European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday october 16,1986 news update Victory for Carbide Bhopal India a an appellate court has removed the judge presiding Over the govern ment s s3 billion civil suit against Union Carbide corp., saying he was wrong in awarding partial compensation for the Bhopal chemical disaster before completing the trial. In a ruling that , a major Vic tory for Union Carbide . Sch ruled that it was most disturbing thai judge . Deo ordered interim Relief before deciding the Case. Pro refused to comment on the ruling. The Danbury  com Pany had requested dec s removal after the judge last year awarded$270 million As in Crim Relief to fam Ilies of More than 3,100 people who died in the 1584 leak Al a pesticide Plant owned by Union Carbide s in Dian subsidiary. More than 20,000 were injured in the world s worst chemical disaster. The award was reduced in april this year to $192 million after Union Carbide appealed the Rul ing saying that the court had no Power to order it to pay interim Relief until responsibility for the Gas leakage is determined. Dukakis cites crime fight record Bush promises not to mess up by the associated press Michael Dukakis fought to gain ground on George Bush saturday de Claring that he has reduced crime in hit Home stale through a commitment right out of my gut while Bush merely pos Tures in to ads. Bush leading and with just Over three weeks to go told reporters i m not going to mess  the Democrat presidential candidate received endorsements from hispanic Law enforcement groups in los Angeles and spoke at a rally there before flying to Texas for More campaigning. Bush accompanied by Hollywood actors and two members of the Beach boys singing group went on a bus tour of ral lies in seven California cities. Dukakis running male Texas sen. Lloyd Bentsen said saturday that de spite polls showing Republican gains the momentum is  but he also brought up a Story generally cited Only by political Long shots the 1948 news paper headline incorrectly declaring that Republican Thomas Dewcy had Defeated democratic underdog Harry Truman. I can t help but remember Harry Truman out there when the press had written him off Bentsyn told a crowd at a Farmers Market in St. Louis. Bush s running mate. Indiana  Quayle campaigned in Wisconsin telling cheering supporters in eau Claire and Appleton that the slate is going for George  at the University of Wisconsin at eau Claire he ran into demonstrators carry ing signs questioning his military record. He brushed past them saying see you after the  Dukakis has been striking Back aggressively since thursday night s debate an encounter that polls indicate put him far ther behind Bush. He also has begun challenging Bush Tele vision ads accusing him of presiding Over a temperatures. 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Penn wears pacemaker and the stunt was aimed at focusing on the Recd for research on cancer and heart Bee. Massachusetts prisoner furlough system that gave a weekend pass to a murderer who later attacked a Maryland couple. On saturday he called Bush cynical and hypocritical for seeking gain from what Dukakis Calls a tragic incident. He noted his slate s 14 percent decline in the rate of major crime and the fact that the homicide Rale i the lowest among Industrial slates. Thai Progress he said resulted from his personal involvement in a statewide anti crime Council. Talk versus action to commercials versus results that s what we re dealing with Here Dukakis said comparing Bush and himself. Bush who like Dukakis has been in California All week told reporters aboard his Campaign plane he is going to go the extra mile in the final 24 Days of the  he is pushing for an advantage in California where the election is still consid ered too close to Call. . Dismisses protest Over Man Euver notice Vienna Austria map the United states rejected on Friday soviet charges that the . And West Germany had violated an agreement on Advance notification of a military exercise involving More than 40,000 troops. The charge involving this fall s cer Tain Challenge exercise was made thurs Day by soviet foreign ministry spokes Man Gennadi Gerasimov after soviet observers carried out an inspection in West Germany sepl.7-9. Gerasimov said the character of operations of forces of the .a., the . West Germany and France in the inspected area the level of their com Mand enabled the inspection group to arrive at the conclusion that All three exercises were conducted on a general plan and meant a major joint function of nato Allied forces he said the numerical strength of the forces involved in the exercises sur passed 170,000 and claimed conduct ing military activity on such a scale with out notification of it two years in Advance is a violation of article 60 of the Stockholm document a statement issued by the . Delegation to the Helsinki review conference in Vienna Taid the Stockholm document re quires notification two Calendar years i Advance of an exercise involving More than 40,000 troops. It said the ., in december 1986, did notify that we would have a Large scale exercise. In 1987 and 1988, the size of the exercise certain Challenge was revised upward and on july 26 of this year the . Notified the exact extent of the certain Challenge  on the same Day the us. Also notified that there would be a troop concentration related to the annual re forger exercise which is subject to a 42-Day prior notification the . Statement said. It also noted that West Germany had Given Advance notification of in exercise in compliance with the 42-Day require Merit. In alleging that the us. And the fed eral Repusic of Germany have Vio lated Stockholm guidelines with these exercises the soviets Are clearly in error the . Statement said. Soviets to see demise of Pershing ii launchers Rhein main a West Germany a team of soviet inspectors is scheduled to arrive Here Al 3 30 . Monday to vie the destruction this week of Pershing ii missile erector launchers according to . European come officials. The soviets Wilt inspect the destruction of the launchers on wednesday at the launcher repair facility at the Hausen equipment maintenance Center in Frankfurt. This will be the first destruction of us. Launchers under the inf treaty thai Calls for the elimination of intermediate Range nuclear missiles in Europe. Wife says Mandela upset by Botha Johannesburg South Africa a Black nationalist Nelson Mande la is angered by president . Botha s claim that Mandela is cooperating with the government Mandela s wife said sat urday. Winnie Mandela also said speculations about her husband s imminent release were sheer  mrs. Mandela spoke to reporters after visiting her husband Al his guarded hos Pital room. Mandela 70, is recuperating from tuberculosis at the Constanli Aberg clinic a private Hospital in Cape town. He be came ill in August and doctors expect him to make a Complete recovery in about three months. Botha suggested last week that the jailed Leader of the african National Congress could be freed soon if he continues cooperating with the authorities As he is doing at  Botha did not elaborate. 3 killed in collision Prague Czechoslovakia a. Three people were killed and six injured one of them seriously in a collision be Iween a bus and a passenger train Friday the stale news Agency ctr reported. The bus was demolished in the crash on a Railroad crossing near Zilina 200 Miles South East of Prague. His wife said Aboul the so called co operation with the government Mandela says he will answer to that himself. As he said that he looked very  mrs. Mandela said she and her Hus band did not discuss the latest speculation that be soon May be freed after 26 years in  has said in recent weeks thai he Hopes Mandela will not have to return Topo Smoor prison from the Hospital. Government official have indicated that Mandela might be freed without having Mand thai he renounce  has been jailed since 1962. He received a life sentence in 1964 for plotting an Anc sabotage Campaign aimed at top Plin the White minority government