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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes tuesday june 9, 1992 judge May free Demjan Juk if Ivan identity is in doubt world Chile s chief Hopes court settles Honecker Issue from wire reports Santiago Chile a president Patricio Al win said he does not like having former East German ruler Erich Honecker at the chilean embassy in Moscow and believes that a court ruling eventually will resolve the Case. In an interview published sunday the daily Al Mercurio also quoted Aylwin As saying that the former communist Leader cannot stay at the embassy indefinitely. Honecker 79, sought Refuge in the embassy on dec 11 to escape expulsion to Germany where he faces manslaughter charges in the deaths of East germans killed trying to escape to the West. Chile says Honecker docs not qualify for political Asylum but has admitted him to the embassy As a  climbers missing Katmandu Nepal a two romanian Mountain climbers were missing and feared dead in a failed attempt to climb Dhaulagiri the worlds seventh tallest Peak nepalese officials said sunday. The two women Tina Caliban 48, and Sandi-1a Isila 42, were last seen by one of their Sherpa guides May 11 while heading to their second Camp on the upper reaches of the 26,8100-foot Mountain officials said korean Airport planned Seoul South Korea a South Korea announced plans monday to build a $12.7 billion International Airport that it Hopes will become die air transportation Hub of Northeast Asia. The Airport would handle up to 100 million passengers a year and would be built on a tidal Flat Between two islands off Inchon the Western port that now serves As South koreans main Trade base with china.20 killed in bus crash new Delhi India a a bus collided with a truck on a Highway sunday killing at least 20 people and injuring More than 50, a news Agency reported. Forty six people were hospitalized with injuries said United news of India. There were few details of the  slay 5, injure 8 Medellin Colombia a five people were killed and eight More were injured when a group of men burst into a bar near Medellin and sprayed the room with bullets police said sunday. The dead men were meeting in the i Carrico bar just South of colombians drug capital Medellin 161 Miles South of the capital Bogota when the unidentified gunmen entered the bar and fired volleys from Ingram sub machine . African teen killed Johannesburg South Africa a Black teen Ager was killed when a tire was placed around his neck and set on fire the latest in a recent series of a necklace Quot attacks near Johannesburg police said monday. Police it. Col. Tienie Halpryn said the charted body of the unidentified 15-year-old Hoy was found sunday evening in Soweto the violence plagued township on the Edge of Johannesburg. The spokesman said he did not know the motive Lor the  funds released san Fernando Philippines president Corazon Aquino on monday released $264,000 to Aid victims of mount Pinatubo Volcano As the government prepared for an expected deluge of debris from the Uil Cano with the Onset of annual Rains. Aquino conducted an Aerial inspection of three provinces around Pinatubo located 4 Miles North of Manila. Jerusalem apr a supreme court judge said monday that he would have to release John Demjan Juk if the prosecution did no to present an ironclad Case that he was the Gas chamber operator Quot Ivan the terrible of the Treblinka death Camp. Justice Ehud Barak was responding to prosecutor Michael Shaked who argued that even if the High court throws out the Treblinka conviction there is proof that Demjan Juk was a nazi guard at another death Camp sob ibor and participated in genocide. But Barak said sob ibor was Only mentioned As an aside in the indictment to Back up the main charges involving Treblinka. Both Camps were in nazi occupied Poland during world War ii. A a that a Why i would have to release him if he was Only a guard a Barak told Shaked in a Stormy Exchange. A if you have no proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Gainesville Fla. Up a a Florida explorer plans to Send television probes into nazi bunkers deep beneath the German City of Weimar to search for the legendary Amber chamber stolen from a russian Palace during world 11. The location of the Amber chamber a room fashioned entirely of Amber and housing Amber candlesticks busts and other furnishings is one of the deepest mysteries of the Art world. 1 he room was conceived by King Frederick 1 of Prussia in 1701 and installed 54 years later at Catherine Palace near St. Petersburg Russia. The Palace was captured by nazi troops two centuries later and the chamber w As shipped to Germany where it vanished in the latter Days of world War 11. Norman Scott president of global explorations inc. Of Gainesville is among the researchers who believe the fabled chamber and other missing artworks May lie beneath the streets of Weimar. Hundreds of Hunters and catacombs lie under the City in Tor mar last Germany and they have been largely unexplored since the end of world War ii. A a i Here a been a tremendous amount of lost Art treasure taken and a lot of that has never surfaced a Scott said. A he City had Strong ties to the nazi party and the third Reich and Adolt Hitler visited frequently during he Demjan Juk was at Treblinka then there is no Point in  Shaked spoke in his last Day of final arguments in the supreme court Appeal by the former Cleveland Auto worker. There is no indication when the supreme court might Issue its ruling. The ukrainian born Demjan Juk now 72, was convicted in april 1988 of being a guard known As Ivan the terrible and was sentenced to death. The verdict rested on five Treblinka survivors who identified Demjan Juk As the sadistic guard who ran the Gas Chambers and brutalized victims on their Way to death. Some 850,000 jews were killed at Treblinka. Demjan Juk says he is a victim of mistaken identity. He says he spent the time in question in prisoner of War Camps after being captured by the germans in May 1942 while serving in the soviet army. His reign. Since 1945, the City has been controlled by three different governments. Each left the bunkers undisturbed. Scott said the City solder residents including Many former nazis believe the contents of the bunkers might dredge up a horrible past. A they wanted to forget about Adolf Hitler a he said. But Public interest was stirred recently by russian president Boris n. Yeltsin who said he believes the Amber room is in Weimar. The German government has conduct cursory seismic tests of the bunkers but drawn few conclusions. Scott has received permission to Survey the bunkers with sophisticated electronic devices. When he visits in late july with a 15-member staff he plans to bore holes and Send in television cameras if he detects objects inside. Scott expects the project budgeted at $525,000, will take five to six weeks of geophysical work and then a couple of weeks of excavation. In addition to the possibility of finding nazi files or Art treasures Scott anticipates the catacombs will yield some human corpses. Workers who built the bunkers came from the Buchenwald concentration Camp Scott said if he finds the Amber chamber or any other treasures he will leave them to their rightful owners the russians and the germans though the countries would Likely Battle Over any discoveries. Hindsight is 20/20 this bicyclist in in Imburg Germany concentrates on City a vol spark on Pentecost sunday. Meanwhile his the scene in front of him As he peddles through the Back seat charge has the rear View covered. Exploration planned in Weimar for missing Amber chamber  
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