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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page3 the stars and stripes monday september 12,1988 burmese Leader pledges to adopt multiparty system Kan Coon. Hurma a i Orcsi ble source said/0 nil had   making Savov Burria s ruling them about he move. Party decided saturday to relinquish its for the pan few weeks massive Occa 2 year monopoly on Power and hold signally bloody turmoil has racked this tree and  under multiparty isolated soul Casl asian nation. More match. \ thin i off people have been Kil cd since the  govern map i bowed Ami rifts broke Oul in july in massive demonstrations for of mocha about Joo renegade soldiers Friday i j that brought Down  and joint i a protesters demanding formation i the country in chaos. \ of in interim government and full do speaking before 968 Ink Galici a i a pc inc racy. It was the first major defection rial party Congress the president a of troops to inc opposition Knott cd cd lha the party made a Vav Aung san Suu Kyi an opposition Fig Emir and that the interests of the pc plot Urc and daughter of stain Independence Are Paramount. \ Leader Aung san told reporters inc an Power corrupts and absolute Power  of a multiparty system was corrupts absolutely he said in a speech a " " curried by the stale owned radio rang Oon. He pledged that elections would beheld As soon As possible but gave no firm Dale. / the broadcast announcer sati the decision was unanimously adopted by the delegates of the Burma soda Isi program party. Mating Maung said party Emer gency session sunday we old make Nec Essary amendments 10 the burmese con a positive step but said it could take unto two years to form parties in contesting general elections. In Der the present economic and political situation an interim government will i inc Best solution. Ii would Deal with economic problems and also hold general elections she told reporters. Another. Opposition Leader retired Gen aun Guiyi. Said lie doubted the prevailing situation will permit holding of general elections under inc  Maung Maung s government originally planned to Mett monday to consider a referendum on a general election and a multiparty system. \ Toru Ohno a japanese Burma specialist at Osaka University said it was significant thai inc Gow rement decided 19fi3 military coup an two Days earlier la hold Lection. Irma Ion of a rival govern it Means Hal Maun t Maung s government can no longer Fli Lrol or sup press protest he said i m glad the party made the  Stit ution to adopt the Alful Libarty syst Emund would form an Independent com Mission to supervise me elections. He urged  employees who left their jobs in a a palsy Wilh the pro democracy move turn to return Onnell Douglas corp., the jetliner s manufacturer determined that the plane was hit by a missile Hal used a proximity fuse. According to the newspaper the mis tile exploded second before it would have struck the jetliner. It said the blast destroyed the cockpit and killed the flight Crew damaged the baggage compartment door on the right Side scorched the exterior of the plane and punched three grape Hiil size holes in the fuselage. The same newspaper reported last june Hal experts were certain that he Airliner had been i by a missile. But a member of inc investigating commission inter denied it had reached any definite conclusions Cor Ricc Delta Sera said Friday that the experts completed i hair investigation on thursday and that the results were being forwarded to judge Vittorio Viuca Relli who is in charged of the inquiry1. The newspaper said the voice recorder on the flight picked up an undecipherable shout just before inc explosion. La also said the British cd pm Are still trying to determine the chemical composition of the explosive As a Way to Trace the nationality of the missile. Initially there were two i heavies Aboul what caused the explosion that downed the aircraft one entered on the possibility of a bomb on Board the other on destruction by a missile. The explosion came at a time when Italy was plagued by Domestic terrorism which would support the bomb theory. But the missile theory was buttressed by the discover of inters of t4, an explosive found in missiles in some of the victims. A civilian air control radar also showed an unidentified object moving at supersonic Speed toward the Airliner be fore veering away. The Public inquiry was hampered be cause the disaster had been declared a slate secret by the ministry of defense. But last june Premier Cinac do Mita and defense minister Valeric Zanone lifted the classification and promised full cooperation with the civilian investigation. The plane was in route from Bologna to Palermo Sicily. It crashed in the sea 30 Miles Southwest of Naples Between the islands of Ponza and Oslica. Dance of deaths a l. Ein Malhi  or. Tho children cling to neb other u lao Dinar Zbogniew  or the Pfautz theater performs a Danric of death in memory of the people killed itt the to nubbin air show. The dancer s performance saturday in  High lighted a dirty Day event held at the City downtown Section id race Money Tor the disaster Vitinu and their families. Organizers estimated they had raised about 5,000 Marks about �2,747 in he first two Days of the event. Gun incident prompts briton to expel envoy London a Britain on sat urday expelled a vietnamese Diplomat who brandished a gun outside his embassy during a demonstration by opponents of the Hanoi government. The foreign office said vietnamese third Secretary khans than nhan must leave Britain by Midnight sunday. The vietnamese embassy said no official would be available to comment during he weekend. Vietnamese ambassador Tran Van Hung pressed by the British government Aboul Khang s actions during the sept. 4 protest turned Over a toy gun on thurs Day. Bui on saturday he produced a real gun and gave it to inc British foreign office Tran acknowledged thai Khan was holding inc gun when he confronted demonstrating vietnamese refugees in front of the embassy the foreign office said. Tran Lold the foreign office thai his government regretted the incident an recognized that it constituted a breach of British and vietnamese regulations. But Tran said that in keeping with Vietnam s usual practice the embassy would not Grant a waiver of Khang s diplomatic immunity to enable Britain to prosecute him. On thursday the vietnamese Ambas Sador initially agreed thai Khang would give up his immunity. The foreign office said Britain would not accept nomination of a successor to Khang until it received a full account of the disciplinary proceedings Chang would face. Diplomatic missions in Britain Are not allowed to keep arms and the govern ment has taken violations seriously since a gunman firing from the libyan embassy killed a London policewoman during demonstration in april 1984, after a police Sucec of the embassy the building was closed and diplomatic relations severed  
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