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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes world Friday july 8, 1994 third suspect in slaying of soccer Star turns self in from the associated press Bogota Colombia a a third person wanted for questioning in the slaying of soccer idol Andres Escobar has turned himself in police said wednesday. Pedro gallon Henao brother of a suspect in the murder surrendered tuesday to the prosecutor eneral a office in Medellin colombians third Argest City. Police said gallon was at the scene of the slaying but they provided no other details. Escobar was shot to death saturday in the parking lot of a bar in Medellin because he accidentally scored a goal for the United states in colombians humiliating 2-1 world cup loss to the americans. Humberto Munoz a Driver for Gallons rancher. Brother Santiago gallon Henao has admitted that he shot Escobar police said Santiago gallon also is accused of participating in the slaying authorities have said he bet heavily on the colombian team and was upset that it failed to Advance in the tournament. Soviet Symbol survives Moscow a the soviet Hammer and sickle will remain on the pediment of the downtown building housing the Duma russians lower House of. Parliament the itar Tass news Agency said thursday. The dispatch said Deputy speaker Artur Chiling Arov promised communist lawmakers that the Symbol would stay preserve the a historic image of the building. The huge Stone Structure once housed the soviet state planning committee the committee known As Goslan was the quintessential soviet Agency that planned and controlled the entire Economy from a labyrinth of offices near red Square. Russia has a new Symbol the former czarist double headed Eagle and some lawmakers were afraid it might replace the Hammer and sickle the report said. Berlin a the people who made radio free Europe work know propaganda when they see it and some Are casting doubt on what president Clinton says about moving from Germany to the czech Republic. Clinton announced in Washington late tuesday his approval of the relocation of the cold War radio station and its sister station radio Liberty from Munich to the czech republics capital Prague. Clinton said he had been assured the move can be made within the drastically reduced budget limits set by Congress. A we Don t know what figures have been Given to the president to make him think it can be done within the budget a said Bess Brown a spokeswoman for the workers Council which is negotiating a Severance Deal. A the idea that the staff can be paid off and the building in Prague can be set up within the budget a its fantasy a she said in a Telephone interview wednesday. A a a. A. But a. Ross Johnson former interim president of the stations said the Cost had been considered. A i done to think the decision by Clinton would have come if there were serious reservations a Johnson said. The decision Means the stations will be a up and running in Prague by october 1995, he said. The staff which once numbered 1,600 worldwide horns of a dilemma a crowd of people scrambles for safety thursday after a Bull suddenly turned during he running of the bulls at the Start of the festival of san Furmin in Pamplona Spain the annual Bull run beginning on the seventh Day of the seventh month enables runners to show their bravery As they Tun ahead of the Bull sin the City streets. Move will be Down to around 450, probably including 300 who will move from Munich to Prague he said. About 800 now work in Munich. Some people of the staff doubt the move will be a Success but Johnson said the Heads of broadcast departments Are behind it. A a it a the Way they see to stay in business a he said. The move and cutbacks Are Radical changes forthe stations founded after world War ii As Central intelligence Agency backed broadcasters to Eastern Europe and the soviet Union. The Cia link ended in the Early 1970s, and the stations won More credibility for news about their target countries. Now some of those countries have their own free Media and its hard to justify a generous budget for radio free Europe while the United states also operates the voice of America to get . Views to a global radio audience. A. The czechs offered the former czechoslovak parliament building in Central Prague a vacant since the country split up in january 1993 a As a Low rent alternative to the stations expensive base in Munich. Staff morale plunged last year at the Munich stations which Clinton said tuesday had made a a significant contribution to the Victory of Freedom during the cold  a some radio staff members have filed suit in German court against their dismissal. Brown a los Angeles native who has worked for radio free Europe for 15 years said Many staffers fear management will have to go Back to Congress for a larger budget a and will be rebuffed. Congress has ordered the budget slashed to $75 million one third of its 1993 level by the fiscal year starting in october 1995. Some broadcasting services have been shut Down or privatized already. The radios archives said to be the most extensive on the communist world have been taken Over by a foundation directed by George sorbs a billionaire hungarian american financier. The move to the czech Republic is welcomed by some staffers. Prague is one of the most attractive cities in Post cold War Europe. But others who have taken Root in High wage Germany Are at a loss on How to find new jobs. Some Are in awkward Middle age and a they have spent their professional lives doing a kind of Job that a not transferrable a Brown said. Johnson said Severance pay required Quot under German Law is More generous than . Practice and an additional Severance package is now in arbitration. Tokyo apr in what May be the most critical Public remarks Ever made by a member of the Imperial family the brother of the late emperor Hirohito has called japanese actions in world War ii a a aggression and said the Imperial army behaved brutally. Prince Mikasa 78, also disclosed that a team from the league of nations that came to investigate Japan a invasion of China was served fruit laced with cholera germs. They did not develop the disease he said in an interview published wednesday in the yom Iuri Japan a largest newspaper. The interview was conducted after the recent discovery of a speech Mikasa gave during the War warning that the a cruel acts of japanese troops a repeated n s wartime acts rape plunder and killing of civilians a created Strong anti japanese feelings in China. Mikasa said he wrote the speech delivered to soldiers in banking in january 1944, a out of a desperate desire to bring the War to a  a i could make such bold statements because of my status As a member of the Imperial family a he said. Criticism of the army during the War was considered treason. Even in Mikasa Scase the army labelled the speech a a dangerous and tried to destroy All copies the yom Iuri said. But one was found in the National diet Library and a copy was obtained by t he associated press a such criticism of the military during the War was extremely unusual a said Yuichiro Hitoshi a researcher at the Library. Mikasa served As an officer in 1943-44 in banking where an infamous massacre known As a rape of Nan King took place in 1937, months after Japan entered a Fuli scale War with China. World War ii ended when Japan surrendered ini945. Hirohito who was the Imperial army a commander died in 1989. His wartime role remains controversial with some people holding him responsible and others believing he was an unwilling figurehead. A Mikasa said he wrote the speech to criticize the military for disregarding his older brother a Strong desire for peace. Japan a puppet government in banking Mikasa wrote was not intended to a Benefit China or to help the chinese form a unified stale. Instead it should be viewed As a makeshift trick in an attempt to cover up Japan a policy of aggression a a if one country intrudes into another nations territory it is nothing else but an invasion a Mikasa said in the interview. A the entire problem began when Japan tried to justify that  a chinese historians say about 300,000 people were killed in the City of banking by invading japanese soldiers. Japanese historians argue that the number was smaller and some deny that a massacre occurred  
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