European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. September 11, 1995 the stars and stripes Page 5 London a Nick Leeson the trader who broke Britain s oldest investment Bank described in an interview screened sunday his panic As multimillion Dollar losses mounted but said he meant no harm. I hated every minute of it Leeson said in a bbl television interview at Hoechst prison in Frankfurt  was looking at massive figures massive losses every Day. I certainly wanted it All to  Leeson a plasterer s son raised in a Public housing project North of Lon Donand who flunked math in High school became a whizz id trader. His meteoric career ended in an International debacle in february when he brought Down the venerable 232-year-old brings Bank. Leeson manager of brings Singapore office was arrested in Frankfurt on March 2 As he tried to Fly Home after betting and losing v $1.38 billion on Tokyo markets. Looking fit Leeson blamed Lack of controls and offered to help regulators catch other traders operating unauthorized accounts. There is a Lack of control everywhere and there Are also degrees of concealment Leeson told interviewer David frost.". It s not like the first time it s happened arid presumably it won t be the  the bbl broadcast extracts from the interview and today will screen the full program the Man who broke theban. Leeson s offer to talk to regulators appeared to be part of his attempt to be tried in Britai instead of Singapore. He is fighting extradition on fraud and forgery charges and Hassid he would rather be jailed in Britain because Leeson he fears harsh condition san  authorities have so far refused to apply to extradite him. Part of what i Vas doing was detrimental to brings said Leeson who earned huge bonuses. It was never the intention. I was t looking to enrich myself personally through bonuses or any other  brings was bought in March by dutch group ing and is Back in operation. In july a Bank of England inquiry Laid most of the blame for the collapse on Leeson and criticized Baring for allowing him to make enormous unauthorized bets. The bbl said it did not pay for the interview. Leeson has acknowledge accepting Money for other deals including a Book to pay for his defense. Leeson looked serious except when he acknowledged failing mathematics in High school Don t think that was on of the reasons for the collapse of brings he said. It s not that i can count.  nature s Wrath Jerry Pavlon Blum looks out at what s left of his House As giant Waves generated by Hurricane Luis continue to Pound the Shore of fire Island n.y., saturday. Ten foot swells clawed away at Long Island s South Shore. In the Caribbean meanwhile Rescue workers reported two More deaths As the storm s toll Rose to 16. Astronauts grab errant satellite Cape canaveral Fla. A endeavour s astronauts chased and recovered a solar science satellite sunday that was spinning and facing the wrong Way because of an apparent Power problem. Nasa will not know whether the telescopes on the spartan satellite collected any data until endeavour returns to Earth next week and is unloaded. Commander David Walker and his Crew discovered that the satellite had shut Down automatically when they pulled up to retrieve it two Days after re leasing it. T Walker was forced to steer endeavour around the satellite. As the two Craft zoomed around Earth at 5 Miles per second he painstakingly lined up endeavour s Crane with the grapple pin on spartan ? More than 30 minutes later than planned Astro naut Michael Gernhardt reached out with the Crane and grabbed the satellite. He hauled the 2,800 Pound Craft into the cargo Bay where it will remain for the rest of the 11-Day Mission scheduled to end sept. 18. " " the 230-mile-High rendezvous was one of the shuttle Mission s major objectives. During its two Days of free flight the $8 million satellite was programmed  streams of charged particles hurtling from the Sun s North pole at 500 Miles per second. Gusts of the so called  can Knock of Power plants on Earth and can interrupt radio signals. Chirac lashes out at Savage bombers Paris a president Jacques Chirac on sunday condemned those responsible for a bomb wave in France As Savage animals expressing hate. H6 suggested they Are islamic militants but not a team of terrorists infiltrated into the country from outside. Chirac in a television interview said More soldiers would be added to the 1,800 already called up to help protect the nation from further attacks. He did not specify How Many More soldiers would be deployed. Security around the nation s schools was being stepped up ahead of today s classes with Barri Cades to prevent cars from parking. Cars in the new no parking zones were being towed by the hundreds. We Are looking at people who Are profoundly Funda mentalist apparently from the French Milieu directly or indirectly and who. Express a sort of craziness a sort of hate a total absence of respect for the human being the president said these people behave a Little like animals. Like Savage animals. Our problem is to find them and Stop them from  the bombings havq.,killed seven people and have injured More than 100 since july 25. Deaths of kids at Wall probed Berlin a prosecutors Are investigating the deaths of 20 children slain by former East Ger Man Border guards the killings hushed up by authorities Justice officials said sunday. Up to 600 people were slain trying to Cross the be Linwall or other sections of the Border from 1949 to 1989, Hen the Wall fell. Since then several East German leaders and More than a dozen former guards have been convicted of manslaughter. In nips cases the guards were sentenced to fewer than five years in prison. But authorities plan to seek harsh penalties in 16 cases under investigation in which children were killed said Uta Foelster spokeswoman for the Berlin Justice ministry. She said at least 20 child Cir were slain trying to flee East Germany. -. A.  the killings were covered up the families of the Vic Tims Given false accounts of what happened she said. In Many cases documents were destroyed or altered. Some of the children were shot by guards others by automatic machine guns that fired whenever sensors detected someone crossing the no Man s land on the Border according to a report in Der Spiegel Magazine. In the East German City of Magdeburg prosecutors have indicted two former East German soldiers who fired 51 shots at two 15-year-old boys fleeing across the Border at the town of Wurnig Croc in december 1979, Foelster said. _ .1 one of the boys died and the other was imprisoned with injuries n 7 in another Case guards opened fire on an entire family crossing a Field killing a 10-year-old girl said Otto Kretschmer just acc minister in Thuringia state. Deportees gather at Cam p be Struthoff France a former deportees joined dignitaries sunday at a commemoration at the Struthoff death Camp the Only nazi concentration Campon French soil. _ Premier Alain Juppe led More than 2,000 people including several Hundred former deportees and Resis Tance fighters gathered at the old Camp in the Vosges Region of Eastern France. A Large delegation of norwegians was among the former deportees present. The Camp was built by nazi German occupiers inlay 1941 in the Alsace Region annexed at the time by the germans and liberated in november 1944. The amp 30 Miles from Strasbourg held 40,000 deportees from All Over Europe. An estimated 10,000-15,000 of the prisoners died atthe Camp through overwork in the Rose Granite Quarry where they were enslaved or through torture gassing or so called medical experiments. Records show that 87 jews and 80 gypsies died from inoculation or inhalation of toxic Gas typhus germs or cyanide. Juppe Laid a Wreath at thu foot of a sculpture portraying a skeletal body then remit a memorial flame and heard a interdenominational prayer. He then walked along the Wall of memory to the former crematorium. The Camp was empty when it was freed by French troops the prisoners Ink been transferred to Dachau