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VI. a rhr V ABBOTT'S COINEX CORPORATION 41 •, 11 1393 South Woodward Ave. • Birmingham, MI 48011 • 644-8565 g IP I - ■ -iN 5 Blocks North of 14 Mile • Hrs. 8-5 M-F: 9-1 Sat '4%,„ .‘'.. ■ ■ ,.... ......er.,.•Ire....IIP' -II 4 .... 00 "---.0, -4/41,4 41re- .ro.- ...,0,...... dirop-- (0) il'Ar, - - -.. •---- . —0. -2- ... di.. •—• --- ---,-.... ' 00. fa- .... 4■ 4 0 4"... .. -1 -'..... •■ ••• _ --• - —it- ...... -...... - -••••• - 'I'M:. ---- —.... - _... -...-- ---- --- 22 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1991 Bonn (JTA) — The revela- tion of clandestine German weapons shipments to Israel has provided ammunition for the latest political slugfest between the government and the opposi- tion Social Democratic Par- ty. The SPD, which has demanded Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg's res- ignation for sending Israel Soviet-made military equipment from the stocks the defunct East German army, was hit by counter- charges that it started the il- licit and probably illegal traffic more than 20 years ago. Then SPD defense min- ister, Helmut Schmidt, who was later West German chancellor, was accused in pro-government newspapers Wednesday of sending Israel blueprints of German- designed submarines in 1970. The Social Democrats were in power from 1969 through 1982. According to the newspaper accounts, Mr. Schmidt sent the U-boat plans surreptitiously to avoid opposition from pro- Arab ministers. Israel has no facilities to build submarines. The Ger- man plans, drawn by Inge- nieurkontor Lubeck, found their way to a British shipyard, Vickers, which constructed three undersea craft for Israel known as the "206" Class. But the vessels were fi- nanced almost entirely by Germany. Germany is also financing three new sub- marines for Israel, designed by the same Lubeck firm and presently under construction in the northern port of Kiel. The Germans decided to foot the bill after Israel canceled the orders on grounds it could not afford the new subs. Mr. Stoltenberg told jour- nalists last week that the secret cooperation with Israel began in 1969, and had been initiated by Schmidt. He implicated the SPD finance minister at the time, Hans Apel. Although Mr. Apel categorically denied that he knew of secret arms shipments to Israel during his tenure, he would not ex- clude the possibility it had occurred. German law has always forbidden the export of weaponry to crisis areas such as the Middle East. But after 1967, Israel began to supply then West Germany with samples of Soviet-made weapons captured from Arab armies in the Six-Day War. Since the collapse of East Germany, the Bonn government has recipro- cated, selecting the kind of weapons Israel might face on a future battlefield. But the exchanges were conducted outside normal government channels, through the BND and Mossad, the secret intel- ligence agencies of Germany and Israel, respectively. The exchanges were ex- posed at the end of October, when Hamburg harbor police discovered several containers of military equipment aboard an Israeli freighter labeled "agricultural equipment." Senior officials at the Defense Ministry said that since Germany's unification, "at last we were in a position to pay back Israel for the Soviet-made weapons they delivered to us since 1969." The Defense Ministry is preparing a full report on the cooperation with Israel, which will be released in two weeks. The expectation here is that much of the report will be leaked to the media beforehand. Cook Travel Halts Pamphlet Tel. Aviv (JTA) — Thomas Cook & Sons, the British- based world travel organiza- tion, has promised to withdraw a pamphlet distributed by its American division since the Persian Gulf War in January that describes Israel as a dangerous place under Scud missile attack and prone to pestilential diseases. It is packed with other misinformation about Israel, the ministry said. A Cook spokesman in London "couldn't apologize enough" but could not explain why the leaflet contained so many inaccuracies or why it had not been revised or withdrawn long ago, the Jerusalem Post reported. Israel's tourism industry was ravaged by the Gulf War, as was that of the en- tire region. But Cook's pam- phlet, distributed only in the United States, seemed to go out of its way to depict Israel as an undesirable place to visit.