European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse . Readies More medical Aid for Armenia pages 3, 5 the stm$, authorized unofficial Public Ion Ron the . Timed forces vol. 47, no. 239 tuesday december 13, 1988 � Dot 0 bg93 a . Halting training flights Over w. Germany until Jan.2 i Chuck Vinci Iwaishi Ajilon Bureau Washington the United Stales will suspend All Fisher and attack aircraft training flights Over Wisl Germany until Jan. 2 in the Wake of an air Force Sci crash toil week Hal left Sis people dead. Defense department officials said monday. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci agreed o a re quest by he West German to halt the nights during the holidays out of respect for the Vic Tims and their families following a meeting in the Pentagon with his counterpart. Defense minister Rupert Scholz. Two weeks ago Bonn asked nato la consider reducing the amount of Low level flying Over West Ger Man soil. The specific request for a temporary suspension of raining flights came after an a-10 Thunderbolt ii crashed thursday in a residential District of Renis Che id. Near Disseldorf. The exact cause of the crash is still unknown but continued on Back Page London rail crash kills dozens London a three trains collided in South London Ai the height of monday morning s Rush hour killing do ens of people and injuring More than100 i n a Vasi tangle of crushed Mel Al. John Norm the London fire brigade divisional officer said nine hours after the crash Hal All the bodies were thought to have been recovered and the death count stood at 35. 1 Clicc detective in Spector Barry Yehh said another person died in a Hospital bringing inc toll to 36. Morris Lold reporters the death toll had fluctuated during the Day bodies were dismembered. A London ambulance service spokeswoman who requested anonymity. Said 115 passengers were Hospital i cd 30 with serious injuries. Others were treated where they Lay on the ground or in the wreckage and some people had to have limbs amputated to extricate Piliero. Lou Gill the lire brigade s chief Divisio Nal officer said All survivors had been re moved about five hours after the crash near Busy Clapham Junction just before 8 he said he feared that when the mangled wreckage was finally cleared there May be further bodies underneath.". Morris also did not Rule Oul a further increase in inc death lot. Rescue workers used Nictaly Cut ten tory open rail cars strewn like Malch Sticks across the tracks. Scores of people suf see crash on Back Page tvs Cut workers search inc wrack Are of three trains that collided monthly in us ugh London Kiil Inu Downs of a wipe and injuring scores. Fireworks disaster in Mexico City kills 70 Mexico City a monday cleared uncut Lodd firework from a marketplace where a Chain re action of blasts and flames kilted Ai least70 people in stalls crowded with Christmas shoppers. Forty five people were injured in the explosions sunday in the congested Street Market said Salvador Padillo the red Cross commander. Most were quickly released from the Hospital and none was reported seriously injured. Red Cross spokesman Alfonso Manzo said Early monday thai .70 bodies had. Been found. At Kasi 12 of the dead were children officials said. The Law seven bodies arc discovered shortly after 3 . In a storeroom of illegal fireworks. Many of the other dead were found in the rubble of Candy Ven Dors stalls. It was a time bomb said Elizabeth Diaz a member of a Union of Market vendors. There s hundreds of people who come Here to sell them illegal fire works. They have for years. Why did t. The authorities come authorities said they had not deter mined the cause of the disaster and wit Nesses disagreed on where the first explosion occurred but ail said that after the first blast like machine gun fire through stalls where vendors had been Selling skyrockets roman candles and. Other fireworks. Al first it sounded like bullets. The there were More and More and then the explosion said Fernando doming us who was working in a shoe store. Selling fireworks to inc Public is barred in Max co City but the Law is widely ignored. The fire ripped through the congested Market and five nearby buildings which arc half a mile from the zocolo Plaza in the heart of Mexico City the area was crowded with shoppers buying food and looking for Christmas presents and fireworks to celebrate the Day of the Virgin of Guadalup con Mori see Mexico on Back Page
