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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, August 20, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page �8 4 the stars and stripes wednesday. August 20,1980 East German escapes to West in air plane Hof West Germany a a 33-year-Oldman Lew a crop dusting air plane Over East Ger Many s heavily guarded Border tuesday in an escape la West Germany bavarian Border police said. Police  inc bust German Pilot few Low Over the Border North of Hof in northeastern Bavaria stale and the escape apparently went unnoticed by East German Border guards. A police ipod Cejman declined to provide information on where the plane landed or identify the Escapee by name but he said the Pilot made u Safe Landing with no complications. Escaping from East Germany to West Ger Many in an air plane has Only happened a few limes in the pan police said. San of Singer Skaggs shot by angry trucker troutv1lle, a. A the 7-year-old son of country recording Star Ricky Skaggs was shot in the face by an angry trucker on an inter state Highway authorities said monday Andrew Lee Skaggs was in stable condition after inc shooting police said. The boy and his Mother Brenda Skaggs of Lexington kv., were southbound on interstate 81 about 9 20 , sunday when a single shot from a .38-Cahber pistol was fired into heir1986 Oldsmobile Sedan police said. Edward Dean Duehring of Germantown. Md., Lumen himself in to slate police about iwo hours after the , 36, was charged with malicious wounding plus other charges and was in Bote court county jail on si25,000 Bond. Police said the trucker apparently thought the boy s Mother had Cut Loo closely in front of his truck while passing. Thunderstorms floods kill 2 in Wake of Charley by United press International the remnants of Hurricane Charley drifted off the Atlantic coast tuesday in deadly fur replaced by thunderstorms and floods that killed iwo people and forced the evacuation of Homes in South  Epting 45. And her 2-year-old grand daughter. Adri conc Woodward were swept to their deaths monday As they tried to abandon a four wheel drive vehicle stalled on a Bridge Over flood swollen Scott Creek in Newberry . It s been a mess the worst we be Ever had said Newberry mayor Clarence Sheay jr.,who declared a stale of emergency in the North Western South Carolina town. Slow moving thunderstorms unrelated to Char Ley dumped More than 10 inches of rain in Newberry flooding the area with up to 4 feel of water and forcing some residents to flee their Homes. Guinean authorities free Stokely Carmichael United nations not Stokely car Michael was released from jail monday in Gui Nea after three Days of Elellion. A Friend of Carmichael s said he had been accused of trying to overthrow the government of Guinea. Slate department officials said they had been informed by guinean authorities that the arrest was a  Carmichael an american Black militant who has taken the name Kwame Toure has lived in Guinea since 1969. Rynex workers Back after tentative Accord new York a Telephone workers re turned to work tuesday after tentative agreement on a contract with Rynex corp., end ing an eight Day strike by 33,000 workers against the new York and new England Telephone com  communication workers of America and Rynex issued a joint statement on the tentative settlement following intensive bargaining Dur ing the weekend and monday. 20 killed scores in ured in Tehran bomb b ast Nicosia Cyprus a a car packed with 50 pounds of int exploded tuesday in a Central Square in Tehran. Iran killing 20 people and wounding score of folders Iran s official Media said. The blast in Tehran s Ferdowsi Square came in the Middle of the morning Rush hour in one of the most crowded areas of the City the official islamic Republic news Agency said in a dispatch monitored in Nicosia. A Tehran radio broadcast monitored in London put inc number of dead at 20 Ltd said the explosives were planted by american  the 8 20 . Explosion damaged a bus four Auto mobiles and seven motorcycles injuring their Passen Gers 1rna said. The car bomb blast also shattered windows in nearby buildings. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Ii was the second car bombing in Iran in four Days. An explosion on saturday in the moslem holy City of qom 100 Miles Southeast of Tehran killed 13 people and wounded More than 100. So far this year seven explosions in civilian areas have killed 38 people and wounded More than 164, including the casualties announced in tuesday s attack. 1rna initially blamed the bombing on agents of imperialism a designation used by Iranus moslem fundamentalist authorities to describe the various anti government underground groups Active in the country. Authorities have blamed Mujahideen Khaliq the main underground group for some of the explosions. Gnu registers weak Advance Washington a the . Economy held Back by a worsening Trade performance grew at a barely perceptible annual rate of 0.6 percent from april through june the weakest Advance since the last recession the government reported tuesday. The Commerce department said the rate of growth in the Gross National product the broadest measure of economic health was the smallest since Gnu had fallen at a 3.2 percent rate in the july september Quarter of 1982, during the Depths of he last recession. The second Quarter Advance matches a  percent Rise in the fourth Quarter of 1982 As the country began to pull out of the recession. The 0.6 percent performance marked a Sharp Down Ward revision from an initial estimate made last month when the government projected that the econ omy had expanded at a 1.1 percent annual Rale from april through june. The revision painted an even gloomier picture of a Economy pulled Down by a disastrous trading performance and a Steep slump in he Oil and Gai Industry. The 0.6 percent increase from april through june was less than on Smith of the 3.8 percent rate turned in from january through March. While the rate of growth was dropping  news on inflation remained upbeat. The govern ment said an inflation Index lied to the Gnu Rose at i1.9 percent annual rate in the second Quarter the slowest Advance since inc Spring of 1972. The Good show ing was attributed 10 inc big plunge in Energy prices. Death toll rises in pakistani protests Islamabad Pakistan a police firing tear Gas charged demonstrators in Karachi dad and other parts of Southern Pakistan tuesday and the death toll from anti government protests reached 26, police and paramilitary units used tear Gas and Aton charges to break up an opposition March in dad in sind province witnesses said. Scattered fighting persisted in parts of Karachi a elsewhere in kind province. Bands of protesters pelted police patrols with stones before fleeing up Side Stree Tsas officers fired tear Gas. Army units were called out to assist police in several areas of sind province. The movement for the restoration of democracy n waging a Campaign to oust president Gen. Mohammad Ziaul Haq and Force elections and opposition leade vowed to stage More Street rallies tuesday. At least 16 people were reported killed and dozens injured in clashes Between riot police and opposition supporters across Pakistan on monday. Ten people were reported killed in clashes thursday through sunday. Hess from Page 1 i be never seen them before Bird said. Bird who has since left the army and now lives in West Berlin is the author of a Book about Hess entitled the loneliest Man in the  Hess who was taken out of Spandau july 8-14 to be treated at the British military Hospital in West be Linfor a stomach complaint appears in the front Page photograph with a puffed up face and his left shoulders noticeably drooping. Of the nine photographs printed by the newspaper three show Hess recently four Are obviously prewar photos including one of him with Hitler he others show rooms inside Spandau. The newspaper said that inc French protestant chaplain who had been seeing Hess regularly has no visited Spandau for six weeks. In Laid unconfirmed reports claim that the soviets had stopped the Chap lain s visits. A spokesman at the French diplomatic Mission in West Berlin said he could not comment on the report. He the chaplain is on vacation in France and b not expected Back until september the spokesman said the newspaper said hew is suffering from muscular dystrophy in his right leg a degenerate spine and Itoro Ach cramps and is visited twice daily by medical aided. Hess who was arrested and jailed by the British after he flew to Scotland in 1941 on what he claims was a peace Mission has been imprisoned in Spandau since 1947 and has been the sole inmate in the 600-Cellprison since 1966. The soviet Union has resisted repeated Calls sup ported by the United slates Britain and France to release Hess on humanitarian grounds. Soviets from Page 1 set to reach an East Wesl agreement before it Clow sept. 19. The  of he conference is to agree on Confidence building measures to Lessen the risk of War in Europe. It brings together the United slates Canada and Al european countries except Albania. A Western Diplomat who insisted on anonymity said the soviet turnaround on the on site inspection Issue could have heavy implications for other East West disarmament talks and could be aimed As an impetus to such talks. Grinevsky told a news conference the soviet Union would not refuse inspections under an agreement. Until the quota has been used up we would have to accept them he said. On site inspection proposals advanced at the Confer ence stipulated thai one country could demand Access to another s territory on a limited quota basis to Check on unannounced troop movements. The scale of movements thai would a included was being discussed. Grinevsky told tuesday s meeting that by All logic inspection should cover such Concrete Type of notifiable military activities As Maneu vers movements an transfers of   
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