European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday december 13.1988 captors say they la kill . Hostage in Lebanon. %. Beirut up the captors of american hostage la. Col. William Richard Higgins said monday they i ave decided to execute inc col Onel declaring that they Are charging him with espionage. 4 the abductors of the suspected pro iranian group inc organization of the oppressed on Earth made the claim in a statement delivered to the Independent an Nahar newspaper. A we announce to All oppressed people n the world thai we have issued our final verdict Jig Janst this american is execution to statement said. A the spy was hand Dover to the concerned authorities to carry out that just revolutionary 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 Ert have destroyed a mine found Drifting in the main shipping line of the persian Gulf off the coast of Bahrain a Navy spokesman said Mon Day. A. The mine was teen sunday about 15 Mijes off the coast by Crew members of inc amphibious transport Dock Raleigh a support vessel for thesis Navy in the waterway the spokesman said.?, the mine contained about 250 pounds of explosives according to Petty officer Joseph Bart leu inc Navy Spiesman. Nearly a do in mines have been found in the Northern and Central Gulf Waters Between Kuwait and Qatar the Iraq Iran cease fire went into effect aug. 20, cold wave from Midwest grips East threatens South by the associated press a frigid air mass spread from the great lakes to new England and the South monday plunging temperatures to record lows and forcing homeless people to shelters. One Man apparently froze 10 death on a new York Street and a Baltimore woman warming her Chat less Home with candles died in a fire accidents on snowy Mads were blamed far at least 10 deaths in the Midwest. More than a foot of Snow was responsible for hundreds of weekend traffic accidents in Ohio authorities Snow caused hazardous driving conditions through much of Kansas. Snow was falling monday morning Over parts of Minnesota and North Dakota. Snow was forecast for Wisconsin a Snow advisory was in effect for Eastern Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas and want by weather was possible in the Carolinas. Beginning monday. The cold air mass was so far reaching that it produce predictions of Snow Over Mississippi inc National Weathers civic bitter temperatures forced hundreds of homeless off the streets in Detroit and i no shelters agencies report homeless new York Man did t make it to a Shel Ter. The Man was found sunday on a Brooklyn Street apparently Frozen to death police said. The Man s identity was not temperature in new York City s Central Park hit 5 degrees Early monday breaking the previous record for inc Date of 9 degrees set in i960. Thermometers also hit record lows in numerous cities across the Middle and Northern Atlantic coast Stales. Readings were below Lero Over most of new England new York slate Pennsylvania the Central and Northern appalachians Northern lower Michigan and parts of Ohio the weather service said. Albany n.y., reached 12 below Zero Rochester. . Recorded its third coldest december temperature Ever 8below Zero Saranac Lake n.y., had the coldest tempera Ture in the nation monday morning 28 below Zero. Other record lows ally blown pa., 2 degrees Balti More 12 degrees Boston 2 degrees Detroit 2 below Zero Elkins w.va., 10 below Hartford conn., 3 below Houghton Lake mich., 12 below Newark n.j., 6 de Grees and Philadelphia 8 degrees. In Baltimore a woman in her 60s died in an curly morning fire in a House where heat and electricity had been turned olt. The woman apparently was using candles for heal and Light said fire Cape. Pal Flynn. Three attorneys fron Wichita were killed when their car Slid out of control and collided with a truck on the Kansas Turnpike near a Dorado. A Kansas City kan., woman and her daughter were killed when their car Slid into the path of a truck North of Wichita and a 4-year-old child was killed in a weather related Accident in Butler county car Wichita. In Ohio two Young men died sunday in a one car Accident in Akron where the Driver lost control of his vehicle on a snowy Road the state Highway patrol said. Victims of Chinook crash i. I.,Panama City Panama a the remains of three . Servicemen kilted , crash i Honduras arrived at an american military base in Panama and will be sent Home after autopsies twos 1formed, officials said. Map a statement late Friday by the . Soutthern come said Rescue workers were search najor the bodies of iwo More servicemen killed Shutway when their ch-47 Chinook helicopter Chi had near la Ceiba in Northern Honduras. " Charles Barclay spokesman at the . Embassy in Honduras Udo notified the dead As 1st la Alan c. . John p. Mcconnell and pics. Jim and Douglas j. Kropp All based at fort Bragg . And officer Randall b. Potter of forts Bart a. He did not release their hometowns. A team of investigators from the army aviation a Center in fort Rucker ala., arrived in Honduras of Niida 44jcck clues to the cause of the crash Barclay said. ,. The Chinook was a sed at Palmerola a. Barclay said it had left Palmerola new act thursday on a Supply run in joint .-Honduranniilitatjtfflgncuvers, it was the second fatal crash this year Mawin Rolo Boeing Chinook on feb. 25, att army Hun ook crashed near Chico Texas killing 10 soldiers. Crash from Page 1 x transport police a Law enforcement unit controlled by slate owned Brilis Srail said Aboul 1,500 people were Anoai 20 passenger cars involved in the crash. A he said. Rowe said a crowded passenger train travelling at 40 Mph to 50 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 prime minister Margaret Thatcher came out of a meeting in her Cabinet room and told reporters she was grief stricken.". It brings Home to us very much that families have lost some of their Dearest people. It is even More poignant jus coming up to Christmas she said. Transport Secretary Paul Channon facing opposition labor party charges of overcrowding trains and culling safety expenditures promised the. House of commons an Independent Public in Quiry would be set up. I be were going pretty fast about 70 Miles a hour said Greg Ford 2s. Who was on uie passenger train. It went bang and ital was it. We were All Over the a Roy Daniel 37, a in the Buffet car when the train started mapping and we started falling on top of each other. We came to a Slop and the buffs to Interj was sort of lodged on top of a a Fiat saved i a Chris Reeves 38, of also was in the Buffet car Jar said he saw furniture and Normo plumps of Metal flying 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 a .".-. monday s disaster was the thira serious rail Accident in a month iry Britain. On nov. 30, is pass Nam were injured when two express trains collided outside Newcastle upon the in Northeast eng land. On Boxill. A Driver was killed and18 passengers badly Hurt in a crash near St Helms in Northwest England. Fist he ambulance service said monday s � collision occurred Al the Bottom of an embankment making it difficult to reach the injured. Some cars overturned the fire brigade said. / injured were ferried to five Hospi a Fleet of 20 ambulances British rail said the commuter train was the 7 18 Bajan Sloke Southwest of London travelling along the main British rail line to London s Waterloo Tolion the second train was the ftu4 .ib.m. From Poole on. England jul Hern coast also destined for water " Loo British rail said. Emmanuel High school near the scene of the crash was used As a makeshift clinic. " v boys from the school scrambled Down he Banks to help Rescue survivors and elderly people Al a nearby Day Center handed out Lea to survivors. Alec Jackson a school official said scores of passengers arrived at the school bleeding dazed and missing Teeth. Britain s worst crash occurred in 1915, when 227 people were killed and 246injured in a collision Between a troop train and passenger train in Southwest Scotland. Mexico from Page Day which honors Mexico s Pairon Saint. People were running out of Joje mar Ket and said Oscar Cordero 25, standing by the pile of debris that had been his stand stocked with calculators and other electronic goods. The Block on Corona Street was one of scores in the old downtown where Ven Dors set up tables in the Street. It is one of inc busiest Market areas in this City of i a million and is most famous for the Mercado de Dulecs or Candy Market one of the buildings that was partially. Many people died when they were i rapped in buildings that caught fire dicing the Street. The fire spread to the five Story Candy Market an apartment building and three other buildings. After the Are 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 tangles of High ten Sion wires and Glass from shattered win Dows. Although illegal fireworks Are easily purchased and Are traditional on the Day of Guadalupe pc of the country s big. Gest religious Hok toys they Are heard sporadically in the y from dec. 12 through new year s Day Here s it s All Clandestine said Rulilo Ayala a police officer App scene they sell rockets and hide then yonder pastas fruit and whatever else they to a it s a Case of corruption said a i Ngelica Peredo who lives next to one o the buildings thai 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. I promised to look for a solution to the problem. District attorney Ignacio Morales Lechuga said fireworks Are ton much of a tradition10 be done away with. This does not mean there is going Tobe an attack on mexican culture he said. These things fireworks Are part of mexican Everado Gamiz Fernandez a Munici Leader admitted that inspections in the iwo ret were not frequent and that there Miehl be 2,000 fireworks vendors in his District. There Arett enough resources to in Spect and watch Here every Day and night he said they be always sold fireworks Here x
