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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 26, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A 1. J.  inside step eke d meeter greeters Welcome new dodos teachers Page 3 d Many service members defaulting on car payments Page 13 d today s Dollar buys 2.03 Marks rates Page 27 the Simand gripes vol. 45. No. 130 Thoi Ido unofficial Ruic Itiat rot Thi , humid tuesday August 26. 1986 la q 8693 a Cameroon says 2,000 killed by fumes from volcanic Lake Yaounde Cameroon a at least 2,000 peo ple were killed by toxic Gas seeping from a volcanic Lake in Northwest Cameroon and the military moved into he Remote area to evacuate survivors the govern ment said monday. There was no word on the number or injured. A 17-rnember israeli army medical learn arrived in this West african nation monday As part of International re Lief Eft oru that the Cameroon government said would also involve the United Stales Britain and France As far m we know volcanic activity ii still going on medical team Leader or. Michael Weiner told reporters on the plane from Israel which was carrying prime minister Shimon Fern for a state visit. There has been no official government report of volcanic activity. The Cameroon military look charge of Rescue and Relief operations in he disaster area Cameroon information minister Georges Nganngo Lold reporter that military authorities tiled a preliminary report of at least 2.000 dead. But a of monday afternoon the government radio was still reporting that 40 people had died from the fumes. That was the figure provided by the govern ment when it first reported the disaster on sunday. Joseph Mok Affia an aide to the provincial governor terrorists targeted Bonn . Embassy seized papers show in Samenda. Capital of the stricken province said by Telephone i had seen Many dead but did not have precise figures. I went there on saturday and it was such a frightful it because so Many people had lost their lives Okassa said a Western diplomatic source in Yaounde said of the government radio report the situation in t Clear. Rather than go with the higher figure get people upset clog the roads they slay conservative. The source spoke on condition of anonymity Nganngo said villagers from a wide area were being evacuated and others were fleeing and thai Rescue workers were wearing Gas Yuuki. The government identified the lethal Gas As Hydro Gen Suli Ide a flammable colourless Gas that smell like Rotten eggs and said ii came from Lake Nio Inear Vurn about 200 Miles Northwest of Yaounde the capital. A government communique on sunday called the Gas release a geological catastrophic but scientists with the . Geological Survey Mon Day said it was impossible to be immediately certain which component of the seeping fumes caused the deaths. Survey scientist Darrell Herd in Reston vs., re called the release in August 1984, of a Gas Cloud in the see Cameroon on Page 28 Hamburg up1 authorities have Learned from captured documents that West German terrorists targeted the . Embassy in Bonn for attack a news Magazine reported monday. The weekly illustrated Stem Magazine in an Advance text of an article slated for its thursday edition said criminal police found maps and sketches of the embassy compound in the apartment of suspected terrorists who were arrested in mid August. Stem said the seized documents included a Bonn City Siree map in which the embassy compound was circled in red. The Bonn . Embassy was to be the next target of the German terrorists the Magazine said the captured documents show. Government sources in Bonn said separately thai Security authorities were also aware of a terrorist sketch in which . Embassy located in the bad Godes beg Section of Bonn was marked with a red Arrow. But they said this did not automatically mean the embassy building was the next target of terrorists. A German government spokesman in a Telephone interview with the associated press from his of tick in Karlsruhe confirmed thai police found the two maps one in the Duisburg apartment and the other in a suspected terrorist s car. Police also found a homemade bomb in their search of the terrorists apartment so it s assumed they were planning an attack somewhere in spokesman added. He noted that the three suspected terrorists had been arrested. However he emphasized thai investigators had no proof terrorists were planning an attack on the  the embassy s surrounded by a High steel Fence and is heavily guarded around the clock. The suspected terrorists identified a Norbert Hofmeier Thomas theme and Baa terrorists on Page 28 air assault against a fire App Tota a plane sprays water on a form lire saturday after Ibe Blue broke out near dlr Lara killing four people and forcing Hundred to flee. Official mid the Cannes France. Fire have destroyed Blaut were largely brought under c 25,000 acres of Forest on the French tool before dam monday. Gunman Sherrill had taught at Raf Mildenhall by Dave d1ehl . Bureau Raf Mildenhall England Patrick Sherrill the postal employee who murdered 14 co workers and then killed himself last week spent two weeks at this base in England in july As a weapons instructor air Force officials said monday. Sherrill a technical sergeant in the Oklahoma air National guard served the required iwo weeks of an Nual training with 104 other members of his unit the 137th combat support so. According to it. Col. Wil Liam g. Francis Public affairs officer for the Oklahoma air National guard. While on duly Sherrill taught the operation of Small arms and the m-16 Rifle at the base s Rifle Range according to a statement released monday by the Raf Mildenhall Public affairs office. He arrived at the base july 19. Sherrill 44, went on a shooting spree aug. 20 in the Edmond okla., Post office a Day after he was threat see 8herhill on Page 28  
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