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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes thousands killed in Iran quake continued from Page 1 told government radio. Suddenly the whole building started shaking. We tried to get to the door and get out but it was shaking too much. Only my brother and i survived. The rest were buried under the  a government spokesman said the town was totally demolished and ruined and the news Agency quoted local officials As saying three fourths of the town s Popula Tion was killed or injured. The government radio earlier quoted estimates in Tehran newspapers that put the death toll at anywhere up to 7,000, without giving attribution for the figures. The minute Long quake struck As most of the residents of the sparsely populated area were eating dinner inside their dried mud houses. Such buildings provide Protection against the heat and cold of the desert but Are Brittle and collapse easily during earthquakes. Hospital tents working together with the iranian air Force and army Relief authorities sent 20 giant Hospital tents 23,000 Ordinary tents and 7,000 blankets for the tens of thousands left homeless. The air Force flew Over the area and dropped lanterns food and cooking ten  Shah sent c-130 cargo planes with food and Medicine As Well As ambulances doctors and a flying Hospital a spokesman said. The supplies included 1,000 blankets. Heavy damage was also reported in nearby villages where 54 bodies were found by morning. Twenty thousand people died when an earthquake hit the same Region almost exactly 10 years ago in september 1968. Although its epicentre was near the Bor Ders of Afghanistan and the soviet Union the temblor was Felt in the religious Center of Mashad 240 Miles to the North. The minute Long vibrations also hit Teh ran where tall buildings swayed slightly water splashed out of swimming pools and pictures and hangings fell off Walls. People ran from their houses in panic in some districts but the quake passed unnoticed in other areas of the capital. Monday september 18, 1978 England s Whipsnade zoo near Dun stable says the arrival of quintuplets record Breakers Marks a world record in cheetah Breed ing. Dandy Duke Dusky Dawn and Denise make their Public debut. The cubs were born last month. A threat of regional conflict Nicaragua rebels open front near Cosfa Rica Managua up heavily armed sandinista guerrillas opened a new Battle front in the Southern Border area with Costa Rica sunday threatening to Widen the nicaraguan civil War into a regional conflict. The nicaraguan foreign ministry charged that a venezuelan warplane was assisting the guerrillas and called in the ambassadors of Venezuela Costa Rica and Panama for  sports in Brief sunday s baseball National league new York 200 000 0002 10 0 Philadelphia 000 000 0000 4 1 Bruhert and Stearns Christenson Reed 9 and Boone. A Bruhert 4-9. A Christenson 11-14. Montreal 000010011350 Pittsburgh 013 000 01 a s 7 1 May Palmer 6knowles 8 and Carter Blyleven Tekulve 8 and Ott. W Blyleven 14-9. A May 7-10. Hrs Montreal Cromartie 9valentine 25 Pitts Burgh Parker 27. Game called by rain in Bottom of the seventh. St. Louis 00011002 82 Chicago 00030104110 Vuckovich Lopez 6o Brien 7 and Kennedy Burris lies continued from Page 1 unsympathetic to third world aspirations. The main soviet propaganda tools it said Are radio Moscow and other Broad cast services news agencies such As Tass Kab intelligence operations including agents posing As journalists foreign communist parties and International communist front groups and even forgery. Forgeries of apparent soviet origin have been appearing with increasing fre Quency in the last year it said. It cited a bogus letter purportedly writ ten by Hermann Eilts the . Ambassador in Cairo to the american ambassador in saudi Arabia. The phony letter had Eilts calling for the overthrow of the sudanese government. It turned up mysteriously at the sudanese embassy in Beirut. And Blackwell. A Burris 6-12. A Vuckovich 12-12. Houston 000 000 100 1 7 3 san Diego 2 001 Fox 392 Lemongello Riccelli 7 and Pujols Jones fingers 8 and Tenace. A Jones 12-14. A Lemongello 9-14. American league Boston 001 010 131 7113 new York 0 000 120 340 Eckersley  7 and flask Beattie Lyle 8clay 8 and Munson. A Eckersley 17-8. A Beattie 5 8. Or Boston Yastrzemski 14. California 000 000 000 050 Kansas City 2 020 10x 5 6 1 Tanana  7k. Brett 7 and Downing Leon Ard and Porter. A Leonard 18-17. A Tanana 17-11. Hrs Kansas City White 6brett 7. Detroit 100 000 000 1 4 0 Cleveland 000000 11x 261 Young and Parrish Hood Kern 7 and Pruitt. A Kern 10-9. A Young 6-6. Hrs Cleveland Pruitt 6veryzer. Toronto 000 000 000 052 Baltimore 104 000 Fox 580 Kirkwood Garvin 4 and Cerone Flanagan and Demp sey. A Flanagan 18-13. A Kirkwood 4-4. Hrs Baltimore Decinces 24. Minnesota 100 201 000 470 Milwaukee 200100000382 serum Marshall 8 and Wynegar Replogle Mcclure 7 and Moore. A serum 9-8. A Replogle 9-3. Or Milwaukee Hisle 32. Oakland 000 100 000 1 6 1 Texas 201 000 Fox 3 12 1 Langford Norris 5lacey 6 and Newman Matlack and Sunberg. A Matlack 13-13. A Langford 7-12. Or Oakland Carty 29. Pro football results Chicago 19, Detroit 0 Cleveland 24, Atlanta 16 Tampa Bay 16, Minnesota 10 houston20, san Francisco 19 by giants 26, Kansas City 10 Pittsburgh 28, Cincinnati 3 Seattle 24, by jets 17 Oakland 28, Green Bay 3 Philadelphia 24, new Orleans 17 Washington 28, St. Louis 10 Venezuela has dispatched five War planes and Panama has sent four helicopters to Costa Rica ostensibly to defend that unarmed nation against nicaraguan at tacks. Costa rican radio reports quoting four sandinista who returned to Costa Rica wounded said the Border attack was coordinated by agent Zero the notorious Eden Pastora. Pastora reportedly led the daring aug. 22 raid on the National Palace in Managua that forced president Anastasio Somoza to release and Fly almost 60 political prison ers to Panama. In most of Nicaragua s major cities however the 8-Day-old offensive by the sandinista guerrillas appeared to be on the Wane. The nation s second largest City Leon was reported totally in the hands of nation Al guard troops late saturday after a 2-Day land and air attack that left much of the City in shambles and bodies lying in the streets. The National guard also claimed control of Chin Andega 80 Miles Northwest of Man Agua but its announcement left it Clear that most of Esteli 80 Miles North of Man Agua was still in rebel hands. Word of the Border attack came when the nicaraguan foreign ministry announced with profound concern that a military Force coming from Costa Rica has again cowardly attacked the Border  it said the nicaraguan ambassador to Costa Rica Juan b. Lacayo had filed a formal protest with the Costa rican for eign ministry against this new aggression which already has obtained the Mili tary support of the venezuelan government which made a venezuelan combat plane participate in this latest  an official nicaraguan source said a venezuelan warplane chased a Small nicaraguan air Force plane in the Border Are Early sunday. The fighting in the Border Region started around 4 . Summit enters its final stage continued from Page 1 three governments for sunday night the intensive negotiations could carry Over until monday said the knowledgeable source who insisted on anonymity. While there was no word on specifics israeli sources expressed cautious optimism after Carter and prime minister begin ended a 4 vie hour session past mid night saturday. An egyptian editor Moussa Sabry of Al Akbar reported without offering any details that an earlier 2j/2-hour session Between Carter and president Sadat had produced a dramatic  those upbeat outlooks contrasted with pessimism reflected by the egyptian press when Summit spokesman Jody Powell first announced the 12-Day conference would end by sunday night. Powell said the leaders were Likely to meet again in a three Way session the first in 10 Days before the end of the Summit. When Carter set up his separate meet Ings with Sadat and begin sources close to All three delegations reported the negotiations were at a delicate and critical stage. At that Point Powell said there was still no agreement on a framework for future negotiations Between Egypt and Israel. Apart from procedural disputes the two sides apparently had not settled any of the key issues. These Center on whether begin was willing to commit Israel to a withdrawal from the West Bank of the Lordsr River and on How Israel s Security would be protected. Europe partly Cloudy and cooler with morning fog monday and tuesday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 70, Low 48. Sunset monday 6 34 . Sunrise tuesday 6 07a.m. 4am 4pm 65 58 59 48 58 52 81 77 63 72 91 66 Adana p Valano p Brussels p Frankfurt m Madrid c Paris m 4am 4om 67 54 59 59 48 61 79 63 57 66 75 81 Athens Oberlin p Copenhagen m London p Munich p Rome p a partly Cloudy a a mostly Cloudy a Clear. Det 25,31st weather so  
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