European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes monday. November 17.1988pope prepares for longest trip Vatican City api Pope John Paul ii leaves tuesday on the longest trip of Hii pontificate a swing from densely populated Bangladesh to the Barren Outback of Australia to meet with roman catholics. The 30,000-mile trip will also Lake the Pope to Singapore the Fiji islands new zealand and the Seychelles. He is scheduled to re Lum to Rome on dec. I. Even by the standards or this much travelled Pope the 32nd for eign trip of John Paul s papacy promises to be one of the most demanding. Two nights will be spent on the plane while the final Day will feature 24 hours straight of work and time zone Crossaig travel. As he travels across the vast area and delivers 50 speeches the 66-year-old pontiff is expected to speak oui on issues ranging fro economic development in the third world to the problems fac ing the roman Catholic Church in secular Western societies 2 ships attacked in persian Gulf Nicosia Cyprus a an Oil Tanker and cargo ship in the persian Gulf were attacked sat urday one by Iran the other by Iraq. An iraqi military statement broadcast by Baghdad radio said iraqi air Force jets scored direct and effective hits on a Large Oil Tanker off the iranian coast the Tanker was not identified an there was no confirmation of the report shipping executives in London and the Gulf said two iranian gun boats fired rockets at the 16,000-Lon cargo vessel Shaam setting it afire. The ship flying the United Arab emirates nag was carrying Cement to Kuwait they said. Assad assails ., claims we Are against terrorism Damascus. Syria a president Hafez Assad on sunday denied Western allegations his country is involved in terrorism and said american and British leaders were the real we Are against terrorism we Don t practice it and do not allow anyone to Hatch terrorist plots from our territory Assad said on the 16th anniversary of the coup that brought him to Power. Yet we Back resistance against occupation and All National liberation move ments he said in a speech before thou Sands of people gathered at a sports stadium. Assad said president Reagan and Brit ish prime minister Margaret Thatcher Are the real terrorists who practice slate terrorism against the Freedom of the peo he added when they accuse Syria of terrorism they want to terrorize and frighten Syria.1 the United states announced Diplo Matic and economic measures against Damascus on Friday citing Syria alleged support for terrorist groups. The move followed similar measures by european countries. The nations were reacting to the conviction in London of a jordanian Nezar Hindawi on a he tried to use his pregnant Irish Girlfriend to smuggle bomb aboard an israeli passenger Jet a Heathrow Airport Britain said Hindawi received syrian help. Assad called on the United slates an Britain to define what they mean by terrorism. From a position of strength i Chal Lenge those m Washington and in lo6-Don who claim they want to fight terror ism Assad told a crowd of thousands. "1 Challenge them to accept my proposal that an International committee reformed to define what terrorism exactly is and i announce Syria s readiness to cooperate with such a sex company official in Switzerland aided in report warning of toxic spill Zurich Switzerland a a for Mer top manager helped prepare an out Side study predicting the toxic spill at Swiss chemical Plant during a warehouse fire two weeks ago a Swiss newspaper said sunday. The Basel based Sandoz company which owns the Plant says it was Only verbally informed of the confidential 1981 report by the firm s Swiss insurers. But the Blick newspaper said Juerg Rutschmann the company s Plant safely chief until his retirement Vii years ago helped write the report so company management must have seen it the paper Switzerland s largest circulation daily gave no source for its information. The article said attempts to reach Rutschmann for comment were unsuccessful. He is currently said to be on a trip planned Long ago. The report listed serious deficiencies in the fire prevention systems at a Sand of warehouse near Basel where some 30tons of insecticides Weed killers and other chemicals washed into the adjacent Rhine River with water used to fight a nov. 1 Blaze. The spilt touched off a massive fish kill and endangered drinking water sup plies. The report bad warned such a spill could occur in a fire. The report was first made Public last tuesday by the German environmental is Green party. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on sunday challenged Switzerland to spell out How it intends to combat Environ mental crime like the spill in an interview on German radio Kohl said it was inconceivable that the Accident was allowed to happen. Israeli planes blast guerrilla bases Al Aviv up palestinian guerrilla bases South of the lebanese port of Sidon were attacked sunday in the 14lhisraeli air raid this year in Lebanon the military said. A spokesman for the israeli defense forces in Tel Aviv identified one target As a naval training base for palestinian guerrillas and a departure Point for at tacks on Israel. All our planes resumed safely the if said. The if had no immediate report on casualties in the raid. The ids state policy is not to say whether such raids Are in reprisal for guerrilla attacks. Shultz from Page 1 and Good Faith. That s you can argue for thai there Are some Good reasons Why. You can argue against it Shutlz said. At any rate when you get elected president one of the things you get a right 10 do is to make decisions of that kind. So the president decided on this signal and he did it in another development the washing Ion Post reported sunday that the joint chiefs of staff were not informed of the secret arms shipments to Iran. The chairman of the joint chiefs adm. William j. Crowe jr., was so astonished when he heard about the Deal through news reports that he asked his staff officers whether one of them knew about the shipments and neglected to in form him officials told the Post the inquiry revealed that neither Crowe nor his deputies bad been told of the ship ments by Reagan defense Secretary Cas Par Weinberger or National Security adviser John Poindexter the Post said. The Post Taid Reagan who pledged full consultation with military leaders when taking office also failed to inform the joint chiefs before endorsing the elimination of All nuclear weapons Dur ing the Reykjavik Iceland Summit with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Neither Crowe nor his fellow chiefs the Heads of the army Navy air Force and Marine corps have publicly Dis cussed either the iranian arms Deal or Reagan s offers Al Reykjavik. But the Post said the House and Senate armed services committees intend to Call them to testify on those issues id january. Sen. Patrick Leahy Dot vice chair Man of the Senate intelligence committee said saturday we have to know All the facts and we do not yet have All the facts involving the secret shipments to Iran. The Post reported on saturday that Cia director William Casey acted on orders of Reagan in Wilmot Din information from Congress on the shipment of Arms to Iran and the release of Hostages. Poindexter told the Post that information about the operation had to be with held from Congress because of the Poten tial danger to the hostages. The raid came a Day after a jewish student was stabbed to death in Jerusa Lem s walled old City an attack for which a palestinian guerrilla group in Beirut took responsibility. The raid on palestinian guerrilla tar gels near Sidon was Israel s 14th such attack this year in Lebanon quakes Rock Island 60 Miles from Tokyo Tokyo up a duster of Earth quakes sunday rocked a. Tiny Pacific is land alter a Volcano erupted for the first time in 12 Yean spewing molten Lav some 9,800 feet into the sky. There were no reports of casualties on Izu Oshima Island about 60 mile South of Tokyo but toe eruption caused in estimated 1250,000 damage to farm products. Sunday s pro football it kilo 13. Mini 10 Tatom 11 pfc Mia 11 my own nista led revolution in 1979. In Washington a while House spoke. 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