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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mid stripes. Wasslin stripes Magazine d army investigating new Beretta Page 5 d Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 d lakers mavs win in playoffs Page 17 authorized unofficial publication Pom the . Ahmed Foft Cis vol.47,no.32 thursday May 19, 1988 Good morning d 8693 a missile fuel not involved in explosion soviets say Moscow a a chemical factory explosion killed three people but did not involve fuel for a new Long Range nuclear missile As inc Pentagon claimed a soviet foreign ministry spokesman said wednesday. Gennady i. Ocra Simov said in a Tele phone interview that the explosion occurred at 7 15 . May 12 at a chemical factory in Pavlo Grad about 500 mile Southwest of Moscow in the Ukraine. Three people at the Plant were killed and five were hospitalized with injuries from the explosion which occurred in storage area for Industrial explosives cd Asimov said. Soviet Media carried no reports of the explosion. . Officials in Washington said tuesday the explosion shut Down the Only Plant in the soviet Union that makes the main rocket motors for the new ss-24 intercontinental ballistic mis Sile. The defense department said in a statement tuesday that the explosion see explosion on Back Page fire kills 11, injures 35 aboard soviet ship Osaka Japan a fire broke out Early wednesday on a lower deck of a docked soviet passenger liner killing 11 people injuring 35 and gutting the ship fire officials said. All aboard were thought to be soviet citizens. The 4,870-ton Priam Urye was carry ing communist youth league members on a Good will visit to Japan. Most passengers were sleeping at the  said eight badly burned bodies were found on the lowest of three Passen Ger decks where the fire was discovered shortly before 2 . In an area above the 406-foot ship s engine room. By wednesday afternoon police said they believed no one else was missing from among the ship s 295 passenger Sand 129 Crew members. They said that All the victims were passengers. According to a tentative list issued by the maritime safely Agency the 11 Vic Tims were Between the Ages of 22 and 35 and came from several soviet cities. Yoshihide Yasuda. Spokesman for the Osaka prof Clural police told a news con Ference wednesday evening that 15 of the 35 injured people remained hospitalized for treatment of smoke  Kyodo news service said police were investigating both careless smoking and an engine room problem As possible causes of the fire. Thick smoke Billows from the Priam Urye 4,870-Lon soviet passenger ship docked at Osaka Japan. Couple arrested in plot to shoot Jesse Jackson St. Louis a a member of a White supremacist group and his wife rein jail on charges of conspiring to kill or harm democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson because they believed he was getting too Clow to being presi Dent the . Attorney s office said. Federal agents quoted Londell Wil Liams 30, of Washington mo., assaying he was a member of several White supremacist groups. His wife Tammy. 26, was quoted As saying Jackson would be shot on june 12 or july 12. The two arrested Friday arc being held without Bond said Jay flush cd of the secret service s St. Louis office. Fou slice said the threats were made recently but declined to provide any details. Tom Den Oudyn supervisor Rofloc Fri s office in Springfield mo., said wednesday he had done some checking into the Cou ple s background and found no evidence they were involved in Well known while supremacist groups such As the order or the co tenant. Sword and  of the lord. To the Best of my knowledge these see plot on Back Page Dukakis easily victorious Over Jackson in Oregon Portland Ore. A Michael Dukakis continuing his March toward the democratic nomination with a lop sided win in the Oregon primary de scribed himself As a candidate who can win the  democratic rival Jesse Jackson however warned Duka Kis not to count him out cd. Vice president George Bush who already has a mathematical lock on the Republican nomination picked up All 32 delegates in Oregon. But Bush was getting less attention for winning another primary than for trailing Dukakis in a series of surveys. And Kansas sen. Bob Dole who dropped out of the Republican race Back in March skimmed off nearly a fifth of the vote in Oregon. It does t do Dole any Good at this Point but it Points to weakness that could hurl Bush in november. The primary season is now in its see Dukakis on Back Page classified acs m Stupe Magazine today  
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