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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday apfh21,19b8 grenade injures 6, including 2 americans san Jose. Ca Sla Rica api two Anil can Wincn and four Costa Picans were wounded by a fragmentation Gre Nade thai exploded near inc american Costa Iran Ull ural Center officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for tuesday s attack which i Uhlric Security minister Hernan Ciarron called a terrorist  tie sail officials had no suspects. The intelligence and Security directorate said the blast apparently was caused by an m-&7 fragmentation Gre Nade  onto a sidewalk near he Cul Tural Center. Three ears were damaged its report said. The blast occurred Shanly after k . About so Yards South of the cultural Cen Ter building in the Eastern los posts District said . Embassy spokesman Mark Kris Chick. The building was not damaged be said. Costa rican officials were collecting evidence All Day he said. We Haven 1 had inc Opportunity to review the evidence Kris Chick said. Earlier tuesday. Kris Chick had said the explosion was believed caused by a Mal functioning Power line transformer. Red Cross official identified one of the wounded americans As Alice fester from the Washington . Area. She is a professor at the cultural Center from the Washington . Area. The other is Shelly Benoin. A student from califor Nia. Hometowns and Ages were not immediately available. Feister underwent surgery for several hours at Calderon Guardia Hospital after suffering a severe artery wound. She was reported in fair condition tues Day night and was expected to pull through said Kris Chick. Bargain suffered lacerations and bruises but she was in Good condition Kris Chick said. She was expected to re turn to the United slates wednesday a doctor at the Hospital said the other wounded were identified As Alvaro Salas Parra 23 William Quenda Solano. 22 Oscar Eric Bogantes 17 and Virginia Sanchez Chi. Nil Costa Alcan citizens. Garron said evidence collected at the scene indicated that the grenade was thrown onto sidewalk neat the cultural Center although it May have exploded beneath one of the three damaged cars parked near the Center. Jorge Luis ulate an explosives Eipert with 5ie Security ministry said inc de vice appeared to be an m-67 fragmentation grenade capable of inflicting serious damage up to a distance of 1uo Yards. Ulate said inc device normally would explode Between two and six seconds after us pin is pulled. By tuesday night police had not located any witnesses. World today wage talks on mining pact break Down in s. Africa . South Africa a wage talks Between major mining companies and White miners unions have broken Down with the two sides far from a Compromise a financial newspaper reported wednesday business Day said the Counci of mining unions which represents 24,000 miners in eight unions was demanding a pay increase of 17 per cent. The chamber of mines which represents South Africa s six largest mining companies had made a final offer of a 9 percent increase be fore the talks broke Down Friday the newspaper said. It said the miners had declared an official respite and requested establishment of a conciliation Board a step which is required As a pre condition for waging a strike. The average Black Miner cams about s2-45 per month about one fifth of the average White Miner s salary. Outgoing belgian Leader agrees to head coalition Brussels a Wilfried Martens prime minister of the outgoing Center right govern ment has agreed to cad a possible coalition of socialists Christian democrats and a regional party officials said wednesday.  Between these panics were in a decisive stage wednesday and Martens was expected to join the closing stages said Leo Del Croix National Secretary of Martens flemish Christian democrats. But the dutch speaking flemish and Franco phone Walloon socialists and Christian demo cuts and the flemish autonomy Volk Sunic party remained deadlocked on linguistic issues wednesday More than four months after the . 13 elections. If Anens 52, emerges As the new prime min ister he would be leading his eighth coalition since l�79. He has led Center left As Welt As Cen Ter right coalitions. Joblessness in Hungary rises now totals 30,000 Budapest Hungary a unemployment in Hungary has risen from 10,000 jobless last year to 30,000 this year and is expected to go up by another 19,000 later this year a labor official was quoted As saying wednesday. Csaba Halmos president of the National office fur wage and labor said however that 10,000 new jobs were expected to be created this year. According to the communist party daily . Which carried Halmos remarks the labor official said about 700,000 people change jobs each year out of Hungary s total work Force of some i million. Rising unemployment in Hungary a communist country is largely a consequence of austerity measures introduced by the government that include streamlining or closing Down companies that arc chronically in the red he said unemployment is Likely to increase but called fur caution in claiming it could use to some 100.000 to 150,000. Drawing released of suspect in jewish Center bomb attack comp Nile drawing of bombing suspect. App nto Wiesbaden a police on tuesday issued a composite drawing of a Man they suspect was involved in monday s bomb Ausick on inc Frankfurt jewish Community Center. Hussen state police described a Man of about 20, with a Short military style haircut whom a witness saw running away from the jewish Community Center area about five minutes before the blast. The powerful explosion Early monday seriously damaged the Center. A second and apparently related bomb blast shortly afterwards gutted the saudi arabian airlines office and damaged nearby building. There were no injuries and no claims of responsibility for the bombings which caused several Hundred thousand dollars of damages. The suspect was described As slim dark haired and of medium height and he carried a rolled up red plastic hag under his  police said in a statement released by the Federal criminal office in Wiesbaden. Police also said they Are continuing to look for a Silver Gray Bow automobile that eyewitnesses on monday said was near the jewish Community Center shortly before the blast. A Frankfurt prosecutor spokesman Jodin sch Roers said monday that both attacks apparently were carried out by the same group because evidence at both Sites is  in a Telephone interview monday. Schroers said criminal police think Industrial or military explosives were used in the attacks. Both bombs went of shortly Amer Midnight on Mon Day. The jewish Community Center and inc saudi arabian airlines office Are about a mile away from each other. Cardinal tells cubans he Hopes for a better relations bridge1 Havana a Cardinal John o Connor of new York met with government and Church leaders on the first Day of his visit to this communist nation with All sides expressing hone his visit will help improve  cuban relations. O Connor is spending four Days in Cuba As a guest of the roman Catholic Church to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Fein Varela. The priest who served in new York City from 1823 to 1953. Ii considered a cuban hero in the struggle against Spanish colonial Rule. It ii my Hope that Felix Varela will form a Bridge a Bridge Between inc Church in Cuba Anil inc Church in new York o Connor told reporters when hear Rived in Havana tuesday after stops in the Domin ican Republic and the cuban City of Santiago. And who knows when there is. A Strong Bridge be tween the two churches then perhaps Many others can go Back and Forth across that Bridge,1 o Connor added. And other kinds of peaceful reunions May take place Between two people who Are separated by such a Small body of water and who together dream of peace o Connor is the first american Cardinal to visit this Caribbean Island nation just 90 Miles from Miami since Fidel Castro came to Power in 1959.the roman Catholic prelate was to say mass wednesday night after a Day of meetings with Church leaders and ots. Officials in Havana. The nature of those talks has not been announced. O Connor said earlier he could not presume that Castro will see him Hui he would accept such an  a Vatican embassy reception tuesday night o con nor mingled with cuban vice resident Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. Archbishop Jaime Ortega and officials of the  interest Section a diplomatic Post set up in Havana because there arc no formal .-cuban relations. Rodriguez a Mem Crof inc communist party politburo echoed o Connor comments this Bridge is necessary not because there arc hostile relations but because Iacre Are  said Rodriguez he said americans have a false image of Cuba and it s necessary to rectify it. I think tit ache Cardinal s visit contributes to rectifying that image. The Cardinal said Hie thunderous applause he received in Santiago convinced him that years of religious restrictions in Cuba bad not dampened the spirit of believers in this officially atheist nation  
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