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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday september 5,1988 Farnborough air show visitor an afros industries super Gappy Al air show to Firaby Orsagh England make an appearance at the intent than the cargo plane is used to carry aircraft components including wings from Var ious production facilities in Europe to Al runs industries Assembly Plant it ton lose France world today 2 australian air crashes Melbourne Australia a the separate crashes of an air ambulance and a private plane killed14 people. Transport department officials reported. An air ambulance crashed into a Field shortly after taking off from Melbourne on wednesday killing All bin people on Board officials said. The twin engine plane exploded in flames when it struck the ground100 Yards from a freeway and houses. No one on the ground was injured. On tuesday All eight people aboard a Small plane that crashed in Northern Queensland were killed letter from Sakharov to Gorbachev revealed Moscow a human rights activist Andrei Sakharov wrote soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev in february urging that All prisoners of conscience be freed from jail internal exile and mental hospitals it was revealed this week. In the letter the dissident physicist also thanked the soviet Leader for his personal intervention in allow ing Sakharov s wife Yelena Bonner to visit the West for medical treatment she returned to the soviet Union june 2.the letter Dale feb. 19, was obtained by a Western journalist and distributed wednesday to other foreign correspondents. It was accompanied by a message written in March asking that the Media publicize the letter on sept. 3 if Gorbachev had not replied. . Delegates get lists of amerasian others Bangkok Thailand up Vietnam has Given a . Delegation substantial lists of amerasian Chil Dren and other groups of people who will be allowed to emigrate to the United slates a . Embassy spokes Man said thursday the names were released to . Officials who went 10 Hanoi Vietnam last week for the  orderly departure program which is helping More than 43,000 vietnamese and 4.000 amerasian Chil Dren fathered by american soldiers during the Viet Nam War emigrate to the United states. Iran frees soviet freighter after forcing it to port Manama Bahrain a Iran thursday released the soviet freighter it had stopped in the persian Gulf and forced to port in a search for material aiding Iraq s War Effort shipping executives said. A second soviet freighter Ihetu Tov on wednesday was allowed to continue its trip to an undisclosed Arab port in the Gulf after it was detained briefly by iranian warships the spokesmen said. The Pyotr Nemtsov was intercepted tuesday and taken at gunpoint to Bandar Abbas 120 Miles East of the United Arab emirates where it was  iranians examined the cargo and found it did not include material of military value the executives said. Bomb kills 3 French soldiers jogging on Road in Lebanon Beirut. Lebanon a a Roadside bomb Ento Sion killed three French soldiers serving with the . Peacekeeping Force and wounded one As they were jogging in Southern Lebanon a . Spokesman said. The attack the ninth against the . Interim Force in Lebanon in 24 Days sharpened fears of a head on collision Between iranian backed shiite moslem extremists and pro syrian shiite moderates Over the . Force s role. The French government condemned the cowardly attack with the greatest vigor and said it confirms the need to reassess the Mission of the peacekeeping Force. . Spokesman Titour Colucy said All four casual ties were privates. Two died almost instantly and a third died on the operating table in the . Field Hospital in the lebanese Border town of a Agoura. The injured Frenchman suffered a minor shrapnel wound in the ear and another Frenchman escaped injury he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing which Goksel said occurred on the outskirts of the South lebanese Village of Jwayad Al 7 15 an. They were doing their routine daily physical train ing when the bomb exploded Goksel said. Goksel said . Experts estimated the bomb at 71pounds of explosives. Jwayad is eight Miles can of the port City of Tyre at the Southern up of the zone manned by the 1,400-min French battalion. Denis Baudouin spokesman for French prime min ister Jacquo Chirac told reporters in Paris the bomb we activated by a  control Detonator. Skippers of both soviet vessels violated safety rules paper says Moscow a captains of both soviet irps involved in the Black sea collision that left at least 79 dead and 319 missing violated navigational safety rules the communist party daily pravda said thursday pravda said an investigation is continuing into How the freighter Pyotr Vaslev rammed the passenger liner sunday night but indicated the two captains both of whom survived share the blame other newspapers said the search for survivors was continuing but Hope that anyone would be found alive was fading. Pravda said the collision ripped a Gash in the right Side of the 61-year-old Admiral a Akimov. It Sank within is minutes and now rests on its right Side in 135 feel of water about seven Miles from the port  from which it had departed about an hour before the collision. Accounts by survivors said Many passengers were already in their Cabins while others were dancing to a orchestra on the ship s upper deck. Rescuers saved 270 of the ship s 346 Crew members including capt. Vadun Markov who bad skippered the vessel since 1959. Newspapers and soviet officials earlier reported thit the Bridges of the two vessels were in visual and radio Contact before the collision but failed to steer dear of each other. One of the reasons for what happened is simple Slove Liness and carelessness said the youth news i per Komsomol Skaya pravda the daily Sovie Skaya Rossiya said final orach ions on the reasons for the tragedy and the degree of guilt of some persons will be established by the state commission Bat one thing is already Clear among inc reasons that led to the tragedy were cart Letsom  Tutu officially takes Over new duties Cape town South Africa up the  Tutu officially took Over wednesday As anglican archbishop of South Africa the first Black to become Leader or the racially divided nation s 2 Mil lion anglicans. Tutu assumed authority of the office by signing Sev eral Church documents in a private ceremony. His pub Lic installation will come in enthronement services sunday at Cape town s St. George s Cathedral. Church officials said Tutu 1984 Nobel peace Lau reate and former by Bop of Johannesburg effectively assumed office monday when outgoing archbishop Philip Russell formally retired. Dignitaries from around the world including Amer ican civil rights Aci Visti Corwitt Scott King and Jen Jackson plan to attend the sunday ceremony. Kins arrived in Johannesburg wednesday vow into talk to As Many people As possible about South Alica s racial problems during her we Klong visit Jackson was negotiating with South african of flu by officials in Washington Over visa restrictions. Tutu was elected archbishop in april by an Over whelming majority of Soo Church Leader who convened m Cape town to choose a successor to Russell t anglican Church whose South african Mem m " a 80, n � 0 percent Black is the nation Slou rth largest Church Afler the methodist. Dutch re formed and roman Catholic churches  
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