European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Calif wines Pas test with flying colors Page 3 d Chappaquiddick Book assails Ted Kennedy Page 5 o of Captain operates from army pc Page 9 q Walton Newbom win Bowling masters titles sports Page 25 the St ars and stripes Qutb Toiuo unofficial Ruh Ici vol. 47. No. 29 monday. May 16. 1988 d 8693 a 26 die As truck hits Church bus Carrollton by. A a pickup truck travel ing in the wrong direction slowed into a Church but loaded with teen agers returning from an amusement Park late saturday and at least 26 people were killed in the Flory crash police said. I just heard a crash Felt the Impact of the car truck and looked up and saw flames said Wayne Cox 14, whose hair was singed by the flames. They spread pretty fast i was pinned. Every thing was pretty wild. I was under a lot of people. Thai s probably what saved me from getting burned said coi an asthmatic who suffered smoke inhalation. Between 30 and 40 people were injured in the 10 55 . Accident in Trie Northern Kentucky Community of Carrollton police said. Among the injured was the truck Driver Larry a Mahoney 34, of Worthville in Carroll county who was in critical condition. At least six others also were listed in critical condition. State police spokesman trooper Jim Mudd gave the number of dead As at least 26 and said the final loll could be one or two More. The worst bus Accident in . History occurred in Kentucky in March 1958, when a school bus plunged into a River killing 26 students and the bus Driver. Apparently the Gas tank ruptured throwing fuel into the bus Carroll county Coroner Jim Dunn said. One passenger Jason Booher said the bus had re fuelled shortly before the Accident. The bus from the first Assembly of god Church in Radcliff. Was returning to Hardin county South of Louisville from the King s Island mum rent Park North of Cincinnati police  pickup was travelling northbound in the South bound Lane of interstate 7 when it collided head on see bus on Back Page soviet soldiers Start withdrawal from afghan Stern r afghan army soldiers wart As soviet troop begin their withdrawal sunday. A photo Kabul Afghanistan Jupi the soviet Union began its withdrawal Sun Day from a More than a year Long at ban War that Cost it an estimated casualties brought it  damnation and tailed Tom hit inc sur Vival of the pro Mani of   Early sunday when Somcy Fulvo men abandoned the 5lrafishlktern town of Jala Labad and chirp list on a Road to Kabul offi i said. 1,. The officials Sotl Jhc Convoy expected to reach Kabul Lac Hin Day afternoon was running ahead of a ctn la indicating it had encountered n8  .-armed moslem rebels. Security was Uriel on the Road lint the heavily defended afghan capital vim Jala Labad. Afghan soldiers swept far mines and soviet soldiers and armoured personnel carriers and tanks were positioned along inc Way. Flights of rocket Laden soviet helicopter gunship 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. Into the town was closed to _ traffic. Soviet and afghan flags no from lampposts on the route into the City and Walls and traffic circles were adorned with banners and billboards proclaiming afghan soviet Friendship and welcoming the returning russian soldiers. Soviet officials said the Convoy nud Stop in Kabul for 1 he night to refuel and after a Parade monday leave. It. Gen. Boris or mov. Chief soviet military commander in Afghanistan for More than three years bal urday announced that inc  Jala Labad Garrison would be the first m withdraw. He said that by the May 29 Moscow Summit Between president Cagan and Lin Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. One fourth of his Force pro ukr be.  to divulge Huw Many Sovic Topps arc in Afghanistan bul Western stif tues put the number ai1 1 5,000 soldiers Bulf Tibig the of 0,000 troop afghan army against rebel forces armed by the United Stales. China. Western european nations and Middle Eastern Stales. . Copter debris found in Gulf Manama. Bahr map the wreckage of a . N.c., where their unit was based. Navy helicopter that disappeared during last month s the wreckage was located Over the weekend by a raid on iranian forces in the persian Gulf his been chartered Salvage tugboat said the opens who spoke located off the emirate of shariah. Maritime nov Anu on condition they not be named. The wreckage was experts said sunday. Fiji und in the general location where the raids Occum. The destroyer Merrill two chartered tugboat and a net re seagoing Crane were sighted in the area indicating that an Effort to retrieve the wreckage was under Way the shipping in pens said. The Pilot capt. Kenneth Hill 33. And co Pilot Cape. Stephen Leslie 30, were aboard the helicopter when it was reported missing Iran said at the Lime that its forces shot Down inc aircraft. The two men were the Only american casualty. The april is raid by . Forces on two Longri off Shore Oil platforms six iranian  sunk or damaged and Iran said 44 . The Navy had officially Chartoff the search and declared the men . Memorial services later were held for Job Cowo americans in Jacksonville the  on an  scr Mas backup for 11 , Jitt  their last  radioed that they r Raceb Folh Virji Craf. Therow offis an april 23 claimed of Radic Fitial their revolutionary guards retrieve the 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 put year. The figure includes 37 killed in an erroneous iraqi missile strike on the guided missile frigate Stark May 17 last year. The others were killed in helicopter crashes. In � related development saturday divers recovered the remains saturday of one of three . Marines aboard a helicopter that crashed in the Pacific Ocean off the ,aii1iiimjjfo�iptt1ff i said in Honolulu. Of is Shii h Limm i 111 taken by helicopter to Triplet by medical Center in Honolulu for identification according to chief warrant officer Eric Carlson. Divers found the remains around i . Saturday near the scene of the crash which occurred wednesday one mile from Shore in about 30 feet of water Carlson said. Meanwhile the search continued for the two other marines aboard the ch-46 sea Knight helicopter from the Marine corps air station at Kaneohe Bay he said. Tie three marines have been identified As Trie Pilot. Ftfe Jfhn e. Nib cd jr., 27, of Corpus Christi Texas the or Jill Jet it. Andrew g. First 24. Of Concord mass. And Lre a chief Cpl. Jeffrey e. To Kara 23, of Fountain Valier Tsih. The Marine Navy and coast guard search had located submerged pieces of the twin Rotor transport helicopter. The cause of the crash remained under investigation