European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Indic be stripes n Shu Fez takes Side trip after talk with Gorbachev Page 2 d 22-term House Veteran Melvin Price Dies at s3 Page 5 d the silent horrors of child abuse daily Magazine q hapless wingless o s drop 161h straight Page 21 the Sims and a Pes vol. 47. No 6 sunday. April 24, 1988 t Goott morning d 8693 a bomb kills 54 in lebanese City 25 wounded in explosion of Market Tripoli Lebanon up a track packed Wius explosives blew up in a crowded outdoor Market in he lion or this syrian controlled Northern port City sat urday killing 54 people and wounding 125 in one of the bloodied terrorist attacks in Lebanon s 13-year Cycle of violence. It s a real massacre. It was carried out by butchers prime minister slim Al How said in a statement. No group immediately claimed responsibility for die implosion in the predominantly sunni Moslen City of 500,000 people. Police said a Booby trapped pickup truck packed with 130 pounds of explosives exploded at 9 . Near a crowded ancient open air marketplace in the Center of Tripoli 42 Miles North of by irk. The blast also destroyed a Small hold 01 least 10 shops and about 30 cars and in stand a series of fires. Rescuers and firefighters rushed 10 the scene. Syrian and lebanese troops fired into the air with automatic weapons to Clear hundreds of curious onlookers so rescuers could carry victims to a nearby Hospital the rescuers took a least 40 bodies to the nearby islamic Hospital. Shocked women some of them relatives of the dead wailed and cried at the Entrance of the Hospital and heat their checks and chests. Youths drove up and Down Tri poli streets using bullhorn to plead for blood donations. It is an indication that a new round of violence would strike Lebanon again commented an official in the Christian lebanese forces militia. Nabih Bern chief of the pro syrian shiite amal militia charged thai israeli hands were behind the explosion. The voice of free Lebanon run by the anti syrian Christian militia quoted the shadowy february 9lh" group As saying syrian agents planted the bomb. The group believed composed of anti syrian sunni moslem acid visit. Has claimed responsibility for past attacks in syrian positions in Tripoli. Saturday s blast was the seventh car bomb attack in Tripoli since january i9s5. A blast june 19, 1985, in Tripoli killed 52 people and left 100 injured. A greek Navy patrol boat escorts Daedalus 88 a it glides Over lie Aegean Between Crete and san Loroni. Pedal plane Breaks record then crashes into Aegean santorin1, Greece a a fragile pedal plane skimmed across a 74-Inili Strcich of the Aegean sea from Curcie to the Shoreline of this greek Island saturday to break inc world record for human powered night despite a crash Landing. The Pink and Silver Daedalus 88, piloted by greek National cycling Champion Kanellos kanello Poulos dropped into the surf just off the Black Sands of Perisa Beach on the Southeast face of this volcanic Island also known As thira. I was expecting the Takeoff to be horrible. But it went off great especially with the Tailwind. The most turbulent area a us Here a the end said a Ricl Topoulos or we after his Landing. A Strong headwind about 3u feel from the Beach forced the 72-Pound plane to crash land. He Mcd to Pul up on the Joy stick to elevate the plane to turn parallel to the Beach to Deal with headwind and then a gust hit the hovering plane said Glenn Tremml the former world record Holder. Tremml who witnessed the Landing said the Sud Den movement broke the Tail Boom and then the wings folded and he gently floated Down. He dived out and swam to the Brach with a huge smile on his face Kanellopoulos 30, was not injured said Charles Ball spokesman for the Massachusetts Jiuji Iuie of technology in Cambridge mass. Which sponsored the project. Greek Navy and coast guard a sods along with inflatable Rescue Craft had escorted inc plane Asil cruised 15 feel above the Aegean. The 36-Mcmber hit team had waited three weeks on Windy Crete for a suitable Day to attempt the flight. Daedalus flew the distance from Crete s Kerak see plane on Page 28 Hope dwindles in search for Tanker survivors St. Johns Newfoundland a authorities scaled Down an air and sea search saturday As Hope dwindled for finding any survivors among the 29 peo ple who were aboard a greek Tanker that broke up in a fire. Seven merchant ships helping to scour the area Tibout 370 Miles Southeast of Cape race. Newfound land were told they could abandon he search said i atty officer Brad Terrill of the . Coast guard in new York. Early saturday the Stern of the Tanker was still ablaze. The Bow Sank Friday in rain squalls and winds exceeding 55 Mph that whipped up 5-foot swells. On Friday night searchers recovered the badly bumped body of a crewman Andrei Szukalski. 41, of Poland. The other 28 people aboard 2j polish sail or and five of their wives remain missing. We found the body where we expected the Drift would take them so we know we re in the Rihl coast guard la. Brad Robinson Vij. His body was burned pretty the 500-foot athenian venture which was carrying gasoline from Amsterdam to new York apparently exploded and caught fire Early Friday. The Carmot Register cd Tanker was owned by Patron Marine of Athens. The recovered body which was wearing a life jackal. Carried the ship s logs. The logs gave no indication of what had happened on the vessel. Rough seas and rain squalls hampered searchers Fri Day but the weather cleared overnight. Skies were overcast saturday but winds were Calm. Terrill said. Terrill said the Hudson the Canadian research ves Sel that first spotted the burning Tanker will continue searching for possible survivors. A Canadian forces patrol plane was scanning the seas and would be rejoined by two american c-130 Hercules from North Carolina later saturday. Vessels using the shipping Lane were being asked to be on i he Lookout for the remaining 2 missing Crow members. It look in coast guard almost 12 hours to identify the ship after it was sighted because of heavy fire dam age and a raging Blaze that kept authorities about 2 i Jiei away Froni the wreckage. Lawrence said the Only identifiable Marks were a big while letter on the funnel. The first three letters of the first name and the entire Lasi name
