European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday May 25,1986 chemical warfare facility in . Opened to soviets soviet experts making Isdr firm visit Iti a u Cryl chemical warfare facility in i Oxton England Al l Western blur pc tuesday watched As Drill the soldiers in Gat Tasu i might Nita simulated attack by an enemy using me agents. If Dimion marked the official Start of the soviets Ihrcke dmm to Isnain s chemical warfare in fens Center in i option Down in Wilh Wabl England. Ii is part of an Exchange program designed to pro Mote Progress on it chemical weapons ban. Ii should facilitate said Yuri Nai Arkin chief so Vivi negotiator at the 40-Nalinn Geneva conference on disarmament. The conference ended its Spring session april 29 with no breakthrough in sight on an agreement to ban development production and stockpiling of chemical weapons. After watching the display by nine British soldiers the 13 soviet scientists and military1 a sports entered Ilic main buildings of the British facility to begin talks i i her Ilion experts. The visit 3 week before the superpower Summit was billed by British officials As the most detailed Exchange of information to Dale with the soviets on weapons by a Western european Power. Wiir Noi going to reveal Giraham i Earson. Director if the facility said we re gains to try to Burlil Confidence Between the United kingdom and so Vii u leu. Anatoly Kumse Vidi. A Cpl commander of soviet chemical troops said after the display i fwd consider it in be a beginning it is interesting and purposeful while nuclear weapons will be he Centrepiece of the Summit Progress on a chemical weapons ban has so far proved elusive. At last december s Washington Summit. President Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev called for intensified negotiations on a verifiable agreement covering All nations capable of producing chemical weapons. Britain which halted production of chemical weapons in the 1950s and destroyed its stockpiles in 1957. Has been in the forefront of the Geneva conference negotiations that have dragged on for 2d years. As part of the Exchange British scientists and Mili tary experts will visit the soviet chemical warfare facility at Shikany on the River Volga. The soviet Union Only acknowledged in Early 1987 that it had a chemical weapons stockpile amounting to 50,000 tons. One major problem in the Geneva negotiations is that Western experts put the soviet stockpile at 300,000 ions the United Stales the Only other country that acknowledges possessing chemical weapons has a Stock pile estimated at 30,000 ions. It ended an 18-year moratorium on production in december when it started manufacturing binary weapons those made from to chemicals which arc harm less alone but lethal when they Iti race. Cruise through water wonderland Lias ii risque time fun hit new Depths a firm in Tokyo hop so. The firm has designed and devel oped Japan s first Leisure submarine which will hold 30 to 40 narc Ngun. The vessel will be 66 feet to 82 fed Long did i expected to sail about 1 mile per hour an official add Lul week. World today chinese Beauty pageant bans press coverage Beijing Dpi Olga hirers banned press coverage of the Flower of a citing Beauty contest monday fallowing the cancellation of the miss Shanghai Competition As part of a widening crackdown on a Cmeron slyly pageants. While chinese women have begun to dress More fashionably and Wear makeup in recent Yean any own Snow of skin has remained taboo since the 1966-76 cull lira revolution when at tempts to emphasize feminine Beauly were at tacked As organizers of the Beijing Beauly contest said reporters would not be allowed la Sec the preliminaries and semifinals but they would be Wel come to Ollend the finals Jure s. 3 satellites launched from 1 soviet Booster Moscow up1 the soviet Union tues Day said it has successfully launched three surveillance satellites from a Tingle Booster Racket. The official Tass new Agency said the Hunch ing look place May 21, there was no explanation As to Why the launch announcement was delayed three Days Tass also did not disclose the launch site. A Virnial. Civilian satellites arc Pul into orbit from the Bai Konur cosm drome in soviet can Irnel Asia. A second launch site at Leisck near the Arctic Circle ii used for both civilian and military launches. Number of japanese going abroad hits record Tokyo a japanese tourists went abroad in record numbers in l�h1. Though the number of foreign visitors to this nation remained almost unchanged from the previous year the government reported tuesday. More than 6.r million japanese tourists went abroad in 19b7, an increase of 24 percent Over 198-5 and three limes the number of foreigners who visited Japan according in a report from the prime minister s office. The report said the expansion of foreign travel which broke the s million level for the tint time in 1986, was due mainly to the strength of the yen which gives japanese greater buying Power away from Home. Foes fire bomb garage at planned nuke site . West Germany a nuclear Power opponents Early Monduy threw a tire bomb that destroyed a garage on the site Ofa planned nuclear waste recycling Plant police said. Police arrested 10 people after the fire bomb ing at the construction site near the bavarian Village of a Eckersdorf about 36 Miles North of Regensburg. The garage which housed construction equip ment was destroyed by the resulting tire police said. Earlier monday opponents of the planned nuclear facility blocked a Railroad line near Wack Ensdorf by placing tires and Picas of Wood on the tracks and letting the obstacles on fire police said. 1 killed 1 critically burned in fire aboard ferry London map fire broke out on n freight ferry carrying 75 people in the English Channel and one crewman was killed and another severely burned he fore firemen flown in by helicopter put out the Maze Early tuesday emergency services on both sides of the Channel the world s busiest water Way launched a Rescue operation when the fire began in the ferry s engine room at 9 30 . Monday. The fire was reported two hours after the so freight freeway Cut the Southeast English port of Dover for the belgian . Sealing . Ltd., owners of the 5.917-ton ferry said in a statement that is firefighters and their equipment were flown by helicopter to the vessel it said the firefighters would remain aboard until the ferry arrived at the French port of Dunkirk Licie a tugboat was towing it tuesday. They and to extinguish a fairly serious fire in the engine compartment which caused quite considerable dam age the fire brigade said in s statement. A dirt ii Royal air Force helicopter airlifted the injured Crew member to inc Kent and Canterbury Hospital in South East England. The Hospital said his Burns were critical. We understand. That it the cause of the fire was a fractured fuel pipe which caused fuel to leak Over the port engine room which then Eyen Mally caught fire Chris Gameli sealing s european director said in a radio interview with the British broadcasting corp. Die Seafri right freeway Buill in 1981 and capable of carrying about 70 trucks has been on charter to sealing since june 19so. It operates Between Dover. Britain s busiest ferry terminal and Zeebrugge As Well As to tween Dover and Dunkirk. Lifeboats Rescue lugs and helicopters from both sides of the Channel Rio a to the sea freight freeway when it reported the fire 28 Miles of Fth Southeast English coast. Other helicopters stood by in ease Pas sengers and Crew had to abandon ship. Firefighters found the dead Crew member in the engine room after extinguishing the Blaze there his body was put aboard a Lifeboat to be returned to Singh and. On March 6, 1987, the British Cross Channel ferry Herald of free Enterprise capsized outside Zeu Bruggy killing 193 people. The Herald of 1-Rcc Enterprise carrying passengers and freight went Down when water poured through the Bow door which had been left open As the vessel pulled out of
