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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d mormon official excommunicated Page 3 d drug slayings of police up sharply in  Page 5 d gis Down on farm in deutschland pages 14-15 d Florida state leu upset in College football Page 21 the authorized unofficial publication Fob the . Armed forces vol. 48, no. 140 monday september 4,1989 it Ohi ind sunday d 8693 a Bogota newspaper bombed As first gis reach Colombia Bogota Colombia a a bomb saturday severely damaged offices of a newspaper that has crusade against drug lords killing at least one person and wounding 83 people As . Advisers arrived to help Colombia tight its drug War. The bomb which police said was packed with up to 220 pounds of Dyna mite exploded in a Small truck parked at a Gas station outside Al esp chador co 5 reported dead in Israel shootings Jerusalem a israeli troops killed two palestinians in the West Bank saturday and Arab reports said the soldiers then fatally shot a 14-year-old Arab girl during protests touched off by the earlier  saturday a palestinian guerrilla crossed the Border from Jordan killed an israeli Soldier and wounded two others be fore he was killed by soldiers near an israeli communal farm the army  army said the first two palestini ans killed in the West Bank City of Nab Tus were terrorists a term usually used to describe armed attackers. An army spokeswoman said they were part of a group planning an attack and the army had arrested three  said the two were killed in a pre Dawn shoot out Between israeli sol Diers and an armed Arab group. It was Only the second shoot out reported in the 20-month-old palestinian protest of israeli  television showed a Villa in Nablus that it said served As a hideout for the gang. Troops raided the Villa and fatally shot two of the men hiding inside As they tried to escape through a window the report said. The army issued a statement late Sal see Israel on Back Page Lombida s second largest daily. A truck Driver was killed. Police col. Alfonso Rosas said two men drove the truck into the Gas station then walked away leaving a Liming de vice thai set off the bomb in less than five  the Blasl heard 18 Miles away toppled 6-foot chunks of Concrete from the two Story newspaper building. I wrecked inc Gas station melting gasoline pumps and sending shreds of aluminium flying 100 Yards. The explosion knocked out All win Dows in the newspaper building and blew away desks and computers. The fire department estimated damage at More than a million. Also saturday a bomb exploded at a House on Colombia s Caribbean coast that belongs to the family of Luis Gabr Elcano the president of Al esp chador s publishing company. No one there was  newspaper s former editor was assassinated in 1986 by drug dealers. A colombian defense ministry source meanwhile confirmed that the first . Military advisers had arrived in the country to prepare for the arrival of $65 million Worth of military hardware. The source who is working with the see Colombia on Back Page death in Northern Ireland a dead Man lies covered at far right while his motorcycle remains in a Street in Belfast Northern Ireland after the Man and a partner arc shot by police pursuing suspected gunmen saturday. The outlawed largely protestant Ulster Volunteer Force identified the dead Man As Brian Robinson one of its Mem Bers and said he had just killed a shop keeper who belonged to the Irish re publican Arm. The second Man on the motorcycle was arrested. Plan reportedly would exclude Many soviet jews new York up the Bush administration has drafted plans that would make Many soviet jews ineligible for admission to the uni cd states As refugees a published report said sunday. The new York times reported Hal at the same time Federal officials arc actively opposing two Bills passed by both houses of Congress thai would make n easier for soviet jews and evangelical christians to come to the United states As refugees. The stale and jul Isicc department oppose the legis lation because they say it would create huge numbers of  refugees which would Cost the gov pm men huge amounts to absorb and resettle the newspaper said. Confidential stale department documents obtained by the times outline elaborate plans to Deal with the dramatic increase in emigration expected after Soviel president Mikhail Gorbachev s relaxation of soviet exit restrictions. His policy of openness or glasnost has either diminished pers culion of Soviel jews or Given anti so Milic grass tools organizations the Opportunity to vent their prejudices openly depending on the critic the times said. The United states has pushed for greater freedoms for soviet jews wishing to relocate but adminis Lvalion officials say the country can no longer accommodate All those who want to come Here citing economic Lim its As Well As difficulties in proving that the jews Are political or religious refugees the times said. The preliminary figures for Soviel jewish emigration in August indicate the highest monthly number in More than 20 years. Soviet jewish emigration jumped from 8,155 in 1987 to 18,965 last year and is expected to top 48,000 this year the newspaper  to the times the plan requires the approval of president Bush Secretary of slate James bake Iii and attorney general Dick Thornburgh but docs not need the approval of Congress although it can pass legislation to Block or revise it. The most significant change proposed in the administration s plan Calls for closing Rome and Vienna Austria As Way stations for Emmig Ramg Soviel jews and increasing the staff in the american embassy i Moscow by Early 1990, the times said. Under the stale department proposal. Soviet jews who have no relatives in the United Stales would be come ineligible for admission As refugees. At least Hal of All soviet jews Are in this category the  in the government s ranking system the 1 Imes said  
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