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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 14, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It Side stripes d Halley s Comet this Crummy Little fuzzball Page 5 d Kaiserslautern team wins Roth Drill meet pages 8-9 d Greg Norman grabs Lead in masters Page 21 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 360 monday april 14, 1986 Lac done Ond sunday d 8693 a foreign workers Manning bases libyans claim Tripoli Libya a the libyan government announced sunday that it has removed its armed forces from military bases allegedly targeted by the United states and has turned the Sites Over to for eign companies. Related Story on Page 28. The government in a statement read to the associated press by an information department official who refused to be identified also said it is forcing foreign workers mostly . Citizens to live in Oil Fields that might also come under attack. The libyan statement was issued As . 6th Fleet ships were reported in a holding pattern in the Mediterranean apparently awaiting a decision on whether a military strike should be mounted on the Radical North african nation in retaliation for its alleged support of terrorism. It was not immediately Clear what the libyan government meant by forcing for Eigners into the economically vital Oil Fields since Many of them already live there. The most commonly accepted number of americans living in Libya is about 800, but there Are thousands of Western europeans according to Western diplomats. The libyan government statement said the two moves occurred on saturday. However two Western diplomats inter viewed on saturday reported no such move ments either regarding the military bases or the Oil Fields. The diplomats who spoke on condition they not be identified represent countries with Large populations of foreign workers in Libya. The libyan statement read on sunday said the military Camps have been handed Over to foreign companies to repair them and to use them to live there. Foreign workers have been forced to live in them Oil Fields taking into account that the majority Are americans. Libya has information that America is going to attack several  Camps and Oil Fields and petrochemical companies the statement said. In a related development Syria pledged to participate next to Libya if the 6th Fleet attacks the North african country the official syrian Arab news Agency re ported from Damascus on sunday. While Syria condemns strongly this pre meditated escalation in the Mediterranean and its dangerous repercussions on the peo see Libya on Page 28 . Official in Paris for anti terrorist talks Paris a . Envoy Vernon Walters flew to Paris sunday after meeting with German leaders on a swing through Europe As tie . 6th Fleet moved toward libyan Waters. Walters the . Ambassador to the United nations was coming to Paris for an Exchange of views on terrorism an embassy spokesman said. Walters was to meet with French prime minister Jacques Chirac sunday evening. The . Embassy said a meeting with president Francois Mitterrand also was planned but not yet officially confirmed. Walters was staying overnight in Paris and there were reports his meeting with Mitterrand would take place monday. Asked if he would discuss the . Posi Tion toward Libya or the movement of the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean the embassy spokesman declined to comment. The matignon hotel the prime min ister s official residence said Walters would meet with Chirac monday evening in a private visit at his Walter s  Walters met sunday morning in Bonn with German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Scher according to government sources and later with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Walters had flown to Bonn from London where officials refused to reveal details of his talks saturday with British prime min ister Margaret Thatcher. The German sources said Walters was expected to explain the . Position on see talks on Page 28 a photo pallbearers carry the casket of  sgt. Kenneth Ford at burial ceremony in Detroit. . Communities Bury 5 victims of terrorism by United press International five american victims of terrorism were buried saturday in emotion charged services in three cities and one Mourner told the killers you will never destroy the heart and soul of  in Detroit a minister denounced president Reagan for failing to Telephone the family of sgt. Kenneth t. Ford. Ford was the Only american killed in the discotheque bombing in West Berli april 5. The family and i Are very upset be cause the head of this nation president Ronald Reagan has not called this fam ily said the Rev. Floyd Moore before the Soldier s Flag draped coffin. The head of this nation does t care enough when they die in the  at Forest Hills cemetery Ford s parents wept quietly and As the Bugle sounded taps tears began rolling Down the Cheeks of his brother Robert an  private. When the color guard marched past with the folded flags for his parents and the Rifle squad fired the 21-gun Salute the younger Man covered his face and sobbed. In a Plain red Brick Church in an Napolis md., services were held for three members of a greek immigrant family hurled out of an Airliner by a terrorist bomb april 2. In Stratford conn., a Long cortege followed the body of Alberto Ospina into Gates of heaven cemetery for burial. The colombian born Ospina was sitting next to the bomb on Twa s flight 840. The bomb exploded 15,000 feet Over Greece. Demetra Stylian 52, her daughter Maria Stylian Klug 24, and Maria s 9-month-old daughter Demetra Cristina were sucked out of the gaping Hole and their bodies found by a Shep Herd near the Village of Argos. On a quiet Lane in Annapolis sat urday 350 people crowded into its. Constantine and Helen greek orthodox Church for the funeral. Many were see terrorism on Page 28 Berlin a West Berlin police increased Border controls sunday ordered by the Allied command in an attempt to keep suspected terrorists out of the City follow ing the bombing of a discotheque a spokesman said. The intensified Border controls started at 4 a.m.," a Berlin police spokesman said. The police action came after the Allied Komma Datura issued a sweeping order saturday asking police to remove from the Western sectors persons identified As posing a Border Security to keep terrorists out threat to the population of  the order meant tougher controls at entry Points into Berlin a Western Diplomat told the associated press. But he said it also gave police broader Powers to pick up suspected terrorists already in Berlin and escort them to the Borders of the City a Western enclave 100 Miles inside communist East Germany. Allied and police spokesmen refused to say whether the controls were aimed at libyan or other nationalities. Both president Reagan and Chancellor Helmut Kohl have said Libya is a suspect in the april 5 blast at the la Belle discotheque which was popular with american servicemen. Two people were killed and 230 injured. German Security authorities said last week that Libya s embassy in East Berlin communist East Germany s declared capital was suspected of involvement in the blast. The Berlin police spokesman said he could not elaborate on the new police measures  
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