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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, December 1, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news Brief s. The stars and stripes tuesday. December 1,1987 searchers Don t find missing Kal Airliner Kanchana duri thu Ilij a a search of thick mountainous Jungle along the thai burmese Border monday turned up no sign of a missing South korean Airliner officials said. A senior police official overseeing the air and ground search said wreckage of the plane that disappeared sunday with 115 people aboard had not Chen found As earlier reported. We did not spot the wreckage or find Oul anything about the aircraft police it. Gen. Chit Kijoo Yachai old reporters in Kan Hanabu i province on the Burma Frontier. Initial police reports were  earlier. Air vice marshal so  Sundara Jcj. Spokesman for the thai air Force told re Pool is in Bangkok that the Korea air lines Jel had plunged into the rugged Border area. The search was suspended at dusk monday and is to resume tuesday. Norwegian withdraws candidacy for nato Post Oslo Norway a former prime min ister Karc Willoch withdrew his candidacy monday As nato seckary general Clearing the Way for the appointment of West German de sense minister Manfred Woermer next year for the Alliance s lop Job. Foreign ministry spokesman per Paust said Willoch sent a letter to the norwegian govern ment asking it to withdraw him from the contest As the civilian head of the 16-Nalion Alliance. His decision meant Worner s appointment could be approved Ai a meeting of nato for eign ministers in two weeks. Lord Carrington of Britain has said he wanted to resign from the position after completing four years next june. Polish voters reject reforms in referendum Warsaw Poland a voters in Poland s first referendum in 41 years rejected Polit ical and economic reforms that would have meant painful Price increases next year Diplo Matic sources said monday. The double defeat if confirmed by officials would represent a stunning blow to the government of polish Leader Gen. Wojeiech Jaru Els i which strongly campaigned far the two measures in sunday s plebiscite. The sources said Western diplomats Learned inc results at a meeting with foreign minister Marian Orechowski. According to the sources for the first ques Tion on a program of Radical economic Reform that would have meant average 40 percent Price increases next year 44 percent of eligible voters said  for the second question on political Reform 46 percent said yes the sources said. O Neill doing beautifully following prostate surgery Boston a former House speaker Thomas p. Tip o Neill jr., who had successful surcer for rectal cancer two weeks ago was said to be in excellent condition monday after sur Gery to remove an enlarged prostate. The speaker is doing beautifully Jerome p. Richie who performed the surgery said after the 90-Minuie operation at Brigham & women s Hospital. He has the strength and the character to overcome the Strain of the second operation said Richie the Hospital s chief of urology. Richie said there was no indication the por Tion of the prostate that was removed was can Cerous but pathology tests would be conducted. Results should be available later this week he said five percent to 10 percent of patients who have prostate surgery Are found to have cancer in the gland he said. Richie said a pan of the Abdomen wound from the cancer surgery was reopened for  Day s prostate operation. O Neill is expected to be hospitalized for a week to 10 Days Richie said. . Begins transferring cubans who surrendered Oakdale la. A half inc cuban inmates who freed 26 hostages and surrendered after an eight Day siege were transferred monday to other prisons but no Progress was reported in efforts to free 90 hos tages still held in an Atlanta Penitentiary authorities said. Cuban inmates at he . Penitentiary in Atlanta were briefed on the agreement that ended the standoff at the Federal detention Center Here sunday afternoon. But Federal officials declined to say if Progress was made in talks with the Atlanta inmates. Four Atlanta hostages were released sunday morn ing Well before the Oakdale settlement was discussed with inmates holding that prison officials said. There has been no reaction no celebrating nothing discernible from the 1,139 Atlanta inmates to Denef. Of mints at Oakdale Justice department spokesman Thomas Stewart said. In Oakdale inmates lined up to be fingerprinted and searched before being put on buses out of Oak Dale. More than half the 1,000 inmates who began rioting nov. 21 had been moved by midday and Feder Al officials said they expected the Center to be cleared by late in the Day. Meanwhile Steven Donziger an attorney with the Atlanta based National Center for institutions and alternatives said he feared the surrender agreement was too ambiguous and that All the Mariel cubans still could be deported. There s nothing  said Donziger who is acting As spokesman for the coalition 10 support cuban detainees. And the ins immigration and naturalization service rarely goes beyond what they Are assigned to do by  of the 950 cubans in the prison near Oakdale 419 had been identified searched and removed monday for Transfer to More than 40 other Federal lockups around the country said Art Espinoza the associate Warden at Oakdale. Federal prisons at Leavenworth Kan fort Worth and Texarkana Texas Englewood. Goto. And Mem Phis Tenn were among the destinations for the cubans Espinoza said. He declined to say How Many might go to each prison. The . Medical Center for Federal prisoners in Springfield mo., received 66 Oakdale inmates  Day said Keith Hayes an administrative assistant there. The cuban riots followed a government announce ment of the deportations to Cuba of 2,500 undesirables criminals or mentally ill who were among the 125,000 to arrive during the 1980 Mariel Boll if. Oakdale was i cited nov. 21 the Atlanta riot began a week ago monday the rioting inmates demanded that they be allowed to remain in the United slate. Dollar from Page 1 132.45 yen against Friday s final 135.75. The previous record Low close of 133.30 was set nov. 10. Traders in Amsterdam and Zurich blamed the Dol Lar s woes on failure by he . Administration to Deal satisfactorily with America s whopping Trade deficit. We see the americans As having lost All control Over the forces that control inc Dollar said a Zurich dealer. They have to tonic up with solid answers to resolving the budget deficit and not just expressions of  the Market has seen nothing in the Way of con Crete meaningful action he said. We Are heading for at least a mini crisis As All the signs Are there with a flight into  an Amsterdam dealer said it s the same Story what s happening or not happening in America Well just have to wait and see but i expect to see it weak Enin Gyt again in the Days ahead. Japanese finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa attributed the Dollar s slide to Ilow Progress in the . Government s efforts to work Oul a package to reduce the budget deficit. The Reagan administration and congressional Leaden have agreed to reduce s76 billion of the deficit Over the next two years. Elsewhere in Europe the Dollar fell in Paris closing at 5.5635 franc against Friday s closing 5,6430. In Amsterdam at 1.8410 dutch guilders against i.m50 and in Milan at 1,208.80 lire against 1,224.75. In Brussels the american currency doted at 34.42 belgian francs its lowest since in opening at 34.3s on March 19,19bi. The Dollar closed Al 34.8650friday. In London the Pound Sterling gained sharply to close at st.8305. Its highest since in opened a i .8350 on May 13, 1962. The Pound finished Friday at is .8060. Cold capitalizing on the Dollar s plight leaped to close in Zurich at 5492.50 per ounce against Friday s closing $478.50, and in London Al $491.75 per ounce against 478.50. Silver also scored major gains closing in Zurich at $7.is per ounce against Friday s final 17.00, and in London at $7.13 per ounce against $7.03, embassy from Page 1 is talc for questioning about several bombings in Paris last year that killed 11 people and wounded More than 150. He remained in the embassy. Iran Hen said Tarn was wanted for questioning about espionage and each Side blockaded the other s embassy. France broke diplomatic relations july 17. And there was Little visible movement for the next five months. Then on sunday night Gordji and Torri simultaneously submitted to questioning by authorities and were Pul on planes for Karachi a foreign ministry spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with French government rules told reporters release of the three remaining French hostages in Lebanon would be part of a normalization process that could move fairly  French diplomats in Tehran will return Home soon he said and the two countries will discuss what kind of representation to have in each other s capital. Iran monday said further improvement in relations depends on France halting arms sales to Iraq with which Iran has been at War for seven years and repay ing All of a is billion loan the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi made 13 Yean ago. . Tells Haiti Aid depends on resuming of free elections Washington a the Reagan administration said monday the partial cutoff of . Aid to Haiti announced sunday will not be rescinded until the elec toral process in that country is resumed. State department spokesman Charles Redman called on All interested parties in Haiti to gel the process moving again after opponents of the coun try s Experiment in democracy staged armed attacks on civilians provoking a postponement of he balloting. He said some of those responsible for the violence had been involved with the Duvalier dictatorship which was deposed 22 months ago. Others could not be identified he said. In response to suggestions that the United states should have done More to ensure a secure Environ ment for the elections. Redman said that Point was made repeatedly with haitian authorities before Sun Day. Redman said the . Decision to suspend military and non humanitarian Aid to Haiti was in response to an announcement by the army that Haiti s electoral commission was being dismantled and thai All election Laws were being abrogated. He said the United Stales could not consider a resumption of the Aid until the electoral process is resumed  
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