European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d anybody need 16.5 million cameras Page 2 o special forces units Short of air planes Page 5 o East captures Aba All Star game 139-132 Page 21 authorized unofficial publication l 0 vol. 44, no. 298 tuesday february 11, 1986hamio porch in Dolly Oik sumo d 8693 a philippine voting fraud charged Manila Philippines a official . Observers of the presidential election said monday that vote count ing irregularities could have serious implications for .-philippine relations if the results proved fraudulent. We Are pleading i think in a last minute situation said sen. Richard Lugar r-lnd., co chairman of the 20 Mcm bar american group sent by president Reagan to observe Friday s election. On sunday 30 government workers in arched out of the election commission s tabulating Center in Manila to protest results they claimed were falsified to show president Ferdi nand e. Marcos ahead of challenger Corazon Aquino Lugar told a news conference he . Observers heard serious charges of election irregularities and he said there would be obviously serious implications if the were proven. Lugar who is chairman of the foreign relations com Mittee read a statement approved by All of the group s members before the delegation left to return to washing ton. He said the groups report would be delivered to Reagan statement said in part we have witnessed and heard disturbing reports of efforts to undermine the integ Rity of the election process both during the voting and Vole counting process which is still under the americans left their Manila Hoel about 200 pro government demonstrators outside the Entrance Chan Ted and waved placards demanding that foreign observers and reporters leave the the americans motorcade passed through without sunday 27 women and three men working at computers in the commission on elections walked out claiming the tallies were being falsified in favor of mar of the computer operators wept after leaving the commission s counting Center there was something wrong one operator said. What s posted on the tabulation Board docs not tally wit the computer Board and we Don t know who is doing it. We can t take it any operator who refused to give her name told the a Ohot Corazon Aquino running mate Salvador Laurel. Attending sunday mass in Manila Church associated press that workers spotted the problem sat urday night when Aquino was leading in the commission s count by 100,000 votes. By midday sunday Marcos had taken Over the Lead. By monday morning with 28 percent of the precinct reporting the commission s unofficial tally gave Marcos 3,036,236 votes to Aquino s 2,903,348.but an Independent count by the National movement for free elections a citizens ballot monitoring group known As Nam Frel had Aquino in the Lead by 5,576,319 votes to 4,806,166 for roman Catholic Church is among those which have backed Nam Frel tally represented 49.14 percent of the Philippines 86,036 precincts. Final election results fro this nation of 7,100 islands Are not expected for Days. After the workers marched out tabulation was sus Pended. The total number of workers tabulating was not known but there were about 300 computers in the Savellano chairman of the nine Man com Mission on elections which operates the tally Center called the workers charges a political attempt to sabotage our he said the commission s count it based on authenticated tally sheets which Are beyond Marcos appointed All nine members of the election com Mission and most of them Are regarded us allies of the workers who walked out went to a Catholic Church where they spoke with reporters and sen. John f. Kerry,d-mass., one of the . Observers. I think these arc the most damning comments that i Veever heard and the most dramatic event that i be witnessed in the course of my being in the Philippines Kerr said. Marcos who had predicted an 80 percent landslide was hard pressed throughout his first seriously contested Campaign since 1969, when he won re election by defeating former sen. Sergio Osmona or. In 1972, Marcos imposed martial Law which lasted until 1981. He then won another election but no major see philippine on Page 28 Leon Singhoffer s Istead of cancer new yol a Marilyn Klinghoffer wine husband was slain by on the cruise ship Achille blur and who later became Active no the fight against terrorism did taday of cancer at the age of 59. A mrs. Klinghoffer died at Viox Hill Hospital said Lotty Simom family spokeswoman. She had Bea in the Hospital for about two week and had been diagnosed As a vhf cancer in 1984, Simon said. So lined to identify the Type of cad in Celebration of their 3jjtwed Ding anniversary last Octaver mrs. Klinghoffer and her he Sapid Leon who were jewish h friends from the Jcj a Mediterranean Achille Lauro. I the italian sup was hijacked by palestinian lefties oct. 7, and Klinghoffer,d9-year-old appliance who had suffered a stroke oscars before and was con fined Hajj wheelchair was shot and joined nine Fork area for i aboard the his body tossed into the sea. Remaining passengers were of Afler being held for 52 hours. Of dlr terrorists were captured after a see widow on Page 28 Mirilyn Kun Hoffer is a May have had warning about rocket Booster seals Washington nydxt110commis-Sion investigating the explosion my the space shuttle challenger asked the Spike Agency sunday to produce All records sewing problems involving safety seals on the rockets. The commission headed by forme rotary of stale William p. Room noun cd that it would cum Melfe documents at a private session monday afternoon and hear testimony to officials of the National aeronautics space administration about the seals tuesday. The commission s Acup comes in the Wake of a new York tvs report sunday that Nasa had Bce warned by its own engineers and an Alk last year that the seals were eroding night and might leak. According Topcu mints from the Agency s files one a Rigel analyst warned last july that a Jere of the seals which Are designed to pc vent flames from burning through to teams where segments of the Booster frets Are joined would certainly be Napa officials say they suspect that a rupture near a seam in the right Side solid fuel Booster rocket May have been one of the primary causes of the explosion that seven astronauts shortly after the attic lifted off Jan. 28. Mark Weinberg press spokesman for the commission said that Rogers had called for All internal documents and reports of investigations relating to seals on the Booster Rock the commission is concerned about All to of this matter Weinberg said. Rogers and Weinberg said that agreed to respond to the com Mission Mequell. said that the commission had noted Between Nasa testimony at to commission s first meeting last thursday fed material in the documents concerning wic seals. However an other commission Sofee said that the discrepancies appeared minor and could probably be attributed Tolock of familiarity by top Nasa officials i All the details of problems with the seals. The commission s closed sc9bn will be held at 2 . Monday in the old executive office building adjacent to the1 White House. An open session tuesday is scheduled to Start at 10 . At a site that has not see Nasa on Page 28
