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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                                Inside stripes d  Egen marches Mark 70th anniversary Page 2 d sex Fri agent Miller gets 2 life sentences Page 5 d Cairo takes Little league title Page 25 Utho Zea unofficial . 45, no. 69 wednesday july 16, 1986  lie  rih Tov 0 8693 a bomb in Van kills 9 in Spain Madrid Spain a a bomb in a Van exploded monday As a Busload of civil guards passed by. Killing eight civil guards immediately and wounding 44 other people including 12 civilians in a do idly Shower of shrapnel officials said. One of the wounded officers died in a Hospital later in the Day. Raising the death Mil to nine said a spokes Man for inc civil guards. He said the bomb had been detonated by Remote control. No group Dai Mcd responsibility but the Cove Ming socialist party blamed the explosion on Eta Assas  the Basque separatist group Eta has carried out Many similar attacks on military and police tar gets the most recent a car bombing april 25 that kilted five paramilitary civil guards. In Madrid twisted Metal mangled cars and set Ards of Glass littered dominican Republic Square in a fashionable residential District about three Miles from the Center of the capital. The bomb exploded at 7 48 ., shattering windows around the Square and damaging Street level shops the blast was so powerful it threw me against a Wall As i was coming up from the subway radio announcer Carlos co francs said. There is broken Glass ail Over he  an officer Riding next in the bus Driver was mown from the vehicle by the Force of the wast but landed on his feel unhurt Diego Cones Valdys told journalists he had no idea what happened but the next minute i was standing unhurt next to the wrecked  a spokesman for the civil guard whose distinctive Gray Green uniforms and Patent leather tricorn hats Sci them off from other police said 70 Young officers were being taken to a Highway patrol training Center in the bus and a trailing Van. He said the vehicle that exploded contained shrapnel and about 110 pounds of plastic explosives. The spokesman would not allow his name to be used. Some wounded officers were reported in serious condition the injured civilians included a Street sweeper Cut Down by flying Glass. Slate television speculated that the bombing was an Eta response to France s deportation sunday of inc separatist group s reputed Mill tar Leader. He was Seni to Gabon in Africa. Domingo it Ruby Abasol i who is 42 and uses the code name Tomin had been living in France for 18 years As a political refugee. Police arrested him several months ago on charges of violating refugee regulations continued on Page 23 App Doto police helmets Are scattered in he Street Abate after an explosion killed nine Spanish civil guards. At right debris fills the Square when the attack occurred. Aftershocks Rock California Oceanside Calif. A aftershocks rattled Iso Miles of the Southern California coast monday while residents recovered from their second Earth quake in �  s earthquake caused an estimated 1720,000 in damage and injured 29 people one critically. See related Story Page 6 monday morning 16 aftershocks measuring More than 3.0 on the Richter scale Shook an area from san Diego to Oxnard North of los Angeles said Cal tech spokesman Dennis Meredith. Sunday s aftershocks ranged from 3.5 to 4,5 on the open ended Richter scale. It s slowing Down significantly Cal tech seismologist kale Mutton said monday evening. The main quake recorded at 6 46  Sunday registered 5.3 on the Richter scale and was entered 28 Mike Southwest of Pecan Side in the Pacific  is 75 Miles Southeast of los an a Clos Dot the quake was fell As far away As Yuma ariz., i go Miles East of san Diego. One woman suffered a fatal heart attack during the quake. The initial $500,000 damage estimate set sunday Rose to j720.000 on monday after several people reported damage to their Homes and workplaces said Sieve Danon operations officer Al the county s office of disaster preparedness. Plate Glass display windows broke or cracked at businesses throughout the county. In downtown san Diego a piece of a statue weighing about 500 pounds was shaken Loose from its position atop a four Story building and fell crushing the Hood of a parked car. On july 8, a quake that struck 12 Miles Northwest of Palm Springs measured 5.9 on the Richter scale causing an estimated $5.75 million damage and injuring 40 people. Meredith said the Oceanside quake was not re lated to the Palm Springs quake since they took place on different faults. The Oceanside quake was the largest recorded in modern history in the area offshore from the san Diego metropolitan area according to officials. Of keeps lid on fatal crash san Francisco not the air Force Pilot of a secret plane that crashed Friday apparently sought to conceal the Clandestine nature of his work by telling friends and family that his Job was flying mock combat missions against other american pilots. The Pentagon refused again on monday to discuss any aspects of the fatal flight by maj. Ross e. Mulhare a 35-year-old former resident of River Edge n.j., who was based at Nellis fab Nevada. Congressional sources and experts on military technology have said that Mulhare was flying a Lockheed built stealth fighter a still exper Menlai Craft designed with special materials and structural features to evade enemy radar systems when he crashed in Southern California about 2  On Friday. There has also been speculation which some knowledgeable sources in Washington have discouraged that he was operating a secretly acquired soviet aircraft or another experimental fighter plane about which even see stealth on Page 28  
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