European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d dote Gore approve retaliation if ran attacks ships Page 2 d pledge of support gives students new incentive Page 5 q stripes takes look at fall fashions Dally Magazine the stars an authorized unofficial publication Al vol. 46, no. 136 tuesday september 1, 1987 South african mine Accident traps dozens Welkom South Africa a an Accident in a Gold mine trapped dozens of workers More than a half mile under ground monday. Rescuers heard voices of some miners More than 12 hours Laier the mine manager said. They Beard shouting from this inter mediate pump station an excavation in the Side of the Shaft said Gregory Maud manager of the St. Helena Gold mine in Welkom 140 Miles Southwest of Johannesburg. He said 64 men were unaccounted for the mine owner Genera Union mining corp., reported at one Point hat 92 min ers were trapped by an explosion. But Maud said later that he was not certain an explosion had occurred and he num Ber of missing was put at 64. We re no even sure that there was in fact an explosion he said. It could have been something Large falling Down the Shaft. At the moment we Don l know what  the company had said the explosion trapped most of the men in a Metal elevator thai was descending the 4,51i sae mine on Page 28 iraqi Warp Anes fire on 2 iranian tankers Manama Bahrain a Iraq said monday that its warplanes fired on two iranian tankers and shipping sources said an iranian gunboat strafed a kuwaiti nagged freighter in the persian Gulf. Meanwhile a Convoy of two tankers and at least six . Navy warships Mon Day passed the Halfway Point of a 550 mile Gulf voyage to Kuwait accused by Iran of aiding Iraq in the 7-year-old War. Related photo Page 9. Iraqi military communiques read Over state run Baghdad radio said iraqi War planes struck Large maritime targets the phrase Iraq commonly uses to refer to tank in off the iranian coast at 11 30 . Sunday and 7 45 . Monday. The attacks were the fourth and fifth reported on tank ers in the Gulf since saturday. Marine Salvage executives said an iraqi raid around Midnight sunday hit the 113,788-ton Tanker Shoush operated by the National iranian Tanker co., set Ting its. Engine room on fire. The London based Lloyds shipping intelligence unit confirmed the raid on the Shoush but said the extent of dam age and casualties were not known. The shipping sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that about the same time monitors Over heard radio traffic Between . Warships about a burning Shin. It was not Clear whether that was the ship hit by the iraqi planes. Shipping sources said an iranian supertanker the at and was hit in a sat urday raid in the Southern Gulf but Iraq did not mention that attack shipping sources in Bahrain said iranian revolutionary guards in a speedboat Mon Day fired machine guns and rocket pro ached grenades at the 24,j49-ton Container ship Jebel All off the emirate of umm Al Tuwain near the Strait of Hormuz the Jebel Ali is owned by the Kuwait based United Arab shipping co., which is owned by the seven Gull Arab coun tries including Iraq. The 32-Membcrcrew and the wives of two crewmen were Safe and the ship reached Dubai for repairs of minor dam age sustained during the attack the sources said. On saturday Iraq broke an informal monthlong cease fire the warring coun tries had observed on attacking each other s Commerce in the waterway. Tehran bad threatened to retaliate for see warplanes on Page 28 08693 a ass photo by Slev Moriis on Iddle school on opening Day. 85,0 beg by Dae Walczak de Calion writer if 1 did to know better i d have thought it was the Middle of the school  the words of Butzbach elementary principal Harold Schyberg were echoed pro Ghoul Germany on Mon Day a the military s overseas school system welcomed More than 85,000 Slud its to school year 1987-88, inc pals from Moench Englad Bah to Grafen Wocher reported Only nor problems on the first of 183 Days of classroom instruction. The school year ends june 16, s students is year More than 4,000 department of c dependents schools students still awaiting their first Day of Ltd music of construction in Darm Stadt Karlsruhe and ludwigs Burg. Ludo Nesburg elementary and Karls Ruhe fwd schools open today and a Armstr Junior High opens wednes Day. Firsthand second graders at Karls Ruhe Elci tintary will not begin classes until sept. Because of plaster and floor repairs associated with a 1500,000 Reno vation. All other grades at Karlsruhe elementary begin classes today. Sch Borg said All 820 students at continued an Page 3 thai Airliner crashes in Bay no survivors found Bangkok Thailand up a thai Airliner with 83 people aboard nose dived into a shallow Bay monday off the Southern resort Island of Shuket after dodging another jetliner thai was attempting to land at the same Airport officials said police in Shuket -430 mites South of Bangkok said there were no known survivors from the thai airways Boeing 737, which crashed at about 3 40  by Nightfall rescuers had recovered Only 13 bodies. Officials said there was Little Chance . Air marshal narc a Sidh Sithens manager of thai airways Saint uhf Pany s Jet swerved to avoid another ing 737 from the dragon air line.  plane was car i passengers two infants and 37 foreigners to the resort. Nine thai Crew members were aboard. Many of the foreigners were it nearby Malaysia and Surj an \  Tom Iii also was on i Jet officials said. Amm an embassy officials said they had Bee but did not yet know where the Amette 4 s Ere from the thai  was headed to Shuket on a 40-Mirrtnwfljght from the nearby City of haad Yai Tutei rag Nair flight was coming from Hong Kong. The crash was the second thai air ways plane lost near Shuket. In april 1985 a Boeing 737 crashed into a nearby Mountain killing All i people aboard. In 1980 a thai airways Hawker Sid Dely 74b twin engine plane crushed in northeastern Thailand killing41. Dragon air is a two year old airline. Us flight to Shuket is one of the few routes it operates outbid a of China