Show rr Page 8 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday ' I' t nr1 I ' ' 20 2000 April i A'wm i Records: Hitler LONDON (AP) — The executions of 50 Allied airmen who fled a Ger-ma- n prison camp — immortalized in the film “The Great Escape” — were personally ordered by Adolf Hitler according to British intelligence records released Thursday The statement on Hitler's direct role was made by Gen Maj Adolf Westhoff the German officer responsible for prisoners' welfare to British interrogators after World War II according to the files The records were released today by executions the Public Record Office which had i interrogation Westhoff recounted obtained them from the British intel 1 how an “excited and nervous” Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel summoned ligence agency MI5 About 80 Allied aircrew tunneled him to a meeting shortly after the their way but of Stalag Luft III a 'mass breakout prison camp at Sagan in southeastern v Westhoff quoted Keitel as saying Germany on March 24 1944 Three that he had been personally managed to reach Britain but the rest ished by Luftwaffe chief Hermann '! were recaptured"' Gocring in the presence of SS head Fifty were chosen randomly for Heinrich Himmler execution as a warning to other Westoff said Keitel warned he must would-b- e ‘set an example" to other prisoners v fugitives The others were “‘We shall have to take very severe relocated to new prison camps The records show that during his measures I can only tell you that the '' - : - men who have escaped will be shot probably the majority of them are' dead already”’ Westoff quoted Keitel assaying Told it was “out of the question” r to execute recaptured men Westhoff said Keitel answered simply: "1 don’t care a damn” We He said that Keitel added discussed it in the Ftihrcr's presence and it cannot be altered'” Westhoff said Hitler and Himmler had decided the matter between them adding “The Fuhrcr himself always took a hand in these affairs when officers escaped” Previous accounts of the escape were riot clear on who ordered the executions r He told his MI5 interrogators that all those killed had been shot by police or the Gestapo before his troops even saw them Other records revealed that a Nazi general implored a “broken” Hitler to remain in Berlin and commit suicide rather than flee to safety only a week before the Fuhrcr’s death ' In crash kills 69 people Bus-tnic- k DAVAO" Philippines (AP) ' Many of the passengers on — Searchers today recovered the Boeing 737-th- e " flight data recorder and the 200 which plowed into a most victims the remains of of I foggy coconut grove on Samal MOMBASA Kenya (AP) — An overloaded bus collided head-o- n with a truck in south- - from an Air Philippines jet that crashed on a resort island killing all 131 people aboard in the nation's worst aviation disaster t Heavy rain and mud had forced rescuers to suspend 7 their search overnight for the ‘‘remains of the 124 passengers and seven crew members but effort resumed today a despite drizzle " eastern Kenya early today killing 69 passengers and injuring 30 others police said The bus was apparently try- ing to pass another vehicle shortly after midnight on a road near Mtito Andei 130 miles southeast of the capital when the collision occurred said Stanley Manyinya a police oiTicial The crash came three weeks after 74 people were killed when two buses collided in worst-ev- road er long-distan- ' S' - in ' FOR AP photo crono Factor IW taGOlwl WWW I limit"' - today said Jacinto Ortega chief pf the Air Transportation Office It and the cockpit voice ' recorder located Wednesday will be sent to the USNation-rccover- y al Transportation Safety Board r for analysis 'ARRANGED ce buses in Kenya generally are licensed to carry only 62 pas- -' sengers most carry many more often double the official 28 on trial of the plane’s' two “black boxes” was recovered early A DOZEN ROSES acci- ' Although : ? northwestern Kenya in the nation's dent island early Wednesday were traveling home for Easter The flight data recorder one Flagellants walk inside a cemetery as they whip themselves as an act of penitence in suburban Manila today Roman ' FRED’S FLOWERS Catholic Filipinos observe Lent with fasting and acts of repentance The Roman Catholic Church frowns on the rituals 41 North Main Logan 752-624- 2 Vo bin Laden plot AMMAN Jordan (AP) V Jordan's military prosecutor today opened the trial of 28 people accused of links to Osama bin Laden by implicat-in- g them in a plot to cany out attacks against US and Israeli targets in this Arab kingdom Lt Col Mahmoud Obeidat said tlie defendants “plotted to pro-Weste- rn ' ijcstabilizc public security” jnd “possessed and manufac- - tured explosives" to use 'iA unlawfully against US ests and Israeli and American tourists during millcrinium celebrations If found guilty the 28 face the death penally V x fy&tJifft' Sofa & Love r MIm wl of “falsifying'’ the charges against them and the court and the Jordanian system of being “infidel" - reformers says TEHRAN Iran (AP) — A hard-lin- e cleric urged his fol- writlowers to kill ers and activists whom he says arc undermining Iran's revolutionary principles a newspaper reported today pro-refor- m yf "They (reformists) insult ' Islamic sanctities They attend a conference to say nonsense Kill them wherever you find them This is God's unchange- able tradition” the daily Sohh-e-l-'mr- ou quoted Ayatollah Abnlqascm Khazali as saying I le was referring to a conference entitled Iran' held recently in Berlin Germany and attended by several writers and activists “llis comments have nothing to do with Islam dr the Islamic establishment” Karim - “Post-electio- pro-refor- tm’? jt 'M’O— '’"A 1 dants refused fo have the court appoint lawyers to represent Ihcnv: They also refused tov-entepleas and instead accused er 'I r': ' During today's hearing most of the defen- - hard-lin- A" i' Iv ns m Arqandehpour editor of the reformist daily Mosharckat said “lt was his personal comments without any organized political support However his words could be misused by emotional individuals” Teen charged in Web attacks MONTREAL (AP) — A hoy working under the computer name Mafiaboy has been charged with two counts of mischief for disabling the CNN Internet site for four hours police said Wednesday The Feb 8 attack was one of several on major international Web sites in recent months that highlighted the security risks h of the age The boy's name cannot be disclosed under Canadian law high-tec- iA arti i Seat Piece livitte Room Grouti casters CS CB ' |