European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page he stars and stripes sunday april 16,1989 denies his group bombed flight 1 03 Fram wire reports new York Ahmed Jabril Leader Ofa group Supic did of bombing pan a flight 103, denies that his organization staged the attack that killed 270 people in december. \ Jabril acknowledged however that his group routinely us Dithe same kind of bomb investigators a was used to blow up the pan am jumbo Jev a local of 259 people on Pic plane and 11 people on the ground a Ltd when the bomb blew the aircraft out Aline skies Over Lockerbie Scotland on do 21. In an interview Friday Jabril Sud his first Hafez Only built and used the Type of clip Sivc device that downed the Airliner. Oal Kamoni is in jail in West Germany after a police raid in october netted weapons and three bombs. Jabril insisted that his group the Syri an sponsored popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command news briefs Bush won t visit Lockerbie Washington a one Day after the idea surfaced the White House said Friday hut president Bosh will not risk Lockerbie Scotland where a pan am jumbo dec. 21 after being blown apart by a bomb. Admont stouton officials Aid thurs Day that Bush would hit Lockerbie id thank he people Here for pitching in on the search and recovery Effort for the victims. But White House press Secretary mar Friday that to was decided Bush would not to. It was an idea. We count work it in Hesnia. The Stop had been planned for Early june when Bush was on the Way Bac from a nato Summit in bus cos. Belgium and visits to Italy England and West be Al the attack killed 259 people on of jetliner and 11 on the ground. Did not bomb the Airliner. Jabril also denied that his group re civics Money from Iran but said Iran s outrage at How the United stilts accidentally shot Down an Iran civil Issaias Sengpr plane. I Steinow that the incident of the pan ant is neither worse nor a Glia than the destruction of the Ranian Lupus Jabril told Abc news. Both Tiff them arc crimes against by the administration or by terrorist groups who May have blown tip the pan am. They arc Squall despite Jarl is denials investigators suspect that nil group planted the bomb on an unwitting 1 an am passenger at the Behest of 11. In we of Germany however prosecutors Saufl hat they have no evidence to substantiate reports thai a lebanese am Pran passenger inadvertently Cheked in the bomb aboard the flight Alexander Prechtel spokesman Tor the Federal prosecutor s office said the sus / ported passenger Khalid Jaafar checked two Small soft bags into he plane s cargo hold and not a hard suitcase. Prechtel said British investigators had previously indicated a hard suitcase was used to carry the bomb. Reports last week by lbs news and the new York times citing american officials said that Jaafar had been tentatively identified As the unwitting Carrier of the bomb which is believed to have been concealed in a portable radio Cas Sette recorder with a Detonator designed to go off at Altitude. 1 6th round of base talks in Greece enc in stalemate Athens Greece a a 16th round of talks on the future of bases in Greece ended Friday without making any Progress a govern ment spokesman said. T. The talks on a new defense and economic cooperation agreement which began monday stumbled on Greece s insistence that the United states help Athens solve differences with neighbouring Turkey spokesman Sotiris Koslop Ofilos said. . Negotiators said they Don t want regional disputes wound into the bilateral talks. Greece and Turkey have Long standing quarrels Over seabed Mineral sights military control of the Aegean sea and the War divided Mediterranean Island of Cyprus -. Another Issue Doudin tithe talks is Greece s reluctance to extradite a suspected palestinian terrorist Mohammed by the United Stales for the 1 982 bombing of a pan am jumbo Jet Kostopoulos said. Time blast killed a japanese teen Ager and injured 15 Qaher passengers. The five year base agreement expired Pec. 20. Under the Accord the u to leave Ifa new agree me the next round of to Early next month. A rocks bottles tossed at soviet so jailers in Tbilisi Moscow apr soldiers patrolling the Sovi it georgian capital where 19 pro Independence protesters were killed pril 9 were pelted with rocks and bottles news reports said saturday the communist party daily pravda and the de sense ministry newspaper red Star reported that Tbilisi was Calm during the Day but that tension still Rose nightly As the w . Curfew approached. However pravda suggested that the 1 1 .-6 . Curfew could end soon. The reports came Filer the Southern Republic s communist party and government leaders were replaced after the la people were killed by red states has 1 7 months t is not is scheduled to begin. Army troops trying disperse nationalist proles i sunday it is nobody and nothing can justify the deaths of j absolutely innocent people. Foreign minister Eduard Ai Shevardnadze an ethnic georgian said in a speech it tray to Georgia s party ple num which made Trie leadership a saturday Moling in Moscow a group of prominent Inelie Casals including human rights activist Andrei d. Sakharov blamed the clash in Tbilisi on Moscoff bureaucrats who imposed stronger Security measures last year. Decrees approved at the end of july require Advance permission for meetings and demonstrations and give i special Force attached to the Interior Power for keeping order at officials Are conducting an investigation to Security forces who broke up the demonstration in Tbilisi killed peo ple by beating them with shovels they had been issued to dig trenches. Lydns Ger is tides Trade fire Ming 2 wounding 24ih Beirut Beirut Obanon a a 72ear-old Christian parliamentarian was one of two Killroy and 24 wounded saturday a harm rocket hit his altar them building in East Beirut dui Fate shelling Duel Between syrian and Christian gunners Nolice also on saturdafltl4 scrip Fly wounded christians were ferried to a French Navy Hospital ship Mission got under duels intensified of both sides blasted i heavy artillery and off Beirut As a French in Way. Police said intermit the before Sundown As Gud Beirut and its Surro Uii rockets. 4 the latest casualties raised thai Overall toll to 217 dead and 751 to Saaed in the civil a that erupted March 8 Between Cen. Michel aoun\2p,000 mostly Christian troops and an Alliance of syn a and druse forces. & an italian taper the Cochinella with cargo of disc Oil was hit by a Shell eight Miles off the Beirut port at 9 30 ., an italian embassy official said. Italian charge d affair i a lilo Zannucci said the lop deck was damaged but none of the 14 italian Crew men was Hurt. He said the ship which was heading for the Christian port of Rounich had turned and was heading for Cyprus. A it was the second italian ship struck by Shell arc in the past week. The Tanker Isola Azzurro carrying sul uric acid was hit Ott Beirut on thursday a police spokesman said the parliamentarian Louis Abu Sharaf was killed when a rocket hit an apartment building opposite his Complex damaging both build Ings. current violence erupted after Aoun ordered a blockade of militia run ports along the lebanese coast preventing the state Treasury from collecting about $ 100 million a year in customs dues. Soccer from Pagol 54.000j"jut reports said hundreds More Liverpool fans Wanh does poured through a turnstile Gale behind one goals packing an area marked off for the team s hers and crushing those at the front of the stand. F Gate or Gates were opened or broken and fans a said the football association s chief exec us Agraham Kelly. There were too Many fans invite area obviously and they spilled Over. There will be a full investigation. A it looks a desperate situation Kelly said. I am1 re Coply sorry that the Day has ended this Way. We had join minutes of football and on and a half hours of bed f one fan told the bbl people just walked in that Gate and Llic police just Lei them walk in. There Are people lying dead there on the floor twas chock Block and As people tried to get into the front the police tried to Force them Back into the game was cancelled. On Jan. 2, 1971, 66 people died when an Over crowded stairway collapsed during a scottish local soc cer match Between the Glasgow rangers and the Glas Gow six fans died on May 11, 1985, when a fire engulfed the main stand during a match at Bradford City s soccer stadium in Northern England. The worst soccer disaster on record took place on Day 24, 1964, when rioting left nearly 300 dead and 100 injured after Argentina beat Peru on a last minute go in prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Home Secretary Douglas Hurd have asked for a full rep Orion the prime minister said she s disbelief at the , chairman of he Nottingham for est team Clied for the proceeds from the match to be Given to bereaved is ilk Saddest Day football has Ever witnessed he sask it is going to Lake a Long time for football to recon cd he said the on Lomg in saturday s tragedy hat offered Consolati Ontas that once the spectators were made aware of what was happening supporters showed great dignity a time of great or. Glyn Phillips said Taplico allowed fans to fill the Middle Terrace of the list crammed in like sardines. The emergency Fradli tics the Field were inadequate he said one oxygen Ink Given to him to help resuscitate a Man was empty. Stuart Mccagh who fled from the Liverpool area said it seemed As if it was four deep in dead bodies with people climbing Over Oil from Page 1 300 Miles from the Accident Oil that spread to the other Side of the Kodiak archipelago had threatened the katmai Park. A 40 Square mile Patch of heavy Oil and Sheen spilled into the Shelikoff Strait. Scientists on saturday were assembling a list of critical and non critical beaches for cleanup. Yost said High pressure hot water jets would be used to cleanse at least some of the Shore although the method Likely would leave behind sterile dead it s my View that we d do better with High pressure and heat and doing some environmental damage he said. The beaches will re colonic in a year or two. They won t if the Oil is not removed
