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Show I oreign HritT Greece: Dont Blame Khadafy ATHENS, Greece (I'PI) Greece said Tuesday it has evidence that Lib- yan leader Moammar Khadafy was not behind the December terrorist attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports, disputing U S charges that Libya backed the raids Foreign Minister Carolos Papou-lia- s was quoted by the state-ruAthens News Agency as saying reports of n Khadafy's involvement are the American view on the subject. Papoulias, who gave no details about the evidence, contradicted statements made by U.S, Deputy Sec- - Stop Apartheid, Urge JOHANNESBURG, South Africa White South African industrialists called for an end to apartheid in an effort to confidence in the nation's economy Tuesday as the inflation rate hit a high. (AP) Central Statistical Services, a government information agency, said the inflation rate jumped to 18.4 percent in December. That was 1.4 percent more than the previous month and almost double the rate of two years ago. Also Tuesday, police said they of State John Whitehead ;n Athens on Monday, prompting a rare public reaction from the U S Embas- retary sy have evidence that Col Moammar Khadafy was not behind the terrorist attacks against Rome and Vienna airports last month," Papoulias told Greek journalists at a closed news conference Whitehead told reporters before leaving Athens for Bonn, West Ger- many, that countries including Greece have recognized Khadafy's role in the terrorist attacks against the Israeli airline El Al. African Industrialists found the charred body of a black man in Kwazekele Township near Port Elizabeth, a area on the Indian Ocean 600 miles south of Johannesburg About 1,000 people, most of them blacks, have been killed in 16 months of violence related to apartheid, the system of segregation under which 5 million whites dominate 24 million voteless blacks. Most of the deaths came at the hands of security forces, but some were cases of blacks killing other blacks suspected of collaborating with the white government. riot-plagu- Canada to Return U.S. Convict on Death Row OTTAWA (UPI) Canada, despite its opposition to capital punishment, has for the first time ordered an escaped American convict extradited to the United States to face the death penalty, the attorney general said Tuesday. Canadian Attorney General John Crosbie, who opposes the death penalty, said he decided to extradite con- - victed murderer Joseph John Kindler to Philadelphia to prevent other American fugitives from seeking haven in Canada. Kindler escaped from jail last September after being convicted of killing an accomplice in a robbery. His lawyers said they would appeal the governments decision to the Federal Court of Canada. May Repay Slaves Under Nazis Daimler-Ben- z West Germany (AP) The Daimler-Ben- z company, mak- er of Mercedes cars, said Tuesday it considei whether to make resti- tution to people used as forced labor- ers during the Nazi era. Spokeswoman Ursula Mertzig had said Monday there was no actual cause to make restitution.. However, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Mertzig explained that a study commissioned by the Stuttgart-basecompany was continuing into the extent of forced labor during the war. The laborers were Jews and foreigners brought into Germany to work for the company from 1933 to STUTTGART, logne, was expected to be finished this fall and that Daimler-Ben- z would then decide whether to make restitu-wi- ll tion. '"1 . N ! i Chinese authoriPEKING (AP) ties emphasized their drive Tuesday by sentencing 18 convicted murderers, rapists and thieves to death at a huge public rally and executing them on the spot, according to court posters and official news reports Feng Mingwei, vice mayor of Peking, was quoted as telling the crowd of more than 13,000 people that wrongdoers face "stern and quick" punishment in the Year of the Tiger, which begins Feb. 9 on the Chinese calendar. Chinas method of execution is a bullet in the back of the head. Citizens gathered despite the cold to read five large posters with blood-recheck marks indicating executions had been carried out outside the Peoples Intermediate Court in downtown Peking It was the largest mass execution in the capital since the same number of people were put to death on July 9, e Foreign diplomats estimate that more than 10,000 people have been executed since Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping launched the campaign against crime in August 1983. Forty people were put to death in Peking that autumn in a single week. Reports in the Chinese capital at the time said Deng had been angered when his motorcade encountered a gang fight. Amnesty International, the human rights organization, has accused China of summary executions without trial and using capital punishment indiscriminately. Most of those executed are accused of murder and rape. Defendants are presumed guilty once a case reaches court, and defense lawyers usually confine themselves to pleading for leniency. This country reports one of the lowest crime rates in the world 500,000 offenses a year among its 1.05 billion people Wednesday, January A5 22, ISofi , MANILA, , Philippines (UPI) President Ferdinand Marcos indicate ed Tuesday that controversial Ver may remain in command of the armed forces despite earlier statements Ver would resign before the Feb 7 presidential election Marcos told reporters during a) campaign rally in the city of Naga( last week that Ver probably would retire before the vote. The four-sta- r general had been on leave as the armed forces chief since October 1984, when he was implicated in the murder of opposition leader Bemgno Aquino. Marcos is running against Aquinos wife, Corazon. Ver was reinstated last month after a court cleared him of any involvement in the slaying, despite warnings from Washington that his presence appeared to run couuter to efforts to implement reforms in the 250,000-stronmilitary. Washington has urged Marcos to undertake a major reorganization if the military to combat a growing communist insurgency it feftHh threatens the future of the form(? American colony and U.S. Navy w air bases north of the capital. Marcos said the vice chief of stall, Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, who replaced Ver during the Aquino murder trial, was supposed to take over. But he said Ramos was implicated g in a report by a commission on the massacre of 20 demonstrators last Septew ber in the central Negros island of Escalante and had offered ; sign. Ramos was absolved in the matg? ity report of the commission, bgM dissenting opinion recommended1 be charged with administrative i ligence for initially reporting E$i lante security forces acted in selN$fi L- fense. Gen.--Fabia- d 1984. The Salt Lake Tribune, Military Chief May Stay On In Philippines At Public Rally anti-crim- We . China Executes IB Convicts President Ferdinand Marcos pauses in speech. He says Gen. Fabian Vers absence has caused the military some problems. Feb. 7 Flection Philippines Bans Foreigners at Polls - The MANILA, Philippines (UPI) government has banned foreign observers and journalists from polling stations during the Feb. 7 presidential election despite President Ferdinand Marcos invitation to international observers to monitor the vote, officials said Tuesday. Elections Commissioner Ramon Felipe said under the law, foreigners are not permitted within about 50 yards of polling stations. Violators face deportation and a jail term. Felipe said observers will be permitted to watch ballot counting once the polls close. Even Filipinos cannot enter the six-ye- polling place unless theyre allowed to vote." Felipe said, adding that the rule does not differ substantially from past elections. Leaders of a bipartisan U.S. delegation, scheduled to recommend to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 23 that Congress send election observers, told a news conference Jan. 11 that "systems are in place for spotting irregularities, and U.S. officials were not surprised by the ban. There are no surprises in that resolution, said Brian Atwood of the National DemoWashington-base- d cratic Institute for International Affairs. g fact-findin- tfaj ' L.1 5 :3 & d 1945. IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING She said the study, being conducted by an independent institute in Co- - Mexican Officials Denounce Charges of Drug Trafficking Ii - MEXICO CITY (UPI) The Mexican attorney general Tuesday ridiculed as absurd and fantastic allegations by U.S. congressmen that corrupt Mexican officials are helping drug traffickers move heroin and marijuana into the United States. The statement, released by a spokesman for Attorney General Sergio Garcia Ramirez, followed a visit last week by six U.S. congressmen studying drug smuggling across the Mexican border and spraying programs that are aimed at eradicating marijuana and poppy plants. At the end of their weeklong tour, which included a meeting with Ramirez and President Miguel de la Madrid and a visit to the northern city of g Culiacan to inspect a warned lawmakers the that program, increased U.S. funds to destroy narcotics will depend on halting corruption. ,11 U.S.-funde- d f Brights falling for basic black. One of the more dynamic duos well remember drug-sprayin- Nigeria Held U.S. Reporter, But Did Not Explain Why LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) Security forces held Los Angeles Times Africa correspondent Charles T. Powers y t for a long, long time because they're made for each other. 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