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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and St Lopes saturday june 27,1987 philippine plane crashes killing All 50 on Board world today Manila philippine a a philippine air tonci Turbo prop with 50 people aboard crashed Friday into a Mountain in Northern Luzon officials said. A logging company official in the area said there were no sum von. Airline spokesman Reuben Navarro said the twin engine aircraft was on a one hour Light from Manila to Baguio City a resort some 130 Miles to the North when it slammed into a Mountainside in bin Gull prov Ince around 11 . Local time. Antonio babies director of the Rescue coordination Center Aid a scarch and rtt Eue plane first sighted the wreckage about 4 . And reported signs of survivors. He said the Center was awaiting Confirma Tion from ground search Crews. But Richard Aspillaga engineering services manager for Bengue management corp. Said by Telephone from Baguio City that Lumberjack reached the Lite and found Only one survivor who later died Aspillaga Laid the Lumberjacks reported by radio thai the fuselage was intact but had been burned he Laid he ordered the Lumberjacks to seem the area pending arrival of other Rescue teams. Aspillaga said the crash site Wai a four hours hike from his company s Sawmill some 37 Miles by Road from a Lap of luxury cd wirhol a mox Dot entered in the world dub Shew being hosted in Tel Aviv Israel this year to Teui none too pleased with the special treat ment he s receiving by being wheeled to the com petition in a Sho Plaj cart. Guio City. Leslie Espino. Senior airline vice president told re porters that Pilot Cape. Rosauro Bustamante radioed the Baguio City control lower shortly before the crash that visibility was poor Doc to bad weather. Espino said most of those aboard appeared to have been filipinos. Mary Carlin spokeswoman for the . Embassy said at least one american was among the passengers and there could be up to nine others. The passenger list also con mined 6 to 9 names which appeared lobe japanese. The 46 passengers included one infant whose name was not on the Manifest officials said. Three is. Air Force Hh-3 helicopters were sen from Clark a located 50 Miles North of Manila to assist in Rescue operations. Aerial Rescue operations were suspended Laic Friday because of darkness and bad weather. It was the tint crash of a scheduled commercial Airliner in the Philippines since september 1969, when a philippine airlines Bac slammed into a wooded area of Rizal province killing 45 of the 47 people aboard. Sources report no Progress in .-Spain talks Madrid. Spain a Spanish and . Officials appeared to have made no Progress Friday at the endow the sixth round of talks on re dual on of . Troops in Spain diplomatic sources said. Unidentified Spanish foreign ministry sources died by the National news Agency efe said neither Spanish nor american officials presented new proposals to get Over an impasse in negotiations that began last july 10, Spain demands the United states withdraw the . Air Force s 401st tac Wing off-16 Jet fighters the Only combat unit of its kind along nato s Southwest Ern european flank As Well As at least five refuelling Linker jets. The United Stales maintains the Wing and about 12,300 troops at four joint run bases and several communications stations under a bilateral treaty first signed in 1953 Between Gen. Francisco Franco and then president Eisenhower. After Friday s session . Ambassador and chief negotiator Reginald Bartholomew declined to com ment directly on the status of the talks. All i can say is we Are working As friends and allies to reach an Accord to better bilateral relations and maintain the Security of the Western Alliance Bartholomew told reporters waiting outside the Spanish for eign ministry. Neither the foreign ministry nor the . Embassy issued notes on the Content of the three negotiation sessions held since thursday. Jumper snaps Back from death Paris a a 29-year-old new Sealander bounced Back thursday from a headfirst leap off the Eiffel Tower with an elastic Cord tied around in feet. Bungy is another word for Clastic Cord. Hack Cal a member of the new zealand National Speed skiing team startled tourists in the area Ai 7 . With his leap through the open Center of the Tower s second level 360 feet off the ground. Under Gray skies Hackett plunged from the Tower the elastic Cord unfurling behind him footage of the stunt taken by the Paris Polo Agency Sigma showed. The Cord slopped him about 10 feel above the ground and be bounced up again beyond the first level about 200 feet from the ground. After several More bounces he came to rest. The three level Tower is 1,052 feel tall including a television antennae added in 1956. Eiffel Tower authorities were not amused. We have nothing to say about this matter said a spokeswoman for the landmark s publicity Agency. Hack Cal said he and a French companion whom he would not identify hid themselves in the lower the night before the leap and notified Sigma. We found a Nice quiet dark place on the roof of a Structure just below the second floor level he said. The police were wailing for Hackett when his com Panion lowered him to the ground. He was released after an identity  said he has been Bungy jumping for three years and claims the sport is catching on in his own country and in the United  claimed to have jumped from Bridges and Cable cars and wants to jump from a helicopter in october but his dream is to do a Bungy jump from the Lalue of  s a certain risk he said. If something goes wrong you die. But really it s very  oldest dutch nuke Plant judged Safe by Agency the Hague nether and a this nation s oldest nuclear Power Plant was judged Safe by the International atomic Energy Agency but several procedural improvements were recommended a dutch government spokeswoman said wednesday. The Soo megawatt Plant in the Central dutch town of do Dewaard underwent a Spring inspection by the Agency s operational safety review team at dutch government request. The government s desire for authoritative confirmation of the safety of present dutch nuclear facilities is considered part of its strategy to gain Domestic approval to build at least two More nuclear Power plants for the 1990s. In the Wake of last year s explosion and fire at the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant in the soviet Ukraine Premier Ruud Lubbers Center right government announced hat construction plans would be shelved until current dutch installations were deemed Safe. . Jazz concert planned to Benefit refugees Geneva a the . High commissioner for refugees is organizing a jazz concert this summer expected to raise hundreds of thou Sands of dollars to Benefit the world s 12 million refugees a spokesman said Friday. The concert organized in conjunction with the annual Montreuil jazz festival in Switzer land is to take place july 10 at the Mon Rex Casino spokesman Roland paring Aux said. Featured musicians Are to include harmonic player Toots Thiele Roans female vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater and Randy Crawford and saxophonist Ernie Walls. The . Commissioner is to receive proceed from ticket sales and from sales of the tape concert to television networks Pari Gaui said. He said proceeds would Likely be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars but it was Loo Early to give a Concrete figure. Heavenly austrian cake available in . By air. Vienna Austria a new York lovers of the renowned austrian chocolate cake Sacher torte can now order their favorite Sweet by concorde from Vienna. Exports of Sacher torte which is made u Vienna s resplendent hotel sachet1, should help to revive this country s flagging image abroad the hotel s owner Peter guru or said thursday. According to guar Tler. 30 percent of the 200,000 cakes produced annually Are exported. Deliveries to new York win be effected Ovet night by concorde so that the cake will be fresh on the table the to Ming after the order said Wolfgang Mosca sales director of the express courier service entrusted with the cargo. The . Price for the largest Sacher torte including dispatch by concorde will be less than double that in Vienna Guertler said. A Standard Sacher torte Sells for 390 Schil Lings about 130 in Vienna. Czech using diving suit swims River to Austria Vienna Austria a a czechoslovakian with a diving suit and a compressed air Cylinder swam to Freedom under the surface of the thaya River which Marks the czechoslovak austrian Border newspapers reported thursday. Libor Veselsky 31, reached austrian territory near he town of Burnha Rosthal May 17 after departing from the own of Breslav the mass circulation Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported. To avoid being spotted by Border guards scan Ning the River with searchlights Veselsky turned off the compress cd air Cylinder at one Point so that no air bubbles would be seen. The paper quoted him As saying that life in Czechoslovakia was hell for me and Ilia he spent two years in jail after a 1975 escape at tempt failed. The austrian Interior ministry said Veselsky asked for political Asylum  
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