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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Algiers Airport breach reported in hijacking from the associated pres Algiers Algeria Algeria conceded that a breakdown in Security at Algiers Airport resulted inthe hijacking of an air France jetliner and the killing of three passengers a newspaper reported thursday. It was the third hijacking this year of a plane that originated at the Airport in Algeria where More than 11,000 people have been killed in the Pas three years in clashes Between the military installed government and islamic fundamentalists. There there lapses and failures in the exercise of responsibilities government spokesman Ahmed Attar told algerian reporters the Independent newspaper liberte said. Attar would not elaborate on the mistakes saying an investigation was under Way the paper said. Houari Boum Dienne Airport limits Access to people with tickets. Police there Check passengers with Metal detectors and baggage is scanned an searched execution style slaying Frankfurt Germany a 33-year-old Manfrom Yugoslavia was shot and killed execution style in a downtown bar apparently by a countryman Frankfurt police said  shooting was the latest in a series of slayings that have claimed at least nine lives in recent months in German cities. Police blame most of them on organized crime spilling out of former communist countries. V police said a Man barged into the bar near Frankfurt s main train station tuesday night and fired several shots at the victim at close  ethnic albanian from Yugoslavia s Kosovo province died 15 minutes later. Immigrants head West Jerusalem More than one third of the800,000 jews who left the former soviet Union in the past five years immigrated to Western countries rather than Israel officials said. By the decade s end Only about 500,000 jews Are expected to remain in the 15 former soviet republics said the jewish Agency a quasi governmental Bod that brings jewish immigrants to Israel. In 1989, at the Start of the emigration wave fro the soviet Union about 2.1 million jews lived there. Of those that have left about 538,000 settled i Israel and about 261,000 moved to Western countries mainly the United states Canada Germany and Australia. In All some 80,000 immigrants went to Israel in1994, among them 67,000 from the former soviet Union the Agency said. Friday decembers. 1994 in the Wake of the quake a woman salvages a Box of clothing from her Home thursday along an earthquake damaged Road in a Chinche Northern Japan. A 7.5 magnitude quake wednesday night ripped roads open and wrecked Doz ens of Homes and buildings. At least two people were killed and 130 injured. A. Berlin a More than 100 serious offer poured in for 20 castles some of them ruins in a fairy tales for Sale offer by the Agency Selling properties inherited from the East German communists. Now we Are at the beginning of the hard work Ginter Himstedt director of the Agency said thurs Day. -.-. " -. ,. V he estimated it would take two years to completes Les and approve concepts for the properties most of them protected historical monuments that will require millions of Marks for restoration. The most surprising offer Himstedt told reporters was to convert one of the castles into a museum on the history of american indians. The Sale was marketed abroad and the strongest for eign interest came from americans who made 14 of the total of 276 offers. Himstedt said More than Hal the offers were rejected As inappropriate or unserious. About 90 percent of the offers came from  property turned out to be the ugly ducking of the fairy tale Sale no acceptable offers came for Schloss Basedow a Castle dating from 1552 in idyllic Lake country 75 Miles North of Berlin. But the 19 other castles got up to 16 serious offers. The highest bid would not be the Only criterion Himstedt said. A Good concept on what to do with the Castle or fortress How it fits into the town and local business these Are important he said. Enjoy Tours travel advisory our frequent traveler programs it presently exists will be discontinued effective 1 january 1995. No new frequent travel booklets will be issued after 31 december 1994. Booklets currently in circulation will be accepted for travel reservations until 1 february 1995. Travel need not be completed by 1 february but the bookings must fee made at your Community travel office. We Are in the process of revamping our frequent traveler program and will inform our clients through agents in the Community travel offices. Do not discard your unused booklets Stamps we shall inform you How they should be submitted to our office. Thank you for your understanding and patience. Enjoy Tours dead germ Cia had ties Pape r says Berlin a . Intelligence agents were in Contact with disgraced German politician Uwe Barschel on the weekend in 1987 when he died under mysterious conditions in a Swiss hotel Aberlin newspaper reported wednesday. The Berliner Zeitung said it was i Possession of two Cia cables that used code names one of them purportedly referring to Barschel for agents Gath ering in Geneva Switzerland to set up weapons sales and help free american hostages in Lebanon. In Washington the Cia Public affair office said it had no information on the Story. Barschel was found dead in the Bath tub of his room in the Beau Rivage hotel in Geneva oct. 11,1987, his blood Lade Witte sedatives. His death was thought to be a suicide but his family has always suspected foul play and last week Ger Man prosecutors decided to open a Mur Der investigation. The Berliner Zeitung said the Pur of Elci cables dated oct-10 Anill Lyon had been intercepted by the East German secret police and after German unification inherited by the German Federal intelligence  they have been made available to prosecutors in Lubeck who opened the murder investigation the newspaper said. Lubeck prosecutors refused to com ment on the report. Since Barschel s death stories have occasionally surfaced claiming foreign espionage Agency or agencies involve ment in the death and that Barschel was engaged in Clandestine weapons  there has never been official confirmation. Barschel had been governor of Schles wig Holstein state and a rising member of Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Christia democratic Union but he was exposed As having been involved in a dirty tricks political Campaign. He was forced to re sign in 1987 a few months before his death. The Berliner Zeitung Story said one of the purported Cia cables used the code name Perch for Barschel the Nam of the fish is Barsch in German and told Cia Headquarters that Perch was unyielding refuses Coop Erate in a meeting with four other people identified by code names. The newspaper speculated that the Ca Bles could show Barschel involved in a weapons Deal that fell through  
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