European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page z the stars and stripes monday october 17,1988 news update Hirohito transfusion Tokyo up emperor Hirohito discharged a Small amount or blood Early sunday and received another transfusion but a Palace spokesman said his Condi Tion remains stable. Kenji Mazda said the 87-year-old Monarch received about one pint oxblood for a second consecutive Day. Hirohito has received More than 20 pints of blood More than double the Normal Supply in his body. His temperature which Rose to 100.5 Friday night has declined Toa Normal level. Mazda said. Viet pullout plan Bangkok Thailand a Vietnam said sunday that it will Complete its planned withdrawal of 50,000 troops from Cambodia on schedule in december. That would leave about 50,000 vietnamese troops in Cambodia after this year a vietnamese offi Cial has said. The Hanoi govern ment has pledged to withdraw allies forces by 1990. The proposed withdrawal would be he largest of several annual pullouts announced by Vietnam. In late june Hanoi staged a Cere Mony la Hail the withdrawal of its military High command and about13,000 troops. Blast kills policeman san Sebastian Spain a an explosion outside a train Tunnel near this Northern Basque City Early sunday killed one police Man and slightly injured three others who were investigating bomb threat authorities said. The death brought to 15 the num Ber of victims killed in political Vio Lence in Spain so far this year. The Basque Eta group seeks in dependence from Spain for the three province Northern Basque re Gion since taking up arms in 196s,Eta has claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed nearly 600 people mostly police  guard officers. Arms embargo Santiago Chile a the commander of the air Force said Here it no longer interests us if the is. Arms embargo against Chile is lined saying his military Branch has lost its Reliance on . Technology. If it was lined today it would not have any importance for Man years because the air Force s Long term needs Are met by other nations Gen. Fernando match i told report sergeant son killed when train hits car Niederkohr West Germany an air Force master sergeant and his son were killed in a car train Accident Friday evening a Ramstein a spokeswoman said. Master sol. John g. Davis. 33, from the 32nd Airlift div a Ramstein a and his son John jr., ii died when the car they were in was hit by 3 train at about 5 50 . Outside  near Ramstein. The car failed to Slop at an unguarded Railroad crossing and was Hil broadside by the train the spokeswoman said. Davis is survived by his wife Law a daughter Melissa and his parents who live in Pocahontas a. Gunmen kill protestant Leader another Man at pub in Belfast Belfast. Northern Ireland a two masked gunmen in overalls burst into a pub in cast Belfast on saturday killing a protestant paramilitary Leader and another Man police said. Four other people were wounded inthe attack. Police identified one of the dead men As James Craig 47, of Belfast. Briti a television reports said he was a Leader in the protestant paramilitary Ulster de sense association the second dead Man was identified As Belfast resident George Raimey said a spokesman for the Royal Ulster constabulary. Rat my s age was not available. No group claimed responsibility for in attack but suspicion fell on the Irish re publican army which is fighting to end British Rule in Northern Ireland. The mainly roman Catholic Ira seeks o unite the predominantly protestant province with inc neighbouring Irish Republic. Police said the gunmen entered the Castle inn in the heart of protestant East Belfast and ordered the customers to lie on the floor. The gunmen Ihnn opened fire indiscriminately and led the police said adding thai one of the wounded was in critical condition. In inc Border area near the Irish re Public meanwhile police said a gun and grenade attack was launched on Llic Royal Ulster constabulary station at Lurgan county Armagh causing slight physicians cite evidence of iraqi chemical arms Ankara Turkey a a group of . Physicians after touring refugee Camps has found overwhelming Evi Dence that chemical weapons were use against the ethnic kurdish minority in Northern Iraq a spokesman said. Or. Robert Mullan Cook Mcegan rep resenting the .-Bascd physicians for human rights said inc three member group was scheduled to depart sunday after interviewing More than 100 kurd who fled across Iraq s Bonder with Turkey and receiving replies to medical assessment questionnaires from 23 refugees Iraq used chemical weapons particularly on a population within its Bor Der said Cook do can a senior associate working for the office of technology assessment at the . Con Gress. Cook do can said the group would Analyse the questions and prepare a re port in a month. About 60,000 kurd fled to Turkey in August claiming Iraq dropped chemical bombs on their settlements. They now live in five tent cities in Southeast tur key. Militants among he 20 million kurd living in a Region extending into Turkey Iran and Iraq have fought for Independence for the past Century Iraq pounded the kurdish settlements on its Northwestern Border shortly after accepting an aug. 20 cease fur in its Gulf War with Iran. Kurdish emigres and several coun tries including the United Stales have accused Iraq of using chemical weapons in the attacks. But Turkey last month refused to allow . Experts to investigate the claims. Iraq has repeatedly de Nied the allegations. Ii is difficult 10 explain the sudden exodus of people that were used to being shot at. If it would have been a conventional weapon attack there would have been evidence of physical injuries such As Bullet wounds Cook Mcegan said. He said the kurdish refugees most commonly complained about bloody diarrhoea vomiting skin irritation Eye problems such As reaction to Light and Eye reddening and respiratory problems such As difficulty in breathing. Those Are very typical symptoms of chemical agents called irritants said Cook do can who was accompanied by or. Howard he of the Harvard school of Public Heath Boston and or. Esfandiar Shukri. Cook deccan who spoke Friday said the refugees also described Small animals such As Birds and bees dying right after he alack. Cook do can said it was difficult to find out How massive the chemical at tack was without being Able to Sec the site of inc incident in Iraq. Bui now we can say thai the chemical weapons we reused. There is so much consistency from Camp to  the group s 14-Page questionnaire listed dozens of questions which required detailed and descriptive answers especially about the respondent s health conditions before and after the attack. It also inquired for symptoms associated with the use of chemical weapons. What we Are planning to do is to Dis tribute the information to lots of experts around inc world and see what they can make of what we found and see if hey can reach any conclusions Cook dec Gan said. Cook Mcegan criticized Turkey for withholding information about the Issue saying it withheld the results of autopsy reports on refugees who died after arriving in Turkey. Turkey does t want to make ene Mies. Turks know Iraq has got chemical weapons and they arc willing to use it Cook deccan said. . Investigators claimed after tour ing two Southeastern Camps in Turkey that Iraq used chemical weapons to de populate Iraq s kurdish regions. Damage but no injuries. There was no immediate claim . In the last 10 months to leading members of the Ulster defense association have been stain. Vice chairman John Mcmichael was kilted last Christmas by a Booby trap bomb attached to his car outside his Home in Lis bum county Antrim. Wil Liam John Ducc was shot to death sept 7outside his grocery store. Members of the association have Bee accused of taking part in racketeering throughout the province. Craig and two other suspects appeared before Belfast magistrates court in 1985 on 33 charges related to extortion of Money from building contractors. How Ever the charges were dropped. British spell Embarrass us re by London up the results of a British Survey in the sunday times designed to test Basic knowledge about geography math spelling and history was enough lob reak a teacher s heart. One person in six could not Fin Britain on a map of the world nearly half the population Cannold simple math or read a railway timetable and two out of three people were Unab Lelo spell Embarrass according to the Survey carried out lost month for inc newspaper. Nearly 1,000 people chosen As representative Sample of the coun try were Given 18 simple questions designed to lest their knowledge Omath spelling geography com Mon foreign phrases history Sci ence and current affairs. The results Are most de pressing Angela Rumbold the Edu cation minister told the newspaper. Breakdowns by sex age class Region income political affiliation and newspaper readership brought other surprises. Women generally fared worse than men except at spelling while lond once did the Best Overall by Region. Scots were inc Best at recognizing political leaders. The most worrying aspect the newspaper said was the performance of people Between 15-24. They generally did worse than allot her age groups apart from questions on the fast food Bill and the railway timetable where they did better than their elders. The Survey carried out sept. 22-26 Fay Market & opinion re search International interviewed 994 people age 1s or cur injury toll in soviet blast hits 1,021 Moscow up the crash of a train carrying explosives and a Coal train injured 1,021 people and devastated the siberian cily of Sverdlovsk 11 Days ago Tass said sunday. I n its initial report of the collision oct 4, Tass said 280 were injured and four killed. Today the figure of inc injured was finally established at 1,021," Tass said. It said four people were killed and 118 hos Pital died. The blast which left a Crater 180 feel wide and 30 feel deep set off a fire that burned for six hours and damaged 642apartment buildings in the cily of 1.3 million people toss said. Seventy two buildings will have to be Lorn Down and 34 will be rebuilt in said. Also damaged were 20 hospitals and clinics s5 schools 39 kindergartens or nurseries and 289 stores and restau  the disaster began when a dispatcher ordered the wedges removed from the wheels of the explosive Laden train the newspaper inv Ctm reported 11 Days ago. The train Ihnn rolled Down a Hill and collided with the Coal train it said. The crash near Sverdlovsk was the Sec Ond in the soviet Union this year involving a train carrying explosives. On june 5, a train carrying dynamite exploded in the Western cily of Azamas tilling 83people and injuring 700. More than 15,000 people have been cleaning up the damage. In the past six Days alone 300 families had to be move to new apartments Tass said. The explosion and fire filled the Tow with smoke