European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 11,. 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 Navy says it did t impede chinese ship bound for Iran from wire reports a Manama Bahrain a the . Navy denies that it stopped or harassed the chinese ship that Washington suspected of trying to sail to Iran with ingredients for chemical weapons. A we have not physically impeded Progress of the Jyi Nghe at any time a it. Cmdr. Bruce Cole spokesman for . Naval forces Central come in the persian Gulf said monday. News reports monday said that chinese officials had accused . Navy vessels of harassing the ship in an attempt to Force it to turn Back. Cole said the ship was being tracked because . Intelligence had reason to believe the ships cargo included Chiodi glycol a component of Mustard Gas and Tai Only Chloride an ingredient in nerve Gas. The United states has Long suspected China of providing nuclear and chemical weapons technology to countries in the Middle Hast and other regions of conflict. Mexico returns chinese Mexico City a group of 76 chinese illegal aliens apprehended in different parts of the country has been flown Back Home by the mexican government in a chartered plane. The Interior department said monday that 55 of the aliens were caught As they sneaked in through the Border with Guatemala. The rest were caught in other locations. Last month 629 chinese aliens in three boats headed for the. United states were brought to Mexico at the request of the Clinton administration and flown Back to China. Con men charge $18,240 London a three would be gardeners fooled an 82-year-old woman into paying 12,000 pounds a about $18,240 for an hour s Light labor a police spokesman said tuesday. The men one said to be in his late 60s, pulled Down a few branches and tidied the Garden before demanding the sum As payment. The woman was confused when the three asked her to write out a Check for the work said an Essex police spokesman sgt. Michael Davies. The woman lives alone at Holland on sea Essex 60 Miles Northeast of London. The incident occurred july 29, but police did not learn about it until a neighbor dropped by the woman a House for a Chat and noticed her Check Book bearing the Large sum. The Check has since been cashed in Northern England. Davies appealed for anyone who had been conned by the same methods to Contact police. Sex police official executed Rabat Morocco a a former Casablanca police commissioner has been executed by firing squad for forcing More than 500 women and girls into sexual acts he videotaped. Mohamed Mustafa Tabet was executed at Dawn monday according to a Justice ministry announcement. An investigation showed Tabet 54, had lured or forced More than 500 women and girls into an apartment he kept for sexual exploits. Investigators found 118 videocassettes made Over several years with cameras hidden in the bedroom Walls. 2 beheaded after eloping new Delhi India a a Young Indian couple who eloped were sentenced to death by their Village Council and publicly beheaded the press Trust of India reported monday. The executions were carried out last weekend in the Village of Handar Awali 60 Miles Northeast of new Delhi five months after the elopement the news Agency said. The couple were identified Only by their first names Satish and Sarita. They had returned to the Village to seek their parents blessings when they were caught and summarily tried by the Council the report said. The beheading generated tension in the Region prompting authorities to Send in police reinforcements the news Agency said. The Man who carried out the beheading with a sword was arrested. Cia chief picks up body in Georgia Tbilisi Georgia a Cia. Director r. James Woolsey or. Flew to the capital of Georgia on tuesday to retrieve the body of a slain american Diplomat. Woolsey who had been visiting Moscow was met at the Tbilisi Airport by the georgian head of state Eduard a. Shevardnadze a former soviet foreign minister. After the two men Shook hands an american Flag was draped Over the coffin of Fred Woodruff 45, and the coffin was loaded into the . Government Boeing 707 that brought Woolsey from Moscow. Woolsey conferred with Shevardnadze for about an hour in a cordoned off Section of the Airport then left with Woodruff body. It was not Clear when the body would be returned to the United states. Woodruff an Oklahoma native was killed sunday by a Bullet fired into his vehicle. He had been Woodruff travelling with the head of Shevardnadze s Security Eldar Gogol adze and two other georgians. Gogol adze was not injured and greeted Woolsey at the Airport. Woolsey was accompanied by representatives of the Fri and the Cia georgian television reported. A .-georgian investigation into the shooting is under Way. Shevardnadze suggested that criminals were to blame while Interior ministry spokesman Valerian Gogol Shvili said the crime could have been Ordinary or political. A Ordinary because this is a dangerous Region where car thefts arc common a Gogol Shvili said. A political because the car had georgian state plates.�?�. . Embassy official James Hutchinson said that with Only one Bullet fired a we arc keeping an open mind As to whether it was an incredible Accident or otherwise.�?�. Embassy officials have identified Woodruff As a regional affairs officer posted temporarily to the political Section of the embassy in Georgia. Hutchinson said Woodruff was based in Washington and had visited Georgia at least three times. He refused to discuss reports that Woodruff worked for the Cia and that american advisers had been training Shevardnadze s bodyguards. The United states recently has begun to take a More Active role in mediating conflicts across the former soviet Union. The Interior ministry said Woodruff and Gogol adze were Riding in a four wheel drive vehicle with government plates. Someone fired into the vehicle sunday night near Nat Akhtari a Village about 15 Miles Northwest of Tbilisi. In Washington state department spokesman Michael Mccurry said Woodruff died on the Way Home from an unofficial tour of the Kazbegi District Northwest of Tbilisi and of a military Highway linking Georgia and Russia. Reportedly offers to pay in Cairo Egypt apr a senior libyan official said monday that his country is willing to compensate families whose relatives died in the bombings of pan am flight 103 Over Scotland and a French jetliner in niger Egypt a state run news Agency reported. Ibrahim cd be Shari libyans Delegate to the Arab league told the Agency that Tripoli has made Steps toward satisfying . Demands. He did not elaborate and could not be reached for further comment. His remarks come just Days before the . Security Council is to review sanctions imposed against Libya in april 1992. The . Body ordered an air arms and diplomatic embargo after the government refused to hand Over two libyans indicted in the United states and Britain in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103. The plane exploded Over Lockerbie Scotland killing 270 people. French authorities want to question four other suspects including libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi a a brother in Law in the 1989 bombing of a French Uta Airliner Over niger in which 171 people were killed. In the past Libya has offered to turn Over the two suspects in the a an am bombing to a Neutral third country and Topay compensation if they were tried and found guilty. The Security Council turned Down that proposal. Families of pan am victims have pressed the . Government to step up punitive measures against the North african  have included an embargo on Oil exports which provide 90 percent of Libya s foreign currency or the freezing of libyan assets abroad. Al be Shari was quoted by Egypt s Middle East news Agency As saying that he docs not expect the Security Council to toughen sanctions. Chinese Man with bottle of acid forces Airliner to land in Taiwan Taipei Taiwan apr a chinese Man who said he would rather die in a free country than live under communism hijacked an air China plane to Taiwan on tuesday. He was arrested on arrival and no one on Board was Hurt. The air plane and its passengers and Crew returned to China just vhf hours after Landing at Taipei International Airport police said. There were 25 foreigners aboard but police did not know their nationalities. Flight ca973, a Boeing 767, was carrying 137 passengers and 13 Crew members from Beijing to Jakarta Indonesia when it was hijacked in Southern China near the Taiwan Strait police said. China a official Xinhua news Agency said the plane held 137 passengers and a Crew of 15, totalling 152. The differing figures could not immediately be reconciled. Police said the Hijacker carried a bottle of acid and threatened to pour it on passengers if the plane did not Fly to Taiwan. He was identified As Shi Yuebo 30, from Hebe province near Beijing. As he was led handcuffed from the Airport police station he said he was fleeing communist Rule and had planned the hijacking for a Long time. A i oppose the communists one party Rule in China a he said. A people in China Are living in desperate  asked whether he knew that hijacking was a capital offence he replied a i would rather die in a free society in Taiwan than live in  the plane was headed to Jakarta via Xiamen a City in China a Southern fijian province across the Taiwan Strait said Yang Jin a spokeswoman for the civil aviation administration of China which oversees China s airlines. The plane landed safely in Taiwan at 12 23 . The hijacking was the third from China to Taiwan since april. In june a chinese Man armed with a toy gun and a knife hijacked a chinese Airliner carrying 62 people to Taiwan. In april two chinese men with handguns forced a China Southern airlines Boeing 757 to Taipei. In both previous hijackings the hijackers requested political Asylum. Taiwan returned the planes and All aboard except for the hijackers within hours. The hijackers in both incidents Are waiting trial on Taiwan on hijacking charges. They could get the death penalty but this is not Likely to be imposed