European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Of go 8 / the stars and stripes armenian strike will continue sources predict Mostow up the soviet government Media reported workers at one of the main factories in the City of Stepan Akert were on the Job saturday by the Media conceded thai the sink by armenian nationalists Over a disputed enclave wish Azerbaijan is Likely to continue. Dissident journalist Sergei Grigoryants who has been accurate in his reports on Armenia said work Flop pages persisted in tic unchanged goal by the armenian in Magorno Karabash to join their Region to Armenia and undo or soviet Derjuinn thai gave it to a Erba Janin 1923. The dispute by the soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan Over control of he enclave 1.7 times the size of Rhode Island has confronted soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev with one of his most serious internal crises since became to Power More than three Yean ago. Grigoryants a former political prisoner who pub Lishes be alternative journal glasnost in Moscow recently predicted that he work stoppage would last until april 1. And on saturday he said he foresaw no immediate end to the strike. In Stepan Akert capital of Magorno Karabash Gre Gor Yants said the work stoppage has lasted some two months and he noted along with the Izvestia govern ment newspaper that saturday is not generally a full working Day. Izvestia said the mechanized bakery and mat pack ing and Dairy products Plant worked without interruptions today in transport workers reported for work and classes have resumed in schools after the Spring holidays Izvestia said. But the main question remains How will the Industrial enterprises work on monday u raid. This is the Bogusl concern of local and party government the regional dispute Over Nagano Karabash has set off nearly two months of demonstrations rallies strikes and violence with Many fatalities reported. The workers of Stepan Akert have so far ignored a peal by armenian Public figures and disregarded Calls by the disbanded strike committee to return to work. A soviet Promise of a better cultural Deal for Armeni ans As pan of a new program has also not budged them. Izvestia said communist party Commilles met sat urday in an Effort to return the rna Gorno Karabash capital la a full working schedule. But Grigoryants 47, who is half armenian said the Small Airport at Stepan Akert was filled Friday with militia and Kab Security police. Grigoryants said Andrei Sabitsky. A journalist he sent Down to the two caucasian republics Friday was roughed up his eyeglasses were broken and he was put on a helicopter and flown Western journalists have not been allowed to travel in Ibe area. With Christian armenians forming about to per cent of the population of More than 160,000 in the Magorno Karabash area and the remainder largely Shine moslem who speak turkish the area has Long been a potential Linda Box. Monday. April i. 19bs Cindy will Queens too Hart find he of tvs other. Contestants participate in mad scramble Raf Lakenheath England Sas it was not Long before the end of Ibe Competition that the Field and the 14 entrant were riddled with yellow goo. Eggs flew and they smashed. They sputtered and oozed through fingers. But Larcen Heatlie airmen Dave Malakoff and Jerry for tic threw then the farthest and smashed them the least to walk away with the grand prize from the cafes Slio Pelte sponsored egg ton saturday. The two ended up out throwing and out catching inc rest of the seven pairs who ended up scrambling All Over the baseball Field trying to catch wobbling wind blown eggs. Malakoff and Fink took Home the tint place j100 easier Basket supplied by the Exchange. Dennis Matthews and Duncan so cols from Raf Mildenhall took second place and a 135 Basket. In a bid for the world record at throwing an egg the longest distinct and catching it without breaking Bob Richards and Mike Biggus won 125 gift certificates. Their longest toss was 196 feet 6 inches a Long i 21 Fet 4 inches Short of the world record Tel in 19b2 in Finland and listed in the guinness Book of world records. Bus truck crash kills 5 tourists Corinth. Greece a a bus slammed into the Back of a water Tanker truck on a country Road sat urday killing five French tourists and injuring 29, police said. A police official said All 47 French tourists aboard the bus were residents of pan. The Accident occurred at about 10 a.m., when the greek Lour bus carrying the tourists to the ancient ruins and theater of Epidaurus tried to pass the track As it was making a left turn. The bus hit the Back end of inc Nick lipped Over and crashed into an Annie Grove the official said the official said four of the passengers were killed instantly and one died after being taken to the Athens Kat Hospital. The other 22 were treated it Corinth general hos Pital he added. He said the Accident occur cd near a the aside Village 27 Miles South of Corinth. He said the French tourists had left Athens Early saturday for the 114-mile trip to Epidaurus. Ferry sailors end 17-Day strike Calais. France a striking French sailors on English Channel ferryboat voted saturday to return o work ending a 17-Day walkout in time to handle easier Holiday Cross Channel traffic. Seamen in Calais Dunkirk and Dieppe voted to accept an agreement worked out late Friday be tween their unions and the maritime of the slate run Railroad. Service was to resume saturday evening when the three immobile cd sealing ships the train Ocny Nord Pas de caters and the car ferries Cote d air and champs Elysee were to Start crossing the Channel. They were joining two British sealing Vise i thai had been carrying the Load alone. The agreement involving the French sailors basically called for employment guarantees improved work ing conditions and salaries for pan Lime employees. On the other tide of the Channel talks broke Down Friday Between ferry workers and p and o european ferries and the two month strike continued. World today 27 Vietnam tax officials disciplined in crackdown Bangkok Thailand a authorities in a Central vietnamese province have disciplined 27 Tat officials for corruption and incompetence radio Hanoi reported. The Domestic report broadcast tuesday and obtained from a Western embassy in Bangkok on Friday also said 25 similar cases Wen under investigation. The official Media have reported such measures against hundreds of officials throughout Vic Mam is Nee reformer Nguyen Van Linh became general Secretary of the governing communist party 1j months ago. He has carried out a major crackdown on officials accused of ineptitude and corruption. 39 bodies Are recovered offer Pakistan Avalanche Islamabad Pakistan a authorities have recovered 39 bodies from an Avalanche thai buried a Northern Mountain Village last week another 11 people Werc still mining in the Arunde Village High in the Remote Karakoram Mountain Range according o the government ran news Agency the associated press of Pakistan. Seven people were rescued after the sliding Snow destroyed the Village the Agency said. Soviet Union . Experts plan ecological sect studies Moscow a soviet and american scientists plan to conduct joint ecological studies of the Bering sea and the Central Pacific Ocean this summer Ike Tass news Agency reported Friday. The decision to embark on the project was made during a meeting Between soviet and american scientists in the georgian City of Batu i Tass said the studies planned to begin in july and run through october would a capt to assess Man s influence on the water to steins but h gave no details of the project. To reporters walkout halts Rai network news Rome a television reporters angered by the live telecast of a soccer match during a journalists strike staged a retaliatory walkout Friday that halted All newscast by the uncontrolled Rai network. The National journalists Union backed the 24-hour blackout of televised news calling Rai s behaviour a severe attack against the right to strike Rai telecast the exhibition soccer match Between the National learns of Italy and Yugoslavia on Thun Day night reportedly bowing to pressure from sponsors who had invested about $300,000 in advertising at the Yugo slav stadium. China opens first Center to treat ailing foreigners Beijing Ufi foreigners fan of falling 111 in China nay be eased with Friday i opening of a new emergency medical Center special Izmir in Mieir can. Official from the chinese ministry of health and Swiss american International sos assistance Ltd. Opened the tint of five sos Ajana Centen scheduled for China and geared to help foreigners who Are injured or become ill in China. China is a Siren Wax country to travel in. The great Wall was Bull Tor a Cadien not for senior tit oem sail Claude Giroux chairman of the Philadelphia and Geneva based company that provides medical anti Tahoe to travellers businessmen Ana diplomats world wide. Allies urged to increase share of military Burden p,\r1s up rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., met with officials from the , minion to nato Headquarters Friday and or cased the need for greater military Burden sharing by allies of the United stat Burden sharing ii Abo Power sharing find thai makes a lot of people at Home in the United states nervous Schroeder told Newi conference. Nol me though she said expressing the Hope that we have All reached a new level of Schroeder arrived in Paris Friday and had talks with a delegation of official Iran the . Million to the North Adamk Alliance headquarter from by Cit in her capt ily u a member of the Sublon Univee on Burden sharing of toe House aimed services committee. Her quest for ways to Cut the Cost of . Military expenditure Alto has taken her to Japan. Neil she u to visit West Germany fld Turkey and eventually also Canada
