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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday May is. 19bb 1 homed 12 injured in Kabul explosion Kabul. Afghanistan  a bomb cup loved inside a truck saturday near reviewing stands being prepared for Farewell ceremonies to my Mac pullout of soviet soldiers. Eleven afghans were Vitta were reported wounded. The blast occurred in a housing area on Llie Banks of the Kabul River in Llic heart of Kabul at 5 4s . A Western photographer on inc scene lot the associated press Hal a baby and an 1 1-Ycar-old girl were among those killed and thai All the casualties afghan civilians. Most appeared to have h pants of Homes destroyed by the explosion when the bomb , Sqq a Tihe houses nearby just collapsed the Pha Zepher said. Other witnesses Widic Casaw four bodies being re moved from one Houet the  the windows of a bus depot 300  left a Crater 20 feet wide and 10 feel deep. Soviet troops arrived after the blast the photographer said by Telephone. Vladimir Sevruk Deputy chief of the propaganda department of inc soviet communist party Central committee also provided casually figures to foreign news briefs Iraq sets 5 ships ablaze a in Arian Oil terminal Manama Bahrain a iraqi planes sat urday attacked tips set ablaze five  including two of the Edlu s largest Suda flankers at an offshore Oil Toad inv Crim Namnath belongs 10 Iran shipping executives re boned. One ship was Repon Reinking and 20 Crew members were  an iranian jul Fig of vows overheard by radio monitors As it Warful an  . Navy ship to stay Awa Yaffim the Ned Tanaid the executives who spoke on Cansilion they maroc  Large own bar of iranian Savage tugboats were Rcpt old battling fierce flanks aboard  564,739-ton a Cav giant the world s biggest ship from which Oil by  457.8ji-1oh Burmah end Cavon a bal Ishjiah vessel that also ranks among the world s five largest vessels was the least damaged. Police foil Soldier s Effort to smuggle illegal Aliers costo. Italy up Border poll alunday caught a \.s. Serviceman trying go smuggle 12 filipinos Imp Italy from swim Rutlind in the Backof a camper a officials Saur they said the . Sooj Tfir whose name was not released Wal Choptij to italian magistrate for violating the is Taffy i immigration Laws. A Border Guarav became suspicious while checking the 5qmicr a a entity Doeum cols when he noticed off All in windows of the camper . \ he ordered inc America to open the Back of the Vaj and found 12  i Ghoul Legal entry papers police Savov soviets to publish letters from . To Gorbachev Moscow a americans sent More than 80,000 letters to soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorba Chev last year and the most characteristic of the messages will be published in a Book a Soviel newspaper reported saturday. Sovic Skaya Cullura published excerpts of 11 letters from Carou the United Stales along with an introduction that will be included in the Book. The Book will be called americans while 10gorbachev," which was also the headline on sat urday s newspaper Story. The letter excerpts mostly expressed the writ ers concerns about world peace and the threat of nuclear War but they also touched on topics  and the Aims of socialism. / to Italy Korovich editor of the weekly news Magazine Ogo Nyok. Described the american missives As liners of  and soviet affairs scholar Stephen Cohen of Princeton University discussed the mail and its meaning in a dialogue that will accompany the letters selected for the Book. Sovic Skaya Kutura did not say when the Book would be available. Reporters covering the pullout which was scheduled to begin sunday. In Moscow the official Tass news agent that the blast killed 11 people andwaunirt37tass blamed afghan  explosion Demty bomb Eban Klient Walh on bothsidef9hlifkmntver, which threads through this an whose streets arc now filled with soviet s tanks Anana Rcd personnel carriers. Blood was visible Anshu ales of a nearby factory and Persona belongings  in the Street. Witnesses said flames were Visla a Hen they arrived shortly alter the blast the Large it the bomb was planted was badly mangled. Last month is people were killed and 49 wounded in a bomb blast along the River on the 1 oth anniversary of the april 1978 revolution that brought a mantis govern ment to Power and triggered widespread insurrection. Ami communist guerrillas also were believed responsible for a  Convoy North of Kabul ii in Fly olo Grapher for the soviet newspaper Szvcs -.1. And an undisclosed number of soldiers la also wounded Sevruk s son who also works for Izvestia. Soviet troops entered Afghanistan in december 1979 to help the soviet Allied government put Down the insurrection. About 1is.ood soviets have been assisting afghan Leader Sayid Mohammad Naji Buloth i troops but the were to begin leaving the country sunday in Observance of a peace agreement signed in Geneva on april 14, half flee soviets must be out by aug. I a and the rest Are expected to follow quickly although the Accord give them nine months to Complete the Pullo ulal a new conference saturday the head of the soviet military contingent in Afghanistan said that the guerrilla to liking their toll on soviet and afghan troops but  would not deter the withdrawal. The  May have some effect on us but no much and ctr Taly they will not be Able to frustrate inc timetable it. Gen. Botis Romov told reporters. Pope arrives in Peru on tour Lima. Peru a Pope John Paul ii arrived sat urday evening in poor terrorism plagued Peru an heard a plea from president Alan Garcia to reach out to those who Are Siek with hate and who kill and destroy with  John Paul on & 12-Day, four nation Mission to South America arrived from neighbouring Bolivia on an crop Cru dc-8 Jet at Lima s Airport he expressed his sympathy with the huge multitude that has experienced Brief Vio Lence abandonment and hunger in Peru. Later saturday evening scattered blackouts attributed to leftist sabotage hit Lima while the Pope was addressing priests nuns and Seminary students but did not affect the downtown area surrounding the colonial Era Cathedral where he was. Outside the Cathedral in Lima s Central Plaza the Pope consecrated a peruvian version of the Virgin Mary a tens of thousands cheered and waved  pan Tiff Hen retired for the night in the Vatican embassy earlier saturday about 20 women disrupted a mass in a roman Catholic Church in Lima the capital and appealed in the Pope s name for respect for the rights Del Ceisl rebels held in local prisons. A military intelligence officer said two men posing As police with automatic rifles were arrested on the papal motorcade route from inc Lima Airport to Down town. He said there was an order to shoot and kill any armed suspects near he Pope. Garcia a nationalistic social reformer who has halted virtually All payment of Peru s $14.6 billion foreign debt demanded a fairer shake for poor nations Oflahe turf world. John Paul left the tropical bolivian City of Santa Cruz for Peru earlier saturday. Montgo away holy father. Don t leave us bolivian vice president Julio Garrett Ayton told inc Pope during a Farewell ceremony repealing a chant heard throughout the Pontilli five Day bolivian stay. Addressing a mass on saturday in the Amazon Basin City of Trinidad the Pope insisted that con Stant intense honest and efficient work by everyone was needed to overcome poverty. Inmates from Page 1 two other dormitories were doused. Authorities scaled off a Section of the prison that held 82 inmates. Ten of the 82 Are participating in the hostage Situa Tion. The others got caught inside said tra Romell. Some 30 to 35 of the uni rival veil inmates locked Ihm a claw in their cells she said. Trammell said one guard was treated after apparently being hit on the hand with a Rock and one prisoner suffered a minor slab wound to the shoulder. Officer were preparing to Transfer five inmates Lothe Oklahoma slate Penitentiary in Mcalester about 40 Miles away when the disturbance began. The five had reportedly threatened other inmates who allegedly bad stolen from them. Apparently during that period of Lime an officer wot taken hostage Massie said. Other officers then were seized. Syrians from Page 1 urday rumbled across South Beirut s Mouzai coastal Highway tit 5 . In 43 t-55 soviet made tanks with gunners atop their swinging turrets. They were led by Brig. Gen. Ghazi Ccnaan Syria s military intelligence chief in Lebanon and maj. Gen. Saeed Birakdar commander in chief of the syrian forces in Lebanon they headed the battalion in a Gehauf cured Bullet proof Mercedes. Truckloads of infantrymen and am munition and jeeps mounted with 106mm recoilless guns streamed in afterwards. Hundreds of plainclothes syrian secret servicemen Al All gateways to the slums blocked reporters and photographers from entering. Kenaan and bet radar flanked by senior aides met for an hour with Amil s chieftain Nabih Bern who is also Lebanon s Justice minister Al hit heavily fortified House in Wesl Beirut saturday night. They have agreed Hal inc syrians will go into the slums but not into the nearby palestinian refugee Camps where rival factions also have been fighting Abern spokesman said later on condition of anonymity syrian reinforcements woe coming from the Bekaan Val Ley when Syria maintains the bulk of 25.000 troops stationed in Eastern and Northern Lebanon the source said. The move came on the heels of a syrian threat of immediate and drastic treatment after Hezbollah s forces stormed through the last amal stronghold. " Afler advancing across half of Shaiyah Hezbollah now control 90 percent of South  reported a police spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity. Police said 20 people were killed and 41 injured sat urday in inc House to House incr Shi Ilc moslem combat and other factional dashes in South Beirut the latest casualties raised the toll in area fighting to 211 killed and 586 wounded since May 6. The thud of exploding shells echoed across West Beirut As Hezbollah militiamen advanced across Shaiyah and amal fighters withdrew toward syrian lines in West Binil. As Hezbollah and amal dulled in Shaiyah rival Palestin Ian guerrilla factions battled with howitzers and mortars for control of the nearby Bour Al Bara Neh refugee Camp. At the refugee Shantytown seven people were killed and 16 wounded m clashes Hal broke out Early saturday be tween guerrillas of Palestine liberation organization Leader Yasser Arafat s Fatah faction and col Saeed Moira s syrian backed Falah uprising police said. Syria the main Power broker in Lebanon maintains 25,000 troops in the Bekaan and in North Lebanon under a 1976 Arab league peacekeeping mandate syrian troops Friday shot and killed five Hezbollah fighters who tried to Cross into the syrian policed Mouzai Seaside District it was the first clash Between the two groups in South Beirut  
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