European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and Sti -.,.3es tuesday june 30,1987 Iran vows to hit . Ships in upper Gulf by United press International Iran warned the United slates sunday Hal. If it naval vessels come near inc Iran Iraq Border in he upper persian Gulf under the pretext of escorting ships the area will become "3 deadly combat zone for . related Story Page 2 Iran s official news Agency rna quoted has skin Alai. Naval commander of the islamic revolutionary guards corps As saying Hal Tehran has prepared contingency plans to Deal destructive blows against the United Stales in the Region. A i said recent . Statements Aboul its military presence in the Gulf were tantamount to a declaration of War on Iran. He said a Large number of Muslim combatants have been stain once on Abu Musa Island near inc Strait of Hormuz because of a proposed increase in the . Naval presence in inc Gulf. Iranian naval units carried out naval Maneu vers near the Strail sunday Tehran radio said. Prime min ister Mir Hosslin Musavi attended As fresh iranian troops headed for the area if inc United states attempts to approach the Iran Iraq Borders under inc pretext ofes coi Ling ships in the waterway the area will become a deadly combat zone for us. Warships Alai said. He was apparently re Ferrins to he Shan Al Arab waterway a River a slurry serving As inc i ran Iraq Bor Der for about 70 Miles. The Tehran newspaper Kayhan quoted Alai As say ing reports that the United Stales had hired a Hospital in saudi Arabia were being interpreted in Iran As the Selling up Ofa . Base on saudi territory. In a commentary Tehran radio said . Plans to Send the battleship Missouri 10 the Region in july were an indication that Washington was preparing inc ground for a new plot in the Gulf. Alai also threatened attacks on naval installations of Iraq s Gulf allies if Baghdad s Force hit iranian installations. If the Baghdad regime attacks Iran s naval installations. Similar install axiom in the Gulf May come under at i he said. In Case any iranian ship. Is attacked in the coming Days by the iraqi regime the iraqi regime s supporters ships will also be the Par Nilie Sis was Irna s. Analysts believe the warning was directed at Kuwait and saudi Arabia. In Northwestern ran. Id people were killed and 650 wounded sunday when iraqi jets reportedly used chemical weapons in bombing raids Over a Rasht. The iraqis used Mustard Gas in two raids Irna said. The chemical attack at a Rasht was reportedly inc second it As Many Days. Iranian forces used coun tar measures against Poison gases released by iraqi bombs in the area saturday Irna said. Most of sunday s victims were women and children without pre Lection against logic gases the news Agency forces shot Down to attacking planes Irna said Baghdad had no immediate comm Cal. Blast from Page 1 three Al a City Hospital in Fuerth and two at a Nuernberg City Hospital. A v corps spokesman declined to comment on an associated press report quoting a University clinic spokesman who said some of the four soldiers in arc loss limbs in inc Accident and suffered serious Eye injuries. No details of inc injured soldiers conditions were released. Two members of inc . Army safely cell or Sia fat fort Rucker ala., arrived Al Hohrn fils monday to begin an investigation of the Accident. They will be assisted by a medical doctor and a senior non commissioned officer demolition expert from v corps and an explosive expert from the army Mac Rich come at pie tinny Arsenal . Other 11th army Cav Reg soldiers continued training at Hohrn fils after the Accident. About 1,500 of inc regiment s 4,300 soldiers arc involved in train ing program which began june 18 and is scheduled to end july 7, lesser said. The regiment is planning memorial services for the soldiers who died in the blast. There will be formal services Here Al bad hrs fold and at Fulda lesser said. The limes had not been scheduled Mon Day.,m.,ii Wilor in hmm in Conr Tom to Knie fool liner Shimon Peres left and West German president rec Henrj von Detent ctr. C Fca p a Civ Peres is told Bonn supports International Mideast Parley Bonn us foreign minister Hans Dietrich guns Char Lold visiting israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres his government believes an inner National conference is the key to Middle East peace negotiations Genscher s ministry said monday. Peres who arrived in Germany for a three Day visit sunday already has vis led London Paris and Switzerland in his quest for european support for his proposal of an International peace con Ference. Peres met with Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl at Ludwigshafen and discussed the Middle East conflict with Genscher for several hours in Bonn sunday eve Ning. On monday Peres met with president Richard von and the social democratic parly chairman Hans to Chen Vogtli. A statement monday said Genscher and Peres discussed the important role the soviet Union must play in he peace process and expressed Hope for a constructive role on the Issue of emigration of ethnic germans and jews from inc soviet Genscher told Peres that West Ger Many regarded an International Confer ence As the Only Opportunity at the moment to enter into negotiations to Settle the Middle East conflict the foreign ministry said. The ministry s statement said the iwo ministers also agreed thai the economic situation in the Region merits close alien lion because deteriorating economic and social conditions Are not conducive in peace. From Page 1 curtain countries where an unending game of move and county move is sch Csinger said the 1972 agreement under which each country is building a new embassy in inc other s capital should he adjusted to make Clear that Alt new . Construction in Moscow will be done with Security cleared american personnel no with soviet workers. But he said that when the new embassy in Moscow finally is completed in 1990 if the soviets cooperate the so Viets should be allowed to occupy their new Complex on mount Alto one of the highest Sites in Washington. Schlesinger said that while much has been made of the advantages of that Sites an intelligence gathering Post the intelligence potential of mount Alto is considerably less than popularly Schlesinger told the committee that if soviet cooperation cannot be obtained in salvaging the Moscow embassy the traditional functions of an embassy behind the Iron curtain will no longer be what they Are now. Much of the difficulty with the build ing in Moscow stems from . Acceptance Ofa soviet assertion that Concrete components could nol be poured Al the embassy site Schlesinger said. That led to the fabrication of components away from the eyes of . Observers and High technology listening devices were implanted. The devices were of a Type s i1 rot understood by american experts he said and were Able to elude detection by a rays. Sen. Lawton Chiles d-fla., chairman of the budget committee was incredulous. Did we put in that agreement that we believed in the tools fairy he asked. Chiles put the blame for the problems on inc slate department. He said it is institutionally not equipped to handle build ing construction and has been guilty of chronic mismanagement nol Only in Moscow but in projects in Egypt Soma Lia Hong Kong. India Syria and else where. 3 dead 53 injured in new Delhi office Blaze new Delhi India Dpi fire engulfed an inner City office building Mon Day killing three people and injuring 53 others before firefighters hampered by searing midday heat and Low water pressure brought the Blaze under Tun Irol. Officials said the Blae broke oui at Aboul 10 45 . Sparked by a Short Cir Cuit ii destroyed the fifth and sixth floors by Furi firefighters brought it under control Aboul five hours later. Police Aid a lice people were Kilk d and 53 injured mostly from smoke Inha lation. The press Trust of India however quoted firemen As saying they had Sien four bodies on the upper flours. The news Agency said More Ihan 100 ample had been injured. The officials said some people had trouble finding i hair Way Oul because the building did nol have a proper fire safety system. Ghoul 300 office workers trapped on the roof escaped on ladder trucks and across a rickety makeshift Strel Bridge erected by labourers from an adjacent building. People precariously edged their Way Over the 12-Story drop. Air Force helicopters were called in to Pluck people from the roof but the to lors fanned the flames and Fie aircraft Hud 10 be withdrawn from the building in the heart of new Delhi s commercial were hampered by midday temperatures of 111 degrees fahrenheit and by a Lack of water pressure from the site s fire hydrants. They resorted to Quick bursts from High Pri sure hoses from a Suc cession of fire trucks. Hundreds of polic blocked off the area around the building located three doors from the american information Center near the Connaught place shop Ping District. Some army and Navy personnel were also at the scene. Groups of people looked Over the building s parapet and tossed messages to the crowds below requesting oxygen masks ire smoke spewed Froin he upper stories of inc Concrete building. Rita snug 32, a clerk in a government department on the fifth floor where the fire was believed to have started said she saw two men fall to their deaths. One Man who appeared to be in his fifties jumped to escape the flames and another lost his grip while Irving to crawl along the Bridge 10 the Nam building she said. First of All. We heard someone screaming fire fire " Sneh said then we saw flames and smoke and there was a Sneh said the Blaze started on the fifth floor and quickly spread to of her offices in the building. While she and her colleagues escaped Down the main stairway the fire engulfed the upper floors sending workers running to the rooftop
