European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. Juy9. 1987 the stars and stripes Page Al paper Sis soviet air defense asses Bonn a a National newspaper has described a series of lapses by the soviet air defense system thai allowed a teen age West German Pilot to Fly a Light plane 10 Moscow s red Square in late May. Soviet Jet fighters dispatched to Check out radar blips indicating an airborne intruder at first Iside Lilied then lost sight of Malhias rust s Cessna plane and failed to warn the Kremlin that it appeared bound for Moscow the Bonn daily die Walt said tuesday. Die Well attributed its report to what it said was new precise Western knowl Edge about the failure of the vaunted soviet air defense network to Stop rust from hedge hopping his Cessna Over hundreds of Miles of soviet territory to mos cow. The daredevil 19-year-old Pilot landed in red Square before hundreds of astonished onlookers and has been held in a Moscow prison since pending a continuing investigation. Die Well said soviet military radar picked up rust s Cessna As it entered soviet airspace Over the Baltic Republic of Estonia at 10 46 am. Local Lime May 28. A Mig-23 fighter Jet dispatched by the Leningrad air defense command could not locate the Cessna and was ordered to drop Down to 1,980 feet and press the search the newspaper said. The Mig-23 Pilot located rust s plane and identified it As a single engine Light plane probably of finnish origin die Welt said despite the fact that the Cessna bore the German Flag on its Tail. Rust took off from Finland. The Mig-23 then returned to base and two other Mig Type fighters were sent aloft Between 11 30 . And 12 30 . To secure the airspace die Well said. Bui both fighters As Well As local radar were unable to locate the Low Fly ing Cessna and officials did not see fit to deploy an available reconnaissance plane with ultramodern tracking equipment according to the newspaper. Rust managed to Fly on to Moscow unchallenged largely because the Lenin Grad air defense command had no fighter jets capable of tracking intruders at very Low altitudes die Well said. The air command did have a special helicopter equipped for such purposes but failed to use it it said. Leningrad authorities also neglected to warn soviet authorities of the intruder die Welt added. Then soviet defense minister Sergei Sokolov gave a report on the string of mistakes and incompetence to a meeting of the ruling politburo on May 30, die Well reported. Shortly afterwards soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev retired Sokolov and fired the commander of soviet air defences. Die Welt said Gorbachev also wrote personally to All Heads of government in Allied East bloc Stales to inform them of the background to rust s spectacular flight an explain the personnel Conse Quei ices in the soviet military Lead  die Well i report which appeared wednesday was Tel exed to news agencies on tuesday. Bells toll for 6 men who died in Boxcar Pabellon de Arteaga Mexico a the Bdl tolled sin times at our lady of Guadalupe Church for six Young men who came Home in coffins from the United states where they had gone to better their lives Tad died in a locked Boxcar. The bodies were resumed to the men s Hometown in Central Mexico tuesday after a flight from Elpaso Texas in a plane provided by the government of  stale. The six men who ranged in age from 17 to 22, were among is illegal aliens whose bodies were found july 2 in a stifling Boscar in Sierra Blanca Texas. The Vic Tims had been in the Vul. Where the temperature reached Over 120 degrees for 14 hours before they were found by . Border patrol agents during a Rou Tine Check. A 19th Man also from Pabellon de Arteaga  men from Aguascalientes or neighbouring Zacatecas stale had been headed for the Dallas area to find work. In Pabellon de Arteaga 8,000 mourners Many weeping greeted the six hearses bearing the bodies to City Hall. It hurts us As if in were a member of our own family said Lucia Mayala Ortiz Hernandez who was not related to the victims. She said the people in the town of 17,000 Are very  the coffins were placed before a makeshift altar inside City Hall where a mass was said for Angel Alba Sandoval 19 Hector Carrillo floras 17 Jose Jesus Cruz Perez 17 Mario Garcia Alvarez 19 Jose Luis Herrera Jimenez 18 and Jose Antonio Ramos Lopez 22.the body of the seventh victim from Agu Asca lion pcs 56-Yearold Zacarias Duran Flores was taken to his Home in the state capital. A separate plane bore the bodies of five victims tuesday to Zacatecas. Five More were to be returned  Rev. Jose Gertrudis Ramos of our lady of Guadalupe Church noted that Many local men trav eled 1o the United states because of economic prob lems at Home including Low pay and a High rate of unemployment. They said goodbye to their families to look for a belter  the priest said. Desperate because of the situation they ran they left this  later the coffins were carried to the victims Homes on residents shoulders. A funeral mass was scheduled for wednesday. Ricardo Molina 17, said he understood Why his two friends Carrillo Flores and Herrera Jimenez went to the United Stales they had enough to live on but they were trying to better themselves to achieve some thing to be  Young woman Maria do Jesus Lopez said came to Flores and Ramos Lopez had been close friends of her brother. They liked very much to do things for Noor Chil Dren she said adding that Carrillo Flores in partic ular would collect clothes and distribute them or go to farm areas and sell them very  she said her own brother had planned logo to the Border with the others june 29, but my Mother did t let  at a Church near Al Saucino it Zacatecas 5,000 people attended a mass for Alfonso Lopez Hernandez Jose Helen Lopez Chavez Jose Manuel Hernandez and Rafael Zamarron Torres. The Rev. Jose Cruz Cordero Ortiz noting the threatening Rainy season sky told the mourners that the heaven wine in the. Fury on it Gas Mery and pain of this unhappy  one body remained unidentified late tuesday. A Zac Jiecai newspaper. Al memento reported Hal Zacatecas gov. Genaro Borrego Estrada had made arrangements for the body to be brought from Elpaso to the slate . Authorities Are searching for the smuggler known As the Grasshopper who organized the men s trip to the United states and locked them m the Boxcar to prevent officials from discovering them. Border patrol official said they had not ruled out the possibility that the Lone survivor 21-year-old-Mi Guel Tostado Rodriguez recruited some of the men for the trip. He was being held As a material witness in a detention Center in Elpaso. 3 americans briton reported abducted in Sudan Nairobi Kenya a armed men identifying themselves As sudanese rebels abducted three americans and one British citizen from their Homes in Southern Sudan a Relief official said wednesday. We do not know where they were liken to neither have we received any information a to their whereabouts to id Din Silrus executive director of the Nairobi based association of Christian resource organizations serving Sudan. He said the abductions occurred be tween 12 30 and 2 . Tuesday in Mun Dri about 100 Miles Northwest of Juba the Southern sudanese capital. The armed men identified them selves As members of the Spla the sudanese people s liberation army by to unsaid. Spla spokesman maj. Deng Alor reached by Tele Ine in Addis Ababa Ethiopia would in a medially com ment on the Repon. The Spla Ted by renegade col. John Garang look up arms against the mos Lem dominated sudanese government in 1982, demanding greater autonomy for the predominantly Christian South. Three of the victims americans Steve Anderson and Kathierine Taylor 32, and British nurse Heather Sinclair 29 worked for across Silrus said. He said Anderson and Taylor were teachers at the Bishop Gwynn College in Mundari. Milru identified the fourth victim As Marie nikkei an american episcopal priest. The american embassy in Khartoum said it had received reports thai three american and a British citizen were taken into custody in Mundari but re ported it did not know who was responsible. The embassy has contacted the Suda Nese authorities to request further information and their assistance to obtain the Safe release of the americans and the British citizens an embassy statement said without confirming the Vidito  British High commission in Khartoum referred All inquiries to the foreign and Commonwealth news department in London which was not immediately available for  1984, three roman Catholic priests from the Mill Hill missionaries in Lon Don were kidnapped by rebels in South Ern Sudan. They were released after one to two months in Captivity and returned to work in other parts of Africa said Bishop Comelio do wit Nipe rior Tinera of Mill Hill missionaries. 3,000 demonstrators demand Haiti Junta resign  port a Prince Haiti some 3,000 Demon Runton gathered in front of the National Palace i porno Prince on tuesday the sixth Day of a general strike Here and demanded Hal the ruling three Man Junta resign. The National Council of government members two army generals and the former supreme court presi Dent did not appear in Public although glimpses of uniformed men behind the Palace windows brought jeers and taunts from the crowd. Many of the people came because 20 Young men had announced they would bum utom scion 10 doth in of Nett of the Palace the us. Embassy and the French embassy on tuesday morning. The youths did not appear but several women arrived at the Palace gales Wilh bedspreads to try to save them if they tried to injure themselves. No one gathered at either embassy. The strike organizes a coalition of j7 groups up posing the government released a statement blaming the Council for the youths desire to commit suicide and accusing the Machutes or members of the for Mer regime militia of killing the 20 people who died in last week s violence. The strike his not been violent this week although Tome shots were heard near the demonstration tuesday morning. Strike organizers Abo released a schedule for the week s even. The strike was to end tuesday night a news conference was let for wednesday a symbolic National funeral was scheduled thursday and Fri Day was declared anti Lacoute National demons Ira lion Day. Most political observers read the action As the inv i a c conflict Between Thrsher Ati of hold regime referred to alternatively As Duvalier its or Machutes and those who would like to usher m democracy. While former dictator Jean Claude Duvalier it ousted in february 1986, his framework of privilege and Power remains largely in place. The strongest demand it for the Anglo step Down a Call reiterated tuesday by a Trio of Central politician. The proposal made by opposition members Svlvio Claude. Bernard Sansaricq and Yves Volel would put the vice president of the supreme court Ibe Fonne chief of the supreme court the current foreign affair minister and two civilians appointed by the Catholic and protestant churches at the haitian Helm