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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, March 8, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pans 28 the stars and stripes sunday. March 8. 1967 Phi Fagon picks comic to old laser facile a a award Eden of tense de-7 million con Ings and other a to develop a new _ in initiative organization sees the program As chosen to build while Sandsto be com Pentagon us part Elan tract for constr Bililies in new. Laser far the startle strategic Defi the Pentagon Oslica said Fluor con staffors i the facilities nerf Grogran work Wilma a performed missile ran. N.m., and is expected a september  last week the Pentagon am. Sele non of the site near Orogrande fro considered. All Are within the Bourn t White Sands missile Range. Couple guilty of Selling heroin to boy George London a p a London court on Friday convicted a Man and woman of conspiring to sell heroin to Rock Singer boy George and sentenced them to four years in prison jamaican bom Steven Lubner and his com Mon Law wife Diane Fiener were convicted after a three week trial at knights Ridge Crow court. Both had denied the charges. A third per son accused in the Case Anna Inmaung has pleaded guilty and is to be sentenced March 16. The Singer s brother Anthony Kevin Dowd is to be tried in the same court next month on two charges of supplying boy George whose real name is George o Dowd with heroin and cocaine last year. Tar Force says Amr a am pc fixed target drone was Becton a the Aii Force Fri Day Anno Tumida successful Tes ant advanced Morium rang Miclo air mits Uttamram the test was of ducted it the White Sands missile Range in be Muyco. An f-15 Jet fighter launched a  two target drones flying close target Lurthie Nerce  armm had to so Ucland attack one of the urge Brones otherwise Mould Fly 10some Poiani Eileen the targets a cml achieve Wair Force said. Fie is was the 23rd Success out of a acted in the missile s full scale a kill co Neil program. New Spanish envoy to Washington approved Madrid Spain a the government Friday approved the appointment Soulian san Tamaria As ambassador to the United , 45, former director of the state Center for sociological research replaces Gabriel Marucco a career Diplomat retiring alter four Yean in  professor of political science and sociology Al Madrid University Santamaria is a lawyer and an a pen on electoral polling. He is taking his new Post in the midst of difficult negotiations in which Spain seeks a substantial reduction in the number of americans stationed in Spain under a 1953 military cooperation treaty. The treaty was renewed in1983 and is to expire in May 1988. 1 woman missing 5 Hurt when 2 buildings collapse Greensburg. Ind. A two Century old buildings on the Lawn Square including an elks club collapsed Friday evening and authorities said Al least five people were injured and one woman was  workers brought in dogs to search for a woman who was missing and believed trapped in the rubble after the collapse said Decatur county sheriffs dispatcher Mary  voice Contact had been made with the woman said Charles Ford director of the county s emergency medical services. Initial reports thai there had been an explosion apparently were incorrect police and fire fighters said. There were no reports of a fire. For will go to Moscow is talks read Wash Noton a the Taij Talion Friday raised new Hopes for a superpower Phil so presi Dent Reagan announced thai Secretary t _ Shultz will go to Moscow next month for soviet arms offer. Related Story Page 8, Shultz now wrapping up a trip to the far 1visit Moscow april 13-16 and Confer with a Fly eign minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Their talk will provide a Good Qiju Prunity to re View the entirely of our  Region Al conflicts human rights Anub lateral issues and to consolidate the Progress water be made in arms talks Reagan said in a Staleup thread by his National Security adviser Frank Coleci. The presiden kid he hoped the talks would pro Duce further commendations on Steps to move for Ward in Aux aspects of our relations including the Geneva so Zerland negotiations.". I about prospects for a Summit Between Rea and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Carlucci said Thal i Simone of the topics of the Shultz she Varden there s Progress in the arms talks and As i vindicated developments look promising that would certainly be a possibility he said. I announcement of the Shultz trip followed a Reagan and his arms negotiating team. The  Max a Kam Pelrah Maynard. Tiilman Myton Lehman flew Back to Washington from  after briefing the 16nato ambassadors Al Al Govico proposal at a meet ing thursday. The soviets have offered total treaty to scrap medium Range nuclear missiles in Lent part from any agreement on Long Range nuclear min a fed Rea Gan s t Star wars missile defense plan the superpower arms talks officially recessed 1after what the United states called a productive t tenth round. . Military officers helped Confra Washington a itt former us. Mili tary officers helped the  buy More than $18 million in military cquip3htdunng the period when direct . Arms Aid was i rebel Leader has claimed. At a news conference thursday Contra 1fo Calero said about $9 million in  chased with the help of retired adj Pfabe Mai.  Secord a close Assoc Ajka former National Security Council staff Raj Ijar it. Col. Oliver . Calero said Mph Pirn a million in weaponry watch annexed Lou feb Antras by John k. Singlaub. A for Mer army apr general and head of the world anti . Singlaub also raised humanitarian Aid Fojtl Lecouras the  was identified As col. James said by Calero to have funnelled less million in equipment to the contras Calero Leader of the nicaraguan democratic Force the largest of the rebel groups fighting Nicaragua s left jul government said the weapons were purchased  contributed anonymously Between july 19btmd March 1985, a period encompassing a Banon All Usu Dlo the contras. The $14 my Fijn donations not spent on military hardware was use juy food clothing and other supplies Calero said. And twine of the us. Aid cutoff in 1984, Calero said the rec Putin desperate shape and would not have survived Wra uhe contributions. Ferry from Page 1 minister Wilfric Martens who went to the scene along with King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. The ferry s destination was Dover 85 mites away. About 20 divers worked through the night wit search lights blazing through the inky water looking for survivors. The snip was lying on a Sandy bed in the Strait of Dover a half mile outside this North sea Harbor. Its propeller was sticking up with about one fourth of it above water. Helicopters hovering overhead dropped Rescue workers to grab survivors Many of them wearing Orange life vests and haul them to the docks swarming with people looking for moved ones and trying to help. Divers told us they have seen. A great number of victims inside the ship said Olivier Vanneste Gover nor of West Flanders province. I thought we were going to die said Cliffor Byrne 22, from London who said he was freed after about half an hour inside the overturned vessel water started gushing in and we were climbing up the tables i fell in the water when i reached to save a baby he said. We were trapped in darkness for the whole Lime and then we heard a helicopter coming near and later rescuers smashed the windows and got us  Raymond Hosseni a spokesman for Townsend Tho Resen said divers were still finding survivors in air pockets inside the ship More than six hours after the Accident. He said the ship s Captain was in Shock and unable to talk about what happened. There were conflicting reports on just How the Acci Dent occurred. It happened at 7 50 . Just alter the ferry loaded with people and vehicles pulled out of the Harbor for what would be a 4 a hour trip. Seas were Calm near the Harbor. Belgian television quoting the Zeebrugge port authority said the cargo doors had not closed property letting water into the hold containing cars and trucks. A Dover coast guard spokesman said the ferry hit the Harbor s East pier while the anime Rescue Cor donation Center at Plymouth England said it struck the Harbor Wall. Ovi Aglon of Townsend Thoresen said. We have been told the ship did not actually hit  an other company spokesman said the Bow door burst open and water cascaded into the car deck where 36 trucks and 84 cars were parked. The ferry has three passenger decks. There had been conflicting reports on the number of people aboard As Well As the cause of the Accident. Many of the survivors had made Illo the top of the Hull after the ship capsized. Belgian maritime radio had reported the ferry car ried il8 people. A British coast guard official in Dover bad said it had 650 aboard. Divers were rushed to Zeebrugge by helicopter handsome 30 fishing vessels moved in joined by larger ves Sels. They crisscrossed the Calm but icy Waters searching with floodlights in the dark of the night. Onlookers gathered under a half Moon sky on a pie extending some 500 Yards into the sea watching As ships and helicopters with floodlights searched for survivors and ambulances rushed the injured to three different hospitals near Zeebrugge. Seas were running at two or three feel and wind were 12 to 18 Mph just after the Accident the London weather Center reported. Waier temperatures were 3910 41 degrees fahrenheit. The ferry was built in 1980 in Bremerhaven Ger Many. It is registered in Dover and runs regularly be tween Zeebrugge and Dover. It was the seventh Accident in the Oast five year involving ferries in thai Section of the English Channel and North sea. The worst passenger vessel disaster since world war11 was the sinking of the japanese ferry Toya Maru in Tsu Garu Strait Japan on sept. Id 1954, when 1,172people died on Jan. 27, 1981, the indonesian passenger ship tampons ii burned and Sank in the Java sea with the loss of 580 lives. Three postwar disasters at sea claimed More than 300 lives and four led More than 200 dead  
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