European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes . Friday december 4,1992cia trying to buy Back stingers from afghans Washington apr the Cia is trying to buy Back anti aircraft stinger missiles it gave to rebels in Afghanistan but is finding that the task is expensive. . Officials said wednesday that the Mujahideen rebels Stilt have hundreds of the sophisticated shoulder fired weapons that shot Down about 250 soviet planes in the late 1980s. The administration is worried that some afghan factions especially the Muslim shiite groups might sell the missiles to Iran or other countries or groups unfriendly to the United states. But members of Congress which has been asked by the Bush administration to approve Money for the buyback program Are Balking at the High prices some rebels Are demanding the Wall Street journal reported wednesday. The . Government paid the stinger manufacturer Between $25,000 and $35,000 per unit. But the rebels have been charging up to five times that Price the newspaper said. Lawmakers have been uneasy for years about the Cia s secret supplying of stingers to the Mujahideen As Well As to the rebels who fought the soviet backed government in Angola. The missiles a portable and easy to use a a already have fallen into hostile hands. The United states discovered two stingers on an iranian Oil platform in the persian Gulf several years ago and believed Iran planned to mount them on patrol boats for firing at . Aircraft said one . Official speaking on condition of anonymity. The stingers Are believed to have been confiscated by Iran a revolutionary guards from a Mujahideen Convoy that crossed a narrow strip of iranian territory on its Way from Pakistan to Afghanistan in 1987 or 1988, the source said. Neither the Cia nor the state department would comment on the program apparently because the project that supplied the stinger missiles continues to be  verdict rejected in Iran Contra Case from wire reports Washington a jurors tried to deliver a partial verdict wednesday in the Iran Contra Case of former Cia spy chief Clair George but were told to Complete deliberations before announcing their decision. The jury did not indicate How Many of the seven counts it had decided in the Case against George who is accused of lying about the Iran Contra affair. . District judge Royce c. Lamberth said accepting a partial verdict would generate news coverage that might influence the balance of the jury a deliberations. The panel resumed its deliberations on charges that George lied to congressional committees about his knowledge of arms for hostages deals with Iran and the secret shipment of armaments to the nicaraguan contras. An earlier trial ended in a Hung  s death under probe san Francisco homicide investigators said wednesday that they were checking out several motives including an insurance policy in the killing of a 9-year-old boy. Michael Nguyen was kidnapped sept. 2 from in front of his Sunset District Home and found dead seven hours later in Golden Gate Park. Homicide inspector Jim Bergstrom said investigators had Learned that the boys Mother had taken out a Large insurance policy on him shortly before he was killed. But Bergstrom said the policy was Only one of several motives being checked out. Law enforcement officials had thought the boy was killed by loan Sharks who reportedly were owed $100,000 by his fathers  deadly a for Worms Washington a sex and death two subjects that fascinate humans appear intimately related a at least for one Type of roundworm a scientist said wednesday. Among roundworms the males life Span appears to shorten the More they have sex apparently because making sperm takes a toll on their systems according to a study by Wayne a. Van Voorhies of the University of Arizona in Tucson. Quot sex and death Are two fundamental but poorly understood aspects of life a Van Voorhies wrote in a paper in the British journal nature. A they Are often thought to be linked because reproduction requires the diversion of limited resources from. Growth and  to examine this question Van Voorhies selected a bacteria eating roundworm whose reproductive Cycle and system tended them to examining the relationship Between sex and life Span he said. The Worms Are normally self fertilizing hermaphrodites that usually produce More eggs than sperm. But occasionally a male that produces Only sperm appears. By comparing the sex lives and life spans of the hermaphrodites and males Van Voorhies determined that sperm production appeared to reduce the average male life Span by 25 percent Van Voorhies found. Document to be displayed Washington a for the first time since Abraham Lincoln signed it the full text of the emancipation proclamation a Milestone document in Mankind a struggle for Freedom is to be put on Public View. It will be taken from an airtight vault where the nations most precious papers Are kept unfolded and displayed in the National archives building on Pennsylvania Avenue for five Days a from dec. 31 through Jan. 4,1993, marking the 130th anniversary of its official issuance Jan. 1,1863. The proclamation declaring that slaves within the rebellious Southern states a Are and henceforward shall be free a changed the purpose of the civil War trom putting Down a rebellion to expanding the Domain of Freedom. 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Almost anybody can use the word menu. Besides insulting inventively a ferret face a readers can entertain discerning 10-year-Olds with precise Spellings for imprecise terms a Yahoo a a Yech a. The Rev. Lawrence Jenco a former hostage hags Giondomenico Picco a former . Assistant Secretary general wednesday As Terry Anderson looks on. Picco negotiated the release of some of the  hostages urge . Help for Lebanon Washington apr eleven americans celebrating their Freedom from Captivity in Lebanon used the occasion to Call for greater . Involvement in the War torn country. The former hostages wednesday night hugged one another and exchanged phone numbers at a dinner that celebrated their release and noted the persisting problems in Lebanon. Those present had spent a total of 28 years in Captivity there. Before the dinner several urged the . Government to provide economic Aid to Lebanon and encourage a peaceful settlement of disputes. 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