European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d two teachers unions join drug test fight Page 2 d july budget deficit hit $22.94 billion Page 6 d Canada s dual culture still political Issue Page 14 d botox beat a s in series opener Page 21 the Stesan stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol.47, no. 125 sunday August 21, 1988 25 daily and sunday d 8693 a Iran Iraq cease fire begins Baghdad Iraq a a cease fire Between Iran and Iraq took hold saturday morning after hundreds of . Observers moved into position along the War front to Monitor the first truce in eight years of War. Peace officially began at 7 . They re on the ground in Large numbers from North to South and the cease fire is holding said col. Wil Liam Philips operations chief of the . Iran Iraq military observer group. Both countries official Media carried no reports of violations or other incidents along their 730-mile Bor Der. For the first time in eight years Iraq resumed shipping in the persian Gulf. I really think that both countries Are serious they Are committed to the cease fire . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar said in London where he was spending the weekend before flying to Geneva for peace talks Between the two countries. Iraq said it was reopening the International Airport in the War battered Southern City of Basra. State run Baghdad Adio later said an iraqi airways flight from Basra landed in Baghdad Early saturday afternoon. The Basra Airport had been closed since the Early Days of the War which began in 1980.about 150 unarmed members of the observer group were deployed along the iraqi Side of the Border. Teh ran radio reported 200 . Observers in place along the iranian  United nations has a $75.6 million budget for the  Tehran Hashemi a Sfanjani iranian forces com Mander ordered his troops to adhere to the cease fire. But he added maintain your vigilance. We have not yet arrived at peace. God willing if we reach thai Day we will declare it  his warning was in an interview broadcast by Tehran radio several hours after the truce took hold. The report was monitored in  marched in Baghdad s streets and in towns throughout the country late Friday celebrating what see cease fire on Back Page Long dead towns live in memory Dana mass. A there has t been a place called Dana mass., for a half Century except in the hearts of former residents like Florence Avery who still bicycles Down to the deserted common now surrounded by empty cellar holes. But for five hours on sunday Dana which now stands on the East Shore of the 38-Square-mile qua bin Reservoir will Flicker Back into existence in a special Homecoming of those who lost their Homes so Boston could have drinking water. With the Petersham brass band holding Forth on the new mown common and old photographs of their Homes set up on the sur rounding cellar holes the survivors and children of the 500 peo ple that once called this place their own will celebrate earlier Days. Four Little Central Massachusetts towns died at Midnight april 27, 1938, on order of the state legis lature to form the Reservoir after the . Supreme court turned see towns on Back Page Zio buried Pakistan asks for . Aid in investigation of dastardly crime1 an afghan rebel holds up a portrait of Zia during Islamabad funeral procession. Islamabad Pakistan a hundreds of thousands of mourners jammed the grounds of the world s largest mos que saturday and chanted Praise of their late Leader As president Mohammed Ziaul Haq was buried. Acting president Ghulam Ishaq Khan said he asked the United states to help investigate the dastardly crime of the crash wednesday that killed Zia the . Ambassador and 28 other people aboard a military c-130 plane. We do suspect that a c-130 is such a stable plane that it does t disintegrate into thin air Ishaq Khan told reporters at his first news conference since taking office As  enemy has penetrated the inner defences of the country he said. He said he had no proof that sabotage was to blame and that it would be pure speculation to cast suspicion on any group. As Zia s funeral cortege moved slowly through the streets toward this City s White futuristic Faisal mosque the nearly All male crowd bade him Farewell with chants from the Koran the holy Book of  would not give an estimate but reporters estimated More than 200,000  of men clambered onto the mosque s vaulted roof clinging to the soaring dome and Pinnacle and shouted see Pakistan on Back Page Ira bomb kills 7 British soldiers injures 28 Omagh Northern Ireland a the Irish re publican army said saturday it was responsible for a bomb blast late Friday that killed seven British sol Diers and injured 28 As the infantrymen Rode in a bus along a country Road. Ultimate responsibility for these lives rests with mrs. Thatcher her government and previous govern ments who since 1971, have cruelly misled the British people into believing that the Ira could be Defeated the Ira said in a statement to Irish Media. Victims were hurled into nearby Fields and their personal belongings and debris from the bus were scattered along the Highway after the blast officials said. The explosion blew a Crater six feet deep in the Road. The Ira which is fighting to end British Rule in thee province of Northern Ireland earlier claimed responsibility for two other bombings Friday. The army threw a Security ring around the blast site and helicopters circled overhead As forensic scientists and anti terrorist officers combed the debris for clues. The bus carried no military markings and investigators were trying to determine How the attackers knew it would be in the area at that time. It was the worst attack against British soldiers in Northern Ireland since 1982, when 11 soldiers died in the bombing of a pub in Ballykelly. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher Cut Short her vacation in Southwest England and returned to London to meet with protestant lawmaker Ken Maginnis who called for a mass arrest of terrorist suspects. Maginnis a member of parliament for the official unionist party Northern Ireland s largest protestant party tearfully described going to a barn near the blast site and finding a Young Man gasping his last just dying. He had crawled into the most available cover and died Over a Bale of  the bus was carrying infantrymen returning from leave in Mainland Britain to their Barracks at Omagh in county Tyrone 50 Miles West of Belfast. The Ira said its Tyrone brigade which operates along the Border with the Irish Republic used 200 pounds of plastic explosives in the attack. Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King the Cabinet minister responsible for the province broke Oft his vacation in England to Fly Back to Belfast for an Emer gency meeting with army and police chiefs. Friday s blast occurred nine Miles from Omagh. The soldiers earlier Friday had flown Back to Northern Ireland from leave Landing at the military Section of Belfast s Aldergrove Airport. One of the two earlier bomb explosions Friday injured three police officers in Lisnaskea and the other damaged the Mourne country hotel in Newry North Ern Ireland s newest luxury hotel