European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strikes shop Stop see Page 3 d foreign service spouses to work Page 5 d East stars win Aba Clastic Page 21 d a plan praises midget Man Page 28 the stars and author Idieo unofficial publication for Thi . Armsto Poucel vol. 44. No. 297 monday february 10, 1986 in nov sum d 8693 a passenger freight trains collide in Canada Rockies Hinton Alberta a the first two bodies were recovered sunday from the smoking rubble of a head on train wreck in which 29 people were presumed dead. No body could have survived that said a med ical examiner. Caterpillar tractors Earth movers an Railroad cranes pulled apart mangled Loco motives and cars from a westbound 114-car Canadian National freight train and an eastbound nine car via rail passenger train that collided saturday morning. A the freight train was on the wrong track. Of i each train was being pulled by three in la gins at what Alex Rennie manager of grounds 10 of its dc-8s Washington up the govern ment ordered the charter airline Arrow air to ground 10 dc-8 planes saturday be cause unapproved spare parts were in stalled and the air Force has temporarily curtailed its dealings with the airline. Bob Buckhorn spokesman for the Feder Al aviation administration said the Agency found the unapproved spare parts in an investigation prompted by the dec. 12 crash of a chartered Arrow air Jet in Gander Newfoundland. That crash killed 248 army troops re turning for the Christmas holidays from peacekeeping duty in the Middle Crew members also were killed. Buckhorn said the spare parts Pur chased from a foreign supplier when Arrow air bought a dc-8 from a european airline were found in 10 of Arrow air s dc-8s. All 10 Are grounded until the parts arc replaced and approved by the Faa Buck Horn said. The spares were unapproved because Arrow air was unable to provide Faa investigators with the proper documentation for the parts. The Faa cannot be immediately assured that these parts meet Faa Cert Ifica see Arrow on Page 28 Public affairs of Canadian National s Edmonton office said was a pretty fair rate of Speed when they smashed together on a single stretch of track about 10 Miles East of Hinton. There Are five engines piled up there. They have burned. Most of the bodies Are beneath that rubble said or. Derrick Pounder Deputy chief medical examiner for Northern Alberta. Pounder said three people were hospitalized and All the others who were injured Are now Well or Are walking More than 24 hours after the collision White smoke still poured from wreckage where Rennie said an open car carrying dry Fulfur had overturned. Ruined rail cars were strewn along tracks Between the Woods in the Foothills of the Canadian Rockies with the Snow capped peaks visible to the West. The Accident occurred near Jasper National Park on the Border Between Alberta and British Columbia about 175 Miles West of Edmonton the provincial capital of Al Berta. The first two bodies of a Canadian National Engineer and a passenger were both from the passenger train and were remove Din White body bags. Cranes then hauled away one locomotive to continue the search. Pounder said a composite list based on checks with the Royal Canadian mounted police via rail and Canadian National indicated 122 people were on the trains. Twenty nine people were missing and presumed dead and 93 people were known to have survived said Pounder. He said he classified the two recovered bodies As see trains on Page 28 rail cars Are piled up after two trains collided saturday in he Canadian Rockies. Marcos takes Lead in election observer group charges fraud Manila Philippines a an International observer group accused presi Dent Ferdinand e. Marcos backers sunday of serious Vole fraud and 30 worker walked out on the government vote count for Friday s presidential election saying it. Was being falsified. Marcos took Over the Lead in the com Mission on elections count. But challenger Corazon Aquino leading in an Independent count told cheering supporters at a Jam packed suburban Manila Church sunday she would ignore the barrage of lies from Marcos people and emerge the Winner. The observer group released its report As Only 25 percent of the vote had been counted by the government commission More than two Days after the polls closed. The government workers All computer operators for the commission wept on each others shoulders after marching out of the counting Center single file. There was something wrong a woman operator explained. What s posted on the tabulation Board docs not tally with the computer Board and we Don t know who is doing it. We can t take it any the woman who did not give her name told the associated press that several work ers first noted the problem saturday night when Aquino was leading in the commis Sion s count by 100,000 votes. By midday sunday Marcos had taken Over the Lead. By monday morning the commission Stally with 28.18 percent of the precincts reporting gave Marcos 3,056,236 votes to Aquino s 2,903,348 a margin of 55 per cent to 45 percent. An Independent count by the National movement for free elections a roman Catholic Church backed citizens group had Aquino in the Lead by 5,576,319 Voles to Marcos 4,806,166, or 54 percent to 46. The tally by the citizens group rep see Marcos on Page 28 Turkey of a Bill causes minor Flap in Alabama Motgomery Ala. A after flapping her arms and prom Ising to gobble if necessary state sen. Frances Strong finally got a tur key of a Bill off the ground the legislature. After a couple of misfires the Ala Bama Senate voted thursday to approve Strong s Bill setting up the Al Obama Turkey Hunters Hall of Fame in Linden. The Bill which now goes to the see Turkey on Page 28
