European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 14, 1994 3rd suspect apprehended in Marine s fatal stabbing from wire reports Tokyo a investigators have taken a third. Suspect into custody in the stabbing death of a . Marine at an air station in Japan military officials said Friday. All three suspects in the killing of set. Michael a. Allen at the Iwakuni Marine corps air station near Hiroshima in Western Japan. All three serve in the same unit As Allen 22, did. Base officials denied allegations that the killing May have been motivated by ethnic tensions. Allens heritage was largely hispanic. At a memorial service conducted at the air stations Chapel wednesday a Friend of Allens Chi. William f. Weber read a poem in Spanish. Allens body was found floating in a drainage ditch with multiple Stab wounds May 4. His Hometown was Pittsburg Calif. Police janitor killed by Ira Belfast Northern Ireland a an Ira bomb killed a janitor Friday and injured his wife and their two children police said. The Irish Republican army said it planted the bomb which blew up under John Frederick Anthonys Blue Skoda in Lurgan 25 Miles Southwest of Belfast. A. A a. V. A. A police said Anthony 38, worked As a civilian cleaner at the Lurgan police station. His wife their 3-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son were hospitalized the Royal Ulster constabulary said. Ruc divisional cmdr it Tim Lewis said Anthony Quot posed no military or political threat to the Ira or any other the Ira fighting to end British Rule in Northern Ireland regards anyone working for the Security forces in any capacity As a legitimate target. S. Korea to join exercises Seoul South Korea a two South korean Navy ships with 360 sailors will join in naval exercises by Pacific rim nations starting in late May the defense ministry said thursday. The biennial exercises were first held in 1971 by the United states Japan Canada Australia and South Korea. This years exercises Are to be held in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean from May 26 to july 16, with two . Aircraft carriers and More than 60 other naval Craft participating the ministry said. 6 hanged for drug dealing Singapore a six malaysians who were a convicted of drug trafficking in three separate cases were hanged in Changi prison on Friday. Officials said Hanafian Bedullat who was arrested As he arrived by train from neighbouring Malaysia in december 1990 while in Possession of 4.4 pounds of cannabis. Mat Repin mamat was arrested in october 1991 at a Border checkpoint while trying to enter. Singapore from Malaysia. Officers said they found 2.2 pounds of cannabis hidden under the Gas tank of his Scooter. A Lai Kam Loy 27, was arrested by undercover police in May 1991 while delivering about 440 pounds of heroin the three others a tee Seh Ping Yeo Choon Chau and Yeo Choon Poh were sentenced to death for abetting Lai. The stars and stripes Page 5 Jericho is palest Iii As Israel troops pull out Jericho West Bank apr Israel took Down its flags Over Jericho on Friday handing Back the first West Bank town to palestinian control after 27 years of occupation. With the additional Transfer of much of the Southern Gaza strip palestinian police were deployed Friday morning in More than half the future self Rule area. Their arrival was evidence that Long awaited changes were taking Root eight months after the signing of the Israel Plo peace Accord. Quot it is not just any other Day a said israeli Brig. Gen. Gadi Zohar the military governor off the West Bank. A we Hope it is the beginning of a new Era a in Jericho the future seat of palestinian self Rule the turnover came in a series of Small ceremonies at the most visible symbols of occupation the police station military Headquarters and government buildings. Quot this is a very Small step on a very Long Road a said Saab Ere Kat a member of the Palestine liberation organization Council overseeing the autonomy. A it is a Nice feeling to see the soldiers leave the building where i was jailed a he said. A Jericho is palestinian a by the end of the Day More than 1,400 armed palestinian police brought in since monday were expected to be on duty in Jericho and the Gaza strip the two areas expected. To Start self Rule by wednesday. A Vanguard of about two dozen officers arrived in Jericho on thursday. The main body of about 400 palestinian police officers was working its Way toward Jericho from Jordan on Friday. Wearing Khaki uniforms and Green berets the police were accompanied by a Convoy of 20 vehicles Laden with Luggage and decorated with palestinian flags and portraits of Plo chairman Yasser Arafat. Israel seized both territories a the West Bank from Jordan and Gaza from Egypt a in the 1967 six Day War. About 20 years later the palestinian uprising began in a palestinian and 19 others 6 As Magdeburg Germany apr Neo nazis on a a Hunt for foreigners stormed turkish run food stands thursday and the turks fought Back with knives in a bloody Melee that left at least six people injured police said a Quot a. a a. / a. The turks were defending other foreigners who had sought Refuge inside their stands. Neo nazis later clashed with leftists who turned out to defend the foreigners and after Nightfall about 50 Neo nazis were arrested while rioting in the City Center said police spokesman Burkhard rampage was among the most serious in Post re unification Germany incited by hatemongers and the worst for Magdeburg an Eastern German state capital about 74 Miles West of Berlin. Scores of police struggled to control the spasm of violence the worst of its kind in a year in which Federal Security officials have been reporting a steady decline in Neo nazi attacks. A we have a rather Strong rightist scene Here in a sorry to say a said Jach. A we have always had pretty Good relations with our foreign residents. But today police Oft car is hoisted by cheering palestinians after he crossed from Jordan into Jericho on thursday. Gaza and quickly spread to the West Bank. Repeated clashes and deaths on both sides convinced Many israelis that it was time to negotiate a withdrawal. The self Rule plan includes palestinian control of health education Tounsi taxation and social welfare in All the occupied territories after a meeting in Gaza on thursday Plo official Khalid Al Oudra said he hoped the pales Tim ans would be Able to take Overall civil Powers by tuesday. The last israeli soldiers pulled out of the Southern half of Gaza before Dawn Friday allowing them to avoid leaving with palestinians looking on a or throwing stones. No ceremony was held. An israeli lieutenant colonel handed a few papers to Gen. Yusuf Abu Awdeh the Palms Tinian police commander in Khan Younis. Israeli troops withdrew earlier this week from the Deir Al Balah refugee Camp in the Center of Gaza and the Southern town of Rajah. N in a afraid its All been about 40 Neo nazis began the violence in Magdeburg a downtown pedestrian zone at Midas Lemoon after chasing foreign Asylum seckers into turkish owned Kebab and ice Cream stands Jach said. He said the skinheads Ages 18 to 30, threw benches through the windows then attacked the foreigners inside who defended themselves with bars and knives. Jach said that three germans and three turks were Hurt but that none of the injuries was life threatening. A the rightist radicals were out on a Hunt for foreigners a he said. A. A. Police arrested 15 people he said. But about an hour later rightists clashed again with turks As Well As with leftists who turned out to defend the foreigners. Several shots were fired but it was not Clear who did the shooting and it appeared no one suffered gunshot wounds. After Nightfall with about 300 police officers patrolling the City Center Neo nazis again assembled and threw rocks through the windows of establishments including the Well known Kugel Holitze cabaret Jach said. New York apr tobacco companies knew How to make a safer cigarette decades ago but decided not to for fear it would make their other products look bad the new York times reported Friday. The newspaper said the advances would have Cut the cancer causing substances in cigarette smoke reduced the amount of secondhand smoke and lessened the fire Hazard posed by cigarettes. Brown amp Williamson tobacco prototype Ariel patented in 1966, heated the tobacco rather than burned it thus avoiding most of the hazardous substances in tobacco smoke the times said citing internal documents. Brown amp Williamson never marketed the Ariel fearing safer cigarettes would make its other products look bad according to documents and interviews with scientists. The documents also suggest the cigarettes were held Back because smokers might have found them less satisfying the times said. Thomas Fitzgerald a spokesman for Brown amp Williamson told the times a from the description Given to us it appears you Are Basing your article on at Torney client privileged documents that were stolen by a former employee of a Law firm that worked for Brown amp he said anyone who knowingly uses a stolen information is contributing to a an illegal or. Gio Gori who has worked on the search for a safer cigarette Over three decades for the government and tobacco companies told the times that if the Industry had t been so worried about lawsuits a they May have solved the problems of a less hazardous cigarette some years a because of the hostility and litigation making a less hazardous cigarette would imply that the company a other products were hazardous a Gori said. Another Early Safe cigarette was invented by or. Thomas Mold assistant director of research for Liggett amp Myers and his colleagues the times said. Mold said that his group had created a safer cigarette in research that began in 1955 and that the product was ready for Market by 1979. But he said company executives took a vote on the advice of lawyers and decided not to produce a safer . Reynolds introduced a cigarette similar to the Ariel known As Premier in 1988. It was sold Only briefly. Company officials have said it had an unusual taste and odor that Many smokers did no to like. Brown amp Williamson is a subsidiary of the London based British Ain Crinan tobacco pc
