European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes o California wines pass teat with flying colors Page 3 d Chappaquiddick Book assails Ted Kennedy Page 5 d of Captain operates from army pc Page 9 q Walton Newborn win Bowling masters titles sports Page 25 the  Mihoi died unofficial Pili cation for the . A 0 forces vol. 47, no. 29 monday May 16, 1988 ,�dija, 08693 a 27 die As truck hits Church bus Carrollton by. A a bus carding Achurch group Home Tram an amusement Park became a fiery Deathtrap when a pickup truck travelling the wrong Way on an interstate crashed into it killing 27 people. It was one or the worst bus accidents in . History the National transportation safety Beard said. Be tween 10 and 40 people were injured in the crash Many suffering from bums. The bus carrying 67 teen agers and adults from the first Assembly of god Church in Rad Litt about 35 Miles South or Louisville was headed South on inter state 71 when the Accident occurred about 10 55 . Saturday. The group was returning Tram the King s Island amusement Park North of Cincinnati. As word of the Accident spread distraught relative clutching dental and medical records arrived in Carrol lion sunday to help identify the dead. The army provided vans to transport family Mem Bers from Radcliff id Cairol ton about 75 Miles away and state police escorted the parents to a local hotel. Stale medical examiner or. George Nichols met with about 60 family member at the Holiday inn at noon. The parents and family members were secluded in the banquet room of the hotel where red Cross worker were taking Down family medical histories in an Effort to identify the dead. Nichols snid inc 27 victims included 19 females and most of the dead appeared to be to can agon. Preliminary examinations of seven bodies indicate the cause see bus on Back Page soviet soldiers Start withdrawal from Afghanistan afghan army soldiers wave us soviet troops begin their withdrawal sunday. App Wio Kabul Afghanistan up the soviet Union began its withdrawal Sun Day from a More than 8-Ycar-Ioni afghan War thai Cost it an estimated 50,000casualties, brought it International condemnation and failed to ensure inc sur Vival of the pro marxist regime. The withdrawal began Early sunday when some 1,000 men abandoned the strategic Eastern town of Jala Labad and travelled West on a rond 10 Kabul officials said. The officials said the Convoy expected to reach Kabul inc sunday afternoon was running ahead of schedule indicating it had encountered no resistance from .-Armcd moslem rebels. Security was strict on the Road linking the heavily defended afghan capital with Jala Labad. Afghan soldiers swept for mines and soviet soldiers and armoured personnel carriers and tanks were positioned along the Way. Flights of rocket Laden soviet Helicon Ler gunships were seen roaring away from Kabul toward Jala Labad apparently to provide air cover for the Convoy which was expected to stretch More than a mile. The Road Inlo the town was closed to private traffic. Soviet and afghan flags Hung from lampposts on the route into the City and Walls and traffic circles Cru adorned with banners and billboard proclaiming afghan soviet Friendship and welcoming the returning russian soldiers. Soviet officials said the Convoy would Stop in Kabul for the night to refuel  a Parade monday leave. I. Gen. Boris Gap nov. Chief soviet military commander in Afghanistan for More than three years saturday announced that the  Jala Labad Garrison would be the first a withdraw lie mid that by the May 29 Moscow Summit Between president Reagan an Kremlin Leader Mikhail Gorbachev about one fourth of his Force would be gone. Gomoy declined to divulge How Many soviet troops arc in Afghanistan but Western estimates put the number at 115,000 soldiers backing the 40.000-Iroop afghan army against rebel forces armed by the United states China Western european nations and Middle Eastern states. Navy copter pilots bodies found Manama Bahrain a the wreckage of a .Navy helicopter that disappeared during Lam month s raid on iranian forces in the persian Gulf has Bee located off the emirate of Sharih. Maritime Salvage experts said sunday. In Washington it. Col. Keith Schneider a Penta gon spokesman said that the bodies of the two pilots had been recovered. The destroyer Merrill two chartered tugboats and a seagoing Crane were sighted in the area indicating hatan Citorik to retrieve the wreckage was under Way. The shipping experts said. The Pilot capt. Kenneth Hill 33, and co Pilot capt Stephen Leslie 30, were aboard he helicopter when it was reported missing. Iran said at the time that its forces shot Down inc aircraft the two men were the Only american casualties in the april is raid by . Forces on two iranian off Shore Oil platforms. Sis iranian gunboats were sunk or damaged and Iran said 44 iranians were killed. The Navy had officially called off the search and declared the men killed in action. Memorial service Slater were held for the two americans in Jacksonville n.c., where their unit was based. The wreckage was located Over the weekend by chartered Salvage tugboat said the experts who spoke on condition they not be named. The wreckage was found in the general location where the raids occurred they said the helicopter was on an evening patrol serving As backup for . Combat ships inc Day it disappeared. In their last dispatch the pilots radioed that the had detected hostile radar tracking their aircraft. The iranians on april 23 claimed on their stale run radio that their revolutionary guards retrieved som of inc wreckage of the helicopter and brought it ashore. The death of the two men brought to 46 the number of americans killed in and near the persian Gulf in the Pas year. The figure includes 37 killed in an erroneous iraqi missile strike on inc guided missile frigate Stark May 17 last year. The others were killed in helicopter crashes. In a related development saturday divers recovered the remains saturday of one of Ihrck . Marines aboard helicopter that crashed in the Pacific Ocean off the Island of Oahu a Marine corps spokesman said in Honolulu the remains were taken by helicopter to Tripler army medical Center in Honolulu for identification according to chief warrant officer Eric Carlson. Divers found the remains around i . Saturday near inc scene of the crash which occurred wednesday one Milt from Shore in about 30 feel of water Carlson said. Meanwhile the search continued for inc two other marines aboard the ch-4fi sea Knight helicopter from the Marine clips air station at Kan conc Bay he said. The three marines have been identified As the Pilot Cape. John e. Nisbet jr., 27, of Corpus Christi t was the co Pilot 1st it. Andrew g. First 24, of Concord mass. And the Crew chief Cpl Jeffrey a Tokan 23,of Fountain Valley Calif