European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse D done Gore approve retaliation ii ran attacks ships Page 2 d pledge of support gives students new incentive Page 5 d Johnson edges Lewis sets 100-meter record sports Page 21 the a authorize of unofficial publication for the , armed Force vol. 46. No. 136 tuesday. September 1.1987 it it a v d 8693 a s. African miners end strike companies would t Budge fired thousands "1988 a the year we Start marching Forward says Union general Secretary Cyril Kin Phosa. Fly it lilo Johannesburg South Africa apr the Black mine re Union ended South Africa s largest and costliest mine strike sunday after management fired Lens of thou Sands of strikers and refused to yield in negotiations. The National Union of mineworkers settled for management s pre strike wage offer but it would not admit defeat and described the three week walkout As a dress rehearsal for further some companies said former strikers reported for work sunday. Union general Secretary Cyril ram Phosa said 988 is he year we Start marching nine miners were killed during the strike and the Union said More than 500 were injured and 400 arrested. Tens of millions of dollars in wages and corporate profits were lost. Most of the 44.000 fired strikers Are expected to be re hired but at least 7,000 Tost their jobs when on company shut Down two Gold mine shafts. The end of the strike came during a three hour meeting Between the chamber of mines which rep resents the is targeted mining companies and a 30-Mcmbcr Union delegation the offer accepted by the Union contains Only slight improvements in benefits and is virtually identical to one that Union members overwhelmingly rejected on wednesday. At its Peak the strike involved 210,000 miners at 31gold and Coal mines according to the chamber. About 50,000 strikers returned to work in recent Days. The Union claimed 340,000 men struck at 44 mines. The biggest previous mine strike was in 1946, when about 100,000 miners walked off for a few Days before sea strike on Page 28 iraqi bombers again Pound Iran Oil facility Manama Bahrain a iraqi fighter bombers hit Iran s Harg Island Oil terminal for a second Day sunday in on escalating offensive in the persian Gulf As a new Convoy of kuwaiti tankers sailed toward the Bat Lezone Iraq said it resumed the attacks sat urday after a 45-Day Lull to keep Iran Tram using increased Oil revenues to continue the 7-year-old War and Force it to accept a United nations cease fire. Parts of the Harg Oil terminal were in flames according to iraqi communiques. Tehran radio monitored in London said thai in retaliation for iraqi atrocities iranian artillery shelled Industrial targets in Basra Iraq s second largest City and military targets in the port of Qasir. It added that iraqi artillery shells struck the iranian Border cities of Aba Dan and Khora Mshar. The official iraqi news Agency monitored in Nicosia said two civilians were killed and is others mainly women and children were wounded by the iranian shelling of the Southern City of Basra in Washington . Undersecretary of state Michael a Arrn Acost called the resumption of the iraqi air raids deplorable but said it was understandable in View of Iran s delay in accepting the cease fire Resolution passed by the , Security Council last month. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency quoted revolutionary guard minister Mohsn a find oust As saying Iran could fire several Long Range mis Siles a Day into Baghdad the iraqi Capi Tal and level it to the ground if the iraqi regime resumes bombing the previous Day Iran had vowed to retaliate with a crushing response if its Oil exports were threatened and said no targets would be immune including the re flagged kuwaiti tankers and the . Warships escorting them. Iraq also claimed sunday to have hit three Large maritime targets a term usually meaning tankers or other big ships including one off Harg Island. Neither Iraq nor Independent sources identified the ships allegedly attacked. A Convoy of two tankers and at least sin . Warships was about a third of the Way along its 530-mile voyage Lou wait. Kuwait asked the United slates to give ii of its 21 tankers . Flags an escorts to protect them from iranian at tack Iran had accused Kuwait of backing Iraq and began attacking kuwaiti tank in last september. The Convoy entered the persian Gulf after passing through the Strail of Hor Riuz at the gulfs Southern lip and with in Range of ran Schinse made Ami ship silkworm missiles. No indication emerged whether the United Stales had been informed in and Vance of the iraqi raids or whether its ships were on a special Alert status against possible iranian retaliation. Iran and Iraq had not attacked each other s Commerce in the Gulf since the Security Council passed the cease fire see Iraq on Page �8 new shuttle Booster passes full Scal fest Brig Ham tfx Utah a a redesigned space Shn ulc Booster rocket roared into life in its Fin full Schaec test firing sunday in the pint Cundal step i fore the planned renewal of s Sions next june. The 126-foot solid fuel eke Bias Orange flame 500 fee Tam a thick Cloudo smoke boiled i a fluff feet into the sky above Morton to Majkol inc s desert test site 25 Miles Wirtl of Here. The room burned i million pounds of the two minute test con Sumire Floc fuel at a 9,000-Pound-per-Sec company spokesman said obviously ran the right amount of me. The plume ran Normal it appears to be a Normal successful test said car ver Kennedy Morion Thio Koi s vice president for space programs. The test of the solid fuel Booster was finally scheduled for aug. 27, but was Rcd three times by equipment failures. shuttle Fleet has been grounded since j&v2g, 19s6, when a flaw in a mor Ion Thio Ial Booster led to the destruction of the the deals of its seven Crew members. Grower of huge tomatoes makes others play Ketchup Eatontown no a new Jersey residents Aren t joking when they Call their Home the Garden stale. George Bucsko has taken lop honors for a record third time in the both an Nual new Jersey championship Toma to weigh in with a plump specimen that tipped the Scales at 4.152 pounds. That s right. 4.352 pounds or 69.6 ounces for one Tomato according to a scale supplied by the state depart ment of weights and measures. It measured 22 to inches around 7v inches across and s it inches High Bucsko. Of Clifton Defeated More than 1,000 other new Jersey resident saturday to be crowned the King of the state s Tomato growers and take Home a 11,000 prize. I m going to celebrate by miking to Matoes and Champagne on the rocks he said. By inc Way that s not a record fur a new Jersey Tomato. The biggest entry in the decade of Competition was in 1985, at 4.574 pounds Bucsko Gre that one too
