European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Sunday. Now Bof 7.1993 n. Korea May us. Official says Washington a the military standoff on the korean Peninsula is entering a danger zone in. Which a desperate and politically isolated North May launch an attack on the South a senior . Defense official said Friday. The official who spoke on condition he not be identified offered a mostly grim assessment of North Korea s stability and suggested that circumstances that have weakened the North s military May make it More Likely to attack. The official said North Korea s military capabilities have been damaged by the loss of support from the former soviet Union a severe shortage of fuel and the unwillingness of its remaining allies to sell it military hardware on credit. The North koreans have increased their production of military equipment and Are deploying it closer to the Border with South Korea the official said. We May be entering kind of a danger tone Here the official said. He spoke aboard defense Secretary Les Aspin s plane in route to Washington from Seoul South Korea where Aspin held two Days of talks on korean Security issues. At the state department press officer David John son said North Korea has Long deployed the bulk of its forces in heavily fortified positions North of the demilitarized zone and South of a line running from Pyong Yang the capital to the East coast. We know of no unusual troop movements or deployment of forces near the demilitarized zone John son said. The senior defense official said North Korea now has70 percent of its 1.1 million armed forces in the Border area Between Pyongyang and the demilitarized  said this represented an increased concentration of forces in the Border area Over the past three years. In1991 the defense intelligence Agency estimated that 65 percent of the forces were in the Border Irea. With North Korea s government isolated the official added the United states must think through what might cause them to make a grave miscalculation.". Rep Gary l. Ackerman d-., who visited North Korea from oct. 9-12 and met with the communist Dic Tator Kim ii Sung said in an interview Friday that he too saw an increased danger from North Korea. If boxed and trapped into a Corner we May see striking out he said. When you re boxed into desperation you have to break out somewhere. The South Isth logical place during Aspin s Asia trip last week government officials in both Seoul and Tokyo told him of their concern that efforts to impose . Sanctions on North Korea Over its nuclear program might be construed by Pyong Yang As a provocation. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 7,1983 under heavy fire forces Loyal to Plo Leader Yasser Arafat retreated from Nahr Al bared refugee Camp bordering the port City of Tripoli Lebanon and re grouped for a final stand at the near by Saddawi Camp. 20 years ago nov. 7,1973 president Nixon s personal Secretary Rose Mary Woods has 14 secret watergate tapes in her Possession including six Given her just a Day before a White House aide testified. 30 years ago nov. 7,1963 maj. Gen. James h. Polk the . Commandant in Berlin said the soviets misused their authority in arbitrarily detaining an american Convoy that they re leased after 41 hours. 40 years ago nov. 7,1953 Savage anti ital Ian rioting broke out again in the Adriatic City of Trieste increasing the number of dead from police fire to eight with the toll Likely to go higher. 50 years ago i nov. 7,1943 the . 5th army pierced the German defense lines along the Volturno River crossing the River Northeast of Naples Italy. Advances by the Brit ish 8th army along the Biferno River threatened to endanger numerous German positions. I world War ii i 50 years ago today nov. 7 1.9.4-3 japanese destroyers land 500 soldiers North of the american beachhead on Bougainville in the Solomons leading to a Day of heavy fighting in which most of the japanese Are killed. South of Rabaul in new Britain 100 japanese planes track Down the . Carriers Saratoga and Princeton but fail to inflict hits. Soviet troops push to Fastov. A rail Junction about 40 Miles from Kiev. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith Putty saw inc. World almanac Book at world we ii. Bison books corp. To i a american survivor of holocaust Washington a attorneys for an american holocaust survivor asked a Federal appeals court Friday to uphold his right to sue Germany for $17 million in War reparations. The German government is claiming Sovereign immunity from the suit filed by Hugo Princz 70, of Highland Park n.j., who spent three years in nazi death Camps during world War ii. But Princz s attorney Steven Perles says the enormity and barbarity of the crimes committed against Princz who is jewish qualifies him for an exception to the foreign Sovereign immunities act of 1976. In a hearing on the question of immunity chief judge Patricia Wald of the . Circuit court of appeals for the District of Columbia pressed Perles for any Legal cases where such an exception has been used. Are you not asking us to take some leaps we absolutely have no precedent for Wald asked Perles. I m not saying it s wrong but we have to leap off the diving Board of  Perles also argued that Princz s Case could be brought under a commercial exception to the foreign Sovereign immunities act. He said that by enslaving Princz in companies that fed the German War machine the German government forced him into a commercial Enterprise directed against the United states. Judge Douglas Ginsburg told Perles he did t see a direct effect of Princz s slave labor on the United states. Attorney Peter Heidenberger rep resenting the German government said the commercial effect was trivial and Tri vial effect is not  he also cited other cases where even if you have horrendous violations of International Law the Sovereign immunity still  he says Princz rejected a one time sum of about $3,000 and $300 monthly pen Hugo Princz left on Friday discusses his attempt to sue Germany with sen. Frank , in j., in Washington. The holocaust survivor seeks $17 million. Sion payments beginning aug. 1,1995. They would have been paid from a fund established in october 1992, follow ing German reunification to Aid persecuted Eastern europeans. Perles says that s not enough for what his client has been through. Princz the son of a naturalized Ameri can father was living with his family in Slovakia in 1942 when the germans de ported them to concentration Camps. He was the sole survivor following a torturous journey through Auschwitz and years of slave labor. Germany contends that As a . Citi zen rescued by . Soldiers just before the liberation Princz does t qualify for lifetime monthly payments made to Dis placed europeans freed from the concentration Camps. On that basis it rejected his 1955 application for reparations. The German government contends he could have applied again Between 1965 and 1969. When it broadened eligibility but Princz says he never knew of such an option. Princz sued the German government for $17 million in March 1992, and . District judge Stanley Sporkin ruled in his favor last december. In finding Princz had the right to sue Germany Sporkin wrote the court cannot permit such a nation which at the time these Barbaric acts were committed neither recognized nor respected . Or International Law to now Block the legitimate claims of a . Citizen by asserting . Law to evade its  Sporkin set  trial Date but Hei Denberger appealed. The appeals panel said trial could not go Forward until the immunity claim was resolved. First lady upbeat on National health care Niagara Falls . Up Hill Ary Rodham Clinton said Friday she Hopes that within a year National health insurance cards will be As common As Library cards. I be always had a Library card Qinto said. And by this time next year i Hope that All americans will be Able to carry a Library card and a health Security card ensuring them of the care they need when they need  she noted . Presidents As far Back As Franklin d. Roosevelt have called foursome form of National health insurance. Any country with a conscience must be sure its citizens have health Security she said in a speech to More than 2,000 librarians at a meeting of the new York librarian association. Her comments Drew enthusiastic applause. President Truman was stopped by those who did not want everyone to have the kind of care that the wealthy could afford she said. She said similar opposition is prevalent today. She did not address the specifics of financing the administration s proposed health care plan but she repeated he claim that americans with health care benefits already Are paying the Cost of treating millions of uninsured people. We have spent More Money than another country but we Haven t spent it right. We Don t have full coverage she said