European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday december 13,1988 news briefs captors say they la kill . Hostage in Lebanon Beirut Dpi the captors of american hostage u. Col. William Richard Higgins said monday they have decided o execute 1 inc col Onel declaring that they arc charging him with espionage. The abductors of the suspected pro iranian croup the organization of inc oppressed on Earth made the claim in a statement delivered to inc Independent an Nahar newspaper. We announce to All oppressed people in the world that we have issued our final verdict against this american spy. Which is execution the statement said. The spy was hand Dover to the concerned a j  to carry out that just revolutionary  Higgins Higgins 43, head of a , peacekeeping group in Southern Lebanon was kidnapped feb. 18, 1988, in Southern Lebanon. Navy divers destroy mine Drifting in persian Gulf Manama Bahrain a . Navy div arc have destroyed a mine found Drifting in the main shipping Lane of inc persian Gulf off inc coast of Bahrain a Navy spokesman said Mon Day. The mine was seen sunday about is Miles off the coast by Crew members of the amphibious transport Dock Raleigh a support vessel for the Sis Navy minesweepers in the waterway the spokesman said. The mine contained about 230 pounds of explosives according to Petty officer Joseph Bart jell the Navy spokesman nearly a dozen mines have been found in the Northern and Central Gulf Waters Between Kuwait and Qatar since the Iraq Iran cease fire went into effect aug. 20. . Halting training flights Over Germany until Jan. 2 continued from Page 1 Ini Liat reports indicate that the Pilot capt. Michael Foster 34, became disoriented while dying in heavy Clouds and lost control. Foster and five others or the ground died when the aircraft assigned to the. 81st tac fighter Wing Al Raf Benl Walers England slammed into a Row of houses. Pentagon officials said Britain and Canada also agreed to the West German government s request monday they join France Belgium and the nether lands which gave their assent last week according to the West German embassy in Washington  regular military training flights Are scheduled to resume Jan. 2. Bonn has experienced a rising tide of Public criticism on the Issue of nato military training flights in recent months. The prime Factor in Public discontent often has been the noise caused by Low level flights defined As those of 500 feet or below. But a rash of recent accidents has pushed safety considerations to the forefront and widened the scope of the debate. Eight . Air Force f-l6s have crashed in Europe this year including six in West Germany. There have been More than 20 crashes involving nato aircraft in West Germany this year military officials said. An Accident in August at an air show at rams Cin a involving three italian stunt jets left 70 people dead and hundreds injured. While it technically was not a training Mission the rams Cin air show disaster intensified the criticism of military flights. Meanwhile an air Force Security police commander denied published reports that . Scricc Membert assaulted Remscheid residents and a journalist while securing the crash area. Two recent articles in the Bild a mass circulation German newspaper said american service member hit residents with night Sticks and threatened a reporter with a Rifle. We have no firearms at the1 Accident site and night Sticks have not been issued to air Force Security police for nearly 15 years it. Col. Jeremiah Riordan said in a statement released by Safe Riordan also said responsibility for securing the crash site belonged to the German army and police. The Only items we secured were sensitive . Assets. The rest of the time we have been strictly involved with the recovery  after reviewing reports during a meeting sunday the 3rd air Force commander Mai. Gen. Marcus a Anderson Remscheid mayor Willy Hartkopf and Remscheid City manager gunner Krug agreed that the crash site Rescue efforts went smoothly Safe said. G to Mil Hay Sun or Tow  in Ami Lukaj victims of Chinook crash identified Panama City Panama a the remains of three . Servicemen killed in 8 helicopter crash in Honduras arrived Al an american military base in Panama and will be sent Home after autopsies arc per formed officials said. A statement late Friday by the . Southern com said Rescue workers were searching for the bodies of two More servicemen killed thursday when their cd 47 Chinook helicopter crashed near la Ceiba in Northern Honduras. Charles Barclay spokesman at the . Embassy in Honduras identified the dead As 1st it Alan a Urban staf sgt. John p. Mcconnell and pics. Jim d. Bendon and Douglas j. Kropp All based at fort Bragg . And chief warrant officer Randall b. Potter of. Fort Stewart a. He did not release their hometowns. A team of investigators from the army aviation Center in fort Rucker ala., arrived in Honduras on Friday to seek clues to the cause of the crash Barclay said the Chinook was based at Palmerola a. Barclay said it had left Palmerola earlier thursday on a Supply run in joint .-honduran military Maneu vers. U was inc second fatal crash this year of a win Rotor Boeing Chinook on feb. 25, an army Chinook crashed near Chico Texas killing 10 soldiers. Crash from Pagel Fer cd minor injuries and were treated on the scene. J.". Jim Rowe a spokesman for the British transport police a Law enforcement unit controlled by state owned British rail said about 1,500 people were aboard the 20 passenger cars involved in the crash. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher came out of a meeting in her Cabinet room and told  was grief stricken it brings Home to us very much that families have lost some of their Dearest people.,. It is even More poignant just coming up to Christmas she said. Transport Secretary Paul Channon. Facing opposition labor party charges of overcrowding trains and cutting safely expenditures promised the House of commons an Independent Public in Quiry would be set up. Row said a crowded passenger train travelling Al 40 Mph to so Mph slammed into the Back of a stationary commuter train about a Quarter mile South of clap Ham Junction. An empty freight train travelling on an adjoining track in the opposite direction then crashed into the spillover wreckage he  ".". V we were Goin pretty fast about 70 Miles an hour said Greg Ford 28, who was on the passenger train. It went bang and that was it. We were All Over the  Roy Daniel 37, was in the Buffet car when the train started slopping and we started falling on top of each other we came to a Stop and the Buffet counter was sort of lodged on top of us. That saved  Chris Reeves 38, of Southampton also was in inc Buffet car. He said he saw furniture and enormous lumps of Metal flying everywhere.". The whole of the Buffet car disintegrated Reeves said. The roof split open like a Ripe Tomato and that s How we got out. We tried to find people underneath the rubble but there was so much debris there was nothing we could do monday s disaster was the third serious rail Accident in a month in Britain on nov. 30, 15 passengers were injured when two express trains collided outside Newcastle upon Tyne in Northeast eng land. On nov. 12, a Driver was killed and 18 passengers badly Hurt in a crash near St. Helens in Northwest England. The ambulance service said monday s collision occur cd at the Bottom of an embankment making it difficult to reach the injured. Some ears overturned the fire brigade said. The injured were ferried to five Hospi tals in a Fleet of 20  rail said the commuter train was the 7 18 . From Basin Sloke Southwest of London travelling along the main British rail line to London s Waterloo station. The second train was the 6 14 . From Poole on England s Southern coast also destined for water Loo British rail  High school near the scene of the crash was used As a makeshift clinic. Boys Oom the school scrambled Down the Banks to help Rescue survivors and elderly people at a nearby Day Cente handed out Tea to survivors. Alec Jackson a school official said scores of passengers arrived Al the school bleeding dozed and missing Teeth. Britain s worst crash occurred in 1915, when 227 people were killed and 246 injured in a collision Between a troop train and passenger train in Southwest Scotland. Mexico from Page 1 Day which honors Mexico s Patron Saint. People were running out of the mar Ket and screaming said Oscar Cordero 25, standing by the pile of debris that had been his stand locked with calculators and other electronic goods. The Block on Corona Street was one of scores in inc old downtown where Ven Dors set up tables in the Street. It is one of the busiest Market areas in this City of 18 million arid is most famous for the Mercado do Dukes or Candy Market one of the buildings that was partially burned. Many people died when they were trapped in buildings thai caught fire along the Street. The fire spread to the five Story Candy Market an apartment building and three other buildings. After the fire was out firefighters and sanitation workers used dollies to re move dozens of crates of unexploded fireworks from the area and the work continued under floodlights through the night the Street was strewn with spent firecrackers charred Wood and comic books twisted Metal angles of High ten Sion wires and Glass from shattered win dows.-. Although illegal fireworks  purchased and Are traditional on the Day of Guadalupe one of the country s big Gest religious holidays. They Are heard sporadically in the City from dec. 12 through new year s Day. Here s its All Clandestine said Rutilo Ayala a police officer Al the scene. They sell rockets and hide them under pastas fruit and whatever else they  it s a Case of corruption said Angelica Peredo who lives next to one of the buildings that burned i residents and Market vendors vented their anger at mayor Manuel Camach Solis As he plodded through the water soaked debris a Yard deep in places Many children died Here or. Mayor one Man said. The mayor who took office dec. 1, promised to took Tor a solution to Ibe problem. District attorney Ignacio Morales Lechuga said fireworks Are Loo much of a tradition to be done away with. This does not mean there is going lobe an attack on mexican culture he said. These things fireworks Are part of mexican culture Everado Gamiz Fernandez a runic i pal Leader admitted that inspections in the Market were not frequent and that there might be 2,000 fireworks vendors in his District there Aren t enough resources to in Spect and watch Here every Day and night he said. They be always sold fireworks