Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 03, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday june africans urged to reject All outside interference United nations a British prime minister James Callaghan called on african states Friday to reject outside interference or face increasing danger of wars on the continent. In a policy address to the United nations general Assembly session on disarmament Callaghan said of the african countries "1 urge them to speak out clearly for it will soon be too late and they will find themselves caught up in an arms race with growing instability for their countries and increasing danger of in an apparent swipe at both the soviet bloc and Western countries Callaghan declared that the old principles of non interference and peaceful settlement that have guided Africa since the 1950s May be superseded by new but these will not necessarily be in Afri Ca s interest nor will they right her he said. Some May see the use of military Force As a convenient shortcut to a Quick solution but history has surely taught us that such a policy almost always creates As Many problems As it is intended to Callaghan appealed to the african leaders to recognize the frontiers set by their predecessors in the 1950s, arbitrary though some might otherwise he said Africa faces the danger of being misused by a new imperialism or become As she might be a new Breeding ground for discord Between East and some diplomats interpreted the prime minister s statement As indicating Britain s Lack of interest in a French proposal for the buildup of a pan african defence Force backed by Western the subject is expected to come up in Paris on monday when British French West German belgian and . Officials meet to map a joint plan to Aid Zaire s tottering Economy. Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti whose country is beset by Urban terrorism spoke of the seeds of disintegration at Home and abroad and the duty of govern ments to Avert the spread of disorder across our giving his View of the roots of terrorism that claimed the life of former italian pre Mier Aldo Moro Andreotti said for the first time the Technics scientific revolution has placed in the hands of men the Means either of destroying the life of their kind or of causing it everywhere to i a photo appt a Plain otties policeman picks his Way Friday through the wreckage of a bus destroyed by a terrorist bomb which killed five persons. Palestinian bomb blast death toll now 6 Jerusalem a the death toll Rose to six today in a palestinian bomb blast on a City bus apparently timed to Mark the Lith anniversary of Israel s capture of Jerusalem. A 17-year-old israeli youth died during the night. Five others including Richard Fishman a 30-year-old . Medical student in Israel died in the bombing Friday. The attack came As Israel pre pared to celebrate the nth anniversary sunday of its capture of East Jerusalem including the Western Wall Judaism s holiest shrine. The Eastern half of the City was taken from Jordan during the six Day War on june but sunday Marks the anniversary in the he brew Calendar. Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek said he Hopes the attack will not mar the festivities. I would not want these bastards to let our festivities be in any Way he said. Opposition dissolves party to protest Sadat measures that woul would Pray Twenty persons were injured when the bomb exploded Friday in Rush hour traffic As the bus turned into a suburb near had Washem Israel s memorial to the six million jews exterminated by the nazis. Nazi criminals alleged hiding in Brazil the Washington Post Sao Paulo detention Here this week of a former Gestapo officer who is accused of supervising the murder of More than a Mil lion people in nazi concentration Camps during the second world War has re Vived the charge that fugue Tive nazi War criminals continue to use South Ameri Ca and Brazil in Partick a convenient hiding place. Gustav Franz Wagner 67, a former concentration Camp officer who has been living in Brazil under his own name since 1950, was placed under preventive custody tuesday after turning himself Over to Bra Zilian authorities. Accusations against him first appeared in the brazilian press last week. Wagner s detention Fol Lowed a dramatic confrontation at the Sao Paulo head quarters of Brazil s feared political police in which Wagner was identified by Stanislaw so Manzer a jew ish concentration Camp survivor. So Manzer said his life once was spared by Wagner who he described As having been second in command at the notorious sob ibor concentration Camp in Poland in 1942-43. So Manzer also said Wagner sent most of my family to death at the Camp. So Manzer has made a positive identification and after meeting with Wagner this morning the German Consul told me that this is definitely the Man we be been looking police chief Silvio Machado said. Austria where Wagner was born has already re Quested extradition and the West German embassy said it will also. According to police sources Here an extradition request from Poland on whose territory Wagner served is also expected. Discovery of Wagner comes Little More than a dec Ade after Franz Paul Stangl Wagner s commander at so bib or and also head of the Treblinka Camp was found working at a German owned factory in Sao Paulo. Stangl was extradited to West Ger Many and convicted. He died in a German prison. Wagner has been accused by the Vienna based nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal of having supervised the Day to Day extermination of More than a million people and of having personally killed uncounted thousands of prisoners. According to Wiesenthal Wagner was known to Camp inmates As the human beast and is just As important As Adolf Eichmann and Joseph men Eichmann was kidnapped in Argentina in 1961 and tried and executed in Israel. Men Gele known As the Angel of death for alleged medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz is reported to be still residing in Paraguay. A recent amnesty International report named him As the technical adviser to a government program that it de scribed As designed to Exter Minate paraguayan indians. Wiesenthal has charged that there Are hundreds of nazis Loose in Brazil and that such German compan ies operating Here As Volks Wagen Siemens and Krupp have entire nests of these brazilian fears of a Resur gence of nazi activity on their soil first surfaced in april in Itati aia a quiet Mountain resort town North of Rio de Janeiro after an Anonymous informant noted red flags and a Large number of foreigners at a hotel owned by a German Immi Grant and told police that a group of communists were holding a secret meeting. When police and press arrived on the scene they found that five Neo nazi groups from Brazil West Germany Argentina and Britain were meeting to Cele brate Adolf Hitler s 89th birthday. After a brazilian newspaper reporter took photos to Wiesenthal in Vienna unofficial search began. The Man who surrendered to a soviet police halt jewish protest Moscow a police used Nail studded Sticks to rip Down protest ban ners and then forced their Way into an apartment to quiet 18 jewish women and children who were demanding per Mission to leave the soviet Union a spokesman for the group said Friday. Irene Gildenhorn told Western re porters at a press conference she and the other jews were under House arrest in the apartment when the police broke in thursday. Some of the 11 women suffered minor bruises and scratches in scuffles with plainclothes policemen and militiamen but the seven children escaped injury she said. The 18 want to emigrate to Israel and had planned to demonstrate thursday in front of the Lenin Library in Central Moscow. Authorities placed them under House arrest for 24 hours to Block the protest. After the Friday press conference in the apartment building a policeman and a militiaman removed associated press correspondent Nikki Finke from the hallway and ejected her from the building carrying her Down nine flights of stairs to the Street. Mrs. Gildenhorn said the Library demonstration was planned to coincide with International children s Day on thursday but secret police arrived wednesday night and refused to let the women and children leave. She said some of the children aged 314 to 13, were crying and clinging to their mothers in fear. Thormities tuesday saying that he feared for his safety admits that he served in the two notorious nazi secret police arms is and the Gestapo. Wagner denies having a major role at the Camp in Poland admitting Only to being a sergeant assigned to a Crew building baracks. In a press conference at police Headquarters Wagner said that he arrived in Brazil with Safe conduct papers after a Long voyage by ship from Syria in the company of Stangl. According to Wagner his passage from Europe to Syria and from Syria to Brazil was paid by other German refugees in Syria. Policeman wounded Madrid believed to be Basque separatists fired from a speeding car and seriously wounded a National policeman near Bil Bao in Northern Spain Early today. The attack came As Turk ish diplomats prepared to Fly Home the bodies of the wife and brother in Law of tur key s ambassador to Spain. They were slain. Friday in a Madrid ambush blamed on armenian terrorists. The turkish embassy said it was Uncertain if Ambas Sador Zeki Kun Ralp would accompany the bodies. Officials reported him Dis traught and physically weak. Quebec representative to attend Africa talks Paris up Quebec will Send a Delegate to monday s ninth annual conference on Franco Canadian co opera Tion in Africa to be attended by High ranking Canadian and French government officials. A spokesman for the Quebec delegation Here said in an interview Friday the Quebec Delegate would not actively participate in the conference but As in past years would be Able to observe and take part in exchanges of information. The conference to be held june 5-7, takes place at the same time but is net connected with the recently organized defence meeting on Africa to be attended by the United states Britain Belgium West Germany and France. Canada has officially announced that it will not take part in the five country parity. _ heart surgery planned for entertainer Gleason Chicago a Jackie Gleason in Hospital since last sunday with heart proteins. Was to undergo open surgery saturday wbb to reported. Wbb said it get its report from three snores. A Hospital spokesman ;