European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday March 20,1989 news briefs egyptian Flag raised after israeli withdrawal Cairo Egypt a president Hosni my Batak called for world peace sunday As he raised the egyptian Flag Over Taba the Border Are from which Israel withdrew four Days earlier. Mubarak was on a european tour when the last israeli police officer left the 250-acre strip of Beach overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba at noon wednesday. In a 20-Minutc ceremony that included a Brief speech Mubarak was Given the Black red and White egyptian Flag which he kissed and then raised. Egyptian ministers members of parliament Public figures and movie stars attended the peace will never be an impossible . It is the Noble which can be reached Mubarak said. Leaders of the superpowers know this and have been moving toward Israel retained control of Taba when it pulled out of the rest of the Sinai area in 1982 under the egyptian israeli peace International arbitration panel awarded Taba to Egypt last september and Egypt and Israel signed agreements in february that included $37 million in compensation for the israeli owner of Taba s main hotel the Sonc Sta. Officials halt excavation at site of collapsed Tower pav1a, Italy up excavation of the rub ble of a collapsed 11 the Century Tower halted Sun Day for fear of further Falls and damage to Adja cent buildings officials said. The decision left the bodies of three victims buried beneath the tons of Stone deposited in the Cen Ter of this Northern italian Industrial City when the Tower abruptly gave Way Friday morning. The body of a found victim was recovered immediately after the collapse of the 800-year-old Structure adjacent to the Duomo or Cathedral. Excavation of the massive pile of Stone had gone on for 45 hours straight when officials or dered the Effort halted at 6 . Sunday. Sighted beneath the wreckage was the body of Giulio Fontana 77, caught in a Barber shop destroyed by the collapse. But the body could not be extricated said they thought the bodies of two Young women were trapped elsewhere in the rub ble. Adriana Uggetti 18, and Barbara Cassani 17, were believed caught while crossing the Square. Palm sunday celebrated by pontiff at St. Peter s Vatican City up tens of thousands of roman Catholic faithful bearing symbolic Green Ery thronged is Peter s Square As Pope John Paul ii celebrated Palm sunday mass and delivered a message of life and spiritual renewal to youth. Under sunny roman skies the pontiff in re vestments trimmed with Gold led a solemn procession of Church officials through the Youthful crowd to an an altar on the Basilica s Steps. Palm sunday the Pope said in his homily is a moment of memory Between the lenten period of preparation for the mysteries of the Pas Sion and the annual re enactment of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The holy week of ceremonies leading up to easter sunday said the pontiff is a path that sums up the entire Christian meaning of life life that is born from election Day violence kills at least 10 in Al Salvador continued from Page 1 the Volcano and fired rockets into the Mountainside. Guerrillas of the Faramundo Marti National liberation front have been fighting for nine years to topple the government in this nation of 5.5 Mil a watchful government Soldier takes cover during the election violence in Al Salvador. Lion people in Central America. Salvadorans went to the polls to elect a president from among seven candidates. Fidel Chavez Mena of the incumbent Christian democratic party and Alfre do Cristiani of the rightist nationalist Republican Alli Ance or Arena led the Field in polls before the voting. But neither was Likely to receive the More than the 50 percent required to avoid a Runoff election next month. President Jose Napoleon Quarto s five year term ends june i. Duarte who is suffering from live cancer is barred by Law from running for re elec Tion. Nineteen towns in the North did not set up voting stations because election officials deemed those rebel held zones too dangerous. Ricardo Perdomo chairman of the Central elections Council said preliminary results would be Avail Able Early monday. But rebel sabotage of Telephone and Power lines was expected to slow the vote count. In san Sebastian 30 Miles East of the capital turn out was Light. The people arc frightened said Wil Liam Doherty a member of a . Observer delegation. There is no question that the intimidation by the guerrillas is dutch television identified the slain dutch camera Man As Cornel Lagraauw with the Ikon dutch Broad casting association. The dutch television report said it had Independent confirmation of his death. Lagraauw was shot and killed As army troops moved to oust guerrillas occupying the Eastern town of Sanfrancisco Javier said Bill Gentile a . Photographer for Newsweek and mexican photographer Arturo Robles. Lagraauw was standing next to guerrillas when he was hit in the Chest by a Bullet fired from an army position As troops moved in to retake the town about 9a.m., the journalists said. Lagraauw was part of a group of six journalists and two Drivers who were in the town. The other dragged him away and fled in two cars coming under repeated fire from a helicopter overhead despite press markings and White flags on the vehicles the journalists said. Two salvadoran journalists also were killed and an other seriously wounded when Security forces fired on their vehicles. The armed forces said the vehicles failed to heed orders to Stop at roadblocks. High seas Force suspension of Hunt for chemical containers lost in storm Cherbourg France a violent winds and heavy seas forced emergency services to suspend their search sunday for containers of insecticide and other chemicals lost in the English Channel from an indonesian ship authorities said. Officials at the Marine prefecture in this port City said winds of up to 30 knots made the search impossible. In London or. Paul Johnston a scientist said a huge area of the English Channel would be polluted and fish wiped out if one of the containers holding six tons of lindane insecticide leaked into the water. It would be an environmental disaster said Johnston a research fellow of the Greenpeace Environ mental organization at London University s Queen Mary College. Police at St. Peter port chief town of Guernsey in the Channel islands said the British ministry of Agri culture alerted police throughout the Island group and British and French police along the Channel shores to watch out for the containers. They said the containers were lost last monday when the 263-ton Printis a former Landing Craft built in Australia in 1945, Sank in a storm 35 Miles Northwest of Guernsey. The 11 indonesian crewmen were rescued by helicopter but one died later in Hospital at Torbay Devon. The vessel was bound for Jakarta from Hamburg. The agriculture ministry said the 40-foot Container of lindane was located on wednesday but lost the next Day by a French naval patrol boat towing it Between the Channel islands and Cherbourg. Plane from Page 1 West Germany using the name Patch and there met an iranian Diplomat who let him work from the iranian embassy. It said he stayed in West Germany until Jan. 6 at least and after being seen three weeks ago driving a car with West German License plates in Lis Bon Portugal he disappeared. Meanwhile a British opposition party Leader said Sun Day that demands for an Independent inquiry into Brit Ain s handling of warnings received before the bombing of pan am flight 103 will grow until the government gives a candid detailed account of its actions. Paddy Ashdown Leader of Britain s centrist social and Liberal democratic party said we cannot afford bag it and bin it policies of British official secrecy on matters of Security which affect every air traveler across the transport Secretary Paul Channon must come clean on ail the circumstances surrounding the and Vance warning Ashdown said in a statement. Unless he comes to the House of commons at the earliest Opportunity next week and is comp Clely candid in every detail the demand for an official inquiry on both sides of the Atlantic will become irresistible he said. The labor party and relatives of those killed when flight 103 exploded have demanded an Independent inquiry Channon said sunday he has told parliament As much As it is in my Power to Tell Channon said he welcomed . Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner s decision to Send lop aides to London and Frankfurt to assess aviation Security. The transport department has confirm red that it pre pared a warning dated dec. 19 that included photo graphs of a bomb disguised in a radio cassette player out did not mail it until after Christmas. Channon has said the letter was of Little importance because similar information had been disseminated a month earlier by the Faa and by West Germany. Two London newspapers the observer and the sunday Telegraph reported sunday that the dec. 19 warning carried several important details that would have helped Security people spot a rigged radio cassette player. The sunday Telegraph quoted Channon As saying yes maybe the Security information contained in the dec. 19 letter should have been sent out by telex. The reason this was not done was because the crucial element of the message consisted of a color photograph of a possible explosive
