European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page b the stars and stripes tuesday september 13, 1988 10 die 40 injured in Kabul bomb blast Moscow a a car bomb exploded on a Busy Street near the Paki Stani embassy in the afghan capital of Kabul sunday killing 10 people and in Juring about 40 others Tass said. The crime prepared and committed by afghan extremists claimed the lives of some 10 people including women and children Tass said. According to preliminary in formation another -10 Kabul residents were a building near the pakistani embassy was seriously damaged As were 40 stares and 10 cars Tass said. It provided no other details. The insurgents Are fight ing to overthrow the soviet backed government of president Najib. Under an agreement signed april 14, the soviet government is withdrawing the Esti mated 115,000 soldiers stationed in Afghanistan leaving the fighting to afghan government forces. The soviet soldiers Are of be entirely withdrawn by feb. I i. The soviet Union and Afghanistan have complained bitterly to the United nations and to pakistani authorities hat Pakistan continues assist the guerrillas. The soviets entered Afghanistan in december 1979, replaced one Manirat regime with another and backed that re Gime against the guerrilla uprising. Thai rescuers Curry an injured worker from the nibble of the collapsed building in Bangkok three cons Ruff on workers die when Bangkok building caves in Bangkok Thailand up a building under construction in Central Bangkok collapsed sunday killing at least three workers. After working through he night police said monday that they had rescued 14 others who were in the Ihrcke Story building Al the time of the Acci Dent but workers continued to probe the rubble of Concrete slabs. The last two victims were Cut free from under the building monday afternoon and taken to a Hospital suffering from Shock and severe bruising after being buried for More than 28 hours. Metropolitan police commissioner maj. Gen Manul Kru Chayan said Hasty construction and inferior building materials were responsible for the Accident. Bangkok gov. Chamlong Simuang said the City had denied a building permit for the Structure be cause no construction Engineer was named in the application. He said construction had gone ahead without permission. The collapse occurred at 9 15 . Sunday Wilh three floors smashing to the ground manat said. There was no warning at All the building simply went Down Wilh a thunderous noise Saio Chaleo manc Enil 21, a worker pouring Cement at the lop of the building when ii collapsed. British official family survive Ira bombing Belfast Northern Ireland a the head of Northern Ireland s civil service. Sir Ken Nch Bloom Field and his family escaped serious injury monday when bombs which police said were meant to kill them badly damaged their Home on the Eastern outskirts of Belfast the Irish Republican claimed responsibility in a statement issued through its Republican press Center in Belfast and warned other civil servants involved in formulating British military strategy to re sign. There was a Clear intention o kill sir Kenneth and anybody else in the House at the time said a spokes Man for the Royal Ulster constabulary speaking anonymously in keeping with British custom. They intended to completely blow up the police said two bombs exploded outside the House in Helen s Bay county Down about 6 15 a.m., rip Ping gaping holes in the brickwork and shattering win Dows in nearby Homes. A third bomb was defused by British expert. They said. Bloomfield his wife Mary and heir son were asleep in he Back of the House when the bombs exploded in the front. They were taken to Hospital suffering from Shock but were soon released. Police do not comment on specific Security arrange ments but British news reports said Bloomfield had no police or guard at his Home set to Yards Back Tram the Road to Bangor 10 Miles East of Belfast. Press association the Domestic British news Agency said the defused bomb contained 20 Pound of sem tax the powerful Coccho slovakian made explosive that police believe the Ira has obtained through Libya. The Ira is fighting to end British Rule in Northern Ireland and unite he predominantly protestant prov Ince with the mainly roman Catholic Republic of ire land. The Northern Ireland office of the British govern ment said Only one civil servant has been lulled by the Ira a Young female Secretary travelling in a car Wilh Britain s ambassador to Ireland when it was hit by an Ira bomb in 1976. It said the lost sustained Ira Campaign against civil servants was last Spring when a series of letter bombs was sent to High ranking government employees in Mainland Britain. In its statement monday the Ira warned other civil servants involved in formulating British military strategy or advising the administration in this Field to resign the posts or lace the iraqis March to protest sanctions by . Manama. Bahrain up thou Sands of iraqis marched on the . Embassy in Baghdad on sunday to protest Senate sanctions against Iraq. State run Baghdad radio said iraqi and kurdish demonstrators which Arab news agencies estimated at Lens of thou Sands marched on the embassy com Pound without incident waving placards and chanting anti american slogans. In a the official iraqi news Agency said an iraqi kurdish girl left a petition signed by 25,000 people at the gales of the uni Sion protesting the american Knesset s hatred against Iraq and the Arab the Knesset is Israel parliament. Gulf based Western diplomats said the iraqi government organized the demonstration to show its displeasure at what it saw As Washington s latest efforts to pressure Iraq into making concessions at the stalled Iran Iraq peace talks in Geneva. Last week the Senate imposed Tough sanctions on Baghdad for its suspected use of Poison Gas again kurdish separatist rebels in Iraq s northernmost prov Ince of Kurdistan. The sanctions include a freeze on . Credits and credit guarantees Worth $8dq million and a Hall to the Export o Iraq of sensitive . Equipment. Ina said demonstrators including members of the ruling baath socialist party chanted people Don t forget America is always against the arabs and you the slaves of International zionism your threats do not frighten we will never forget . Evilness said one Banner in arabic and English. Government officials in Baghdad said the United states bad no right to condemn Iraq because Washington unleashed its own chemical weapon attacks in Vietnam. The officials accused he United slates of instituting a policy of genocide in Vietnam. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein lashed out against the american Media for reporting what he described As lies and denied that Baghdad had used chemical weapons against its kurdish minority. Hussein acknowledged that the iraqi had launched a Campaign against kurdish insurgents but said operations barely lasted iwo Days during which no major military offensive took he told Arab lawyers in Baghdad that kurdish rebels look women and children from Border villages into Turkey for propaganda purposes turkish officials said however that up to 100,000 terrified kurd fled recent iraqi Poison Gas offensives. The use of chemical weapons against enemy troops and unarmed civilians is banned under the Geneva convention agreement. Iraq resumed its decades Long attempt to crush the kurdish separatist move ment in mid july shortly after a cease fire was declared in the eight year Iran Iraq War. Between 7,000 and 15.000 kurd Are reported to have fled Iraq for Iran which has armed supplied and financed the kurdish movement far autonomy i Iraq Iraq smarting from International condemnation for its alleged use of chemical weapons against kurd said sunday that More than ii,000 kurdish refugees had responded to its general amnesty and locked Back across the iranian and turkish Borders
