European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday March 3,19b9 car bomb kills 2 in Beirut injures 21 near american Hospital site Beirut Lebanon apr a bomb hidden in a car exploded during 1 he tuesday morning Ruth hour car Lac american University s Hospital in moslem West Beirut killing two women and wounding 21 other people police said. Druse warlord Wai id Jumblatt blamed the bomb on Gen. Michel Aoun s Christian Cabinet the fourth ear bomb in Lebanon this year was placed in a yellow Fiat that exploded in from of a fruit and vegetable stall off the main Hamra commercial thoroughfare a woman mane vering id Park her car near 1 he yellow Fiat was killed when the bomb went off a police spokesman said the blast threw her body from the ear. He said the second woman a passer by suffered serious head wounds and died later in the Hospital.,. The bomb triggered fires in nine cars parked near the stall and shattered windows in sur rounding buildings. Firemen with water hoses try to extinguish blues thai broke out in cars parked near the Cpl Mann site. Tight listed Thatcher blamed for rail woes London a opposition Law makers charged thai prime minister Margaret Thatcher s government is Noi spending enough on Britain s stale run railways after the system s third Faial train crash in three months forty two people have been killed in the three crashes  of which occurred monday near. Glasgow and claimed the lives of. Two. Passengers. Forty four iwo ple were Hurt when he two commuter trains collided. Transport Secretary Paul Channon later acknowledged passenger fears of rave Lingon the i Riligh rail network. Behave  a Lay thai concern among the Public about rail safely and remove thai concern Channon said in parliament on saturday five people died and 94 were injured when two passenger trains crashed near Purley station on London s Southern outskirts. Thirty five were killed and More than 100 injured dec. 12 in a crash involving three passenger trains at Clapham Junction near London. John. Prescott transport spokesman for the opposition labor f arly monday called for an inquiry into safety to ensure thai standards Are not being com promised in order to meet financial tar  Are too Light and  speaking in the House of commons Prescott quoted a former British rail safety official Stanley Hall As saying safety is being compromised Beca we Thatcher s conservative government is  pc Scott said the government Grant to he rail system had Beim Cut by 35 per cent in five years a decrease of More than s3,4 billion. Channon accused pc sch of trying to score political Points. He said govern ment investment in British rail was run Ning Al historically incredibly High lev  it stands Ai $963 million this year and will Rise to an average of s1.29 Bil lion a year Over the next four years he said. Jimmy Knapp general Secretary of the National Union of , the 117,000-Mcniher Irain engineers Union said government cuts have impaired safely. The Liberal London newspaper the guardian in an editorial on the three crashes wrote this is Bufi Ormine an Epi Demic. No one wants Money spent foolishly. Bill if is a Clynice Between a Safe or a More profitable railway there is not much doubt which Way the Public would  the Independent times of London in a headline spoke of safety  the conservative  daily mail spoke  growing Erin is of Confidence among passengers. Long May it wave hindu us Volc Mala Jam Amlin 74, is almost sur Lundi a by her 21-finl-Lonk hair which she says is never of Titch a by scissors. Jira Damba to runs a religious Retreat in Ijain India says she Hope to be entered in the guinness Book of world records. The Lanti to known hair. Guinness sums. Belonged to an Indian Numi a How a tests measured 26 feet in 194% Margaret Papandreou says she May Start political party Athens Greece a Margaret Papandreou the estranged american born wife of embattled. Greek Premier an Dreas Papandreou has reportedly said she docs not Rule out transforming her grass roots feminist organization into a women s political party. She made the statement Sun Day to a local radio station in Northern Greece and it was published monday s papers. If in the future it becomes Clear that  s Union of Greece Ege cannot be expressed by the political system in Force whatever that May be then we May have to review our feminist policy we May Well go ahead with the creation of a party the 64-year-old said. She has headed the 20,000 Strong left Wing women s Union since 1986 in the past she has denied a pods that she plans to transform the organization into a full scale women s political party to con test National elections due in Jifric-l989. The party will support women but feminist men will also be most Welcome to join she was quoted As saving in the radio interview Al the last elections in 1985, the Union was credited with substantially boost. Margaret Papandreou ing the Oli for her Hus band s ruling panhellenic socialist movement Pasok. Asked whether she would Grant her husband a divorce Papandreou said she still wants to meet with him face to. Face 10 discuss the subject. " i won t accept any pres. Sure from people or Newman cars to hurry up the divorce procedure nor will i be blackmailed. 1 was the first one to Witik for the divorce and 1 know exactly How to handle the matter she said. She added Ihal the divorce procedure has gone More slowly than she wants because of her husband s ill Ness. The Premier 70, who has been conducting an open Romance with n 34-Jcar-old flight attendant underwent triple Bop Ais surgery in Lon Don last f Chi Ber. His wife is the former Margaret chant of Elmhurst 111, she married Papandreou in 1951 when he Wasim economics pro fuss for at the University of Minnesota. Both had been married before. They have four grown children and two grandchildren