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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday september 4, 1987 philippine communists kill 30 following coup attempt world today Manila. Philippines a1 communist rebels killed 30 police and soldiers following a guerrilla Call 10 take advantage of tensions caused by last week s foiled coup attempt against president Corazon Aquino. A spokesman for the nation s largest moslem rebel group meanwhile said he supported the renegade sol Diers who organized Ilic coup attempt and praised them for trying to defeat a common enemy. The philippine  in another development. Aquino said in a speech thursday thai last week s Mutiny was not unusual in .1 country that had gone from dictatorship to a democracy and she vowed to unite the nation. Aquino was swept to Power in a civilian military uprising in february 19s6. Then president Ferdinand Marcus who had ruled 20 years fled to Hawaii. The president said she was convinced she survived the bloody coup attempt in which at least 53 people were killed because of god and the Power of prayer. Last week she said mutineers aimed to kill her and her family. Loyal troops backed by helicopters Are searching for coup Leader col. Grcgorio Gringo Onasan and remnants of his rebel Force in provinces immediately North and West of the capital. The military thursday said at least 46 people have been killed in attacks by communist guerrillas since the Mutiny including 30 soldiers and police slain in the previous 24 hours. I said 21 soldiers were killed and five wounded wednesday when communist new Peoples army re Bels ambushed a patrol in Quezon province 40 Miles East of Manila. Also wednesday six police and four rebels were killed when guerrillas raided he town Hall at grm Zaga in c Agayan province 260 Miles North of Manila. Rebels shot and killed three police officers in a m Panga province North of the capital. The other 16 deaths were reported earlier following communist raids in the provinces of Isabela find Negros Occidental. In a statement to news organisations the Central committee of he communist parly of the Philippines warned it would Lake fun advantage of tensions be tween the government and armed forces to hasten the strengthen ing of revolutionary forces and to weaken reaction As a whole this open War among the re / tfmbh&3 action Aries comes As a result of f jmmr3i l the utter failure of the ruling Onasan Aquino clique to Stem the surging. Revolutionary tide the very purpose for which it was installed in Power in the first place it said. The recent coup try has Only served to further expose the bankruptcy of the military and the narrow interests it upholds and  Habib Hashim spokesman for the Mora National liberation front the largest moslem rec group said by Telephone from Islamabad Pakistan that soldiers should Back the mutineers to restore Freedom and Justice for  Appl to Israel aircraft industries workers protest in Jerusalem Israel s cancellation of the Lav i aircraft project. Protesters of decision to drop Lavi dispersed by police firing tear Gas Jerusalem up about 200 angry israeli air Craft workers tried to push their Way inside the foreign ministry thursday to protest the cancellation of the Levi Jet fighter project Bui were driven of by police tear Gas. Eight people were hospitalized after being overcome by tear Gas during the Melee outside the ministry com plex including a ministry employee police said. Israel radio said one demonstrator was arrested but a police spokesman could Noi confirm the report. In Tel Aviv four people were arrested for disorderly conduct when aircraft workers briefly blocked traffic during demonstrations outside the defense ministry and labor party Headquarters the radio said. 11 was the fifth straight Day of protests by Israel aircraft industries workers angered by the govern ment s decision sunday to kill the Averbu decl Lavi Jet fighter project. Police granted permission for a crowd of about 200 conic and workers to demonstrate outside the foreign ministry Complex thursday morning. Foreign minister Shimon Peres is the Leader of the labor party which has opposed the Lavi project. When the workers chanting Peres go Home tried to push their Way into the ministry compound police lobbed teargas into the crowd scattering he demonstrators. Jerusalem District police cmdr. Yosyf Yehudai said the protest was broken up because the demonstrators violated an agreement with authorities not to interfere with ministry business. We used Gas Only when we realized that there was no Choice after the workers climbed Over the foreign ministry fences and endangered the place he said. The Cabinet s decision to cancel the Lavi project which came Ona i2-h-i Vole has sparked a fierce Politi Cal struggle Between the left Wing labor parly and the right Wing liked party Pic two sides in Israel s so called Unity government. The liked led by crime min Osier Yitzhak Shamir supported the project. Mosh Arens a liked minister without portfolio submitted his resignation wednesday night to protest the Cabinet decision. Schumir met Rtuh awns thursday to ask him to reconsider. The Lavi was opposed by the United Stales and almost All israeli military officials who argued the it to was 100 expensive. Israel has spent about j1.5 billion on the project with 90 percent of the funding coming from the United Stales. It is open cd thai another Al .2 billion would be needed to Complete development of the Jet. Miner killed by Cave in at Copper mine in Poland Warsaw Poland a a Cave in Ai a Copper mini in Southwest Poland killed one Miner and two others were missing hours after the Accident the official polish news Agency Pap said thursday three miners were trapped after the roof caved in wednesday evening in a gallery 2,410 feet underground at the Lubin Copper m no in Legnica province about 260 Miles Southwest of Warsaw Pap said. The body of one Miner who died was recovered by Rescue workers Pap said. Efforts continued thursday morning to locale the two missing miners Pap said. La was the second fatal Cave in reported at the Lubin mine this year. Four miners were killed by a june 20 Cave in caused by a sudden Earth tremor at the mine. At least 49 miners have been killed in mining accidents in Poland so far this year. Gandhi loyalist sworn in As India s vice president new Delhi India a Shankar Dayal Sharma a loyalist of prime minister Rajiv Gandhi s governing Congress parly was sworn in thursday As India s vice president. Sharma a former barrister took the oath of office in the red Sandstone presidential Palace. The Post became vacant after Ramaswamy Venkataraman who had held the office since 1984, was elected president in july sharia 69, was elected aug. 21 after Nomi nations of 26 others were rejected because they failed to meet the electoral conditions a govern ment statement said. In India the president and the vice president have largely ceremonial roles. The prime min ister who is the head of government holds Polit ical Power. Rebels claim killing 1 15 ethiopian troops London a rebels fighting for Independence of the Eritrea Region of Ethiopia claimed they killed 11s government soldiers and wounded More than 100 in two attacks this week the British broadcasting corp. Reported thursday. The bbl cited a rebel broadcast by the voice of the Broad masses of Eritrea which Speaks for the eritrean people s liberation front. It said 7i troops were killed More than to wounded and 11 captured in a three hour Battle tuesday in Kafka in the Northern Sahel province. The radio monitored in Britain said 40 sol Diers were killed and about 30 were wounded in an attack sunday on the Terney Humora Road in Barca province in Western Eritrea. There was no Way to corroborate the rebel claims. Ethiopia s marxist government Seldom releases reports on the 23-year-old eritrean War. Marxist rebels blamed for bombing in Peru Lima Peru a a powerful car bomb exploded four blocks from Congress As legislators debated a controversial proposal Lona Tion Alize the country s financial system. Police blamed the attack on marxist guerrillas. The car bomb exploded wednesday night in a five Story parking garage. No injuries were reported and police said the blast did Niqi damage Congress or the nearby foreign ministry and presidential Palace. Police said two other guerrilla attacks occurred in other Arras of Lima at about the same time wednesday night. A bomb exploded near an electrical lower in the Northern part of the capital cutting three blunders with flying Glass and vial shards police said. Suspected leftist rebels in a speeding our i prayed machine gun fire Al the Home of Jesus Guzman an Interior ministry official but no one was wounded police said  
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