European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 world the stars and stripes tuesday february 5,19923 killed at Canada Plant As worker opens fire from wire reports Waterloo Canada a a disgruntled employee opened fire monday in the factory where he worked killing three colleagues police said. A three people Are confirmed dead Quot said staff inspector Henry Brick of Waterloo Region police. Police said the gunman later surrendered. Workers said the Man used a High powered Rifle to Hunt Down his victims one of whom was an owner of the Ontario Glove Plant. The factory manufactures mittens and gloves in this southwestern Ontario City. Witnesses said the gunman entered the factory late monday morning and shot a company executive. He then went to the Plant floor and shot a woman twice in the Abdomen. A supervisor was chased Down outside the building shot and left lying in a offers Reward Stockholm Sweden a the government offered a $172,000 Reward monday for information leading to the capture of a masked Man behind a spate of attacks against immigrants. The rare move follows a National uproar Over the shootings of 11 third world immigrants by an unidentified assailant or assailants in recent months. One immigrant was killed and two were seriously injured with head wounds. Police said the same gun was used in most of the attacks. Argentina opens its files on nazi War criminals by Nathaniel c. Nash the new York times Buenos Aires Argentina a president Carlos Saul Menem signed an executive decree monday that for the first time opens Argentina a secret government files on nazi War criminals who fled to this country As nazi Germany was collapsing. A we Are taking this step to make this country and its affairs As open As possible a Menem told a gathering of Cabinet members foreign ambassadors and jewish groups. Quot Argentina has been hiding a truth for 40 years that the whole world wants to see. This is a debt Argentina is paying to the for years jewish groups in Argentina Europe and the United states have tried to get Argentina to open its files. Argentina became a favored spot for senior officials of the third Reich to flee after the War. Among them were Adolf Eichmann who came to Argentina in 1946 and was kidnapped by israeli intelligence agents in 1960, taken to Israel tried and executed. Josef Mengele the physician at the Auschwitz death Camp who had the nickname Angel of death for the grisly experiments he performed on prisoners lived from 1949 to 1960 in Argentina until be fled to Paraguay and eventually died in Brazil. Josef Franz Schwammberge who is now on trial in Stuttgart Germany for ordering the deaths of thousands of jews in the polish town of pro Etsyl lived in Argentina until 1990, when he was extradited to Germany. How Many nazi officers lived in Argentina is not known. Some jewish groups say hundreds even thousands. But nazi Hunters say they Are interested in about a dozen celebrated cases of senior officials. One of the most mysterious cases involves Martin Bormann Hitler s Deputy who reportedly smuggled hundreds of millions of dollars in Gold and foreign currency looted in Europe to South America. Some experts say Bormann Flea to Argentina. Government officials said monday that the opening of the nazi files had been planned for some time but the Issue took on urgency after Menem strip in november to the United states where jewish organizations won his Promise to take the step promptly. While Menem initially denied that Argentina had any files on Bormann he produced two such folders at the signing ceremony on monday. According to one newspaper account that claimed to have inspected a Bormann file the Argentine police made a search for Bormann in 1949 at the request of the United states. In 1960, acting on a tip the Argentine police detained a German identified As Walter Flegel in Zarate a City 60 Miles North of Buenos Aires believing him to be Bormann. Quot we Don t really think Bormann lived Here but it is a tantalize w ii a Umi cd Mai iia cd a it Isenthal seeking Hope to find from the documents is More information about the kinds of groups that helped nazis escape from Europe to 21 boat people die in Hong Kong riots Hong Kong up rioting vietnamese inmates set fire to a hut in a detention Center tuesday burning to death at least 21 boat people attempting to take shelter from the worst violence Ever to hit Hong Kong a refugee Camps officials said. The hut in the Shek Kong detention Center was torched during a pitched Battle on chinese new year Between refugees from Northern and Southern Vietnam. Another 128 vietnamese were injured in the Melee Many of them seriously. A this was a very serious criminal act a Secretary for Security Alistair Asprey told reporters. A a deliberate attack a a deliberate Case of Asprey said the people in the hut All Northern vietnamese Nad taken shelter there from the fighting. He said burning objects were thrust through the roof and windows of the hut whose doors apparently had been locked from inside to keep out the combatants. Authorities said the fighting apparently was ignited by a dispute Between two inmates Over hot water for bathing. It eventually engulfed two sections of the Camp which is used to hold vietnamese who have volunteered to return Home after being screened out of resettlement programs. Government officials said about 200 North vietnamese from the Shek Kong Camp were being moved to another detention Center to reduce ethnic tensions. They said that there were no plans to increase Security in the Camps. There were no immediate reports of related disturbances in other detention centers. The officials said the incident was not expected to affect the next voluntary repatriation flight to Hanoi scheduled for feb. 18. Hong Kong has been a reluctant Host to some 58,800 vietnamese boat people. More than 54,500 of them face repatriation a voluntary or mandatory a after being declared economic migrants. About 4,300 have been classified As genuine refugees and Are awaiting resettlement abroad. Although fights Between rival groups in the Camps Are not unusual Robert Van Leeuwen chief . High commissioner for refugees in Hong Kong said the violence was the worst Ever m the crowded detention centers of the British Colony. A preliminary reports i have would make this the worst incident of this kind a tragedy if you like a that we have witnessed in Hong Kong in the detention centers a he said. 4 marines accused of assault on girl face trial in Canada Quebec Canada apr a trial Date was set monday for four . Marines accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl during a Goodwill visit. Quebec court judge Laurent Dube told the four marines that they will stand trial beginning May 25 for the alleged attack on the Quebec girl. The attack allegedly occurred last August on the histone Plains of Abraham a sprawling Grassy Park near Quebec a walled old City. The marines had been visiting Quebec last August during a Goodwill visit by the amphibious assault ship Guam. Quebec is on the St. Lawrence River at a Point which is navigable by Large ships. The accused sgt. Leonard Permell Lance Cpl. Terry Cobb Lance Chi. Mark Cunningham and Lance Cpl. Clarence Morris Are All based at Camp Lejeune . They Are being held at a . Military base in Newfoundland a Canadian province pending the outcome of the snarls Egypt a a Cairo resident covers his race As he rushes through a Freak sandstorm that hit Egypt on monday. Eight were killed and a dozen injured a storm caused accidents. The Suez canal was paralysed and several seaports and highways were closed
