European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday August 31,1988 soviets destroy first 3 ss-20 of missiles Moscow up the soviet uni of sunday destroyed three ss-20 missiles in the presence of . Observers and foreign journalists at the Kapus tin Yar missile testing grounds Tass said. The destruction of the missiles was the first step in getting rid of 600 Kapustin Yar based medium Range ss-20s, known As red los in the soviet Union Over the next three years under the  it inf treaty. Kapustin Yar in the Astrakhan Region 55 Miles Southeast of Volgograd is the soviet Union s oldest missile test Range. The first firing of an re was conducted there in 1947. Starting from september during the coming three years on the 15th and 30th of each month missiles will be eliminated in Kapustin Yar by batches each Batch consisting of three missiles Tass said. The news Agency said 75 percent of the 600 missiles will be exploded and the others destroyed by test firing them. An explosion leaves a Crater with a depth of 15-18 meters 50-60 feet and a diameter of 45 meters 150 feet. The remnants of the exploded missile fully Burn Down in Only 35 seconds Tass said. After that bulldozers fill in the Crater and prepare it for the next expo  under the agreement soviet experts will examine 26 . Missile installations while american specialists will in Spect 133 Sites in the soviet Union East Genua i Czechoslovakia. The nit cd states will eliminate 689 Mcdiar a missiles and 170 Short Range new the soviet Side will de stroy of t do Nanc 826 medium Range missiles pm of Shorter Range missiles. In t a future cach of the sides will permit Wytort to visit the areas of destrucT0" of missiles and to stage a Many i jl�p0%ns. As will be necessary to Ovioe will to l9at Aii the armaments Cilwa treaty Are fully de Stroye world today explosives found on bus crossing Irish Border Londonderry Northern Ireland a four mortar bombs and 25 pounds of explosives were found tuesday aboard a bus crossing the Border from the Republic of Ireland police said. The bombs and czechoslovakian made semtex explosives were discovered on a bus owned by the Lough Swilly co., a private bus service when it was stopped and searched at a Border checkpoint a police spokesman said. They were found in Luggage in the passenger Compart ment said the spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said the bus Driver and passengers were being questioned but no arrests had been made. The discovery followed a weekend of bombings shootings riots and other violence in Belfast London Derry and Newry which was sparked by the extradition from Ireland to Northern Ireland of a convicted guerrilla and jail Escapee. 6 injured when car bomb explodes in Lebanon Beirut Lebanon a a car bomb exploded tuesday in the syrian policed Market town of Choura in Eastern Lebanon. Police said six people were wounded. A police spokesman who cannot be identified under regulations said a while Volvo blew up around 1 . Near a Bank on the town s main Street. The blast damaged nearby parked cars setting Sev eral on fire and shattered windows in neighbouring buildings. The spokesman said ambulances and fire engines rushed to the scene to evacuate casualties and extinguish the blazing cars. The car bomb was the 12th in Lebanon this year. By police count 103 people have been killed and 371 injured in the earlier bombings. Swarms of killer bees moving closer to . Tap Chula Mexico a swarms of Africa sized killer bees Are spreading North and will arrive in the United states in less than two years despite efforts to Stop them or alter their behaviour officials say. The bees killed one resident of tap Chula a town near the guatemalan Border when a Man tripped on an unseen hive. They also have harassed herds of cattle and made grazing difficult As far As 650 feet from a hive. The Africani Zed bees Are descendants of african bees that escaped during an Experiment in Brazil. They mate with local bees spawning new generations that Are More aggressive and dangerous to handle make less Honey and pollinate crops less efficiently. Chinese flip their lids As pots Are hard to find Beuing a Shanghai residents wanting a new aluminium pot will have to surrender an old one under regulations to curb profiteering and panic buying the official China daily said. The Price of aluminium in China has More than of fabled since  newly married couples who produce their marriage certificates will be exempt from the old for new rationing system the newspaper said and those Cou Ples will be limited to two saucepans and one  said the rationing would counter the rising Price of aluminium caused by a shortage of supplies and the meddling of  aluminium is Selling for the equivalent of $4,324 Perton compared to $1,892 in january. Bridge collapse a police boat passes near a Bridge Over the main River that collapsed tuesday near Aschaffenbur injuring seven construction workers one critically. The collapse occurred on the a3 in Dot 37 iks South of Frank Furt. The Bridge was stuv1w construction and was no open to traffic when i distemper virus probably a causing deaths of seals dutch exp perts say by the Washington Post the mysterious deaths of at least 9,000 european Harbor seals in the North sea and the Baltic sea during the last five months More than 70 percent of the population Are probably the result of an epidemic of canine distemper virus or a close relative of it dutch scientists announced monday. Although a vaccine has been developed a version of one made for dogs the researchers said it would be used chiefly on Semi captive animals living in Seal sanctuaries. They said there seemed no practical Way to immunize the thousands of wild Harbor seals still surviving in the Region. The epidemic is spreading and authorities fear it May expand to other regions. The immunized herds in the sanctuaries could multiply to replace the wild population. Several other species of seals live in the same Waters but it is not Clear yet that any of them has been affected. Earlier reports from the same group had tentatively blamed a virus from either the herpes family or the Picot a family which includes the polio virus but the re searchers said further testing had ruled out those possibilities and pointed More strongly to the group of viruses Best known As a threat to dogs and related carnivores. This family includes the human measles virus. Speculation had also been High that the Seal deaths were caused by water pollution a major problem in the seas of Northern Europe. This was discounted except for the possibility that toxic compounds May have weakened the seals immune systems rendering them vulnerable to the virus. The Seal deaths were first noticed last april when car casses began washing up on the shores of Sweden. In the following weeks More and More dead seals were found Over a rapidly Widenius areas de2.a�j Anci dying seals Are now common along tar Phi coasts of Norway Sweden East Germany Denmark est Gen Nany the nether la and Belgium. Recent lip the epidemic has spread to Brit Ain threatening an Esau a woo seals there. Veterinarians who Aye Auto based the seals say the virus virulence enables w to Clum otherwise healthy adult animals in  along with the Young the old and those sic Mother causes. Monday s announcement was Annade by Alfred . Osterhaus of the Natick Al Institute of Public health an environmental Prole a and a a. Vendur of the Seal orphanage at Piete Rbt ten both in the Netherlands a report of their finding5 is to be published thursday i nature the British Scie . They said that the River imputation of herpes and Picogna viruses were teased on their having isolated the viruses from dead sess. In study however has shown this was Only a coincidence and there is no correlation Between to a atoms of the disease and Ani Mals having anti Odira a against Taco be viruses. Also at tempts to protect ca4 Vve seals by vaccinating them against those viruses Flea Ucland fee animals died of the mystery infection anyay., there was however a nigh correlation Between the presence of antibodies a Pitt be distemper virus indicating an animal had been infected and symptom which include damage to the Tings liver intestinal tract and nervous syst1. It was these symptoms which veterinarians recognized As similar to we of canine distemper that suggested the possibles  that identify antibodies against canine