European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Pages4 the stars and stripes Friday october 28,1988 10 killed when 2 Marine copters crash Yuma Ariz. A two Marine corps helicopters crashed in a desert gunnery Range during a training exercise,1 killing nil 10 service members aboard officials said wednesday. I was not immediately known whether the two helicopters collided said Cpl. Darren Fuller a Public affairs spokes Man m the Marine corps air station in Turoa. It was the second crash involving Mili tary Helicon tvs this week. The air rare were being used in a troop insert Ion exercise " with Crews using night Visioni goggles when the crash occurred said army maj. Linda Dumoulin a Pentagon duty officer. Four people were on a Boeing ch-46 sea Knight helicopter and six on a Bell uh-1n copter. A both helicopters Are designed to carry More troops bul were not. Transporting full teams for the exercise which do Moulin said was part of a weapons Tao lies instructor s course. There were no survivors said Fuller. The copters went Down in a Remote desert site about 7 45 . Tuesday approximately 12s Miles Southeast of the air station said Fuller. An investigation team was at the site he said. Names of the victims were being withheld pending notification of next of Kin. Yuma about 1 so Miles Southwest of Phoenix is near Arizona s Border with Morfa night a uh-1h helicopter crashed Orcar the Border in California killing the five Law officer and the three National guard Etc Mem Bers award during the first Mission of a joint Junti drug smuggling program. Army National guard copiers matched into the Rocky Foothills of the Una mountains and burst into names Afler striking a 500,000-Kilowalt Power he. News Briers Thatcher plans to seek unprecedented 4th term London a prime minister Margaret Thatcher currently the West s longest serving Leader after nearly a decade in Power says she will run for an unprecedented fourth term a newspaper reported. The 63-year-old conservative chief of slate said she plans to Lead her party into the next election and remain prime minister for another five year term if it wins according to an inter View in the times of London. The election must be held by 1992. The conservatives named Thatcher pome minister in May 1979 after they Defeated a labor party government. She has championed individual initiative and hands off government As an ideological partner of president Reagan sometime there will come along a person who can do it belter than i can she was quoted As saying. And i m always on the Lookout. But 1 expect myself to do it for the fourth French tourists pass hat to pay for jetliner s Gas Rome a French vacationers resuming from Egypt had to pass the hat for Gal Money after the Pilot of their dc-9 made an unscheduled refuelling Stop in Southern Italy the nation Al daily la re Publica reported wednesday. The Crew of the North african airlines Jet decided to forego a scheduled refuelling sop. In Athens on saturday and land instead in Brindisi despite the fact that the airline had no refuelling facilities or service account there the report said. The Crew discovered upon Landing that air port officials in Brindisi would not accept credit cards As payment for fuel. They then realized that they were a link Short on Cash. As the plane sat on the runway the. Passenger gradually realized the situation and reluctantly began to gather Money among themselves la re Publica said. The report did not say How much Money was needed to pay for the refuelling. Bush Dukakis repeat Campaign vows by the associated pres Republican George Bush sounded like a Man count ing Down the hours to Victory in the race for the while House on wednesday As be. Renewed his pledge not to raise taxes. Democrat Michael Dukakis vowed to work to Campaign and 16. Win despite the Odds against him. The latest news from the pollsters was anything bul Good for the democrats. A Washington Post Survey i Maryland one of the nation s most democratic states showed Bush with a nine Point Lead on lop of two National polls tuesday that showed a double / digit democratic deficit. Those what want to have a Job in this country he said. Dukakis was in Colorado meeting privately Leaden who later said High Volet turnout among their constituents could deliver a democratic Upsel on election Day. Dukakis Laid claim 10 Strong hispanic support and said that was due in part to his stand against drugs. They want a president who does t talk about but rather one who has done something about tit he said. In Pueblo Dukakis defended big record on gun control in a Region where he has been under heavy Adver Bush s Lead was Back Down to a Tingle digit in an. Tising attack from the National Rifle association. Do Abc news Washington Post poll idea Ted late tuesday in which he was ahead by 52-44. The Survey of 1,Likely voters was conducted during seven Days of a longer sampling period than in the other Survey and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage Points. \ the vice president began his Campaign Dayan de troit where he said Dukakis sounds like a to dirt just itching to repeal the income tax cuts of the Reagan Era. The vice president also defended his Edli for capital gains tax Cut from Dukakis criticism it s not a lax break for the Rich. It is i break for Kakis said he docs not oppose gun ownership by sportsmen and for Protection. "1 Hope you la take that word Back to your Friend Sand neighbors he said. These charges Are a lol of baloney and i Hope you la Tell them advisers insisted the Campaign s own polling reflects closer race than the Bush Lead in National polls. Said the candidate the pollsters Are not going to Call this election. It s the people who Are going to be he added he would go on across this country to work to Campaign and to Grenada \ from Page 1 / mounted at the request of the organization of easter Caribbean states which feared Euba would use Gre Nada As a staging area for comr nist aggression Cuba denied any aggressive Aims in Grenada Grenada s 94,100 resident Are said to regard the invasion which the Reagan administration called a Rescue Mission As a liberation from repression an near anarchy. / in a speech tuesday prime minister Herbert Blaize chided grenadian who Cre on their Knees in 1983" but had forgotten tha deliverance thai god had worked for of it was god who Seal the americans and Caribbean forces to deliver Thoraf Blaize said. Prime minister Eugcnia Charles of Dominica one of the Caribbean leaders supporting the invasion said it was undertaken to restore democracy and order and to safeguard . Citizens on the Island but above All was necessary to save our own a memorial service was held at the St. Georges University school of Medicine on grand Anse Beach where 480 american students were evacuated by Heli Opler during the invasion. A Bronze Monument on the Campus bears the name the 19 . Servicemen who died in the operation to four grenadian and 24 cubans also were tilled fince the invasion the United states has poured is 111 million into Grenada to finish an International started by Cuba pave hundreds of Miles of and improve electricity Telephone and Waters Ystenic Mcnary democracy is Walt Esi wished an has improved but not to the extent expected " c flood of . Investment has not mate i the Island s Economy based on agn Cul Parr tourism just after a hop realized lure Contr Les to struggle Kohl from Page 1 by soviet human rights activist Andrei d. Sakharov president Reagan and am Nesty International. Bul a Leader of a group working for emigration of soviet jews said he remained sceptical. Reagan asked what he thought of the report said i m hoping that s Sakharov the 1975 Nobel Pike prize laureate said certainly wefa Wail the release of All of them Pri Bonera an their in the past three Days hours of talks with Gorb met with other top Krum at a news conference this visit. Kohl said the soviets con firmed that they will release before the end of the year All political prisoners As Ihl held 10 Hev and also officials. Led 10 sum up we understand it in the would not say whether the prom ise came from Gorbachev Only that twas made during the talks. Asked How Many people May be freed West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich guns Char said we Are not in position to give final neither Kohl nor Genscher identified prisoners who might be released. H was not Clear How Many soviets classified inthe West As political prisoners might be freed since some have been sentenced criminal charges including espionage amnesty International the London id human rights group says it knows so soviets imprisoned solely Forjin Violet exercise of their Funda human it put their turn 0,000 a few Cara ago. Jesty s list includes about 30 religious Kli Eyers 30 conscientious objectors Tov miliary service and about 20people held for anti soviet propaganda and other offences said . Of the melt eras am whales from Pagat eral moments waiting for the whales to surface in the new waterway Cut wednes Day by the Arseniev and cheered when the whales broke the surface. As darkness fell the whales were swimming Back and Forth in the Channel. Officials planned to discontinue the Heli copter surveillance a Fly fal Haller said Plant were being made in Barrow to thank Ibe soviets with a party. Before the whiles were freed As the soviet icebreaker Drew near the whales were acting very excited manner almost like the can sense said set. Ian Robertson an Alaska National guard spokesman. By midday the soviet icebreakers Werea Quarter mile from me line of breathing Boles being Cut by americans working inthe opposite direction he said. Later wednesday rescuers began to use a Gargantuan tractor like device propelled by Pontoon augers to Clear the ice Cut by the icebreaker Robertson said. The breakthrough in the Effort to free he migrating Gray whales caught in an Early freeze came after More than a wee of delays and disappointments. We feel very Good about it said rear adm. Sigmund Petersen of Noaa the cooperation has just been fantastic the soviets came in Here with a very positive Altitude and went to work the whale which normally Migrate to the Southern California coast in the Winter were discovered off Alaska Northern coast three week ago the ice closing in arousal him and leaving the Only a few Small breathing Boles. The whales could not swim the four Miles to open water without surfacing for air. A third whale disappeared Friday and is believed dead. The icebreakers the Admiral Maka Rov and the Arseniev began working shortly after their arrival tuesday
