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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 26, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 German terrorist convicted. Lof 79 bomb attack on Haig from wire reports Frankfurt Germany a German terrorist already serving a life sentence was convicted wednesday in the 1979 bomb attack on former nato commander Alexander m. Haig or. A Frankfurt court immediately sentenced Rolf Klemens Wagner to another life term. Wagner is former member of the red army faction a leftist group responsible for a series of attacks on German and . Targets during the 1970s and 1980s. The court found Wagner 49, guilty on three counts of attempted murder in the june 25,1979, attack on hat s car in Belgium. Haig who later became . Secretary of state escaped unhurt but three bodyguards were injured. Wagner began serving a life term 14 years ago following his conviction in the 1977 murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer president of the German. Employers association. Denmark oks nato unit Copenhagen Denmark parliament on thursday approved creation of a 4,500-person unit to join nato s rapid military reaction Force which will respond to emergency peacekeeping conflict settlement or Relief duties in Europe. Parliament voted 84-29 on thursday to create the Force by the end of 1995 and base it in the Southern town of  North Atlantic treaty organization agreed last year to create a rapid reaction Force to respond to requests from the United nations or the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe. Cuba to air Juk theory Mexico City a series to be shown on cuban to claims that two anti Castro gunmen and not Lee Harvey Oswald gunned Down president Kennedy three decades ago reports said wednesday. The cuban government news Agency Prensa Latina quoted the communist party newspaper grandma As saying the series is based on information provided by maj. Gen. Fabian Escalante font Formant years head of president Fidel Castro s Security detail. Louvre lists free Days Paris the louvre museum will be open free to the Public dec. 5 and 12, including the new Richelieu Wing that increases the number of Art works on display by 25 percent. Culture minister Jacques Toulon on wednesday announced the new free dates noting that 106,000people took advantage of free entry last saturday and sunday for the Wing s Public inauguration. Wolves return to Germany Bonn Germany wolves which virtually disappeared from Germany about 150 years ago have recently returned to the Eastern part of the country the government said thursday. Elk another rarity also have been spotted in the Eastern states of Sachsen Brandenburg an Mecklenburg Vor Pommert the government said in a  animals Are spreading into Germany from neighbouring Poland where they have adapted and survived Over the decades despite the presence of  Germany wolves were previously killed or driven out because of their image As murderous predators. Fairy tales such As Little red Riding Hood helped to fan the hatred of the wild animals. Wool now More a peeling Sydney Australia ranchers can now Peel rather than Shear the Wool off their sheep using chemical injection and special body stocking to keep the fur from falling in the  government developed technique will save time for shearers and reduce pain for the animals Pat Wilson of the Commonwealth scientific and Industrial research organization said wednesday. The sheep Are injected with a protein compound that temporarily stops cell growth in fleece Wilson said. The effect causes a microscopic break at each Wool  you pull the body stocking off the fleece peels off with it she said. New Wool starts owing Only a few hours after the break is made. Australia is the world s largest Wooi producer. Gadhof i wants Reagan tried for 86 airstrike Cairo Egypt apr Moa mar Qadhafi wants Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher tried for a 1986 . Air raid on Tripoli As the Price for Libya s co operation in the pan am flight 103 bombing. The statement was Libya s strongest hint that Gad Hafi has no intention of surrendering for trial two libyan intelligence agents charged in the 1988 bombing Over Lockerbie Scotland that killed 270 people. We ask for the Heads of criminals Reagan and Thatcher who Are wanted by libyan Justice Qadhafi said in a wednesday speech aired by libyan radio and monitored by the British broadcasting corp. In Lon Don.  Reagan then president ordered attacks on Tripoli and the libyan town of Benghazi in april 1986 in repro Kohl s Choice for president Sal for a bombing at a Berlin discotheque that killed an american Soldier and a turkish woman. Libya equally blamed Thatcher then the British prime minister be cause the . Warplanes flew from bases in Britain. The . Raids killed 41 people among them children and other civilians. Gad Haft urged the . Security Council to bring to Justice those responsible for the raid to prove a Lack of prejudice in imposing sanctions on Libya for refusing to surrender the suspects in the pan am bombing. We put the Security Council in the Dock Qadhafi said. Either it proves it is a Security Council for Allna tons. And brings those who committed this crime before the libyan courts or the Lockerbie Issue be comes a kind of  Bonn Germany a Chancellor Helmut Kohl s candidate to become the next German president with Drew from the race thursday amid criticism of his views on the holocaust women and foreigners. Steffon Heitmann a relatively unknown Eastern Ger Man politician has been under pressure to quit for months. Kohl accepted the decision but lambasted Heitmann s critics. This intolerable Campaign in which Steffen Heit Mann has been personally attacked and defamed is a disgrace for All those who participated in it Kohl said in a written statement. The world jewish Congress pro foreigner organizations and women s rights groups had opposed Heit Mann s candidacy. A Broad spectrum of German politicians even Many within Kohl s party also were against the Choice. Kohl had personally picked Heitmann the Justice minister of Sachsen state to be his candidate in a National Assembly that meets next May to replace presi Dent Richard von Weizsacker. Heitmann angered Many with his statements on sensitive issues. He said the holocaust cannot be forgotten but a special role for Germany cannot be derived from this up until the end of  to some it seemed tha Heitmann was suggesting Germany should Stop feeling Steffen Heitmann on thursday explains his withdrawal from the race to become Germany s next president guilty about the murder of millions of jews during world arh. Heitmann has also been quoted As saying the worries of German xenophobe must be heeded and suggesting that a woman s proper role is As a Mother. His withdrawal is a setback for the Chancellor who a Day earlier defended Heitmann in a speech to parliament. The president has limited Powers but symbolic clout. Weizsacker has earned respect abroad during his two five year terms with his Frank reminders that Ger Many must not forget the nazi Era. Holocaust trauma leads to release Amsterdam Netherlands a a prison in mate was freed after his incarceration triggered traumatic memories of nazi concentration Camps. Hans Kattenburg a 68-year-old jewish survivor of Dachau and Auschwitz suffered extreme psychological problems after going to prison in september for Money laundering his attorney Geert Jan Knoops said wednesday. A dutch court in the Hague ordered Kattenburg freed tuesday after reviewing a psychiatric report. It s apparently the first Case where a dutch inmate was set free because his wartime past makes it impossible to adjust to prison Knoops said. Kattenburg experienced nightmares sleeplessness and extreme nervousness while in prison according to the psychiatrist s report. Sometimes he would hide under his cot and no come out said Knoops. He was afraid of uniforms and of doors being closed. He was so distraught he considered  according to Knoops Kattenburg was horribly Tor tured by the nazis and was the Only member of his family to survive the War. Kattenburg was sentenced to two years in prison i september for laundering $153,000 taken in a string of robberies. He is appealing his conviction. Clockwork Orange author Dies at 76 London a Anthony Burgess one of the most prolific writers in the English language a composer translator linguist and critic died thursday after a Long illness his publishers said. He was 76. The Best known of his More than 50 novels is the futuristic fantasy a clockwork Orange written in 1962 and filmed in 1971. In addition to his fiction Burgess published at least 15 nonfiction works. A spokeswoman for Hutchinson his publisher said Burgess had been ill with Cance for some time and died in a London Hospital. Burgess left Britain in 1968, following the death of his first wife Lynne. Never As Well received in Britain As he was on the continent or in the United states Burgess said he Felt in Britain As though i was resented for being Able to write without too much  from 1969-1974, he taught in the United states at Princeton Columbia the University of North Carolina and the City College of new York. He then settled in the Mediterranean first Malta before being driven out by censorship Laws that Cut holes in his London times and finally in Mont  
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