European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday March 24,1987 4 scottish Oil refinery ablaze smoke Billon from a Ore it the giant British Petro Leum Oil refinery Al Granget count in Central Scotland on sunday. An explosion killed one Man and started the Blue it the 700-Aere refinery. Ecuador to discuss emergency Aid for quake area Quito Ecuador a vice president George Bush visited this earthquake ravaged country sunday to discuss emergency . Aid with president Leonic bras Cordero. His visit was Tor Only vhf hours and was accompanied by Light Security following violent student demonstrations last week against austerity measures the government imposed to confront the crisis. A Large communist led labor federation has called a general strike Tor wednesday. The measures included hikes in the Price of fuel an Public transportation. An army helicopter crisscrossed the Airstrip at an Altitude of 300 feet and soldiers wit machine guns surveyed the Tarmac from the terminal roof As Bush spoke briefly Al an arrival Hope this trip highlights the need for supplies to alleviate the suffering he government says a series of quakes March 5-6 left 1,000 people dead or missing. Most of the damage was on the Jungle covered Eastern slopes of the Andes mountains where the quakes spawned mudslides an Flash floods that destroyed entire villages leaving tens of thousands quakes ruptured the country s 323-mile-Long transnational Oil pipeline halting production and Export. In recent years Oil has provided More than 60 per cent of Ecuador s hard currency earnings. Febres Cor Dero suspended payments Tor at least he rest of the year on Ecuador $8.2 billion foreign debt Bush commended the Effort of Amer cares Connecticut based International Relief organization and reviewed a plan Load of Aid it had provided. The supplies included 30 tons of Medicine blankets lanterns stoves and other materials. . Aid officials accompanied Bush and met with ecuadorean authorities to coordinate assistance to the Small andean nation. I am pleased in announce today thai the people of the United slats will be building Bridges to reopen the roads to the suffering people of Apo province where70,000 people Are now isolated Bush said at the air port. Napo province was the hardest hit most of he peo ple isolated there Are peasants who reclaimed tracts of Jungle after foreign Oil companies built a Road into the Eastern Region in the Early 1970s to develop deposits. Bush said he had flown Over the devastated Are before Landing in Quito which is 9,300 feet High in the Andes. Leading member of sex Junta hangs himself in Athens prison Athens Greece
