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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, July 16, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday july 18.1986 """1"T""""T"""""TTTTcar used by terrorists in assassination found Munich up the getaway car used by left Wing terrorists who assassinated a top corporate executive and his Driver last week was found tuesday abandoned outside a subway Stop. The Federal criminal police said a dark Blue Volkswagen station Wagon with Munich License plates found parked near a subway Stop was very probably the vehicle used by the murderers of Karl Heinz Bec kurts 56, a Board member of the giant Siemens electronic group and his Driver Eckart Groppler 42. The car was stolen june 23 in the City of Rosenham about so Miles Southeast of Munich and the terrorists had driven it about 375 Miles before abandoning it police said. Quake aftershocks j Southern California a Oceanside Calif. A  rat tied 150 Miles of the Southern Ujj Tomia coast monday while residents recouped from their second earthquake in a weel sunday s earthquake a fled an estimated$720,000 in damage and Jared 29 people one critically. Monday Momin it aftershocks measuring More than 3.0 Sprie Richter scale Shook an area from san Pego to Oxnard North of lot Angeles Sam Cal tech spokesman Dennis Meredith. Is on the offi ended Richter scale. -._. Lin quake recorded at 646 am Sun Day Gisi ered $.3 on the Richter scale and a red 28 Miles Southwest of Oceanside in the Fie Ocean. Walesa reports police again interrogate him Warsaw Poland up Nobel Laure Telech Walesa said police interrupted his Vaca Tion tuesday to interrogate him for he seventh Lime on alleged contacts with the outlawed Solidarity labor Union s secretive underground leadership. There were seven questions and seven times 1 refused to answer them Walesa Taid after a2w-hour session of questioning. Walesa founder of the now outlawed Soli Darity said he was questioned about contacts with Solidarity s secretive underground temporary coordinating committee known As Theta a which has directed the Union s activities since 1981 when martial Law was imposed. Twas lifted two years later. Since the May 31 arrest of Akk Leader zbig Niew Bujak after nearly five years on the run the authorities have summoned Walesa and a number of other leading dissidents for questioning. Hocks ranged from 3.5 to 4.s Winnie Mandela criticizes British . Leaders policy Washington a anti apartheid Leader Winnie Mandela denounced president Reagan and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher on tuesday for refusing to impose economic sanctions against South Africa s White minority government. Had it not been for the Reagan administration an the Thatcher government the Pretoria government would t be where it is today continuing its violence on unarmed and defenceless people she said in an interview aired tuesday on the . Broadcasting net work Abc. The Black South african also criticized the . Policy toward South Africa known As constructive engagement the Reagan administration is prescribing for us what they think is Best for us precisely what Preto Ria has tried to do decade after decade prescribing for the majority of our country she said. She a accused the South african government of lulling hundreds of Blacks protesting the apartheid sys tem. She said the Pretoria government has done so with the full knowledge that it has the support in it immoral regime of the Thatcher government and the Reagan  we have appealed to democratic government Whoso care who Are not Pretoria s allies to impose unctions on our country she said. We Are asking Theresa of he caring world to impose sanctions As the Only peaceful measure we know of which would reduce the violence in the  asked about Thatcher s opposition to sanctions the apartheid foe said she cannot say anything else be cause what she is interested in it the Protection of British jobs in our  South african authorities last week lifted for the first time a 20-year Banning order against the anti apartheid spokeswoman which dictated where in could live and visit and with whom she could  the order reporters could be jailed for quoting her. She is the wife of jailed african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela sentenced in 1964 to life imprisonment on charges of subversion. Meanwhile in South Africa scattered labor unrest and school Boycotts persisted tuesday after the first mass Black protests under a month old state of Emer gency but most students and workers reportedly were Back at their classes and jobs. The labor monitoring group an Independent fact finding body Taid significant labor unrest was reported tuesday Only in the for Elizabeth area. General motors spokesman Mike Killen said pm s Plant in the Cape province City was closed for the second Day. Kileen said about 2.000 Blacks reported for work but later asked to go Home apparently because they were worried about conditions in their townships where student strikes were continuing. Other employers in port Elizabeth where an Esti mated 70 percent of workers did not go to work Mon Day said workers were trickling Back to work at bus service resumed. Peter funded of the department of education an training the government Agency for Black education said attendance among the country s 1.7 million Black student appeared almost identical to the estimated80 percent who attended school when classes resumed monday. Envoy  congressional testimony next week Michel added. Meanwhile Shutlz scheduled a meeting for next tuesday with the Commonwealth country official who have urged South Africa to negotiate with the african National Congress a Black guerrilla group. Shutlz Wilt meet with former australian prime min ister Malcolm Fraser and Gen. Olusegun Oba Sanio of Nigeria the stale department said tuesday in a Brief announcement. They Are the co chairmen of the Emi nem persons group. Late monday the office of sen. Lawton Chiles a Fla reported that when Brown was a while House aide in the Nixon administration he and a partner received an $860,000 Small business administration contract that was intended for disadvantaged minority firms. An aide to Chiles Taid the incident was discussed during 1977 hearings on sea standards for the award ing or minority contracts. Brown was not accused of any wrongdoing Taid the Chiles aide who spoke on condition of anonymity but questions were raised about whether he had used us White House position to get preferential treatment Congress later tightened the eligibility standards forthe minority contracts. White House spokeswoman Denny Brisley asked about any Federal contract Brown might have receive while working for the while House said i Don t have anything or you on  As to whether the incident would affect Brown s chances for the nomination she Laid we Don t discuss White House appointment before they arc  Telephone messages left at Brown s office in highpoint n.c., on monday night were not immediately returned. Earlier this year. Brown led a group of Black Educa tors to South Africa to help develop a . Program for training teachers and making other improvements in the education of Blacki in the country. Us. Officials discussing Brown s consideration forthe Post Laid that there Ere other candidates in the running and thai a decision would be announced shortly. The others were understood to include Richard Viets 55, a career foreign service officer who wag the . Ambassador to Jordan. Bernard Kalb the state department spokesman Laid be had do comment on presidential appointments. But he sharply criticized the South african govern ment for taking Steps to try to halt student protests including fences Security guards and identification documents for Black student. These regulations May succeed in the Short a Kalb said but they will not eradicate the underlying causes of the unrest nor will they create a climate i which education can  if nominated and confirmed by the Senate brow would succeed Herman Nickel who k now on Home leave from the Pretoria poll. Plane from Page 1 during a Short Celebration. Rutan said that despite the in Glt of the flight there was always something to do and Little Idle time. There really in t time to sit Back end have a casual conversation he said. During Olsback and Fonh trip Between san Francisco and san Luis Obispo the fuel efficient Piston engine air plane averaged 103 Mph and 29 Miles per gallon of fuel. The voyager s journey woj a test flight and prelude to september when Rutan,46, and Yeager 32, Hope to Circle the Globe without a pit Stop and without re fueling. For that trip Rutan said in an earlier interview he planned to have better sleeping pads and sound insulation in stalled in the rear of the plane where Theoff duty Pilot rests. Voyager s Only Seal is for the on duty Pilot. Rutan whose brother Hurt designed the plane and Yeager took off last thursday from Vandenberg fab where they had to end an earlier night because of engine trouble. On monday after 95 hours aloft the plane established a world record for non Stop mileage flown by a Pinion engine aircraft said Lee Herron a project spokesman at the voyager s Mojave base 70 Milea North of downtown Losangeles. The plane was Over Monterey Bay when it Brake the old Piston engine re Cord of 10,007 statute Miles let in 19b1 by Jerry Mullins who flew an aircraft continuously Between Oklahoma City and Jacksonville fla., Herron said. Records claimed by the voyager Crew must be certified by the National aeronautic association. Naa officials flew alongside voyager for much of its Jour Ney. Rulan and Yeager who is not relate to test Pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Craft in six or seven hour shuts. Jutila said Rutan had trouble sleeping during the first two Days but both Bier reported the cockpit Felt just like Home Jutila issued periodic reports saying that the morale stamina and psychological status of the aviators were Hue. The voyager ii made of a throng but Light Graphite material called Magnavite. Its Airframe weighs Only 939 pounds including equipment and Crew it weighs about 2,500 pounds before its 8,934pound of Tiel Are added the twin gone plane resembles three hot dogs Wared by a skewer like Ilo foot wig. Its builders have invested $ i million anymore than 22,000 hours of labor in it. The lightweight aircraft look off from its Mojave Bate wednesday but the 7--=  uni to miia4 Stu omit developed rear engine trouble. It landed at Vandenberg 120 mile Northwest of los Angeles the engine waa repaired and it took off again at 2 52 . Thun to qualify for the closed course re the name Vandenberg runway  on. Because the Crew wanted to end we flight at Mojave voyager and a mud Berg officials agreed that the Craft could Fly Over the runway at Low attitude wit confirmation by base radar Herron said  
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