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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (1504)	3/1/2000 9:38:00 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12255

Riefenstahl, 97, Survives Plane Crash KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Leni Riefenstahl, 97, once famed as Hitler's favorite film maker, broke ribs in a plane crash in Sudan, a German source said Wednesday. The source, who asked not to be named, said that Riefenstahl was returning to Khartoum from the Nuba mountains in central Sudan Tuesday evening when her plane made a forced landing at El Obeid, 350 km (220 miles) southwest of Khartoum. Riefenstahl had arrived in Sudan about 10 days ago on a trip shrouded in secrecy. The light aircraft had headed back to El Obeid after developing technical problems. A German photographer with Riefenstahl sustained a broken thigh and may return to Germany. A Sudanese information ministry official suffered a fractured collarbone, the source said. Riefenstahl and the others injured were being treated in Khartoum. No other casualties were reported. Last month Riefenstahl, who gained international fame and notoriety for her Nazi-era documentary films, said she wanted to trace Nuba friends despite the perils of the journey. ``Of course at my age it is not so easy and perhaps not completely without risk,' she had told Reuters last month. ``My only goal is to find my Nuba friends again, and above all try to find a way to help them.' The Nuba, estimated to number one million, live as farmers and herders in a remote part of central Sudan sometimes caught up in the government's 17-year war with southern rebels. Riefenstahl had ignored a security warning against going to the mountains to photograph Nuba wrestlers. She was travelling under the assumed name of Mrs Jacob, the German source said. Riefenstahl took widely acclaimed pictures of Nuba tribespeople during previous visits to Sudan during the 1969-1985 rule of President Gaafar al-Nimeiri. But her return stirred controversy in Germany. Critics said Khartoum's Islamist government, mired in civil war, would use the trip for propaganda. Riefenstahl rejected such criticism. ``It is incomprehensible that my activities overall and that my plans to travel to Sudan in particular to help the Nuba would stir controversy,' she said. A Western diplomat in Khartoum said the trip was a sensitive one. ``The German embassy is worried by the situation back at home where people will be asking why the (German) embassy is helping this Nazi sympathizer,' the diplomat said. Sentenced to four years in prison after World War Two for her part in Nazi propaganda, Riefenstahl has often expressed irritation that she is tied with Nazi Germany in public memory.