European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stabs and stripes wednesday. April 22. 19b7100 attack pursuers of drug suspects fre6fokt. Fla Harris Iii la a hostile crowd of More than 100 people monday night attacked a Gimp or a aha Mian and american drus enforcement police in Pursuit of i Mccu a drug smugglers who crash landed a plane an the Beach. The police were surrounded by inc crowd who proc Clad the smugglers and fired shots into a customs helicopter thai evacuated inc beleaguered enforcers no one was injured in the plane said Roger Garland a spokesman for the . Cus Long air support Branch at Homestead a feb in Miami. One Bullet shattered the Windshield. Ifil had penetrated it would have hit the Pilot right in the head he said. Another came through the Side window on the co Pilot s Side and the men in the Heli copter Slid they heard at least five rounds being fired Al the helicopter the incident to can about 7 p.m., when a suspected drug plane was picked up on Cust cims radar. A customs twin Jet plane was dispatched to tallow inc suspected ,11 i per plane. The Piper aircraft was seen making an air drop to Luu cigarette boats about 40 Miles South of Bimini Garland said. A customs Cessna and a Lack tawk helicopter followed the suspect aircraft and a coast guard helicopter was div patched to the drop area. The coast guard vessel recovered one Bale of Mari Juana he said. They chased him for a couple of hours. He was doing a lot of yanking and banking and All of a sudden it crash landed on the Beach in the Southern part Garland said. The i lir a plur landed on the Beach Anil discharged two bahamian in Rill Fri acc policemen two customs officers Anil to again from inc . Drug of n fair cent administration then flew not. Almost immediately a crowd of 100 plus people partying on the Beach or something started accosting our people on the ground pelting them with rocks mid bottles Garland said. The crowd surrounded them and started bad mouthing them from close quarters less than an Arm s length the officers on the ground called the her Copler la pick them up and. When it arrived shot were fired from the crowd. Garland said the officers were plucked to safety As the islanders rushed toward the helicopter. The agents fired several rounds Over the Heads of the attacker but it could not be immediately determined whether any of them were hit. Garland said one of thu boats involved in the marijuana air drop was stopped just after Midnight. Two people were arrested on Board the vessel which was equipped with night vision goggle and an m-16 machine gun. The helicopter valued at about to million was flown to of recoil International Airport where the damage was to be checked. The bulletproof Windshield valued at More than �20,000, was destroyed. Garland said. The Black Hawk helicopter was plainly marked As a police vehicle in while letters on both sides. Under bahamian Law firing on police is a capital offence said Cliff Stallings of the us. Customs office in Miami. Stony stare of an ancient ruler a Khuol statue of pharaoh Ramses it dominates the to during preparations for a Sperino 10-Perfornutnce production of the opera Aida next month in Luxor a Fiyol. Egyptian officials arc overseeing the preparations la ensure thai the 3,4qq-year-od Temple of Luxor is not damaged. Gandhi promises to get Tough in arms Deal corruption inquiry new Delhi India a prime minister Rajiv Gandhi his government beleaguered by corruption charges has declared that anyone proved to have taken bribes in a swedish arms Deal will be severely punished. No one will be spared no matter How highly placed he or she May he old parliament on monday during debate on the latest charges to Rock his 27 month old administration. Police said meanwhile that a Navy officer who at the Center of another Kickback scandal involving a West go min made submarine was found dead in Bombay of a single gunshot wound. A police official who spoke on condition of Anonym Ity said cmdr. Navern Chopra apparently committed suicide monday. It could not be determined immediately if his death was linked to the government s investigation of allegations that an overseas Indian agent received a $23 million Kickback on India s 198 Purchase of four of the West German submarines for $334 million. Parliament on monday debuted a swedish radio report that Indian politicians including members of Gandhi s governing Congress party received is Mil lion in bribes in connection with India s Purchase in March 1986 of si.7 billion Worth of swedish guns and ammunition. But defense minister k. Punt told lawmakers the government would not order a parliamentary investigation into the allegations. Some opposition lawmakers walked out in protest the government has said an internal inquiry or dered by former defense minister v.i1. Sinkfi. Would be sufficient and would be conducted without Bias or favouritism. The prime minister challenged the apposition to come up with specific facts complaining his govern ment faced Only Blanket remarks that it was corrupt. You Don t have to give proof. But if you can give some evidence and some direction then we can act Gandhi said. World to Clay 2 australians spend hours in shark infested Waters Brisbane Australia a two australian men survived for is hours in shark infested Waters off Bris Bane before reaching safety on an Island Carlos Rodriguez 58, and a companion were left in the water in Moreton Bay clinging to a fuel tank when their in fool Cruiser Sank sunday night. They were rescued monday. We were fishing off the Northern lip of Marc ton Island when the boat started to take water at the Stem we had no Lime to Send out a distress Call but 1 Man aged to grab a fuel tank that was Marling to float and hat kept me alive Rodriguez told reporters. His companion 59, whose name was not made pub Lic was hospitalized because of hypothermia. Police said the two own stayed afloat for 15 hours until reaching Moreton Island where they were found by a television helicopter that had been searching for them. Philippine officials sell former Marcos mansion Manila Philippines up the philippine gov Crement has sold for ii million a new Jersey mansion seized front former president Ferdinand Marcos the state run philippine news Agency reported tuesday pan reported the mansion in Lawrence township in new Jersey was sold to an unidentified american buyer for is million. It did not say when the Sale occurred pan reported Marcos bought the 13-Ftcre estate Early in the 1980s to be the Home of his daughter Imee while she studied at nearby Princeton University. Hess lawyer still hopeful sex nazi will be released Bonn up the lawyer for Rudolf Hess the last surviving nazi Leader said tuesday he Stilt Hopes Hess will be pardoned despite a soviet newspaper commentary opposing Bis release from four Power Spandau War crimes prison. I still have attorney Alfred Scidel said. There always is Scidel reached by Telephone Al his Munich office said he had read newspaper stories on a commentary in Izvestia the official newspaper of the soviet government. Izvestia monday denounced As a provocation a Ger Man newsmagazine prediction that soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev was considering agreeing to proposals by the Western allies to release the old sick former Deputy of Adolf Hitler from the West Berlin prison. Values of Nobel prizes being increased by 8% Stockholm Sweden a the Nobel foundation is raising inc amount of its annual prizes by � percent this tear. Sweden s National Lew s Agency to said. The prizes for Mcc Medicine chemistry i physics and literature will be increased to s345,000. The prizes arc paid for with interest from an endow ment left by dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel who died in 896. The swedish National Bank said it was Matching the award Money for the sixth Nobel prize in economics which it established in 196s, said the news Agency Mon Day. Tin prizes Are announced each fall and awarded dec 10 in ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo. Norway
