European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d . Tightens limits on Low level night flights Page 2 q 30,000 workers Battle floods in China Page 8 d friends lend leave to Accident victim Page 9 d Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 the Saks and Fries authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 47, no. 122 thursday August 18, 1988 25 Dally and sunday d 8693 a Pakistan Leader . Envoy killed in military plane crash Islamabad Pakistan a president Moham med Ziaul Haq and . Ambassador Arnold l. Raphel were killed wednesday when their pakistani Mili tary plane exploded in the Eastern part of the country. The crash apparently also killed . Brig.  m. Wassom Pentagon sources said. Wassom was the chief defense representative to Pakistan and would have been Raveling routinely with Raphel. The Pakistan air Forcec-130 transport plane with 37 people aboard had just taken off from Bah Walpur 330 Miles South of Islamabad when it exploded about 4 30 p.m., official radio said. A government state ment read Over the radio sad no  Board the plane survived. Besides Raphel Wassom and Zia who was also army chief of staff the passengers included several senior pakistani army generals the radio said. Conflicting unofficial reports said the aircraft May have been struck by an anti aircraft missile. Another version said it collided with a helicopter. Neither Paki Gen. Mohammad Ziaul Haq Stani nor . Diplomats could confirm either report. Another Rumor circulating in Islamabad said the plane May have been shot Down by India. Bah Walpur is 80 Miles West of the Border. Pakistani officials re fused to comment except to say an investigation was under Way. Pakistan became Independent from Britain and sep Arate from India in 1947. In 1971, East Pakistan be came the nation of Bangladesh after a civil War. India and Pakistan each station tens of thousands of troops alongside their 1,836-mile Border the site of three wars in the past 41 years. A . Observer Force has manned the Border in the disputed Kashmir Jammu Region since 1949. Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi said in new Delhi he was deeply shocked and distressed about Zia s death and he sent condolences to Zia s family. An earlier incorrect report said the plane crashed near the City of Lahore. In Washington state department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said Zia and Raphel went to the Remote area in southwestern Pakistan to View a Field Demon Straton of the .-made my tank Pakistan was thinking of buying. No other details on the crash were immediately available. Ghulam Ishaq Khan chairman of the pakistani sen ate immediately took Over As caretaker president see crash on Back Page Bush cos Quoyle one of rising stars vice president George Bush and his running mate sen. Dan Quayle wave to crowd at new Orleans rally. 1988 Safe football preview new Orleans a George Bush wednesday called his new running mate sen. Dan Quayle one of the rising stars in the Republican party and said the Youthful conservative is qualified to be one heartbeat away from the  Bush said the 41-year-old Indiana senator would help the gop ticket in every Region of America. We re going to Tell the truth and it s going to seem like they be the democrats engaged a couple of pit bulls Bush said. We agree on the fundamental challenges that face this country the vice president said standing along Side his running mate at a news conference just hour before the Republican National convention was to deliver Bush its 1988 presidential nomination. Re lated stories Page 5. From his Mountaintop ranch in California the vacationing president Reagan telephoned Quayle with congratulations tuesday night. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said a joint Reagan Bush appearances being considered for next wednesday in los an Geles. Bush and Quayle will make their first Campaign appearance on the Road Friday at a courthouse rally in Quayle s Hometown of Huntington ind., 25 mile Southwest of fort Wayne. Travelling together around this convention City Bush and Quayle appeared at a news conference and Ata rousing rally Given by the California delegation. Hop ing to capture the state s huge Cache of 47 electoral votes Bush said California is essential. We will not Overlook it. We will concentrate on  gov. George Deukmejian who earlier said that Quayle would neither help nor Hurt in Cali see convention on Back Page stripes Magazine