European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday May 23,1989 India joins exclusive club by testing ballistic missile new Delhi. India a India crossed the threshold of ballistic missile capability monday by successfully test firing its first medium Range surface to surface missile into the Bay of Bengal news reports said. The missile was fired from the Seaside launch site at Chandi Pur about 750 Miles Southeast of new Delhi United news of India said. The 7.5-Lon missile has a Range capability of about 1,500 Miles sufficient to hit targets As far away As Iran. Hong Kong. China and islands near the Equator to the South. Western military officials said. It can also hit any target in neighbouring Pakistan. India and Pakistan have fought three wars in the past 42 years. Defense experts say the missile s one ton payload capability is More than enough to carry a nuclear War head. The test was India s third attempt at launching the Agni missile whose name Means fire in the ancient sanskrit language. The first firing scheduled for april 20, was postponed by last minute problems with the ignition sys tem. A second launch set for May i was cancelled after an error in one of the rocket s subsystems. By successfully firing the missile India joined the United Stales the soviet Union China France and Britain in ballistic missile capability. The United news of India said 11,000 people living in 13 villages near the launch site were evacuated from their Homes sunday evening As u Security measure. The villagers have protested the test firing for fear the government would Force them to relocate permanently if More launches Are held at Chandi Pur. Britain India s colonial ruler first used the site in 1893 to test ammunition. The indians turned it into a missile test Range in 1986 because of an unusual Fea Ture it faces the Bay of Bengal and. During Low tide the sea recedes up to two Miles enabling faster and easier recovery of shells and other Short Range projectiles. The Bay also has Light commercial and naval traffic. India has said it intends to use its nuclear capacity Only for peaceful purposes. Western military experts in new Delhi questioned the stance from a military standpoint though. You need accuracy or a Point target if you Are using a conventional warhead said a Western analyst speaking on condition of anonymity. But if you arc using a nuclear warhead the exact target docs not matter he said. I am not saying that the indians arc going to use a nuclear warhead but the question is Why  India exploded a nuclear device 15 years ago. And Western nuclear experts believe that scientists can As semble a nuclear weapon in one week. India says its nuclear program is intended for non military purposes such As generating Power. The test firing of the intermediate Range ballistic missile or Irby was Only a technology demonstration of the country s capabilities according to the government. India previously test fired three surface to surface and surface to air missiles with ranges of about 20 Miles to 150 Miles. S. Korean stud end demons Rafors Chan drive out the Yankees a South korean police officer tries to Stop students from burning a . Flag during protest in Seoul. Seoul South Korea a Radical students held Campus protests and burned . Flags monday to de Mand the expulsion of american troops from South Korea and protesters armed with Iron bars attacked police Headquarters. Radical student groups organized protests at 23 campuses around the nation launching a week of anti american protests to demand an end to South Korea s Alliance with the United states. Students burned . Flags in Seoul and put up posters denouncing the United slates. Drive out the Yankees students chanted at the peaceful protests. Turnout was Small with just a few Hundred students taking part at several campuses in  arrested 18 students armed with Iron bars and firebombs who briefly occupied an office at National police Headquarters in Seoul officials said. The students smashed windows and tossed leaflets from the second Story office but did not use the weapons they said. Disband the torture and murder machine Stu dents chanted before being overpowered by riot police. Security was stepped up at . Diplomatic and Mil itary facilities with riot police standing guard. Nine busloads of riot police guarded the . Embassy in the Center of  groups called for a week of protests in Seoul and other cities to demand the withdrawal of the 43,000 . Troops based in South Korea under a Mutual defense treaty. Radical leaders claim the United states helps prop up authoritarian Rule in South Korea. World today English couple killed while on Crete Holiday rcth1mnon, Crete a a Youngen Glish couple vacationing on this Aegean resort Island were struck and killed Early sunday morn ing by a car driven by a dutch tourist As they walked across the Highway police said. A police spokesman identified them As Martin Phillips 23, and his wife Julie 24,, the spokesman said the car that hit them was driven by Augustinos a cranes of the Netherlands. The spokesman said the two britons had got off a bus on the Xania Iraklion Highway and were Cross ing the Street to their hotel when they were hit. Police arrested bar ends but released him pending a preliminary inquest. Hospital elevator Falls 8 floors kills 7 people Hospitalet de Llobregat Spain a an elevator fell from the eighth floor of a Hospital in this catalonian town killing seven people a Hospital spokesman said. The spokesman at the Bill Vitic Hospital franc Csc Moreau said the elevator crashed to the basement of the Hospital. He said All seven passengers who were visit ing patients were killed in the Accident. Miners demonstrate to keep belgian pits open Brussels Belgium a about 2,500 miners from Belgium s last two Coal pits demonstrated in Brussels monday protesting proposed plans to close the mines ahead of schedule and calling for Coal production beyond 1996. The peaceful March contrasted sharply with last month s demonstration in the northeastern mining Region of Limburg when police had to shoot in the air to keep the miners at Bay and to limit the injuries among policemen to 28. The management of the Coal mines wants the pits closed Well before the scheduled Date of 1996, arguing that the govern mint subsidies to keep the pits going can be belter used to create reconversion industries. Soviet Magazine certain of Anastasia execution Moscow Dpi Czar Nicholas ii carried his Haemophilia a son the czarevich in his arms to the basement room of execution in a siberian merchant s House in which the entire Royal family including Princess Anastasia was shot dead the Ogonik Magazine said sunday. This should put an end to All stories of a miraculous escape by Anastasia who supposedly got away said the Ogonik article based on what it called a secret file removed in 1940 but recently found in the Central archives of the october revolution. The detailed five Page article with pictures in the country s most popular weekly Magazine re counted a blood splattered scene of horror in which 12 Check isl secret police executioners shot the Czar s entire family to death in the abandoned Ipa Tayco merchant s Home in a Kathrinen Burg the night of july 16, j918. Pan am bomb suspect a Bonn agent Magazine says Hamburg West Germany a a Magazine monday said a bomb maker for a Radical palestinian group suspected in the bombing of pan am flight 103 was arrested in october but was released because he works for West German intelligence. The Hamburg based Stern Magazine said the Man was arrested during police raids on terrorist hideouts in West Ger Many. The Man identified by Stern As Jor Danian born Marwan Khz Cusat is believed to be a bomb maker for the pop ular front for the liberation of Palestine general command Stern said. Khz rectal 44, was released 15 Days after his arrest because he is an agent for the West German intelligence serv ice Stern said. The Magazine said its report was based on information provided by two High ranking Security officials whom it did not identify. A spokesman for the intelligence Agency and denied the Stern report. He has never been an agent for and and he is not one now said the spokesman who requested anonymity. He declined to discuss other aspects of the report. Stern said Khz Cesar was responsible for making radio bombs for attacks on planes for the terrorist group. The syrian based group has been mentioned in British . And West German news reports As a prime suspect in the bombing of flight 103 Over Scotland on dec. 21. The new York bound plane exploded Over Lockerbie killing All 259 people on Board and 11 people on the ground. Stern said Khz rectal was among 16 suspected palestinian  rested in West Germany in october. Police Sei cd Large quantities of weapons and explosives in the raids including a bomb rigged radio cassette re Corder. A similar device is believed by Brit ish investigators to have caused the pan am explosion. Despite the suspicions surrounding the terrorist organization West Ger Man officials say they have no Evi Dence linking the people arrested in West Germany to the pan am bomb ing. Only two of the group arrested in october remain in custody. One of them is Hafez Kassem dal Kamoni believed 10 be a High ranking official. Stern said is report is to appear in wednesday s editions of the Magazine. The publication released the report in Advance