European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. July 10,1987 the stars and stripes pages Aper lists soviet air defense lapses Bonn at a Aijo rial newspaper has described a scriet3nfel Feliy the soviet air defense system that teen age West German Pilot to Fly a Lig plane to Moscow s red Square in bite May. Soviet Jet fighters dispatched to Check out radar blips indicating an airborne intruder at first misidentified then lost sight of Mathias rust s Cessna plane and tatted to warn the Kremlin that it appeared bound for Moscow the Bonn daily die Welt said tuesday. Die Well attributed its report it said was new precise we Jolt Edge about the failure Ine vaunted soviet air Defenso work to Stop rust from his Cessna Over hundreds Ofuji Retsof soviet territory to mos the daredevil 19-year-old Pilot landed in red Square before hundreds of Aston hed onlookers and has been held in a prison since pending a Collinu Dis Well said so picked up rust s Cessna As soviet airspace Over the Bali of Estonia at 10 46 May a mig2xwhetjet dispatched by the sir defense command could. Locale the Cessna and was ordered to drop Down to 1,980 feel 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 look off from Finland. The Mig-23 then returned to be and two Oiher " " sent aloft Between he not 12 30p.m. To ammo airspace die Well Lut Bolh fighter As Well As local ire unable to locate the Low Fly ing ceh and fond a did not see fit to deploy Ansty by Canna issuance plane with Ultra according to the news Paf rust managed to Fly on to 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 in said. Tso to nor Liei of the intruder. Added. Then soviet defense minister Sergei Sokolov gave a report on the string of mistakes and incompetence 10 a meeting of the ruling politburo on May 30, die Welt reported. Shortly afterwards soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev retired Sokolov and tired the commander of soviet air defences. Die Welt said Gorbachev also wrote personally to All Heads of government in died East bloc Stales to inform them of a around to rust s spectacular lain the personnel consequences Irett fabs military cad Reship die Well s report which appeared wednesday was Tel exed to news agencies on tuesday. 19 aliens rescued from locked trailer hebbronv1lle. Tern a Border patrol agents freed 19 illegal aliens locked in a trailer on a Railroad Lascar wednesday averting a tragedy like the one that left is aliens locked in a Boxcar dead in West Texas last week officials said. The men were Iemi-consciousn3 in the 120-degree heat but none required medical assistance . Immi Gration and naturalization service spokesman Mario Ortiz said in Dallas. At in the july 2 incident outside Elpaso the men had been locked in the trailer just before the train left Laredo in route to Corpus Chesti Ortiz said. In i the same Ortiz said. They were latched in and could t get out. It was 95 degrees out Side and easily 120 degrees inside by the Lime the were found. If they had been in there much longer they would have been Border patrol agent j j. Fulgham said the men All in their late teens or Early 20s, had been in the trailer about four hours. Border patrol officers found the group inside the trailer during a routine inspection Stop in Hebbron Ville 60 Miles East of Laredo. Ortiz said they were believed to have crossed the Border from Nuevo Laredo and were taken to the Bor Der patrol station in Laredo. He said they would be deported. Five other aliens who apparently jumped off the train Asil approached Hebbronville were also Laken into custody. We Don t know if they re connected to the 19 who were locked in. We re investigating that orbit said the smuggler in the Laredo Case had tossed in some tools before latching the trailer door shut but the peo ple inside could never have chiselled through the Metal Walls Ortiz said. In the Elpaso incident the smuggler provided rail Road spikes for the aliens to Chip through the airtight car s heavy wooden floor. Only one of the men aboard however lived Long enough to poke through for air. It is Likely this group would either have died or Al would have been in Coli Cal condition had our agents nol found them said Stephen Martin Southern regional commissioner from the . Immigration and naturalization service this is � dramatic example of How smugglers Are exploiting aliens and of How the Border patrol is work ing to thwart these crimes he said. Meanwhile in san Diego 53 illegal aliens were arrested after immigration officials found them hiding in a tractor trailer no parked in an Industrial area authorities said. A delivery Driver ale Ned authorities tuesday after seeing the truck parked at the same location for several Days. I. Walked up to the truck which appeared to be abandoned and i heard something moving inside said Donald Relucio a Driver for airborne express. I called . Customs because i did t want to take a Hance on having something happen like it did in Texas last week Border patrol official Mike Ctm Nell said the s3 men found in the trailer had been brought into the United slates from Mexico by a smuggling network. He Laid the truck was waiting for More aliens to arrive before proceeding to los wednesday services were held in our lady of Guadalupe Church in Pabellon de Arteaga Mexico for six Young men who were among is illegal aliens whose bodies were found july 2 in a Boxcar in bodies were resumed to the men s Hometown in Central Mexico tuesday after a flight from e paso Texas in a plane provided by the government of Aguascalientes 8,000 mourners Many weeping greeted the six hearses bearing the bodies to City coffins were placed before a makeshift Attar inside City Hall where a mass was said for Angel Alba Sando Val 19 Hector Carrillo Fiona 17 Josejesus Cruz pern 17 Mario Garcia Alvarez 19 Jose Luis Herrera Jimenez 1b and Jose Antonio Ramos Lopez 22.the body of the seventh victim from Aguascalientes 56-year-old Zacaris Duran Flora was taken to his Home in the state separate plane bore the bodies of five victims tuesday to Zacatecas. Five More were to be resumed wednesday. Americans briton reported abducted in Duflon a armed men As sudanese rebels and one British citizen fron their Homes in Southern Sudan a re nil trial said wednesday. We do not know where Token to neither have we Recei information Aslo their whereabouts said Dan bit rus executive director of the Nairobi based association of Christian resource organizations serving Sudan. A said the abductions occurred be tween 12 30 and 2 . Tuesday in Murt Dri about 100 Miles Northwest of Juba. The Southern sudanese capital. The armed men identified Ihm selves As members of the Spla the sudanese people s liberation army by trus said. Spla spokesman maj. Deng Alor reached by Telephone in Addis Abba Ethiopia would not immediately com ment on the report. Spla led by renegade col. John took up arms against the mos tasted sudanese government in 1982, Demic Dilg greater autonomy for the South. Three of the Wochos an Steve Anderson an 32, and British nurse 29 worked for across bit rus said. He said Anderson and Taylor were teachers at the Bishop Gwynne College in Mundari. Bit rus identified the fourth Vij Mark nikkei an priest. The american a of to Khartoum said it had Rej up reports Hal three _ British citizen were _. A study in Mundari but re lid nol know who was response the embassy has contacted the Suda Nese authorities to request further information and their assistance to obtain the Safe release of americans and the ppm an embassy statement it confirming the victims British High commission in Khartoum referred All inquiries to the foreign and Commonwealth news department in London which was not immediately available for comment in 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 Oneto two months in Captivity and resumed to work in other parti of Africa said Bishop Cornelio de wit Superior general of Mill Hill missionaries. 3,000demonstodforsomiand Haiti Junta resign by Cox new service port a Prince Haiti Stralon gathered in front of the no Fyk Palace in port a Prince on tuesday the May of a general strike Here and demanded Ujj pre ruling three Man Junta resign. The National members iwo army general a Janie forum supreme court presi Dent did nol Kar in Public although glimpses of uniformed to behind the Palace windows brought jeers Andja i from the crowd. C people came because 20 Young men had they would bum themselves to death in from of the Palace the . Embassy and the Frenchey Daisv on tuesday morning. The youths did not appear but several women arrived at the Palace gales with bedspreads to try to save tried to injure themselves. No one gathered . The strike organizers a coalition of 5hw opposing the government released a Sli Lement ii inc Council for the youths desire to commit Sun and accusing the or members of the for1 Mer regime s militia of killing the 20 people who died in hut week s violence. The strike has not been violent this week although some shots were heard near the demonstration tuesday morning. Strike organizers also released a schedule for the week s events. The Mrike was to end tuesday night news conference was set for wednesday a symbolic National funeral was scheduled thursday and Fri Day was declared Anli Lacoute National demonstration Day. Most political observers read the action Ai the inevitable conflict Between the adherents of the old regime referred to Allen Alivey u Duvol Idrisu or Moutes and those who would like to usher in democracy. While former dictator Jean Claude Duvalier was Curt in february 1986, his framework of privilege and " remains largely in place. Ongell demand is for the Anglo Hep Down. A Call a Fig a tuesday by a Irio of centrist politicians to opposition Mernen Sylvio Claude Bernard Sanski kind Yves Voltl. Would put the vice president of the fee the court the former chief of the supreme court irm Reni foreign affairs minister and two civilians appointed by the Cut hic and protestant churches at the haitian Helm
