European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday september 8.1985page 28 / Hawk missile site hit by 3 bomb blasts Freisen Germany is three bomb blasts destroyed radar equipment at a . Hawk missile site Early Friday an spokesman said. No one was injured in the series of Early Morang explosions at the missile site that belongs to a Truro 3rd in 59th air defense arty said maj. Joe a adj 32nd air defense come spokesman. The explosions went off within 30 so ends of each other beginning at 5 45 a.m., Padilla Sjef he said two holes were Cut in the Fence in such a a Fly that one person could hold the Fence open for not Hen get through. Padilla said an anti am can slogan was painted on one of the buildings Withine site. German officials said Riney suspect the red fac Tion formerly known/6 the Baamer Meinhoff gang of set Ting the explosions though no one has taken responsibility for the attack. Alexander Prechtel spokesman for the Ger Jan Federal prosecutor said the perpetrators appear Gnu Cut through the wire Fence surrounding the Small sit a nhe Early hours of the morning Between guard petrol Prechtel said investigators had wot determined what kind of devices were used in the a Usa eur spokesman Aid that because of the Early hour there were on i Small number of men on the he did not knowj0w Many soldiers Are assigned to the site. F the . Milita Rynn Germany was hit by four attacks or attempted attack last month All of them believed to be the work of the leftist red faction terrorist group. On aug. 8, a Soldier was murdered near Wiesbaden shortly before a bomb ripped through Rhein main a _ j plume. Germani the Soldier s id Nti killing two americans and injuring investigators believe the terror a fiction card to enter the Baj a the direct action Tea Crist group of France claimed joint responsibility w Fri the red faction for the Rhein main bomb _ the direct a lion terrorist group of France claimed joint response Unity for the Rhein main bombing with the red action. A week suspected terrorists in Germany bombed an american forces network radio Antenna and unsuccessfully tried to Burn two Railroad cars from the Frankfurt to Berlin duty train that were parked in the Frankfurt Sta Tion. There were no injuries in either attack. Police say they Are looking for More than a dozen red faction members in connection with the attacks. Crash from Page 1 through the smoking wreckage to adminis Ter the last rites said the Pilot died clutch ing the Jet s controls to bring it out of the 1 could do was offer a prayer for them. Commend them to god said the Rev. Karl Acker pastor at nearby St. Alex Ander s roman Catholic Church who also went to the site shortly after the crash. There is nothing we could have done if we had been there right on the scene said Richard Seelin assistant Milwaukee fire chief. It was total Kriz said there were 26 passengers four Crew members and one person sitting in a jump seat. That person could have been from the airline or the Faa or the Nosb National transportation safety boar but was not a passenger she said. Mort Edelstein a spokesman for the Faa in Chicago said the plane took off at 3 25 . And was flying across the Airport Boundary when the Pilot called the Tower. "1 have an emergency Edelstein quoted the Pilot As Tower acknowledged receiving the message and then the plane crashed Edelstein next thing the Tower saw was smoke we fire from a Large Ball of tire he team of investigators from the nation Al transportation safety Board headed by Board chairman Jim Burnett was flying from Washington to Milwaukee on an Faa aircraft to begin an inv Stigi. Ion. In East Hartford conn., Pratt & Whit Ney spokesman David Long said the plane used jt8d-7 engines an older Model than the jt8d-15 that apparently exploded an caused a British Boeing 737 to crash in said Pratt & Whitney sent two representatives to the scene. He said information was sketchy but there was no reason to believe it was an engine Midwest express which was established in june 1984, is based in Appleton wis. It started service Between Milwaukee and at Lanta in May 1985, using two dc-9s and making two round trips each Day. Midwest express was Only in its fourth Day of flying from Madison said airline president Timo thy Hoeksema. The deaths added to what was already the highest fatality toll in civilian aviation history for a single year. Just this summer there were four major crashes june 23 329 died on an air India Boeing 747 in the Atlantic. Aug. 2 135 died in a Delta air lines l-1011 at Dallas Forth Worth inter National Airport. Aug. 12 520 were killed on a Japan air lines 747 on a Remote Mountaintop near Tokyo. Aug. 22 55 died on a British air Tours Boeing 737 at Manchester England. A bomb was suspected but not proven in the air India disaster. Weather or Mechan ical failure apparently caused the other three. Reagan from Page 1 said if we have changes in our South Africa policy we will announce it at an appropriate s five minute session with report ers was set up to give him an Opportunity to Praise a Sharp drop in unemployment but he was peppered with questions about South Africa his health and americans still missing in Lebanon. He said tie has no aches or pains follow ing his july 13 cancer surgery and that my biggest problem is with the doctors that Are still trying to shorten Down the Reagan went horseback Riding his favorite sport daily for the last nine Days of his three week vacation. He said he would be returning to Bethesda naval Hospital pretty soon for a rays and a Post operative checkup to ensure that he is Healing properly and that there is no new sign of cancer following the removal of a Large malignant growth in his Colon. I know that s a routine thing that has to be done Reagan said of the tests. Asked about the seven americans kid napped in Beirut and still being held prisoner Reagan said we Don t know if any Progress is being made in winning their re lease. But he said we re working just Ai hard As we can in every Channel that we although there Aren t daily developments Ai there were in the dramatic 17 Day hostage crisis involving Twa flight 847, Reagan said that does t mean that is not the most important thing for us and we Are doing during an aug. 24 Telephone interview while recuperating at his California ranch Reagan told web radio in Atlanta that South africans have eliminated the Segre gation that we once had in our own country the Type of thing where hotels and restaurants and places of entertainment and so Forth were segregated. That has All been his comments touched off a juror in the United states and elsewhere among opponents of the South african government which is controlled by the nation s White minority and has refused to dismantle the major structures of apartheid. Blacks in South Africa Are de Nied any voice in the government and Are subject to White imposed rules determining where they May live and work. Schools Are rigidly segregated and Many restaurants movie the aters and Public facilities remain off limits to Blacks. Speakes sought to explain Reagan s com ment at the time saying the president was talking about major cities where there has been a step in that direction to remove barriers of apartheid major areas such As Pretoria Cape town and Reagan said Friday that he did t in tend to a that about the elimination of segregation but that Many people returning from South Africa had been reporting to him about widespread changes. Buck from Page 1 Edge when competing with goods made in the United states a condition that has Cre ated record us. Foreign Trade deficits in recent years. Sam y. Cross executive vice president of the new York Federal Reserve and author of the report confirmed Friday that . Intervention policy had not changed after a june meeting in Tokyo of ministers from the United states Belgium Britain Canada France Italy Japan the Netherlands Sweden Switzerland and West Germany known As the g-10 countries. In general currency trader View disorderly conditions As periods of wide swings in Exchange rates without consistency in oids Between dealers. Such was the Case Early this year As the Dollar began a climb that by late february had lifted it to All time highs against the currencies of Britain Canada France and Italy 13-year highs against the dutch Guilder and West German Mark and a 10-year Peak against the Swiss franc. After the finance ministers meeting in january concerted intervention against the Dollar was launched by the g-10 countries. With the heaviest sales of dollars occurring Between feb. 27 and March 1, after the Dollar had peaked. For All go 0 countries As a group the total of dollars sold during the five weeks Between Jan. 21 and March 1 was about $10 billion the report said. This series of operations constituted Ore of the biggest Dollar interventions during the floating rate Margaret Greene a senior vice president for foreign Exchange operations at the new York Federal Reserve Bank said the intervention Over a five week period was one of the largest for such an interval since 1973. But she added for the entire six month reporting period the intervention was not exceptional. S. Africa closing schools for mixed races Cape town South Africa not the authorities Here announced on Friday that they were closing 454 schools and col Leges for students of mixed racial descent after Days of violence in Cape town s mixed race areas. A Cabinet official Laid that the govcrnme-1 could no longer Gua Rantee the students safety. The announcement came As Nelson Man Dela South Africa s most prominent political prisoner was reported to have undergone medical tests by a urologist in a Hospital i Cape town. Mandela who has been in prison for More than two decades is serving a life sentence on charges of sabotage. A prison statement said the 67-year-old Mandela was returned to his cell at polls Moor prison after being examined. The outcome of the test the second of his Uri nary tract this year was not immediately known. Hospital officials said Mandela under heavy guard underwent a bladder examination called a Custos copy the fourth one since he was transferred from Robben is land to polls Moor prison in 1982. While no one hat indicated that Mandela b ill some South african commentators say the authorities fear that if he Dies in prison there will be a tremendous Public outcry among the nation s 23 million Blacki officials said the schools closing will affect 360,000 students. The order comes two weeks ahead of regular vacations. The minister in charge of education for mixed race students. 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