European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars vol. 52, no t03 soc Friday juy 30, 1993 d 8693 a Navy jets fire on 2 iraqi Sites during patrols Washington a two . Navy jets flying separate patrols in the Southern no Fly Over Iraq on thursday fired at suspected surface to air missile Sites after the aircraft were illuminated by radar the Pentagon said. One incident occurred at 5 30 . Not an the other two hours later a statement said. Afterwards the two ea-6b prowlers returned safely to the aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln the statement said. The Abraham Lincoln is on patrol in the persian Gulf. Each aircraft fired a single anti radiation mis Sile at a different site. The Sites Are about 80 Miles South of the 32nd parallel. Damage assess ments were not immediately available the statement said. Asked about the incident by reporters presi Dent Clinton said there is nothing out of the Seo Navy on Page 2 vital air controllers preparing to direct nato jets in Bosnia by Kevin Bureau nato fighter pilots assigned to operation deny flight Are ready to strike serbian targets in Bosnia an Herzegovina to protect . Forces but Are waiting in part for Forward air controllers on the ground to take up strategic positions military officials in Europe said thursday. The air controllers arc an essential element that have to be in place before the . Ground forces could request air support said army la. Col. Handy Schoel a nato military spokesman. Pilots by Trade Forward air controllers help guide fliers to ground targets using radios or laser designators. Published reports have put the number of . Controllers in Bosnia at about 100. Israel High court throws out demo Cmuk s death sentence Jerusalem a the israeli supreme court unanimously acquitted retired Ohio Auto worker John Domjan Ink on thursday of being the sadistic nazi death Camp guard Ivan the Terri a ble and threw out his death sentence. In ordering him set free the five judges said his guilt could not be proven beyond reasonable doubt though they were convinced he had belonged to a nazi unit whose Mission was to exterminate jews. Outside the court the ruling was met with shouts of disbelief and anguish. In bide Demjan Juk 73, listened impassively in the Dock Ait chief Justice Cir Shamgar announced the acquittal. Do Manjuk s son John jr., wept and said he was glad to see that they the judges actually had the courage to Stop the in Washington an official said dem Manjuk would not be allowed to return to the United states Demjan Juk had argued that his 1988 conviction wan a Case of mistaken identity and steadfastly denied he had been the brutal guard who Tor tured jews As they went to their deaths at the Treblinka death Camp in Poland. His conviction had been based on dramatic testimony by five Treblinka survivors who said he was but documents that emerged after the collapse of the soviet Union in 1991 offered conflicting evidence. Israel said it will not pursue additional charges and served him a deportation order immediately after the ruling but it was not Clear where Demjan Juk would go. Lie has been stateless since the United states stripped him of i citizenship in 1981, and the israeli Interior ministry said he was returned to an israeli jail until a country could be found to take him. Darn Manjuk s family appealed to . Authorities to restore his citizenship. But the Justice department said thursday that he would not be allowed Back into the United Stales because he lied about his wartime Active John Demjan Juk Cente accused of being a nazi death Camp guard Miles thursday after being acquitted by the israeli supreme court. Tics on immigration papers. A Likely destination is his native Ukraine and officials there said he probably would be admitted. About 150 people watching on closed circuit television outside the courtroom screamed in anguished Dis belief when Demjan Juk was cleared. Shouts of can you believe it rang out inside the supreme court building. One Spectator was arrested for throwing a Rock at defense attorney Yoram Sheftel s car. I am in Shock deep Shock said Josef Czerny one of the Treblinka survivors who identified Demjan Juk As Ivan in court. The judges have made a mistake. They have committed an injustice. That is him the War holocaust survivors set up Telephone hot lines in and Vance of the session for people whose old wounds May be ripped open by the decision. Nazi Hunters had said an acquittal could Dampen efforts in the West to try nazi War criminals. In placet Mich at Boutin where the terrain it i out and often difficult to Duli Ngueh Forward an control Icart guide Pilot to specific Tarket jul dial a pc possible. Their role to Gnit Ficini in populated areas where precision i Paramount the Prospect of nato s lifting air Power against the serbs in Bosnia increased this week when French peacekeepers Carne under fire in Sarajevo the bosnian capital. . Officials expect Gen Jean cot the Trench commander of . Peacekeepers in Bosnia Boon to declare that preparations for air cover operations have been completed. While the initial intention was to provide cover Lor bosnian Stihl Amft in to called area the United Coo nato on a fifth 2 German Bank refuses to drop key discount rate writer Germany s Central Bank disappointed in i non pain neighbors Thumley when it declined to re Duce its key discount rate n move co nominal had hoped would help fit Abill a Lii rope an Motif markets but the Bundesbank Mccain of in i rank furl lot the last Lime before Fakiri a our week summer break a had those Hopes when Board a Nernberg refused to lower the rate the Bundesbank clearly said today that in internal obligation arc overwhelming and Are Rul ing their Jochen Schober chief economist of the Landes Bank in j Frankfurt said thursday. The Bundesbank k sticking to in objective of fighting european government and economic Leader had hoped that the German Hank would Cut ill rates this week. At stake officials said were the stability of other european currencies the Chance of Over coming the continent s recession arid sending a Many As 20 million people Back to Vork and tie survival of the dec s plan for european economic Union. But at the conclusion of its meeting churn Day too Dank on r Fojo Senate judiciary committee gives thumbs up to Ginsburg Washington a Hie Senate judiciary committee voted unanimously thursday to confirm supreme court nominee Huth Lade Limburg j Inal approval by the Senate Likely within a a Eek would put two women on the Hiji court for the first time the committee voted j8-0 to elevate the my year old Jurist
