European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday january 15,1967 news updates Jal settlements Seattle up1 a total of $47 million has been paid id families of 97 victim in the worst sin Gle plane crash in aviation history a Japan air line disaster that killed 520 people in 1985, court records said. In addition to initial damage payment Al and the Seattle based airline manufacturer have proposed settlement total ing $126 million on behalf of relatives of the remaining victims. Bishop Speltz retires St. Cloud Minn. A Catholic Bishop George Speltz. Who gained nationwide attention when he forbade priests to marry couples living together and later fired a priest Tor openly criticizing Church teachings on homosexuality announced his retirement tues Day. Up clip Bishop of the St. Cloud diocese since 1968, will be 75 on May 29 and Vatican guidelines re quire Bishops to retire by the time they turn 7i. Speltz told a new Confidence that Colon cancer sur Gery he had last May was a Factor in announcing his retirement now. He said the retirement is effective immediately. Spell was one or five Bishops who worked on a pastoral letter that looked at moral issues sur rounding american economic pol-icies., the letter was adopted in november at the National Confer ence of Catholic Bishops meeting in Washington . Aquino orders local elections for August after 7-year hiatus Manila Philippines up presi Dent Corazon Aquino wednesday or dered the first local elections since 1980 to be held in August to remove a source of unrest generated by a purge of officials Loyal to deposed ruler Ferdinand mar cos. The third major electoral exercise this year intended to stabilize the 10-month old government was announced after a Cabinet meeting As opposition forces escalated their own efforts wednesday to bring Aquino Down. In the Southern Philippines mean White a moslem rebel faction angered by Aquino s peace talks with the larger pro National liberation front staged a series of bombing arson and grenade at tacks in four provinces killing a private Security guard and wounding 17 others. The armed forces chief ordered Mili tary reinforcements to the area and said he believed the attacks were staged by the rebels to gain Aquino s attention be fore she Campaign in the Region this weekend for approval of a draft Constitution in the feb. 2 plebiscite. For the first time ousted defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile leaders of Marcos political parly the dbl and eight other groups formed a coalition for democratic action to Challenge Aquino at the polls and attempt to vote Down in charter. The opposition leaders meeting at a posh sports club in the Makati financial District signed a manifesto denouncing the hypocrisy of Aquino s government and warned its negotiations with communist rebels threatened the survival of we must put a Slop to this whole charade of a truce Accord dbl acting president Nicanor Yniguez said in a speech to the delegates. We cannot accept peace to the Cost of our Freedom end our sacred Enrile flashing he thumb Down tin said then Wai a very Strong current of no vote in Tho land and mid Aquino would have no other recourse thin to step Down if the charter it rejected Prew Secretary Teodoro Benigno told reporters wednesday Aquino remained unruffled by Enrile s Challenge and a confident of the ratification of the Char Ter which sell her term at Lix Yean an creates a legislature to be elected on May 11. If the plebiscite gives the president resounding yes then it will prove or. Enrile wrong on Many counts Benigno said. Benigno said after the Cabinet meet ing that 17 of 21 ministers voted to hold the local elections on aug. 24, four ministers had preferred synchronizing them with the National polls. 2 men arrested in Dupont hotel fire temperatures 11 l h � 11 la Taota u Labbeke h my Vii i re san Juan puerto Rico not authorities tuesday seized women accused of setting the fatal fire at the Dupont Plaza hotel on new year s eve. Authorities identified the main suspect As Hector Escudero Aponto 35, a member of the hotel s maintenance staff and of the teamsters Union local that was involved in tense negotiations with the hotel at the time of the fire that killed 96 people. At a news conference tuesday Secre tary of Justice Hector Rivera Cruz said Aponte had been charged with murder anon and destruction by the unite states and in a Commonwealth indict ment with setting the fire in agreement with Cruz said the investigation will continue but declined to say How Many others would be implicated or whether any were Union Leaden. The second person taken into custody worked in the hotel Kitchen and also is member of the Union local. Officials said he was to be charged by the Federal government wednesday with conspiracy aiding and a Federal official said the second suspect provided mated Al to set the fire and blocked Aponto from View while it was set. The Federal official said there is no evidence Al this Point to indicate that any Union leaders had ordered or approved the arson. Union officials were not available for comment tuesday but have said they had no prior knowledge of or involvement in the arson. According to a criminal complain filed in Federal District court on tues Day Aponte said in a sworn statement that he set the fire just after a Union meeting in the hotel s mat meeting Union member decided to reject a management settlement proposal and strike Al Midnight. The complaint quotes Aponte at say ing he had intended to Start Only a Small fire hat would damage the personal property of the hotel. It says he con fessed to placing a lighted canister of Stemo Lype cooking fuel on or near attack of furniture stored along a Wall of the South ballroom. A at by Ograin a cup � h stun Tom Wei s8 n u nmmtmi4 � Pun 90 4 pm Wiit 41 Plum fun. " " 1.0T. Hir Opean weather kit tit Nat. Non tank b. Or hid mix. A Stemn what a sunni Miami my 10 Ink to m Rani m. Lau to n Tnp in a 37 arrested As protests against Trident continue Cape canaveral Fla a or oldsters continued Effort tuesday to disrupt the planned launch of a Trident ii missile and the number arrested for trespassing grew to 37, including four men who canned onto Federal property. Another 150 people were marching toward Cape canaveral and were slopped in scouts More tuesday night said Judy Freiwirth a spokeswoman for the National mobilization for survival a group involved in the anti nuclear weapons protest. The protesters have scheduled a rally saturday near the Cape canaveral air Force station and Kennedy space Center. Scattered groups of protesters have been arriving since last Friday to Harry Federal Security forces. Four were picked up at 4 . Tuesday in the banana River said master sgt. Mike Beeman an air Force spokesman. These Guys were caught in a Canoe. They were just paddling Federal officials arrested at least eight people tuesday and bad picked up three More monday night. Beeman said 12 people face Federal charges 21 were arrested under slate Law and the four canoeists could face a combination of charges. Many of those arrested would not give authorities their names and As a result were being held in the Brevard county jail with limited privileges. They re passive and relatively Friendly said Joan Heller a spokeswoman for the Brevard county sheriffs department. But she said they re being limited in jail because they Haven t Given their names. They can t have vision for the National aeronautics and space administration has not announced a Date fora planned test launch of the Trident missile. When armed the missile can carry at least 10 nuclear warheads. French Raj strike Nearh 11 n claim eel Bai Tiai e Offenbach Germany is warehouse personnel Are trying to locale service members and civil ians in Europe who have not claimed their unaccompanied baggage a v corps spokesman said. Baggage left unclaimed after 300 Days is subject to disposal hit said. 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