European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Castro says he d leave if conditions improve m # a Santiago Cuba a president Fidel Castro says he would like to leave office if the country a plight improves. Castro was asked during a two hour news conference with foreign reporters late wednesday if he expects to be president in 1998. A i Hope it will not be necessary. We will have to see life will say a. Cuba since the 1959 communist revolution. What life will say a said the Man who has dominated Castro was speaking after the country a first popular elections since the revolution balloting in Wincn no candidate faced an opponent or disagreed with the communist party line. A a time passes and Marathon runners get tired a he said. Quot this has been a very Long race too in his news conference which covered a Range of topics Castro said the More than 30-year . Trade embargo remains cubans biggest problem and indicated he leave office As Long As it remains in effect. A i feel i am a slave of the revolution a he said. �?�1 Hope conditions in five years arc different from what they Are Castro said president Clinton seems a very different Man from George Bush. He called Clinton a a Man who is not a warmonger and who looks to be a Man of peace. This docs not mean he will change the policy toward Clinton has said he does not intend to change . Policy toward Cuba. Castro said earlier As he voted at an elementary school that he did no to think wednesdays elections would persuade the United states to warm toward Cuba. A he said the embargo was causing hardships a but we will not give up our Flag. We will not Cuba has also been Hurt by the collapse of the soviet Union and its trading Alliance. Cuba did 80 percent of its Trade with those nations and were a source of cheap Oil. A now there is no socialist Camp and the result has been a hard blow to our Economy a Castro said. A still we Are withstanding the difficult circumstances. It is a test we arc passing. It has proved our cubans Are being squeezed by rationing and shortages that have made meat a luxury. Gasoline food clothes tobacco and soap Are All rationed or unobtainable without dollars. Yet the revolution has had its benefits such As Universal health care and education. Canadian press Fidel Castro is mobbed wednesday on a visit to Al Cobre a City 500 Miles East of died in Paraguay police report says asunci6n, Paraguay apr Martin Bormann Adolf hitlers top aide who dropped from sight after world War ii died of stomach cancer in Paraguay in 1959, according to a confidential police report published wednesday. The newspaper Al Diario do Noticia printed photocopies of what it claimed was a 1961 report by agent Pedro pro Kopchuk of the Interior ministry a political police to his Boss. Prokopchuk stated Bormann lived in Paraguay for three years. He died in Asuncion on feb. 15, 1959, and was buried two Days later in the town of it4,25 Miles to the South. The report was full of details. According to Prokopchuk West German intelligence knew exactly where Bor Mann was living in Paraguay. Also Bormann was treated by another notorious nazi fugitive medical doctor and Auschwitz concentration Camp official Josef Mengele at the end of 1958. The burial was attended Only by the cemetery administrator the truck Driver who brought the coffin from Asuncion and two other people Prokopchuk wrote to Antonio Campos Alum the chief of the political police. It was impossible to confirm the authenticity of the report which Noticia news printed on Page one and jumped inside to two entire pages. The . Embassy in Asuncion said it did not have enough information to comment. Nazi experts at the anti defamation league in new York and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in los Angeles were unavailable for comment if True the news would Clear up a mys Tery that has intrigued historians for decades what happened to Bormann hitlers no. 2 was sentenced to death in absent a at the Nimberg trial in 1946. However by that Point he was believed to have committed suicide. Stories that he was sighted in latin America nevertheless cropped up from time to time. One version had him escaping to Argentina on a submarine Laden with Gold and jewels stolen from jews who had been sent to their deaths at concentration Camps. Many feared infected his Jerusalem a a prostitute who was tested for aids two years ago but never picked up results showing she was his positive has since had sex with thousands of men an israeli newspaper reported wednesday. Rachel Nissan 23, of Tel Aviv found out a month ago that she was carrying the aids virus after she went for a second blood test the daily Edioth a Ronon reported. Nissan told the daily that since her first aids test in january 1991 she had sex with at least six men a Day to finance a heroin habit thus exposing thousands of men and their subsequent sex partners to infection. Until now Israel has had relatively few aids victims. Health ministry statistics show that Rachel among the population of 5.1 million 154 people have died of aids and 73 others have the full blown disease. The ministry said 1,010 people carry the aids virus. Nissan told Edioth she would sue both Echilov Hospital where she had the 1991 aids test and the health ministry for negligence. She argued they did not do enough to try to find her. Or. David Goldray acting director general of Echilov said the Hospital tried to reach Nissan after the 1991 test but she never showed up at the drug treatment Center she gave As an address. A the Hospital did everything it could to find her a Goldray told the associated press. He said Nissan did no to Tell the Hospital staff she was a prostitute but a health ministry statement wednesday said Nissan did inform doctors of the fact. Nissan took Nissan the first aids test because she wanted to enter a drug treatment Center and the test was a condition for being accepted she went Back to drugs however and never showed up at Echilov to pick up the results. A arabs israelis to be invited to reopen talks in May Geneva Switzerland a would be held in Washington a during Secretary of state Warren m. Christo the month of Pher said thursday that Arab and is Christopher did not say whether the Radelt negotiators would be invited in palestinians were not willing to re april to resume stalled peace talks the sume bargaining with Israel Over Lim following month. A the very Strong consensus in the Middle East is that the parties want to return to the negotiations Quot he said at a joint news conference with russian foreign minister Andrei a Kozarev. The Surprise announcement came Only hours after Christopher concluded a seven nation trip to the Middle East. He had said wednesday he was unable to set a Date for the resumption of Middle East item self Rule on the West Bank and in Gaza. Christopher said the United states and Russia As the official cosponsors of the talks were issuing invitations a based on the judgment about when the parties would be willing to Kozarev said meanwhile that a palestinian delegation had been invited to Moscow for talks. Later in a joint statement the co sponsors said Israel Arab talks place Christopher governments and the the Kristopher palestinians a have Reaf the announcement firmed their Strong that invitations would be issued could commitment to the peace process and be a pressure tactic to compel the pal emphasized their determination to re estonians to drop their objections to a sume the negotiations in the near fun .-israeli agreement on a phased a but not immediate total a return of 396 deported palestinians. The statement said the negotiations however the statement also said a fall sides must take additional Steps to realize a historic
