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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday novembers 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 11 Ikea chief attended nazi meetings in 40$ Stockholm Sweden a the founder of Ikea the worldwide Home furnishing retailer said monday that he attended nazi meetings in the 1940s because he admired the group s anti communist stance. This is a part of my life that i bitterly regret Ingvar Kamprad 68, said in a statement issued in response to an investigation published monday by the Stockholm daily expressed. Kamprad said he attended meetings led by the swedish rightist per Engdahl Between 1945 and 1948 because he admired and shared eng Dahl s fanatical anti communist  Engdahl has since been identified As one of Sweden s leading pro nazi activists of the period. At first i got in touch with a pair of nazi fief organizations and perhaps i even became a member i have forgotten Kamprad said. However after a couple meetings in pure nazi style i  Kamprad now one of Sweden s richest men said he was at the time a naive Young Man driven by a fascination with his own German heritage Kamprad s family immigrated to Sweden in the 19th Century. R comes Bonn to give up serb the Hague Netherlands a in the first International War crimes hearing since world War ii the yugoslav War crimes tribunal asked Germany to sur Render jurisdiction in a torture murder Case against a bosnian serb. The panel of three judges ruled tuesday from be Hind bulletproof Glass and protected by , armed guards. Anti serbian demonstrators marched outside As the hearing took place before an overflow crowd in a room rented from an insurance Agency. Presiding judge Adolphus Garibi Whyte of Nigeria said Germany must take All necessary Steps to comply with the tribunal s request for jurisdiction in trying Dusan Tadic. The court did not ask for Tadic in person. Tadic would become the first International War crimes defendant since the Niernberg and Tokyo War crimes trials of the 1940s. Germany had no objections to handing Tadic s Cassover to the tribunal which cannot try suspects in Absen Tia. However it had noted constitutional and Legal bar Riesto surrendering Tadic s Case. Tadic accused of murder torture forced  gang rape was identified last february by a bosnian Muslim in a German refugee Center and is being held in a Munich prison. German authorities indicted him monday on 15 counts of genocide and 10 of murder. Prosecutor Richard Goldstone opened the hearing by lamenting that the Nurnberg trials of nazi War criminals had failed to end crimes against , a 38-year-old former bar owner and karate instructor allegedly helped create death lists of Muslim citizens and was involved in forced deportations. Tadic and a group under his command summarily executed unarmed non serbs according to eyewitness accounts noted by Goldstone citing a statement by american War crimes investigator Michael Keegan Goldstone described How Tadic and others beat three prisoners unconscious with Metal rods and truncheons at a concentration Camp run by bosnian serbs. Tadic then forced a fourth prisoner to drink motor Oil and bite off the Testicles of the three beaten prison ers who subsequently died according to Keegan s statement. V in court tuesday judge Elizabeth Odio Benito of Costa Rica noted one significant change from earlier War crimes courts. A rape is for the first time being considered As a crime against humanity she said. There will be no Justice unless women Are part of that  Iraq to Over Moscow a Iraq is ready to Bow to a key . Demand and recognize Kuwait s Borders formally the Russia foreign ministry announced tuesday. The announcement came after foreign minister Andrei Khz Prev met with the iraqi Deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz. The itar Tass news Agency said Aziz delivered a letter for president Boris Yeltsin from iraqi Leader Saddam Hus Sein concerning iraqi recognition of Kuwait s Borders and sovereignty.". Recognition could be a step toward lifting bruising . Sanctions a move Lertg sought by Russia that were imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Saddam s decision also would help ease the tension caused by iraqi troop movements toward the kuwaiti Border Las month. The United states has headed a Multi National Force that faced Down Saddam s latest threat to the Region. Saddam told Kozarev last month that he would recognize Kuwait s Borders. But the . Security Council was not Content with his informal pledge and insisted that Iraq s revolutionary Council and its parliament make the recognition official / v. \. ,. Foreign ministry announcement said Iraq is ready to comply. It said Yeltsin ordered Kozarev to travel to the Iraq capital Baghdad to negotiate Iraq s recognition of Kuwait. Kozarev is to go to Baghdad today. Moscow once Iraq s main source of arms and a major trading partner has been pushing to end the . Sanctions so Iraq could begin repaying its $7 billion debt to Russia. Russia and Iraq also signed a $10 Bil lion agreement in september for an array of Industrial and Oil projects in Iraq that would follow the lifting of sanctions. Proforma exercise equipment demonstration army & air Force Exchange service  
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