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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday october 8,1985 10 killed in California interstate 5 pileup Sacramento Calif. A thirty three vehicles collided sunday on interstate 5 As motorists plunged blindly into Clouds of smoke from a Brush fire killing 10 people and injuring More than 40, police said. The smoke was like a curtain being drawn said Ken Neth Shockley a Van passenger who suffered minor injuries in the Chain reaction crash. Two tractor trailers were among the vehicles in the crash which occurred North of downtown Sacramento shortly before 4 p.m., said California Highway patrol spokesman George Olinares. Cup spokesman Dick Fridley originally said seven peo ple died. Police at one time reported eight deaths and Fridley said the confusion was due to a car so badly compacted authorities could not initially determine How Many people were inside. Forty three people were injured seriously enough to be taken to hospitals and at least seven people with major injuries were airlifted to hospitals Olinares said. Spokesmen at the hospitals said none of the victims was in critical condition and at least one person was treated and released. Most of the victims they said were in stable or satisfactory condition. Most of the injuries were not too  Fridley said. Broken Bones were the  smoke was blowing across the freeway said Olinares. It was very dense at the time and the Chain reaction took  we think a vehicle slowed As it passed the grass fire and the others piled in behind said cup dispatcher Barbara Westburg. Smashed automobiles and trucks littered the freeway two hours after the Accident with one Small Sedan smashed beyond recognition. Crumpled automobiles were strewn across northbound lunch and onto the shoulder. Counting the dead and injured was difficult because several victims were trapped in the wreckage said Oli Nares. Shockley said the Driver of his Van slowed the vehicle because there was smoke across the freeway. We slowed Down but did not slow Down fast enough. We hit the car in front of  Shockley said the Van was hit six or seven times and knocked around like a Ping Pong  he suffered a Black Eye a Cut on the Side of his forehead and a bruised shoulder. The Highway patrol received first word of the Accident from Sacramento firefighters who were fighting the Brush fire. The firefighters helped pull victims from the crash and doused the blare later. Aspin from Page 1 some weapons is decreasing and a number of systems Are More ready to fight that four years ago. Aspin said spending for research and development increased 56 percent but by the Pentagon s own standards of 15 areas of  technology Competition there was no change in the relative standings in 11 of those  the relative . Position improved in one Field and degraded in three indicating a modest decline in the relative . Posi Tion Overall despite the huge investment Aspin said. The one area he praised the Pentagon was personnel. Pay increases and other improvements such As housing have led to dramatic improvements. By just about every conceivable measure one could use Aspin said. Recruits arc better educated and re enlistments Are up. But the Pentagon has fewer of a number of weapons than it did four years ago he said in areas such As anti submarine planes mortars Airlift and air defense missiles. One problem Aspin cited was rising costs of individual weapons. For example planes which Cost less than $20 million each in the 1970s now have risen to $27 million apiece. While the newer planes Are More capable the steeply rising prices will mean fewer of the jets will be bought. The soviets meanwhile emphasize Large stockpiles and operate much like a family with a Large attic they never throw any thing out Aspin said. In a War that would mean that after both countries had used up their first line equipment we would have to wait for new production while the soviets could rely on their second rate equipment Aspin con tended. Rioting from Page 1 and set ablaze at least one House Scotland Yard reported. Authorities dispatched four fire engines but police advised them not to go into the area. Scotland Yard spokeswoman Gillian Humphrey said the situation was pretty volatile but the rioting and looting appeared to be tapering off around Midnight. Police from All Over London were sent into the area and came under repeated at soviet hostages won t be freed spokesman says Beirut up1 a caller claiming to speak for moslem extremists holding three soviet officials said sunday they will not be freed and appealed to the islamic jihad movement to keep its american hostages in Captivity. The Telephone caller saying he spoke for the islamic liberation organization told a Western news Agency in Beirut thai a cease fire against moslem fundamentalists in the Northern lebanese port City of Tripoli did not meet their demands. The halt of attacks on the moslem Tripoli and the deceptive deployment that has happened do not necessarily mean the end of the conspiracy against the moslem. Thus we will not free the soviet hostages he said. It was the first Contact since the group killed kidnapped soviet Diplomat Arkady Katl Cov and dumped his body in Beirut wednesday. Tack. Each time police charged the demonstrators showered them with bricks stones and bottles some containing burning Gaso line. Television coverage showed police in run Ning Battles with youths amid the flames and smoke of fires started by firebombs. Police reinforcements were equipped with tear Gas but it was not used immediately. On saturday Cynthia Jarrett 49, col lapsed while police were searching her House for stolen goods following the arrest of one of her sons Floyd. He had been arrested in an investigation involving a Sto Len car. A police statement said mrs. Jarry it was very cooperative but toward the end of the search another of her sons arrived Home and began strongly objecting to the police  she collapsed and the officers were physically shoved out of the  it said. Eventually they persuaded the occupants to let them kick in and one of the officers trained in first Aid administered Mouth to Mouth resuscitation but without  mrs. Jarrett s daughter Patricia 23, claimed a policeman pushed her Mother and caused her to fall. My Mother weighed 20-Odd Stone 280 pounds and she lost her balance stumbled voting from Page 1 third presidential term but his party now is a political Force that will have to be consid ered by both the social democrats and socialists. Under Portugal s Complex proportional representation system if a party wins 43 percent or More of the popular vote it is apportioned 126 seats for a parliamentary majority. Since democratic elections resumed in por Tugal in 1976 after a 48-year right Wing dictatorship no party has received enough popular Voles to earn a majority of the scats. I soars socialists led the 1983 legislative elections but were obliged to set up Thev c coalition with the social democrats. Jef n soars 60, selected Almeida Santos 59t a longtime government administrator and frequent minister to Lead the socialists in the parliamentary election after scares decided to run for president. Elections for the next five year presiden tial term must be held before the end of the year but the Date has not been set. Aides have said soars would announce his candidacy after sunday s balloting. The socialist party campaigned on its Success in bringing Portugal into the com Mon Market and in slashing inflation from 30 percent to 17 percent. However social Democrat Leader Aniba Cavaco Silva 46, a conservative former finance minister who broke up the govern ment coalition in june when he pulled his parly s seven ministers out of the Cabinet claimed More free Market spirit was Nec Essary to get Portugal out of a serious eco nomic crisis. Purchasing Power has eroded while an estimated 150,000 workers in stale run heavy industries have been Laid off for up to to years. Portugal s Moscow oriented communist a under Veteran Leader Alvaro Cuthal was expected to win its usual 16-2c cent of the vote. Porn i party i 171, a inc Cen guard infantry division is reactivated fort belv01r, a. A Secre f the army John o. Marsh or. Joined  Nolan army National tick rated in the a Day invasion of Normandy in world War ii. The 29th inf div which wast n years ago has been re my 10,600  and Vir Ginia As  guard Light in  the army. Silent Reagan sent a letter saying the division epitomizes the longstanding american tradition of citizen soldiers and continues to be a vital Clement in the de sense of our  Loab. N Jav i world Marsh  nation free. It is Hope for a troubled wort also present were Virginia gov. Charles Robb Maryland gov. Harry Hughes and sen. John Warnerr a. The division is headquartered at fort Belvoir and under the command of maj. Gen. James a. Baber Iii of Richmond. The division Fie Civit War when Virginia became a part of the confederacy and Maryland remained in the Union. The division was deactivated in 1968 irs of service including combat in i defense secrrt3 june 1984 marked the the invasion of Normandy by Anno that the division would be reactivated. And fell to the floor. She was gasping for breath the daughter said. The family called an ambulance but less than 15 minutes later she was dead. The Independent police complaints authority ordered an investigation of the death. Floyd Jarrett demanded a Public in Quiry. Riots broke out in Brixton last weekend when police shot a Black woman Cherry Rocc 37, after entering her Home in search of her son. Mrs. Groce was Par Al Zed from the Waist Down. Police called the shooting a tragic Acci  Fiu Busty Picans Are very cases and inaction approval or a $2 trillion debt us he said by monday the i government will be practically out 68 83 74 89 35 5s 78 61 70 65 u 72 97 51 70 41 5? 49 69 44 74 58 75 57 74 55 49 66 47 57 c 40 s3 cd is 76 d 32 68 of 40 54 de 7? 87 50 78 to 44 it Kama c 64 94 Lai Vega new Dorwani new York Orlando no enl Philadelphia Piti Burovi Portland sail Lake City san Francisco Wath Noton Adana. O Amsterdam in Watnem p Avano. D 48 if Berlin m s7 61 Semer Novin f 52 m or Lull p 52 68 r provided by Del 13, 7lh Truro an. 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