European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday August 22,1988 news updates missing actress Nimes France up police said they believe missing film actress Pauline Lafont has voluntarily dropped out of sight but he brother suspecting foul play has sought to open a criminal inquiry. The 26-year-old actress disappeared aug. 11 from her family s vacation Home in the Southern Gard District of France following an emotional discussion with her Mother about her acting  brother David insists that she has become the victim of foul play and is seeking criminal charges against a an unknown party. Frequent flier contest san Diego a a group of Georgia youngsters travelling through Southern California on Atrip won by a generous frequent flier visited san Diego zoo on sat urday and headed for the mexican order town of Tijuana. The kids Are just ecstatic said Lark Howard a retired travel agent who travelled 26,338 Miles on 68flights in 48 Days to meet the requirements of an Eastern airline promotion for a free ride West. The 30-member group includes 25 children Ages 9 to 15 from a Atlanta boys and girls club and the local big Brothers program and five chaperones. The group toured hol Lywood and visited Disneyland. Howard 33, who retired after Selling a Chain of travel agencies and now hosts a radio travel show in Atlanta took part in the easter airline promotion with the Chil Dren s trip in  airline offered 60 free tick ets to anyone making at least 60flights totalling More than 25,000 Miles in 60 Days As part of its 60thanniversary Celebration. Duarte recovering san Salvador Al Salvador up president Jose Napoleon Duarte suffering from terminal stomach and liver cancer has experienced a general recovery and May return to work by this week the president s doctor said. Duarte 62, returned to Al Sal Vador aug. 9 after undergoing eight Days of a second round of chemotherapy at the Walter Reed army medical Center in washing ton  president has experienced a general recovery and is doing Well. The Only complication still left is that he does not tolerate anything orally and we have had to feed him intravenously said or. Jose Luis Saca one of the team of physicians attending Duarte. His condition was a Normal complication As a result of the chemotherapy he said. Pal sales pact Charlotte . A Canadian businessman seeking to buy the pal ministry s assets has put Down $1 million toward the $113 million  this month he and pal trustee . Red Benton signed an agreement giving Thomas until sept. 16 to decide whether he wanted the assets. Those include the pal satellite to network an the heritage Usa Christian Retreat near fort Mill  sept. 1, it s either a Deal or it s not a Deal Thomas said. I going Back to Canada. I la be Back Down Here when i get a Cal from the trustee saying that my offer s been  did not elaborate on the conditions he had sought. Report on blast that killed Zia envoy expected in 2 weeks Diplomat says Islamabad Pakistan a a re port on the suspicious aircraft explosion that killed pakistani president Moham mad Ziaul Haq and . Ambassador Arnold Raphel is expected within two weeks a . Diplomat said sunday. The new president Ghulam Ishaq Khan has promised to make the report Public when . And pakistani investigators finish picking through the debris of Zia s personal c-130 transport plane. Zia Raphel and 28 others died when the four engine Turboprop exploded shortly after Takeoff last wednesday As the group was departing from a Field inspection of new .-built Battle tanks in Southeast Pakistan. Pakistan requested a special . Crash investigation team to help piece together what Ishaq Khan said was an act of sabotage. The expectation was when the .team arrived that a report would take two weeks a . Diplomat said on condition of  new president called it a dastardly crime but declined to speculate who might be responsible. Pakistan has blamed agents of Afghanistan s communist government and sometimes India for a wave of terrorist bombings Over the last two years. The plane exploded and tumbled tothe ground about 30 Miles West of the Indian Border near the City of Bahakal  pakistani newspapers published a sourced reports saying that officials believe the plane was struck by a missile. Others reported they suspected bomb in the cockpit. Still others said explosives May have been concealed in a Basket of mangoes. Ishaq Khan at his first news Confer ence since being sworn in said saturday night it is my duty to publish the probe report. The 73-year-old former Senate chair Man surprised political leaders by open ing the door to free party based elections on nov. 16. Zia dissolved the National Assembly and fired the prime minister in May. He set new general elections for nov. 16 Buthe barred candidates from running on a party ticket. When he imposed the Sam restriction in 1985, the sizable opposition boycotted the polls. We Welcome the announcement by the president that he will Honor the court s decision said Iqbal Ahmad Khan Pakistan Muslim league Secre tary general. Army and police patrolled the streets of Karachi a frequent flashpoint of Polit ical and ethnic unrest but authorities reported All Calm following saturday s funeral of the army general who Rule Pakistan firmly for 11 years. Hundreds of czechs Mark 68 invasion Prague Czechoslovakia a a few Hundred people gathered on Prague Wenceslas Square scene of bloody pro tests in 1968, to commemorate the 20th anniversary sunday of the Warsaw pact invasion that put an end to communist led Reform in Czechoslovakia. Police detained at least four people inthe Square and outside czechoslovak radio where fierce Street fighting too place after soviet and other Warsaw pact tanks and troops invaded Czechoslovakia aug. 20-21, 1968, in Europe s largest military action since world War ii. On Wenceslas Square about 200 people walked behind two representatives of the charter 77 movement Eva Kan Turkova and Tomas Hradilek who tried to Lay flow ers by the statue of King Wenceslas. Uniformed police pushed Back the two and others who tried to Lay Flower sin memory of czechoslovak killed in Street violence after the 1968 invasion. Kan Turkova said she and Hradilek came to the Square in place of three charter 77spokesmen detained saturday. The three spokesmen were detained As they walked to the soviet embassy to hand in an Appeal tothe Kremlin to Tell the truth about the inva Sion it organized to crush the Prague Spring Reform of then czechoslovak party Leader Alexander Dubcek. A French reporter said he talked to one of the three Bohumir Janat sunday morning. Janat said he and Milos Hajek were released late saturday after a few hours police detention. It was not known if the two were detained again sunday in route to Wenceslas Square. The whereabouts of the third spokesman Stanislav Devaty also was not known. Those in the crowd interviewed by Western reporters said they had come to the Square to Mark the 20th anniversary. When aug. 21 dawned Bright and sunny 20 years ago the nation s 15.5million people woke up stunned to real ize that their communist allies had invaded their country to quash what offi Cial Media said was the danger of counterrevolution and Czechoslovakia s withdrawal from the Warsaw pact. That Shock has worn off in the ensuing two decades but the trauma of the inva Sion lingers on. Czechoslovakia s cautious communist leadership installed to crush some of thievery innovations now favored in the so Viet Union has embarked upon carefully controlled economic Reform and allowed Independent groups and cultural activists a Little More leeway. But sunday s heavy police presence indicated that the czech leadership will not tolerate renewed protests against the invasion. A real blowouts a l. Emmett Lewis or. A West German wrecker Driver Hooks up cables so a can out sending the car careening across three lanes of traffic pull a . Soldier s car out from under a guard rail on the to end upside Down under the rail. However Burton and autobahn near Rhein main a West Germany last three of his friends also from the 232nd, were luckier week. The Bow was being driven by staff sgt. Michael than the Bow escaping with Only minor scratches and Burton of 232nd signal co when one of the tires blew bruises