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necker Tuesday morning and told him he had	dependent stations to suspend their news	agents before Western journalists to deny
until Friday to leave the Russian republic,"	broadcasts.	thev had bombed a Pan Americin airliner
otherwise he would be turned over to Ger-	Seven armed men in civilian clothes forc(A	over Scotland in 1988,
man authorities, Wolff said.	their way into the offices of Radio Galaxie	The two appeared at the Libyan Supreme
Wolff was quoted as saying Honecker had	Tuesday night and ordered station director	Court where a judge is ruling whether evi-
protested the decision and referred the Rus-	Feliz Lamy into a car and drove off, accord-	dence justifies their trial on a charge carrying
sian government to his request for asylum.	ing to Radio Metropole and local journalists.	the death penalty.
Honecker, 79, East Germany's leader	The men also shot up the offices, smashed	The United States and Britain have threat-
from 1971 until his ouster in 1989, fled to	equipment and beat up two employees, till	ened reprisals against Libya unless it hands
Moscow to avoid arrest on manslaughter	reports said.	over the two agents, accused of killing 270
charges stemming from the shootings by	Shortly after reporting tile attack, Radio	people in the December 1988 incidept.
East German border guards of would-be es-	Metropole suspended its news broadcasts.	The two SLISPeCt,, Abdel Baset Ali Me-
capees to the West.	Sources said station officials had received	grihi and Lamen Khalifa Fhirnah, siid they
	threats. Another station, Radio Tropic FM,	were not guilty in a two-minute meeting with
Haitian Radios Close	halted newscasts at about the same time.	)"' Porters, field in Eiiglish and Arabic, it was
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