European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday november 9, 1985 air India crash probe results in arrest of 2 sikhs in Canada world today Vancouver British Columbia a two sikhs have been charged with explosives violations after a Royal Canadian mounted police investigation of a connection Between last summer s crash of an air India jetliner off Ireland and an explosion at Narita International Airport in Japan. Talwinder Singh Parmar of Burnaby head of a Funda mentalist sikh group Babar Khalsa was charged in Dun can with unlawful Possession of an explosive according to court records. Police say he is wanted in India for questioning in the killing of two police officers. Inc riot Singh Reyrat an electrician in Duncan on Van Couver Island was charged with Possession of a restricted weapon Possession of an explosive substance making an explosive substance enabling another person to endanger life and unlawful Possession of an explosive the documents shun. Appolo a Van Courtw policeman unloads weapons and ammunition so lord in i raid at the bom of t sikh Kadar. Soviets scramble fighters both men were arrested during a series of ramp raids on several Homes and a sikh Temple. De Mantik a Justice of the peace in Duncan said he arraigned the pair in the local ramp station thursday. The air India flight was bound for India from Toronto on june 23 when it crashed off the coast of Ireland killing 329 people. The cause of the Crnish has not been deter mined although an explosion was suspected. The same Day an explosion ripped through the baggage area at Narita. International Airport near Tokyo As a up air flight from Toronto to Japan via Vancouver was being unloaded. Two people were killed. According to the charges Reyrat and Parmar possessed an explosive substance on june 4, Reyrat also is accused of possessing an explosive substance june 3 and making an explosive substance june 24, and of possessing a ,357-Caii Ber Ruger a handgun on nov. 7. Meanwhile the Vancouver province newspaper reported thursday mounties Are certain that the air India crash and the Narita blast Are linked and that bombs were planted in air planes in Vancouver. The two were being held pending further investigation and several others were being questioned following the raids said a police superintendent Lyman Henschel. The raids spearheaded by an 80-member ramp task Force followed a three month investigation. The Vancouver province newspaper reported that the ramp is convinced it has proof of a link Between the air India crash and the Narita blast. Parts of a stereo tuner rigged with a plastic explosive were found in the japanese blast. Japanese police and investigators in Vancouver say the unit was purchased Here said the newspaper. The newspaper also said police no longer believe Lai Singh and Amman Singh wanted by the Fri in the United slates for plotting to kill Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi were the men who checked the explosives Laden baggage at Vancouver International Airport. Surjan Singh Gill a former member of Babar Khalsa said his Home was raided wednesday night. They Are talking about the air India thing he said. Also questioned was Hardial Singh Johal a Vancouver school Board employee the Telephone number was Given by two people when they bought airline tickets for the air India flight from Toronto to India. Johari said he does t know Why the number was used. One ticket was form. Singh to Fly up air flight 60 from Vancouver to Toronto and the ill fated connecting flight from Toronto to India. Another ticket was bought in the name of a. Singh for up air flight 003 to Tokyo and on to Bangkok. Jal Jet sprays off course Over . Tokyo a a Japan air lines jumbo Jet flying to Moscow blundered far off course last week apparently triggering a scramble by soviet fighters near the area where a korean Airliner was shot Down two years ago japanese officials said thursday. The Jal Boeing 747 was carrying 132 passengers and Crew members on a flight from Tokyo to Paris via Moscow on oct. 31 when it drifted off course after the Captain neglected to return the plane to automatic Pilot after steer ing manually around air turbulence Jal officials said. Foreign ministry spokesman Yoshio Hatano said there had been no Contact with the soviet government Over the matter. But prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone told re Porter. This was obviously a Case of Pilot inattention. We must exercise strict supervision to avoid a repetition. Morihiko Nishioka 39, who piloted Jal flight 441, told reporters he neglected to return to the inertia navigation system after flying around turbulence Over the Japan sea. The system makes computer adjustments for winds. Train car collision kills Man in Michigan suicide indicated new Buffalo. Mich. A a Man lulled when he parked his car in the path of an oncoming Amtrak passenger train left several notes indicating marital prob lems prompted him to commit suicide state troopers said. According to witnesses he pulled partially onto the track and wailed for the train to come along and it did. He then pulled directly into the path of the train said sgt. Gary Ernst. Edward w. Bromilow 29, of Waukesha wis., waited near a crossing about an hour before the incident. The plane was blown some 62 Miles off course by Strong winds and approached Sakhalin Island the location of sensitive soviet military bases before the Crew noticed the error Nishioka said. He said he never received any warn ing from soviet authorities that he was off course nor did the flight Crew see any soviet planes. I knew i was in a terrible situation a visibly shaken Nishioka said at a televised news conference. I wish to go Back and Start my career again from Square one. I am terribly ashamed the korean air lines jumbo Jet that was shot Down on sept. 1,1983, with the death of All 269 people aboard had strayed into soviet airspace on a flight from Anchorage Alaska to South Korea. Why the korean Jet veered off course has never been explained. Japanese air self defense Force radar in Northern Japan showed that the Jal plane was off course and 15 minutes later civilian air traffic control sent several warn Ings to the plane but received no response. A few minutes later a warning Light flashed in the Jet s cockpit and the Crew realized the problem. The defense Agency said japanese military radar spotted several unidentified planes presumably soviet Jet fighters scrambling to meet the errant passenger plane flying Over Sakhalin. Nishioka obtained permission from air traffic control lers at Khabarovsk on the soviet Mainland to resume his original course heading Over Siberia and did so six minutes later an official of the japanese foreign ministry s soviet Section said. The disclosure of the Pilot s error came less than three months after a Jal jumbo crashed on aug. 12 on a Cen trial Japan Mountain killing 520 people in history s worst single plane disaster. Orchestra strike will close Britain s Royal opera House London a the Royal opera Houm announced Friday it would close indefinitely next week be cause its orchestra is going on strike in a pay dispute. The decision to take effect tuesday will mean no Ballet or opera at the covent Garden arts House in Centra Lon Don said assistant director Paul of malay. The 120-member orchestra which is already refusing to perform in rehearsals has been offered it 7.5 percent pay increase. It is demanding a 10 percent hike plus an extra week s vacation in mid season and other increments. Findlay said ticket holders for next week s performances would get refunds. He said he hoped a solution could be found before the end of next week. More than 2,000 people usually attend Royal open House productions. Warehouse at Heathrow Airport evacuated after bomb threat London a police evacuated an airline cargo warehouse at London s Heathrow Airport Friday after a Anonymous caller said a bomb was about to explode there. The caller telephoned British caledonian airlines warn ing that a bomb would explode in the warehouse in five minutes. Police and emergency services raced to the scene and the warehouse in Heathrow s cargo area South of the Airport was cleared. Later the British airports authority said nothing was discovered and the search was called off. China to print Complete works of revolutionary Sun vat sen peking a the Complete works of Sun Yat sen founder of the revolutionary movement that overthrew China s last emperor in 1911, will be published in 12 volumes next year the official news Agency Xinhua said. Xinhua said it will be the most Complete compilation of works by Sun who is revered in both Taiwan Ana communist China As the Man who founded the nationalist Kuc minting party and became the Republic of China s first president. It said the books were jointly compiled by the chinese Academy of social sciences the Huangdong Academy of social sciences and Zongshan University. The 120th anniversary of Sun s birth will be celebrate next year. He died in 1925. Historical records provided by compatriots in Tai wan Hong Kong Macao and by other chinese overseas will be included in the edition Xinhua said. German tank barrels its Way into sleeping couple s life Uttenweiler. West Germany up a couple sleeping in a farmhouse were paid a Call by a heavy visitor Early wednesday a Leopard 2 Battle tank. A police spokesman at Uttenweiler. In Southern Badin Wuerttemberg said the Lank from the 10th West German Panzer div base at sigm Ringen appeared to have lost its Way in the dark and punched through the ground floor s Bov a us is he couple 8lep on then a he said the tank was taking part in West German army Maneu vers code named fast Pursuit. He estimated at least $31,000 in damages were caused by the incident. Industrial spy wins Case against european Community. Luxembourg a the european court of jus Tice has ordered the european economic Community to compensate a British Man who was convicted of Industrial spying for his role in helping the dec win an anti Competition Case against a Swiss company. Stanley Adams had sued the dec s executive commis Sion on grounds that it failed to protect his identity As an informant in the anti Competition Case against pharmaceuticals giant Hoffmann la Roche. Adams was working for the company at the time but later was fired and convicted in Switzerland of violating the country s Laws on commercial Security. Adams had asked the court for about s580.000 in compensation from the dec commission plus unspecified compensation for loss of income As a result of his conviction for espionage. The court ruling said Adams was entitled to one half of the damages he suffered but it did not say specifically what the sum should be. The court ordered the two parties to negotiate the figure within nine months. Failing that the court would set the amount itself
