European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n Farnborough show to run As planned Page 2 g Yellowstone fire forces evacuation of town Page 5 d mets beat dodgers again Page 21 d Stark returns to Home port Page 28 the stars and ripes authorized uni vol. 47, no. 139 sunday september 4. 1988 is 01 i suy d 8693 a Ramstein victims mourned u s ambassador to West Germany Kle Haril Burl buttoning Tea Walls for his wife Cuhl Fonfer round to juin him a cure entering rams in set. Niklaus Church saturday for so Nicias paying tribute to victims a flee Ramstein a Flo Tau tragedy. By Deedee Arrington Doke Ami de Reavis stuff writers Ramstein. West German a steady drizzle fell saturday or bout 200 onlookers and demonstrators outside a packed Catholic Chireh As mourners and International dignitaries paid tribute to 51 people killed in the rams Cin a air show disaster. Inside the 550-seat St. Nikolaus Church Rheinland pal minister presi Dent he hard Vogel told the overflow crowd Ramstein should not become a Ramstein s Unsung heroes pages 13-17 synonym for a catastrophe. It Musl re main the Symbol of Friendship and neigh to  death toll climbed to 51 saturday As two More West germans injured inthe aug. 28 crash of an italian air Force Jet died. Rheinland Pfalz Interior ministry spokesman i Irgon Pilz unsaid 166 people remained hospitalized. Officials said the dead include 43 Ger mans inc three italian pilots to Ameri cans one person from the Netherlands and one from France. One victim remained unidentified. Wreaths from nations around inc world and All 11 West German states blanketed the altars at the 87-year-old Church for the to hour  and photographers clustered on balconies and leaned out win Dows overlooking Ramstein s narrow main Street. The Street roped off in the hours before the service was heavily guarded by policemen there Are events so Strong they make us speechless and feel As if we Are strangled said Catholic Bishop Anton Schlimbach of Speyer one of Sis speak continued on Page 3 candidates in close race Survey finds Washington a Michael Dukakis and a resurgent George Tush Are locked in an extremely lose Nice for the White House As they head into inc fall Campaign according to an associated i res Survey of the sos tales. La Lii ii j plutus i Ajie 6 it s going to be Down and dirty to the very  mid Republican slate rep. Tom Tydir of Illinois a key Battleground state where republicans concede that Dukakis maintains a Slit i Edge. In Delaware As in the rest of inc country tin re s been a sub Stantial Shii i in the last three weeks from Dukakis to hush said the slate s Ciol guv Michael n. Castle i think it started at inc Republican National convention. See race on Back Page negotiation by Walesa ends wave of local strikes in Poland Warsaw. Poland a Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa succeeded in Stop Ping Poland s strongest wave of strikes in seven years sunday when 250 dial min ers ended a sit in and 2,400 bus and Dock workers Cut Short a strike the 19-Day wave of strikes which into had 100,000 employees nation wide ended in a whirlwind of appeals and  twisting. Walesa urged sup porters to end local disputes so that pm nosed round table talk could begin Dii Union pluralism and Cigali Iii Soli Darity. The labor unrest was the strongest Challenge to communist authorities since they crushed the soviet bloc s first Independent labor federation with the 19si martial Law crackdown. Strikers at the july manifesto Coal mine near the Southern town of Nastize Bie a litre the nationwide strikes began aug. 16, carried a Solidarity Banner As they marched out in a Meady rain about 6 . After 15 hours of negotiations among Walesa strikers and manage ment. In the Baltic port City of Szczecin about  dockworkers abandoned a strike at 12 15 . And 600 bus workers ended their walkout about an hour ear Lier. The port and the City s main bus depot had been occupied by strikers since aug. 17. During the strikes Poland s two big Gest ports were virtually shut Down and production of Coal from the Silesia re Gion a v Hal source of hard currency was reduced sharply. Authorities claimed losses of tens of millions of dollars. Police ended some strikes but the final breakthrough came when the government agreed to the first High level meeting Between Walesa and authorities since 19s. Afier that meet ing wednesday and the Promise of further talks Walesa put his reputation on the line to end the strikes despite opposition from Many strikers. Solidarity and authorities arc readying lists of proposed participants for Trie round table talks which could Star any Day said roman Catholic mediator Jacek Ambroziak in Warsaw. The strike ended exactly eight years after the government signed accords with sinking Coal miners in Jasir Bio during the upheaval that gave Rise to Solidarity. Communist authorities guaranteed the right to free Trade unions in an agreement signed in August 1980 in Gdansk opening the Way to Legal Regis ration of Solidarity. Even after it was suppressed in the december 1981 martial Law crackdown and outlawed in october 1982, it sur Vived first mainly As an underground organization and More openly in recent years