European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday october 2, 1985 . Journalist reportedly killed by land mine in Afghanistan world today Islamabad Pakistan a afghan rebels said monday that a is. Journalist Charles Thornton was killed in Afghanistan when the jeep in which he was Riding was destroyed by a land mine on sept. 25. The Arizona Republic said monday night that Thorn ton 50. Of Phoenix was a medical reporter for the paper on assignment in Pakistan. He was accompanied by photographer Peter so Muster 29. Also of Phoenix. The rebel sources said three other foreigners were wounded in the explosion. They identified them As another american journalist Peter Schlachter and two doctors John magnum and Judd Jensen. They said they did not know the doctors nationalities or have any further information about the victims. The newspaper s assistant state editor Mark Schaffer Laid neither the paper nor the journalists relatives had been notified. State department spokesman Bruce am mar Ryan said in Washingtn d.c., that he had no information about such an incident. According to the rebel sources the explosion occurred outside Kandahar about 275 Miles South of Kabul the afghan capital. The sources speaking on the condition that they not be identified told reporters that the four were driving to Kandahar from Kabul. But Schaffer said Thornton and Schlucter had no visa from the Afghanistan government. He said they were in Pakistan to do medical stories on the treatment the rebels and Afghanistan refugees received in Border Camps. Rebels fighting the soviet backed marxist government of president Babrak Karmal frequently mine the roads that arc used by afghan and soviet troops. Few Western reporters have been allowed by the government to visit Afghanistan since the soviets sent some 100,000 soldiers into the country beginning in december 1979 to help fight the anti communist insurgents. A few Western reporters have made Brief forays into Afghanistan accompanying rebels based in Pakistan. Schaffer Laid Thornton who was born in Memphis tenn., had been a reporter columnist and editor for More than 20 years and joined the Arizona Republic in 1984 As a medical writer. He had been a general assignment reporter medical writer and assistant metropolitan editor at the Memphis commercial Appeal from 1964 to 1973. For the next three years he was a part time journalism instructor at Mem Phis state University. In 1976, he became a reporter and columnist at the Memphis press scimitar. He is survived by his wife Shelby and two sons Mark 14, and Charles jr., 19. Quake Rescue worker denies disagreements stalled efforts Mexico City a a Florida firefighting expert who participated in Rescue efforts in the Wake of devastating earthquakes that hit Mexico City has de Nied that the efforts were hampered by Complete chaos As a is. Embassy official has charged. Given the scale of the disaster the time we had to work the number of people who responded from All Over the world and the language differences i would defy anybody to do a better Job Flatan we did John Carroll of Florida s Metto Dade i  said. There have in reports that disagreements among mexican and . And other foreign workers stalled efforts and May have Cost lives. Carroll said disputes arose Over different Rescue methods but typically lasted 15  there was a lot More cooperation than people realized he said. Earlier Cuido Del Prado the . Embassy s Rescue coordinator Hud told a news conference that Rescue efforts were initially hampered by Complete  if you re talking about a coordinated Effort i m afraid there was none he said. I believe if we had the right equipment and the right people to work with we would have saved a lot More lives without any ques  twelve Days after the first of two powerful Earth quakes rumbled through the City searchers continued looking for survivors. However none has been found for several Days. President Miguel do la Madrid urged workers to continue Hunting and said recovering survivors must be the first priority before cleanup efforts begin. The first quake registering 8.1 on the Richter scale Shook the Center of the capital on sept. 19. The second measuring 7.5, struck the following Day. More than 5,200 people Are known dead and More than 7,000 Are missing according to the Federal government s tally. An estimated 18,000 people were injured and 40,000 were Eft homeless. The . Embassy monday released the names of nine americans known to have died in the  Are Mary Elizabeth Vallejo a resident of Mexico from Cozad neb., and her children Ilse Anne and Alonso. Georgina m. Yuncer of san Antonio Texas. Embassy spokesman said her to month old son also was killed but had not been registered at the embassy As a . Citizen. Bruce Sloan of Newmarket . Ivan and Iraida Ducus of puerto Rico. Joyce Albertha Mottiel of new York . Emery Takacs of Huntington Beach Calif. Spokesman Vince Hovanec said the embassy had a list of americans presumed to have been in one of six Mexico City hotels that collapsed in the quakes but their names Are being withheld until their status is confirmed. He said the embassy had no reports of hospitalized americans. The names of the 24 missing people come from rela Tives in the United states or Mexico or from survivors who were in the hotels Hovanec said. He said embassy and consular personnel had checked with hospitals morgues and shelters within a 100-Mfic radius of Mexico City. Soviet ships proposal seeks drastic cuts Geneva a . And soviet negotiators held a second meeting tuesday at which the soviets finished proposing a Well balanced package of new arms control measures the chief soviet Delegate said. It s As balanced As i am standing on my feet. It covers All three areas of the discussions and it s Well balanced Viktor p. Karpov told reporters before the . Team arrived for the meeting at the soviet Mission to the United nations. The meeting Between All six principal us. And soviet negotiators headed by Max m. Kampelman and Karpov lasted one hour and 15 minutes. Karpov said the soviet proposals called for cuts in nuclear arsenals As drastic As possible  he did not elaborate. The soviet said the . Side had not made comprehensive proposals at the Geneva talks. So our proposals arc not counteroffer. It s the proposal he said. Karpov said Success of the negotiations would depend on the United states. The soviet delegation s task is to do everything it can to make the nov. 19-20 Summit Between president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev a Suc Cess he said. But it takes two to tango As the saying gees so we cannot say whether we will find a response that will help us make this task possible he said. What we need for Progress is that the american Side change the Altitude toward the discussion and take a stand that will allow both delegations to work  Karpov said the soviet package was based on the Jan. 8 .-soviet agreement setting up the talks. The document said the areas of intermediate Range nuclear forces Long Range nuclear weapons and space and de sense should be resolved in their  on monday a visiting West German politician who had a one hour talk with the . Chief Delegate said there seemed to be a slight improvement in expectations after the soviet proposals were presented monday. Scene off 5 deaths a Al Emu surveys the damage to part of a Alx tory Paris apartment building in which five people died la a Fin tuesday morning. Ten others were injured. The fire of undetermined origin swept through the upper two floor of the building. 18,000 on Okinawa evacuated while Wii bomb is removed Tokyo up authorities evacuated 18,000 people from the capital of Okinawa and removed an unix Todea incl dropped on the Island by the . Military during world War police said bomb disposal experts from the japanese self defense Force unearthed the 550-Pound Shell from a from sonic Tion site in Naha about 1,000 Miles South of Tokyo. Officials evacuated 18,000 residents from about 5,000 Homes in the Vicinity to r Arby Parks and Public meeting Hub during the 15-minuteopcration, a police spokesman said. This is the third Lime i be been forced to evacuate a 67 year old housewife was quoted by the Kyodo news service As saying. It s like i m living on top of a bomb. It s  Okinawa police said unexploded shells Are discovered about once a month on the Island which was the site of heavy bomb Ings and combat Between japanese and american troops Dur ing world War ii. Greek shipping heiress seeks divorce from fourth husband Athens a shipping heiress Christina Onassis has filed for divorce from her fourth husband French businessman Thierry Roussel sources close to the Onassis family said. The sources said the divorce petition was filed last month in Switzerland where Onassis is a resident of St. Moritz. Our impression is that Christina and Thierry reached a Mutual decision to divorce the sources said. Onassis 34, who Heads a shipping and real estate Empire inherited from her father Aristotle Onassis was married to Roussel 33, in France in 1984. 70-year-old londoner fathers healthy test tube quadruplets London up a 70-year-old Man has become the father of test tube quadruplets and Hospital officials believe he is the oldest father of test tube babies. A spokesman for Hammersmith Hospital said ton Del Renzino a pensioner became a father for the first time when his 38-year-old wife Doris gave birth to two boys and two girls by caesarean Section. The babies were six weeks premature. The Hospital said the birth went without incident and the Mother and babies were healthy and doing Well. The babies weighed Between two pounds 12 ounces and three pounds 14 ounces and Are expected to remain hospitalized for about four weeks the spokesman said