Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, February 15, 1986

You are currently viewing page 28 of: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, February 15, 1986

   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday february 15.1986 Marcos Lead appears insurmountable Manila. Philippines a Percsi Donl Ferdinand e. Marcos took an Over whelming Lead Over challenger Corazo Aquino Friday us the National Assembly adjourned its official tabulation of votes from last week s presidential election until saturday. Aquino already has claimed Victory inthe election and has accused the Assembly where Marcos new society movement party holds a two thirds majority and the government s commission on elections of trying to prevent her from taking Power. Seven people including t of who suffered knife wounds were injured when supporters of Marcos and Aquino clashed outside the Assembly As it tabulated the votes in the controversial count. In another development the Philippines roman Catholic Bishops Friday condemned what they called the unparalleled fraudulence of the feb. 7 presidential election and vowed to Lead the people in a non violent struggle for  with 97 percent of votes in the country smore than 86, Xio precincts tabulated by the time the Assembly adjourned late Fri Day night Marcos had a total of 10,184,710votes in his favor or 53.8 percent against 8,731,999 or 46.2 percent for  speaker Nicanor Yniguez adjourned the session with Only the tallies from two Manila suburbs and Tarlac and Iloilo provinces areas representing a total of 1.6 million voters still to be tabulated. The tally sheets Are expected to be brought to the Assembly  week after the election unofficial Tal lies by Comeleo the government s election commission and a Volunteer election watchdog group called Nam Frel continued to differ. The count by the Marcos appointed Comeleo showed him leading 7,412,841,% 52 percent to Aquino s 6,761,925 or 48 percent with 67.2 percent of precincts re ported. The Nam Frel tally put Aquino ahead with 7,198,661 or 52 percent to Marcos 6,544,317 or 48 percent from 64 percent of the nearly 86,000 precincts. The National Assembly tally would make Aquino s Victory possible Only if Sill registered voters in the areas not yet to plated voted for her Haven seeking Duvalier nears deadline for stay in Frai Paris up ousted haitian presi Dent Jean Claude Duvalier Friday neared the end of a deadline for finding him permanent exile Home amid fresh indications he might be headed for Liberia. In Monrovia foreign minister Bernar Blamo said the government of president Samuel k. Doe had received a diplomatic note from France about the possible Grant ing of Asylum to Duvalier. Blamo said Doe was studying the not but made no other comment. I do not pre empt As the matter is being studied Blamo said. He gave no other de tails. At the same time sources at the French embassy said Guy Penne a special adviser to French president Francois Mitterrand would arrive in Monrovia Friday night to discuss the matter  so far no country As stepped Forward to accept Duvalier Ana France has insisted he leave. Earlier foreign ministry officials said France might ask the United states to take Duvalier if no other permanent Asylum could be found. The former haitian Leader flew to France aboard a . Military air Craft after the French government in consultation with Washington agreed to accept him for eight Days. . Embassy officials said they were working with France to find a Home for the former president for life but would not say whether he would be accepted in the United Stales. We Are cooperating with the French to try to find a place said embassy spokes Man Philip Brown. The state departments in touch with various countries to enlist their Aid. We understand their position that his stay Here was to be Only  Brazil Friday joined the growing i countries that have rejected giving i Asylum. In Brazil the foreign said the government had turned Dow ii . Request to take in Duvalier efforts to find Asylum for Duvalier cnally entered on French speaking Africa but Gabon Morocco and can said he was unwelcome. Liberia twi Al appeared to offer Duvalier Asylum  its statement had been  and he would not be allowed into the try shuttle from Page 1 less than a minute into the flight. This flame is said to have caused the half million Gallons in the  tank to explode 73 seconds after launch destroying the shuttle and killing its seven Crew members. The commission headed by former Secretary of state William p. Rogers released the film and photos but did not comment directly on the smoke. Nasa cautioned that its investigative task Force has not ruled out any elements of the space shuttle  it said however special emphasis was being placed on the operation of the boosters the external tank and launch facilities. What the data Means you really Don t know until All the information is in Nasa spokesman Hugh Harris said Fri Day. They have not ruled out  aviation week said an infrared sensor used by an inspection team 1 i hours before launch recorded temperatures of 7 and 9degrees fahrenheit at two Points on the right Booster. These temperatures Are below Nasa s flight safety limits. Aviation week said the inspection Tea did not report the Low readings to primary launch personnel. It said investigators rechecking the infrared sensor to determine if its readings were valid. Officials reported no major Progress in . Fleet from Page 1 plane movements off Libya s coast. However he said the libyans had stepped up the number of jets they were dispatching to Ward american carriers. In thursday s interview Weinberger also discussed the effect of the space shuttle Chal Lenger disaster on Star wars research an the Pentagon s fiscal 1987 budget request Weinberger said the loss of the challenger could set Back research on Star wars. But the tragedy should not Block Pursuit of the anti missile defensive system. Weinberger As his aides did last week said the explosion that destroyed the space shuttle and killed seven Crew members on Jan. 28 could have an Impact on defense projects. He suggested however that de sense programs could withstand a six month delay in shuttle operations. If delays stretch to a year or More he said then the Pentagon might have to turn to alternatives for launching needed weather communications and spy satellites. On he Pentagon s fiscal 1987 budget request Weinberger described the request As a realistic proposal based on military need. The Secretary defended the administration s decision to seek an 11.9 percent increase forthe Pentagon in fiscal 1987 while proposing drastic cuts in Domestic programs. Weinberger also defended a recent decision by the Navy to lift a suspension of the general dynamics corp. The suspension was prompted by a Federal indictment for fraud. I lifting the suspension the Navy agreed that it would not suspend the company from receiving contracts based on any future indictments that could be traced to wrongdoing in the past because the firm had made sufficient internal management improvements. Weinberger denied that Promise amounted to any Type of  tylenol from Page 1 tylenol purchased at an a a supermarket in Bronxville. Authorities say they believe those capsules contained potassium cyanide three other poisoned capsules were found in the bottle. On thursday Fra officials said the had found five More poisoned capsules in Mother bottle taken from a Woolworth store about two blocks from the a a. Or. Frank Young Fra commissioner said the department s Cincinnati Laboratory had Analysed the contents of the second bottle and believed the Poison in both Boi lies came from the same source. Chemists had obtained a fingerprint or detailed identification of the compound in the second bottle he said and after analysing this the fingerprint of the second potassium cyanide is identical to the potassium cyanide that was found in the other  he could not say How the Poison was introduced into the Box. The seals an wrapping appeared to be unbroken. A third bottle taken from an a a i Shrub Oak 27 Miles North of Bronxville also contained a contaminant. Bill Grigg spokesman for the Fra said it is such a Small Trace they re having a hard Tim finding out what it  Johnson & Johnson and the Fra had called on All Consumers nationwide to Slop using the capsules for now. Forty five health inspectors fanned Outcross new York City concentrating on Small mom and pop stores to make sure the capsules were not for Sale said health department spokesman Marvin  said the cyanide found in Bronxville did not match the cyanide found in tylenol in1982, when seven people died in the Chicago area. He said 70,000 capsules had been tested and the investigation was widening. We re starting at the original location and surrounding areas and then Well go broader from that. And most importantly today Well be checking it with other types of potassium cyanide that we have in eurbanks he said. The two 24-capsule bottles containing the Poison came from separate Batch num Bers adf9i6, expiring in May 1987 an manufactured in fort Washington pa., and aha090, expiring in april 1987 and manufactured in puerto Rico. How Poison could be introduced into both packages was a mystery. Johnson & Johnson spokesman James Gutman said twas not known whether the two bottles were Ever stored in the same place before being shipped to retailers. Young mid someone May have added the however cart Vergari the Westchester county District attorney said the discover of the second bottle increased the focus of the investigation on the possibility of Tam Pering at the  he said investigators were trying to de Termine if the Woolwo ruts tylenol May have been made in Pennsylvania eve though it had a puerto rican lot number. As for the extortion letter. Vergari said we have no reason to believe it is connected with our homicide investigation a copy of the letter was found during the arrests of Dewilt Gilmore 21, of mount Vernpn. And two other people on credit car fraud charges thursday. Gilmore admitted during his arraignment that he wrote the letter the search for the Booster casings soundings indicate they Are both at the torn of the Atlantic about 40 mile East of the launch site. The major objective is the where the shuttle problems Are have started. The Nasa recover dependence experienced rough sen Era Days in using a deep drone device with a manipulator Arm pinpoint the Booster. Navy cmdr. Arthur Norton said Tho Pendency returned to port canaveral Day night with eight pieces of wreck which is believed to be a Box of components from a two motor a vice attached to a communal carried in challenger s cargo Bay. The Independence three other ships and a Navy Salvage vessel 1 joined on saturday by a civilian four Man research submarine and by a seven Man deep submergence sub Norton said. A temperatures a mum u l he 24 Albany 33 o atlanta20 3s Amari Lenny 24 30 to conf 23 in co 11 27 dmtfand49 57 Oahu 34 is dnr1 27 Darolt 45 is Honolulu i 70 How Lon 14 a km4� a pm s8& is my 2s&32ss h at Sao m 41 san european weather Forami Lor saturday party u  Tan and in stud mow and that. I and nor anal fam Kiim mum a Wundt. High Hampar Laurat from Low so Iran a upper la ant w upper 2k. Siml. Tumm sunday 73. Outlook Lor i Cloudy to Ken Wilt a alkyd Hart and land Cabral Arafat we Tava Lulam Tampa Ralburn ugly  a corded Friday Adana a a , la 31 32 Frankfurt Alan p a it London d Valano p a 31 Madrid r Brtan i n 25 Munich. Idar Amarnani p 23 31 Partt. P i arum tit la 21 30 Roma r pro Quad Tiv Ott attn Paalhar . Olar wort Duma temporal rat High Low Cairo i m .50 Mon Nal d Dublin d 41 37 Moko hah we d m ii co d Jar utom r 54 41 , r 57 a Vance it d a or Ltd Doudy a Meiy Cloudy a of oud Iralu Tahoe   
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade