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Prussian general who was a leader in Ger the accusing officers had taken leave of their StateDept. undercuts many's Wars of Liberation against Napo senses. So far, the conservative opposition leon. Bonn Defense Minister Manfred W6r party leaders Adelson and Westerberg have PLO's anti-terror effort ner issued an Order of the Day, which em supported Socialist Palme on this issue. phasized that in 1955 Scharnhorst was cho "We hopethe Americans will reconsiderthe sen as the example for the new Bundeswehr, campaign theyhave been waging against the "because he forged the close alliance of the PLO for over a month, accusing it of terror Soviets protest to Armed Forces with the nation, and because h ism to exclude it from t e peace process," he had the courage to dare the new." Turkish media on Palestine Liberation Organization spokes The Bundeswehr started out with 101 man Ahmed Abdel-Rahman said Nov. 7, soldiers 30years ago. Between January1956 'Global Showdown' after the release of Yasser Arafat's "Cairo and December1960, the Forces,Armed built The leading Turkish dailies Milliyet and Declaration."The declaration confinned the on the principle of mandatory conscription, Tercueman gave front-page coverage to PLO's 1974 resolution to ban terrorism, developed a manpower strength of 350,000 EIR's Global Showdown special report on adding that it would take "drastic measures soldiers in a crash program. Today, the Bun to punish violators." Oct. 23 and Oct 25, respectively, focusing deswehr hasa conscript strengthof 490,000. on the Soviet threatto Turkey, as well as the Another spokesmansaid, "If the United soldiers and 140,000 reservists. States and Israel appreciate the move, then threat posed by Moscow's clients Syria, the PLO will consider other moves. Accept Bulgaria, and Greece. Tercueman features GlobalShowdown ance of U. N. Resolutions 242 and 338 can Palme's lies denounced by' an interview with . co-auc be among future moves." thor Konstantin George. However, State Department spokesman Swedish military officers In response, Soviet Ambassador to Tur BernardKalb declined to offerU.S. approv key Lavrov sent a denunciation of EIR and al of the declaration: "Whether this decla Leading officersof the Swedish armed forces Global Showdown to all Turkish media on ration, in fact, furthers the objective of re have come out with an unprecedentedpublic Oct. 27. Days later, Soviet Chief of the Gen moving violence from the Middle East attack on Prime Minister Olof Palme for eral Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev in equation will haveto bejudged by the evolv hiding the seriousness of Soviet submarine vited his Turkish counterpart, General Uruk, ing situation on the ground." Reuters re violations of Swedish territorial waters. to visit Moscow on Nov. 11 for talks with ported that unidentified U.S. officials de Naval Commander Hans von Hofsten the Soviet military leadership. This is the scribed the declaration as a positive step, replied in the pages of Svenska Dagbladet highest-ranking delegation to visit Moscow but that Washington doubted Arafat could newspaperto Palme's statement to the Riks in the history of.the Turkish Republic's re enforcethe ban against terrorism. They said dag (Parliament), that Soviet submarine in lations with the Soviet Union. The last visit was in 1976, by then-Deputy Chief of Staff, Washington did not believe that Arafat was cursions have stopped and that his govern . directly responsiblefor much of the violence ment was using "all means possible" to de Gen. Kenan Evren. outside the occupied territories. fend the coast against such incidents. Com mander von Hofsten charged, "This is a de liberate lie. The most disconcerting thing Thai paper covers new German Armed Forces about the whole situation for those of us at the front is that the prime minister makes EIR charges on Kissinger celebrate 30th anniversary such statements to Parliament-statements which both heand we know to beincorrect. " The leading Thai daily the Bangkok Post has The 30th anniversary of the West German The unusual public outcry from the mil aired EIR's charges that Henry Kissinger Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, was cele itary, including a statement from 12 other ordered thejudicial murder of Gen. Kriang brated in Bonn on Nov. 12, with-for the naval officers in Svenska Dagbladet Nov. sak Chamonon (see EIR, Oct. 25, 1985, first time since the country's founding-a 10, produced an extraordinary meeting the "Kissinger orders Thailand's former pre military parade which included 150 air next day at the Royal Palace, where Com mier eliminated"). planes, 500 armored vehicles, and 150 of mander-in-Chief Gen. Lennart Ljung told The daily reported that National 'Secu the most modem tanks and laser cannons. the assembled heads of the fiveRiksdag par rity Council Secretary-General Prasong The Bundeswehr was officially estab tiesthat he hasdocumentation, this fall alone, Soonsiri denied a "report that former U. S. lished on Nov. 12, 1955, the 200thbirthday of 10 "very serious Soviet submarine incur Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had told of Gerhard Johann David Scharnhorst, the sions." Palme characteristically retorted that Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanond that for-

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.•NARCOTICS POLICE in Italy have seized fivekilograms of cocaine and issued 17 warrants in an attack on a drug ring operating between South America and Milan. Three of the suspects are Austrian citizens. mer Prime Minister Kriangsak should be CommunistCombatant Cells, and two sim According to in"estigators, Milan has 'eliminated' because he is dangerous.'" ilar supermarket raids in September, which become a crossroadsfor the narcotics Prasong said that he never heard Kissinger killed seven shoppers. ,traffic from South America into Eu say or imply such a thing, but did not deny The events came as a major distraction rope. The inve�tigation that culmi the truth ofthe report as such. The Bangkok for Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, who natedin the drug seizure and the war Post noted that Kissinger is scheduled to has been locked in talks with members of rants began in late 1984, and in visit Bangkok in December. his center-right coalition, since their Octo volved foreign police agencies, no ber election victory. Belgian Justice Minis tably theWest Germananti-narcotics ter-elect Jean Gol has stated that the govern forces. Soviet Nobel winner unfit ment would increase security, stressing that this pattern may be linked to last year's ur • MARIAN OLZECHOWSKI says German party leader ban guerrilla activity. replaced Stefan Olszowski as Polish At press time, there have been no signif foreign ministerin the latest phase of Soviet Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Yev icant arrests in the terror-robbery which net a cabinet reshuffle announced Nov. genii Chazov should not be given the Nobel $4,000. ted less than Brussels police 12 by Prime Minister Zbigniew Mes Peace Prize, charged Heiner Geissler, the spokesman Alfons van den Broeck said the sner. Olzechowski, who was a guest general party manager of the West German terrorists "shot at anything that moved." lecturer in historyduring the 1970s at Christian Democratic Union. Chazov has the University of Hamburg, is very been tapped for the prize along with the In close. to the "New Yalta" crowd in ternational Physicians for the Prevention of Munoz stops in Panama West Germany, which advocl;ltes an Nuclear War (IPPNW), which he helped . accommodation with the Soviet found. on return from Rome Union. His meteoric rise began dur In a letter to the Nobel PrizeCommittee ing Yuri Andropov's reign in 1983, in Oslo, Geissler documented thatChazov Peruvian Sen. Josmell Munoz, a leader of when he was named a candidate Pol participated in the campaign against Soviet the ruling APRA party who is close to Pres itburo member, and appointed by scientist Andrei Sakharov, citing a 1973 Iz ident Alan Garcia, stopped in Panama to Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelskito head the vestia article, and thatChazov, as a member preside over the founding of the "Committee "Patriotic Movement For National of the Central Committee of the Soviet in Solidarity with Peru and Alan Garcia," Revival." Communist Party, should be held responsi on his return to Lima from Rome in mid ble for Soviet "genocide against the people November. TheCommittee was organized • EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE of Afghanistan." He further emphasized that by Eduardo Rios, leader of Panama's CON will be the firstSoviet foreign minis the IPPNW's Soviet section, technically be ATO trade union. (See interview with Mu 54-55.) ter to visit Japan in 10 years on Jan. longing to the Soviet Academy of Sciences, noz on pages 15, 1986. His predecessor Andrei is actually contt;01le9 by the international Munoz greeted the founding of the new Gromyko visited Tokyo in January department of the Communist Party. organization as a historic moment, and ap 1976. Geissler added that, by his own moral plauded the call for a conference on Ibero standards, Chazov was unfit for the award, American integration to be held in Panama. � • BOLIVIA�S drug king, Roberto and that he would come to Oslo himself to In his speech, Rios stressed, "The soluti n Suarez, accusedthe previous govern testify against Chazov if necessary . for Panama and Latin America is not with FidelCastro, nor wi.th Kissinger, but with ment of HemanSiles Zuazo of allow theleadership of Peru's President Alan Gar ing the United States to intervene in cia." Bolivia's internal affairs, "to perse Belgium in crisis after The The Peruvian senator also met the head cute me." cocaine trafficker ac third terrorist attack of the Revolutionary Democratic Party, cused "other countries that have al Bertha Torrijos de Arosemena, sister of the ready given up their national sover- · him. "In The Belgian government met in crisis ses late President, Gen. Omar Torrijos. eignty ," of helping to attack the name of fighting drugs, they at sion Nov. II, after armed raiders left 8 dead Munoz also stppped briefly in Bogota, and 15 wounded in a machine gun attack on Colombia, where he gave a press conference tack private property and free enter a supermarket in Aalst, 25 kmoutside Brus at the airport reiterating his nation's support prise." He protested, "I'm a patriot, sels. The new killings follow four bombings for President Belisario Betancur's war on and help my country." against banks the previous week by the narco-terrorism.

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