European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes wednesday april 15, 1992 Laberite Battle to succeed Kinlock starts in Earnest London up a the race to Lead Britain s labor party soundly Defeated in last weeks general election began tuesday with announcements from two senior party members that they were entering the contest. Economic spokesman John Smith s declaration that he would seek the top position came less than 24 hours after the resignation of Neil Kinlock who led labor to two election defeats since becoming party Leader in 1983. Quot if i am elected i will continue the work begun by Neil Kinlock of modernizing the structures and procedures of the party so that it can produce policies relative to the society of today and tomorrow and can Campaign effectively for them a Smith said. Smith 53, a successful scottish lawyer before entering politics is popular within the party and has wide support from the influential Trade Union movement. Labor environmental spokesman Bryan Gould 53, announced his candidacy later in the Day for the head of the party. He said he also would run for the Deputy leadership position. Some party members and commentators have criticized labor for Rushing into a leadership contest without fully examining the reasons for its Surprise defeat by the conservative party. Several members of parliament including Gould declared their Strong opposition to an Early contest As proposed by Kinlock. In his speech Kinlock said he would ask a special meeting of the National executive committee on tuesday to Call the elections for late june arguing that the Date served the a Best interests of the party. The timetable would allow party members in parliament to elect a new a Shadow cabinets before the summer recess he said. Quot it would not be right for the labor party to wait six months until the october party conference a he said. Apelle John Smith economic spokesman for Britain s labor party wants to succeed Neil Kinlock As party Leader. Suspected French Collaborator won t face trial on War crimes Paris apr an appellate court ruled monday that Paul Rouvier one of Frances most notorious suspected War criminals will not stand trial for alleged crimes against humanity. The ruling outraged jewish leaders and holocaust survivors who questioned Frances willingness to confront the role of French collaborators m War crimes. No Frenchman has Ever been tried for crimes against humanity stemming from wartime collaboration in the holocaust though French police and militia leaders organized and carried out roundups of jews. Rouvier 77, headed the pro nazi militia in Lyon during world War ii. He evaded Justice for years with the help of roman Rouvier Catholic officials and was arrested in 1989 at St. Francis priory in Nice. He was released on bail in july and reportedly suffers from prostate cancer. The appeals court said there was insufficient evidence to Back up five of the charges against Rouvier. The court said there was enough evidence to support a sixth charge of complicity in the execution of seven jewish hostages in 1944. But it ruled the killings were not part of a Quot methodical extermination plan and thus not a crime against humanity meaning time had run out for a prosecution. The attorney general a office said it would Appeal the ruling to Frances highest court the court de cassation. A my first feeling is one of revulsion Quot said Serge Klarsfeld a lawyer and nazi Hunter. The charges for which the appeals court found insufficient evidence included the killing of the president of the French human rights league Victor Basch and his wife in 1944 a hand grenade attack on a synagogue in Lyon complicity in the deportation of resistance Leader Jean de filippis complicity in the killing of a jewish couple and deportation of the couple s son. The court said there was sufficient evidence to try Rouvier for complicity in the killings of seven jews at Rillieux la Pape on june 28, 1944, but the statute of limitations rules out trials for crimes committed so Long ago with the sole exception for crimes against humanity. Klaus Barbie the Gestapo chief in Lyon who worked with Rouvier is the Only person tried in France for crimes against humanity. Barbie a German died in a Lyon prison Hospital last year. Rouvier was sheltered for years at St. Francis priory run by followers of the late archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Leader of a Catholic fundamentalist movement. Czechoslovak Leader seeks re election Prague Czechoslovakia apr president Vaclav Havel said tuesday that he will seek another term to keep democracy alive and the czechoslovak federation intact. A i decided to run not because i want to be president at any Cost and under any circumstances but because i want to contribute to the assertion of certain values a Havel told parliament As it opened its last session before june elections. He cited democracy human tights rapid economic Reform and the survival of the czechoslovak federation As his main goals. Quot my candidacy is. Tied to the possibility to enforce these values a Havel said. According to czechoslovak Law the Federal parliament elects the president with a minimum of a three fifths majority. In a recent interview Havel indicated he would run on the condition that his support already significant in the czech Republic would grow in the Eastern Republic of Slovakia. His spokesman Michael Yantovsky said tuesday the decision to run was recent and based on the support of a fall democratic parties in  world quake rattles Tokyo no damages reported from wire reports Tokyo a an earthquake with a preliminary Reading of 5.0 on the Richter scale Shook Tokyo and the surrounding area tuesday. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the 12 04 . Quake.6 die in cargo ship fire Beirut a six sailors died tuesday in a fire on Board a cargo ship unloading gasoline at a lebanese port South of Beirut. Twenty five other Crew members were rescued from the Blaze Relief workers said. The fire broke out shortly before Dawn tuesday on the maltese registered ship at the port of Jinyeh 14 Miles South of Beirut officials said. Live Butcher show decried Moscow a a gallery exhibit where viewers watched through a Monitor As a Butcher chopped a live Piglet into tiny pieces has sparked an animal rights protest a newspaper reported tuesday. A hired Butcher a slowly relishing every moment of the fatal agony sliced and lolled a pig a on saturday As people looked on from behind a Wall at the i Dzhinyan Art gallery Moskovskaya pravda  getting troops Canberra Australia a the first big contingent of australian peacekeeping troops was to leave today for Cambodia. Defense minister Robert Ray said the 121 military personnel will act under the authority of the . Transitional authority in Cambodia. Australia eventually will commit a total of 495 military personnel to Cambodia including 65 members of an Advance . Force already stationed  population Falls Sofia Bulgaria a More than 300,000 people have emigrated from Bulgaria since travel restrictions were lifted in 1989, accelerating a decline in population caused by High infant mortality and Low birthrates the National statistics Institute said  rapist gets prison Melbourne Australia a a Man who raped an 18-year-old woman a second time because she reported the initial attack to police was sentenced to 14 years in prison monday. Robert Patrick tache 22, of Melbourne a fulfilled his victims worst Nightmare of a rapists return a said country court judge Bruce  of Ansbach sergeant Dies after Days in coma Ansbach Germany a amps the 5-month-old son of an Ansbach sergeant died saturday Community officials said tuesday. Doctors attribute the death to sudden infant death syndrome the baby smother said. Johnathan Lee Bass son of sgt. Lee Bass and his wife Laurie died saturday shortly after noon. He had been in a coma for 2vi Days at the German children a Hospital in Nurnberg his Mother said. His father is assigned to he co 235th base support in. Laurie Bass said the baby appeared dazed and Glassy eyed thursday morning when she went to take him from his crib in their government housing apartment. She rushed him to the Katterbach military clinic and he was later transferred to the German Hospital. Doctors there said Johnathan was in a coma Laurie Bass said. The baby died saturday a when his heart gave out a the Mother said. Johnathan is also survived by a 19-month-old brother is Mill. He will be buried in his mothers Home state of Colorado