semitism and xenophobia in Europe. Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners. �?o1 think Germany is the right place to have such a conference a Moses said  
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