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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Non Page 28 the stars and stripes Black miners continue strike in South Africa Johannesburg South Africa up up to 340,000 muck miners buoyed by a parliamentary Victory Over institutionalized racial discrimination tuesday continued their first successful Challenge to the authority of White mine owners. National Union of mineworkers spokesman Marcel Colding said no move had been made by either Side to end the stoppage and he declined to predict what would happen next. We Are moving into uncharted territory he said. We Are open to negotiations but the employers must take the  Anglo american the country s biggest mining corporation said in a statement tuesday that support for the National Union of mineworkers strike. Is unchanged this  the strike called to press wage demands is the biggest Ever in South Africa. We have demonstrated unequivocally that we Are a Force to be reckoned with said Gold ing. 2 hondurans questioned in connection with Blasl Tegucigalpa Honduras hondurans were being held for Questi Jling and the town of Comayagua was place lir nits o . Service members following ask kind re Tau rant bombing thai injured 12fgpe, officials said. To it. Ami car Martinez Obj vhf the secret police in Comayagua decline no identify the two hondurans because us Are still being questioned in connect with saturday night s bombing of the re Krant China a popular , soldiers from nearby wednesday August 12,1987 Palmerola air a . Em1 lion of anon travel Toran inv he did official who spoke on Condia said it was routine to restrict Lagua until a joint .-Hondu-m is completed. The official said ice when the ban would be lifted in. The town Miles North of the capital. . Servicemen Tad an american civil Ian a Loyee received minor injuries in the sex i believed to have been caused by a pipe six hondurans were injured honduran officials said no one has claimed i possibility for the blast fire in Texas apartment kills 4 children 3 survive Arlington tews a a fire trapped six children in a second Story apart enl Mon Day killing four of them authorities said. Their Elizabeth Medina 14. Who is six months preg Nant and the 5-year-old, Diane Nina Ybarra. Were taken to Arlington memorial Hospital and released monday afternoon said spokeswoman Lori Mcdowell. The rescued child Patricia Rodriquez was in Good condition in the bum unit at Parkland me Morial Hospital said Hospital spokeswoman Ca Therine Ellis. Two 3-year-Olds, Alejandro Saenz and Carolina Ybarra died at Arlington memorial shortly before noon Mcdowell said. Thin eco month old Chrisian Rodriquez and6-month-old Amado Hernandez died at Park Laud memorial Hospital. Officials said the lire apparently was started on a mattress in the living roam by one of the children playing with matches or a lighter. Soviet says new Mobile missiles would survive first strike by . Moscow up1 soviet arms negotiator Viktor Karpov said tuesday 1he soviet Union has deployed the world s first Mobile strategic nuclear missile system that can be launched from Railroad can and boasted that the new weapon guarantees the missiles would survive a first strike by the United slates. Karpov former head of the soviet arms negotiating team in Geneva told a news conference the rail mounted missiles constitute a totally new weapons sys tem but he denied . Claims that the missiles Vio lated the 1979 Salt to arms limitation treaty. The treaty which has never been ratified by the . Senate because of the soviet invasion of Afghanistan does allow each Side to build one new intercontinental missile system. The United states exceeded the treaty s limits late last year by placing a nuclear tipped cruise missile in the 131st Long Range b-52 bomber. The news that the soviet Union had deployed its new ss-24 Mobile missile system was first revealed on the Senate floor last Friday by sen. Jesse Helms  a White House official later said intelligence reports confirmed Helms statement. Karpov termed the deployment a modernization of the soviet Arsenal that greatly enhances its survivability against a . First strike. The ss-24 n a new Type of missile. It is possible Vishin the framework of the Salt ii treaty and redeploy this missile within the limits provided for by the treaty. As for the higher mobility of these missile it is a guarantee of their Suryia ability during a first strike that is a first strike delivered against our territory. Behave Jusi strengthened this capability of ours and this gives us added stability Karpov said when asked specifically about the new Railroad based missile sys tem. As to the changing of stationary based launch equipment for Mobile launch equipment we just want to raise our survivability he stressed. The soviet Union while carrying out a modernization of its strategic offensive armaments is doing it infill accordance with the Salt ii treaty of 1979. It just changes the obsolete launch equipment for Mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles Karpov said. . Officials have said the missile system has been under development since the mid-1970s and has a Range of More than 6,000 Miles which give it the ability to strike Continental . Targets if launched Over a Polar trajectory. Each missile which is roughly uie size of the peacekeeper the Mast modern weapon in the . Arsenal can take up to 10 warheads. Crash from Page 1 Wasserburger Landstrass in the Trudering Section of Munich was burned out accounts of the crash differed. Hermann said that according to one version of events the plane struck the bus and then slowed into Mcdonald s at 3 30 . But Scolz said the plane s Wing hit the restau  he said debris from the plane then struck thebus. Scholz said seven of the injured were in critical condition. Official statements about the plane s departure Point also differed some saying the bavarian City of Landsberg and others saying Augsburg. Karen Tettier a spokeswoman for Mcdonald a told the a that 12 employees were in the restaurant at the time of the Accident. The rest of the approximately 30 people were customers according to police. Charles Rubner spokesman for Mcdonald i corp. Of Oak Brook iii., confirmed that a plane has crash Dat or near a Mcdonald s restaurant near Munich but said he had no further information. Mcdonald s has 247 restaurant in Germany he said. In All Mcdonald s has 7,364 restaurants to the United states and 2,190 outside the United states Rubner said. Mines from Page 1 More mines had been found. There s a Little bit of panic among the Tanker Crews anchored in the offshore Waters said a shipping source asking not to be identified. A diplomatic source had reported earlier that the United Stales had responded to an Appeal by the sulta Nate of Oman for help in locating mines in the Waters just South of the Hormuz. The americans have agreed and Are already help ing said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity. In Washington defense Secretary Caspar w. Wein Berger told Pentagon correspondents that the United states is trying to persuade other Naliwai to join in creating an International mine sweeping Force. In Moscow the official soviet news Agency Tan accused the United slates of pursuing Imperial Hege Monic goals in the Gulf Region. The discovery of Lour More mines in the Tny Gulf of Oman has thrown a new scare into shipping companies already worried about the mine threat inside the persian Golf where several ships have been damaged by mines nod More than 300 have been attacked since the Iraq Iran War spread to the Oil waterway 3vt years ago. It s a bad situation the other tankers Are now afraid to move said one shipping source who is familiar with the situation. Terrorists from Page 1 leftists marched to protest a statue of former president Truman that was put Back in place after being dam aged by a bomb last year. The demonstrators carried banners Reading no to the Truman statue and chanted Truman Means Hiroshima and Nagasaki and out with the . Bases according to the a. The 12-fool Bronze figure was blown off its Pedestal by an anarchist group protesting the Athens visit of Secretary of slate George Shultz in March 1986. The november 17 group named after the Dale Oft student uprising against the ruling military dictatorship in 19,3, has claimed credit for 11 political assassinations within the put 12 years. La bleat claim was � bomb attack against another bus five months ago in which 12 . Military personnel four civilians and two creeks were injured. The croup s proclamation termed the scheduled sell 4 0.s.-greek talks on the future of . Military installations in Greece As Mere  the present agreement covering the military installations including four main bases and a score of Small Sites expires at the end of 1988.ibuji Row a r Shaun of mum b it upon turn your unneeded household goods into Cash take advantage of the stars & stripes classified advertising Section starts August 27 Coupon May a it egad up at your local stars and strip Boot Cottom  
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