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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, December 20, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes tuesday. December 20,1968 blasts rip immigrants housing kill 1 cagne5-sur-Mer. France Al two pow Erful explosions ripped through a four Story Resi Dence for immigrant workers in a Mediterranean town monday. Killing one person injuring a dozen and causing substantial damage in the building police said. Firemen poking through inc nibble said they found tracts from a so called extreme right jewish group railed Masada containing the Wirds islam must  French 1 resident Francois Mitterrand and the anti racism organisation sos racism condemned the attack. Mitterrand said in a Malc Mern. Oncu again the cowardice of a few struck  workers. This violence must by denounced and fought with the w t3 we  sos racism said it was deeply shocked and Indi cantal this murderous  the finl Blair pulic Riyad a car parked Al the in trance of the building which housed 97 people mostly North african immigrants pieces of Iho car were found As far As 300 feet away and the concussion broke windows in area buildings. Four other ears also were destroyed and numerous vehicles damaged. Residents of the building Wen evacuating rapidly when a second explosion occurred in the stairwell police said.1 we were drinking Coffee with a colleague when the explosion blew out the door and allot the win Dows said an employee of a  company Neu door to the residence. We ran outside and we saw that terrified residents of the renter wanted to jump from the windows. Firemen Check the Dusl Nicolan caused by the first of two explosions Al o Pitit Tsitir housing imm lorants. We shouted to them to remain in the building and we approached it to help them. It was at thai moment thai the second explosion happened. 1 was thrown 10 meters and Rny colleague was hit full in the head by a piece of flying metal.". The dead Man was identified As Cor ghz yorda cd Csc 50, a romanian immigrant who worked As a delivery Driver and had lived at the residence for about four years. Six of the injured required i hospitalization and were taken to facilities in Cagnes or nearby arum bus. Caen is sur Mer is about six Miles West of Nice on the French Riviera. The ground floor of the building suffered severe damage dozens of rooms were devastated and enor Mous pieces of Concrete were thrown in All directions just As residents were fleeing the building. Home of the injured suffered broken Bones and cuts. Some had jumped from inc windows. After an initial panic the surviving residents re grouped around a fire built in front of the building. We never received any threats one of them said. Everything was just Fine Al the Center we Don understand this attack. The prefect or local governor of inc area Jean Pierre Pensa and Suzanne Sauvago mayor of Cagnes sir Mer Well to the scene to begin arranging emergency measures to House the survivors. Soviets japanese report no headway in talks  the japanese and soviet foreign minium made no Prog Ress an a thorny Border dispute in their first Day of talk monday while Japan said it is prepared to step up economic cooperation with Moscow a foreign ministry official said. Soviet foreign minister Ednanl Shevardnadze paid a Courtesy Call on the Imperial Palace where he signed a Regis Ter wishing for the recovery of emperor Hirohito 57, who has been seriously ill for three months. Shevardnadze and his delegation Pew almost 6w hours with his japanese counterpart us Usuke a no in talks thai entered on the soviet held Kirilc is lands off Northern Japan the Issue hint has held up bilateral relations since world War ii. The soviets have shown no Basic change in their position said a Japa Nese foreign ministry official. But he said the two ministers would hold another meeting tuesday afternoon after officials of both countries discuss the territorial dispute and Oiher matters. U no told his soviet counterpart that Japan saw great potential to further economic relations Between the two countries the official said adding that Shevardnadze agreed that economic benefits were possible. Local observers said the soviets May be More willing than in the past to negotiate a Compromise on the ice Norial Issue because it needs japanese invest ment and economic cooperation la hip develop the Sovil far Easl. The official  Uno As saying hat economic contacts Are hampered by years of chilled relations and structural problems in the soviet economic system including the i convertibility of the so Viet Ruble and shortage of skilled labor. Japan soviet Trade totalled s4.9 billion in 1987 about 1.8 percent of total japanese Trade and is expected to hit s4.98 billion this year. Shevardnadze and Sovil president Mikhail Gorbachev have expressed a sense of urgency on the stalemate in rein Lions arising from the dispute Over the islands. /  Gorbachev told former prime minister Yasuhiro  in Moscow last july that Japan s Alliance with the. Western bloc was preventing the return of the islands but lie acknowledged that he Issue is de laying Japan soviet rapprochement. Police telling a Tail of woe after search Paris a for a while monday morning it looked like the end of the Black  the mysterious Pilot or pilots who from time to time have flown illegally Over Paris in Small aircraft violating the prohibition on Low level flights Over the capital. Responding to urgent Telephone Calls from wit Nesses police divers rushed to the scene and re covered the Tail of an air plane from the Seine River in Southwest Paris but that s at there was. Only a Tail. No body. From a plane that crashed More than Ayca Ragn. A hoax. But the joke had officials running for several hours.  first cat came Aboul 3 30 . From a person who told police that an aircraft was making Low level flights Over inc 15th and 16lh districts of Paris on the South and West Side. Similar Calls were received by a Vcra police and Security agencies. About 5 30, a witness reported that he saw the wreckage of an air plane in the River Between the Sevres and Boulogne Bridges. Several Rescue teams were dispatched. Divers pulled the Tail of a plane from the water but found nothing else -.". The Tail showed signs of Nisi. After checking the identifying seilers Gdyk authorities discovered that it belonged to an aircraft that crashed aug. 28, l987,wc5lorparis, police  that they had been had hid the Tail of the plane obviously was thrown into the River by pranksters  
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