European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The e stars an d stripes tuesday August 11,1987page 28 of j australian gunman kills six wounds 18 a Mah a k in i try u Lur a str Ilii  to a former Cadet 31 one of the six people killed sunday by a gunman in Melbourne Australia aim a the wheel of his cd. My. H Irne. Australia a a former Cadet at us traits military Academy went on a half hour shooting rampage on a Busy suburban sired sunday in fill killing is people and wounding at Casl 18 be fore he was arrested authorities  said tin gunman wearing military garb fwd a pump action Shotgun and fired randomly at cars and pedestrians. I ambulances police cars a hid Pipier and a swat team rushed to the  identified the gunman As Julian Knight 19, and charged him with murder. Chief magistrate John Dugan ordered him held without  australian Ami spokesman said Knight had recently been asked in resign from Dun Troon the austra Lian equivalent of West Point because he was consid Rufh Sunsui Laboc As an officer candidate. Hwy assistant police commissioner Vaughan a Camerl i said the suspect had a .22-caliber Fine in addition 1o i the Shotgun and had been  shootings began at about 10 . In Clifton Hill a Melbourne suburb when a woman was killed Ashe sat in her car at a Gas station. A police helicopter hovering Over the Street was hit by gunfire and made an emergency Landing on a near by held but the officers aboard weren t injured. Sever Al cars also were hit by  dead included a motorcyclist a woman who slopped her car to Aid what she thought was an Acci Dent victim a Small girl and three motorists was Australia s bloodiest shooting spree since sep � tember 1984, when is men and a girl were killed and i More than 30 people wounded in a shoot out in Syd nay Between motorcycle  is people Kille b a a Nroa i ,, " a ,. Soviets highlight trucker Hurt in Highway shooting Edinburgh festival Edinburgh Scotland a red banners Deco rated with the Hammer and sickle hew in the scottish capital sunday As the annual Edinburgh International festival opened with a massive participation from the soviet Union a soviet delegation of 400 musicians singers danc ers actors stage directors poets and painters join in the world s largest arts carnival involving 10,000 inter National entertainers. Soviet ensembles performing include the orchestra of Moscow s Bolshoi theater Goulty theater from Leningrad. Tbilisi puppet theater from Georgia and inc is Vorko Folk dancers from archangel. Annie Paterson scottish Boa a manager for Edin Burgh said she is pacts 600,000 visitors to the City for the festival including 130,000 from overseas. Los Angeles a bullets shattered a window on a tractor trailer Rig on a Mountain Highway sunday afternoon slightly injuring an Alabama trucker in the latest round of California Roadway violence authorities said. The shooting of the trucker on California 158, three Miles West of Tehachapi and 80 Miles North of los Angeles brings the number of Road Way shootings since mid june to 49. Four people have died and 15 have been injured. Two bullets apparently fired from a passing pickup truck shattered the Driver s window on the big Rig showering Driver David grooms with pieces of Glass said Deputy Frank Soranno of the Kern county sheriffs department. Grooms suffered minor cuts on his face and arms but did t require Hospia Bizalion and continued on his run Soranno said. A . Navy Helicon of r escorts the second Convoy of u thru ugh the j Crsby cull he did t actually Sec anyone shoot at him but the pickup was passing at the same time and we retrieved a Bullet fragment from the truck cab Soranno said. The Type of weapon used had t been determined and there have been no arrests he said. There were two other weekend Highway shootings. On saturday a couple reported someone shot out the rear window of their car moments after a noontime collision near big sur on the Central coast. Jose Luis Ruvalcaba 2s. Of Seaside was arrested and booked for investigation of attempted murder earlier saturday gunfire from a passing pickup truck hit a car with a couple inside As they travelled on the san Gabriel River freeway in the Norwalk area 10 Miles Southeast of downtown los Angeles. No one was Hurt and there were no arrests the los Angeles county sheriffs department reported. Iranians claim Battle Success Nicosia Cyprus a Iran said its forces Cap lured 19 Square Miles of territory in the kurdish mountains of Northeast Iraq killed or wounded 450 iraqi troops and shot Down an iraqi Jet. Iraq denied losing a plane or that there had been any significant action in the non Hasl part of Fth country. Claims and denials were made in military communiques sunday reported by the official news agencies of each country which arc monitored in Nicosia. Conflicting claims by Iran and Iraq in the War which began in september 1980, cannot be vended. The two nations rarely allow Independent observers to visit . Iranian communiques said the operation in the kurdish mountains was carried out by special iranian forces. Revolutionary guards and iraqi kurdish guerrillas fighting against the Baghdad government. Fighting developed in the Region of the iraqi town of Thormal five Miles from the iranian Bur Derand about 85 Miles Southeast of Kirkuk the main Northern iraqi town and Oil producing Center it said. Elsewhere in the Middle , Hume a. Horan renew . Ambassador to saudi Arabia arrived in Riyadh Over the weekend inc . Embassy reported sunday. Horan. 53, must present his credentials to King fahd before assuming the Post of ambassador. He re places Walter Leon Cutler. A graduate of Harvard University. Horan joined the foreign service in 1960 and has served in several Arab and moslem capitals. He previously served As Deputy chief of Mission in saudi Arabia