European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday september 7,1988 the Angel of realness which had been docked for no Iii near Athens lies split in two after in explosion. At least 2 killed As explosion sinks Tanker at Athens shipyard Athens Greece up an explosion tues Day ripped open and Sank a Tanker docked at a shipyard near Athens killing at least two men in Juring a dozen others and trapping an unknown number or workers coast guard officials said. The 81,000-Lon Angel of greatness of the Angeli Koussis shipping company exploded and Sank in the Harbor tuesday morning. Coast guard officials disputed earlier reports from the Piraeus port authority which said 10 men had died in the morning explosion. The coast guard said two bodies had been recovered along with the remains of other bodies a spokesman said the coast guard did not expect the death loll to exceed six or seven. A Piraeus port authority spokesman said work ers were trying to Rescue an unknown number of men believed trapped in the sunken Tanker. He said divers were hampered by the murkiness of the water around the burned and sunken Tanker in the Harbor five Miles from Athens. The spokesmen after initially saying 10 men had died in the fiery explosion said later that two bodies had been recovered from the Harbor. The spokesman said 12 workers were rescued and taken to hospitals where they were being treated for bums. The Tanker arrived monday at the Pera a ship Yard in Pitreau for repairs authority spokesmen said. Authorities said they did not know the cause of the blast but believed it May have resulted when Gas fumes inside the vessel Wen ignited by welding torches. Merchant Marine minister Evangelos Yianni Poulos said he ordered the arrest of the ship s skip per and the head of the company that was carrying out the repairs. Yiannopoulos said the ship had been certified As free of Gas and Gas fumes before entering the docks for repairs. Heckled from Page 1 vented his departure from Chicago. Meanwhile agreement appeared set for three de Bates this fall two Between the presidential Candi dates and one Between the vice presidential nominees. At the Portland shipyard Bush was booed when he said is million new jobs were created Durine the past six years of the Reagan administration. "1 Inow the truth sometimes hurts he said. The crowd chanted Union Buster but Bush continued to speak in a loud voice telling workers the democrats Are trying to mislead you. Things Aren t going to get worse unless they get Bush won a few cheers when he said i m proud to be pan of an administration. That decided we re not going to Wear the kick me signs Dukakis was speaking to a polish american Audi ence when protesters shouted what about abortion the crowd tried to drown them out chanting we want As Dukakis tried to proceed other pro testers shouted you re a baby respect your right to disagree with me said Dukakis. That s what a democracy is All about. 1 would Hope you would respect my right to when the demonstrators refused to quiet a half dozen or so were forced out of the crowd of some 1,000 repeated his position that he opposes Abor Tion but that in the last analysts it s up to the woman in the exercise of her own conscience and religious beliefs to make that reformer from Page 1 usually was done with a lot of paper and pencils. And erasers. But such methods required tots of people put Ting in a Tot of time two things the military Likely could not spare in time of War. Essentially the system stores the dimensions and configuration of the ship then matches that to the size and shape of the cargo. The computer also figures Overall weight distribution aboard the ship to help ensure smooth sailing. It used to be More of an Art Dickey said of Load ing ships. But this allows the computer to do it with the size and weight of most Modem combat equip ment considered the military s system of bar codes does not use a window scanner Lute those that Grace Many supermarket checkouts. Instead workers wave an electronic Wand Over coded labels attached to tanks helicopters and other equipment. Information on the codes is fed from the Wand into a computer which keeps track of whether the equipment is loaded aboard a ship being received at port or transferred to another location. You always know what you have and where you Are. You re not guessing said Dickey who was involved in slowing 1,050 pieces of equipment aboard the fast sea life ship Algol As port of this year s return of forces to Germany exercise. German Dies 53rd fatality from air show by Deedee Ashington Doke Kulsen Belem Byrua a 53rd person died tuesday from injuries received in the Ramstein a air show disaster officials said. The latest victim was a 52-year-old West German Man from the stale or Baden bringing to 46 the number of germans killed in the catastrophe said Rheinland Pfalz Interior ministry spokesman Jurgen Dietzen. The victims also included two americans one dutch one French and the three italian air Force pilots whose planes collided during an Aerial demonstration at the aug. 28 air show. One of the three planes crashed into spectators killing Many instantly and in Juring hundreds. The dead arc 34 men 12 women four boys and three girls under age 14, Dic zen said. The spokesman said 163 people injured in the fiery disaster remained hospitalized among them 16 Ameri cans 139 germans two britons one belgian one French one italian one portuguese and two victims from Africa. The hospitalized included 110 men 41women, seven boys and live girls under age 14, Dietzen said. Al Ramstein a the department of defense de Pendents schools education resource Center of Kai ser Lautem said it would hold a Community meeting in conjunction with area Parent teacher organizations to discuss the tragedy. School psychologist John a. Keatingjr. Said the meeting would Oder information about How to Deal with children s reactions to the disaster details about Community and school resources available and a Chance for parents to talk to each other about what happened and How it was handled in their panel members will be Keating army col. James Howard chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center and air Force maj Cregorio Marrero chief of family guidance service at Kapaun air station the meeting is scheduled for 7 . Wednesday at Ramstein elementary school soviets from Page 1 within reach of the other s coast to prevent Surprise attacks. Notice of Large scale naval Maneu vers with the participation of foreign observers much As nato an Warsaw fact countries now do with ground Maneu vers limits on the size and number of major naval Maneu vers and perhaps inspection of each other s ships and Shore facilities. Fakhr Omeyer s proposals spelled out in a Long and candid appraisal of the american and soviet navies followed a recent prediction by adm. William j. Crowe jr.," chairman of the . Joint chiefs of staff and Fakhr Omeyer s counterpart thai naval forces would figure More prominently in arms control Nego am convinced that As we gel More and More into conventional weapons the soviet Union is going to make a run on our Navy Crowe said two months ago anticipating Fakhr Omeyer s demand that the United states pull its naval Battle groups Back from approaches to the soviet officials explaining Fakhr Omeyer t position note that Over the past six years , Battle groups with two and sometimes three aircraft carriers have begun operating in the norwegian sea off the soviet Pacific coast near Vladivostok in the sea of okhotsk and in the sea of Japan. Nobody presses the United states to leave its sea lanes unprotected Fakhr Omeyer said in pravda. It has everything necessary for this Protection. Besides the soviet Union proposes starting negotiations and reducing although certainly on a Mutual basis those forces of the soviet naval Fleet that cause concern for the United , a leading soviet figure in arms negotiations with the United states acknowledged that Washington will probably object that such measure would Hurt the american Fleet More than the soviet Fleet but that he said is the same argument that nato rejects when put Forward by the Warsaw pact on tanks and other Unno Ted deployments in Europe
