European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday May 20,1988page 24 a soviet ship fire ignites complaint Osaka. Japan a japanese police comp bind that soviet officials re fuse to cooperate with investigators looking into a fire aboard a docked soviet liner wednesday that killed at Leas 11 passengers. In Moscow the soviet government newspaper live Tia said thai besides the 11 confirmed dead one person was miss ing and not Likely to be round alive. The fire broke out about 1 30 . Aboard Ilic a,8 70-ton Priam Urye and smoke and flames trapped most of he victims As they slept in their Cabins on the lowest of three passenger decks. Izvestia said the Blaze May have started in a passenger Cabin on the lower deck but that the cause had not been established. Japanese police said earlier hat the tire was discovered in an area above the engine room. Norimasa Watanabe chief of the guard Rescue department of the Mari time safety Agency in Osaka said he suspected the cause would be careless smoking or faulty wiring. Police said the victims were All soviet citizens who were on a Goodwill visit to Japan sponsored by the communist youth league. It look 18 hours 1o extinguish the Blaze and the ship was left blackened and listing at the Osaka docks. Yoshihide Yasuda spokesman for Osaka prefectural police said police wanted to question the soviets about the Blaze but soviet consular officials re fused to sign papers permitting it. Yasuda said the fire department and the maritime safety Agency were to launch a formal investigation thursday. Yasuda said a second soviet ship was arriving at this port in Western Japan on Friday to Lake Home survivors from the 29 passengers and 129 Crew members aboard the Priam Urye. Yasuda said officials planned to ques Tion the ship s Captain Aleksandr Cyras Tov 10 passengers who witnessed the Blaze and 15 Crew members employed As Security personnel. The 406-fool-Long Priam Urye had sailed from Vladivostok on May 7 and stopped in Otani on the Northern Japa Nese Island of hokkaido and in Tokyo before arriving in Osaka tuesday. Yasuda said 15 people remained hospitalized with bums and smoke inhalation and 20 others were treated before being released. Crowe sees peril in drug assault Detroit a using the armed forces in an All out assault on drug trafficking would involve civil rights Itoda nuts americans May not want to contemplate the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said at a news conference Here to solve the drug problem and still guarantee All americans the rights and privileges icy enjoy today is a difficult thing . William j. C  or. Told a Nous conference wednesday before a luncheon speech at the economic club of Detroit Crowe chairman of the joint chiefs since october 1985. Said the armed forces would carry out whatever anti drug Trade measures Congress assigned them. I think there arc things we can to Primar ily identification surveil Lance and tracking of pc Crowe Pic bringing in drugs in illicit fashion he said. But he said to truly Stop the Tow of drugs you would have to i a crease police Powers and do some searches and seizures that Are not contemplated  Crowe also said he foresaw no Quick end to . Military involvement in the persian Gulf and no in creased activity in Panama. He referred to negotiations aimed at persuading panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega to leave the . Government is interested in bringing thai about he said. 1 be said he did not a Pkt increased . Military activity in Panama but said the United states would defend its strategic interest in keeping the Panama canal open. Navy drops Wreath to note anniversary of Stark attack Manama Bahrain a the . Navy has marked the first anniversary of the iraqi air attack on the guided Messitc frigate Stark the Navy dropped a Wreath in persian Gulf Waters where the frigate was hit by two missiles causing a loss of 37 lives. During the ceremony tuesday a it try chaplain offered a prayer and a seven Man Rifle team fired a Salute from the deck of the destroyer stump. Related Story Page 7. We pause amidst our duties to Honor men of Stark who Laid Down their lives in service to country and to dedicate ourselves As fellow shipmates to the great task of protecting peace and righteousness among Allna tons said he chaplain it. Cmdr. Jerry Mcnabb. Banked by a 14-Man Honor guard in dress whiles a chief Petty officer and a Seaman the oldest and Young est members of Trie slump s 325-Man Crew tossed the Wreath Over the Side. Cmdr. Constantine l. Pc fickies the destroyer s skipper also spoke. Mcnabb had attended survivors of the May 17, 19s7, attack according to naval sources who provided details of the  a related development in Washington the Navy said wednesday it has decided to return the mine damaged frigate Samuel b. Roberts from the Gulf aboard a commercial heavy lift ship. The service in a Brief statement said it hoped to award a contract for the ferry operation in the Nusl few Days and then Load the frigate in mid june for the trip Back to the United Stales. The ship is based at Newport r.i., but the Navy announced april 29 it would be repaired at he Bath Iron works in Bath Maine. The Roberts was badly ripped by a mine on april 14 shortly after completing a Convoy operation for a re nagged kuwaiti Tanker. Navy officials have  the Roberts almost certainly would have sunk had it not been for the performance of its Crew of roughly 200. Jewish leaders detect racism in Italy Rome a jewish leaders say there Are signs in Italy of the same anti semitism that preceded enact ment of racial Law 50 years ago by Benito Mussolini s fascist government. Chief rabbi Eliot Aff and Jacob Sabban president of the jewish Community Lold reporters it could be the prelude of things much More vile and not Only against the jews Toff and Sabban on tuesday accused the Media of publishing reports from the Middle East that compare israelis to nazis because of the israelis policies toward palestinians in the occupied territories. They displayed bundles of threatening idlers and dozens of photos of swastikas painted on Walls in Rome. They said an old Man who survived Auschwitz was asked by a doctor who saw the Camp number tattooed on his  How Many palestinians have you killed today in your extermination Camps a jewish University student was forced o remove the Star of David he wore on a Chain around his neck the two men said. Jackson Jess Jackie in says he won t he deterred. A hidden microphone and meet again May 10 with Londell Williams this time with Law enforcement officials listening in the complaint said. The complaint said the informant later received a death threat from the Williamss for informing on them. At the hearing. Secret service agent j. Christo Pher Murphy testified that the informant led sheriffs deputies to a wooded area in Franklin county where they found an ar-15 Colt semiautomatic Rifle and a bag the informant said belonged to the Williamss. The complaint said the bag contained a Post card addressed to Londell Williams and maps one of which had his fingerprints. The Rifle had been reported stolen from Spring Field according to the agent. Murphy said thai during the recorded Conversa Tion with the informant Williams said tie wanted to get the Rifle Back because ii had been issued to him by the Cha. Williams also said the organization wanted it returned because it had been used to kill a Law enforcement officer Murphy said. Murphy said that the informant brought up the assassination plot during the conversation and Williams said inc Cha was planning to assassinate candidate Jackson on the fourth  Murphy said that after the Williamss were arrested Williams told authorities about the individual who provided him with the Rifle and also made statements about a plan to kill Jackson. Secret service agent David Northcut testified that be had interviewed mrs. Williams after her arrest. At that time she said she was present when her husband discussed the Cha and other groups. The Williamss were being held in the Federal detention facility in Belleville 111., across the mis sus Ippi River from St Louis. They were not Avail Able for interviews their attorneys said. Records in Christian county circuit court show Londell and Tammy Williams were both arrested in Ozark on dec. 7,1936, he was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and she was charged with Possession of marijuana. Both ended up serving Short sentences in the Christian county jail and arc on probation according to records. Classified ads in Magazine today