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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The so and ripes vol. 50, no. 349 500 sunday March 29,1992 d 8693 athe ecstasy and agony a amps Dave Didio Tracy Sargeant top from accent elementary school in bin sum Netherlands gets a hug from her Mother Rosalynne after winning the 10th annual european spelling Competition in Heidelberg Germany on saturday. Jonathan Jacobs above from Karlsruhe elementary school in Germany a wincing after he misspelled a word a took second place. See Story on Page 3. Libya accuses ., Britain of terrorism the Hague Netherlands a Libya went on the offensive at the International court of Justice on saturday suggesting it had been a victim of  Terrorism and accusing Washington and London of trampling International Law. But the United states counterattacked detailing evidence to link Libya to terror bombings in Western Europe and asserted the North african state came to the court because it had been unable to prove it had renounced terrorism to the Security Council. Libya is seeking an emergency injunction against the United states and Britain to prevent sanctions or the use of Force to pry Loose two libyans suspected in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland. The third Day of emergency hearings at the . Judicial body was Given Over to rebuttals. Libya led off Ana the United states and Britain followed. The  State departments top lawyer Edwin d. Williamson outlined evidence connecting libyan diplomats to a 1986 bombing of a Berlin discotheque patronized by american soldiers. Quot we suspect libyans Effort to convince this court to obtain an emergency ruling stems from its inability to convince the Security Council that it has ended its support for terrorism a Williamson told the court. Williamson criticized libyans apparent see Libya on Page 2 aids hot line jammed after ill suspect s arrest Philadelphia a aids hot line after hundreds of people called an Aid authorities said they arrested a victim of the disease who May have had sexual relations with several Hundred teen age boys. A there were 300 to 400 Calls packed into a couple of hours a Francis l. Stoffa jr., executive director of the aids task Force of Philadelphia said Friday. De Savitz 50, was arrested wednesday on charges of involuntary deviate sexual Intercourse sexual abuse of children indecent assault and corrupting the morals of a minor. He was released from the Philadelphia detention Center late Friday after posting $300,000, or 10 percent of his $3 million bail. District attorney Lynne Abraham gave a sketchy description of the defendant Friday and urged anyone who May have had sexual Contact with him to seek medical attention. She said he was known to the boys As Quot Uncle de Quot or a Uncle  Abraham declined to identify the Man citing the states aids confidentiality Law. However he was identified later by a court official who spoke on condition or anonymity. He also was identified in saturdays Philadelphia inquirer. Abraham said she Savitz was making the announcement with the suspects consent a not to create a panic a but to help people who May have been exposed to the aids virus Quot for those who Are too afraid or too embarrassed to notify their parents Contact the aids hotline a she said a the District attorney said that after his see aids on Page 2u.s., Russia Swap information on pos mias Moscow up the United states and Russia traded the first Solia information Friday on soldiers missing in action and a High ranking russian official revealed details about american servicemen on soviet soil. . Soldiers who deserted in the Vietnam War were brought to the soviet Union and the Kab tried to recruit them but the men refused and left soviet territory Gen. Dmitri to Logonov said. To Logonov also cleared up old mysteries about  Soldiers still listed As missing from world War ii revealing that dozens of americans with slavic names were freed from German prisoner of War Camps Only to be imprisoned in soviet Camps As traitors. And he said some americans fought on the nazi Side in world War ii and later were put in soviet Camps. Records of eight such americans a and their burial Sites a were turned Over to  Officials at a joint news conference. Now we know full Well that a number of  National for one reason or another. Were in soviet territory a Gen. Dmitri to Logonov at the same time former  Ambassador Malcolm Toon gave the russians information and photographs of russian soldiers being held prisoner in Afghanistan As Well As identification tags of two soviet soldiers who died in German Camps in world War ii a tags that had been in  Archives since the end of the War. The Exchange of data photos and the id tags represented the first Concrete work of a joint .-russian commission formed to answer questions about pos and mias dating Back to world War ii. A when i arrived Here earlier this week a said l Oon co chairman of the commission a i was More than a Little sceptical that meaningful Progress could he made in dealing with such a sensitive subject but 1 was  Ito on a who spent eight years in the  Embassy first in the 1950s with Josef Stalin in Power then in the 1960s with Nikita Khrushchev ruling and finally As ambassador from 1976 to 1979 during Brezhnev a tenure a said the joint .-soviet quest for answers was off to a successful Start. Hour working groups already Are delving into soviet see mias on Page 2  
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