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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, October 25, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday. October 25,1987 China Calls sanctions unreasonable Beijing a China said Friday the u tilled stale was unreasonable in imposing sanctions on High tech sales in response to the alleged continued sate or chinese made silkworm missiles to ran. The dispute Over the alleged chinese arms sales to Iran which China denies is the Alcil incident id Joll relations be tween Beijing and Washington. There was a heated Exchange this Nio itch Over chinese policies in Tibet. On thursday the slate department said he . Government was freezing the Range of High tech items China can buy because of rising tensions in the pm Ian Culf. In dismissing inc chinese complaints Reagan administration sources in Washington disclosed late Friday thai Iran had sent some military personnel to China for raining on Jet fighter planes. One source speaking on condition of anonymity said a Small group of Irani ans " is in China and believed 10 be train ing on fighter  there have been persistent reports in recent months that China was consid ering a Sale of old Model f-7 fighters a chinese version of a russian plane to Iran. The United states has pressed China for More than n year in Stop supplying arms including the anti ship silkworm missile to he Tehran government. The decision to censure China came Afler silkworm missiles struck a .-protected Tanker in kuwaiti Waters last week. Iran accuses Kuwait of supporting Iraq in the persian Gulf War. One Reagan administration source while stressing the information was fragmentary said Friday there was reason to believe thai some chinese technicians had visited the Large iranian naval base at Bandar Abbas near the Mouth of inc Gulf earlier this summer. The source said that the Pentagon had received some conflicting information on the matter but that it appeared about 18 chinese technicians had performed work Al inc base in August and septem Ber intelligence officials assume hat the Only reason chinese technicians would go to Bandar Abbas would be to assist he iranians in maintaining or operating the silkworm missile but there is no Evi Dence the chinese have actually participated in bring the missiles. The official Xinhua news Agency said it is not reasonable at Alt for the United states to halt the review of relaxing controls of High tech exports to China under the pretext of mounting tensions in the  it said tensions in the persian Gulf arc caused by i he escalating Iran Iraq War and arc further intensified by the Mili tary involvement of the big Powers there. In fad the liberalization of High tech in port controls on China has nothing to do with the situation in the gulfanca.". Embassy spokesman Mckinney Russell Sard the embassy had made diplomatic representations to the foreign ministry Over the silkworm Mack Asl Friday. Dul he declined to comment Onishe chinese response. China claims strict neutrality in the persian Gulf conflict and insists it Sells arms to neither Side. It has acknowledged to Over that chinese weapons May reach Iran through International arms  Surprise move on High tech exports came after several weeks of warn Ings from China that bilateral relations were threatened by congressional resolutions and statements citing allege human rights violations in Tibet. China accused Congress of grossly interfering with its internal Anatus and issued n Strong protest after a 98-0 sen ate vote on oct. 6 questioning China Shuman rights policies in Tibet and sup porting a incl s exiled spiritual Leader the Dalai Lama. Ride to the top with Michael a photo american pop superstar Michael Jaclson and hit unidentified partner Flash big grins and Victory signs us they begin a Hong Kong roller coaster a cent. Jackson we in Hong Kong on personal business. When he visited the City s Ocean Park Friday lie could t resist he ride on the roller coaster. Nuke capsule claims first victims Rio de Janeiro Brazil a a 6-year-old girl and her aunt died of radiation poisoning Friday the first fatalities in a nuclear incident last month that resulted in the contamination of at least 243 people officials said. Leidy Das Neves Ferrira and her 37-year-old aunt Maria Gabriela Ferreira died of septicaemia and generalized infection Al the Marcirio Dias Navy Hospital in Ria do Janeiro or. Jose Maria Sampaio said by Telephone. The poisoning resulted from a Lead capsule con Taining radioactive cerium 137 that was left at an abandoned radiation treatment clinic in the Central City of Gotanoa. The capsule found us Way into the hands of Ferreira s husband junk dealer Devair Alve Ferreira. The junk dealer broke open the protective casing with a sledgehammer and took out the glowing pow Der. Relatives friends and neighbors were fascinated by the to Der. They passed ii along to friends and rubbed it on their bodies. Ferreira s Niece. Laide ate some of in. Or. Gerald Hanson of inc world health Organiza Tion called it the wont radiation Accident in inc West Ern world and the most serious Afler the chernobyl disaster in the soviet Union last year. Who has been helping brazilian health authorities with the aftermath of he incident. Goiania Wilh a population of 700,000, is 850 Miles Northwest of Rio. Forty three victims were hospitalized and 11 of in most seriously affected including the ferreiras were transferred to the Rio Navy Hospital Sampaio said the victims suffered from open sores hair loss bums and severe depletion of White blood cells. The elder victim s condition became work Friday and she lapsed into mental confusion and died just before noon doctors said. Her Niece who had severe lesions on her Throat and Tongue died Friday night for Odra was Lute in critical condition Al the Rio Navy Hospital and doctors said he had a minimal Chance of surviving. World today Jordan to double airing of to programs in hebrew Jerusalem Jap Jordan s state owned television network will double its daily hebrew language broadcasts because of a protracted labor dispute Hathas silenced israeli television transmissions an israeli newspaper reported Friday. The Haartz daily quoted the director of Jordan television Mahamid Hus if who spoke in a Telephone interview from Amman to the newspaper s London based reporter. Broadcasts front Jordan which Borders on Israel arc received in Many israeli Homo in the Jerusalem area and the jordanian station transmits a daily 30 min ulc newscast in hebrew. Presumed drowning victim turns up after 2 years Tokyo a a Man presumed to have drowned off a Japan sea resort two years ago has turned up i Okinawa stunning family members a newspaper re ported. Kenichi Ken Mochi 28, phoned his family in Central Japan on oct. 13 from Okinawa Japan s southernmost main Island to ask for Money 10 go Home the Maini Chat daily news said. Ken Mochi said he recalled nothing of the two years that had elapsed since he went swimming with Friend sat a resort in August i98s and disappeared without a  article said Ken Mochi came to his senses oct. 11 and found himself standing in Chest a cup water off Okinawa. . Physicist in Prague Dies of heart attack at 65 Prague Czechoslovakia a Henry f. Hru Becky a . Physicist who worked on the Apollo and Saturn rocket programs Hai died of a heart attack while attending a scientific him festival the country state run ctr. News Agency said Friday. The Agency said in Becky �5, died while attending a festival of films on scientific and technological topics in the town of Pard Bice 60 Miles cast of Prague. The scientist a professor at Louisiana s Tulane University was an expert on wave mechanics. Rivalry Between 2 regions leads to Man s suicide Seoul South Korea a a 25-year-old factory worker killed himself after he was prevented from marrying a woman from a rival Region a newspaper said  Korea Herald reported that Kim Chong Uang look a fatal drug overdose thursday because inc parents of he woman he loved would not give their per Mission for the couple to  said that Kim was from the Kyo Ngung prov Ince and was in Rove with an unidentified woman fro the Cholla province the paper said. The parents re fused to approve inc marriage by Vausy Kim Wal from Ihl Oiher province it said  
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