European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes sunday july 10,1988 leading the Way a photo British prime minister Margaret Thatcher sat urday Points out details of her official country residence Chequers to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl who was in England for top level discussions. German highways jammed As vacationers head South Frankfurt a columns of cars clogged highways in West Germany and Austria As thousands of West germans headed South to begin their summer vacation  reported no major accidents but said the slow moving traffic created jams up to 24 Miles Long in the Southern West German state of Bavaria. Auto clubs warned of bumper to bumper traffic in Austria on highways leading to the yugoslav Bor Der with jams of up 6 Miles Long at several tunnels. Police said Drivers had to wait up to three hours to Cross the austrian yugoslav Border. Death toll rises to 103 in Indian Railroad wreck new Delhi India a divers working under 30 feet of water used blow torches sat urday to Cut open a railway car and found 13more victims of a train crash in Southern India bringing the death toll to 103, officials  massive Rescue operation stretched into saturday night As divers searched for More Bod ies beneath the sunken coaches in Lake Astha Mudi in Kerala  least 103 bodies were recovered and 167 people were hospitalized said Abdul Latif a senior official in Quilon a town near the Accident  cars of the crowded 14-car Island express tumbled toward or into the Lake Friday after the train derailed crossing a Bridge. Six coaches were partly or fully submerged an three others Hung into the water from the Bridge 15 feet  was t known How Many people were on the train which crashed about 1 15 . At least500 people were treated for injuries. Aegis from Page 1 John Lehman for moving too quickly on the Aegis. Smith said Lehman and adm. James Watkins for Mer chief of naval operations oversold this program to themselves to the Navy and to the Public. This is Public relations coup not a technological  Smith disputed the Navy s claim that the $500 Mil lion Aegis system was built to detect and follow 200 or More targets at a time. Aspin offers reasons Why missiles were fired Washington a the chairman of the House armed services committee said saturday he sees eight possible explanations for Why the Cruiser Vincennes shot Down an iranian passenger jetliner a week  is evidence that both supports and discredits each of the explanations according to rep. Les Asp  Bottom line is that we do not yet have a Bot Tom line he said. Pentagon officials Are reviewing last sunday s Inci Dent in the Strait of Hormuz when the Cruiser fired missile and knocked Down the Airliner and killed All 290 people aboard in the mistaken belief that it was an iranian f-14 fighter. Aspin and other legislators have received a series of classified briefings on Pentagon efforts to determine the sequence of events and Why the missiles were fired. Aspin said the main question centers around Penta gon claims th3. The Vincennes was receiving signal from the Jet on a frequency reserved for military trans missions. Those transmissions led to the belief than Anf-14 Jet fighter was approaching the Cruiser Navy officials  to Aspin the possible explanations for the attack Are there were no military signals. That would mean the ship s Aegis air defense system that detected the signals malfunctioned. Aegis has problems Aspi noted but those problems Don t include picking up signals that Aren t there. Human error aboard the Cruiser in Reading the signals. Aspin noted that although the Crew member were experienced in Reading Aegis information they had t spent much time in the volatile Gulf. The United states intended to fire at a civilian plane. Aspin noted that argument is made by iranian officials and he gave it no credence. The iranian plane was carrying a military trans Ponder on purpose which would have sent the fighter like signals because it sometimes used the plane to ferry troops to combat. The jetliner was carrying a military transponder that was unknowingly turned on. Aspin noted that transponder May have been taken from military Stock piles but he also noted that there is no previous Evi Dence that such a move occurred. The Jet was carrying a transponder that was activated on purpose in Hopes of causing the Navy to attack. The military Type signals were sent from an f-14 that was flying elsewhere in the Gulf. The military Type signals were sent from an f-14 that was flying in extremely close Vicinity to the air bus. Stalin victims readmitted to party Moscow a the communist party has readmitted Nikolai i. Bukharin a major bolshevik theorist and More than a dozen others shot during purges under Josef Stalin a half Century ago Tass reported saturday. Bukharin had been cleared in february of trumped up spying charges for which he was shot in 1938. But the second step in his rehabilitation restoration to party Rolls was not taken until now. Political rehabilitation had been expected because Bukharin s moderate economic program contains elements similar to those being implemented by soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. But in saturday s communist party announcement the official news Agency said a special commission of the party s ruling politburo found that Bukharin and an associate Alexei i. Rykov had made mistakes. However their mistakes and dissenting positions Are not of an anti party character the commission said. The Tass dispatch did not detail the mistakes Buk Harin and Rykov had made. In the 1920s, Bukharin favored a continuation of soviet founder Vladimir Lenin s new economic policy which permitted some private Enterprise and left farms in the hands of the peasants. Bukharin hoped to encourage Farmers to Combine property voluntarily and move onto collective farms. Gorbachev s reforms also allow some private enter prise and families to lease farm land from their collective and state farms and till the soil themselves. Last november Gorbachev announced that the drive to rehabilitate the millions of victims of Stalin surges would resume. Stalin ruled from 1924 to his death in 1953.Tass said the politburo commission heard a report from the party control committee saying Bukharin and Rykov expelled from the party in March 1937, were readmitted june 21. The news Agency did not explain Why it took 2 /2 weeks to announce the action. Fourteen other victims of Stalin s purges who had been tried along with Bukharin and Rykov were also restored to party Rolls Tass said. Adair from Page 1 that when we Complete our inquiry and the govern ment completes theirs it May very Well be that the living quarters for the men May have to be remove from the precarious position they Are  survivor Harry Calder 35, said 100 men die screaming for help trapped in the living quarters after they survived the initial explosion. The quarters were directly above the Rig s Gas com pression chamber where Occidental officials say they think a Gas leak caused the blast. Hammer said living quarters and production facilities probably would remain on the same platform but would be separated instead of adjacent As at  a statement released in London Occidental con firmed British news reports that the Rig s Gas compres Sion chamber had previous problems. But it said the problems were minor they were corrected and they had no bearing on wednesday s disaster. Charles heir to the throne and his wife Princess Diana were driven to the emergency Entrance of the Aberdeen Royal infirmary and spoke briefly with Doc tors before going to visit the injured. Charles brought with him skin graft equipment forthe infirmary s Burn unit to replace a machine that was not working  said the six Occidental employees who sur Vived and the families of 31 who died would receive compensation Worth about $170,000 each plus life time pensions and Occidental will fix compensation later for the employees of 25 contractors. If they had trouble with one Airliner what would they do with a half dozen High Speed fighters on the deck he said. He said the Navy was guilty of a Damn the Torpe does full Speed ahead get the hulls in the water Well fix it later kind of  Aegis named after the mythic shield of the Gree god zeus is a Complex mix of radars and computers. It was developed As the main component of Protection for Navy surface ships against enemy ships and planes. The Navy is building a Fleet of Aegis class cruisers of which the Vincennes is the third. The Gao review started last year looked at the Aegis testing program before the system went int service said the congressional sources. The congressional watchdog Agency criticized a series of 1984 tests in which the Aegis system tracked 11 targets and guided the firing of weapons which hit 10. The tests did t conclusively show hat Aegis can distinguish among potential targets Aid one source. The 1984 test program was set up specifically to answer complaints from Aegis critics who argued that the system needed More realistic tests. The tests were set up so carefully they did not approximate a real life combat environment the sources quoted the Gao report As saying