European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. November 1987 the stars and stripes f / Page 3 . Plan hopeless Iran official says Manama Bahrain a Iran and Iraq sen their warplanes to raid i Ach Oiher s territory thursday and an Iri Minn Leader win he sees no Hope Hal the United nations ran achieve a truce in the 7-ycar.old War. Iraq said its attacked ill in fifth iranian Tanker in to Days. Of the nine claimed in 10 Days. Only one has been confirmed independently. In Washington the Pentagon said two kuwaiti tank cars flying the american Fig arrived in their Home Waters after the 550-mile voyage up the Gulf under escort. Newly arrived american mine sweepers conducted Shakedown exercises and four British Minc Hunting vessels slea Mcd to the Central Gulf to begin operations off Bahrain. War communiques issued in Baghdad said iraqi planes attacked the Al Ahwaz Oil Field in Western Iranon thursday with devastating results. Baghdad radio said warplanes attacked a urge maritime Large the Standard reference for a Tanker off Iran s coast thursday night. Tehran radio said iranian jets inflicted heavy casualties in raids on military concentrations in Shar Hani and Zobeida Southeast Iraq it described the raids As reprisals for iraqi air attacks wednesday on "nan-military1 targets in which civil ians were wounded. Iraq denied bombing civilian areas. Iran did not say How Many of its planes participate Din the raids thursday but it Seldom risks Mure than two or three a1 n time because it has not been Able to buy new aircraft and is Short on parts for the old ones. Iraq s air Force has an advantage of about 8-1. The radio said iranian artillery shelled economic and military targets in Iraq s northeastern Sun Myrna Niyah province killing or wounding dozens of soldiers and destroying a training Garrison and a number of depots and economic a dispatch from the official islamic Republic news Agency said 12 iraqi military helicopters were dam aged by the shelling of a base in the same s news Agency denied it. Prime minister Hussein Musavi said we have no Hope that the . Can do anything about the War and s extremely crucial circumstances require it to confront the United slates in the Gulf me did rot elaborate Musavi Ninnmen cd to reporter after a meeting Flop officials about the Gulf situation according to re ports by the official my Dia. Javier Perci de Cullar the . Secretary general is pressing both countries for a truce and a negotiated settlement based on a Resolution the Security Council adopted unanimously july 20. Iran has refused to accept the . Plan unless its enemy is declared the aggressor. Iraq invaded Iran in september 1980 after Border skirmishes. Var non Walters . Ambassador to inc United nations rejected Musavi s claim that the peace Effort was hopeless. He said at . Headquarters in new York thai inc five permanent Security Council members probably would meet with Perez de Cullar soon on the matter. Tie Pentagon said the tankers Chesapeake City an surf City accompanied by the guided missile frigate Thanh completed their trip without detecting unusual iranian surface or air activity Black african party Leader Beki freed port Elizabeth South Africa not a longtime Leader of the outlawed african National Congress was freed thursday by the government after 23 years in prison. The Leader Govan a. Mocki a close colleague of Nelson r. Mandela is the first senior member of the Congress to he released from prison i hour apparel conditions. He was convicted in 1964 of plotting the violent overthrow of South Africa s while government. He was flown by helicopter from she maximum Security prison on Robbin is land to polls Moor prison in Cape town where he was allowed to talk with Man Dela for an hour. They had not seen Arif other since Mandela was Transfer Fol to the Mainland prison in iqszj1 Beki was then flown Perl Elizabeth a port on the Indian cats about 600 Miles from Cope town re was arrested in Pott Elizabeth 24arago and insisted that he be released nere rather than in inc Nomi Nal Homeland of Transki . The release of Beki and the arranged Tepee Vous with Mandalu seemed to conf huge a gesture to the african National Pangras by the Pretoria govern ment though cof Muu preferred to characterize it As a humanitarian act because of Mocki s age he is 77 my report de in ill health. The move was welcomed by the de states among other nations, of the Congress Milija farm in exile in Zambia. Mocki who to the South african comm West parly is listed bythe government meaning that by Law he mat not be quoted in the press. Bui Jas Day Casper Venter an official of the Bureau of information told reporters thai Justice minister Kobie h. Coel Shehad waived he restriction so Beki could appear at a news conference Ai Seaside hotel Here. At the news conference Mocki said he had been assured that his release was unconditional. He emphasized that he had not renounced violent and still supported the african National Congress whose members have been waging a War against White Rule in South Africa for 27 years. Goran Beki after his release by inc South african government in port Elizabtth. . To Supply stinger to Ghaul Washington the United states has agreed to Supply Chad with Slinger missiles and has sent an american team to n Ndjamena to train its army to use them administration officials said thursday. The $2 million Deal which provides for 24 stinger missiles and 7 launchers signals an in creased american commitment to Chad in it conflict with Libya the officials said. Under the Accord which was concluded in the last few weeks Chad will become the first Afri can country to receive the sophisticated Shoul Der fired weapon. A Small . Army team of instructors technicians and maintenance personnel was sent to the chadian capital within the last two weeks. Delivery of the missiles is expected to begin i about two weeks uni now France which provides an air shield for most of Chad has been the main up plier of arms to the government in n Ndjamena. Although the Dollar amount of the stinger Sale is Law the weapon is expected to enhance significantly chd s military strength at a Lime when Chad his expressed frustration it France s reluctance to provide More weapons. Soviet Model not mandatory Gorbachev tells Wodich fists Moscow Fabj Kremlin Leader Mikhail --ji1 the is not a a Prim for other that his reforms have eliminated can Ftp Soviel the arrogance of Omni Ratiee is ass a car of no being Able to Cope Withiel problems Gorbacz help d a gathering of of 178 leftist parties and of Luti onary move fiends wednesday at the Kremlin. We do not in the least claim a monopoly on the Irth he said. We Are engaged in search ourselves and invite others to look jointly for inc ways along which humanity could Cross inc minefield of our times and emerge in the 21st Century in a nuclear free and non violent Gorbachev s remarks prompted one soviet official to say historians should re examine the soviet led Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 that hailed Liberal reforms and imposed the Kremlin s Brand of socialism. The delegations Are in Moscow for a two Day session marking the 70th anniversary of the revolution that brought he communists to Power in Russia. We Klong ceremonies continue through saturday ending with inc traditional no i1.7 military review on red Square the gathering of foreign communists socialists and members of political movements was the larg est such Assembly in the soviet capital since Gorbachev became communist party general Secrc-1 tary in March 1985. Western diplomats said they believed the meeting was the first in soviet history to include delegates from Western socialist and Labori parties and formations like India s Congress Pany and i we. Germany s Green Gorbachev Pany. Gorbachev called on the foreign socialists and leftists to join with communists in trying to assure peace and Security for the world and disavowed any leadership role for soviet communists. Gorbachev praised his Mulli Fareld program for economic and social Reform but said the Kremlin leadership did not claim to Hase All Ilic an Swers to problems of world affairs economic relation Sand ecology. No one has any ready to use prescriptions he said
