European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 28 news briefs the stars and stripes Friday november 4,1988 pakistani Jet built in . Downs afghan warplane Islamabad Pakistan a Pakistan said thursday that one of its .-built Jet fighters shot Down a soviet built afghan warplane Over pakistani territory. Western diplomats in Islamabad also reported that communist forces have fired at least six Long Range soviet missiles at guerrilla positions. The escalating warfare came As moslem rebel claimed to have captured a key Frontier Post near the Pakistan Border. The pakistani government announced that one of its Al 6 fighters shot Down an afghan us 22 fighter bomber when two of the soviet mad planes penetrated id Miles into Pakistan s North West Frontier province on thursday morning government spokesmen earlier had Identifiedtheplaneasamig-23. They said an afghan Pilot was captured an was being interrogated. Pakistan television showed him of the wreckage near the Village of thai about 160 Miles West of Islamabad. Texas killer on death Row for 121/2 years executed huntsv1lle, Tern a Donald Gen Franklin whose Appeal halted executions in the state for More than nine months was put to death Early thursday for abducting and murder ing a nurse 13 Yean ago. Franklin 37, made no final statement before lethal injection was administered at the Texas department of corrections Wall unit. Franklin stared at the death chamber ceiling and coughed several limes As drugs lowing through Needles inserted into his arms took effect. He was pronounced dead at 12 30 ., six minutes after doctors began administering the injection. Franklin was the second person executed this year in Texas which leads the nation with 28 executions since the . Supreme court re stored capital punishment in 1976. He was the 102nd person executed in the United slate since then. Franklin spent 2 i years on death Row an had three trials and at least five execution dates. His own attorney once described him As the most hated Man in san Antonio where Mary Margaret Peggy Moran 27, was slain in july"1975, i m very thankful it s Over her Mother Ricia Crawford said thursday. I feel really relieved. I feel 1 can be at peace and Peggy can beat party prefers liked led coalition in Israel Jerusalem a leaders of the National religious party thursday ruled out a coalition with the left leaning labor party and said they would join government headed by the right Wing liked bloc. The move by the five seat party boosted liked chances of forming a government without labor its main rival liked look a narrow Victory in tuesday parliamentary elections Over labor which thursday appeared increasingly pessimistic Over ils chances of forming a government. Labor sources thursday said party officials Are considering ousting Shimon Peres As its Leader because of the party s poor showing. Labor and liked need the support of the religious parties Kingmaker despite their Small size to control a majority of seals in parliament. The right oriented orthodox parties advocate Banning practices favored by Israel s secular majority. Prime minister Yitzhak Shamir the liked Leader on thursday opened coalition talks with two secular right Wing Toomet Crossroads and Molodet Homeland parties which won two seats apiece Call for the annexation of the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. To in act also demands the ouster of the 1,5 million palestinians living in the occupied lands a policy it refers to As Transfer liked officials have said Malcot s expulsion plat form could be an obstacle to it joining a liked led coalition. The Molodet Leader former Gen. Reha Varn Zeevi said after meeting with Shamir and other liked Lead ers that he would not insist that Transfer be ado Tedas government policy if the parly joined the govern is a 99.9 percent Chance for a liked led government Zevi told reporters. Coup from Page 1 High commissioner in sri Lanka said the maldivian government had beaten Back the attackers. The government is in full control of the situation be , residents of male a City of 55,000, said sporadic gunfire continued through the Day. By night fall foreign gunmen were in control of part of male according to Western diplomats in Colombo who spoke on condition of anonymity. A sri lankan government official in Colombo said a least 12 people were killed and 22 injured in clashes after the attack the official said he received the information from the sri lankan High commission in male. Western diplomats in Colombo said loyalist troop were in Centre of the capital but they said attackers held the radio and television Indian foreign ministry spokesman in new Delhi said reports from the Indian High commissioning male indicated the attackers were in lankan. The official said the attackers captured several senior maldivian officials including two members of Qayoom s Cabinet. The situation instill sketchy he tropical Island Chain that is Home to 190 000 peo ple the maldives Are 400 Miles Southwest of sri Lank and India. India is the regional Power and does not want to see the current balance upset. It has thousands of troops in sri Lanka to try to quell a rebellion by militant tamils. Edward Moss Deputy chief of Mission at the . Embassy in Colombo said maldivian officials contacted the United Stales Britain and other countries for help. He did not say whether the officials requested military intervention. In Washington stale department spokesman Charles e. Redman said the Reagan administration has been in touch with India about the coup attempt. Another . Official who demanded anonymity said we Are reviewing the situation and discussing options with the maldives friends mainly said the raiders spoke tamil but that be did not know who was behind the attack. Tamil is not spoke by maldivian a. It is the language of ethnic minorities in sri Lanka and India a sri lankan military official said former president Ibrahim Nasir was believed to be behind the attempt to overthrow Qayoom who Defeated Nasir in the 1978 election and won a third five year com on sept. 23.the official who did not wish to be identified said Nasir sent an agent to sri Lanka to recruit tamil Nili lants to stage a coup. He said Nasir moved to Singa pore after 1978 and his followers tried in 1980 to Over throw Qayoom. A sri lankan pharmacist in male said she had rushed Medicine to a government Hospital to treat peo ple injured in the was Cut off in male and no civilians were on the streets she said. The maldives Airport was closed and All nights were turned Back according to officials in sri Lanka and the maldives. Male is like a dead City said sri Lanka s High commissioner in the maldives Mohammad All. He said the trouble began about 4 30 With a loud explosion followed by exchanges of gunfire. Several residents of male said they were staying of the streets because of uncertainly. The first reports to reach the outside world said the gunmen had captured the presidential Palace and taken Qayoom prisoner along with National Security minister alias Ibrahim and presidential affairs min ister Abbas Ibrahim. Qayoom 50, has charted a course of non alignment for the Remote Republic. Dukakis fro Pagal thursday said this one is Down to the wire. We re sprinting for the finish line and we Hope and expect that we re going to win. The Campaign grew More healed forthe vice presidential candidates. Demo crat Lloyd bunt san blasted1 Bush for selecting Dan Quayle As his running mate. The Choice bends in said in Illinois showed a real disdain disregard for our country. Quayle found himself caught up anew in a controversy Over abortion. While he ardently opposes abortion even after cases of rape. Quayle told questioners he had no quarrel with medical procedure known As dilation and Curettage or a and a and said i would prevent Conception if performed soon after medical procedure is considered by Many in the Field of gyn ecology As Means of terminating a pregnancy. Questions about abortion have hounded Quayle in recent Days particularly following his suggestion to a 12-year-old girl that she should 39 ahead and give birth in a theoretical situation in which she was raped by her father and became pregnant. Meanwhile thursday in Fairle shills pa., Dukakis outlined a proposal for a Federal state and local Alliance to combat drug use in the nation s schools. At a town meeting in Penn Bury High school he said his proposed president s Alliance against drugs will set for its goal drug free schools in the 1990s in every Community in the United with the race for the while House Down to less than a week away the campaigns were bringing out their final toads including one in which president Reagan asks viewers to vote Republican up and Down the ticket to continue the change we began in 1981." " the democrats contend in a new a that they Are the party of average work. Ing people while under the Republican millions of . Jobs were shipped to workers overseas. Flights from Page 1. Reduce its Low level flights and still me tits training . We Are pre pared to examine that possibility. That Isth purpose of the meeting and we Are very pleased to be Abic to attend in july German defens ministry announced it was cutting its military Low level training flights Over West Germany by 1,000 Light hours a year. An additional 1,000 flights hour were being transferred to the Mediterranean Island of Sardinia. About 45,000 hours of flight training Are carried out by nato and French military aircraft annually Over West Ger Many according to the West German defense ministry. The decision to reduce night hours Fol Lowed a Public outcry about Low level Fly ing exercises and a series of air crashes involving nato jets. According to Munich s the budget committee of the West German parliament last month blocked 100 million Marks $56 million stated for Low flying exercises by the per Manair Force. In september nato commander Gen. John r. Galvin said that the United Stales had reduced Low level flights by almost half since 19b5. The . Air forces in Europe also has changed locations and altitudes of flights and increased the use of Simula tors to duplicate the experience of Low level flying he said. According to Safe figures released in september by shape the number flow level . Sorties in Europe declined 4s percent from 31,534 in 19b5 to17,314 in 19b6. Although figures were not available for 19s7, there were expected to be about 17,300 sorties. German air Force spokesman Triller Mann said there also would be a meeting in mid december Between Scholz an the minister presidents of All the West German states to reorganize Low flying exercises so that All states Bear an equal share. In Riporti Tun we Cwiek Wadi in
