European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday october 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Fri suspects drug smugglers sabotaged plane Knox Vil a. A in Ltd the i by believes a plane thai nut killed 17 skydivers was sabotaged by colombian time smugglers to avenge he owner s fail ure to deliver a s5l� million cocaine shipment the Kauv Villa news Sentinel reported sunday. The single engine Cessna 20x caravan stalled sept 2l three minutes after from a private Airfield ii Jen Kinsburg a. The plane nose dived onto a Rural Road killing 16 members of .1 parachutist club and the plane s owner David Williams investigators Riih the National transportation safety Board reported week that the plane had super in its fuel system and the i i by an a criminal investigation. The news sen inc i quoted an unidentified i i agent is saying the plane because Williams did not deliver so pounds of cocaine to colombian smugglers. Those colombian arc upset thy did t get their ship ment. They wanted to make Williams pay fur Messing 14 Are injured As fireworks destroy House a Sll Iuo. Kan Tim an explosion apparently caused by Oku Oberfest revellers playing with fireworks blew up a Small House sunday fourteen people were injured including a i ung Man who lost his forearms but aunties said. Neighbors said the Force f tie blast blew out an entire mde of the one Story four room House at about 4 . A bomb squad from tort Riley removed from the one Story four room House a Jar of White Power clip cd to be an explosive sub Slanoc As wll us about a Pound of Flash powder and fireworks officials raid. Reserve police capt Vurman Spain said Federal agents and the state fire marshal arrived to investigate the cause of the blast. A sheriffs investigator said witnesses told him there was horseplay involving fire works that May have sparked the blast in the House s living room. Hut he said it was unclear what exactly exploded. It was just one big Mim said Donald Mazer who lives two houses away. One Side of the House is blown Clear out. It stripped the plasterboard off the Walls on the inside. I would say it was some kind of bomb or something. I Don t think Pas would do thai because there was no he said those inside the Home mainly Young people in their late teens and 20s, appeared hysterical. Rabin defends Tunis raid the agent the news Sentinel said other sources close to the invest libation confirmed the Anonymous agent s account. The i ill could pot be reached sunday for comment on the report. The plan was to drop the cocaine in one spot bail out another and Send the plane into the Ocean the agent said when they got on the ground and were Safe. They were to Contact Thornton s Girlfriend who was waiting there for once on the ground the pair planned to return to North Ern Georgia find the cocaine and deliver it to colomb ans in Florida. Williams however fled when he Learned of Thorn death the agent said he said authorities Ere searching the Georgia mountains for the cocaine. Thornton and Williams a former Lexington. K. comics officer were suspected of belonging to a drug smug gling group called the company sources told the newspaper. Ufa has been watching these boys for a Long Lime bul could t pin anything on them because they were so the agent said. They were in drug smuggling for the kicks. Both of them had Money and neither of them used the it s not As bad As it looks four people were shaken up when their sing 111-engine plane flipped while making an emergency Landing at singing Heath Niar Manchester . The Pilot Man aged to miss a Opelc in the Bench when mechanical problems forced hint Down. Sands or time Israel vows Long War against terrorism Washington up israeli de sense minister Yil Hak Rabin has served notice his country is prepared to wage a Long War against terrorism and declared terrorists Are going to pay much More heavily for their violence. He also warned sunday All countries in the area and Jordan explicitly against giving Refuge to terrorist groups. Rabin defending an israeli bombing raid last week against Palestine liberation organization Headquarters in Tunisia Dis missed questions about civilian victims of the attack saying the dozen tunisian dead were employees of the and guardians of the Plo the israeli Leader also rejected As a total lie assertions by Plo chief Yasser Arafat thai the United states helped Israel with the attack. We took our decision by he said adding that no one was notified until the israeli warplanes were on their Way Home. Interviewed on lbs s face the nation " Rabin said we did not attack Tuni Sia. We attacked terrorist organizations that Are located there. It does t mean thai terror will be stopped. Hul no doubt terror organizations arc going to pay much More heavily for their. Terror against the air raid left 73 dead. Israel said the attack carried out with jets was in retaliation for the murder of three israe Lis in Cyprus the week before. To counter terrorism Rabin said Israel is ready to use All kinds of Means first preventive Means second punishing Means. We Are not going to Tell what we Are going to do. We know it s a Long War. We Are ready to Driver in fatal Accident apparently hangs self Tokyo up the Driver of a bus that plunged off a Mountain Highway in Central Japan leaving three people dead and 61 injured apparently hanged himself from a tree limb shortly after the Accident police said. The double Decker bus carrying do employees of the Nihon electric corp. To a resort West of Tokyo skidded off the rain Slick thoroughfare and rolled 90 feet Down a Steep embankment. As a consequence of the Tunis raid. Rabin said All the countries in the area Wil. Be aware whoever gives a Refuge to terrorists will pay for hiding them there " asked if that applied to Jordan whose King Hussein with backing from presi Dent Reagan has been striving to begin peace talks with Israel Rabin answered. I would advise the jordanian government to refrain from allowing it to be reiterating Israel s hard line against any involvement by Arafat and the in the peace process Rabin branded the i o chief a Rabin also said he was sorry the United Stales did not veto a . Security Council Resolution condemning the raid. Rabin glossed Over an apparent shift by the United slates away from Reagan s Ini tial comments thai seemed to approve the raid As being sanctioned by a nation s right to defend itself against terrorism. Arab leaders reacted sharply to Reagan s comments. The White House and Szalc department later issued statements rejecting any use of violence to solve Mideast prob lems. About the change Rabin said i appreciate very much what was said by the president immediately after the in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. �. Iw5 Large scale Bailies be tween and chinese communist armies broke out in Central China the communist newspaper new China daily news m chunking reported. It charged Gen Chiang Kai Shek s forces had enlisted the help of Jap anese troops to ure 19 cities. 30 years ago foday. Oct. X. 1 iss a moroccan nationalist Leader in to a ult Rcd to try to Enil the Little Riff War before embattled French Morocco turns into another Indochina. 20 years ago foday. Oct 8. L%5 the last elements of the 1st inf div moved ashore near Saigon boosting the . Military strength in Viet Nam loan estimated 140,000 fighting men. The big re 1 one joins the Marine corps 3rd amphibious Force and the army s Isi Cav As the third . Combat division in South Vietnam. 10 years ago foday. Oct. 8, 1975 the House voted to end the go education program for future Mem Bers of the armed services
