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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside Type d unleaded fuel sales doubled cafes says Page 2 g report of bikers Battle probably a hoax Page 5 d Aquino says rebels targeted her family Page 28 to. 46, no. 135 uth whited unofficial pubuc1tion to Thi , a co of i monday August 31, 1987 i or i to 0 6693 a iraqi bombers hit main Iran Oil facility Manama Bahrain a As iraqi bombers raided iranian Industrial targets Oil facilities and ship for the sound straight Day sunday Iran warned it would level Baghdad with Long Range missile strikes if Iraq resumed attacks on iranian cities. Meanwhile another Convoy of kuwaiti tankers escorted by . Warships sailed through the Strait of Hormuz and North toward the Battle zone without incident Iran s official islam in Republic news Agency quoted revolutionary guard minister Mohsen Rafiq douse As saying ran was in a position to fire several lethal mis tires a Day into the iraqi capital and level in to the ground if the iraqi regime resumes bombing iranian cities the iraqi raids marked the sharpest escalation his summer in the 7-year-old Iran Iraq War. They came a Day after an iraqi air offensive against iranian Oil installations broke the warring neighbors 45-Day informal cease fire on attacking each other s Commerce in the Gulf. Iran earlier said its Long Range artillery would begin shelling military and Industrial centers in the Southern iraqi City of Basra in retaliation. Ii called on iraqi civilians to evacuate the area raising the Specter of renewed round of retaliatory attacks on each other s  shipping executives said parts of Iran s Harg Island Oil terminal were in flames. A second see Iran on Page 28 new shuttle Roc fief test fired Brigham City Utah a a redesigned space shuttle Booster rocket roared into life in its first full scale test firing sunday a crucial step before the planned renewal of shuttle missions next june. The 126-foot-Long solid fuel rocket blasted Orange Maine 500 feet and a thick Petoud of smoke boiled 1,500 feet into the sky above Morton Thi Okol inc s desert test site 25 Miles West of Here. The rocket used up 1 million pounds of propellant during the two minute lest consuming the fuel at a 9,000-Pound-per-Sccond Pace said company spokes Man Rocky Raab. It obviously ran the right amount of Lime. The plume ran Normal it appears to be a Normal Success Ful test said Carver Kennedy Morton Thi Okol s vice president for space programs. The test of the solid fuel Booster was originally scheduled last thursday but was aborted three times by test equipment failures. Nasa s shuttle Fleet has been grounded since jan.28, 1986, when a flaw in a Morton Thi Okol Booster led to the destruction of the shuttle challenger and the deaths of its seven Crew members. Before the boosters arc certified and the shuttles arc allowed to Fly again officials have decided that the redesigned Booster must be test fired at least four limes on the ground. Nasa officials Hope the new rocket design has eliminated the flaw that destroyed challenger bathing Beauty photo although this persian Cal looks pretty pitiful. It s dually getting � Beauty treatment at the bark or Stop i pet Salon in Winter Springs Fla. With tight hold on its Paw and tall by the so n operator and the Chain secured about its neck what Chance is then a escape such torture Hollywood Tough Guy Lee Marvin Dies at 63 let Mutta App Fuu Tucson Ariz. A Lee mar Vin the tvs a big or Schuir is w 0" Oscar As a Drunken gunfighter and his evil twin in cat Ballou and was a party in a historic Alimony suit die saturday a Tucson medical Center spokesman said. He was 63. Tom Reavis director of Community affairs for the Hospital said Marvin died of a heart attack at about noon with his wife Pamela at his Side. He had been hospitalized since aug. 13 with what Reavis described As a run Down condition related to the flu. He owned a ranch near Tucson. Marvin played rough Hen charac ters in such films As the dirty dozen the Man who shot Liberty Valance and prime Cut in 1979, he made headlines in a landmark Alimony Case when he was sued for half of his Fortune by Mich Elle triola Marvin a woman be lived with for six Yean but never married in 1984, after he married his school Days sweetheart Pamela fee Ley he moved to Tucson. Actor Ernest Borgnine who starred with Marvin in bad Day at Black Rock in 1954, and emperor of the North in 197j, wept when told of see Marvin on Page 28 s. Africa mine strike ends Union oks rejected offer Johannesburg South Africa a the largest and costliest mine strike in Suu Iii african history ended sunday with he Black miners Union accepting an offer its members had rejected last week Industry spokesmen said. The strike is Over said Johan lie Benberg. Chief negotiator for the Cham Ber of mines which represents the six mining companies targeted during the three week walkout by More than 200,000  said strikers resumed to work on he night shift at 9 o clock Sun  of the National Union of mineworkers declined to comment is they left the chamber of Minn offices after More than three hours of talks. Liebenberg said Here was no formal agreement by the chamber thai he roughly 44,000 miners tired during the strike would be rehired. He said this was a matter to be resolved by the individual Liebenberg said the Union accepted an offer made by the chamber on tuesday. Slightly improving vacation pay an death benefits. That offer bad been overwhelmingly rejected wednesday in Vot ing by the rank and file. Liebenberg said wages which had been the focus of the dispute were not discussed sunday. Union officials had said they lowered their wags increase demand from 30 per cent to 27, but the chamber refused to discuss altering the 15 percent o 23.4 percent raises it began paying after pre strike negotiations broke off in mid july. Before the meeting sunday morning there had been widespread speculation Hal the negotiators would ratify a set see s. Africa on Page 28 Johnson edges Lewis sets 100-meter record see sports Page 21  
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