European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday february z9,13bb Iraq vows revenge As War escalates Nicosia Cyprus a Iran sent Pincson bombing missions Over Iraq on sunday in revenge for iraqi air raids and Baghdad said it would retaliate. The blow for a blow attacks began saturday with raids on Oil refineries in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran and they rekindled fears of a flare up in he dormant War of the  which has left thousands dead since 1984. An iraqi communique said iranian units had at tacked five cities since saturday ignoring a threat of severe retaliation against iranian cities including Teh ran. There in t any alternative left but to firmly Reta Liate against these criminals said an iraqi communique carried by the official iraqi news Agency. Recalling a warning on saturday by an iraqi military spokesman the communique added All iranian Cit ies will be targets for our missiles and warplanes As of now and until further  earlier a communique from Tehran s War information Headquarters said iranian planes bombed the petrochemical Plant of Basra Oil installations in Abul Khasi to the Southeast and a Bridge linking the umm Rassas Isle in the disputed Shalt Al Arab waterway with Mainland  tiny Isle is a Forward iraqi position Southeast of Basra on me Southern sector of the front with Iran. All iranian planes resumed safely from the mid morning raids said the communique earned by Teh ran  added that the raids were in retaliation for an iraqi air raid saturday on a non military area in the Tehran suburb of a ghz that killed 25 civilians and wounded an unspecified number. In a statement carried by Ina the iraqi military command denied that its planes had attacked Saghezi or any civilian areas of Iran on saturday and called the claim an insolent arrangement by Iran to cover up its shelling of residential areas in  Iraq said the strikes were aimed at crippling the Economy of its foe in the 7-Ycar-old Gulf War. The Ina monitored in Nicosia quoted military communiques As laying that iranian artillery gunners later saturday and again on sunday shelled residential areas in Basra and the Border town of Al Quma. The Central Border town of Khana Qin and the Northern Kalat Diza were bombarded on sunday. Two women and a child were killed and several other people were wounded in sunday s shelling the news Agency said. Ina said five civilians were killed and 14 others were wounded in Basra on saturday. Two civilians were killed and two others wounded in shelling on Al quran the Agency said. New greek Cypre of Leader promises to seek direct discussions with Turkey Nicosia Cyprus a a new presidential administration was ushered in sunday with a Promise to seek direct talks with Turkey to unify Cyprus which has been split Between turkish and Creek cypriots for 14 years. George Vassiliou Leader of 500.000 greek cypriots said shortly after taking the oath of office that he would pursue meeting with turkish prime minister Turgut Ozal As soon As  but Vassiliou also cautioned that until we reach a just and viable settlement the constant improvement of our defensive capability is of the highest priority. So that we May be Able to face the worst  after the ceremony the 56-year-old Vassiliou a millionaire businessman who won the presidency feb. 21 As a Independent with communist backing announced the makeup of his 11-Mcm bar Council of ministers nine of whom Are political newcomers. Vassiliou said any solution to the Cyprus crisis must include the withdrawal of an estimated 30,000 turkish troops and 65,000 settlers on the Northern third of the Island. A settlement also would have to allow 200,000 greek cypriots to return to their Northern Homes and include inter National go franices against foreign intervention he said. The Eastern Mediterranean Island has been unofficially partitioned since tur key occupied its Northern third in 1974. The turkish invasion followed a coup by greek cypriots and greek army officers supporting a Union with Greece. Vassiliou charged that 14 years after the invasion Turkey is methodically to Reifying our occupied land while the occupation troops increase and Are sup plied with the latest Type of  he added the settlers from the main land arc also increasing suppressing the turkish cypriots and altering the demographic composition of the population. We Are faced by the worst calamity in our centuries Long  turkish cypriot minority which makes up 17 percent of the population of 650.000, proclaimed its own breakaway stale in the turkish occupied North in 1983. Only Turkey has recognized the stale. 3 convicted of conspiring to murder . Customs agent for $25,000 fee los Angeles a three mexi can citizens including a former mexican police detective charged in the torture murder of a . Drug agent were convicted of conspiring to murder a . Customs agent. The charges grew out of a series of meetings with an undercover investigator in which defendant Raul Lopez Alva rez offered to murder the customs agent for a $25,000 fee. No killing took place. Lopez Alvarez 29 who also faces charges in the 1985 slaying of . Drug enforcement administration agent Enri que Camarena was convicted Friday of conspiracy to murder a Federal agent and conspiracy to Kidnap a Federal agent. Two men Lopez Alvarez hired in mex Ico to assist him in the slaying conspiracy Carlos Quintero Maldonado 25, and Fabian Jimenez Martinez. 22, also were convicted. Quintero Maldonado was acquitted on a charge that he travelled to the United states from Mexico to carry out the murder plot. The men could receive life imprison ment. Sentencing was scheduled for april 18 before . District judge Pam Ela m. Rymer. Lawyers for the defendants had argued that Lopez Alvarez and the two men he hired never intended to carry out the murder but had planned All along to stage a rip off of the undercover drug agent with whom they were negotiating. They believed that the undercover agent was a narcotics dealer. Lopez Alvarez a former homicide investigator for the mexican state judicial police told undercover agents he was an enforcer for the powerful narcotics organization of Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and had a direct role in Camarina s abduction and torture. In 12 hours of government tapes presented As evidence Lopez Alvarez ragged about his knowledge of Camarina s torture and promised to repeat it on the customs agent. If it was part of a scam they oversold it too much said jury Foreman David armas 28, a postal worker from Alham Bra. Especially when they talked about killing someone you looked at their faces and they showed no  nine people have been indicted in the Camarena Case two of whom will retried with Lopez Alvarez. Caro Quintero and Fonseca Carrillo have been jailed in Mexico City in connection with the Case. Lopez Alvarez had been charged in mex Ico with the Camarena murder but he was later released. Panda crisis nearly Over expert says Beijing a China s giant pan Das which have faced extinction since 1983 from withering supplies of Bamboo their dietary Staple have survived the worst of the crisis an expert said. Forestry minister Gao Dezihan said new Bamboo stands have started to grow in Sichuan shaan i and Ginsu prov inces where More than 250,000 metric tons of Bamboo have flowered and with ered since 1983, the official people s daily reported saturday. However he cautioned that the threat to the pandas survival is not Over Point ing out that the animals do not care for Young Bamboo. Gao called on the leaders of the three provinces who were attending a meeting in Beijing Friday on China s most be loved animal to continue to guard the pandas safety. The giant Panda is native Only to the three provinces in Central and Southwest Ern China and rarely Breeds in Captivity. China s Panda population now just under 1,000, has been declining for the past five years because a rare flowering Cycle of the Arrow Bamboo caused Large amounts of the plants to Wither and die. At least $2 million in donations from around the world have been sent to China through the world wildlife fund to save the dying Panda. At the same meeting Gao called for strict penalties including the death pen Alty for Hunters who capture or kill giant pandas. Eleven men were sentenced last week to prison terms ranging from three years to life for killing two giant pandas in Sichuan province. Earlier reports said some Panda populations were also facing extinction be cause of inbreeding. Experts suggested that China link the Panda populations of its 12 nature preserves or Trade male pandas for Breeding purposes. Pews updates China retires ii-18s Beijing a two soviet made planes of the same Model As the one that crashed in Jan uary killing All 108 on Board Nave been retired from China s National airline an official re port said. The two Ilyushin ll-l8s were put out of service after the civil aviation administration of China the nation s Flag Carrier conducted safety checks of its entire Fleet the overseas edition of the people s daily said. Three other planes including a Tu-154 and a bae-146, were temporarily grounded for repairs. Canc conducted the safety checks of us planes and those of its six subsidiaries following the crash Jan. 18 of a Southwest China air lines flight near Chongqing Sichuan province killing All 98 Pas sengers and 10 Crew members. Challenger lawsuit Orlando Florida up a Federal judge has dropped Nas from a $1.5 billion lawsuit tiled by the wife of a challenger astronaut against the space Agency Morton Thi Okol inc. And a former Nasa manager officials said. . District judge Patricia Fawsett also dismissed the suit s Effort to bar Morton Thi Okol from continuing to Supply solid fuel boosters for Nasa s shuttle pro Gram. The lawsuit was filed May 6, 1987, by Jane Smith wife of Chal Lenger co Pilot Michael Smith in  court in Orlando. The sin count suit requested a total of $500 million in actual damages from Nasa Morton Hioko inc. And Wience Muj Loy Nasa s former manager of the Booster project and an additional is billion in punitive dam Ages from Morton Thi Okol the sole maker of shuttle boosters. The portions of the suit involving Mulloy and Morton Thi Okol still stand according to spokeswoman for Smith s attorney. Of Security policeman Dies As car hits tree Wiesbaden a . Air Force Security policeman from the 7361ft Muni Lions support so at Klein Roget Bel Gium was killed Early sunday morning when his car struck a tree in esd. Bel Gium. His name is being withheld pending notification of next of Kin