European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d comedian Hope honoured by Reagan Page 3 u Pentagon turning to lighter forces Page 9 d Vikings beat saints 44-10 in nil playoffs sports Page 21 uth a unofficial Fui Lickton Fot the it. Mme foice1vol. 4no. 2s9 monday january 4, 1988 d 8693 a Israel raids guerrilla centers Beirut. Lebanon a israeli Juls firing rockets in a Midnight raid devastated three Tomt Nana centers of inc palestinian guerrilla Force responsible for deadly hang glider snack on Israel in november police said sunday. See related Story i a 28. Twenty one people were killed including six guerrillas and 30 people were bounded lebanese police hid. They said those killed included 12 members of two lebanese families at least four of them under age 10. Whose Rock Thiis. Twelve israeli fighter bombers thundered in from the Mediterranean just before Midnight saturday to raid the bases of the syrian backed popular from forthe liberation of Palestine general command. The three targets were of the teeming Ein Al Hilch refugee Camp near the Southern port of Sidon in the port of Jiye to the North and in inc nearby druse controlled Shouf Region Inland. People scurried to bomb shelters Ai Ein Al Hilweh As inc Juls illuminated target areas with Parachute flares. Two direct rocket hits from the planes then devastated he guerrillas Thiec Story Villa in a nearby banana grave. A two Story Headquarters was reduced to rubble in Jiye and a two Story command Post was wrecked on the outskirts of Barja in inc Shouf Region. An israeli army spokesman said the pilots reported accurate hits in the raids carried out As pan of our policy against terrorist bases in Barja. Three Miles Southeast of Jiye took the Brunt of the israeli attack. Israeli officials say Dnise Leader Walid Jumblatt s progressive socialist party militia has been using Itye to smuggle palestinian guerrillas Back to Lebanon. The raid was in apparent retaliation for the nov. 25 attack in which a palestinian guerrilla flew a Motari cd hang glider to an army outpost in Northern Israel. He killed six soldiers and wounded eight with hand Gre Nadys and machine gun fire before he was killed. A second airborne guerrilla was shot Down inside Israel s self proclaimed Security zone in Wuth Leb anon. It was the deadliest attack launched from Leb anon on Israel in nearly a decade. The popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command is headed by Ahmed j Fibril and is Allied with Jum Bialt whose militia is among the mightiest in Lebanon s civil War. After inc november glider attack. Prime minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel said the United Stales an the soviet Union had asked his country not to retaliate immediately for fear of Iling the superpowers Washington Summit in december. Plane crash in Turkey kills 16 Ankara. Turkey up a chartered West German Boeing 737 May have exploded before crashing into a Mountainside near the Western City of inner killing 16 people a turkish offi Cial said sunday. Tie bodies were Prend Over a wide area so we cannot Rule out the possibility that inc aircraft Hoke up before in crashed said Mir regional governor Vecdi minister Jevrem i and Elmili said sabotage had not been ruled out bul lit1 said there Wys a possibility the aircraft Lead been struck by lightning As it began it descent to the a Mir Airport in Hen j rain. Rescue workers recovered the bodies of the five West German Crew members and 11 passengers All turkish just be fore Dawn sunday from a Mountainside near the coastal Village of by scr South West of Izmir. Inv Anaisha news Agency Condor airlines hoeing 7j7 had been chartered Lohy turkish migrant workers Between Stu Wigart and a Mir. Condor is a subsidiary of the West Ger Man airline 125-Seal aircraft look Lff from Stuttgart saturday night with Only 11 passengers bul in was fully booked for the return flight to Germany. Flight controllers said i hey last had Contact Wilh inc aircraft at 7 20 . Sat urday about an hour before its scheduled Landing time at Izmir s Adnan Man acres Airport. Sailor killed in terror attack buried sailors pay final tribute to shun Petty Offler 3.c. Rom id a Strong. Reeders. A. A . Navy Felly officer 3.c. Ronald c. Strong was buried in his Hometown sat urday a week after he was killed by a terrorist s grenade thrown into a crowded i so club in Barcelona. 200 mourners gathered be Neath Gray skies to watch As Strong casket was lowered into the Snow Cov ered ground at Recd is cemetery. A bugler played tans and a . Naval Honor guard fired a 21-gun Salute. Strong was kilted and nine other persons were injured Dee. 2ft after an Albacker shouting Long live Leb anon threw two hand grenades into the United service organizations As on Holiday Liberty from the destroyer Thorn when the attack occurred lie died sunday during sur Gery to remove shrapnel from his rear Adin. Albert e. Khedir. Com Mander of the Philadelphia naval base presented an american Flag and a commendation for a purple in Art to his s parents Donald and Bev Erly Ana his pregnant wife. Amy. In were consoled at the funeral by family members friends representatives of local veterans organizations and Navy representatives. " would indeed be presumptuous to stand before you and fir Clond that could give you a satisfactory Tion of this tragedy the Rev. Henry e. Zapotocki at on lady of Victor roman Catholic Church said in his Eulogy. The events of last sat urday evening Force us to deepen our Trust in god. Spilled fuel forces evacuation of 1,200 Jefferson i Enn. Ufir Emer gency workers contained some of thud in Sel fuel from a Colp cd 3 million gallon Lank and leaking gasoline i rum an Adja cent Lank sunday uen Mink q potentially explosive mix thai forced the evacuation of some 1.2w people authorities said. Diesel fuel from the Ashland Oil and about 20,000 Gallons of Gas Oline spilled into the Monongahela River before the spills were contained Leav ing a i 6-Milc-Long slide on the River. Air bags and booms were used to sur round fuel on the ground to keep it from reaching the River but there was no immediate estimate of How much had been contained. Worker used a Golf Tec and rubber plugs to Stop the leak from a i million gallon gasoline Lank that was damaged by debris from the saturday evening cof Lapu of inc adjacent Dic Sci fuel Tanc. About 350 families use 1,200 people in three communities in a 10 Square mile area near the facility 35 Miles South of Rill Burgh were Vaeua cd to a High school at 12 30 . Sunday officials said. The smell from the diesel fuel could be detected As far South As Pittsburgh. The Allegheny county emergency management Agency planned to re Eval uate its evacuation order later an Agency spokesman said residents could return Home in time for dinner. Initially authorities built a Dike to try to contain the leaking gasoline that when mixed with diesel produces highly explosive Vapours. But the Dike overflowed before a truck could suction off inc gasoline and some20,000 Gallons of the fuel was released into the River already slicked by diesel Oil. The diesel Lank at about so percent capacity with no. 2 diesel fuel collapsed see fuel on Back Page
