European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday january 13,1989 news briefs 6 trapped by earthquake in Armenia found alive Moscow a six people who survive Don canned vegetables fruit and pickles for 35 Days after the armenian earthquake were pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building in Leni Nakan Tass reported thursday. The survivors were rescued wednesday Tass said the 35th Day after the dec. 7 earthquake that killed an estimated 25,000 people in North West Armenia. The six men were found under the rubble inthe basement of a nine Story apartment building that had collapsed on them the official soviet news Agency said in a report from Yerevan the capital of Armenia. They survived because there was plenty of canned food stored in the basement Tass said. All Are hospitalized in Yerevan but none is endanger doctors told the news Agency. Plo Given right to address . Council As palestine1 United nations a the Palestine liberation organization won a diplomatic Victory wednesday when the Security Council granted it the right to speak directly to the Council As United states was the Only nation to vote against the move. Britain Canada and France abstained while the soviet Union China Finland Brazil Colombia Malaysia Algeria Ethiopia Nepal Senegal and Yugoslavia voted in favor. The palestinian delegates will be addressed As Palestine rather than under their former title As the observer Mission of the Plo. In the past the Plo had to ask another nation to sponsor its right to speak to the Council. Acceptance of the Plo s bid to address the Council directly gave symbolic weight to its claim to represent a nation but not formal recognition. Mail from Page 1 found some mail at the crash site but that it was being held until the crash investigation is Complete. It was unclear whether the mail found at the scene was Brit ish or military mail the bulletin said. Postal and airline workers often juggle postal ship ments Between flights at Heathrow to get the mail moving to its destination As fast As possible a military postal official told the stars & stripes. Workers at the postal Squadron s office use British airways and about seven . Airlines at Heathrow and Gatwick airports to get mail to and from officials could not say thursday when mail recovered from the crash site would be returned or delivered. They had no immediate advice for service members who believe they had mail aboard flight 103. Officials recover engines from British Jet that crashed London a investigators got a first look atthe engines from a crashed Boeing 737 on thursday while British airlines flying similar aircraft said the found no evidence of faults in the engine warning sys tems. The engines from the British Midland Boeing 737-400 were removed from an embankment along a free Way near Kegworth and taken to nearby East Midland Airport. The plane bound for Belfast Northern Ireland crashed sunday while attempting an emergency land ing at the Airport killing 44 people and injuring 82. Investigators Are trying to determine Why the plane left engine caught fire and Why the right engine which the Pilot reported As the source of the trouble was turned off. Most of the wreckage will be reassembled at the Royal aircraft establishment at Farnborough said de Trimble a senior inspector from the department of transport air accidents investigation Branch. After a preliminary inspection at East midlands air port the engines will be taken to Paris for detailed inspection by the manufacturer he said. We must await a full strip inspection of both engines. That s most important Trimble said. Investigators have determined that the nearly new737 s left engine caught fire but for some reason the Pilot believed that the problem was in the right found that the right engine had been shut off before the crash. The civil aviation authority on wednesday or dered British airlines using Boeing 737s and Airbus a 320s equipped with the .-French cfm56 engine to inspect the fire and vibration warning systems for left right those checks were completed thursday by six air lines and no problems were found. The aviation authority also ordered More frequent inspections of the engines built by com a joint venture of Snelma of France and general electric of the United . Federal aviation administration also has ordered checks of the warning systems of 300 boeing737s operated by . Earners. Unlike the British Agency the Faa did not order More frequent engine inspections. The air accidents investigation Branch said wednes Day it had obtained evidence Early in the investigation that both engines might have suffered a related the . National transportation safety Board said there have been two crashes involving double failures of cfm56 engines. Foul weather was a contributing Factor in both cases. However weather was not an Factor in the British Midland times of London reported thursday that investigators believe the disaster began shortly after Takeoff from Heathrow Airport with the failure of the no. 3 bearing in the left engine creating vibration and. In tense heat. As the Captain throttled Back on the damaged engine to prepare for an emergency Landing the times said the vibration would have ceased if the right Engin had been shut Down and could have disguised the possibility that the wrong engine had been turned times said investigators believe that the no. 3 bearing just behind the engine s High pressure com Pressor broke Down completely As the aircraft made its final approach leaving the 737 without Power. Bonn from Page 1 Teiki confirmed in an interview with the lbs net work that Libya got help from West germans with the Plant which he said was intended to produce pharmaceuticals. West germans did help us not Only in this Plant in other plants also Teiki said. The belgian Justice ministry reported that Jozef be Dot director general of Cross link no of Antwerp was arrested wednesday night and charged with forging ship Ping documents for goods delivered to Libya. A spokesman for Bonn s finance ministry said be Dot was arrested on the basis of information provided by West German investigators. The information was found by investigators checking records seized from the defunct . Engineering firm of Frankfurt he new York times has reported that , was run by iraqi Ihsen Barboutis who helped put together con tracts for the Plant. A West German intelligence source said West Ger Many s turnaround resulted in part because information that Security forces already possessed gained new weight and importance Only after investigations of thelast couple of weeks turned up vital connections. Kohl was told by . Secretary of state Georg Shultz in november that . Officials had evidence of involvement by West German companies in building and outfitting the Plant in rata Libya. . Officials disclosed the name of one of the companies it suspected Imhausen Cherie of Lahr in the Black Forest nearly two weeks ago prompting Bonn finance ministry to order an investigation of the firm. The government announced last week that it had found no evidence of illegal exports by Imhausen Che Mie after a we Klong audit of the company s records. Sources in the Federal government confirmed wednesday that a criminal investigation was under Way into . S activities and that authorities had seize company documents. West German Media have doggedly pursued the accusations and prominently aired . Media suggestions that Bonn has looked the other Way As West German companies gave col. Moa mar Qadhafi the know How and equipment to produce chemical weapons. Television and Magazine reports have shown ban documents and other records they say show libyan financial links with Imhausen Cherie and . Goodbye from Page 1 military buildup. Or. President the Pride people fee today certainly the Pride Felt by the men and women in our armed forces is a direct result of the leadership you have provided As commander in chief said defense Secretary Frank Carlucci. You have restored not Only our nation Al strength but also our sense of Reagan said he was thankful to have borne the most sacred of tasks As the nation s commander in chief and to oversee a resurgence of spirit among the nation s military. Where i have at times asked myself where have you come from How you Veman aged to cohere into the crack disciplined patriotic band of Brothers i see before me this morning Reagan offered his own answer you come from America and you Are America s Pride. On behalf of All Ameri Ca i thank you and Pray god that he May bless you now and the president said he ordered first lady Nancy Reagan to cancel plans to attend the ceremony because she was suffering from laryngitis. The Farewell came the Day after Rea Gan offered his own Oval office Good Bye in which he said he was handing the nation Over to the Good hands of George Bush. In a televised speech bidding Adieu tothe nation Reagan boasted wednesday night of his accomplishments and ignored Many of the difficulties that arose during his eight years in office. We meant to change a nation an instead we changed a world he said. Yet Reagan also admitted that his self styled conservative revolution left Many things unchanged and he asked his Fol Lowers to stick around and help his Suc Cessor. If we re to finish the Job Reagan regiments will have to become the Bush brigades Reagan said. Soon hell Bethe chief and hell need you every bit As much As i the president said he was leaving of fice with the Central message of his Polit ical life strengthened that an unfettered Economy a Strong defense and a free citizenry forged a nation respect Din the world and looked to for Lead democracy the profoundly Good is also the profoundly productive he said. Because we Are a great nation our Chal Lenges seem Complex. It will always be this Way. But As Long As we remember our first principles and believe in our selves the future will always be Reagan addressed the nation from his Oval office desk his left hand in a splint and swathed in bandages from weekend surgery on a Finger. Speaking nine Days before his retire ment to California Reagan called his de parture Sweet but he also said he looks Forward to a renewal of personal Freedom contending a Modem president must live somewhat apart. You spend a lot of time going by too fast in a car someone else is another regret Reagan said was his failure to tame the nation s deficit. But that merited Only a paragraph in the roughly 21-minute speech. I be Bee talking a great Deal about that lately but tonight in t for arguments and i m going to hold my Tongue he said. The National debt almost tripled i Reagan s term and he ran up the biggest budget deficits in history. His final Bud get proposal released earlier this week for the 1990 fiscal year starting oct. 1,projects a deficit of $92.5 billion. The president s remarks were void of any mention of such National tragedies As the Barracks bombing that killed More than 241 servicemen in Beirut the Chal Lenger disaster or the americans held hostage in the Middle East. There was no word of the Trade deficits or the scandals that tarnished his administration such As the Sale of Armsto Iran and use of the proceeds to fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua contras subject of so Many Reagan speeches were not mentioned at All. As triumphs Reagan listed the nation economic recovery its Low unemployment and inflation and its bolstered Mili tary
