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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Rah Rah Rah see Page 3 d Saab holding talks with Ford Page 8 d nil 89 pfc East preview Page 23 d Bingo she s $20,000 Richer photo Page 28 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial Public vol. 48, no. 141 tuesday september 5, 1989 25c Dairy and Suflay Good Ornim d 8693 a 2 die in Rifle rampage at Airport in Colombia Bogota Colombia a a gun Man sprayed passengers in Medellin s Airport with automatic Rifle fire monday and police said two people including the attacker were killed and 12 wounded. The other person killed was an airline passenger identified As the business Man Ager of a Medellin paint company whose factory was bombed last week apparently by terrorists working for drug Traffick ers authorities said. The motive for monday s attack was not immediately known but Medellin is Home to the world s largest cocaine car Tel. The City 215 Miles North of Bogota has been racked daily by terrorist style violence from drug traffickers enraged by a government crackdown. The gunman was wearing a military uni form when he drove up  Airport about is Miles outside the City about 7 15a.m., police said. He entered the terminal and began firing at a line of passengers waiting at the ticket counter for an Vianca flight to Bogota they said. After the passenger was killed the at Tacker was shot dead by Airport police who returned fire a National police spokeswoman in Medellin said. As is customary she gave information on condition she not be identified by name. Nine other civilians and three police see Colombia on Back Page 125 killed when Jet crashes in Cuba Mexico City a a cuban Jet liner bound for Italy exploded shortly after Takeoff and crashed showering flaming debris on a Havana suburb and killing All but one of 126 on Board officials and news reports said monday. The crash of the soviet made plan during a thunderstorm sunday evening also injured 63 people on the ground damaged 20 Homes and snapped Power lines blacking out an area around the Airport news agencies said. In Rome a foreign ministry employee said one Man believed to be italian survived the crash and was hospitalized in critical condition. Officials said earlier that All aboard were killed. The chartered Cubana do aviation jetliner was carrying 113 italians two cubans and a Crew of 11, said the Cuba ambassador to Rome Javier Ardi once. He also confirmed that there was one survivor. The reason for the crash was no known but the ministry employee said the weather appeared to be a actor. It was very bad a storm with rain and lightning he  television showed footage of emergency workers Rushing through the wreckage carrying bodies on stretchers inthe darkness. Firefighters aimed streams of water at the charred Shell of the plane. A carbs were the soldering hulks of two trucks apparently hit by the plane. Youths in to shirts stood at the door of a one Story House whose roof appeared damaged by the nearby plane. Flame leaped from a pile of rubble. Soldiers in Green uniforms surrounded the plane helping Rescue workers sort through the wreckage. Prensa Latina Cuba s official news Agency monitored in Mexico City said the plane exploded shortly after Takeoff. The dispatch said officials did not elaborate on the cause of the Accident but Gen. A Puclio acc Cdo Cuba s civil aviation chief named a commission to investigate the crash. Mexico s Excelsior news Agency said there was a heavy downpour with Thun Der and lightning when flight 9046 took off for Milan Italy with a scheduled re fueling Slop in Cologne West Germany. The soviet news Agency Tass said the four engine jetliner crashed half a mile from the runway and 20 houses were see Jet on Back Page Canadian team cancels remaining 89 air shows Toronto a the Canadian forces elite snowbirds acrobatic team has cancelled its remaining shows this year pending an investigation into sunday s air show Accident that left one Pilot missing and presumed  sunday s Canadian National exhibition air show a complicated stunt by the snowbirds went awry before thousands of onlookers and two jets plunged into Lake Ontario after apparently clipping each other. Capt. Shane Antaya 24, of Stratford ont., was missing and presumed dead after his red and while Jet crashed in a dizzying nose dive. Maj. Dan dumps by of Edmonton the 36-year-old commander of the precision flying team safely ejected from his Jet moments before it tumbled smoking and in flames into the Lake. Dempsey who parachuted into the water was taken to Toronto general Hospital where he was treated for facial cuts and leg Burns and  s wife Mother brother and sister were watching the show from the Shore col. Claude Thi Baull told reporters sunday  snowbirds of course Are filled with a sense of loss said Thibault adding that the team s 15 remain ing shows this season have been cancelled and the Ca Nadian forces have already begun  Accident occurred Midway through the nine member team s performance during a stunt called a upward downward bomb burst. In the Man Euver two groups of planes Fly past each other at 373  said two planes appeared to touch Send ing them tumbling out of the tight formation. Video tape of the crash appeared to confirm the collision but see shows on Back Page one of the Canadian forces snowbirds planes crashes in flames into Lake Ontario after an air show Accident sunday. Rife of pcs Sage army style see pages j 4-15  
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