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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday april 6, 1986 Bush promises military Aid to saudis Riyadh saudi Arabia a vice president George Bush saturday carried a pledge to the rulers of this desert kingdom that the United states will Supply weapons to help prevent the Iran Iraq War from spreading to other persian Gulf states. The official saudi press Agency said Prince Salman bin Abdel Aziz the Gover nor of Riyadh received Bush and his delegation at the King Khaled International Airport at the Start of Bush s eight Day per Sian Gulf Lour. Bush brought a prepared speech noting that the United states and saudi Arabia both look with dismay at the carnage of the Iran Iraq  in his speech set to be delivered at a dedication ceremony for a new . Embassy Bush said the United states recognizes the need for saudi Arabia to prevent an expansion of that War. In this regard let me say Here that this administration remains committed to pro Viding saudi Arabia weapons systems Nec Essary for its defense and stability Bush s prepared remarks said. The vice president s Agenda in saudi Ara Bia Bahrain Oman and North Yemen also includes talks on terrorism and falling Oil prices. Bush and his wife Barbara flew from Rhein main a near Frankfurt where he stopped overnight on the flight from washing ton. Bush caused an uproar in the Oil Market even before departing the United states by promising to stress the importance that we not just have a continued free fall in prices. My plea will be for stability of the mar Money from Page 1 to the West German Mark and some other european currencies officials said. One source said France was demanding that the franc be reduced in value by 8 percent against the Mark. It appeared Likely that any such agreement would include an increase in the value of the dutch Guilder against the French currency and possibly a drop in the belgian and Luxem Bourg francs against the Mark. This source said Italy and Belgium were particularly unhappy with the French request. He said that most of the eight nations involved in the talks expressed a willingness to accept As much As a 5 percent change but that France rejected this As being too Small. The practical effect of a devaluation of the franc would be mainly an improvement in the competitive position of French exporters in the German and dutch markets. A realignment of Ems currency values would have no direct effect on the Curren cies value against the . Dollar since the United states is not a member of the Ems. All members of the european common Market formally called the european economic Community except Britain Greece Spain and Portugal Are Ems Mem Bers. The Ems was created in 1979 As a Way of formally limiting the amount that any one Ems currency could fluctuate in relation to the seven others. The last Ems realignment was in july 1985, and was was limited to an approximately 8 percent devaluation of the italian lira in relation to the seven other currencies. The last time the values of All Ems Curren cies were adjusted was in March 1983. Since the 1983 realignment French manufacturers have lost competitive ground against their key German rivals partly be cause Bonn has maintained a lower level of inflation. Suspect from Page 1 of explosive used in the bomb. Three american forensic experts on sat urday a Rayed the bodies at the . Air Force s base in Athens in preparation forthe autopsy. The bodies of Demetra Stylian 52 her daughter Maria Klug 25, and Klug s 8 month old daughter Demetra will be ship Ped to Annapolis md., for burial relative said saturday. Klug s husband Warren arrived Nathens thursday. He will take the bodies Back to the United states. We Haven t got a Date for their departure yet Tryphon Alexiou Maria Klug s Cousin told the a. Heckscher said More than 20 american aviation experts including Federal aviation administration and National transportation safety Board officials were winding up their investigation. He said Twa expected to resume flying Between Cairo Athens and Rome on Sun Day. Flights were cancelled after the explosion. The crippled Boeing 727 is to be patched up at the Athens Airport and then flown to the company s maintenance facility in Kan Sas City to. Greek police saturday denied reports that an Arab Man had been arrested in the transit lounge at the International terminal. Nobody s been arrested and we re not holding anyone for questioning Athanas bios Zafeiris Security police chief for the Athens area told the a. Sources at the Airport speaking on Condi Tion of anonymity said that several transit ing arabs had undergone questioning by Airport Security police following the Twa explosion. The sources said no arrests had been made. Manssour who is partially paralysed said she and her late husband Atef Danaf were members of the leftist syrian social nationalist party and had carried out at tacks against the israelis during Israel s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. But i Don t undertake such crimes that kill innocent people and children. Not a politician a Diplomat or a military Man she told the associated press. Manssour spoke to the a at the syrian social nationalist party Headquarters in Tripoli 50 Miles North of Beirut. She said she had been in Cairo for nine Days on vacation on the advice of my  Ket place Bush said tuesday. His remarks were interpreted by Oil analysts As a major shift in policy and helped Oil prices begin to rebound. Prices have dropped by two thirds since november because of a production glut largely attributed to saudi Arabia which has doubled its output. Administration officials hastened to say that Bush s remarks May have been misinterpreted and they insisted that there has been no change in . Policy which maintains that Low Oil prices have a positive effect on Ameri can Consumers and the Economy even though some sectors have been Hurt. Plane crashes during storm All 7 aboard die Redwater Texas a a twin engine Turboprop Jet crashed in a severe thunderstorm killing All seven people aboard most of them aerospace engineers with the Singer co., authorities said. The West wind Aero commander crashed and exploded in a fireball about 7 20 . Friday in a Field near a trailer Park said Bowie county sheriff Thomas Hodge. The plane took off from Redbird Airport in Dallas at 6 55 . For Teterboro . Killed were Pilot Kent Hetland of Willingboro co Pilot Steve Fulop of Hasbrouck Heights Martin Chen of Kinnelon Frank Schmitt of Cranford Donald Mcbride  Towa Robert Imfeld of Nutley and William Pasechnick of Little ferry Hodge said. The passengers were engineers from Singer s Kearfott division an aerospace electronics subsidiary in Little Falls . Temperatures april 4 Berlin from Page 1 Street in the Early morning hours. Police believed the bomb had been plan Ted at the end of the disco s Long bar. A sign in the disco read tonight dancing con test 1st prize 100 Marks about $42 the up reported German Interior ministry spokesman Hans Guenther Kowalski said the bomb was a homemade device weighing a Esti mated 6 to 10 pounds. He said German Security officials would assist Berlin police in the investigation. Lan Stuhl spokeswoman Marie Shaw told the stars and stripes that the 25 casualties one of whom is in serious condition were and knitted to the Hospital at about 11 . She said most of the injured suffered from eardrum damage and minor Burns. Shaw said it was not certain How Many of those injured would have to remain at Lan Stuhl for treatment. The 25 injured were evacuated to the Lan Stuhl Hospital in an air Force c-9 aeromedical evacuation Jet flown by the 55th aeromedical Airlift so from Rhein main a Germany a base spokeswoman told the stars and stripes. She said the Jet dispatched from Rhein main to Tempelhof Central Airport in Ber Lin brought the casualties to Ramstein a Germany. Members of the 2nd aeromedical evacuation so at Rhein main provided in flight medical support she said. . Ambassador Richard Burt visited some of the injured americans in the army Hospital in Berlin saturday afternoon and vowed that the United states would help track Down those behind the attack. Burt expressed his total outrage Over this cowardly criminal act an act directed not Only against the United states but against the entire fabric of civilized  he said the United states was resolved to continue its Campaign against state sponsored terrorism  Berlin police spokesman Dieter Piete told a news conference he could not confirm or deny news reports that the attackers May have crossed into West Berlin from communist East Berlin. The reports cited unidentified West Berlin government sources. We assure that this attack was committed by terrorists of the extreme left pos Sibly even foreign terrorists Piete said based on the fact that the nightclub was a favored meeting place for members of the .  he said police had questioned about 60 people including some of the injured but had no definite  in Berlin a caller told a German news Agency that a group calling itself the anti american Arab liberation front planted the bomb. Berlin officials said they had not previously heard of the group. In London an Anonymous caller claimed that the attack was conducted by the Holger Meins commando a German terrorist group. The group is linked to Germany s red army faction one of Western Europe s most notorious leftist terrorist groups. A caller claiming to speak on the commando s behalf also told a news Agency in London in March that the group carried out the feb. 28 assassination of swedish prime minister Olof palme. Holger Meins was one of the original members of the Baader Meinhoff gang from which the red army faction grew. He died in a German prison at Wittlich on nov. 9, 1974, after a nearly two month hunger strike. Authorities in Germany have said the Only other terrorist act claimed by the Holger Meins commando was an attack on the German embassy in Sweden on april 24, 1975, during palme s first term As prime minister. West Berlin is More than 100 Miles in Side communist East Germany and is administered by the United states Britain and France under a world War ii agreement that gave the soviet Union control Over the sector now known As East Ber Lin. Six thousand . Service members and 7,000 family members live in West Berlin military officials said. Staff writers Betty Bell Dick Hodgson and Brenda Hosier contributed to this report. L h41 48 37 6216 27 55 8347 55 45 7030 54 50 8638 64 41 5839 46 29 5463 73 56 8341 61 57 8148 58 66 8016 41 48 7143 53 -9 2434 50 38 5571 85 68 7850 78 52 8055 72 46 77 Albany Albuquerqu Anchorage atlant Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Bosto Buffalo Burlingto Charleston . Charleston  Cincinnat Cleveland Dallas fort Worth Denver Des Avoine Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas Cit Las vegas l h57 74 53 71 57 80 65 82 73 77 40 47 56 81 65 8047 55 49 7850 68 58 8239 63 60 83 54 78 35 54 46 58 33 56 52 81 29 62 63 81 58 84 35 58 50 62 50 62 45 57 43 47 43 80 48 71 46 68 Little Rock los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach mils St. Paul Nashville new Orleans new Yor Norfolk Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland main Portland Ore. Providence Raleigh Reno St. Louis St. Petersburg Salt Lake Cit san Diego san Francisco Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita european weather forecast for sunday mostly Cloudy to Cloudy skies in Central and Southern areas of Germany and the Benelux with Light rain and Snow at higher elevations. The remainder of Germany and the Benelux will be partly Cloudy with fog and Haze locally dense during morning hours. High tempera Tures in the upper 30s to mid-40s, lows in the upper 20s to mid-30s. Sunset sunday 8 05 Sunrise monday 6 50. Outlook for monday decreasing cloudiness and precipitation with locally dense morning fog and afternoon Haze. Temperatures slightly warmer. Temperatures recorded saturday 4am 4pm 4am 4prn Adana cd 59 81 Copenhagen p 34 45 Amsterdam p 30 45 Frankfurt cd 32 41 Athens cd 61 64 London r 36 41 Aviano m 54 64 Madrid cd 45 55 Berlin r 41 41 Munich cd 34 34bremerhaven, p 38 48 Paris m 36 46 Brussels m 38 45 Rome p 52 66 13, 7th weather so Graben provided by . Other worldwide temperatures High Low High Low Cairo f 79 57 Montreal cd 50 28 Dublin f 48 37 Moscow cd 46 30helsinki, cd 39 34 Oslo f50 30 Jerusalem cd 63 46 Toronto cd 52 30 Lisbon f 61 48 Vancouver cd 55 43 _.,j supplied by the associated press far cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy a rain  
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