TRAUNSTEIN, FRG A polite engineer standing up trial Monday acknowledged miscalculations in the building of an ice skating rink that gave way two geezerhood ago, voting down 15 citizenry, mostly minors.

But two early defendants — the caput of building and an designer — took a firm stand they existed innocent as their test on charges of manslaughter and carelessness opened in southerly Germany.

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Britain’s Prince Charles will non attend the openning up ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing — and a grouping that campaigns against China’s human rights record told Monday that the future monarch’s conclusion was in solidarity with its aims.

Free Tibet Campaign functionaries said they held written to the Prince of Wales request him to rest away from the case, which begins on August 8.

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