European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday septembers 1986 the stars and stripes team Licking its Cheops Over Tomb clues g1za, Egypt api members of a Franco Egypt an team said saturday they believe that secret cavities they Are trying to penetrate in the Pyramid of the pharaoh Cheops have not been opened since the lome was built 4.500 years ago. Buoyed by findings from a Hole drilled into a Limestone Rock in the heart of the Pyramid the icam began Boring a second Hole saturday in search of a doorway into the hidden Chambers. What we an1 sure of now is that there Ore cavities which Are still intact since the building of the Pyramid said Ahmed Kadry. Head of Egypt s antiquities organization. Like Many other tombs of ancient Egypt most treasures buried with Cheops in the 27lh Century . Long ago were stolen by grave robbers. Egyptology its have guessed that be cause of i lie position of the cavities along the corridor to the Queen s Clum Ber and Benc ii tin passage to the Pha Roah s burial diam her they could he storage rooms conceivably tilled with anything from the Queen s jewels to Mil Ionia Oid Grain. Two French architects Jean Patrice Koidin and Gilles dorm Ion selected at least rec previously unknown cavities last Winter. With backing from the French government and Egypt s antiquities organization they began drilling wednesday to create a Channel for a tiny camera like Lens to see inside. Koidin said the second Hole is being technician Jean Pierre Duron rets ready id me a Drill inside the Che Ops Pyramid. A photo a Young Tiger snoozes in the last doze of summer at the zoo in Hamburg summer Sunshine. Bill the Specter of hardly Likely la disturb his lingering rays of Indian cold weather just around the Corner is the liter s native habitat is Siberia. Drilled Boul Al i feel to the left of the first one in n corridor leading to the Queen s chamber of the Pyramid. Kadry said separate Side by Side layers of mortar and Sand which poured from the bore Hole Afler technicians had drilled Lvi feet into the Pasvig Eway s Lime nne will Showl hit the cavities arc  also proves they have not been opened since the Pyramid was built because the Sand and mortar had not been broken or tampered  Kadry said. Kadry said the Sand found in the first bore was very Fine and did not originate in inc in sort around inc Mammoth Structure there is a possibility that they used ibis Sand to slide the Stone slabs into place and Block the Entrance to the cavi ties he said. Or maybe they put it there to maintain a certain degree of humidity in the atmosphere to preserve something  said that he could Noi say How big inc cavities were bul that he does no expect the door to he More than 30 inches Long and  results so far indicate the team is drilling in the perpendicular Axvall of the cavity Koidin said bul he added that he wants to find the doorway. We prefer to enter by the door he said. It s a matter of  Cheops Pyramid largest of the three great pyramids of Giza that arc the Only one of he seven wonders of the ancient world that have survived comprises 2.5 million Limestone blocks la is4t2 feet la.11. Iraqi pilots called ready to finish Iran Baghdad. Iraq api Iraq s air Force commander said saturday his fighter pills were ready to finish off the remnants of Iran s  air marshal Haind Shaaban s threat came the Day after Iraq s second Long Range bombing raid Aga Ritsi a major Ira Nian Oil port and fresh iranian Saber rattling about a decisive offensive to end inc 6-year-old War. Iranian i Irli Ament speaker Hashemi a Sfanjani Friday said Iran s Mobili a Tion would Peak on sept i the Day of inc shiite moslem ashoura ceremonies. Within a few hours of a Sfanjani s speech. Iraq launched the raid on Iran Slavan Island. The iraqi High command said its warplanes bombed the loading jetty refiner and docked  shipping executives said the air raid set at least one storage Lank ablate. Lavan has a major Oil loading porn and refinery supplied by Al least three oilfields inc executives said. The refinery mainly supplies the iranian military they said. The Island also has a military air base. It is about 420 Miles South of the iraqi coast. Preparations Are Complete and we arc ready for a continuous and developing action to finish off inc remnants of the re sources of the aggression Shaaban said in a Telegram to president Saddam Hussein. The Telegram was published in the state run newspaper at thaw a  air Force also is fully ready and impatiently eager for the forthcoming Battle which will be fall us and decisive and will serve to Deal a mortal Biow to the iranian aggression Shaaban s message said. In recent months Iraq has intensified air raids on Oil and economic targets deep inside Iran saying it was trying to deprive the iranians of the resources thai enable them to keep fighting. Iraq has been bombing Harg Island Iran s major Oil Export Point fora year. Last month Iraq launched its Fisl Long Range bombing raid attacking a makeshift Oil Export terminal on Sim Island set up because of the Harg attacks