European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                N Texas prison gang War claims 3 victims Page 5 d Liechtenstein More than meets the Eye daily Magazine d cowboys Wallop redskins in pro football Page 21 the stars and stripes vol. 44, no. 146 wednesday september 11, 1985 q 8693 a \ Reagan bks a Africa sanctions pm Init Reagan confers with i a. Ambassador to South Africa Herman Nickel before announcing sanctions. Washington a president  backing away from his longtime opposition onto n Lions  South Africa. Monday movcju0. Ninish without delay the White minority  for its apartheid Laws which discriminate  s Black majority. Put into effect most of the provisions of sanctions legislation that has passed the is before the Senate. Ing from the Oval office he said in a National broadcast the system of apartheid Means deliberate systematic institutionalized racial discrimination denying the Black majority their god Given rights. America s View of apart Heid is simple and straightforward we believe it is wrong. We condemn it and we arc United in hoping for the Day when apartheid will be no  the president s shift made in Hopes of avoiding a for eign policy defeat in Congress came As the Senate pre pared to move toward adoption of a sanctions Bill. Republican leaders said they would move to delay further action on the Bill in Light of Reagan s announcement. Reagan said his executive order was designed and aimed against the machinery of apartheid without indiscriminately punishing the people who arc victims of that a Stem measures that will disassociate the United states from apartheid but associate us positively with peaceful  our aim cannot be to punish South Africa with co nomic sanctions that would injure the very people we arc ing to  Reagan said Agan said he is Banning All computer exports to South african Law  agencies. Halting All exports of nuclear technology until South see sanctions on Page 28 iranian offensive crushed Iraq says Manama Bahrain a Iraq said monday that it had crushed an iranian offensive in the Northern sector of the War front killing thousands of iranian troops and raided Iran s Harg Island Oil terminal again. An iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad said iraqi Jet fighters and helicopters supporting Artil Lery armory a l infantry units participated in an onslaught monday on iranian troops who at tempted to Cross the iraqi Borders in the sector of the Sib army corps. Thousands of iranian enemy troops were wiped out following the crushing of an enemy offensive in the Northern operations sector the military spokesman was quoted As saying by the iraqi news Agency. Later the spokesman said 2,514 iranians were killed in the operation. He said Large numbers were also injured or taken prisoner. He said the offensive was completely Annahi see offensive on Page 28 gangs of youths set fires attack firefighters in England Birmingham England a gangs of youths rioted in this Industrial City monday night setting fires that destroyed More than 50 buildings and attacking fire fighters trying to extinguish the blazes. The Riols and looting were entered in the hands onh District a predominantly immigrant Community of West indians Ana pakistanis. A British broadcasting corp. Report said the area had been tense since midday when an asian businessman was stabbed by a Yoi la trying to steal a bag of Cash. Constable Geoffrey dear told a news conference Early tuesday that Many of the buildings burned Down were asian owned shops. He said police trying o defend the firefighters were attacked with hundreds of petrol bombs hurled by a mob of some 300-400 rioters. Dear said most of the rioters were West Indian youths. Earlier reports had said that mixco gangs of asian and White youths were rampaging through the District. Police said at least 20 people including 12 police offi cers and six firefighters were injured by gasoline bombs bricks and bottles. More than a do in vehicles were hijacked and set afire by the rioters to Block police from entering the District dear said. I think it is worse Thun briton he said referring to three Days of riots by Whites and Blacks in the South Lon Don District of Brixton in 1981. That violence left 28 build Ings destroyed by fire 143 policemen injured and Ted to damage claims for More than si3.6 million. Dear said that some policemen were showered with gasoline bombs from rooftops. He discounted claims by some West Indian residents thai the violence was sparked by police Hunting for drugs. Early tuesday fires were still blazing in several ruined buildings in Handsworth. One Road was blocked by debris from two buildings that had collapsed. Graham Meldrum Deputy chief fire officer of birding Ham in Central England said some fire trucks had been badly damaged by Stone throwing attackers. He said the trouble began when a crowd of youths attacked firefighters battling a Blaze at a Bingo Hall. They pelted firefighters and police with gasoline bombs bricks and bottles. Loyalist forces crush coup attempt in Thailand Bangkok a loyalist troops crushed a coup attempt monday by 400 to 500 soldiers led by former top military men. Prime minister Prem tins Vanonda who had been out of the country returned hours after the tank led rebel insurrection. Four people were reported killed and 59 wounded in nine hours of fighting. The act ing army chief said three alleged coup Lead ers had been arrested. Among the dead were Abc s Bangkok Bureau chief Neil Davis and his sound Man. Bill la Lack they were shot in front of the army compos was rebel operated m41 and m48 tanks open Are on the army radio station. Rebel soldiers seized the official radio Thailand and government talc vision Julf Nel nine. The rebels calling thib Beeves tip revolutionary party,.-Mounced they1 had seized pow it new dissolved the parliament . Tjw Foels with machine guns and 22 a gave up five hours later when the government threatened to mov Ujj. Aiid1 crush them. Abc s  for Asia and the Pacic flt set acc Macdonnell said Latch 35,  with leg wounds but the network later said he had died. Davis 52, gained Fame As the last correspondent for a . Network to leave Viet Nam after the 1975 communist Victory. A a to of emergency was declared at noon Mon cd and the newspaper Bangkok world said Thailand had placed its forces on the Eastern Border with Cambodia on full Alert. Thailand faces the threat of vietnamese troops that have occupied Cambodia since a late 1978 invasion. An armed forces official speaking at a news conference identified the key leaders of the coup attempt As a former prime min ister and supreme commander a former battalion commander involved in an Abor Tive 1981 coup and his brother a com Mander of the air Force s Security Force