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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q police rioters clash in downtown Frankfurt Page 2 q Stockman assails tax plan at preposterous Page 5 o pro football results. See sports Section the Shkane Frilles �=u22x vol. 44. No. 166 tuesday october 1, 1985 c daily and sunday 8693 a 16 sky divers Pilot die in crash a Federal inspector examines the in Rockage of he Cessna 208 in which 17 were killed sunday in Georgia. Jenkinsburg a. A an air plane filled with parachutists crashed on Takeoff from a private Rural airs trip sunday killing All 17 people aboard. Within minutes As Many As 10 skydivers from another plane jumped into the pasture where the Cessna 208 Cara Van crashed but found no survivors witnesses said. One parachutist pushed in front of me and started hollering. They re All dead " said Mary who Laker who lives nearby. There was t any sound coming out of the plane. He kept saying my god my god they re dead " the single engine plane was apparently climbing out after taking off and a witness stated that the engine stalled said Preston Hicks a National transportation safety Board investigator who was on the scene. The plane was grounded Friday because of fuel contamination said Federal aviation administration spokesman Roger Myers. He said the Agency will investigate whether that could have contributed to the crash. He refused to say if fuel contamination could have caused the stall. The plane crashed around 12 30 . About one mile from the grass Airstrip owned by the West wind sport Parachute Center about 50 Miles South of Atlanta Myers said. Club members already had made several jumps sunday when the plane took off with 16 experienced skydivers aboard said Chuck Garwood a spokesman for West wind. The plane was to climb to 12,000 feet and position itself so its passengers could land in a Large Field in front of the club Garwood said. He said the year old plane was certified to carry 16 passengers and a Pilot and that it was routine for it to carry a full Load. Myers said that during on inspection Friday at Dekalb see crash on Page 28 1,000 protest Iowa s visit to Denmark Copenhagen Denmark a about 1,000 anti nuclear demonstrators on sunday protested the port visit of the . Battleship Iowa police reported. Police arrested seven people who chained themselves to a . Navy escort launch at a pier and two who threw paint at the boat. Police said the demonstration organized by various groups was peaceful. Protesters carried banners and chanted slogans against nuclear arms and the pres ence of the Iowa conducting Tuhcic March cops Battle Brixton youths in British riots London up youths sunday night hurled stones looted shops and fought sporadic clashes with riot police called up in the mainly Black neighbourhood of Brixton in a second night of violence sparked by the police shooting of a Black woman. Anti police feelings raged As Britain was hit by its second major not in just Over two weeks. Youths roamed streets and fought with riot police who charged them to break up crowds of up to 300 people. Twenty six people were arrested sunday night More than 220 have been arrested since the rioting flared saturday following the police shooting of an unarmed 38-year old Mother of six during a raid on her Home. Police had no immediate1 reports of injuries sunday night but 53 people were injured in 12-hours of rioting the Day before see riots on Page 28 near the renowned Little Mermaid statue. Earlier demonstrations were staged by people aboard boats in the Oresund Strait in both danish and swedish Waters officials said. The Iowa is equipped to carry Toma Hawk and Harpoon missiles. Protest leaders said if the missiles were armed with nuclear warheads that would violate Denmark s policy that nuclear arms not be brought onto its territory in peacetime. The 58,000-ton battleship arrived Friday and is anchored a few Miles off the danish capital in the Oresund. Later this week it is to join other North Atlantic treaty organization units in a major exc cruise in the bal tic sea. Its arrival brought renewed demands by leftist politicians that Denmark refuse port Calls by warships whose commanders do not guarantee that the vessels Are not carrying nuclear warheads. According to government policy the United states will not say what ships arc or deduction of clearances Nars  by Amman Black Washington a the armed services Ando enc contractors appear to be meeting Cense Secre tary Caspar  St be mom goal of reducing Security Claf 10 percent. Final figures on which grew out of a Nav my scandal Are expected in Octol Wocin Burger s deadline for the Job the Board 10 Pyrc Cal reduction clearances was to expire Monde Pena some figures have been comp s cuts were ordered on june ii la were 4.3 million Pentagon Erryn Ces congressional aides and tractor employees with clearances singing from confidential to secret to top secret. The id coh stashing the number of Vilh clearances is aimed at the potential sources of infer on to the soviet Union and freeing investigators to perform More thorough and timely background checks. L. Britt Snider the Pentagon s Prin Cipal director for counter intelligence and Security policy told a House panel Leck that it does appear that the d of str Cut will meet or exceed no Secretary s 10-percent objective by to first of october. As of sek.15, we estimate that an Overall reduction of approximately 8 percent had  Snider said. Each of Tel nil Ilary depart ments has advised Irnvia expects to satisfy the requirement a timely see goal Cal Gage 26 arc not equipped with nuclear arms. Denmark is a member of nato and its Center right coalition government and the social Democrat opposition have agreed not to bar visits by Allied ships. Former social Democrat prime minister Anker Joergenson said Denmark s policy on nuclear arms is Well known and we take for granted that there arc no nuclear War Heads on the battleship while it is in our  bleachers fall in Mexico 200 injured Tecate Mexico a crowded bleachers collapsed at a bullring sunday and 200 people suffered injuries most of them minor an  said. The collapse occurred As the Day s second Bull was being led into the i Ena. At least 50 people suffered injuries of undetermined severity including 15 to 20 with broken Bones said Luis Villa Vicencio the fire chief of to cat about 50 Miles East of san Diego. Another 100 to 150 people suffered minor cuts and bruises he said. Villa said one part of the bleachers Cir cling the ring collapsed. But one witness David Mcnew said All the bleachers fell. It was real sudden. I would relate it to a real fast Domino effect said Mcnew. A Stringer photographer for the los Angeles times. Mcnew was not injured. One portion of the bleachers started to see bleachers on Page 28  
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