European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday october 20,1988 toll May reach 164 in plane crashes from Page 1 before crashing at 7 40 . Bui the minister of civil aviation Shiv Raj Patil told reporters the Pilot pave no indication of trouble during his ins Contact with the Tower. He said workers found the plane s flight recorder but had not Cyl Analysed it Utaji Thakor owner of a Field where the mane crashed said the plane wobbled before it hit the tree and Power line. It exploded about a mile from the runway said Manmohan Singh Ahmadabad police director. The five survivors were Lakin to hospitals Rawal said. They included a 13 year old boy who was returning with his family from Zambia. His parents and younger brother died in the crash. Three others were in serious condition with second degree Burns but All Wrecx Pedrd to live Rawal said. F one survivor Vinod Tripathy. Said the plane exploded in he air and again after crashing. He said he was burned in the second blast i can even at the age of 57, run like a Hare Tripathy was quoted As telling the press Trust of India news Agency from his bed at civil Hospital. I continued to run undeterred by the two blasts and later after covering a reasonable distance. Tell unconscious he said. The passenger Manifest indicated that the victims included six foreigners two japanese three germans and an industrialist from Bahrain. The airline said one of the germans was from West Ger Many and it was checking on the other two. All 130 bodies have been recovered. It s impossible to identify them because they Are badly burned said Ahmadabad police inspector a. Ansari. State run television in a special news bulletin showed Rescue workers searching the blood stained debris twisted Luggage and soldering wreckage scattered among the downed electrical wires and Power poles. An airline official said on condition of anonymity that authorities suspected technical malfunction complicated by the weather caused the crash. He said they did not suspect sabotage. But Patil said he was not ruling out anything and ordered an inquiry. Later a Fokker Friendship propeller plane flying from sit Char to go Mahali in Assam slate slammed into a 1,400-foot Hill during torrential Rains a local offi Cial said. That crash occurred about 950 Miles East of new Delhi. The plane leased to Vay Udofot by in Dian airlines lost Contact with  lower at 8 53 ., said c Das Deputy commissioner of Guy Amati District. He said it crashed two minutes later about five Miles from the Airport shortly before the plane Tost Contact he said the Pilot reported visibility was Zero. Das said 31 passengers and three Crew members were aboard the Fokker and All were feared dead. Rescue workers were unable to reach the site because of dense forests and heavy rain he said. Indian airlines the Domestic Carrier has come under criticism recently for la management and maintenance record and frequent delays. Wednesday s 737 crash was the 16th by an Indian airlines Carrier in the past 25 Yean. It was believed to be the worst Indian airlines crash but officials refused to confirm ibis. Any loss is bad. All crashes Are the worst and most unfortunate said . Vashist an Indian airlines spokesman inner Delhi. The aircraft acquired in 1971, is one of the oldest in the airline s 50-Ptane Fleet. Indian airlines is a separate com Pany from India s International Carrier air India. The last Indian airline crash occurred on june 19 at new Delhi Airport. All survived. An investigation showed the Pilot forgot to lower the plane s land ing gear. Wednesday s crashes were the second and third major accidents this week. On monday a Uganda airlines Boeing 707 crashed in Rome killing 31 Swap from Page 1 the f-5 jets in pieces by ship officially to Thailand but unreality to Iran for 1170 million the report said. But after an i Ranian Cam got to Santiago officers in the chilean air Force got cold incl and insisted the Sale required . Approval. While the piano belonged to Chile under . Law they could not be transferred to another country without us. Consent. The Abc Story said this led to an attempt to obtain the secret approval of the . Government with the assistance of Raymond Molina a cuban american in key Biscayne fla., who had taken pan in the futile .-Backcd attempt to invade Cuba in 1961, to convince the  dealers thai he had useful connections with the administration Abc said Molina sent them signed pictures of himself with both president Reagan and vice president George Bush. However there is no evidence that Molina a big contrib Utor to Republican campaigns had any Contact with the White House or with Bush s Campaign for the presidency the network said. According to the Abc Story Harry g. Barnes the . Ambassador to Chile got wind of the complicated scheme which reportedly had the endorsement of Hashemi Rassan Jani speaker of the iranian parliament and alerted the state department. There Shultz and other officials said emphatically no Abc reported and Thomas Pickering the . Ambassador to Israel was directed to  defense minister Yitzhak Rabin about the  israeli official who said he was unaware of any  delivery took Steps to Block it the Deal never got off the ground despite a subsequent approach by a wealthy argentinean to the . Embassy in Buenos Aires and then to Colin Powell the . National Security adviser Abc re ported the Central intelligence Agency neither endorsed nor rejected the proposal while pawed apparently never replied and the Deal died Abc said. Plan from Page 1 and Navy ships stores to match prices found in the civilian sector and also see congressional approval to do the same for tobacco products in commissaries. Halt tobacco sales in commissaries and raise prices in exchanges and Navy ships stores to civilian Sicto revels raise the prices of alcoholic beverage sin military package beverage class i stores and other retail outlets to match the civilian sector. Make no changes to the current guide lines. The prices of tobacco products in exchanges average about 15 percent less than those on the Economy according to service statistics. Savings in commissaries usually Are greater. Average prices for military to Bacco products Are about 35 percent less than those in the civilian sector. Tobacco products Lite other commissary items Are sold on a Cost-plus-5 Patent basis. Liquor and wine prices average about 10 percent less in military package beverage stores in the United Stales and up to 20percent less overseas when compared to off base sources. Products sold overseas Are cheaper because no . Excise tax is involved. Military officials acknowledged that policy changes arc under study but gave no de tails. The Workings of the defense resources Board which has management and Over sight responsibility for All aspects of the Dod planning programming and budgeting process Are considered very internal said one official the official said no final decisions have been made by tall on the recommendations but the House aide claimed the mar airman gets prison term for theft in Span Dahlem panel chaired by rep. Marvin Leath d Texas has Learned that Taft has in fact authorized a draft report on a plan to Hall sales of tobacco products in commissaries next january. Prices for tobacco in exchanges would then Rise nearly to private sector lev Els prices for alcoholic beverages sold in Mili tary package beverage stores also would in crease although not As much As those on tobacco products he House staffer said. The staffer declined to identify the source of the information obtained by the commit tee saying Only the Pentagon is a big place. Under the Taft plan the  and air Force Exchange service would have control Over All tobacco and alcohol sales on  and air Force bases presuming tobacco sales in commissaries ended and the Exchange service completes a planned takeover of the class i liquor stores in those two services in january. In the oct. 13 Tetter to Carlucci the Mem Ben of the mar panel said the plan is not Wise constitutes poor business practices and selectively imposes a unique and unnecessary tax on military personnel and their fam Ilies especially in overseas  the lawmaker said tobacco products account for up to 10 percent of commissary sales and ending those sales would result in Span Dahlem a West Ger Many is an airman assigned to the 52nd component repair so was sentenced to iwo years in prison wednesday after being found guilty of theft and making false statements. However because of a pretrial agreement airman 1st class Lucas r. Bernau will serve a maximum 18 months in jail. The 20-year-old airman was found guilty on three counts of larceny dealing with the theft of chemical equipment from another service member and two re lated incidents at the Span Dahlem Exchange in which he resumed stolen Mer Chandise for Cash and kept $430 accidentally refunded to him for another he loss of millions of dollars that Are used to pay for non appropriated fund construction and renovation. Additionally aafes1 system would be severely strained by having to absorb in creased sales of tobacco the Tamak said. The Exchange system in roughly a three month period will have to handle a 175 percent net increase in worldwide tales the letter said this Burden would be com pounded by the impending Transfer of pack age beverage stores to cafes. The exchanges will not be Able to handle this substantial workload and Stilt provide High Quality service to  the lawmakers also noted that tobacco and alcohol sales in the private sector Are declining and the military is experiencing a similar trend spurred by recent health directives. It appears the department is attempting to fill a Short term funding Gap using a severely declining Revenue source the letter said. The lawmakers sent a subtly worded note of caution to the Pentagon staling we would Hope that specific legislation to re verse the Taft plan would not be necessary. Tee committee strongly recommends that any action taken to implement changes to these policies be deferred until Congress can be consulted when it reconvenes next  Purchase. The final charge against the Wisconsin native involved a false report Bernau made to base police in june that his car had been stolen. Beau a photo maintenance specialist has been in the air Force since june 1987 and was assigned to Span Dahlem in March. In addition to the prison sen tence he was Given a bad conduct Dis charge reduced to the lowest enlisted Grade and ordered to forfeit All pay and allowances. Beau could have received 14 Yean in prison and a dishonourable discharge he will serve his sentence at the  confinement facility at Mannheim West Germany. Veterans from Page 1 ans and would pit lawyer against lawyer and the a against veterans in court a House veterans affairs committee suffer said. But the Compromise passed by the Senate tuesday Calls for the establish ment of a three to seven member court of veterans appeals. The Senate has accepted the Compro Mise Bill but some lawmakers still sup port the idea of allowing veterans to take their cases directly to Federal court. I Don t Sec Why we deny the right to the veterans thai Farmers have if they Are unhappy with the agriculture depart ment that businessmen have if they Are unhappy with the Commerce depart ment said sen. John Glenn a Ohio in hearings earlier ibis year. The Bill on judicial review now goes Back to the House for approval. The Houm veterans affairs committee staffer said the House was scheduled to Vole on the Compromise wednesday Wuh easy passage expected. The legislation Hen goes to the president for his Signa