European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 28 news briefs the stars and stripes wednesday May 25,19b8 2 air Force f-15s bump during training flight d1tburg a West Germany Sas two . Air Force f-15s touched during a training flight tuesday in the second such incident in the past week a Fli Tburg a spokeswoman said. Both planes landed safely following the 2 90 . Incident which occurred during a routine flight Between Pitburg and Span Dahlem air bases. The extent of the damage la the planes assigned to the 36lh tac fighter Wing at bit Burg was not immediately known. The Novas win Aid one of the planes loft an unarmed mining missile in the incident which occurred while the planes were flying in formation. Air Force officials end German police were searching for the missile. There had been no reports of injury or property damage she said. Safety officials Are investigating the Accident so said two Pitburg of Lis incurred minor damage May 17 when they touched while flying in for Marion during a nato exercise. One of the planes lost a 100-Pound Section of Tail Structure in that incident. E. German Dies in crash trying to escape to West Bonn a an East German died Afler ramming his car into a Border Gate in an attempt to escape to West Germany government officials said tuesday. They also said another East German drowned last week while trying to swim Carou the Baltic sea to West Germany. The Man s body washed ashore wednesday on the Wen German Side Fulbeck g Bay the West German government said. The Federal government is disconcerted by these deaths and reminds East German officials that denial of free movement tempts peo ple to risk their lives the government Laid in statement. Witnesses on monday saw a car with East German License plates crashing into a sleet Gate at the Border crossing near Helmstedt West Germany about 60 mites East of Hannover. After the incident in which he car appeared to be seriously damaged the witnesses saw East German officials cover the Driver s body with a Blanket West German official sources said. Jetliner bursts into flames during attempted Takeoff san Jose Costa Rica a a jetliner went off the runway and smashed through a Fence while trying to take off but All 22 Passen Gers and Crew fled the aircraft minutes before i burst into flames. Ten people were treated for minor injuries following the Accident monday. The Lacsa Boe ing 727 carried eight Crew members and 14 Pas sengers including seven americans. Miraculously there were no deaths said Juan Manuel Fernandez financial vice president of Lacsa the Costa rican airline. Una flight 628 was scheduled to Slop in Managua Nicaragua before continuing to Miami officials said the Jet left the terminal of the Juan san Maria International Airport at 4 59 ., headed Down the runway and crashed through a Fence surrounding the Airport after failing to Lake off. The plane came to a Slop about 600 Yards beyond the Fence Ana Grassy area where it bunt into flames. The aircraft broke into three sections. Iranian naval exercises in Gulf enter third Day Manama Bahrain up iranian Maneu vers in the Southern persian Gulf designed to Challenge assertions the iranian Navy was crippled after clashes with us. Forces last month entered their third Day tuesday without apparent incident under the watchful but Distant Eye of . Warships shipping sources said. The sources said . Warships in the Region remained on Alert m Case of iranian attack As they patrolled the Strait of Hormuz the strategic Mouth of the Gulf. They said . Warships stayed Clear of Irani an exercise areas. Reagan tempers his Praise of soviets with a warning Washington a president Reagan praised the Kremlin for making Progress acres a spectrum of human rights issues but he said the West should not Elpeet there will be Quick Radical transformation of the soviet  Reagan setting the stage for Summit talks in mos cow with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Hid he Hopes to conclude a treaty to Cut strategic nuclear arse nals before his term empires in eight months bul acknowledges that might not be possible. It is the requirements of a Good treaty and not some arbitrary deadline thai will determine the timetable Reagan said. Reagan made his remarks in an address beamed across Europe tuesday on the . Information Agency world Nel satellite service. The speech was taped monday in the Oval office. The president was to leave Washington wednesday bound for Helsinki Finland and a four night Stopover before travelling on to the soviet Union. He will arrive in Moscow sunday and immediately launch his fourth Summit with Gorbachev. Reagan said talks Wilh the soviet Union must be guided by realism about what can be achieved. We do nol expect a Quick Radical transformation of the soviet system the president said we do not i pct to turn a Corner one Day to find that All our problems have gone away because our adversary has been transformed. We must continue to fulfil our own responsibility to stand firm and vigilant to provide the incentive for a new soviet policy in contrast to the old. For there still remain profound political and moral differences Between the soviet system and our  Reagan and Gorbachev will have five official meet Ings wrapping up their talks Jane 1. Later that same Day the two leaders and their wives will Al tend a Spe Cial Ballet  at the Bolshoi theater and then Dine at Gorbachev s Dacha or country Home outside Moscow. Aside from his talks with Gorbachev Reagan also will meet with monks dissidents writers artists filmmaker and students lending encouragement to reforms under Way in the soviet onion and expressing Hope for More change Colombia Hijack suspect is arrested near Airport Bogota Colombia a a convicted Kidnap per who allegedly used a toy hand grenade to Hijack a colombian Airliner was captured tuesday Rooming in a swamp near the International Airport of the Caribbean coast City of Cartagena. No one was injured in the 11-hour hijacking which began during a monday morning flight from my Dullin to Bogota and ended when the plane landed in Carta Gena monday night. All 128 passengers and the Hryce flight attendants were freed shortly after the Vianca Boeing 72? was commandeered. During the hijacking a Lone Man claiming to have hand grenades forced the plane to Fly id Panama and the Island of Aruba. He demanded 1100,000, saying he was dying of cancer and wanted the Money so he could live out his Days in Cuba. And were caught off guard. As he Jet taxied in the darkness toward the Cartagena terminal. The Blacker lowered the rear stairway jumped out and escaped. The suspect was found at Dawn tuesday hiding in a swamp on the Edge of the Airport the colombian Navy said. He was being examined of doctors. The Navy Judd the suspect Gonzalo Carrono Niclo used a toy gun four years ago to Kidnap an Uncle. Carreno spent nine years in prison after being charged with murder lawyer Guillermo Garcia said. He eventually was found innocent and set free but had become emotionally unbalanced in prison and turned to crime and drug abuse Garcia told the radio network caracal. At a news conference in Cartagena Pilot Luis Edu Ardo Gutierrez said of the Hijacker he wanted the hts siT"0 """iT1" ? landed in Cartagena after j100,000 so he could spend the last few Days of his life the night Crew told the Hijacker that they diff not have happily. He told us he Tad nothing to lose and thai he enough fuel to reach Cuba would exp Todd a Unade i carried in his hand if we authorities knew nothing about the change of plans woul explode n Grenad i Carrie i i if we failed to obey his instructions documents that link Noriega to narcotics have disappeared Miami not documents said to implicate the panamanian Leader Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega in drug related activities have disappeared from the offices of the drag enforcement administration at . Embassy in Panama a government official said Here monday night. The official who spoke on condition that he not be identified wid the Agency has begun an  the Case in Panama and Miami. The official said the documents were apparently Bank records and copies of night logs that showed movements of Money and possibly drugs betwee Panama and other places. In Washington a spokesman for the drug enforce ment administration commenting on an Abc news report on the missing documents said Abc apparently talked to a former informant of Dea who give information after the indictment was brought against Noriega the spokesman Cornelius Dougherty said the Agency did not knew the identity of the former informant and we re still trying to examine the Irneth fullness of the report the official in Miami said Ihal the disappearance was discovered when drug enforcement administration documents sent from Panama to the Agency s Miami office arrived several documents that were supposed to have arrived were missing. The official said the documents disappearance would in no Way affect the indictments against Noriega resumed by Federal grand juries in Florida in february. Nasa hires firm to launch satellites Washington a Nasa an Agency that has ten thousands frock cos into space announced monday that for uie first Lime in is hiring a private company general dynamics corp., to launch government satellites. The National aeronautics and space administration together with the Commerce department said it has contracted Wilh general dynamics to design lest and launch three weather satellites Lor 1200 million. The agencies also have an option to buy launch service for two More of the geostationary operational Environ mental satellites for no additional 1103 million. This contract is the first . Government procure ment of commercial launch transportation services and Ushers in a new Era in the commercialization of space Nasa said. Until now Nasa has bought rockets from private con tractors prepared them for flight and then supervised their launch. The new contract gives All that As Well As responsibility for Mission Success to general dynamics. The satellites will be launched far the National oceanic and atmospheric administration. The first of the new series of weather satellites is scheduled for launch in March 1990