European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Pages the stars and stripes sunday july 20,1986 the pc Cream my be old fashioned but the Container i str Lefly space age. The futuristic stand Model of a catering to Cone Heads combination helicopter and Overland vehicle is on the grounds of expo 86 in Vancouver British Colombia. World today soviets announce firings in Wake of nuke disaster raise death toll Moscow a the politburo on saturday blamed the chernobyl disaster on Gross negligence said four government officials were fired and in creased the official death toll from history s worst civilian nuclear Accident to 28.in a statement distributed by the official soviet news Agency Tass the politburo said those who cause the Accident would be put on trial. The communist Pany s ruling body said the Cher Nobyl reactor exploded on april 26 because workers conducted improperly supervised and badly prepare experiments on a Turbine Generator without proper safety indicated that safety procedures and technical training also were inadequate at the nation s other nuclear plants which include 13 Graphite moderated reactors like the one at the most graphic picture yet of the scope of the disaster the politburo said 28 people were dead,30 still hospitalized and 173 others stricken by Radia Tion Accident caused the equivalent of $2.8 billion in damage disrupted the nation s Power Supply Force closing of local factories and contaminated 400 Square Miles of land in the Northern Ukraine and Southern byelorussian the politburo said. The politburo concluded with a political statement calling for arms control and adding the world Community is awaiting a positive answer from the american Side to the unilateral soviet moratorium on nuclear Tass said the politburo beaded by Mikhail s. Gorbachev met in special session saturday to study the results of a government inquiry into the chernobyl disaster which occurred in the Northern Ukraine about 80 Miles North of politburo made a sweeping condemnation of the local ukrainian and National officials responsible for operating the chernobyl reactor. It was established that the Accident had Bee caused by a series of Gross breaches of the reactor operational regulations by workers of the atomic Power station it said repeating earlier reports that the disaster occurred while the no. 4 reactor at the four reactor Complex was nearly shut Down. The radioactive Cloud that was spewed into the atmosphere was eventually detected around the world. The politburo said the soviet prosecutor Genera was investigating persons guilty of the Accident and they will be brought to Kulov head of the atomic safety commit tee was fired for bad errors and shortcomings the statement said along with . Sha Sharin Deputy minister of Power and electrification and Ivan y. Be rely nov Deputy director of the Institute that de signed the chernobyl politburo said the government also fired a Man identified Only by his last name Meshkov who was listed As a Deputy minister of medium size machine building. Western references do not list the ministry apparently a new one. The report said those officials were subjected to rigorous party penalties and the former director of the chernobyl Plant identified Only As Bry Ukhanov was expelled from the parly. Bry Ukhanov s dismissal had been reported in the official press earlier. The politburo said Anatoly Mayoress minister of Power and electrification deserved to be fired but was Given a reprieve since he had been in office Only since local party and government bodies were instructed to investigate other officials responsible for operating the chernobyl has been reduced to Normal Levels every where except at the Plant and a few nearby localities the politburo said. A 12-mile-Long embankment is being constructed along the Prip Yat River which flows near the reactor to prevent pollution. The More than 100,000 people evacuated from an18-mile radius around chernobyl Are being compensated and Given housing and jobs the report said. Court buttons up trousers Case Brussels up the european court of jus Tice has ruled that trousers buttoning to the right Are men a while female ones Button to the left an executive commission source said Friday. It used to be so that pants for women made out Side the Community could enter Tariff free contrary to pants for males which were subject to customs duty the source said. Why customs experts Ever made the distinction snot Clear but now the Tariff position is the same for Bolh sexes he added. A spokesman for the commission said the Luxem Bourg court ruling last week Fiad not been separately notified to the commission. Only major rulings Are reported separately. This one May follow the ruling ended a procedure begun 11 years ago Bya West German importer of jeans manufactured out Side the european economic Community. When customs claimed some 10,000 Marks in a reared dues for Labelling women s what were actually jeans for men he protested that they were unisex and he went to German courts and eventually to the euro Pean court of Justice. Tamil rebels suspected in raid that killed 10 Colombo sri Lanka up suspected tamil guerrillas swooped Down on a Small northeastern sugar town killing 10 civilians in what the government said was a retaliatory raid for inc earlier slaying of 39 tamils in the same Region an official source said sat urday. The official government source said 10 civilians eight sinhalese and two tamils were killed in the attack by separatist tamil guerrillas thursday night inthe Rural town of Kantala in northeastern Tricoma ice estimated 3,000 people have died in the 3-year old ethnic violence Between government forces an tamil guerrillas. The tamil insurgents claiming discrimination bythe majority sinhalese population demand a separate tamil Homeland in Northern and northeastern sri Lanka. Operations blinded 300 in India Agency reports new Delhi India a about 300 patient shave been blinded in Eye operations performed by a doctor in Western utter Pravesh state and the govern ment there has ordered an investigation the United news of India said Friday utter Pravesh chief minister veer Bahadur Singh ordered the probe into the operation performed last april at two Eye Relief Camps in the towns of Moradabad and Hurja where free or Low Cost Eye operations Are provided for the poor. Most of the patients have gone Blind in one or both eyes uni said. The doctor whose name was not provided has been forbidden to operate. Details were no immediately available and it was not known if the windings were permanent or temporary. South korean dissident put under House arrest Seoul South Korea a the government placed dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung under House arrest saturday hours before a scheduled anti govern ment rally protesting the alleged sexual abuse of a dissident in police custody Kim s aides said. Security officials came to Kim s Seoul Home shortly before 8 . And told him to stay Home and not at tend the rally which has been banned the aides said. The House was surrounded by about 400 plainclothes police 9fficers, and a police car blocked Kim s garage they , who has been placed under House arrest on several occasions this year alone is banned from Polit ical activities under a 20-year suspended sentence he was Given on sedition charges in 1980. Iranian says . Spy arrested radio reports Nicosia Cyprus a an iranian official said iranian Security forces had arrested a . Spy operating in Iran with an italian passport Tehran radio re ported. The official speaker of the parliament Ali Akbar Hashemi a Sfanjani noted the arrest Friday in an address at Tehran University Campus that focused Onan alleged Western plot to reduce the Price of Oil the radio this connection we have caught a . Spy who has been working in Iran under an italian passport from whom we have Learned a great Deal and these facts will be revealed at the appropriate time by the country s Security officials he was quoted As saying. Che report neither identified the alleged spy nor said when the arrest took place. Thieves take offerings from Church leave Flowers Catania. Sicily up thieves grabbed valuable sex Voto off Ennis from the Chapel of the weep ing Madonna Friday and left a Bunch of Flowers i their place police said. Police said the offerings made by catholics As Parton a vow or in Token of gratitude were valued in the hundreds of millions of lire More than $100,000 Many were intricate Silver figures in the shape of a heart Eye or other pan of the Chapel is a popular one because some worship pers have reported seeing the Madonna shedding thieves left the Flowers at the feet of the Madon
