European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday november 8,19b8 world today bomb threat note forces plane to interrupt flight Toto up a Hole threatening to blowup a United airline night with 288 people on Board was found in the plane s restroom on flight Between new York and Tokyo monday forcing he Airliner to make an emergency Uncle ing at Anchorage. Alaska a spokesman said. The plane landed safely and there were no injuries said Bob Lite a United spokesman based in Tokyo. The Fri is investigating the bomb threat Luc said. The bomb threat was received in the aircraft Bynote Lue said. The Noil was found in the restroom. I think in might have been two notes Luc said the note threatened to blow up the Airliner but he would no say what demands "if.any, were made by inc author or the note. 9 top chilean admirals retired in shake up Santiago. Chile up nine lop were retired from the Navy in the continuing restructuring of the armed forces following the political humiliation of military strongman a gusto Pinochet in was reported second in command in the Navy. Vice adm. Craan Rivera Calderon was Amon those retired the newspapers reported. Rivera and vice adm. Rigoberto Cruz Johnson third in seniority had completed 40 years of service and were eligible Tor retirement the Navy seven rear admirals were retired the Navy said saturday the changes were announced just two Days after a shake up in the leadership of tic army Hal also saw its second i command retire. Changes also Are expected this. Week in he air Force and National police Force. Paper reports iranian Jet hijacked to London London up a hijacked iranian jumbo jul with 250 passengers on Board was forced to Fly to London two weeks ago. But the incident was kept secret the observer newspaper reported sunday. The observer said two iranian dissidents armed with a gun and a knife ordered Iran air flight 723 to go 0 London but were later Over powered and beaten by sky marshals aboard the jetliner before in landed at Heathrow Airport. Iran air in London insisted the night that Wasen route oct. 22 from Iran to Vienna Austria and Frankfurt West Germany was diverted to Heathrow Only because of bad weather i he original destinations nor due to any incident and look off again after Only 45 minutes. The observer said it based its Story on he graphic account of a passenger who witnessed the hijacking and is now in West report said he Fate of the two hijackers ii unknown soviet Lender Mik Luil Gorbachev Waves to Misc ovules attending the military Parade in Moscow s ref sure while Moscow communist party Leader lev a Zaikov left and Premier Nikolai Khz Hitov look on. Soviets celebrate revolution with lighter than usual tone Moscow a the soviet Union celebrated the anniversary of the bolshevik revolution monday with a Parade that proclaimed War on the bureaucracy rather than Western imperialism Kremlin watchers found an unusual air of levity Inich civilian demonstration that followed the annual Parade of tanks and missiles and also caught a signal fan increase in the Power of Moscow communist Parry Leader lev n. Zaikov. Zaikov strode onto Lenin s mausoleum right behind president Mikhail Gorbachev Premier Nikolai Ryzha Kov and Yegor i Gachev a conservative who was demoted ideology to agriculture in inc Kremlin shake up five weeks ago. Television cameras focused several lint on the triumvirate of Gorbachev Ryzhkova and Zaikov leaving i Gachev out. ,. Zaikov moved ahead of Viktor m. Chubrikov for Mer Kab chief who is now a party Leader in charge of inc judiciary and Legal Reform. The Parade held in Light Snow and temperature just below freezing was attended by All the nato ambassadors or their top representatives for the first time since the soviet Union sent soldiers into Afghani s Anin 1979. Although he procession of tanks and missile launchers clanking across Hie cobblestones resembled last year s display of military might the columns of muscovites pouting into red Square after them bore banners that traded foreign policy Fean for internal boosterism. They displayed balloons and paper Flowen an strode in to the sound of popular soviet melodies rather than solemn formal were the usual portraits of the to Lilbarn members and fear Init ring slogans warning the publicly beware of capitalist aggression. Also missing were comps ainu on specific East West disputes such As Nicaragua. Insl cad posters promised War on the bureaucracy one of the targets of Gorbachev s economic re form efforts. Other placards proclaimed Hal we re behind Perl troika and offered support of his plans such As. We re going to raise profits the United Stales portrayed in 1986 As Uncle Sun with missiles labelled Star wars plugging hit car against Calls for Pieacci enjoyed a new portrayal As a peacemaker. One float showed the silhouettes of work ers wrapped in soviet and american Lap. The worker were pictured Sledge hammering minister Dmitri t. Yazoo s speech was relatively mild in its criticism of the military Section of the Parade featuring tanks and rocket launchers was slightly Shorter than Las year a and it showcased no new technology. S. Africa denies growing rumours that Mandela will go free soon Cape town South Africa a Winnie Maji data paid a has Piui visit monday to her husband african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela amid frenzied Media speculation thai he or his col leagues May be released. The prisons service and other gov Eremel source emphatically denied that either Mandela or any of the other ivc men imprisoned with him since 1964 for plotting to overthrow the government would be freed soon ". South african newspapers have been quoting government sources for the past week in contradictory reports Hal Mandela would be released from his life prison sentence before year s end or that there were no plans in release him soon mrs. Mandela s visit lasted 45 minutes and was de scribed by Cape town attorney Essa Moosias the Normal visit the prisons department allows each month. The Rev. Allan Loesak president of the world Alliance of reformed churches accompanied , along with Moosa and Johannesburg attorney Kish Naidoo. Loesak a prominent anti apartheid activist said there was Jid indication Mandela would be released today or in the near one government source said he thought the Strong rumours circulating monday in South Africa were being orchestrated by members of the anti apartheid movement some of them in other countries to pressure the government into acting. The rumours have been building since August when the 70-year-old Mandela was transferred from polls Moor prison to a Cape town Hospital for real men of tuberculosis. He later was transferred to the private Constanti Aberg clinic where doctors said he has recovered president Picter w. Botha said he hoped it would a possible not to Send Mandela Back Lornson. Mandela has rejected Botha s offers to release Himin Exchange for a renunciation of violence saying that the government must make a similar renunciation an lift restrictions on Black political activity. In addition to Mandela Anc Secretary general Waller Sisulu and four lesser known Anc members Are Stilt in prison from the 1964 trial. Strange malady causing children in Ukraine to go Bald Moscow Ai a experts arc baffled by strange disease thai is causing dozens of children in a ukrainian town to go Bald without another symptoms. Residents arc beginning to panic reported the newspaper industries or so Dalitto Industry on sunday. Soviet Media Jay at least 82 children have been affected by the mysterious malady. The town Chernov Tsy is near inc romanian order far from the nuclear Power Plant Acci Dent at chernobyl and the areas downwind of i which suffered from radiation contamination. Nothing like this has happened before in he medical practice in our country said ukrainian Deputy health minister Anatoly Kasyanenko a quoted by socialist Industry Kasyanenko s Secretary is reassuring caller that no one is going 10 close the
