European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Nolan Ryan passes 5,000 strikeout Mark sports Page 21 d dealer links Raul Castro to drug shipment Page 3 d voyager discovers ring around Neptune Page 4 o sprucing up Barcelona for 1992 Page 16 d Chris Evert will retire after . Open sports Pago 27 authorized unofficial publication foot he . Ahmed for ii vol. 48. No. 129 thursday August 24, 191 it tit n Sulu Tatj d 8693 a flight 103 relatives express new Hope Lockerbie Scotland a relatives of those killed on pan am flight 103 met tuesday with police investigating the bombing of the new York bound flight and said they were confident the killers would soon be found. Bert Ammerman. . President of the victims of pan am flight 103. Called it the most positive meet ing we have Nad so  i am very very confident after this meeting that the terrorists the people who carried this out. Are going to be identified and the next stage is to try to apprehend them he said. The police Are very confident it is going to Lake place and the terrorists Are going to be identified we Hope in the very near future asked Why he thought police would soon identify the bombers Ammerman said you arc not naive enough and i am not naive enough to think that the Yare going to give us information about the criminal  there was a specific overview which makes us feel everything is being done and done most appropriately he added. Ammerman stayed monday night with the Rev. Pat Rick Keigans a roman Catholic priest whose locker Bie House was destroyed when parts of the jumbo Jet crashed on the Southern scottish town on dec. 21. 1988. All 259 people aboard were killed along with 11 people on the ground. Ammerman and five other americans were accompanied by Jim Squire head of Fth British relatives group. Eight months after Lockerbie it appears to us that nothing has been done to increase Security at Heath Row Airport Squire said on his Way into the meeting. The relatives had a private meeting with detective chief superintendent John Orr the senior investigating officer George Esson chief Constable of the Dumfries and Galloway regional police Force and Norma Mcfadyen a senior scottish Law officer. They later visited a building where the flight 103victims clothing and possessions not yet returned to next of Kin. Arc stored. They saw rows of cardboard Cartons and on top of one a battered Gray suitcase. Several police office swearing overalls and protective gloves were sorting through shirts shoes and other items of clothing. This part was maybe the toughest part of the  Ammerman said. It was very  on monday the relatives met transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson and Junior transport minister Michael Portillo who rebuffed their Call for an immediate Public inquiry into the gaps in airline Security that. Allowed the bomb to be placed aboard the plane. Portillo said there was a Frank Exchange of views but Ammerman said he told Portillo we Are definitely at Odds with some of the statements and the approach of his department. Or. Portillo is Well aware that we arc not please with his statements and we were not reassured he said. We Are not satisfied on the position that the department of transport has taken regarding the in Quiry and regarding Airport and airline  Black Panther Newton shot 3 times killed in Oakland by the Las Angeles times Oakland Calif. Huey p. New ton a leading proponent of african american Militancy in the 1960s and Aco founder of the Radical Black Panther party for self defense was shot three times in the head and killed Early tues Day in a West Oakland neighbourhood plagued by violence and crack cocaine. Oakland police declined to speculate on a motive for the killing although Newton 47. Had a history of cocaine abuse and had been sentenced to 90 Day sin san Quentin prison earlier this year for possessing drug paraphernalia a Vio lation of parole in an earlier Case. Phyliss Brown at Highland Hospital in Oakland said Newton was brought to the emergency facility at 5 50 . He had multiple gunshot wounds in the head and was pronounced dead at 6 12 ., she said. Although Newton did not live in the neighbourhood where he was shot he frequently visited the area said Jules Ayo 54, who said he lived a few doors from the bloodstained sidewalk where police found Newton. Ayo said he heard gunshots at 5 15 ., but did not go outside to Sec what happened because gunplay is common among the run Down Wood Frame single family houses inthe chronically drug plagued part of the City. When you hear shots you stay in the House he said. Night people run these streets. We Don t come out at  founded the Black Panther party in Oakland in 1966 with Bobby scale and the two Young firebrands with their armed and uniformed Fol Lowers quickly became a militant counterpoint to the non violent civil rights movement led by the Rev. Martin Luther King  roamed the streets of Oak see Newton on Back Page this is a 1981 photo of Huey Newton. Thames toll set at 57 As inquest opens London a police believe 57 people perished in the sinking of a pleasure boat on the thames River authorities said tuesday As an inquest began into the worst Accident on the River in this Century. The 90-ton marchioness carrying revellers on a late night party cruise Sank after being nit by the 1,475-ton Sand and gravel Dredger Bowbells near Southwark Bridge in Central London. Seventy nine survived and 57 Are now believed Mohave been lost said a Scotland Yard spokeswoman. She said said 31 bodies were recovered and 26 peo ple were missing. Among the victims identified tuesday was a 28 year old american. Julian Kent Tremain a Pittsburgh native who was living in London. New safety regulations announced following Sun Day s sinking took effect tuesday captains now mus leave a list of passengers on Shore before setting sail and must instruct passengers on emergency proce dures. Police detective chief superintendent Michael Pur Chase testified tuesday that blood alcohol tests on the bowl Kllc s seven Crew members and on the Marchio Ness surviving Crew member proved negative. The pleasure boat s Captain is among those missing. Purchase gave evidence at the opening of an inquest into 16  British Law the inquest had to open before the victims could be buried. The marchioness hired for the 26th birthday part of a London financier was licensed to Cany 149 Pas sengers and two Crew members. The inquest was adjourned until sept. 20 when other inquiries Are expected to be completed. The worst Accident on the thames was in 1878,when 700 people died after the Princess Alice paddle Steamer was struck by a Collier. About 170 people sur Vived that Accident