European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday december 9, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 13captured . Lets taken to .s.r. Moscow apr two captured american f-86 fighter jets were taken to the soviet Union during the korean War but there is no proof any pilots were also taken a commission said wednesday. The russian american commission has been looking into the Fate of the thousands of american Servic members unaccounted for from world War ii and the korean and Vietnam wars. It has been pursuing suspicions that captured . Service members were taken to the soviet Union during the korean War in which soviet air forces helped North Korea Down hundreds of american planes. The . Defense department said last summer that it May have evidence of such transfers. The sides have confirmed that american pos were interrogated by soviet soldiers stationed in North Korea and China said the groups american co chairman Malcolm Toon. A but we do not have any documents evidence or facts that would support the version about the Transfer of american pilots to Russia a said russian co chairman Gen. Dmitry to Logonov a military historian. Toon a former ambassador to Moscow said the russians have recently turned Over excerpts from a seven volume soviet military intelligence study on the Vietnam War. Investigators publicized the f-86 finding one Day after Russia handed Over to the . Authorities a Gold ring belonging to american Pilot John r. Dunham. He was shot Down by soviet fighters Over the sea of Japan in 1952. A soviet Sailor Vasily Syko had retrieved the ring from the crash site. To Logonov said the ring was not conclusive proof that the Pilot was brought to the soviet Union. A a we have Only Vasily Sykos eyewitness account that the plane was shot Down Over the sea of Japan and that is not enough a he said. A we need to find Dunham s remains and we will mount a a c w is re i. By x / j j a a a t 11 0 v. A x k ex-. Embassy King Kong lives a in Madrid a King Kong sits with his lady Friend in hand on top of a installed by the French department store fac which skyscraper in Madrid Spain. The Gorrilla Model was recently opened its first Branch in Spain with spying for Kab Berlin apr a former German Secretary at the . Embassy has been indicted on treason charges for passing american military secrets to the soviet bloc authorities said wednesday. The chief Federal prosecutor said the defendant identified Only As 48-year-old Gabriele a., photographed the military secrets which included West German military information. She then hid the pictures in the lavatories of trains headed for East Berlin. There they were intercepted by East German intelligence agents. East German officers delivered the material to the soviet Kab according to the chief Federal prosecutor. The defendant worked As a Secretary and interpreter in the embassy a office of defense cooperation and was arrested in March 1991, the prosecutor s statement said. She is free on Bond. The prosecutor said Gabriele a received 170,000 Marks about $102,409 at today s Exchange rate for her work. A . Embassy spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity said the woman is German. She worked at the embassy from 1975 to 1990, he added. Girl kills herself in school Kar Ghitsa Greece apr a 14-year-old girl wednesday used a revolver to kill herself in front of her schoolmates after apparently breaking up with her Boyfriend. Police in this Central greek City said the girl who was not identified because she was a juvenile walked into the school washroom with four of her friends and pulled out a defends herself on iraqi arms sales London apr former prime minister Margaret Thatcher denied to a judicial inquiry wednesday that her administration ignored its own curbs on arms sales to Iraq. The inquiry is looking into revelations that Britain sold arms making equipment to iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein right up to his troops invaded Kuwait in August 1990, _ appearing impatient at times Thatcher said that when the War Between Iran and Iraq ended in 1988 there had been a a change of circumstances not a change of Britain had curbed sales to both countries in 1985. Thatcher told the inquiry that her government s rules on arms sales to Iraq were Only guidelines for civil servants. Quot they Are not strict Law and of course they have to be applied according to the relevant circumstances a she said. Quot they Are expected to be followed a that is Why we have _. For Thatcher prime minister from 1979 until november 1990, the key question is whether she deliberately misled parliament a year earlier. She said then that her conservative party administration had not broken a self imposed ban on sales of defense related equipment to Iraq. However months of testimony by civil servants and several government ministers Nave shown that the guidelines were quietly loosened when the Iraq loan War ended. Thatcher leafed through bundles of documents most of which she said she had never seen before. A a we re looking at documents with Hindsight Quot she told Appeal judge lord Scott who Heads the inquiry. A it was not a policy change or a significant change though i recognize that your lordship May take a differ ent the inquiry has no Power to recommend criminal charges. But the Thatcher appearance is Likely to revive controversy about the integrity of the administrations of Thatcher and her successor prime minister John major. Major has denied conniving in bending the rules and will appear before the inquiry in january. Last month a civil servant told the inquiry that lady Thatcher s november 1989 statement to parliament was one of a series of untruthful responses Given by government ministers. Eric Beston head of the Export control Branch of the Trade and Industry department from 1985 to 1990, said the replies contained a misinterpretations inaccuracies misleading statements and things which could have been done phone lets fingers to the blocking Tokyo apr japanese who receive nuisance Calls will be Able to Block further Calls from the same phone under a new system to be tested soon the nations largest phone company said wednesday. For six month tests starting dec. 20, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone corp. Will accept about 1,000 applicants who Are troubled with nuisance Calls said Kazuyuki Ito of not. The company wants to see How Welt the system works before introducing it nationwide he added. If a subscriber dials 1442 immediately after receiving a nuisance Call the new system automatically registers the number from which the Call came including Public telephones and rejects All further Calls from that number Ito said. The subscriber can dial 1449 to end All blocks he said. Arafat asks germans for help Bonn Germany up a Plo chairman Yasser Arafat on wednesday asked German business leaders to set up joint ventures and help establish a free Market Economy in the palestinian territories. Arafat said he wants to a take the German mentality to in a speech to members of the German chamber of Industry and Commerce Arafat said the Mideast peace process will Only work if the economic foundations Are set firmly. Arafat told about 200 leading business officials that the palestinian lands needed the Type of know How that Germany acquired when it rebuilt its Economy after world War ii and that of Eastern Germany after reunification. The Leader of the Palestine liberation organization said he wanted to establish a free Market Economy in a future palestinian state and urged German investors to set up joint ventures in the Region. He said the palestinians will have to Start from scratch and face a make or break situation
