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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes the stars Nadji stripes Utho Lieo unofficial fut in Tittl Fob tit . Armid for ii vol. 47, no. 65 tuesday june 21, 1988 Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney and president Reagan listen to reporters questions. Summit ers urge East to end its isolation Toronto a leaders of the seven nation economic Summit monday called on the nations of inc soviet bloc to end their economic isolation and gave a ringing endorsement to . Efforts to reduce nuclear arms. The leaders summed up their political Dis Cussion by issuing a joint statement at the mid Point of their three Day conference. Our Peoples stand in Solidarity within the framework of our existing alliances for the cause of Freedom to safeguard democracy and the Prosperity which it has produced the statement said. The leaders repeated earlier condemnations of terrorism and also endorsed efforts to hamper hijackers by preventing commandeered aircraft from taking off once they have landed. On drugs the leaders backed a . Proposal to establish a special task Force to improve inter National cooperation in the Battle against illegal drugs. The Effort is aimed at choking off the flow of profits to drug traffickers. The leaders Pul aside or resolved their Dis agreements on third world debt and Faro subsidies As they discussed East West relations in the Wake of president Reagan s Moscow Summit with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Canadian foreign minister Joe Clark read the statement 10 an auditorium filled with journalists As the leaders began their second formal meeting of inc Day. In a companion statement read along with the political communique the countries expressed their Abhorrence of apartheid and said that every Legal option should be exercised to obtain clemency for the Sharleville us Black South africans who were convicted of complicity in see Summit on Back Page Good morning d 6693 a d former Cia official indicted for conspiracy Page 2 d weathered experts offer guesses Page 3 d coast guard eases towing policy Page 5 d lakers win Send Aba playoffs to wire Page 21 general deposes haitian president port a Prince Haiti a la. Gen. Henri Namphy monday declared himself president of Haiti after troops stormed the presidential Palace and de posed civilian president Leslie Mani Gal. The future of democracy and Liberty was at stake. The army must protect the Superior interests of the country and must head the country Namphy said Ina speech broadcast late monday morning on National television from the Palace. To this end a military government has been formed with As president Gen. Henri Namphy he  coup ended four months of civilian government and put Namphy Back in command of the nation he led for two years As head of a three Man Junta. 11 came less than a week after Mani Gal tired Namphy and tried to reorganize the military. Namphy was surrounded by military leaders including it. Col. Jean Claude Paul who was the chief military ally of Manigat. It was not immediately known if Paul had aligned himself with Namphy after the takeover. Manigat was inaugurated president feb. 7. The three Man Junta led by Namphy stepped Down after Manigat took office. Mani Gal retired Namphy As commander in chief of Haiti s to Job Man army on Friday charging him with insubordination in ordering the Transfer of Paul to an administrative Post and other High ranking offi cers three Days earlier. Namphy first appeared on state run television about 1 30 . In a broadcast from the Palace shortly after the  army will Lead the country this Way he declared waving a sub machine  was no official word on casualties from the  and his family arrived monday in Santo Domingo the capital of neighbouring dominican re Public. Manigat was slaying at the dominican con Corde hotel a hotel spokesman said. Haiti and inc dominican Republic share the Caribbean Island of  age acc France press reporter spoke by Tele phone with Manigat Early monday and reported that Appoo it. In Henri Namphy pelts to the country on television after assuming control of Haiti monday. The president said he was uninjured. Earlier sunday Manigat retired the port a Pence police chief and transferred about two dozen officers including the head of the presidential guard. The army has controlled this impoverished nation during Roost of its 184-year history. A Junta ruled Haniford iwo years after dictator can Claude Duvalier fled to exile in France in february 1986. The military ran the Jan. 17 balloting in which Man Igal was elected. The most a Putar candidates and most voters boycotted the election and it was widely criticized As  independently run election nov. 29 was thwarted by widespread violence which left More than 30 people dead. The tomcat and the phantom nothing was real but the missile by da8yle, Green  Bureau it was an Aerial game of cat and mouse played out during exercises Over the Ligurian sea a Navy tighter from the aircraft Carrier Saratoga shadowing a Safe f-4 phantom. Suddenly within 10 Miles of the ship the phantom made what the Navy Pilot took to be a strike run against the Carrier. At the same time the Navy tomcat received a radio command from the Saratoga red and free on your Contact the coded message for open fire. Jesus do they want me to shoot this Guy said it. Timothy w. Dorsey inc Pilot of the Navy f-14 rom Cal. Dorsey said he heard a yeah shoot from la. Cmdr Edmond d. Holland who manned the Navy plane s Back seat so Dorsey lined up on the f-4 an squeezed the trigger. Nothing came off the rails. With the first missile jailing to go Dorsey armed the second. This one hit its Mark. And about that time i Felt a severe thump on the air plane and the air plane just starts shaking like you would t believe said air Force Cape. Michael w. Rom of the 3bih tac recon so at  a West Germany the Pilot of the f-4, the phantom s two Man Crew ejected safely suffer ing minor bruises As their $4 million aircraft crashed and burned in the water 25 nautical Miles Northwest of Corsica. It would be almost two Houis after their res Cue before Ross and his Back seater 1st it. Randy h. Sprouse Learned they had been shot Down by the . The much publicized incident occurred Cpl. 22, 1987, during a joint service Multi nation exercise dubbed display determination. The string of events thai led to the use of an armed missile by one service to shoot Down an aircraft from a sister service is de tailed in a recently released Accident report made pub Lic by the 17th air Force one of three numbered air forces in Europe. The Rf-4c was on a Mission to make a visual identification of the Battle group which included inc Sara see missile on Back Page  
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