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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and 8th1pes saturday december 6,1986 Santa shapes up Jolly of St Nick was spoiled in downtown Frankfurt recently on roller ills. It most be one of his ways of training for his oncoming exhausting adventure the night of dec. 24. Concrete casing around soviet reactor finished Moscow a the Concrete easing Annid the no. 4 chernobyl reactor which scientists Hope will Seal off the ruined nuclear reactor forever has been completed Tass reported Friday. The official news Agency did not my when work on the Concrete Vamp Tagay was finished. Conjunction began in the week after the april 26 Accident that blew open the reactor and released a Cloud of radiation eventually detected around the world. By official count 31 people hive died As a result of the disaster which forced evacuation of an in Milt zone in the Northern Ukraine and Southern Bye Lorus Sia and caused at least $ 1.5 billion in damage. The Accident Hai been blamed on Plant worker who shut Down the chernobyl station s safely systems to conduct an Experiment that got out of control and caused a chemical explosion. Tass quoted physicist Valery Lega Sov one of the soviet officials working on Tfaye chernobyl cleanup As saying a Structure of reinforced Concrete has been completed to encase the ruined reactor one of four at the Plant. But Tass indicated the system enclosing the reactor depended on a Complex engineering Structure that includes monitoring systems and a heat Cic Hange and ventilation mechanism that includes air purification devices. It did not explain How scientists planned to keep the machinery running indefinitely. Most of the Power station itself has been decontaminated Tass said and officials Are working on finishing the cleanup elsewhere in the evacuation tone from which More than 120,000 people were removed follow ing he Accident crazed Vietnam Veteran kills 28 in Colombia before being slain Bogota Colombia up a crazed Vietnam Veteran shot to death his Mother and six neighbors ate his last meal alone at an expensive restaurant and then gunned Down 21 diners with a chilling calmness authorities said. Police estimated the gunman Campo Elias Delgado 52, fired 400 rounds from a j8-caliber handgun in the rampage thursday night before he was shot dead. Twenty nine people were killed including a 6-year old girl. At least a dozen were wounded two critically. Hours before the Bloodbath Delgado told friends Char he was going on a rip. 10 the other  judge Lucero Echeverri de Henao who was investigating the Case Friday said Delgado handled his gun Wilh a chilling calmness and carefully aimed at the Heads of Many of the victims. Authorities said Delgado began the killings after 7 . In the apartment he shared with his Mother Rita Delgado. They said he hot the elderly woman wrap Ped her body in newspaper and set it ablaze. He then apparently wandered through the apartment building shooting is of his neighbors All women. He was not a pleasant person said an acquaint Ance who said Delgado addressed people in a Mili tary  authorities identified him As an electronic Engineer who served in the . Air Force in Vietnam police said Delgado went from nil apartment build ing to Pezzelo. An expensive restaurant a few blocks away. A waiter there said he had dined at the restau rant for More than a year but for the first time thurs Day ordered a drink. Fint he ate then asked for the Bill the waiter told reporters. Then he asked for two drinks and after paying the Bill he stood up and began shooting in All  said Delgado continued firing for More than 30 minutes apparently reaching into a briefcase to reload his weapon from five boxes Orai Ruminson. Id All,22 people were killed in the restaurant including Delgado. It was not immediately known whether he turned the gun on himself or was killed by  scene inside the restaurant is Dante esque. This is terrible said Echeverri de Henao who exam ined the grisly crime scene and authorized the removal Folh corpses a woman named dementia said she and her Hus band saw Delgado hours before the shooting. Campo Elias told us about 7 to night that he loved us very much and that he would Toon be going on a trip she said. He would t Tell me where lie was going he Only said he d be going to the other  europeans plan and Campaign in . Dailies to lure tourists Brussels Belgium a the european Community commission said Friday it is launching a Mas Sive advertising Campaign in the United states to lure american tourists Back to Europe. The Etc said it plans to spend 100,000 european currency units 1105,000 on ads in major . Daily newspapers to convince americans there is no place like  the ads will be published in the sunday edition of the seven largest . Dailies. An Etc spokesman said fear of terrorism the de Dinc of the Dollar and radiation fallout from the soviet nuclear Power Plant at chernobyl caused an alarm ing decline in the number of american visitors to Europe last  Etc estimated the number of american tourists dropped this year by 30 percent in Britain and Spain 33 percent in France and Italy and 60 percent in  resulting loss of Revenue was estimated at $3  spokesman who asked not to be identified said the Etc bad hoped to launch the Campaign before the end of the we riot Seaton Bat bad to await a political signal from the mate capital. He said the Etc has no meant of measuring the Impact of the advertising Campaign. Missing swede testing sub detection r Stockholm Sweden a  a bid that reinstates nine military officer convicted a decade ago of attempted Rebero against Chr dictatorship of Gen. Francium Franco. The eight army officers and one air Force offi cer will be Able to return to the armed service Wilh the rank they would have reached had they not been expelled from the military. All but one of the parliamentary parties voted for the  nine were arrested in july 1975 and charged with belonging to the Clandestine demo cratic military Union which military prosecutors called a subversive organization. Santa Clous and Helper Rob Bank in German town Itze Hoe Germany up two men disguised As the German Santa Clous and hit Helper robbed a Bank in the Small Community of debit reihe and fled with 30,000 Marks about$15,000 in bundle wrapped Wilh red ribbons police said  said the heist took place thursday when a Man dressed like Nicolaus the German ver Sion of is. Nick brandished a Long barrelled re Volver and demanded Money from Baj employ the armed robber who wore a red Ano White coat and a mask Wilh a Long White Beard and Bushy false eyebrows stuffed the loot into a tide and retreated toward a door where Hii Helper Knecht Ruprecht Wai waiting for him. Ruprecht by tradition Meier out punishment to bad  said a search for the two Bank robbers who escaped in a car was unsuccessful. 33 charged with forming extremist group in Egypt Cairo Egypt a the country l to prosecutor Friday charged four military officers and 29 other men with forming an extremist moslem organization intent on starting a holy War to overthrow the government. A senior official at the Interior ministry which oversees Public Security said the de fenian la were arrested about four Monalu ago. The indictment issued by project of Gene Rel Mohammed Elguindi said the defendants Bol firearms explosives and ammunition Urooj the military with the intention of undermining Public Security and order and using them to achieve the group s  Larouche loyalist dropped As suspect in palme death Stockholm Sweden up police saw Friday a nun died in a news report u the Pratt ble link Between american right Wing  Larouche t political rep and the slay ing of prime minister oof palme we dropped04 a suspect non that to. Police Ipock wow Dlf Hamberg raft a to confirm or deny report by the Abc toe too network thursday that swedish police  the feb. 28 rib ii Nii of palme were Given notebooks seized in october from a Roune t headquarter in Lee Bun.  Hauberg said the former i Romciw spy Alist a dropped h Atu Spect in the  be was released by police apr lick of Dence March 20  
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