European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world 3 sunday May 15,1994 Bonn Germany apr the governing coalition agreed Friday to Back legislation that would make it a crime to claim publicly that the holocaust is a lie. The legislation is expected to be approved next Friday by parliaments lower House the bundestag leaders of Chancellor Helmut Kohls conservative coalition said. Passage in the upper House was expected to follow. A. A a a a a a. Conviction on charges of disseminating the so called a Auschwitz lie a named after the nazi death Camp in Poland would be punishable by three years in prison. The charge would fall under the Public incitement Law. The Auschwitz lie that the nazi murder of 6 Mil lion jews in concentration Camps is fiction a has been used by right Wing extremists who claim Germany a reputation is being smeared by jews and foreigners. The Central Council of German jews said it hoped the decision would end the a pseudo scientific discussion of the feasibility of mass murder through  the nations highest court ruled last month that Freedom of speech does no to extend to Neo nazis who claim the holocaust never happened. That decision overturned a lower court ruling from March that threw out the conviction of a rightist who denied jews were systematically murdered by the nazis. Quot a a a a a a. A a a /. A jews denounce police after Melee Magdeburg Germany a the head of Germany a jewish Community criticized police follow ing a violent rampage by rightists saying Friday that they had failed to protect foreigners. V \ a spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl called thursdays bloodshed a a shame and said the government would do Alt it could to prevent further violence. The attack which injured she was the worst Street violence in Germany this  the comments by Kohls spokesman Dieter Vogel highlighted government frustration with the wave of rightist extremist attacks that began after reunification in 1990 but has been declining recently. In thursdays violence about 50 rightists chased five african Asylum seekers into a turkish run cafe then started fights that lasted on and off for six hours in downtown Magdeburg an Eastern German City of 270,000 people. Three foreigners were injured none seriously and three rightists were hospitalized with Stab wounds. A i can to understand How something like this can happen. That the police can to manage to protect people is a scandal a Ignatz Bubis the Leader of Germany s jew ish Community told the Cologne newspaper express. Bubis called for disciplinary action against the police. Blew a and said it was a a inconceivable that All those arrested were released without charge. Thirty five Young local germans and 14 foreigners were detained but All were freed without charges police director Antonius Stockmann confirmed. Stockmann defended his police Force. Quot the forces were too thinly spread out a he said. A we cannot on every Holiday when a lot of drinking is going on have a police Wagon stationed at every Street  thursday was ascension Day in Europe. The government expressed regret for the Melee. A cafe owner Arap Ozbay a native of Turkey who has lived in Germany since 1979, said that everything had been peaceful and that his cafe was jammed with about 100 people when the africans came running in pursued by the rightist hooligans. Windows chairs and dishes were shattered and his staff went at the hooligans with Kitchen knives to defend the africans Ozbay said. The rightists also clashed with police and threw rocks at government offices and stores police said. China releases prisoner it links to 1989 uprising from wire reports Beijing a bowing to . Demands that it free political prisoners or face Trade sanctions China said saturday that it had released a Man it claimed helped instigate the Tiana men Square democracy movement. Chen timing a Liberal scholar the government says was a a Black hand behind the 1989 movement was released late Friday on medical parole the official Xinhua news Agency said. His 13-year term had been set to end in 2002, although the government did not link his release to . Demands the timing made the linkage obvious. Chen a medical parole sought by his family for several years a comes just before president Clinton s june 3 deadline for deciding whether to renew China slow Tariff Trade status called most favored nation status. Clinton has said renewal depends on whether China has significantly improved its treatment of dissidents religious believers and tibetans. Billions of dollars Worth of Trade Are at stake. Just last month China gave medical parole to Wang Junta who ran a Liberal research Institute with Chen and was accused with him of being a backstage instigator of the 1989 protests. Go heading to korean jail Seoul South Korea a an american Soldier convicted of murdering a prostitute will be turned Over to South korean authorities this week the Seoul prosecutors office said. The nations highest court upheld the verdict last month and sentenced pvt. 2 Kenneth l. Markle Iii of Keyser w.va., to 15 year in jail for the 1992 murder. Under a .-South Korea agreement american service members accused of a crime remain in . Custody until the appeals process is Complete. Markle will be moved to a South korean prison tuesday officials said. \ Markle 21, was sentenced to life in prison for the october 1992 slaying of a South korean prostitute in her boarding room near the Headquarters of the . Army a 2nd inf div 30 Miles North of Seoul. The sentence was reduced to 15 years by an appeals court. 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