European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 b the stars and stripes monday april 20, 1992 at a glance self Offir Anthony Isaac 7, seems a Little embarrassed after failing to know the answer to a question from Carrie Martin a Dodds teacher in Darmstadt Germany. See Story photos on pages 14-15.execution blocked a Federal judge temporarily blocked the execution of a double murderer scheduled to die tuesday in the California Gas chamber. A Page 4mitchell picks Clinton Senate majority Leader George j. Mitchell a Maine predicted sunday that Bill Clinton would be elected the country s next president in november. A Page 5disability cases reopened Federal officials have agreed to reopen tens of thousands of cases in which the government denied benefits to people who said they could not work because of mental or physical disabilities. A Page 65 killed in Church attack an unidentified Man lobbed a grenade into a crowd attending easter sunday services at a roman Catholic Cathedral in Olligan Philippines killing five people and injuring 80. A Page 8going to head of the class Izmir High school in Turkey is among Dodds facilities helping student teachers learn the Abc s of their Trade. A Page 9free ads for unemployed newspapers around the country Are running free classified ads for people seeking work a to help out m the recession and attract More advertisers and subscribers. A Page 17index Abby Ann Landers. 20 action line. Comics. Commentary. ----13 faces in places. 10 letters. Money matters. 17 sports. 21-28 to listings. 27 weather. Serbs take More bosnian land As dec threatens to Stop talks Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina up a serbian forces overran More of Bosnia and Herzegovina a Eastern Border Region sunday As a european Community envoy warned that negotiations on a political settlement could be halted. Meanwhile a . Military Airlift of emergency Relief supplies continued for a second Day to Aid an estimated 200,000 refugees uprooted by the serbian offensive against the former yugoslav Republic which has declared its Independence. Two . Air Force c-141 cargo planes delivered to Sarajevo 100 tons of food rations blankets and medicines in a two Day Airlift of emergency Relief for refugees across the embattled new state. At least 14 people most of them italians germans and canadians departed for a . Air base in Italy aboard one of the Star lifters after Washington offered to evacuate citizens of nato countries and Australia an american official said. Eight americans and three canadians flew out saturday. A third and final c-141 was expected later sunday. Col. Patrick Henry the commander of the Relief flights said they went a very smoothly a and he praised . Officials Aid agencies and the yugoslav army. A the yugoslav army has been very helpful and cooperative a said Henry of the . 435th Airlift Wing at Rhein main a Germany. Russell Roeding of the International Rescue committee a private non profit Agency based in new York that helped organize the Airlift said no further american Aid was planned. But he said his group would propose that . Military planes be used to transport Relief supplies to Bosnia and Herzegovina from stockpiles around Western Europe. Sarajevo radio reported the takeover of Srebrenick by serbian democratic party militia and serbian based guerrillas supported by the yugoslav army. It said serbian units engaged in sporadic fighting with poorly armed Muslim militiamen outside Srebrenick which was occupied a Day after serbian forces shelled its outskirts and ordered muslims to disarm. The dec threat to end the talks was provoked by serbian shelling around the television and radio Headquarters saturday. The attack killed two people after an ultimatum for radio broadcasts to cease. Colin Doyle the chairman of the dec sponsored peace efforts warned that if fighting persisted 2-month-old dec sponsored negotiations on resolving the conflicts underlying political disputes could be called off. A i came Here to put Forward the theory that this problem should be solved by peaceful negotiations a Doyle said. A there May come a time when the situation gets so bad that one questions whether negotiations should libyan May testify against suspects London apr a former libyan government official now under . Government Protection is ready to testify against two libyans accused in the 1988 pan am bombing a British newspaper reported sunday. The Independence on sunday quoted Vincent Cannistraro former chief of Cia counter terrorist operations As saying the unidentified libyan knew a the who where and when of the bomb explosion Over Lockerbie Scotland in which 270arms from Page 1 be withheld said that notification of the transfers to Iraq might have led to disclosure of the Covert authorization by the two administrations. Authorizing saudi Arabia to provide bombs to Iraq would have violated the Reagan administrations Public policy of not sending weapons to Baghdad. It also would contradict numerous statements by officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations to Congress that such .-Ori-Gin munitions were not supplied to Iraq. The new disclosures come in the midst of a High level debate within the Bush administration Over whether to propose to Congress the Sale of 72 f-15 fighter planes to saudi Arabia. Earlier this month 236 members of Congress wrote president Bush opposing the proposed f-15 Sale saying that it would fuel a new arms race in the persian Gulf. A the Sale of additional f-15 aircraft to saudi Arabia is incompatible with any meaningful arms control policy Quot the representatives wrote. A such an f-15 Sale would represent a significant escalation of the regional arms since iraqis invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the Bush administration has sold $14.8 billion in sophisticated arms to saudi Arabia ranging from Patriot missile batteries to fighter planes and tanks. The Transfer of bombs to Iraq was disclosed in a secret state department Cable in August 1986. The Cable said that Prince Bandar bin Sultan the saudi ambassador to the United states had explained to . Officials that the saudis had provided Iraq with the 1-ton, mk-84 bombs. In addition classified . Intelligence reports show that saudi Arabia transferred american made armoured vehicles to Syria without formal . Approval after the end of the Gulf War according people died. Cannistraro was also quoted As saying that a maltese shopkeeper who sold clothes to the bomber was also ready to give evidence and would implicate the two libyans. The former Cia official who now runs his own Security consulting firm told the paper he believed the two libyans did not act alone a but after coordinating with palestinian terrorists in Syria in an operation possibly financed by Iran. The United nations imposed sanctions against Libya on wednesday aimed at persuading the country to surrender Abdel Basset Aji Al Mezrahi 39, and Lamen Khalifa Fahimah 35, for trial in Britain or the United states. The sanctions require All countries to Cut air links and arms sales to Libya. The Independence on sunday report could not be confirmed immediately. The foreign office said it had no information on the report and referred queries to the . Government. . Reportedly pressuring Syria to return Gulf vehicles los Angeles a the Bush administration is using diplomatic pressure to persuade Syria to return american made military vehicles its forces took from saudi Arabia at the end of the persian Gulf War a newspaper reported sunday. Unidentified senior officials confirmed that both Syria and Bangladesh took the vehicles after being permitted by saudi Arabia to use them As part of the .-led coalition against Iraq according to the los Angeles times. A we have let them know they should give them Back a said a senior official speaking on condition on anonymity. A we Are trying to get them Back to saudi the senior officials said the military vehicles were trucks and were not subject to a . Law prohibiting the Transfer of weapons to third parties. President Bush denied he allowed such transfers. Administration officials accompanying Bush said the state department was looking into the allegation. Informed sources citing classified . Intelligence reports had described the vehicles As armoured personnel carriers and other combat vehicles and characterized the transfers As a violation of the arms Export control act. To two sources familiar with the reports last january . Officials Learned that saudi Arabia also had provided american made armoured personnel carriers to Bangladesh after the War ended according to classified documents and interviews. The disclosure came after the Bangladesh government asked . Authorities to provide spare parts for the carriers according to documents. A senior diplomatic official said that the bombs were provided to Iraq with informal approval of . Authorities As part of the joint .-saudi Effort to keen Iraq armed and fighting during the War Between Iran and Iraq. The official said that troops from Syria and Bangladesh were allowed to retain -made vehicles they had used in lighting As Nan of the Allied coalition in the Gulf War with the approval of military authorities. Attempts to obtain Jonm Ieiri bom the saudi embassy in Washington were a successful. A spokesman at the state i apartment would not comment. In Maine a vacationing Bush what asked whether he had allowed Sui transfers gave a Brief reply Quot no. No the answer to your i he disclosure of saudi transfers i Iraq Syria and Bangladesh follows Recei reports that Israel sold american Wea on to third countries without us at Proval. On april 1, 1 he slate Dupai intent s u Spector general made Public a Impi charging that Israel had potentially v muted the Anns exp Oil on Liol / through Quot sales of sensitive . Hems a technology to countries Piohia filed . Law from receiving Sut i hems Quot i he report said that the Viola i. Show a systematic Ami a Mug Palle of unauthorized True Iscis a Isi cull d my Bat k to about a it a
