European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday. March 211989 news briefs 2 gunmen storm House in Belfast kill father of 13 Belfast Northern Ireland a gun men stormed a House in North Belfast and killed a father of 13 As he and his wife were saying their prayers. Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King said Security forces will take every possible step to find the killers and combat the wave of tit for Tat sectarian murders in he province. To the latest slaying neighbors said two gun men entered a House if the City s Ardoyne area sunday night and shot David Braniff 63. They said Barnitt. A convert o roman catholicism died with his Rosary in his hands. His was the third in a series of retaliatory killings Over the past four Days Between protes Tants and catholics in Belfast. S. Korean Leader delays referendum on his tenure Tokyo not warning of a repetition of confusion and South korean presi Dent Roh Tae woo monday said he was indefinitely postponing a Long awaited referendum on his first year in office. In a televised speech Roh the elected president in South Korea in nearly two decades conceded that by postponing the Vole he was backing away from a key Promise in his Campaign but he said divisions of opinion in both the ruling and opposition parties and Jhai Prospect of strikes and protests made holding the vote unwise. The midterm evaluation was my Promise to the people Roh said Bui looking at what is happening even before the referendum is announced 1 Sec the repetition of the confusion and violence that we already witnessed in our last presidential election. I have decided he added that it is not beneficial to the interest of the people and to Korea s future to hold the referendum at this he did not specify when or if the vote would be held. Offshore Oil Rig Burns after blasts injure 10 new Orleans a an offshore Oil drilling platform burned Early monday after explosions on it and an adjacent Rig injured at least 10 Crew members and left seven missing the coast guard said. A helicopter and More than a dozen boats searched the Gulf of Mexico for the missing men. About 30 people were rescued from the burning rigs and surrounding water according to the coast guard and the Atlantic Richfield co. Flames on he second Rig connected to the burning one by a catwalk were extinguished a few hours after they started sunday evening coast guard chief Mike Roblin said. The rigs were a an area just off the Southeast lip of Louisiana and near the Mouth of the Mississippi River about 70 mites from new or leans known As the Arco South pass Block 60, company spokesman Earl Sims said in Dallas five of the missing men work for Atlantic Richfield which operated the rigs and two Are contractors Sims said police stage crackdown on absenteeism in Rome Rome up some 200 police officers staged a Surprise swoop on various government ministries monday to Cheek on reports of ram Pant absenteeism by ministry employees. Police sources said ministries involved in the crackdown included those of cultural property education health Treasury finance and the Inte rior. The police involved in the swoop were mainly Carabiniero paramilitary National police but in the Case of the Interior and finance ministries Ordinary police and finance police were used. In the ministry offices the police seized re cords of absence from work for whatever reason and records of checks made by those in charge of the civil servants to verify the reasons for absence. . Experts studied bomb like one that later blasted Jet Bonn West Germany a West German authorities showed British experts a bomb disguised As Aradio cassette player five weeks be fore an identical device blew up pan am flight 103 and killed 270 people it was disclosed by a West German official monday. The statement by Interior ministry spokesman Roland Bachmeier came amid criticism that British authorities knew such a bombing was possible but failed to warn airlines before the dec. 21 disaster. British authorities acknowledged sunday hat a warning about such a disguised bomb was not mailed to airlines until after the tragedy. Also on monday Wesl German authorities denied a report by London s sunday express that said a libyan terrorism Mastermind known As the pro Fessor was believed to have plotted the tragedy yacht nicer said British authorities attended a briefing by the West Ger Man Federal crime Bureau on nov. I at which an explosive device hid Den in a radio cassette player was demonstrated. The radio cassette player contained plastic explosive and a timing device that authorities have said arc similar to those used in the bomb that destroyed the Boeing 747 Over Lockerbie Scotland. The warnings were based on a briefing from West German police who on oct. 27 raided suspected members of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command and conf is caled a Toshiba Bobcat 453 radio cassette player packed with explosives and set to detonate while a plane was in right. They were in Possession of All the information Bache Cir said adding that the British Security experts took photographs and made detailed notes on the disguised bomb. Weeks before the flight 103 explosion. West German police showed British authorities this radio cassette recorder containing a bomb. Bach Meierand Alexander i Rcch Lel a spokesman for the West German Federal prosecutor s office denied that authorities had identified the perpetrator. The sunday express report quoted unidentified West German detectives As saying thai authorities be Lieve the bombing was plotted l y the professor nicknamed by International Security agencies. The weekly said lebanese student Khalid Jaafar 20, of Dearborn mich., who was killed in the crash prob ably unwillingly carried inc bomb on Board hidden in a radio cassette player the libyan terrorist had Given him. He was killed in the crash. Nazir who has denied those reports. The flight originated in Frankfurt then changed planes in London for a flight to new York. Copter from Page 1 Farmer who saw the crash As saying two helicopters were hovering about 250 feet above the ground when one suddenly turned upside Down and plunged into u Creek Abdul 10 Soldier leaped out of the helicopter As it hit the ground the report said. Investigators were sent to the crash site to try to determine what happened but no Quick results were expected the Marine spokesman said it was the second fatal crash involving a Marine Heli copter in South Korea in four Days. All four marines aboard a ciw6 helicopter were killed Friday when their Craft crashed in a Rice Paddy on the East coast. Marine investigators Are still trying to determine the cause of that crash both helicopters were taking part in annual team spirit exercises involving about 200,000 South korean and . Troops. The exercises practice bringing in reinforcements in the event of a communist North korean attack. Both aircraft were operating temporarily from the Belleau Wood n Marine amphibious assault ship located off the South korean coast during the joint a Nevers which began tuesday. Marine officials withheld the identity of the victims in monday s crash pending notification of relatives. Some of inc injured were taken to the Belleau Wood and others were evacuated 19 a . Hospital in Seoul. The helicopter itself was assigned to the 1st Marine air Wing based at futenma Marine corps air station in Okinawa Japan the officials said. The helicopter involved in the crash Friday was As signed to the 13lh Marine expeditionary unit also based at Camp Pond Eton. The United slates has about 43,000 troops based in South Korea under a Mutual defense treaty. 2nd Azacs leaves saudi Arabia Washington a the United states has withdrawn a second Azacs radar surveillance plane from saudi Arabia thanks to the cease fire in the Iran Iraq War the defense department said monday. The withdrawal of the huge Early warning plane ear Lier this month leaves two other such aircraft still in saudi Arabia. The saudis have purchased five of the. Planes but the United Stales deployed additional air borne warning and control system planes during inc height of fighting in the persian Gulf two years ago. The . Planes in cooperation with the saudi air Craft Lew continuous surveillance missions Over the Gulf White . Navy ships were escorting Oil tankers. The Iran Iraq cease fire began last August and White Little Progress has been made on a peace treaty both sides continue to jeep act the truce As a result the United states also has begun withdrawing some of its naval Force in the Region units from Page 1 percent of he housing waiting list Grossman said. Single airmen also May be caught up in the hous ing crunch temporarily because a Lack of dormitory space May Force three residents to share a room instead of two. Thai crowding should ease in Early summer officials said when a new dormitory will be ready for occupancy. In addition the base s Only movie theater closed its doors March s for five months of renovation. After the move 79 military personnel four . Civilians and 24 local employees will remain at prism Grossmar said. He noted that or film located about 25 Miles Northwest of Tilburg is not scheduled to close. I
