European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes wednesday february 19, 1992 world Lenin s likeness to be removed from rubles from wire reports Moscow a Vladimir i. Lenin is going out of circulation. Russia s Central Bank announced tuesday that the soviet founders picture is being removed from the Ruble. Bank chairman Georgy mat Yukhin said Ruble notes bearing Lenin a profile will be withdrawn As they Wear out and replaced with new slain in Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland a a protestant Man was shot to death monday night less than an hour after the Irish Republican army admitted that four men killed by British troops the previous night were members of its organization the Royal Ulster constabulary said. The Ira claim came m a statement from its Headquarters in London. The four men died during a gun Battle with undercover troops after they mounted a machine gun attack on a Security base in Coalisland 45 Miles West of Belfast sunday night. No organization has claimed responsibility for the shooting of the Man monday. A masked gunman burst into a video shop in the Crumlin Road District in the North of the City apparently singling out his victim. A woman in the shop escaped commander Dies London a lord fieldhouse commander of British forces during the 1982 falklands War died monday at the age of 64, the ministry of defence said. He died at a Hospital in Southampton the ministry said. The cause of death was not announced. John fieldhouse took command of the Fleet that sailed from the Island of ascension to reclaim the British Colony from Argentine forces who invaded april 2,1982, claiming sovereignty. He was a Veteran of submarines carriers and explode in Tokyo Tokyo a time bombs apparently set by extremists protesting Tokyo a International Airport exploded in seven different neighbourhoods Early tuesday police said. No injuries were reported. The bombs were set off at the Homes of seven officials connected with Narita Airport the object of protest since its inception in 1966.Saddam s son takes posts Nicosia Cyprus a Saddam Hussein a youngest son is talking an increasingly important Roje in Iraq As his father tightens his protective shield say diplomats and knowledgeable travellers from Iraq. Qusai Hussein 26, never held an official position in the Baghdad Hierarchy and never appeared to Harbor any ambition for one. He lived in the Shadow of his elder brother Udai. Now Qusai Heads the special Security apparatus the nerve Center of Saddam a pervasive internal Security network said the sources All of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. He also commands a special 10,000-Man Force recently formed to protect Saddam the sources said. Senators say clues on pos by Elizabeth Shogren los Angeles times Moscow a two . Senators on a fact finding Mission Here said monday that they have uncovered information on what May have happened to several Hundred missing american service members from world War ii and the Vietnam and korean wars. Quot we have been Given assistance that could help us conceivably solve the fates of hundreds of americans a said sen. John f. Kerry a mass. But he added that he and his colleagues have not located any information about prisoners of War or americans missing in action who could still be alive. Asked if american mias or pos from the three wars spent time in the former soviet Union sen. Robert Smith fpn.h., said a i think there Are some indications of the russian government told the senators that american deserters contacted in Japan had passed through the soviet Union during the Vietnam War. The Kab tried unsuccessfully to recruit them As agents. But thd1 russians insisted that none of them is still in the country. Quot we have been told that we will be Given those names a Kerry said. Quot i think you get a sense of the kind of Candor we re talking Kerry and Smith told a news conference at the end of a four Day trip to Moscow that russian officials had been very cooperative in supplying information about americans mias and pos from the three wars. Most of the cases they Learned about were from the korean War Kerry said. But much More information is expected on pos from Vietnam and world War ii As russian and american researchers comb the archives during the next several months. A we have 2,273 names from the Vietnam War and thousands More from Korea and world War ii a Kerry said after the news conference. A your goal by the end of this is to resolve the vast majority of these cases. I believe we will do Moscow police clash with jews Over sacred books in Library Moscow apr an attempt by hasidic jews to reclaim 12,000 sacred books from russians largest Library erupted into a Brawl monday. One police officer was treated for a bloody nose. About 55 members of Moscow a jew in Community arrived at the russian state Library formerly the Lenin Library with an order from the russian government for the books release. But the jews were unaware the order was no longer valid. Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin of los Angeles who has been in Russia for 16 months trying to reclaim the books said fighting broke out when a Library official ordered the jews to leave and called on police to Force them out. Igor fillipow director of the russian state Library confirmed the clash but said the russian government last week nullified its decision to Transfer the books to the new state jewish Academy. The hebrew and yiddish volumes were assembled More than 200 years ago by the Ultra orthodox hasidic Lubavitcher movement which claims More than 21 million followers. Once based in the town of Zubavitch on the Border Between what is now Belarus and Russia the movement now has its Headquarters in Brooklyn , rebbe Sholom Ber Schneerson sent the books to a Moscow warehouse for safekeeping when the German army neared Zubavitch during world War i. They were confiscated by the soviets after the bolshevik revolution. The state Library has resisted giving up the books and there have been Small demonstrations by supporters carrying signs with swastikas and anti semitic slogans. Cunin said fighting broke out after a Library official put his hands on Cunino a shoulders and demanded that he leave. A hasidic jew standing outside the russian state Library in Moscow makes a plea monday for the release of sacred books housed there. Quot i said a take your hands off of me a to which he ordered the militiamen police that had been hiding in the Side hallway to come out in Force with their Sticks a Cunin said in an interview. A then there was a terrible Brawl with the militia. Members of the Library staff were screaming anti semitic curses like a Hitler missed you jews a and a those he did no to get we will get a a he said. The jews were forced from the building but showed no signs of injuries. Fillipow said the jews had no grounds to reclaim the books. A a it a a lie a fillipow said about their claim that the books legally should be returned to the link nazi Angel to israeli mistress Buenos Aires Argentina up intelligence files made Public said Josef Mengele the fugitive nazi a Angel of death held responsible for killing 400,000 jews kept a mistress in Paraguay who was an israeli agent and survivor of a nazi concentration Camp. The documents on Mengele who is believed to have died in 1979, were among 10 pages of government dispatches and hundreds of press clippings released monday. The files also snowed that the government knew of Mengeler a whereabouts during his residence in Argentina from 1949 to August 1960, when be fled to Paraguay. An undated message of Argentina a state intelligence service said Mengele was living on Mcarthur Avenue in Asun-ci6n, Paraguay with mistress Nora a Dot who went by the alias Nurit Edda. A Nurit Edda was eventually considered an israeli agent and an sex prisoner of a concentration Camp a another undated intelligence document said. A she was killed in an Accident or no further details of the woman were contained in the files. Spokesmen for the israeli embassy and the Argentine delegation of israeli associations said they had no information on Aldo or her death. Mengele was convicted in 1959 in Frankfurt Germany of War crimes primarily stemming from his position As an is doctor at the Auschwitz concentration Camp in German occupied Poland during world War ii. There be performed brutal a a experiments on children twins and other Camp prisoners. At Auschwitz Mengele decided which prisoners were sent to the Gas chamber and which ones he would use in his experiments. He was deemed responsible for the deaths of 400,000 jews at the Camp. The Argentine files part of a growing Section of nazi documents in Argentina a National archives include Federal police documents released last week on Mengele and fellow nazi fugitives Martin Bor Mann Josef Schwammberge Eduard Roschmann and Walter Kutschman All of whom were believed to have at one time fled to Argentina. The files released monday constituted the first instalment of what is expected to be a Large Library of information kept by Argentina on the activities of nazi War fugitives hidden in Argentina and neighbouring South american countries
