European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 it is  the stars and stripes monday january 19,1987 orbiting soviet station linked with cargo Craft Moscow a the Progress-27 cargo spacecraft docked with he orbiting space station Mir on sunday to bring fuel and supplies for the next manned Mission the Tass news Agency re ported. A Tass dispatch announcing the launch front the Bai Konur cosm drome in Central Asia said Friday a manned minion to the Mir station was planned soon but gave no dates for the space shot Tass said the automated Docking and fueling were completed and that the inboard systems of both Progrcss-27 and Mir were functioning nor Mally. Space station Mir which Means peace in russian was put into orbit in february an hosted its first manned minion last Spring. The Mir is said to be the basis for a future permanently manned space station. It has six Docking ports for visiting spacecraft and Compo nent laboratories and living spaces that could be flown up later. Bodies of 68 victims of ship sinking found Cebu City Philippines a searchers Hare recovered the bodies of 68 people who were aboard a cargo vessel that Sank m heavy seas off Cebu City last week while taking Passen Gers to a religious festival Here the coast guard announced sunday. La. Edguardo singing said 17 of the bodies were recovered sunday and the rest on sat urday. He said 159 people had been rescued by search teams and a passing cargo ship that was in the area when the Noc Nocan Princess Sank Friday. The dead included White families official said. Singing Jaid the vessel was not authorized to carry passengers and Apperea twas overloaded when it listed and Sank. But officials could not determine How Many people still were missing because the skipper who was reported among the dead prepared no Manifest. China s Premier named acting Leader of party peking a Premier Zhao Ziyang was appointed acting party general Secretary Sun Day but it remained unclear How Power in China s highest circles would be shared Fol lowing the ouster of communist party chief he Yanbang. Kun 7resigned Friday in disgrace after reportedly being blamed by senior Leader Deng Xiaoping for botching the handling of student demonstrations. The party politburo appointed Zhao 67, to fill the vacancy but chinese officials have Given no indication of whether Zhao would continue to hold both inc government and party posts. The official press sunday gave prominent play to comments by vice Premier i Peng 58, a soviet trained electrical Engineer who has been pegged As a leading candidate should Zhao give up the premiership and keep the More important party Post. European warming trend continues after cold snap London up icebreakers worked sunday to Clear inc first major Jam on West Germany s Weser River in 41 years As the death loll from Europe s freeze reared 350, including the death of a teen Ager who was crushed by a 1-ton ice slab. Normal Winter weather resumed to much of Europe following a two week spell of snowstorms bitter winds and record Low temperatures reaching from Siberia to Ireland that killed at least 343  northeastern Italy Trieste was hit sunday by Hurricane Force winds from the cast Northeast known As the  ousting Al 75 Mph he winds knocked Down Trees Power and Telephone lines and slabs of ice from rooftops. No deaths or injuries were immediately reported and the extent of damage was not known. The City paralysed by ice last week was a relatively Balmy 41 f on sunday. Seven new fatalities were reported in France where More than 60 people have Frozen or died in weather related accidents in seven Days. In Germany a 15-year-old Auto Mechanic walking in the bavarian Alps was crashed to death when a 1 ton 3-foot-thick and 14-foot-Long ice Stab fell on him. An ice Jam on the Elbe River above Hamburg was blasted Loose with dynamite last week but another Jam on the Weser River at Bremen threatened to cause a flood. Icebreakers Are working to dislodge i officials said the ice 1,5 Miles Long and 3 feet thick was too Toft to be blown free by explosives. Ii it the first ice Jam to close the River since 1946, when the allies refused to allow explosives to be used to break the Jam and the ice destroyed a Bridge icebreakers were also out in the North sea and bal tic sea As commercial fishing was virtually brought to Ahalt by coastal pack ice. Off the coast of Spain 18 sailors were missing aftera maltese registered cargo ship tank saturday in Stor my seas 65 Miles South of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast. Two other crewmen were rescued. Hotel fire figure apparent suicide san Juan puerto Rico up a Dupont Plaza hotel bartender ordered to appear for questioning about the new year s eve fire hat killed 96 people Bas committed suicide a newspaper reported sunday police confirmed that Julio verges Gaetan 43, fell to his deals saturday from the ninth Root of a building in san Juan. A newspaper Elmundo said that verges a bar Lender at the hotel had been issued a summons to meet on tuesday with investigators from puerto Rico s Bureau of special investigations two other hotel employees were charged last week wit murder conspiracy arson and malicious destruction of property for allegedly setting the new year s eve fire. The two. Hector Escudero Aponte a hotel maintenance worker and Armando Jimenez Rivera also were charged by a Federal grand jury with anon that affected interstate Commerce and caused deaths. They pleaded not guilty Friday to the Federal charges but have not Yel pleaded in local courts the Blaze which killed 96 people and injured 120,erupted minutes after a teamsters Union meeting at which members confirmed a vote to strike at Midnight. Investigators have said at least two and at Many As four More arrests were expected in the fire. Elmundo quoted Juanita Martinez the bartender s widow As saying that on Friday two agents from the special investigations Bureau a division of the Island Justice department visited verges and issued him a written order to appear for questioning on tuesday. They brought him ibis. Paper that s when he lost control the newspaper quoted Martinez a saying. German from Page 1 Meni spokesman Patrick Kortyn. The United Statta has requested the provisional arrest of Ramadei under terms of he extradition treaty and i preparing a formal request forc tradition kor Len said. The request which was being prepared and translate sunday in Washington will be presented to the German government within the next week Koncen said Ramadei 22, was one of four lebanese shiite mos lems charged by the United states in october 1985 with air piracy murder and other criminal offences inthe hijacking during which Navy diver Robert Ste them was  was named in a criminal indictment unsealed late thursday by a Federal judge in  was brutally beaten and killed near the Start of the 17-Day siege of Twa flight 847. . Official believe Ramadei was one of the two armed gunmen who boarded the flight and held up to 39 americans hostage for up to 17 Days. Hosts from Page 1 lege to make up the invitations. Jozwiak supplied the House in nearby jul Buettel they borrowed an extra Coffee service and they relied on advice but Only advice from he battalion commander s wife Debo Rah Pulley. Both of us really shied away from Hel but it was Tough because not Only our own company wives but wives across the battalion wanted to  noway. Jozwiak and Mueller tapped their fellow officers for duly in the Bow tie brigade including Al least one ringer. Before i got into the army i was a waiter forbears said 1st it. Chuck Gabrelson co a executive officer. So this in t new stuff for me. Linda Hillman wife of the departing battalion executive officer said the male hosted Coffee was unusual but not surprising. Nothing that one four one 1st to 41st regt does surprises me As a group of officers Jozwiak said we Uke to do things out of the  Contra from Page 1 often Cut through salvadoran red ape o obtain fuel and spare parts for the Supply operation s air planes. The secret Contra Supply ended last oct. 5, when an arms Laden cargo plane crashed in Southern Nicaragua and american Crew member Eugene Hasen fus was captured. Hasenfus was convicted by a nicaraguan people s Tribu Nal of treason and was sentenced to 30 years in prison but the nicaraguan gov. Eminent freed him late in december. At he Lime. President Reagan declared there was no government connection with that at  however the Iran arms Contra Aid scandal later revealed that Marine it col. Oliver North a staff member of the National Security Council was linked to the private Supply network. On nov. 25, attorney Genera Edwin Meese revealed that profits from . Arms sales to Iran had been diverted to the contras through Swiss Bank accounts set up by North North was fired from Bis Csc Job that Day. Nine of 23 Crew men contacted agreed to talk with Knight Ridder in separate interviews on the condition they not be named. Steele was questioned in a closed de Cember session by the Senate intelligence committee. Sen. Dave Durenberger r minn., the committee s former chair Man told Foight Ridder obviously sleek did some facilitating in Al Salva  but Durenberger said he was unaware of Stetce s full involvement. In another development sen David Boren d-okla., the new head of the sen ale intelligence committee said sat urday president Reagan must take responsibility for the Iran arms scandal but does not have to apologize. I Don t think it s necessary for him to make a Public apology. I think that he has to assume responsibility for the fact thai it has certainly weakened our Posi Tion against terrorism Boren said on can s Evans &  think the president has made a Ter Noble mistake. This policy has obviously damaged the United states has damaged our  several Republican legislators Bave ailed on the president to Apo Logue or arose fully explain his role in the affair. A White House spokesman said thursday the president feels he has done nothing for which he feels he must  Reagan says he approved secret . Arms sales to Iran but says be knew Noth ing of the reported diversion of profits to nicaraguan rebels