European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes world thursday december 17, 1992 German klan backers reportedly helped kill 2 Bonn Germany apr German Kun flux klan supporters helped kill at least two germans officials said wednesday and a television program said the klan also has been organizing anti foreigner attacks. American members of the klan travelled to Germany last year looking for recruits and since then klan cells have surfaced in several German cities. A most of the klan supporters in Germany Are right Wing extremist skinheads a said a Security source speaking on condition of anonymity. A they Are especially dangerous to non Whites and he also said links have been uncovered Between German klan supporters and the nationalistic front a Neo nazi group that has been banned by the government. According to Security sources German klan members or sympathizers Are believed to have taken part in the March 18 beating death by skinheads of a Man who criticized Adolf Hitler and the aug. 29 killing by other far right radicals of a homeless Man in Berlin. Those two murders Are among 17 that have been carried out by Germany a Radical right this year. The Ard television network said German klan members also have been plotting attacks against for Eigners. In a special Ard program a Western German youth masked to conceal his identity said he and other klan activists have a encouraged people. To carry out attacks against Asylum the youth from the Western state of Rheinland Pfalz said Blacks were not the Only a enemies of the Kun flux klan but also jews and links Between the German and american klan members Are murky German Security officials done to like to discuss what they know because it could jeopardize their investigations. But the Ard program said the trans Atlantic connection exists. The masked youth said a by coincidence he got a copy of a klan propaganda pamphlet called White Patriot. Quot i wrote to America. They must have Given my address to the klan Section Leader Here in Rhineland Pfalz a he said. A they the German klan observed me for a while a he said. The organization collected information on him because it is a very care fut about who it allows to join in order to prevent an infiltration by German Security officials he said. Albanian Leader urges nato to take action against serbs by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau Brussels Belgium a albanian president Sali be Risha added his voice wednesday to increasing Calls for nato allies to take stronger military action against the bloodshed in former Yugoslavia. �?o1 do consider very important the diminishment the reduction a even by airstrike a of serbian military potential Quot Berisha said following a meeting with nato ambassadors at Alliance Headquarters. Albania has particular interest in ending the warring in Bosnia and Herzegovina because serbian aggressors May invade the nearby yugoslav province of Kosovo if the bosnian capital of Sarajevo Falls to fighting. Ninety percent of Kosovo a 2.2 million inhabitants Are ethnic albanians but Serbia has stripped the province of the autonomy it once enjoyed. T he United states and its allies have been discussing the possibility of taking further military action in the area including enforcement of no Fly zones if asked by the United nations. . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali has asked nato to draw up formal plans for military intervention but the organizations five member Security Council has not yet authorized such action. Foreign ministers from natos 16 nations meeting today in Brussels were not expected to direct any specific military Steps. Quot on the other hand a a senior nato Diplomat said wednesday a i think everybody has a sense that this is a very very important t he Alliance will have to make a separate decision to employ its air Power to enforce a . Flight ban the Diplomat said. Several members including 1-�?TRanee and Britain have expressed fears that airstrikes could provoke retaliation against their troops who Are in the area to help escort . Relief convoys Britain has 2,400 troops in former Yugoslavia. France has about 5,000. There also is concern that air intervention would strangle humanitarian Supply lines completely. Other actions being reviewed by nato military Serbia Albania planners include sending ground troops into Kosovo to prevent violence from spilling Over its Borders. Berisha said he is a very supportive to the idea a calling it the a Only Way to prevent the shifting of the conflict to the despite nato encouragements that Albania refrain from fighting in the area Berisha repeated his country a refusal to tolerate Serbia so ethnic cleansing of albanians. A we Are not at All prepared to enter into the War and we will do our Best to prevent the War a Berisha said. But if ethnic albanians Are targeted a then it is probable that the Balkan War will. Take place and this will be a tragic event not Only for Balkan countries a Berisha said. It is believed that albanians entering the War could have a Domino effect Embr oiling Bulgaria and nato allies Greece and Turkey. During Berishay a one Day visit he also voiced his country a desire to join nato. The membership application a came As no Surprise to members of the Alliance the nato Diplomat said. A i done to wish at All to depreciate what the albanian president said to us. All i can say is that we re used to it a he added referring to similar requests from other Central and Eastern european nations. Nato Secretary general Manfred Worner said the Alliance would consider albanians membership in due course and in the meantime develop a relationship with the nation through the North Atlantic cooperation Council. The Council is a forum for dialogue Between the allies and 21 of natos former enemies. Greece some Honecker Likely will die within 6 months report says from wire reports Bonn Germany a Erich Honecker the former East German Leader on trial for manslaughter is expected to die of liver cancer in three to six months according to a medical report. Defense attorneys said they plan to use the court ordered report released tuesday to urge that the Case be dropped and that the 80-year-old Man be released. He is on trial in Berlin Tor ordering Border guards in East Germany to kill people who sought to flee to the West before Germany was reunited. A court has convicted former Border guards who shot people trying to of Europe pact the Hague Netherlands a the dutch parliaments upper House has approved the maastricht treaty on european Unity making the Netherlands the ninth dec nation to ratify it. Tuesdays approval was a formality because the largely ceremonial upper House the first chamber invariably follows the lower House or second chamber. That body approved the treaty with a Large majority last plan rejected London a the government has decided against introducing a proposal that would make it a crime to deliberately transmit the aids virus. Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke said tuesday that such a Law would be difficult to enforce and his aides said it might discourage people at risk from taking aids tests. In the United states 25 states have such Laws carrying Long prison terms. In a statement to the House of commons Clarke said he had studied such Laws. A i have concluded however that there Are difficulties both of principle and practice in bringing this Type of behaviour within the scope of the criminal Law and i am not persuaded that these difficulties have been overcome in other jurisdictions a he Admiral Dies Madrid Spain a adm. Gonzalo Rodriguez Martin Granizo chairman of Spain a joint chiefs of staff died of a stroke wednesday the defense ministry said. He was 64. Rodriguez Martin Granizo who was hospitalized tuesday became chairman in May 1990, after 43 years in the navy.4 found dead in rubble Naples Italy a a three Story apartment building housing six families collapsed wednesday on the City a outskirts killing at least four people and injuring two police said. Scores of firefighters digging through the wreckage quickly recovered four bodies and two injured residents. But an officer said firefighters feared there were More victims. People told police that they heard a loud bang just before the building collapsed suggesting an explosion possibly caused by leaking Wing unveiled Paris a French president Francois Mitterrand on tuesday unveiled a restored Wing of the louvre with 39 galleries showcasing More than 700 paintings by French masters from the 15th to 19th centuries. The renovations represent the third leg of the museums $1.3 billion quest to become the worlds largest most up to Date Art facility.2,674 cigarette Cartons stolen in Darmstadt area by Craig Martin staff writer Darmstadt Germany nearly 2.700 Cartons of cigarettes with a possible Street value of $52,400, were stolen from the commissary service in Darmstadt Germany during a 10-month period according to the army a criminal investigation come. Investigators Are offering a $1,500 Reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those involved in the theft. Of the six thefts totalling 2,674 Cartons three occurred Between dec. 10, 1991, and Jan. 9, 1992, at the defense commissary Agency warehouse in Griesheim near Darmstadt according to special agent John Greely of the Darmstadt office of the criminal investigation come. Another three thefts occurred Between Jan. 9 and sept. 14 at the Nathan Hale depot commissary in Darmstadt. The commissary and warehouse were broken into Greely said in a written response to questions. However he would not comment wednesday on whether the commissary or warehouse was equipped with alarm systems. Last week German police in Wiir Burg arrested six americans and fic germans following investigations involving trading 1,100 Cartons of stolen cigarettes for 2 pounds of hashish and a Quarter Pound of marijuana. The cigarettes were stolen from the Wiir Burg commissary German police said. Greely said there does not appear to be a connection Between the Darmstadt thefts and the Wurzburg investigation. According to German police estimates in the Wurzburg Case the Black Market value of american cigarettes is about 30 Marks or $19.60, a Carton placing the value of cigarettes stolen in Darmstadt and Griesheim at about $52,400. Contributing to this report staff writer Ron Mck inv -1
