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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes August 1985 engine explodes plane sprayed with burning fuel from Wing tanks second explosion turns rear of plane int inferno most die Here unused escape chutes passengers escape from chutes and door Over Wing survivor says passengers panicked when British Airliner became inferno England a a 20yearold woman who climbed Over seats to escape from a burning Jet said Friday that More people could have survived if passengers haunt speaking from her Hospital Anna Findlay told the associated press that the passengers we rent told what to do and had to open the emergency exits themselves to escape from the British air Tours Boeing the plane had been turned into an inferno after an engine exploded during Takeoff and covered the Craft with aviation if we haunt More people would have got said one of the 83 survivors of the Accident which killed 54 most trapped in the rear of the 3 survivors1 stories she was one of three survivors at Manchester Wythenshawe Hospital who described their desperate attempts to get out of the smoke filled All three of the hospitalized survivors Are from North Ern they were reported to be comfortable and improving by a Hospital j was completely Findlay we saw the flames outside and we didst realize How quickly it was going to time just stood still and we watched it and didst know what to no one moved when they most of the people fell Down and people got trampled by the time i decided i was going to people were crushed and lying Down in the i went Over the seats and just fought my Way i could hardly breathe because of the there was a piece of rope outside the door and i just grabbed it and people behind me pushed me out onto the i thought i was going to the Back doors didst come nobody moved backward everyone moved it was passengers who pushed All the doors the front door and the Middle doors were kicked open by Passen Gers and it was a difficult Job for Findlay members of the Cabin Crew have not made any Public statements about the and British which owns British said it could not comment on who had opened the exits while the incident is still under Debra was travelling with her Damien who escaped with torn leg Liga and another Chris and Ann who died in the everyone was horrified we were sitting right next to the Wing which was on fire and someone shouted out there was a fire on the for 10 or 15 we didst do when the fire came inside the everyone was she there was a surge of people from behind and there was Black the smoke was worse than any thing it Hurt when you breathed i just got pushed from behind and i think i got pushed through the i took one breath and i thought my number was we were just like getting out was the Luck of the Whalley Justin said Black smoke blanketed the plane in just a few and that he inhaled quite a lot of Milne said a flight attendant by the door pushed him out of the when i got i saw explosions and the fire started throughput the plane and the Tail dropped i was dazed it was like watching Televik Amy barred from getting a snack Moscow a former president Jimmy Carters hungry for says she was denied entry to the embassy snack bar by a Marine guard because she lacked the necessary meal they  let us said who waited with five others on the sidewalk outside the embassy for 45 minutes until two american correspondents took them in and bought them the guard asked where we were going and said we we rent allowed in the snack she asked if she identified herself to the she of course the Marine greeted her by name when she went in with the the american embassy runs a Small restaurant where residents in Moscow can buy simple lunches using chit cards they buy in the who will enter Brown University in next was among 150 americans who Call themselves the Friendship Force and ended a two week tour of the soviet Union on she said she visited Leningrad and capital of soviet the Best part of the she was a trip to the Hermitage Art museum in world today Greece offers Reward for arrest of those responsible for fires Greece a the government has offered a lucrative Reward for the arrest of arsonists after fires raging through Greece for the past two weeks killed seven people and destroyed Over acres of Forest and said a government the 30 million drachma Reward on the arsonists Heads was announced after Premier Andeas Papandreou charged that the fires Are the work of persons aiming to destabilize his socialist he did not police said seven including a 13yearold Shep had been arrested in connection with the student is 1st fatal victim of aids in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland a a 25yearold Northern Ireland College student has become the prov inces first fatal victim of authorities the Eastern health which supervises hospitals in the Belfast said he died at the Royal Victoria Hospital in a Board statement said the mans identity was withheld at his family the Board refused to say How he contracted the disease or to give any other details about acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a virus that destroys the body immunity to woman wish to die in England washed away by wet summer London up Britain wet summer gave Mary who flew to England in december to die where she was a new wish for her 100th birthday a one Way ticket Back to coming Here was a big Armstrong i just cant stand the British born in northeastern moved Back to Britain after living in the United states for 65 saying she wanted to end her Days where she grew i never had a Days sickness until i was she since coming i seem to have been sick every and it is just because of the Japan charged with violating mental patients civil rights Geneva up Japan has been charged before a human rights group with systematic physical abuse of mental the accusation was made by the new Yor based International league for human rights and its japanese the Japan civil liberties the two groups presented a petition to the subcommission on prevention of discrimination and Protection of a Branch of the human rights they charged japanese authorities with indifference toward mental claiming that physical abuses Are not an exception As the government but rather constitute a City puts 50 roosters to death after neighbors complaints Italy a fifty roosters belonging to a 70yearold woman were put to death after City officials responded to neighbors complaints about Earl morning police in this Central italian City said they intervened seven months after advising Angela Cesarini that City ordinances governing sanitation and the keeping of Ani Mals outlawed such a Large but Cesarini ignored the and police arrived to take the Birds to the leaving four behind in her Small Money from the Sale of the roosters was to go to Cesari although police noted she would have to foot the Bill for their capture and publication of London 3 other newspapers suspended London a publisher Robert Maxwell has sus Pended publication of the Mirror in response to action by workers that forced cancellation of part of its press run one Maxwell said he also is suspending publication of a betting sports the sporting and of two weekly the sunday Mirror and sunday he did not say when publication would with million copies sold each the Mirror has the second largest circulation of any British it is the Only National paper that supports the labor  
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