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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes saturday september 10,1968 Manila says . Offer for bases not enough Manila Philippines a the United stain offered $502 million in annual Aid to the Philippines for continued use of military bases in the country bul Manila said it was t enough inc foreign Secretary said Friday foreign Secretary Raul Mang Lapus made the disclosure at a news conference two Days before his scheduled departure for the United slates to discuss the matter with . Officials. He was asked 10 comment on reports quoting unidentified . State department officials As saying the United Stales offered an annual j489 million Aid package in Exchange for us of the six military facilities. It would have to be unacceptable Mangla pus said. It is probably  vets return to Salerno to dedicate War memorial Salerno Italy a veterans of the first . Army division to invade nazi held Europe returned Friday on inc Landing s 45th anniversary 10 dedicate a War memorial on inc Southern italian Bench where they made the amphibious  than 200 americans Are Here to commemorate those who left their blood on italian soil said col. Julian Philips who headed the delegation of veterans from the 36th inf div or Texas , Nel Luno. Cassino is Home to us he added. A $250,000 Marble Monument donated by the . Battle Monument commission was dedicated to the unknown Soldier at Torre the Salerno Beach where americans rushed ashore in 1943. Families of . Diplomats evacuated from Burma Rangoon Burma up wives and Chil Dren of american diplomats were evacuated from Burma Friday As former prime minister no formed a provisional government. The 46 wives and children of american Diplo Mats based in Rangoon were among More tnan237 members of the foreign diplomatic Community who fled to Bangkok Thailand on a special thai International airlines flight because the nation s bloody Challenge to socialism has shown no signs of receding. . Officials said an additional 35 dependents of american diplomats were expected to leave Burma this weekend if the Rangoon air port is reopened to regularly scheduled Commer Cial flights. Spanish fire fighting plane crashes on Takeoff 4 die Santiago de Compostella Spain up a Floc fighter plane crashed in a Pine Grove and burst into flames moments after Lake off thursday killing All four people aboard air port authorities  of the Iwin in inc con Vair s motors failed As it took olt from the Airport at Santiago de Compo Lela 395 Miles North of Madrid on a fire righting Mission an Airport spokesman said. Witnesses said the plane suddenly fell straight from the sky into a Pine Grove some 500 Yards fro the Landing strip and immediately burst into flame. Nato Secretary general to talk with . Leaders Brussels Belgium a Manfred Woerter Secretary general of the North Atlantic treaty organization will make an official visit to the United states sept 12-16, the nato press office said Friday. The office said thai during the visit Worner will meet with president Reagan Secretary of state George Sulu defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and members of Congress. He also is scheduled to address the Security issues forum of the Atlantic Council in washing Tori and meet with members of the Council on foreign relations in new York. Soviet official says error has ruined Mars probe Moscow a a soviet space official Friday said a ground control operator sent an incorrect Mes Sage to a soviet space probe bound for Mars and the unmanned spacecraft is now worthless. Only a Miracle can save it Roald z. Said Eyck head of the soviet space research Institute said. Earlier the official Tass news Agency announced thai ground control had lost communications Contact with the photos t probe which is millions of mile from Earth and racing toward a rendezvous with the planet Mars. The phobos i mishap follows a foul up earlier in the week that delayed the Landing of a soviet space capsule carrying a soviet and an afghan cosmonaut. The unmanned Mars probe. Phobos 1, was launched july 7, and a twin spacecraft phobos 2, on july 12. The probes were scheduled to go into Orbil around Mars and in january drop behind phobos the larger of inc red planet s two Moons to study the Martin surface atmosphere and magnetic Field. Said Eyck however said a ground control operator at the soviet Mission control Center near Moscow Scal an incorrect command to phobos i during the night of aug. 29-30 that left the spacecraft sleeping and  he said the mistake was discovered three Days later and that ground control operators were trying to Cor rect the problem by sending new commands to phobos i. Bul the spacecraft was not responding he said. Said Eyck said the probe could virtually be written off As a total loss. The soviet space research chief spoke to a reporter during an afternoon reception at the . Ambassador s residence in Honor of Andrei d. Sakharov the soviet physicist and human right activist who is the 1975 Nobel peace prize laureate Tass in its report indicated that so Tel space officials had not had any Contact with phobos 1 for at least in the two months Hal elapsed after the Blastoff the space probes performed 75 radio communication sessions during which measuring of trajectory Param eters were made and operation on inboard systems and scientific equipment was monitored Tass  sept. 2, another planned session of radio communication with the phobos t station tailed to Materi Alize Tass said. Al Hal Lime the station was 17 million Kilometres 10.5 million Miles from inc  sepi. 9, it was 19 million Kilometres 11.8 million Miles from the  1 was supposed to navigate with a National aeronautics and space administration navigation sys tem and a Nasa official Raymond j. Amoroso said thursday the soviets notified Nasa hat they had lost Contact with the  indicated Hal scientists were in Normal Contact with phobos 2."according to transmitted information on Board systems and instrumentation of Lite phobos 2 station function smoothly it  the soviet space capsule the stale ran soviet press said both equipment problems and errors by the soviet flight commander Vladimir Lyakhov forced a postponement of the scheduled tuesday land ing of the soyuz tm-5 capsule. The spacecraft also carrying Afghanistan s firs Man in space Ahad Abdu Mohmand landed safely wednesday on its third at tempt. Intruder Breaks into . Booth at air show fakes apart helmet farm Borough. England a defense ministry police Are investigating an apparent break in by a spy at the Farnborough air show a ministry spokeswoman said Friday. The spy who ripped open a prototype of a . Fighter Pilot helmet stole nothing but May have photo graphed the helmet s optics system. The intruder slipped past police patrols in a show Hall then broke into the stand of the . Firm Mcdonnell Douglas where the helmet was on display. Kaiser electronics of California which developed the so called agile Eye helmet said there was Noth ing super secret or sensitive about the helmet that enables pilots to fire at objects nol directly ahead of the aircraft. The intruder simply dismantled the helmet com Pany spokesman Mike Birch said in a radio interview Friday. Nothing is missing nothing has been stolen. Evi Dently someone wanted to look inside it there is nothing super secret or sensitive about this. It s an application of existing tech  the defense ministry spokeswoman said police had not established whether the intruder was spying for political or commercial reasons. We Are investigating the entire incident said the spokeswoman who spoke condition of anonymity. The air show at Farnborough Southwest of London is among the world s lop aviation events where buyers flock to see the International array of civil and military aircraft and related equipment. The four show Halls Are each patrolled Ai night by two policemen the defense ministry said. Crash from Page 1 the lived killed were two staffers of the Tokyo Headquarters of Mitsubishi corp., Japan s largest trading firm. Diplomats said two frenchmen two swedes one briton and two finns also died. Air Vietnam flight 831, which left Vietnam s Capi Tal of Hanoi at 10 a.m., is frequently taken by foreign diplomats and Relief workers. The . Embassy in Bangkok said no americans were aboard the plane. I heard an explosion louder than lightning said a villager who witnessed the crash from his wooden House nearby. It fell into the Paddy Field and a Ball of fire rolled for a Kilometre about half a mile so Mot said the dead included both vietnamese and citizens of other countries but he did nol have details. There was no word on what caused the crash. Both the cockpit and flight recorders were retrieved in Excel Lent condition said Mai. Gen. Spool Sav Gamm the regional police commander leading the Rescue Effort. The cockpit recorder contains the conversation be tween the Crew and control Tower and the other re Corder contains flight data. At 11 26 a.m., and the plane soon disappeared from radar screens said group Cap. Charoon pee Tong director Gen eral of the airports authority of Thailand. The plane crashed 11 minutes later spool said a total Fogl people including six Crew Mem Bers were aboard. He said workers retrieved 75  people including a boy and a girl were taken to thu Zibol Hospital with serious injuries. Rescue workers pumped dry the Roadside Pond where the cockpit and fuselage were lodged to retrieve bodies. Hundreds of police air Force workers and Volunteer hauled up bodies from the Pond. The third major piece of wreckage the Tail Section with the airline s yellow Star insignia Sal on the dirt Road muddied by Rains. More debris was scattered Over a Nee Field on the other Side of the  Over the area were hundreds of pairs of earrings a Shell necklace toy plastic gun Tennis shoe Indian pass ports the passports of two polish students and More than 10 bags of diplomatic mail for the australian embassy in the plane crashed in a sparsely populated isolated a . Military team was to have taken the mum Light to Hanoi in the afternoon for Laski 00 recently resume efforts to account for is. Servicemen missing in the Viet Nam War us. Emba Siv spokesman Ross peeing said. There is no . Mission in Hanoi  
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