European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday june 9,19b8 world today members of the Borken Coal mine band Honor their colleagues wednesday at � memorial service. Memorial service pays tribute to victims of Borken mine blast Brokken West Germany a roman catholics lutherans and moslem held a joint memorial sen ice wednesday to mourn the victims of a mine explosion thai killed at Leasi 47 germans and turks and left four missing. Niyazi Balogu religious affairs Counselor for the turkish embassy in Bonn said the 13 turks who die Din the Juno i blast at the Stolzenbach mine Are heroes. According to islamic belief they live on in their souls and arc not considered dead but rather alive Balogu said in turkish. Vvs German television broadcast he service live and translated his remarks. Many mourners wined away tears As they listened to eulogies of the dead miners the disaster has deeply shocked the people and left Ahcin bewildered and  said roman Catho Lic Bishop Johannes Kapp of nearby Fulda. A lutheran pastor and a roman Catholic priest raid offic names of All 47 miners confirmed dead. President Richard von  was among the dignitaries who travelled to Borken 72 Miles North or Frankfurt for the memorial service. A band of miners wearing traditional hats with Bright red plumes played solemn music at the service. The City says $900,000 has been collected for the fam Vilics of the victims. Officials said the four missing men arc being sought in a Section of the shafts that probably was the Center of the explosion. High Levels of Carbon monoxide in that part of the mine left Little Hope of finding any More survivors but Rescue teams outfitted with oxygen tanks and masks continue to workaround the clock. Six survivors were discovered saturday when Rescue teams drilled a Hole into a mine Shaft and a local television Crew lowered a microphone Down the Hole and heard the survivors lapping hammers together. British team foils to find elusive Yeti London a a seven week search for the abominable snowman in the Himalayas turned up footprints and the carcasses of two dead sheep but not the legendary beast itself a member of the expedition said tuesday. Alan Hinkes 3-1, a member of the Sii Man British team said the climbers uncovered More clues but no conclusive evidence that the hairy manlike beast also known As the Yeli exists. It would have been Nice to find the actual Yeli Hikcs said. In Nepal All believe in it which is quite startling there must be something  expedition Leader Chris boning on 33, planned to present the team s findings at a news conference wednesday. The team accompanied by a a relish broadcasting corp. Television Crew and reporters from London s mail on sunday newspaper spent seven weeks exploring the 23,237-foot Minglu Nitse where British explorer Eric Shipton took his celebrated photograph of a Yeli footprint in 1951. Hikcs said the team discovered the carcasses of two Mountain sheep hat appeared to have been killed with some Type of instrument and skinned. The re Mains were sent to London s natural history museum for scientific tests. Museum zoologist lain Bishop has agreed to Rule on the scientific Validity of the expedition s findings. New natural Gas reserves discovered in North sea Lyndon up Mobil North sea the British exploration and production Arm of the Mobil group said wednesday it could be sup plying around 10 percent of the nation s Gas requirements by he 1990s because of a new North sea Gas discovery. In the latest discovery a company statement said a Wildcat Well in the Lancelot area had achieved a maximum flow of 35.1 million cubic feet of Gas a Day from a level of 8.500 to 9,030 feet. The Lancelot area is believed to contain re serves of about 600 billion cubic feet. Mobil said the discovery had enhanced the prospects for another area nearby. Items missing from museum in Egypt director removed Cairo Egypt a Twenty seven Pha romanic items have mysteriously disappeared from the egyptian National museum officials at the museum said wednesday. Other items have also been discovered miss ing recently and the director of the museum Mohammed Satch was removed from his Post. The officials said the stolen Antiquity items include Small statues the head of a Jion the head of a sheep and a number of rings and amulets dating Back to various pharaonic eras. They said the missing items were All stored in one Section of the museum but declined to elaborate any further. The items were found missing during a regu Lar Check made by the museum authorities of three sections of the five Section museum where nearly 6,000 items arc on display. Buried treasure unearthed at the Kremlin paper says Moscow a excavation workers have unearthed Gold Silver precious stones and other valuables that were buried inside the Kremlin Walls about 750 years ago a weekly newspaper reported wednesday the buried treasure includes pendants rings necklaces and slavonic decorations from the period the Moscow news reported. It said the riches were buried by defenders of the Kremlin in Advance of mongolian inva Sion in 1237. They were found on the Kremlin s apr oils by Hill which overlooks the Moscow River. The mongols controlled the slavic regions or the present Day soviet Union until the 14th Century exacting High taxes co scripting the male population and harshly repressing re volts. The Moscow news said the value of the trea sure had not yet been assessed. Key iranian official takes blame for War setbacks Manama Bahrain up Dis graced revolutionary guards commander Mohsen Rezai apparently being Sedas a Scapegoat for recent iranian defeats in the War with Iraq acknowledged on National television that his mistakes caused the losses. Terai considered one of the most powerful men in Iran said on state run television that he was guilty of poor Mili tary judgment Tehran residents reached by Telephone said tuesday the iranian sources said the Tehran government needed a Scapegoat after the defeats by iraqi forces and that Rezai was the likeliest candidate. They said Rezai looked Diawn and downcast As he confessed to mistakes made by the revolutionary guards a privileged corps adhering to Leader Aya Zollah Ruhollah Khomeini s Brand oils Lamia fundamentalism. In lightning offensives in april and May iraqi troops recaptured from the revolutionary guards the Faw Peninsula and Salami sch in Southeast Iraq. Rezai s television appearance was reminiscent of previous televised Confes Sions made by iranian officials who had fallen out of favor with ruling clergy men. The commander s unprecedented admission of military failure in the of year old War came five Days after Kho Meini appointed parliament speaker All Akbar Hashemi a Sfanjani commander of Iran s combined armed forces in a bid to reverse the successive Battlefield set backs. Khomeini s decree gave a Sfanjani control Over All branches of the armed forces including he elite revolutionary guards with a mandate to Mold them into a More efficient fighting Force. Recently elected radicals in the Irani an parliament have called for an investigation into the Battlefield defeats and the punishment of those responsible. Even a Sfanjani speaker for eight years acknowledged flaws in the iranian com Mand Structure that needed attention. A Baghdad based iranian opposition group said Khomeini s appointment of a Sfanjani was the religious Leader s Las card and that the Era of iranian land Vic tories was Over. They have a great shortage of volunteers for the War front said Ali Reza Jafarzadeh spokesman for the people s Mujaheddin of Iran. They need Victory to escape from the chaos icy created but ibis is unlikely without Radical changes during Khomeini s lifetime thousands of new iranian recruits recurrently moving to the War front for an expected offensive against iraqi forces