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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday december 14,1987 200,000 protest Spanish bombing relatives of it killed in hit car bombing Cany her coffin out of o Church in Ymir com after a fun Mil mass held saturday for the 11 victims. Zaragoza. Spain up a crowd estimated at 200,000 marched silently through downtown streets Sun Day to protest a Basque terrorist bomb ing hat killed 11 people. The March was led by two weeping playmates of one of the five children who died when the car bomb packed with 110 pounds of explosives ripped through a civil guard compound be fore Dawn on Friday. Behind a Banner Reading Zaragoza for peace and against terrorism the somber procession marched silently in the rain for in Miles As thousands lined the route Hung with Spanish flags trimmed in Black. Police estimated the turnout Al More than 200,000 and said it was one of the biggest demonstrations Over held in Zaragoza 200 Miles Northeast of Madrid. Several marchers carried placards Reading Eta kills  refer ring to the Basque terrorist Organiza Tion believed responsible for the attack. Friends of one of the victims 7 year old Silvia Pino whose father and Mother also died carried a Banner Reading Silvia we will never forget  resides the five Young girls Kim cd including a pair of 3-year-old twins four paramilitary civil guards and two women also died. Several leading politicians from the Northern Basque Region also look part in the silent protest. Seven of the 56 people injured by the blast which destroyed the three Story Brick Barracks housing some 40 civil guards and their families remained hospitalized sunday no group has claimed responsibility for the bombing nut authorities say Eta a Basque language acronym for dais us Homeland and Freedom was responsible. Eta has targeted mostly members of the Spanish Security forces in its 19 year War for the Independence of Spain s Basque area Anil has killed More than 550 people. Group warns of revenge for extradition Beirut Lebanon up associates of Mayumi Hachiya a suspect in the Downing of a korean air lines jetliner thai vanished last month with 115 peo ple aboard warned Bahrain sunday against extraditing her to South Korea. A statement signed by the friends of Mayumi Hachiya was delivered Early sunday to the West Beirut offices of the Independent an Nahar newspaper. We warn the government of the stale of Bahrain against consequences of handing Over the woman Mayumi Hachiya to the government of the Republic of Korea especially since this Girt has no link with the subject of the plane the statement said. Hachiya. 28. And her companion Shinichi Hachiya identified As her father arc suspected of sabotaging korean air lines right 858, which vanished nov. 29 in route to Bangkok Thailand and Seoul South Korea. Debris believed to be from the wreckage has been spotted in he Andaman sea olt Burma. The statement said we hold the government of Bahrain fully responsible for the safely of the woman for the Sake of Bahrain s interests at Home and abroad. We arc capable of striking Back and taking  the suspects carrying forged japanese passports got off the plane at a Slop in Abu Dahabi after boarding the plane in Baghdad Iraq. The couple then went to Bahrain. When approached by officials at the Bahrain air port the couple bit into cyanide laced cigarettes Hachiya survived but her companion died. South korean authorities Are seeking the extradition of Hachiya who reportedly told Bahrain investigators that she was bom in China and lived in Portugal and Tokyo. Watched by boatloads of spectators the Stern of he Rainbow Warrior slips beneath he Waters of the Pacific. Greenpeace a flip goes Down for last time off new zealand Matari Bay new zealand a the Rainbow Warrior went to a watery grave saturday scuttled by the Greenpeace environmental group 2fe years after French frogman bombed in in Auckland Harbor the patched and rusting vessel was Lowed to the Cavan i islands Oft the Northern tip of new zealand and sunk in 60 feet of water to become an artificial reef and a symbolic diving memorial it s a fitting end for a ship that tried so Long to protect the environment a Greenpeace spokesman said. Hours earlier an pm Lional Greenpeace member tried to Chain himself to the vessel to prevent its scuttling the new zealand press association said. The sinking finishes what was begun by French divers who used two Limpet mines to tear apart its Hull drowning a photographer in Auckland Harbron july 10.1985. The French government originally ordered the ship sunk to prevent in from leading a protest flotilla to he French nuclear test site on muru Roa atoll. The subsequent murder investigation capture and jail ing of two of the half dozen French agents involved Trig gered a major diplomatic Row Between anti nuclear new zealand and France. Convicted saboteurs maj. Alain Rafart and capt. Do Minique Picur were each jailed for 10 years and later released to French custody on the polynesian Island of Hao in Exchange for $10 million lifting of a Trade ban on new zealand imports and an unprecedented apology. R Nicaragua to double its military Managua Nicaragua a de sense minister Humberto Ortega said saturday the sandinista government plans to More than double its military forces in about seven years because of a possible . Invasion. Speaking Al an Assembly of sandinista labor Leaden he said inc military Wilt increase its per Noel from 250,000 to 300.000 within the nest few months and. Conditions permitting to 600,000 by 1995. With what military strength we have now the gringos have something to think about. This is not Grenada. Here in will not be the  Ortega said refer ring to the 1933 . Invasion of the Caribbean Island of Grenada and his gov Emmen s repeated claims that the United Slak i plans military action against Nicaragua. Meanwhile. Maj. Roger Miranda Bengoc Cha who defected from Nicara Gua said that the sandinista government planned to increase its armed forces to 370,000 by 1990 and to 500,000 by 1995. Azcui �0 percent of that will be in reserves and militia Miranda said. This Force would repro win one of the most powerful armies in Lai in America Miranda said in an interview in Washington last week with the associated press and three other news organizations. It was inc first time he had spoken Publ icly since his defection on oct. 25, Ortega said the defense figures include regular military troops Reserve forces Mili Iasar Security units. Ortega said Nicaragua Ilio plans to upgrade its military equipment with new interceptor car Pines and other arms. I did not elaborate  
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