European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes monday May 11,1987 plane s recorder found Warsaw Poland of authorities searching the twisted wreckage of a polish jetliner on sunday found the flight recorder Box that May reveal Why the plane went Down killing All i s3 people on Board officials reported. Police sealed off the perimeter of the crash site on the outskirts of Warsaw while representatives of a Spe Cial government commission and forensic Crews picked through the debris. The new York bound lot polish airlines charter flight crashed in a wooded area three Miles Short of the runway at Owecie International Airport saturday. The Pilot was attempting to make an emergency Landing after reporting engine trouble. Stefan Piniak a spokesman for the transport ministry said the so called Black Box which contains vital flight information had been found in the wreckage and was being Analysed the commission in studying Reading and analysing recordings of conversations Between the plan and the air traffic control Tower the recordings of the Black Box and pieces of the plane at the site of the crash Pozniak said in a Telephone interview. A statement issued by the civil aviation Board Sun Day said it was too Early to stale the reasons for the crash the world s worst air disaster this year. Pozniak said the special commission would Issue its first statement after a midday meeting on monday. But slate radio and eyewitnesses said at least one of the plane s engines had caught fire prompting the Pilot to Alert the Warsaw control Tower about 25 minutes into the flight that he was heading Back to the City. The Pilot capt. Zygmunt Pawlaczyk also radioed that his Altitude control mechanisms were failing according to one Semi official source who demanded anonymity. The official Pap news Agency said aviation Board authorities had listened to recordings of Pawlaczyk communications with the control Tower and Accord ing to one televised report his last words were this is the end. We Are saying Farewell.  in his final act the Captain diverted the soviet built Ilyushin 62-m jetliner from a residential area and to Ward the Kabatyr Woods where it plunged to the ground and exploded in a Ball of fire breaking into hundreds of pieces the Palish to report said. The charter flight carried Crew members and 172 passengers the majority of them poles and polish americans heading to the United slates to visit family end friends. Polish authorities reported 17 holders of . Pass ports aboard the plane but officials at the . Embassy said they had confirmed that at least five other passengers held polish consular passports and had dual polish american citizenship. Embassy officials sifted through records sunday to determine How Many other passengers also were Citi Zens of both countries. Battered Ira strikes Back Belfast. Northern Ireland a the Irish re publican army battered by the slaying of eight gun men in a Security Force ambush sunday claimed responsibility for bombing a judge s Home in a twist return to the attack. In London newspapers Taid the Friday night am Bush. The bloodiest blow to the outlawed Ira in 18. Tests from Pago 1 capability to intercept missiles and Dummy warheads during the main stages of flight the firing of a target missile with Dummy warheads by a submarine to lest space based sensors and interceptor rockets testing of a space based chemical laser in 1990 and firing of a rocket from Vanderberg fab calif., to test whether space based and other sensors could distinguish in Iron decoys. The traditional interpretation of the abm treaty followed for is years by four administrations is that the pact bans testing and development of space based defences against nuclear missiles and limits land based Lys Tema. The Broad Reading called the legally Correct interpretation by the Reagan administration is that space based defences such As Star wan can be developed and tested if they Are based on technology that was no understood in 1972. The Star wars program is being developed i compliance with the narrow treaty interpretation. Re search is focusing primarily on Basic technology and the subsystems that would compose a completed wrap years of conflict was mounted by Britain s crack Spe Cial air services unit acting on information from an  reports said the informer who had penetrated deep into the Ira had lain Low for months but was reactivated after the Ira assassination april 25 of Northern Ireland s second ranking judge sir Maurice Gibson and his wife Cecily. In Belfast police said rioting which erupted sat urday night continued until the Early hours sunday inthe roman Catholic ghettos of the City. Riots also were reported in Londonderry and three other centers. Police said Chr people including a 14-year-old girl hit by a police officer s plastic Bullet were injured in Belfast in the saturday night attack on the Home of judge John Curran gunmen fired shots and hurled a bomb from a car breaking windows in the House where ayoung people s party was taking place police said. No one was injured. The Ira in a telex to Belfast Media sunday said its guerrillas were attacking Curran who was also in the House. For the second Day police held four people who were arrested after a huge arms Cache was seized sat urday in the Catholic West Section of the City. London sunday newspapers said police had known weeks in Advance of the Ira s plan to attack the police station in Loughgall a Village 30 Miles West of Belfast where the eight guerrillas and a civilian were killed Friday night. The sunday Telegraph quoting unidentified Intelli gence sources said that the Security services decided after the murder of Gibson that the time had come to reactivate a mole who had penetrated the  the newspaper said the informer who was close to Ira leaders had Betto lying Low for months As the provisional Ira conducted a purge of suspected  officials re enact ferry trip to find tragedy s cause Zeebrugge Belgium a the last Voy age of a British passenger ferry that capsized of this North sea port March 6, killing at least 136 people was re enacted sunday to shed More Light on the cause of the Accident officials said. A sister ship or the Herald of free Enterprise left port sunday at 4 . And simulated a series of Maneu vers that preceded the Herald s sudden slide onto its Side 1,000 Yards outside the bar Bor naval base spokesman Jean Thielens said. Experts and technicians closely examined the ship s behaviour during the Testa. Video equip ment was used to record the actions of the ves Sel. Helicopters with belgian and British judicial authorities circled overhead to follow the opera Lions Thielens said. The results of the teat will be used in British and belgian investigations of the disaster. Fire continues to spread in northeastern China Beuing up thousands of troops brought a raging Forest ire under partial control sunday. It has killed about 114 people and threatens to sweep into a City in Northeast China officials said the death loll was Likely to Rise. The inferno fuelled by High winds and spread ing to dry Mountain grasslands has gutted a town of 20.000 people and forced at least 30,000 More to flee their Homes officials said. More than 10,000 troops who have been battling the flames for live Days have partially brought the Blaze under control said a news broadcast on National radio. The Blaze erupted wednesday in the Forest covered Dax Ingan mountains in Heilongjiang province about 800 Miles Northeast of Beijing near the soviet Border. Winter and Spring Are normally times of now rainfall in Northeast China. Iran condemns . Cah to end persian Gulf War Nicosia Cyprus a the iranian for eign ministry sunday warned the United slates would suffer irreparable defeats if it made an hostile moves against Iran Tehran s official news Agency report isl. The islamic Republic news Agency assailed . Secretary of slate George p. Shutlz s warn ing to Iran that it should accept United Nathans Calls for an end to the War with Iraq or face punitive measures. Schuliz after a meeting in Washington Las thursday with a delegation from the 21-member Arab league warned Iran to accept in. Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire and a troop withdrawal or face appropriate enforce ment  Washington has been making a concerted Effort to persuade the Arab world that Covert . Arms sates to Iran were a shift in . Policy that has been reversed. Generals from Page 1 intervention in a crisis which were formed by the present chief of staff. Gen. John a. Wickhamjr. Most think Vuono will keep the divisions but they ask in what number and with what missions. Whatever the Case same Middle rank ing officers wonder whether fresh ideas from the new generals will make much difference since the Reagan administration is in its last 18 months and is not considered Likely to be interested in army initiatives. Gen. Vuono won t really be chief of staff said one officer until Jan. 20, 1989." the majors and colonels already disgruntled about what they consider to be the failure of present leaders to carve out a fair share of the budget for the army doubt the new general can do better. Some contend that Congress is not inter ested in ground forces noting the absence of subcommittees in the Senate and House armed services committees devoted to land Power. Jus look at what John Lehman did for the Navy said one army officer referring to the former Secretary of the Navy who obtained funds for a 600-ship Fleet. Others remarked about the funds allocated to the air Force for nuclear weapons. Army majors and colonels also worry about Bow the new generals will fare in the pent Tion when the joint chiefs of staff argue Over millions and Money. They fear their generals will be out gunned by Navy admirals and air Force generals Wiser in the ways of washing ton. Lastly there is an unsettling Ripple effect with promotions and transfers at the four Star level Many new lieutenant generals will be named meaning Man people in the army will have to adjust to a new Boss. These changes Are coming about be cause of several retirements and the death of one officer. At the top Wick Ham must leave after the four years the Law limits him As chief of staff. Gen. Bernard w. Rogers supreme Al lied commander in Europe is retiring this summer after a Long career. He has clashed with the Reagan administration Over proposals for an arms agreement with the soviet Union that would have medium Range missiles withdrawn from Europe. And he has questioned priorities in military spending favouring conventional weapons Over nuclear missiles. Gen. William r. Richardson retired last year As head of the training and doctrine Corad for health reasons. Gen. Richard h. Thompson who was head of the army Materiel come retired in april and Gen. William j. Livsey com Mander of american forces in South Korea plans to retire in june both for personal reasons. Last october Gen. Fred a Mahaffey widely considered la be a rising Siar in the army died of cancer. The Only generals staying in place Are Gen. Jack n. Merrill who has been a general for 18 months and is the . Representative on the senior military committee in nato and Gen. Glenn 1c. Otis Usa eur commander who has been a general for six years. Otis is believed to be planning to retire next year