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THE WASHINGTON POST
12 Dec'91
AROUND THE WORLD
M
necker Tuesday morning and told him he had
until Friday to leave the Russian republic,"
otherwise he would be turned over to Ger-
man authorities, Wolff said.
Wolff was quoted as saying Honecker had
protested the decision and referred the Rus-
sian government to his request for asylum.
Honecker, 79, East Germany's leader
from 1971 until his ouster in 1989, fled to
Moscow to avoid arrest on manslaughter
charges stemming from the shootings by
East German border guards of would-be es-
capees to the West.
Haitian Radios Close
# PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-An armed at-
tack at a radio station and threats against
others prompted the capital's last three in-
dependent stations to suspend their news
broadcasts.
Seven armed men in civilian clothes forced
their way into the offices of Radio Galaxie
Tuesday night and ordered station director
Feliz Lamy into a car and drove off, accord-
ing to Radio Metropole and local journalists.
The men also shot up the offices, smashed
equipment and beat up two employees, the
reports said.
Shortly after reporting the attack, Radio
Metropole suspended its news broadcasts.
Sources said station officials had received
threats. Another station, Radio Tropic FM,
halted newscasts at about the same time.
Libyan Suspects
· TRIPOLI, Libya-Libya put two security
agents before Western journalists to deny
they had bombed a Pan American airliner
over Scotland in 1988.
The two appeared at the Libyan Supreme
Court where a judge is ruling whether evi-
dence justifies their trial on a charge carrying
the death penalty.
The United States and Britain have threat-
ened reprisals against Libya unless it hands
over the two agents, accused of killing 270
people in the December 1988 incident.
The two suspects, Abdel Baset Ali Me-
grahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, said they
were not guilty in a two-minute meeting with
reporters, Held in English and Arabic, it was
their first such appearance before the West-
ern press.
From news services and staff reports
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