European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 28 the stars and stripes saturday. May 7,1988 news briefs no injured in collision Dies at Lan Stuhl Hospital Lan Stuhl West Germany is a sergeant with the 32nd army air defense come died thursday at the Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center following an april 30 traffic Accident a command spokesman said Friday. Sol. Leroy d. Thomas of he co. 11th signal in received multiple head and Chest injuries when his car hit a parked truck in Darmstadt West Germany capt. Caylan Johnson said. Thomas 27, was from Irving on . He is survived by his wife Rosalind his Ivi year old daughter Natasha and his Mother Dora Thomas also of Irving on. Memorial services will be at 2 . Monday in the Darmstadt Community Chapel. Heidelberg go sentenced for using Selling drugs Heidelberg a 30-year-old Soldier found guilty of using and distributing hashish has been sentenced to four months in prison after a special court martial a 21st support come spokesman said. Spec. 4 Hillman tenancy a Bel air md., native assigned to the 43rd signal in Heidelberg also was Given a bad conduct discharge demoted to private one and ordered to forfeit All pay and allowances As a result of his guilty plea in court action last month. The spokesman said the charges against ten stemmed from his Sale of the drug a potent form of marijuana to a representative of the criminal investigation come last september. Tunney will serve his sentence at fort Riley Kun. Navy gives name of Sailor killed by train in Italy Naples Italy Navy officials Friday re leased the name of the 24-Ycnr-old 6th Fleet sail or who died april 28 when he was hit by a train in san Mcmo Italy. Petty officer 3.c. Class David v. Mcguire was trying to help an code Ray woman retrieve an umbrella or Cane like object that she had dropped on the tracks when he was struck by an oncoming Tram said Navy spokesman it. Dave Morris. Mcguire who was from the guided missile destroyer Dewcy on port Call in san Mcmo listed old h Hickory tenn., As his Home of record. British Soldier killed 16 Hurt in Cyprus blast Nicosia Cyprus a a mortar Shell exploded among British troops on Maneu vers Fri Day killing one Soldier and injuring 16, a Mili tary spokesman said. The blast occurred on the northeastern aka Mas Peninsula while British troops were carry ing out routine exercises said the British bases spokesman maj. Johnny Rogers. He said the cause of the blast was under investigation and there were no immediate signs it was anything other than an Accident. The injured were taken by helicopter to a British base Hospital at a Roluri on the Southern coast of this Mediterranean Island Rogers said. Two of the 16 wounded were in serious condition. E. German official Calls for closer ties with . Washington a Hermann Axen East Germany s top foreign policymaker ended talks in Washington on thursday with a Call for broader Trade and cultural relations with the United slates but . Officials said Little Prog Ress was made toward settling major differences. Alan a politburo member and the High Cal ranking cast German id visit Washington since his country was established after world War ii old a National press club audience we favor a broadening and stabilization of the political dialogue Between our governments an expansion of contacts Bow can our parliaments. The conclusion of a mutually advantageous Trade agreement is  speaking in English Axon said that although the two countries have had diplomatic relations for 14 years real contacts arc still at the  . Labor party hails gains As rejection of tory program i Rev Nln fall the Uncial us i Ahnor part hailed that followed Thatcher s third successive Victory Ulondo at socialist labor party Haile its Strong showing in municipal elections Friday As a National rejection of conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher s right Wing third term program including a shake up of the welfare system. There s a sea change in British politics there s a direct rejection of what the tories Are doing labor Leader Neil Kinlock declared surrounded by jubilant party workers. Labor overtook the conservative vote share. But with the tories lightening their hold in the prosperous South the two major panics captured control of seven councils each where no party previously had Overall control. Very encouraging very encouraging. We got Many councils Thatcher told reporters outside her 10 dawning St. Office. The major loser was the centrist social and Liberal democratic party which lost support right and left to the two big parties As it paid Tor the internal feuding tha last june. With results declared from All 211 local authorities contested in thursday s Daylong ballot. Labor had notched up net gains of 104 scats the British Domestic news Agency press association calculated. The conservatives had a net gain or five seats while the centrists lost 75. The conservatives had control or 46 of the con tested cities compared with 41 previously labor had 93, up from 91, and centrists retained six. The scottish nationalists had one District and the rot were controlled by independents or had no party with Overall control. No elections were held this year in London and Northern Ireland in the last result declared after thursday s Daylong balloting. Labor lost control or Bradford a key North Ern Industrial Eity where no party now has an Overall majority. Hostages from Page 1 Friday afternoon when the associated press tried to Call. She was quoted by Asp As saying her brother old her the american hostages held by the inv iranian shiite moslem group islamic jihad were the object of brutality because they tried to  the dispatch did r.3 shia Clear Vns her a a to Tow specified which were mistreated for attempting to get away. Dagin was also quoted As saying that she Learned from her brother that Fontaine was briefly detained with Terry Wail the special envoy of the archbishop of Canterbury. Waite disappeared Jan. 20, 1987, while on a Mission in Lebanon seeking the release of the hostages. Houlaine had said thursday that he had shared a cell with american Terry a. Anderson the longest held for eign hostage. Anderson 40, chief Middle East correspondent for the a was kidnapped March 16, 1983, in Bei rut Kauffmann was kept in total darkness for a year and a half his sister was quoted As saying. He d id not see the Sun Ora Glimmer of Light fora single instant. An aim and a leg were chained permanently to a Radiator even when he slept she was quoted As saying. He told her he was moved to is different locations sometimes transported in a coffin inc Agency reported. He told us that each time he feared he would not get out because there was no air she was quoted As saying. Tehran television monitored in Cyprus quoted Ali Racza Moayyer an iranian Deputy prime minister for political affairs As saying Iran interceded for humanitarian  French government officials denied they paid Ransom for the hostages release. But Britain and other countries accused France of dealing with terrorists while is other foreigners remain hostage in Lebanon. In Batavin n.y., Anderson s sister Peggy say said thursday she would go to Paris to talk to Fontaine. It s wonderful news Tor the French,1 say said. But it makes it All the More frustrating and disappointing to compare what  docs to what our govern Anderson  Fontaine told a reporter from the French television Channel 5 that he passed the time playing dominoes and chess with Anderson. Carton Fontaine and Kauffmann appeared Ashen and shaky As they walked slowly Down the air plane Steps on arrival in Paris. Earlier Kauffmann said that Michel Seurat die 39 year old French researcher captured with him on May 22, 1985, probably died of cancer. Neural s kidnappers claimed he had been executed. Carton and Fontaine were kidnapped March 22,1985. On thursday Chirac said Normal relations with Iran could be  France and Iran broke diplomatic relations East sum Mer Over iranian embassy employee Wahid Gordji who refused to submit to questioning about a series of bomb Ings in Paris in september 1986. Reports in Paris and Beirut said that in Exchange for the three frenchmen France agreed to repay the out standing balance on a is billion loan made by the late Shah Mohammad Reza Partovi ousted in the iranian fundamentalist revolution of 1979. On nov. 11. 1986, Bui Days before France agreed to a 1330 million payment pro iranian extremists released two French hostages. On dec 24, another hostage was released. Cleanup from Paga 1 in explaining the Blaze s rapid spread. In Nevada Union and Plant officials debated about safety at the Pacific engineering building where ammonium perchlorate a key fuel component for the space shuttle and . Military rockets was produced. Union officials said they had complained about safety at the Plant but company officials denied there was a problem. This Plant is in my opinion one of the worst i have Ever been into John Molovich safety and Heath technician with the International steelworkers Union said in a letter following a september 1982 tour of the Plant. The letter was released thursday i cannot understand How this Plant has not been blown off the face of the Earth Given the product it manufactures Molovich wrote but Fred Gibson the company chairman responded it is a Safe Plant and i am stating there have been no fires there. We had inspections from Osha and we had no continuing problems with  Laury Lewis general manager of the state Industrial insurance system said his record indicate Pacific engineering has always been a pretty Good risk. His records he said indicated no previous multiple injury problems or explosions. Pacific engineering was one of two plants in the United states that made ammonium per chorale. The other is Kerr Mcgee whose Plant is just a mile away from the site of wednesday s destruction. Ammonium perchlorate production there was halted until the cause of the Accident was determined and officials at rocket manufacturer Morton Thi Okol inc. Said there could be an effect on the nation s space program