European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday april 3,1989 us. Student 11 others found slain by Satcie cult Matamoros Mexico a a satanic cull of drug smugglers who sacrificed and apparently cannibalized humans slaughtered 12 people including a . College student on Spring break authorities say. Five people were arrested in connection with the killings and on drug charges by mexican Federal judicial police which found the dozen bodies in Graves at a ranch just South of the . were resuming their digging wednesday at the Snola Elena ranch searching for two More bodies. It was horrible Cameron count sheriff Alex Perez told a news Confer ence tuesday in the Texas Border City of Brownsville. It was like a human suspects were . And mexican citizens said sheriffs it. George Gavi to. Who did not identify them further. The dead included 21-year-old University of Texas student Mark Kilroy who vanished last month in Matamoros apparently was chosen at ran Dom by drug smugglers who had Hope human sacrifices would protect them from harm Gavito cult had been involved in human sacrifices for about nine months he said and prayed 1o the Devil so the police would not arrest Ihm so bullets kill them and so they could make found candles and kettles full of body parts and animal Bones said Oran neck chief . Customs agent in found were bowls and a caldron from which brains hearts and other or Gans of victims were eaten Perez said. They were cooking body parts m Abig pot there on thai ranch said Texas attorney general j in horns spokesman for the mex ican attorney general s office said he knew nothing about reports of cannibalism. But he added that during the ritual killings victims brains were but Oul an Pul on a fire mixed with blood herbs roosters feet goats Heads and said investigators believe the cull had 10 members the mexican attorney general s office voodoo practising cult s Leader a cuban american is believed to have lied to the United states. He is known As the godfather to the sect s members officials bodies were found tuesday morn ing in a Field about 20 Miles West offal Amoros Gavito said Kilroy a premedical student vanished from a crowded Matamoros Street shortly after 2 . On March 14 while drinking with a group of friends in the City of180,000 just across the Rio Gran de from Brownsville. The 3-foot-Dccp grave containing his body was found after Federal police alerted . Officials Early tuesday lha they had obtained confessions from the suspects officials said. Mark Lroy terrorist attacks on americans increasing by the bake store Sun Washington the stale department in its an Nual Survey sported tuesday that the number of terrorist incidents worldwide reached an All time High in 1988,with americans increasingly the targets of attack. Stale department officials also said that . Embassies had been directed la take special Security pre cautions against the possibility of terrorist action Onich anniversary this week of the punitive april 14, 1986, . Air raid on Libya. Officials said they had of it specific threat against any . Installations but noted that in mid april last year attacks on installations in Italy Spain Colombia Peru and Costa Rica were attributed 10 retaliation for the raid. The state department report patterns of global terrorism 19hs," said there were 855 the Transl incidents last year that killed 658 people and injured 1,131. Comparable 1987 figures were 831 incidents then a record number killing 633 people and injuring 2,272included in the 198s terrorism statistics were the 270 victim of the explosion aboard pan am flight 03on dec. 21 Over Lockerbie Scotland. Of those 189 were americans. The number of . Incidents increased in All regions rising from 149 in 1987 to 185 resulting in192 people killed and 40 wounded. In 1987, seven americans were killed and 47 wounded the report said. The 1988 toll included the 189 Lockerbie dead. The heaviest concentration of anti american in latin America which accounted for 60 percent of such incidents it said. The Middle East was still the Region with the highest frequency of terrorism Overall although the number re corded there dropped from37l in 1987 to 313last year. Asia ranked second almost entirely because of the High number of incidents inside Pakistan for which the afghan secret service the khad is blamed. Of the 194terrorist incidents in Asia last year nearly 120 were attributed to the khad. The previous year there were170 incidents in asia.-.-. V in Europe there were slightly fewer incidents150,Down from 152 but in latin America there was a significant Rise from 108 in 1987 to 146 last Afghanistan Iran and Libya were the most Active slate sponsors of International terrorism m 1988, just As they were the previous year the report continued its terrorist Campaign against Pakistan with 118 bombings Iran backed 32lerroriit incidents most of them against moderate per Sian Gulf states and libyan supported groups were prime suspects in six attacks the report said. Gorbachev Speaks out against strife in Republic Moscow a president Mikhail. Gorbachev appealed wednesday for Calm in soviet Georgia but rejected local nationalists demands and blamed them for igniting lethal strife thai he said had damaged his drive for Reform. The interests of he working people have nothing in common with attempts to sever the existing tics of Friendship and cooperation among our Peoples to dismantle the socialist system in the re Public and push it into the Slough of eth Nic Emily . They were the soviet Leader s first direct Public remarks on the unrest since at least 19 people were killed sunday in clash Between pro Independence activists and Security forces. The official Tass news Agency carried excerpts of Gorbachev s remarks. It said his Appeal was published in Tbilisi the georgian capital and the site of sunday s clash. The summary of Gorbachev s remarks blamed actions by irresponsible per sons for the loss of life apparently cd on craving soldiers and police from any official blame. Zurav Shankar Shvili a Tbilisi Resi Dent and member of the georgian human rights organization Helsinki watch called Gorbachev s Appeal very dry and expressed doubts whether it could Case tension. All kinds of words if not backed up by acts Are just empty demagoguery Shankar Shvili said by Telephone. For eign reporters have been barred from Georgia. Gorbachev also made n personal a peal for Calm in february 1988 after eth Nic strife erupted in the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. His Call Only momentarily stemmed bloodshed i those republics where More than 90 peo ple were killed last year. Meanwhile in Tbilisi strikes continued and funerals were planned for those killed. Foreign ministry spokesman gcnnady1, Gerasimov said in Moscow on wednesday that georgian communist party Leader dih umber Batiashvili had asked to be relieved of his duties at meeting tuesday night Over widespread criticism from Oiher georgian party will decide his Fate Gerasimov said. The spokesman also civilian death toll had risen to,19.with a girl1death tuesday but the evening govern ment newspaper Izvestia put toe toll at20, including two Hospital deaths. Eastern from Page 1 concorde ffbmpaga1 investigated and that the plane be allowed to Fly unless it is absolutely australian associated press con Corde was about 15 years old and apparently had never experienced any problems. Concorde built by a French British consortium have been involved in sever Al minor incidents but there have been no major accidents. In London a British airways spokeswoman airline was Send ing spare parts to Australia to repair the plane which is to travel to Perth. Austra Lia on Friday As scheduled and then to Africa before returning to London. An other spokesman Tail sections of other concorde were being checked. The concorde had been trying to break the Speed record on All stops Mak ing about 12 in All. The planned three week journey include stops in Colombo sri Lanka and Mombasa Kenya. I m. Glad thai it was a plane that could manage without that much superfluous Tail Buckley said if we had nose dived. Into the Tasman sea there would have been a considerable reaction. But one simply As Sumes that nothing fatal has happened if indeed there is no confirmation or an visible invalidation of the ship s perform Sheila Cole Nilva a free Lance journalist telephoned the associated press with the following account about 25 minutes after Takeoff from new zealand there was a Large thump. Ii was like a vibration. Nothing was said about the thump but everybody looked at everybody else and lunch was stewardesses looked terrified the Pilot came on and said there was nothing to worry about and thai there was a piece Loose on the air plane. We descended very quickly. There was no conversation and Ihen the shuddering stopped during the trip Buckley planned to broadcast his television show firing line from Sydney and Cape town South Africa. " Ball commissioner said As he refused to comment. Judge Burton r. Lifland who is pre siding Over the bankruptcy Case ordered the parties to return to his chamber wednesday morning. Asked about the deadline Lifland said it s not my deadline. There was an earlier deadline for certain things that 1 said and twas met he declined to elaborate the walkout in the buyout negotiations came after s session involving Lorenzo bakes Ueberroth and his partner a. Thomas Talbot it capped a tense Day of meetings i which Eastern s three unions and ill creditors also took pan. For the Deal to work All the parties Nad to agree. Unless you have All of these constituencies you Don t have asian Boies said
