European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Q10 Downing Street roof climber seized Page 2 d letters to my As found in . Mission s trash Page 5 q super bowl contest continues Page 23 the stars and stripes o vol. 44, no. 2-13 tuesday december 17. 1985 d 8693 fires claim 15 lives in Midwest b the associated press i if can people were killed in fires in the Midwest including six of .1 Famich s ten children in Illinois six residents of a Michigan hospice ind three children in Ohio also died in incidents authorities said sunday. In Hoffman images. Iii., six children died As fire engulfed their suburban Chicago Home. A teen age brother of the victims escaped the House and had to be restrained by firefighters when he tried to re enter the House to help his brother Ami Susie is. The House was engulfed in names and smoke when firefighters Ami police arrived saturday police sol. Robert syrup said i a in what i understand when thes got there the heat was i intense that they could t do an thing and everything just started to break he said. This is the worst lire in our history. I be been Here 15 years und 1 would have heard of something there was fire coming out of the living room window. Smoke was c Charles Oure the victim from x to 15, with their i recently stiff. They wer Ming out of id neighbor. Five Sisters and a brother ranging in age were among 10 children living in the Home Reed Mother Patricia Krawzyk who Hail d a heart attack. Syre . Having a hard time. You know How it is see fire on Page 28 officials probing chairlift Accident workers Comfort an injured skier Wail g to be evacuated after the chairlift Accident at he be Stone ski area in Colorado. a engineers and inspectors converged on Keystone resort in tie Colorado Rockies sunday looking for answers to Why a chairlift inspected Only weeks before failed injuring do i is Twenty four skiers thrown from the Teller lift on saturday remained in hospitals Sunda three of them in critical condition. Many others Uherc treated at hospitals and released. A wheel at the top lower of the triple chairlift collapsed making the Cable twang like a rubber band and throw 4 skiers off onto the snowy tree covered Mountain slope below. More than 301 skiers managed to cling to their swaying seals and were later helped to safely. Al Steamboat Springs in the Northern Colorado Rockies officials voluntarily shut Down triple chairlifts identical to the one that failed. Engineers from lift engineering and manufacturing co. Of Carson City nev., arrived at Keystone to investigate the fail ure Lillian Ross spokeswoman for the Cen iral Rockies resort said. The Colorado Pas Senger Tramway safety Board and the . A ores service on whose land the ski area operates also launched investigations. Preliminary findings Are expected to be released tuesday. Colorado law1 requires All chairlifts and gondolas to have an annual preseason inspection by the Tramway safety Board. Israel claims Syria seeking confrontation Tel Aviv. Israel Impi Israel s Mil itary command said Syria has moved its surface to air missiles closer to the Leb anese Border and prime minister Shimon Peres said the syrians were preparing for a confrontation with Israel. Syria is seeking a confrontation with Israel and docs not want to talk peace. Israel wants neither a confrontation nor an escalation Peres said sunday in a speech to parents of soldiers killed in five Arab israeli wars. The speech reported by Israel radio came amid reports from Israel s military command that Syria has beefed up its anti aircraft missile network around the Leb anese Border in the past three weeks. A military spokesman said Syria s deployment of surface to air missiles nearer the lebanese Border had curtailed israeli see Syria on Page 28 reagans to attend service Canada joins America in mourning Gander. Newfoundland a this Airport town s two largest churches were filled to overflowing sunday for an inter Faith service to mourn the deaths of the american soldiers killed in the a ish of a chartered jetliner. We. Of the United states Are deeply grateful to All of you for coming to this service Thomas Niles the . Ambassador la Canada told the 600 people who braved bitter cold to pack St. Mar tin s anglican pro Cathedral. Words arc inadequate in a time like this to express the Way All of us another 300 watched the service on television at St. Joseph s roman Catholic Church. Niles buried his face in his hands and wept shortly after the service began. Many others were in tears As a Lone bugler played the last Posl to close the service. All 248 soldiers of the 101st airborne div and eight Crew members on the Arrow air dc-8 died when it crashed on Takeoff thursday. The Rev. James Reid the anglican minister told mourners that the ministers of the town s six churches planned the service to somehow gel a message to those grieving families we care about you and we re grieving for you. Surrounded by four Canadian Flag bearers a . Infantryman marched Down the aisle of the Blue Ami while Church carrying the american Flag. Another . Flag was draped Over the Allar and a choir Sang the Battle hymn of the Republic in tribute to the soldiers who died on i hair Way Home for Christmas from peacekeeping Ulics in Egypt s Sinai Peninsula. Al this Lime of year a tragedy such As this is difficult to understand especially with these soldiers who were in a mis Sion for their country a Mission of peace . Maj. Gen. John s Crosby told the congregation. We have been deeply touched by the people of Gander said Crosby the Dep Uty chief of stuff fur army personnel. Ruby Holloway. A housewife in the Newfoundland Community of 12,000 peo ple said the townspeople made special efforts to attend the memorial service be cause. We All feel for their families Back Home who can t be she said the residents were grateful that it had nol been a greater tragedy. If the Pilot had made the decision logo Down another runway a lot of Gander might be wiped out now she said. Thai s probably the reason a lol of pc see mourning on Page 28
