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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes sunday March 13,1988page 28 f of Charles returns Home with body of Friend London a Prince Charles flew Home from Switzerland Friday with the body of a Friend who was killed by a Avalanche thai nearly engulfed the future King As it roared Down a Mountain in a terrifying Mailer of  with Mai. Hugh Lindsay s wife Sarah he Prince watched As six Soldier from his dead Friend s Royal lancers regiment bore he Flag draped coffin from the red and while Jet or he Queen s flight. A private funeral service in Devon was being arranged for Lindsay bal no Dale was announced. Charles his wife. Princess Diana and sister in Law Sarah the Duch Cis of York All dressed in Black walked from the Jet at Northolt air base near London they were met by mrs. Lindsay 34, Buckingham Palace press officer. She and Lindsay also 3-1. Were mar ried last summer she it pacts a baby in May. He was a former aide to Queen news briefs Elizabeth it. Mrs. Lindsay left the Northolt base with her father. Prince Charles departed for Windsor Castle. 20 Miles away and Diana and inc Duchess of York went to Kensington Palace. In a statement read to reporters at he Zurich Airport after he Royal party left Charles described helping dig Patricia Palmer Tomkinson out of he Snow witha shovel then with his hands. Both of her legs were broken and she is hospitalized in Switzerland the statement said Charles and five companions were skiing at our risk and we All accepted  the statement added that mountains have to be treated with the greatest respect and not treated Light  when the Avalanche started with air Meedous roaring he and three others skied out of its path the statement said. Then "10 my horror maj. Hugh Lind say and mrs. Palmer Tonkinson just failed in ski Clear and were swept away Ina whirling maelstrom by the whole Mountainside seemed to hurtle past us to the Valley below. It was All Over in a terrifying matter of  Charles mrs.  and her husband. Charles Lindsay Swiss guide Bruno Speccher and a Swiss police Man were skiing off the main rack be tween the treacherous Gotsch Nawang and Drost Nicl rails at an Altitude of about 5,800 feet when the Ino slide began about 300 feel above them. Officials Hud warned of Avalanche danger at5,200 feet and higher. Heir spec Char acted with incredible Speed and total professionalism Charles said. He skied Down As fast As possible having told the Swiss police Man o radio for  spec Char located mrs. Patron or Tom Kinson by a Beeper on her body. Or. Palmer Tomkinson and t skied own and just arrived As Herr Speccher had reached mrs. Palmer Tomkinson s head the statement said. He save vermouth to in ouch resuscitation and re Vived her. He gave me the shovel to dig her out and i tried using my hand Aswell. At this Point 1 Tat with mrs. Palmer Tomkinson while spec Char quickly Wentlo try and locate maj. Lindsay he found him about 15 Yards above mrs. Palmer Tomkinson but tragically he had been killed outright during the  newspapers clamoured for Charles and other members of the Royal family to give up dangerous Pursuit Why was he Sherer the tabloid Sun asked. Charles has consistently risked his life by going on increasingly deadly  Charles is an ardent Poto player who has taken Many Falls and had a near collision while flying a plane. On his first Parachute jump lie snarled the rigging and fell several thousand feet before untangling it. 20 feared dead As riot erupts in libyan stadium Valletta Malta a panicked soccer fans fled knife wielding ruffians and triggered the collapse of a sports stadium in Libya killing at least 20 people according to news reports Friday. Malta s state radio said two libyans were arrested in Tripoli the libyan capital after the disaster. Newspapers in Belgrade Yugoslavia quoting a report from the yugoslav slate news Agency Tan Jug from Tripoli said at least 20 people were killed and hundreds injured when a stadium dividing Wall fell during a match Between Malta and Libya but the libyan news Agency Jana said to spectators were killed. The Jana report monitored in London said some people had been treated and released and is were hospitalized. Joe Sacco the general Secretary of the maltese football association who was in Tripoli with the maltese team said in arc was speculation in the libyan capital that the death toll could be higher. Jana said a Row of scats a collapsed at the june 11" stadium. The stadium reportedly has a capacity of 70,000. It was not immediately known How Many peo ple were at the game. The times of Malta said panic occurred when someone in the stands brandished a weapon and the spectators rushed to gel out. Politika Espres a Belgrade daily said the incident began when several fans pulled out knives during a quarrel. . Protests . Threat on taking Plo to court Washington a the Justice depart ment said it will go to court unless the Palestine liberation organization closes its observer mis Sion at the United nations by March 21. The announcement brought an immediate protest from . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar. Attorney general Edwin Melesc itt said in a letter to Zehdin Terai head of the Plo office in new York thai he United stoics will enforce the Ami terrorism a of 19&7 passed by con Gress last december ordering the Plo Mission shut. Yasser Arafat the Plo chairman was quoted in Tunis As saying if the Plo office were closed the Plo will find a Way to rehabilitate the revolution within the framework of the International organization via the delegation of any Arab stale Dole from Page 1 pressure on Bush who has taken an above the fray stand since his super tuesday rout. Dole has warned that democrats would be retention in a general election Campaign in challenging the vice president s involvement in the secret Sale of arms to Iran and illicit projects to Aid the Nicaragua rebels. Dole who cancelled All his planned television ads in Illinois thursday and Cut his National Campaign staff in half refused to say whether a loss in Illinois would mean the end of his Campaign meanwhile the Field for the Democrat if Nomi nation narrowed when former sen. Gary Hart of Colo Rado dropped Oul of the race for the second time. Hart once the leading democratic contender failed to win a single Delegate in last week s super tuesday primaries and caucuses. He had dropped out of the race last May after his tryst with Miami Model Donna Rice was exposed then re in trial it in december. But his new ideas Campaign never caught on. His withdrawal left five democratic candidates Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis who has the Lead in delegates sen. Albert Gore or. Of Tennessee rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri and two Illinois favorite sons sen. Paul Simon and Jesse Jackson. The democratic contender turned their attention to education and fiscal responsibility with three of the five Dukakis. Simon and Gore putting in appearances at a Chicago meeting of the Illinois Educa Tion association the slate s largest teacher Union. Jackson and Core spent most of the Day campaigning in South Carolina where caucuses were held saturday. Laie polls indicated Jackson who has used Chicago a a base for his civil rights activities has made major gains in Illinois and is running almost even with Simon who once held a Lead of nearly 30 Points. Jackson Dukakis and Gore finished super tues Day s 20-state showdown in a virtual dead heat with Gephardt Simon and Han finishing far Back. Mcfarlane from Page 1 Yisco from october 1983 until december 1985, is Nhu person to plead guilty to charges stemming from . Last Spring  and Richard Miller pleaded guilty to Derair la i cd Cral govern men by soliciting private  during the period the Boland amendment v although the administration s a Pitnor hostages transactions with Iran began no Aumund of his tenure at the while House  id play apart in the process a and after the aft ales were disclosed in novem Ber 1986 by Danese publication Mcfarlane participated Irv torts by North and other White Houseni desput together a chronology thai deliberately com paled inc extent of the president s knowledge of the arms sales. To their joint report last november the House an Senate committees that investigated the affair criticized Mcfarlane for his responses to Congress about North s involvement in the private fund Forth contras. Mcfarlane a  bpmt7t relevant information in  . Support for he lie period of congressional a citric. T report said. He concealed new information he Learned of North s activities in 1986 and he repealed Many of the Prate statements Hal he had made. To Mem Lane and North the report added Arteth a in Al Esno doubt hat some or be officials making Lihcit Tusi tepid so As part of a deliberate attempt to deceive Congh in the  in testimony last year  his statement denying North s invert went in the private network for the contras were Clear Rev of cat  Reagan from Page 1 pared to offer Asylum to Noriega. The two countries most mentioned by opposition Leaden As possible Asylum Sites Are Paraguay and the dominican Republic. Opposition leaders say they have sounded Oul the dominican Republic and that Noriega sent two military colleagues to Paraguay this past week possibly to discuss Asylum prospects. The administration is trying to Force Noriega s ouster and weaken the military dominated government by in creasing the Cash squeeze in Panama. Measures already taken with . Support have caused a severe Cash Short age prompting the government to suspend Many banking operations crippling Panama s Economy. . Military and economic Aid to Panama was Cut off last year after the initial popular uprisings against Noriega in june. Last week the United slates Rule that Panama was not cooperating in efforts to control drug trafficking. Under the finding the United Stales was required los top military and economic assistance which Al ready had been done and to oppose panamanian requests for assistance in International lending institutions. Reagan said Noriega s resignation would contrib Ute very substantially to reducing political tensions and set the stage fora prompt transition to democracy in  underscoring Reagan s use of the word illegitimate Shultz Lold a news conference that s a very Strong word. What we think should happen is that he should leave Panama and we want to Sec a return to civilian democratic Rule and we also expect to see the Panama Nian defense forces resume an honorable and proper role in a constitutional government  
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