European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday february 15, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11 n. Korea rejects probe of suspected nuclear site by the new York times Tokyo North Korea in a growing Challenge to the International atomic Energy Agency said late saturday that it rejected a demand to inspect two Sites believed linked to its suspected nuclear weapons project. If the Effort is pressed it warned it will take a counter Basurc in a defiantly worded dispatch issued by the korean Central news Agency the communist regime of president Kim ii Sung accused the United states of try. Ing to attain its sinister purpose by manipulating the atomic Energy Agency a . Affiliate to spy on military of it says the objects Are not part of its nuclear Power program which it in. Lists is a civilian project. The installations that the Agency demanded to see in a cablegram to the North korean leadership thursday arc not liable to inspection by the Iaea the press Agency account said. On thursday the atomic Energy Agency s director general Hans Blix demanded that inspectors be Given Access to two buildings at Yon Byon under a procedure called a special Agency has never before used a Spe Cial inspection to compel the opening Ofa site that a country has not declared part of its nuclear programs. Unless North Korea reverses itself the rejection of the demand appears to set the stage for a confrontation that could soon be referred to the . Security Council. If asked by the Agency the Security Council has the right to enforce a special inspection though it is unclear that eco nomic embargoes or other techniques to isolate the country would be effective against a country already As isolated As North Korea. Last week Agency officials said that if their demand for a special inspection was rejected or simply ignored Dix would most Likely Call an emergency meeting this week of the Agency s Board of Gocr nors in Vienna Austria to determine the next step. Determining whether North Korea is on the verge of becoming a nuclear Power is considered a critical test of the Agency s competence especially because of criticism that its inspectors failed to detect Iraq s nuclear weapons program in the years leading up to the persian Gulf War. North Korea has permitted six inspections of its installations at Yon Byon 60miles North of the capital Pyongyang since Dix visited North Korea last it has consistently rejected requests to Sec two buildings that the Agency based on Western intelligence reports believes have been used As a dump for nuclear wastes. Samples of those wastes they believe could indicate whether North Korea has extracted enough plutonium from its nuclear reactors to produce crude atomic weapons. F two londoners guilty of faking jewel robbery London f a two London jewel merchant were convicted saturday of faking a Manhattan Gem heist for a $2.6 million insurance payout. I Don t want you to leave the Dock with any illusions judge Andrew Brooks told Darius Guppy and Benedict Marsh both 28. You Are both going to prison for a very Long the two men were found guilty of fraud theft and false accounting charges and remained behind bars. They have not been sentenced. They Are awaiting a second trial on Gold smuggling and customs and tax fraud charges. The two were Oxford University friends and Guppy was the Best Man at the 1989 wedding of Earl Spencer brother to Diana Princess of Wales. Prosecutors became suspicious of the insurance claim while probing the other charges against them. As the scam was Laid out by the prosecution the two men flew to new York with a collection of diamonds sapphires and rubies valued by Lloyd s of London at $2.6 million. They went through the pretence of offering the jewels for Sale to several Gem dealers at deliberately inflated prices before an accomplice robbed the mat gunpoint in Manhattan s Halloran House hotel on March 2,1990.the accomplice Peter Risdon testified that he tied up the men in their hotel room and fired around from his ,22-caliber revolver into a mattress for effect. Guppy and Marsh claimed they were framed by prosecution witnesses. Jewel merchant Darius Guppy and his unidentified wife head for court in London on saturday before his conviction for faking a Gem heist. Saddam seeks to Start anew with Clinton Baghdad Iraq a president Saddam Hus Sein told an american visitor that he wants to open a dialogue with president Clinton and a new relation ship with Washington the official iraqi news Agency reported believe that the president of the biggest country in the world. Needs to try Wisdom and not weapons in a quoted Saddam As saying late saturday in a meet ing with Ramsey Clark a peace activist and . Attorney general. Is he ready to listen to the viewpoint of Iraq sad dam was quoted As saying. If he is ready i simply believe that we can Nave the Way for building new relations based on Mutual respect. Regardless of what had happened Ina quote Saddam As saying. It was the first time that Saddam himself has asked for a dialogue with Clinton who took office Jan. 20. Previous overtures have come from government officials and the state run , making his third trip to Baghdad since the iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, was not immediately available to confirm or comment on the Ina has thus far maintained the Bush administration s hard line against Baghdad which desperately needs an end to the sanctions to sell Oil and rebuild its War battered praised what he called Clinton s anti War past an apparent reference to Clinton s opposition As a student to the Vietnam , a leading . Anti War activist served the Johnson administration As attorney general from 1967 68. Sex Leader of s. Africa accused of hitting Black Gardener Johannesburg South Africa a a newspaper said sunday that former president . Botha had been accused of assaulting a Black Gardener to worked on his property. Botha denied the allegation said the afrikaans language newspaper rapport which interviewed both the sex president and the Gardener Jan Louw. Rapport quoted Louw As saying the 73 year old Botha punched him in the fac four times last monday and then threw him off the property after accusing him of being drunk at work. Louw said he was not drunk and planned to file charges against Botha. Botha told the newspaper he never hit Louw but had fired him after the Gardener repeatedly showed up for work had worked on Botha s secluded property in wilderness for six years. Botha has rarely been in the news since resigning the presidency in 1989 after losing a Power struggle with younger More Reform minded generation in the government. He has expressed bitterness Over the racial reforms instituted by his successor . De Klerk and made a rare Public statement last year when he urged Whites to vote against the reforms in a referendum the referendum passed by a huge mar Gin giving de Klerk the mandate he sought to continue dismantling apartheid. Botha s 11 years in office were markedly racial violence and political turmoil which culminated in Botha s declaration of a nationwide state of emergency in 1986, de Klerk lifted the state of Emer gency shortly after taking office. British woman to take children on assault on Everest London up a Mother is aiming to be the first British woman to climb mount Everest and in tends to take her two Young children most of the Way with her news reports said saturday. Alison Hargreaves 30, will be Lead climber in a 60 Strong team of British scientists taking part in next year s British mount Everest medical expedition that is hoping to discover the cause of Altitude sickness. Hargreaves children Kate 2, and Tom 4, will join the climb although they will stay at a base Camp at 17,000 feet the daily Telegraph reported saturday. Obviously the children will be affected by the Alti tude but there will be lots of doctors around to look after them said Hargraves who was at a training Camp saturday near Scotland s 4,406-foot Ben Nevis Summit. While the children stay at the base Camp har Greaves eight doctors and three other no medics will make their assault on the 29,030-foot Summit. I am there As a climber Hargreaves said. I Don t have any medical experience although i might be a Guinea pig for the Mountain sickness strikes thousands of people expedition Leader Simon Currin told journalists. We intend to find out Why and make the mountains a safer the climb will take place in september next year
