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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, December 31, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 8 the stars and stripes thursday december 31,1987 traffic at merry clip a in foot Lall steel paper clip Oil bolts traffic at 11 bust intersection in Ink Jurf Germany it s Ilif Kiik land City s nut Cal Public Art form Dromard up by students of design at a local vocational school. Cosmonauts move soyuz to make room for shuttles Moscow a two Cosmo nauts beginning a yearlong up incr miming moved their Soyu tm-4 to a new a i Al the Mir space station to make Way for Supply shuttle. The Tass news Agency reported wednes  Brief report on the Maneu vers ill the Orbital space Stii Unn made no mention of inc just concluded mis skin of cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko i recur cd to each on tuesday after  in space. Soviet Media said tuesday Nyplu that Rii Manczko 43. W i. Feeling Well after his return with two Oiler Nam nauts in a soft Landing on tin1 ka7akhstan a Lippi. Aboard lie Soyu tm-3 capsule. Romanenko was smiling and sip Pine Lea in film footage shown Dur ing the tuesday night Vrem a i tit vision news program. Researchers will examine closely the results of his medical checkups u Mudy the effects of prolonged weightlessness on inc human body and determine the feasibility a manned interplanetary travel. The soyuz tm-4 capsule blasted off from the Bai Konur space station on dec. 23, carrying cosmonauts Vladimir Titov Musa Sanarov and analogy Lovchenko. Lovchenko returned 1o Earth tuesday aboard the Soyu tm-3 with Romanenko and Al Sander Alexandrov who arrived at the Mir As part of a syrian soviet Crew in july. Tislov and Sanarov remain aboard he Mir station for what Tass Lias said will be a yearlong Mission surpassing Romanenko s record for space endurance. Tuss said the two cosmonauts still in space spent wednesday moving the soyuz tm-4 capsule from its original Docking position attached to the kvant Labo of cosmonaut Romanenko is retled tuesday Bys Iii t i torte  component located in one of the six Mir Nous. The tm-4 was moved to its own port freeing the Kvanli Dock for receipt of unmanned cargo vessels that will ferry food fuel and older supplies to the Cosmo nauts. Tass said. The a Docking took 19 minutes according to Ite Tass report. The cosmonauts entered i he tm-4, closed the airtight seals of the port separated from the Mir at 12 10 . Moscow time and a docked Al 12 29 . Tass said that the operation proceeded according to plan and hat Titov and Sanarov were feeling Well. The two cosm annuls Are expected to Host a join soviet bulgarian Mission this summer and will Send the next 12 months carrying out scientific studies. Aquino promises compensation to families of ship collision victims Manila Philippines a president Cora Ion Aquino Aid her government will compensate relatives of about 1,600 people killed when a passenger ferry crowded with Christmas travellers collided with an Oil Tanker. Investigators of inc Century s worst peacetime disaster Al sen said icy May never be Able to determine who was responsible for the collision of the 2.215-ton ferry Dona pa7 and inc 629-ton Tanker vector. The vessels crashed and exploded in inc shark in filled Tablas Straits off Mindoro Island leaving the Alerv ablaze As inc ships Sank on the night of dec. 20. Only 26 people survived including iwo crewmen from the vector. The coast guard on tuesday said Only 108 bodies had been found and earlier figures were wrong because of multiple reporting of bodies it had said last Friday thai 242 bodies had been recovered but revised the number to 133 a Day later. During a memorial service tuesday night Al a sports Complex where bodies of victims have ctn taken for identification Aquino Lold relatives that her govern ment will consult them on compensation and other actions the president promised help from both the govern ment and private sector. Many of the victims were from poor families in the impoverished Visayan is lands of Samar and Lyle. Rudy Villanueva Legal officer of the Marino inquiry Board investigating the collision said his panel was hampered by a Lack of witnesses. We have no reliable personal information on the relative positions of the vessels prior to and up to the Point of  Villanueva said. So How can we arrive at a credible conclusion we arc not losing Hope hut it will be very  world s oldest person Dies at 114 Swansea Wales a the world s oldest per son Anna Eliza Williams has died Al the age of 114 years and 209 Days a spokesman for the Tuxedo 1 lome for the aged said tuesday. Williams died peacefully sunday night Al the Horne in Swansea where she had lived for several years said Hugh Gardener assistant director of West Glamorgan social services. She died a tall of old  Gardener said. She Jusi son of ran Oul of steam according to. Inc guinness Boot of world records Williams became the world s oldest living person when Mamie pc ii of Pihir Rayville. 111., died in september i to a age in. No other person has Ever  ulc to Pruvli such a great age us a birth Reni fixate the Guinney Book said Tulsa. Thi oldest Aulten tickled inh in Nail of the world my he comic March Insp of Norway. To cd Lebrat a her 11 Ullh birthday last week. Williams was born on june 2, 1873. When Ulysses s. Grant was president of the United Stales and the year the Remington typewriter was invented. She has lived under six British monarchs. Sinning with Queen Victoria and 21 prime ministers. During her lifetime she saw he invention of the car. Air plane radio and television. Williams a former Cook whilst husband died Ujj years ago. Is survived by her a Auphy t. F Onstance har buy. Two grandchildren and pad grf Iii grandchild run. Harvey attributed her Mother s Long iroc to a Calm tempt Rajiri it Ami a cart Appi Mur fur Plain food including Pleni of Green  sin1 Neier Sunki a. Did not like in Lake pills or i Diurni s Jwj drank Only .1 nip of she Rev on ii i hire adj s. U  is ii famil Iran. A   him i in ix-1 44, and All 101 11 of l i a hot Fri and Spiten Luppi a so years Cine it atom i i ill i hrs. Worm today several die when building collapses in Bombay new Delhi India a at Easl seven people were killed and nine others injured when a five Story apartment House in South Bombay collapsed on wednesday the United news of India  dead included two children he news Agency  quoted police officials As saying that Al least 19 More people were buried under he de Bris of the building. The 40-year-old building in a Donie a Southern suburb collapsed after heavy Iron beams were hoisted onto its Motif 10 repair an adjoining Structure uni said. The City has an acute shortage of residential accommodations. 28 children die 100 Hurt in fall on school staircase Beijing a Twenty Highl children died and 100 others were injured when hundreds of children Al a Central China primary school fell Over each other on an unlighted staircase. The China youth news reported tuesday. The daily newspaper said most of the dead at the school in Shansi province Southwest of peking were less than 10 years old. Eight of the injured were in serious condition it said. It said the Accident occurred Early monday when pupils in the four Story school building were called outside for a regular morning meet ing on the playground. One of the two stairs Liws was closed and pupils from to Dasis on the second Llnore and a Banc. Crammed Sinilo a single Marcase. 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