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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                                Inside stripes Danny est Ciff the sports  re Mike judge the  sundays Sake All at Raf tall Nneal  Csc won 216. See Page d of rom Springs a Surpe a d a undersea lab on Oman floor. Page football resells sports authorized unofficial  r vol. 4s. No. 227 tuesday december 1, 1987 0 d 8693 a Kal jetliner crashes 115 reported aboard Bangkok up the wreckage of a missing korean air lines jetliner with 115 people aboard was sighted monday in a rugged wooded area of Thailand near the Border with Burma a government radio operator said. The radio operator said the thai Bor Der patrol police helicopter that discovered the wreckage did not immediately spot any survivors. A ground party was being dispatched to the crash site he said. The wreckage was spotted near the thai Burma Border about 125 Miles Northwest of Bangkok the operator who asked not to be identified Lold United press International in a Telephone inter View. South korean officials could not con firm that the plane Kal flight 85b, had crashed. The jetliner in route from the Middle East to Seoul disappeared sunday after the Pilot radioed to air traffic controllers at hip Airport in the burmese capital of Rangoon that he was close to the thai Border on his Way to a refuelling Stop in Bangkok. We expect to arrive at Bangkok on schedule were the Pilot s last words to the Bangkok lower before the plane Dis appeared Kal executive director Lee  said in Seoul we got our news of the crash from villagers who came by foot from the mountainous Forest area to notify authorities the radio operator said. They heard the explosion of the plane crash ind saw the  authorities in the District of thong Pha Phum were ordered to search for the wreckage in their area. At about s . Today we received a radio message from the Kanchana Buri District police station that the wreckage has been located at Bong tee Village in Sai Yok District the radio operator  had been speculation among airline officials and the slate run Media that the jetliner could have been hijacked or exploded at 37,000 feet its Altitude when Contact with the plane was Tost. We can t exclude the possibility of the Airliner being missing having an emergency Landing or being involved in a hijacking South korean foreign ministry spokesman Kim hang Kyong had  there is no confirmation report from any of the South korean embassies involved in the presumed crash area he  extensive search of the heavily for ested mountainous Border area Between Thailand and Burma had been quickly organized but had to be put off until see Kal on Page 28 cuban inmates surrender in Louisiana Oakdale la. A cuban in males sunday threw Down their weapons and freed the 26 hostages they had held for eight Days at a burned out Federal prison after a cuban born Bishop urged them to sign a surrender agreement. The agreement promises no reprisals for the damage to the prison and a on by one review of All prisoners cases. The inmates had been fighting possible Deporta Tion to Cuba because of criminal records or mental  Atlanta s riot Lorn Federal Penitentiary cuban inmates released four hostages Over the weekend Leav ing 90 people still captive. The former Oakdale hostages some of them grinning broadly walked from the Federal detention Center and were met by cheering and weeping rela  re dirty. They re in Good spirits. They re Hun Gry. They All appear to be stressed somewhat said or. Roy Harding of Humana Hospital. All have been checked and appear to be doing very  after releasing the hostages the 950 cuban inmates threw their homemade knives clubs hammers and hoards studded with nails into a pile in the prison Yard. One cuban waved an american Flag. Cubans seized inc facility on nov. 21 and inc Feder Al Penitentiary in Atlanta two Days later in riots sparked by a government announcement that Many inmates would be returned to Cuba. The inmates demanded that they be allowed to re main in the United slates. Federal officials had offered earlier in the we Klong crisis to delay any deportations until the cubans cases could be reviewed individually. The rioting left one person dead in Atlanta s3 peo ple injured and both prisons badly damaged by fires and looting. About a half hour after the hostages were released inmates it Oakdale la Post an Appeal. Four representatives of the inmates signed inc agreement with inc government. The signing was witnessed at the inmates insistence by auxiliary Bishop Agustin roman of Miami s roman Catholic archdiocese who earlier had urged a  Woods whose 22-year-old son Patrick was one of the hostage said the first thing his son wanted to know was what kind of Deal was made. He said his son a correctional officer looked drained. They doctors told me Don t expect the same person Woods said. He s the same Guy. Just quiet , Williams a regional director of the Federal Bureau of prisons who was the government s chief negotiator refused to immediately reveal details of the agreement saying it might jeopardize negotiations with cubans in Atlanta. But the agreement was Dis played to news cameras by an aide to roman. We did not give away the store Williams said. I think it s a Good agree Mcnol. It s an agreement we All can live with. We got an amenable  the agreement As displayed to reporters says no cuban detainees will be held liable for any damage to this Date sustained by the institution during the hos Tage situation at this  it Alio Promise san expeditious review of the cases of in males not already approved for parole and no arbitrary change in the status of inmates with Spon sors or families who have already ctn approved for  general Edwin Melesc Iii in a statement released by the Justice department in Washington said while this is understandably a time of rejoicing and thanksgiving the department of Justice will not rest until inc situation in Atlanta is also peacefully concluded and All the hostages there arc  . Halts most Aid after Haiti election cancelled Washington a the United Stales is culling off military and other non humanitarian Aid to Haiti in the Wake of violence thai forced the Cancella Tion of elections there the state depart ment said sunday. The move effective immediately comes in View of inc actions of the a Lionial governing Council of Haiti Dis solving the provisional electoral commis Sion and abrogating All electoral legislation department spokesman Ben Jamin just Csc said in a statement Haiti officials said More than two dozen people have been killed in wide spread violence throughout the Caribbean nation and on sunday the Independent electoral Council cancelled inc first i he Dulce National elections in Haiti in 30 years. Haiti s military dominated Junta Dis solved the Independent electoral coun cil. At least is voters were shot and hacked to death at one polling station in the capital. Twelve other deaths were re ported in scattered locations. Junta chief la. Gen. Henri Namphy condemned the violence in a television announcement and said elections can still be held. He said he still plans 10 step Down As promised on feb. 7, 19bb, to make Way for a freely elected president. Justesen said he did not have exact figures for the amount of Aid being Cut air but District of Columbia congressional Delegate Walter e. Fauntroy chairman of the congressional task Force on Haiti said the total authorised for see Haiti on Page 28  
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