European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday january 31,1989 8 canadians die in cc-130 crash plane goes Down near foggy runway in Alaska Fairbanks Alaska a a cd 130 crashed into a Snowbank and split in two during a Landing in a thick icy fog killing eight Canadian soldiers heading to a major  military exer Cise officials said. The Canadian Hercules cc-130 was carrying eight crewmen and 10 special service paratroopers from Edmonton Alberta when it crashed just Short of the runway at fort Wainwright s Airfield said . Army capt. Jim Rodgers. The weather was quite bad Rodgers said. At the time of the crash he said news briefs the fog blanketed the runway and the temperature registered around 60 de Grees below Zero. Six of the troops aboard were pronounced dead on arrival at the base s Bassett army Community Hospital and two others died while receiving treat ment at the Hospital army maj. Sherrel mock said. Three soldiers were in critical Condi Tion one was listed As stable and the remaining six had minor injuries but were being held for observation mock said. After the crash mock said Canadian officials cancelled their forces participation in the exercise brim Frost 89, and recalled remaining Canadian aircraft and 450 service members. Investigators including explosives experts examined the wreckage overnight mock said. The plane s cargo included training ammunition. The four engine Lockheed corp. Turboprop aircraft has been used by the United states As its primary transport aircraft in the Antarctic continent and the Arctic for 29 years Joe Dabney a Lockheed spokesman in Marietta ga.,said monday. The soldiers belonged to Force Mobile command and were part of a 500-Man paratroop Force that was to support the1st brigade 6th inf div lighting a major land Battle that is the Centrepiece of the brim Frost ground exercises near Fairbanks. About 26,000 service members 120 aircraft and 1,000 vehicles from the .army, air Force marines coast guard National guard Reserve units and Ca Nadian forces Are participating in the cold weather exercise. The $15 million exercise began Jan. 20 and is scheduled to continue through wednesday. W. Germany admits firm shipped chemical to Iraq Bonn West Germany a government officials acknowledged on monday that a West German firm shipped Iraq materials that a newsmagazine maintains could be used to make biological weapons. But the officials disputed the report by de Spiegel insisting that the Quantity of the Chemi Cal Myk toxin that was delivered would suffice Only for research. West German officials also said they Are looking into american allegations that Iran used its embassy in Bonn to arrange for the Purchase of supplies for the production of Poison  officials said  new York times reported sunday that american investigators maintain Iran enlisted companies from West Germany Asia and the United states to expand Iran s stockpile of chemicals needed to make Poison . The newspaper said . Investigators have found that an iranian Diplomat based in West Ger Many arranged three shipments to Iran of chemicals to make Mustard  in 1987 and 1988. Medallist gets 17 years for hitting teens with car Tampa Fla. A olympic diver Bruc Kimball was sentenced monday to 17 years in prison for killing two people and injuring four others when his car slowed into a group of teen agers last August. The 1984 olympic Silver medallist who was legally drunk at the time must serve an additional 15 years of probation Hillsborough Cir Cuit judge Harry Lee Coe ruled. You must be punished Coe told Kimbal Lafter the 2 a hour sentencing hearing. You must suffer the consequences of Drunken driving and we must Stop  Kimball has been in jail since earlier this month when he pleaded guilty to multiple counts of Drunken driving manslaughter an great bodily injury. On monday he changed the plea to no contest a technical move to make i easier for victims to recover damages from his automobile insurance company. A act from Page 1 he said. He knows the role of government. I Trinkwell have a far better president from the viewpoint of the Black majority. That does not mean now that he going to do most of the things we want but at least he  the Black Leader who turns 64 today was particularly impressed by Bush s Promise of support for affirmative action despite a recent . Supreme court ruling against minority owned businesses. We be made a great Deal of Progress but even after80 years we still Deal with some of the same issues Hooks said. Racism is less overt. Now it s More Cov Ert. While it s not As blatant As it once was it s still very pronounced. We re still the last to be hired and the first to be  unemployment rate is still unacceptably High. Prena Tal care is absent. The number of Blacks that Are poor has grown larger rather that smaller. So it s a mixed bag and there s a lot of work yet to be  during his news conference at Frankfurt s Abram Complex Hooks voiced regrets about not having time to discuss with West German officials the possibility of designating february As Black history month in their country. It would be a marvelous thing to get the govern ment to recognize Blacks he said. I recall some 15 to 17 years ago we had to have an official investigation of discrimination related to the treatment of Black troops by the German government. They did find a lot of things  Hooks plans to visit the Heidelberg Mannheim Frankfurt and Hanau military communities eating lunch with soldiers and touring facilities. Berlin from Page 1 Berlin is considered a state under the West German system but its representatives in the National parliament have limited Powers. One time is Soldier Franz Schoenhuber the Republican Leader had led a Campaign to oust turks and other foreign workers from West Berlin. Foreigner make up about 10 percent of the City s population of2 million. West germans often have expressed concern about the growing num Ber of foreigners in their country but sunday vote provided the most dramatic example i years of a major election Success for a party wit Strong opposition to for Eigners. It was the first state election in West Ger Schoenhuber Many since the october death of minister president Franz Josef Strauss of Bavaria the arc conservative who is credited with keeping smaller right win extremist groups in Check. Many people had predicted his death would create the possibility for the smaller rightist groups to have a shot at Success. The republicans won 7.5 percent of the vote Sun Day according to nearly Complete official returns. The Christian democrats won 38 percent of the vote and55 seats losing 12 of the seats they had after the last election four years ago. Christian democratic mayor Eberhard Diepgen coalition partners the free democrats lost All 12 of their seats by failing to Muster the 5 percent of the vote necessary for representation. The social democrats won 37 percent of the vote for 55 seats and the left Wing alternative list party won 17 seats with a 12 percent showing a gain of two seats. West German Media reacted with Shock to the re sults. The Frankfurt based Hessen state radio broadcast special report monday which concluded that while the Republican party showed far rightist tendencies  far from the nazi party that gained hold in Ger Many in the 1920s. The Republican party was formed in 1983, and it previous Best Success was a 3 percent share of the votes in 1986 state elections in traditionally conservative Bavaria. Just under 80 percent of West Berlin s voters cast ballots sunday according to television forecasts com pared with 83.6 percent in 1985. West Berlin is a separate state of West German surrounded by East German territory. It was formed from Western zones of Berlin occupied by the Allied forces in world War ii. Cubans from Page 1 mate included deaths and injuries an whether it referred to losses among sol Diers and civilians. Other american officials said privately that the cubans had said the casualty count could have reached 800,000. Cuba s population at the time was 8 Mil lion. Mcnamara said that of the troops stationed in Cuba 40,000 were soviet a number four times higher than . Intelligence estimates at the time. Risquet cited the figures to show his country believed that a . Invasion of his Island was imminent. Mcnamara said no such invasion was Ever contemplated but speaking of the cubans he added if i had been in their shoes would have believed the same  american officials have said that the were never sure whether any soviet nuclear warheads had actually reached Cuba but that they assumed they had. Col. Gen. Dmitri a. To Logonov director of the soviet defense ministry Institute of military history said at the time of the crisis 20 soviet nuclear War Heads were in Cuba. Another 20 War Heads were headed to the Island aboard soviet ship that was kept out by the . Naval blockade he said. To Logonov said he got the figure from military archives. He made the remarks in a closed ses Sion of the conference saturday and they were reported to the associate press on sunday by Raymond Garthoff a state department official at the time of the crisis. Garthoff now a senior fellow at the Brookings institution in Washington said to Logonov reported 20 nuclear missiles were on soviet territory targeted at the United states. The total stockpile of soviet nuclear warheads designed to fire on the unite states at that time was 60, Garthoff quoted to Logonov As saying. Soviet officials previously had been evasive about whether nuclear warheads had reached Cuba Garthoff said. In his memoirs however Khrushchev implied that at the time of the crisis the soviets were ready to deliver a nuclear strike from Cuba. At sunday s news conference the so Viet ambassador to Washington during the crisis Anatoly f. Dobrynin said Heddin t know at the time that soviet War Heads were already on Cuba. To Logonov said the warheads were not ready for firing and Viktor g. Kom Pleat of a Deputy soviet foreign min ister said their presence on Cuba did not mean they would be put on launchers i preparation for a nuclear strike. At no time not before not during the beginning of the crisis or in the most acute moments of the crisis neither fro the soviet command there in Cuba nor in Moscow was there or could there have been an order to mount nuclear warheads on the missiles  reporters. He said not one of the missiles was ready and targeted at the United states