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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thesta,.-. Ads Yap i ii 1983 57 killed 768 injured in ammo depot blasts . Pakistan Lap a fire and Cseplo signs ripped through an ammunition depot sunday and incl rot  showering into two pakistani cities tilling in least 57 people and injuring 7fis. Officials soul. The  news Agency App said unc of the dead was  Aghasi. A member of parliament. It said i Nus kilted a her. A rocket hit his car. Sci Liiri Giacri Ere reported among the casualties. The defense ministry sail the cipro inns started after fire broke Mil at Ilic depot Between inc capital. Islamabad. Iino the nearby City of Rawalpindi. About 5 million pc ple live in the two cities. It was nut mimed Calely known what caused the fire am there was in damage estimate. Casually figures Wiinie Iron incl hospitals. Iho initial wast sent a Sheet of flame six feet into nit air. Kuck cts began screaming Over Rawalpindi and the Western Ami Southern sections if the capital where most pakistani Federal employees live. One missile exploded just outside the Wall of the . A Mussy compound hut there was no damage witnesses said the a it Sumii of Lio avy ammunition Jas cd about 35 min Iii a. During which people ran fleeing from office buildings and converged on schools til find their Elul Drin. Some rockets struck cars an d buildings. Doc mrs at three area hospitals said Many of those admitted had shrapnel wounds and bum. The ammunition depot continued to Burn More than. Five hours after the initial blast and Bush fires Blaed several Miles from the depot. Police were deployed in a Cave numbers around the City to direct traffic away from the blast areas and to protect embassies craters from the explosions some still soldering could be seen along the. Airport Road leading South from Islamabad. Defense ministry officials said some projectiles crashed sit Miles from the depot. One unzip Lodd missile Lay embedded in the Side walk near the children s Ward of the National medical Institute. Officials appealed for blood donors and president Mohammed Xia us har said inc government would do All it could to help the injured. App reported. The Agency said the president issued a statement from Kuwait where he was to attend an islamic con Ference. The statement expressed sympathy for the Vic Tims and their families. Taking Spring in stride Sunshine Outing for and cum Irnis Trajan s mule for a pleasant Fnu Ruurt resin Cut Jans Jon Altier and he 7 Iacinth of Daughto Klena. The skate Prince id a for Roll Chr nuke the downtown pedestrian Ari in. World today trial under Way in Italy for deaths in dam collapse Trento Italy a a do in men have gone on trial tin charges of multiple manslaughter caused by negligence in the dam collapse that killed 269 people in the Alpine resort of Slava. The defendants include the two owners of the or Cali mining co., which owned the two Bisin earthen dam thai collapsed in july 1985, and inc local of finals responsible for safety inspections. If convicted they could be sentenced to five to 12 years in Anson. The upper Hasin collapsed inti the lower one sending a flood of water debris Anil mud into inc Valley. Within seconds inc torrent flattened three holds and 20 houses. In july 1986, an investigating team concluded that inc collapse was the result of human negligence. The learn said the dam Hod been badly constructed and inadequately serviced. It also said local officials failed to report problems with the dam. The trial is Cipcic cd to last several months. Egypt prepares strategy to exterminate locusts Cairo Egypt up Egypt prepared a Contin gency plan for combating a possible invasion by swarms of voracious locusts officials said saturday. The plan by the ministry of agriculture in cooperation Wilh the armed forces Calls for an around Lac clock monitoring of All Border regions. Any swarms of locusts that May be discovered will have to be exterminated regardless of Cost before they manage of reach cultivated areas in the Nile Valley the officials said. Yassin Osman. Chief of inc pest control department at the ministry of agriculture said All the needed crop do slurs and pesticides arc in position in All Border areas to the West South and East. Soviets find fishermen guilty of crab poaching Moscow a a soviet court has sentenced a japanese Fisherman to sin months in prison and confiscated the Boot of another for poaching crabs in soviet territorial Waters of the Pacific Ocean Tass reported saturday. The official news Agency said Mure than 1.000 pounds of crabs were aboard the two Craft. The Crew of one boat had poached repeatedly. Taw said Caus ing significant damage to the Economy fit the so Viet far Eastern Region. Tass did not say exactly where inc two were taken into custody but issued inc report from Nakhod a a soviet coastal City which lies nearly 600 Miles across the sea of Japan from Tokyo. The boat and equipment of Nagasaki Eshi Laka was confiscated Tass said. Funakoshi Kelli was sentenced to sin months in prison because the court was guided by humane principles and took into account the difficult circumstances of his family and his sincere  both men were fined but Tass did not name an amount. Tufu cos on god of liberation in Namibia Sermon Kat Silika South West Africa Al l archbishop Desmond Tutu preaching sunday in this Ler Tilory s larg est Black township called on the god of liberation to hasten Independence from Fri ugh african Rule. Tutu Leader of the anglican Church in South Africa delivered an impassioned Sermon to annul 1.500 people Cross it a into a ill urea adjacent to Windhoek capital of the Kronor commonly known As Namibia. Find is Here with you in Namibia tie suiters with  said Tutu. He says. U is going to be All right because 1 am the god of Justice. 1 Ani the god of liberation " Tutu was joined by 1& anglican Bishops who serve under him and who preceded him in a March into the Church. These included the Bishop of Nami Bia. To wore a icon Radskin Mitre and Bishops from Swa Ilju Lesotho and South Africa. About so percent of Namibia s 1,1 million people Are Black. The rest arc divided about equally Between Whites who dominate the Economy and peo ple of mixed race. Tutu. Who  the iu84 Nobel peace l Rie for his struggle against apartheid in South Africa blamed this system of racial separation for the Vio Lence that has wracked Namibia during a largely ineffectual 22-year-old Independence War waged by the South West african people s organi action Swap guerrilla movement. We Are opposed to All violence especially the violence of the evil system of apartheid however it May be disguised by cosmetic  Tutu said. He said he opposed violence by guerrillas As much As thai is the Mili tary and he rejected communism As it goal for Namibia. Lie appealed for implementation of . Pc solution435, which Calls for South african withdrawal from Nami Bia and u.nsupervised Independence elections which Many Ohe servers be Lieve Swap would win. South Africa says it will defy the Resolution As Long As cuban troops remain in neighbouring Angola where they and the marxist government arc fighting combined forces of South Africa and inc un1ta rebel movement  
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