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Show Friday, June Convictions in IRA bomb case may be thrown out - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 15, 1990 Bush, Thai leader talk Israeli group criticizes army over shootings - LONDON (AP) The government said Thursday that it will ask an appeals court to throw out the convictions of seven people who served prison sentences for allegedly running an IRA bomb factory. "I don't believe the convictions can be allowed to stand," Home Secretary David Waddington told the House of Commons. Hours earlier, England's senior prosecutor told a judicial inquiry that the convictions were "unsafe and unsatisfactory" because of questions about the reliability of scientific tests which were the core of the prosecution case. The announcement marked the collapse of all the convictions stemming from two Irish Republican Army bombings of pubs in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974, in which seven people died. Four people convicted of the bombings were released in October after the director of public prosecutions said police had lied about some evidence. The mainly Roman Catholic IRA is fighting to end British rule of Protestant-dominated Northern Ireland and unite the province with Ireland. Six of those convicted in the bomb factory case have served their sentences and the seventh, Guiseppe Conlon, died in prison in 1980. "I only hope and pray now that it will go as soon as possible to the appeals court to take the burden off pur family, because it has been a living nightmare," said Anne who served 10 years in prison. Her husband, two sons, two relatives and a family friend were also convicted. Waddington said he would not refer the case to the Court of Appeal until the judicial inquiry, headed by Sir John May, completes its work. The government's case was based on forensic evidence indicating that all seven had traces of nitroglycerin on their hands. Allan Green, the director of public prosecutions, said he considered the convictions unsafe because recent tests had shown that thedefen-dant- s might have been contaminated by touching something such as a towel that had been touched by someone else who had handled explosives. JERUSALEM (AP) An Israeli human rights group said Thursday that soldiers violated firing orders by shooting 14 Palestinians in the head, chest or back despite regulations calling for them to aim for their legs. The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories said another woman reportedly died after a soldier hit her with a club, and that the army failed to investigate how all the deaths occurred. An army statement attributed to military sources did not respond to allegations that firing procedures were violated and said investigations into the deaths were incomplete. The human rights group examined deaths that occurred during ge "It was obvious that they didn't stick to the regulations in this case," said Zehava Galon, the director of the rights group. "It wasn't necessary ... to shoot at the upper body." The group said it could not investigate all 18 deaths because army curfews kept researchers from reaching witnesses. The army also blocked journalists from visiting the shooting scenes for more than a week. Victims' families also least six of the deaths, military police had not talked to the victims' families more than two weeks after the killings. Reporters who have inquired into other deaths have often been told for months that investigations were not complete. An army officer said: "We investigate every single case. You can hardly say that in cases where a few days or a couple of weeks have passed, we can be criticized for not speaking to all the people involved." The officer spoke on condition of anonymity. The army said 107 soldiers had been indicted for misuse of force in the uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Seventy have been found guilty. com- plained that soldiers broke into their homes and beat them, that live ammunition was often used instead of plastic and rubber bullets and that some soldiers provoked rioting and humiliated grieving families. The rights group said that in at about trade - ' i INDIA E ct , . Rebels raid police stations. u22SEjij Military camps ( Gulf of Mannar - A Sri Lanka (AP) young policeman who was shot by Tamil separatists and left for dead among the bodies of his colleagues said Thursday he crawled into the jungle and hid while more policemen were killed. Piyeratna Ranaweera said he was one of 115 policemen who were captured at Kalmunai police station Monday when the rebels overran police stations in the Eastern Province. The fighting, which began Monday, was the worst violence since negotiations began between the government and the Tigers in May KANPY, : A cjked;,.. jBSt Colombo O 1989. ijjmuuuj J SRI LANKA At least 110 government troops have died, but one unconfirmed report said the Tamil Tiger rebels also killed 125 to 150 policemen who were among the 600 officers captured. A spokesman for the Tigers said the report could be anti-rebpropaganda. Ranaweera said that all 115 policemen captured with him were el Indian OcearS ,5 m',es , AP Ranaweera said the bullet grazed his left ear. The Tigers apparently thought he was dead and left. He said he crawled into the jungle and realized his left arm was broken and he fixed a sling for it. While he was lying in the jungle he heard the third bus arrive and then he heard more shots. He estimated it was about 3 a.m. He said he saw no one else alive. After the third bus left he started making his way inland towards government lines but "I fainted a couple of times. I was very thirsty. I found a lake with elephants ... and I drank." The young Sinhalese policeman said he came to a small farmer's blindfolded and the Tigers took their watches and wallets, tied their hands and gave them water. They were then taken in three buses from Kalmunai, 135 miles east of Colombo, to a rebel camp 20 miles to the south. Ranaweera, lying in a hospital bed with his broken left arm in a sling and bloodstained cotton on the bullet wound in his left ear, said one busload of the captive policemen were taken from the Tiger camp shortly before midnight Monday. "At 12:45 (that) night they took the second busload again to the jungle," he said in a weak voice. He said he was blindfolded when he got off the bus so he could not see if the men from the first bus were there. "They lined us all up and made us lie on the ground face down and rifles. they opened fire with 6 Then they held a torch to our heads and if they heard a cry they shot again." hut. "Some Tamil people were there. I explained what happened but they left me." About 3 p.m. Tuesday, when he estimated he had walked about 14 miles towards Damana, a Sinhalese-dominated town 18 miles southwest of Kalmunai, he reached a second hut, he said. T-5- WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush and Thailand's Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan agreed Thursday to a new Cabinet-levcommittee to defuse trade disputes and promised to press for free elections in war-tor- n Cambodia under the U.N. flag. The two leaders emerged from nearly 24 hours of talks and a luncheon at the White House promising to work together to stem both the U.S. thirst for drugs and their flow from Southeast Asia. The visit from the leader of what Bush called "one of America's oldest friends and closest allies" came at a time of intensified diplomatic efforts to bring peace to Cambodia. Four different factions are fighting to topple the Cambodian government of Hun Sen, installed by Vietnamese invaders in 1978. Bush said the common U.S.-Thaim is to assure the Cambodia people "genuine through free and fair elections under U.N. auspices and in the presence of an international peacekeeping force." "We will do all we can to accelerate the peace process," said Chatichai, adding that "we are prepared to work" with the U.N. Security Council on a peace initiative. el Survivor describes massacre in Sri Lanka Ma-guir- e, ai Bush said the two countries' commerce ministers will form a Joint U.S.-ThCommittee for Commercial Cooperation to promote trade. Chatichai said its aim will be to establish "a new framework for economic cooperation ... (that) would allow us to regularly discuss any potential trade issues before they become trade disputes." Thailand is on the U.S. trade ai representative's "priority watch list" for pirating products from computer software to Hollywood deotapes to pharmaceuticals. mm m m u smm Suspect says secret police gave her help A reputEAST BERLIN (AP) ed terrorist wanted in West Germany for 13 years told police that East Germany gave her a phony identity and let her build, a new life. Her statement to authorities was reported Thursday by East Germany's interior minister, who has pledged to cooperate with West Germany in tracking down terrorists shielded by the old Communist government. Susanne Albrecht, one of West terGermany's most sought-afte- r rorist suspects, is wanted in the 1977 shooting death of a top West German banker. She was arrested June 6 outside her East Berlin apartment. Officials on Wednesday arrested tnother reputed West German Inge Viett, who had been Irving in the East German city of Itagdeburg. '.Viett, wanted in several terrorist attacks dating back to 1972, told Cast German authorities she was billing to cooperate and had terrorism, said the East German interior minister, Dicstel. Both women are believed to be g prominent members of the Red Army Faction, which has claimed responsibility for a string of bombings and killings of prominent West German businessmen in the 1970s and 1980s. Both women had been living in 11 days of disturbances following the May 20 massacre of seven unarmed Arab laborers by an Israeli civilian. The study showed that 14 of the 18 people killed in the subsequent unrest were shot in the head, chest or back, although regulations call for aiming at rioters' legs. Many victims were shot at close range, according to the report based on medical reports and witness testimony. 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