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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. January 10, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 the saw tractor sin a Ltd the run ten of the mingled ski lilt Pylon. Tractor ski lift collision kills 1 person injures 3 Val p Sere France a one person died and three others were injured saturday when a Snow tractor hit a ski lift Pylon at this Alpine resort causing iwo lift Cabins to fall police said. This Accident is comparable to a traffic  said Claude Regis of the local tourist Bureau. This Accident has nothing to do with ski lift safety. It is like car thai Lii a  the Snow tractor was transporting supplies to a restaurant on the Daill Chlopik when it began to slide out of control on icy Snow. When inc Driver saw  hi1 Haj Luil control of the vehicle on i in Strep slope he jumped and was crushed in Dalh by the tractor i continued in slide downhill arid trashed Inlo a Pylon causing it to lilt hut. Derailing inc cables. Thai caused Israel plans talks on autonomy for occupied areas Jerusalem up1 prime min ister Yitzhak Shamir told three . Senators Friday thai once Israel restores order in the West Bank and Gaza strip it will propose negotiations with inc palestinians to establish local autonomy in the occupied territories. Sen Alfonse d Amato . Later told reporters that Shamir said Itsel would propose talks on establishing local autonomy within the framework of the 1978 Camp David accords on thursday Shamir said there would never be a palestinian state in the territories. There has been no significant movement in recent years to resolve the status of the occupied territories. At least 27 palestinians have been killed by army gunfire and 1.978 detained since the unrest began dec. 9 in the West Bank and Gaza strip which Mirael seized in inc 1967 Arab israeli conflict. The latest fatality was an Arab killed Friday during a violent protest in the Bereij refugee Camp in the Gaza strip the two Cabin cars o fall about so feel to Itic ground injuring three persons Only one seriously. The injured were evacuated by Heli copter to inc Hospital in Bourg Simau Rice. The Accident caused a 30-Minulc delay in the beginning of the men s world cup downhill ski race at Val d is arc which was eventually won by Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland. The competitors were to have used the daily a lift Togel to the Oneilljr Kitty slope but icy were forced to use another 111. We Felt a violent Shock then All of the Cabins started to go up and go Down said Pierre Viglino a passenger in one of the can. "1 thought the Cabin had come unhooked. We stayed there about i rec quarters of an hour then the helicopter came to get  Hospital sources said. Maybe the disturbances will provide the impetus to move this process for Ward p Amato said. Shamir discussed inc possibility of autonomy talks during an afternoon meeting with the senators an aide to inc prime minister said d Amato accompanied by Republican Sens. Warren Rudman of new Hampshire and Ted Stevens of Alaska arrived in Israel Friday the fifth Stop on their tour of the Middle East. Earlier Friday the three senators whore members of the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee met with foreign minister Shimon Peres who briefed them on the situation in the Terri tories. They also discussed the . Peacekeeping Force in the persian Gulf and . Aid to Israel a foreign ministry spokesman said. D Amato said .-Iirocli lies Are still close despite . Approval tuesday or . Security Council Resolution calling on Israel to refrain from deporting nine palestinian activists accused of inciting violence in inc occupied territories. . Feam arrives to tour soviet nuke testing Range Moscow a a learn of 20 . Government scientists has arrived in the soviet Union for a Lour of the Kremlin s chief nuclear testing Range the official Tais news Agency reported saturday. The delegation led by . Assistant defense Secretary Robert Barker arrived Friday night and planned to Fly to the Semipalatinsk testing Range in kazakh Stan on sunday Tass said. Barker whose expertise is in nuclear Energy had a meeting saturday with soviet Deputy foreign minister Vladimir f. Petrovsky during which the two official reviewed their governments policies on nuclear testing the news Agency said. The soviet Union has proposed a moratorium on testing while the two nations Are involved in full scale negotiations in Geneva on a treaty Banning All test explosions. Kremlin official contend testing runs counter to the superpowers Al forts id scale Back nuclear weapons development and dismantle those arms already deployed. Bui . Officials claim some nuclear testing is necessary to ensure the safely of i tiling weaponry and to fur ther development of the Star wars missile defense system. The soviet Union observed a 19 month testing moratorium beginning in August 1985 but abandoned the Effort when the . Government refuse to Jain into Cachion. The american scientists trip to the Kazakhstan facility is in be followed later this month by a visit of soviet nuclear experts to the . Testing Range in Nevada. The Exchange was agreed to last month during soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev Ummil with  in Washington. During a foreign ministry briefing on thursday spokesman Vadim Perfi lick described the visits As fact find ing  the trips show that new limes Are beginning in soviet american relations when doors of even the most classified facilities such As lest Sites Are Starling to open per filter said. Other americans who have visited the test site Over the past two year include members of a private Environ menial group the natural resources defense Council and a . Congressional delegation that toured the facility Lasi fall a Small non nuclear explosion was set off during a foreign press Lour of the Range last year to demonstrate thai seismic monitoring equipment can de Lect blasts even hundreds of Miles away. Oil Slick fouls dutch coast threatens sea Birds a Musihin. Netherlands a hundreds of yol Wium saturday tallied to save thousands of sea Birds in in Oil Illuk 18 Miles Long washed ashore along  l us h coast. I to Slu a. In origin of which has Noi Sci been Iab i Luil. H a lil d Thi dutch North sea coast late Friday  Hie first  Birds wen1 found Early saturday my Man. According to a dutch coast guard spokesman. 1 Iii h Juilio Rivil s saturday launched a search by pl-iih1 Una ship 10 find the vessel responsible for Caus ing the Oil Slick one of the worst to occur Here in recent years according to the spokesman. He declined to be identified by name. In the course of saturday the dutch agriculture and environment ministries As Well As numerous Volunteer organic Lions sent hundreds of people to the dutch beaches to collect the Oil Slick s feathered victims Many of whom had already died according to the spokesman. So far the Slick has washed ashore Between Wasse Naar a Village 6 Miles North of the Hague  in inc province of Mccland where in is covering an uninterrupted strip 3.7 Miles Long and is feet wide the spokesman said. Nowhere along the coast were drinking water sup plies in jeopardy according to the spokesman. The Bird Rescue operation was expected to continue Over the weekend while it was not immediately Clear when an action to clean up the beaches was to begin according to the spokesman  
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