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Show Standard-Examiner WORLD Thursday, June 3, 1993 11A Tanker, freighter collide; 7 killed, others missing OSTEND, Belgium (AP) — A British oi! tanker collided with a cargo ship in thick fog early today and burst into flames, killing at least seven tanker crew members Belgian tanker fire preety wee and spilling burning gasoline into the North Sea Two other crew members ofthe Z j, “>. Tanker ab \ oa a ow i Le s Ne ~, \ . N «= Erigland\ irelandf —s\, or om crew of 36 whenthe collision oc» curred in thick fog about 12 miles . off this North Sea resort, officials said, A helicopter . ireland} British Trent were still missing hours after the accident, hospital officials said. u The tanker was carrying 23,000 tons of unleaded gasoline and a — NScotlarth Se f -o wl z %-,\London.§ Neths a en oa. Soe moot A hoy pilot said gasoline wasstill aes from tbeGlazing 175 mies a | " tanker seven hours after the 5:30 a.m. collision with Western Win- The Associated Press = her, a Panama-registered vessel car- ocean,” said spokeswoman Cindy Baxter. She said Greenpeace was | rying ore. “Flames are 100 feet high and | the smokeis around 150 feet,” Bel- also worried about air pollution from the smoke. gian pilot Maj. Dannyde Cock told Britain's Sky News television. “Burning oil is also on the surface of the sea.” Ostend Port Authority spokes- African nation of Sierra Leone, not a major environmental disas- in Ostend. He said the seventh body had not been identified. Claus said details of the dawn - man Mark Claussaid the spill was , ter, since the gasoline was evaporating or burningoff. But a spokeswoman for the environmental group Greenpeace warn‘ed chemicals from the gasoline could have a deadlyeffect on fish. _ “The potential is there for a major disaster if it all leaks into the ' France Two of the dead were British, Golden Spike Arena Fairgrounds June 11th thru 13th, 1993 said Raymond Vereecken, general manager of Henri Serruys hospital collision were unclear. “All we can really say for the moment is thatit happened in dense fog,” he said. He had nodetails on damage to the 15,953-ton Western Winner. There were no immediate reports on casualties from that ship. PARIS (AP) — A court ruled vier will have to answer for his Wednesday that a former militiaman should stand trial for crimes crimes before a criminal court,” Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld told against humanity, moving France a step closer to confronting the atrocities committed by collaborators during World War II. Paul Touvier, 78, will be the first Frenchman to standtrial for crimes against humanity. An appeals court French radio. Touvier’s lawyer said he would voked widespread outrage and reinforced the belief that French leaders do not want to face up to 4 the country’s collaborationist past. cs “It’s a good thing that after 20 ® years ofstalling in the courts, Tou- CallToll FREE BeTETA For Your FREE Information Packet SPONSOREDBY: i cS 2. Mun STANDARD-EXAMINER eee eee a America’s for crimes against humanity in Versailles ordered that he be a two Irish and two from the West First Frenchman to standtrial tried for his role in the execution of seven Jewish hostages in 1944 in Lyon, The seven were killed in revenge for the French Resistance assassination of a minister in the Vichy re; gime, which collaborated with Nazi occupiers. The ruling comes 14 months after a court acquitted Touvier on six related charges. That ruling pro- ' (Men s, Women's, & Co-ed Teams) Biggest Catalog! appeal the newruling on grounds that criminal intent was not proven. Touvier was an officer in the pro-Nazi militia that worked close- ly with Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie, the infamous “Butcher of Lyon.” Barbie, a German, was convicted of crimes against humanity in 1987. He died in prison in 1991, = Value = Quality = Fashion = Service France twice sentenced Touvier to death in absentia for war crimes. But in April 1992, a lower court cleared Touvier of six war crimes charges in the killing of Jews and anti-Nazi Resistance leaders, since the statute of limitations expired. The appeals court brought new charges of crimes against humanity against him in the case of the seven Jews killed in June 1944. There is no statue of limitations on crimes against humanity. A WORLD BRIEFS Israel reveals it convicted spy in 1987 JERUSALEM — Israel has disclosed that a major in army intelligence was convicted of spying six years ago. Dedi Zucker, the chairman of parliament’s law and constitution committee, said details of the case were revealed Wednesday under a new policy of publishing the identities of Israelis imprisoned for security offenses. The Haifa district court sentenced Maj. Yossi Amit to 12 years imprisonment in March 1987 for espionage, contacting foreign agents and attempting to contact foreign agents, the army statement said. The army did not say which country Amit spied for or what information he traded. But Israel radio suggested that Amit, who was captured in 1986, may have been employed by the United States. The CIA refused to comment. Man attempts Havana-Florida swim MEXICO CITY — A city parks director from New York state swam out of a Havana marina, heading for Florida early Wednesday. He was after being encouraged by Cuban President Fidel Castro. Skip Storch, who was encouraged in his swim by Cuban President Fidel Castro, swam out of the Hemingway Marina accompanied by two referees and a camera crew in boats, said Cuba’s official Prensa Latina news agency. He wasprotected by a metal screen 25 feet long and five feet deep to fend off sharks on the 90-mile swim to Islamorada, Fla., the report said. He hoped to complete the swim in 48 hours. Storch, 35, is director of parks and recreation for Spring Valley, N.Y. Sarajevorelief flights still suspended SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — U.N. aid officials worried about how to feed Sarajevo today after the suspension of the airlift to the besieged city. The United Nations halted reliefflights Wednesday after snipers wounded four French soldiers and an American relief plane was hit by a machine gun bullet. Wednesday, a French transporter evacuating the wounded French was fired at. The airport was unlikely to be reopened before the weekend. Tony Land, head of the U.N. 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