European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside strikes d Pope issues Appeal for Lebanon cease fire Page 2 n Navy cargo ship at Center of storm Page 5 d More women use drugs Federal study shows Page 7 d red sox beat Brewers As streaks end Page 21 the St to pipes authorized unofficial publication Fob the of Ahmed forces Good morning vol. 48. No. 126 monday. August 21, 1989 r,., d 8693 a thames Barge rams boat at least 29 die toll May Rise London a a Barge rammed into a pleasure boat sliced it in half and Sank it in the River thames Early Sun Day killing at least 29 people police said. The Barge s Captain and second mate were reported arrested. The search for bodies continued and the detective heading the inquiry said the toll could be As High As 60. An ambulance service duly officer who requested anonymity said the first four victims three women and a Man in their 20s, were recovered and taken to makeshift mortuary at a nearby police station. Rescuers had pulled 29 bodies from the wreckage by evening police said. Ken Dwan owner of the marchioness company said the collision Between the 80-ton marchioness and a Dredger which was 18 times heavier was like a Lank rolling Over a mini a Small car the huge thames harrier built across the River near its Mouth to control sea Sonal hooding was lowered to hold Back the tide and Case lev treacherous conditions under which rescuers worked. The five other Crew members of the Bowbells a Sand and gravel dredging Barge were being questioned As wit Nesses to the collision with the double Decker pleasure boat which had been chartered for a birthday party. Scotland Yard said. The arrests were made on the 1.475 ton Dredger  was moored about four Miles cast of the Accident scene police said. Earlier. Scotland Yard officials said a woman s body was recovered near Hammersmith Bridge eight Miles upstream from the  said 87 people survived but it was unclear How Many people had boarded the luxury River boat for its 1 . To 6 . Cruise on a Clear warm  Yard said the boat licensed for 149 passengers and two Crew was carrying 120 people but later said it continued on Back Page moslem captors Fth deafen hostages Over French act on Beirut Dpi the group holding two american hostages threatened Sun Day to harm their captives in retaliation for any French military action to Back lebanese christians against syrian backed moslem forces. The revolutionary Justice Organiza Tion believed to be an offshoot of the iranian backed Hezbollah made the threat in a statement authenticated by anew Black and White close up photo graph of . Hostage Edward a. Tracy. The group charged that the United slates was implicitly backing the deploy Mcnol of French warships off the Leb anese coast Loback the can sans in their conflict against syrian backed mos Lem groups. The French aircraft Carrier Foch left the Southern French port of Toulon on saturday bound for the lebanese coast. France said it was sending the ship to reinforce the French presence in the Are and to give any assistance that is asked for As Well to protect the French Community in Lebanon. There has been mounting speculation in Beirut that the French Navy might try to break a syrian blockade of lebanese Christian ports. On Friday however French ambassador to Lebanon Rene Ala insisted that French forces would not undertake any military action. America which masterminds French actions should Bear in mind that an stupid action by the French Fleet will endanger the lives of the captives these Alcmene from the revolutionary jus Tice organization said. " i his Factor the see threat on Back Page thousands of poles cheer Mazowiecki Gdansk Poland a More than 10,000 people cheered Premier designate Tadusz Mazowiecki when he came to Solidarity s Birthplace sunday to meet with Lech Walesa and other Union Lead ers and plan Poland s first non communist government in 45 years. Mazowiecki was applauded by the crowd at St. Brygida Church near the Lenin shipyard where the Independent Union began in 1980 As he drove him so land an associate from Warsaw to the meeting in a red compact car. After attending a mass in the packed overheated Church one Man fainted virtually at the nominated Premier s fee Mazowiecki and Walesa addressed the throng from the Steps of the St Brygida rectory the site of so Many rallies when Solidarity was still  when we open this historic chapter we must reject a feeling of hopelessness and helplessness Mazowiecki said. We can do ii. I believe thai we can  is alive he proclaimed Al luding to the National Anthem which be gins Poland has not yet perished so see Poland on Back Page diving into a dare a Bare chested president Bush declines a pants on the Brand sum of us for Mak life jacket from a coast guard official in the swim Oil his boat at Kennebunk by fore Shine into the chill Atlantic on a port Maine where the Bushes Are Vaca dare from his eldest son. Conte w. The Tonine. The boat had just passed a coast president to stripped Down to his guard inspection see Story page4.