European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday september 5,1989 news briefs e. Germany delays exodus of refugees Hungary says Budapest. Hungary a East Germany has delayed the mass exodus of us citizens to the West from Hungary a hungarian official was quoted As say ing minister Istvan Horvath indicated it might even be weeks before the thousands of East germans arc allowed to leave Hungary in the unique emigration 5,000 East germans arc huddled in emergency Camps in Hungary awaiting Safe passage to West Germany. West Germany and communist Hungary agreed on a plan in which the East germans would bellowed to emigrate to the West and red Cross officials overseeing the Camps said the exodus May take place this week. Guardsmen help enforce curfew in Virginia Beach Virginia Beach a. A National guardsmen with rifles helped enforce an overnight curfew after a second night of violence followed the looting of More than 100 stores by Young people in town or a fraternity curfew issued after a labor Day weekend Gath ering of College students turned violent was lifted Mon Day resort s main thoroughfare Atlantic Avenue was reopened and families began heading for the Beach for the last Holiday of the 35-minute sweep by club wielding officers late sunday added dozens of arrests to the 160 arrests and395 citations Between Friday evening and sunday afternoon. Police had no immediate figures on the num Ber of arrests overnight. Quake in Alaska prompts Kodiak residents to flee Palmer Alaska a a powerful earthquake off Alaska Early monday prompted 5,000 residents of Kodiak to take to higher ground for fear a seismic sea wave would hit at Dawn but the threat subsided with out incident officials quake registering 6.9 on the Richter scale struck at 9 15 . And was entered about 140 Miles South West of Kodiak Island said the . Geological Survey in Golden Colo. There was no immediate indication the quake was Felt on land. Pipe bomb blast in London linked to Rushdie juror London up a warning issued before a pipe bomb exploded outside a London department store mentioned Salman Rushdie s novel the satanic verses and Scotland Yard said it May have been thrown from a passing woman suffered a leg injury and several other people were treated for Shock following the sunday night blast outside the Liberty s store on great Marl Borough have been several unexplained bombings of London Book dealers since the Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho Meini Iran s late spiritual Leader issued his death de Cree against the author feb. 14, but the blast appeared to be the first to be closely linked to the Rushdie affair. A $20,000 smile Veronica Higgins raises her arms in jubilation after winning a $20,000 Bingo Jackpot during the labor Day fun weekend at Benjamin Franklin Village sports Arena in Mannheim West Germany. Verify ing the Lucky card is Bingo floor Walker Don Benson. Sitting beside Higgins fellow Bingo player Boniuk Hascil claps her hands. The Winner s husband is army staff sri. Kelvin Higgins. Shows from Page 1 Thibault declined to speculate on the cause pending the investigation. The estimated 70,000 in the crowd gasped As the two planes fell and crashed a few Hundred Yards from Shore. The snowbirds were the first performers at the Ca Nadian International air show which runs the final three Days of the two week exhibition. Sunday s show resumed about 45 minutes after the crash and show chairman Bill Mccan said monday s show was to go ahead without the snowbirds it s tradition in the aviation business that the show must go the team which performs More than 60 shows throughout North America each year has had three airshow accidents and two Pilot deaths in its history. We have flown in 980 shows before 60 million people said Thibault. Our record Speaks for seven pilots and Crew members have died in five accidents since the Canadian National exhibition air show began in 1949, not including sunday s crash. The previous fatal Accident was sept. 2, 1977, when Vintage plane Buff Alan Ness is of Toronto was killed when his world War ii fighter plane nosedive into Lake Ontario. Sunday s crash comes almost a year after capt. We Mackay of the snowbirds was killed in a car crash near Latrobe. Pa., that also injured capt. Paul Giles and capt. Ken Rae. A county Coroner in Pennsylvania determined tha Mackay was legally impaired at the time of the Acci Dent in september 1988. Jet from Page 1 damaged. Cuba s state run television interrupted its regu Lar programming to show the plane engulfed in flames Excelsior reported adding that the area around Havana Jose Marti Airport was plunged into darkness for a time when the falling wreckage snapped Power lines the mexican news Agency no Timex quoted Havana s radio Reloj As saying 63 people on the ground were hospitalized with injuries after the wreckage rained Down on the suburb. Colombia from Page 1 officers were wounded she said. She identified the gunman s weapons an israeli made automatic Rifle. The Man killed by the gunman was Rafael Arango Cuarta 27, the spokeswoman said. According to the National radio network. Cocol he was a Busi Ness administrator for a Medellin Basc paint company pint co the country s largest. Pint co s factory was bombed Las thursday in one of an almost daily series of attacks blamed on the cocaine cartels. Col. Luis Cam Coq the National police commander for Antioquia province said the gunman began to fire indiscriminately on sunday night a bomb lore through shops in an Industrial suburb of Medellim and wounded five people authorities said. The bomb attack came just hours . Military gear began arriving along with ground Crews trainers and technicians for use in the government s 2 Wick old offensive against the nation ruthless and powerful cocaine Chicta ins. The bomb blast in the Southern me Dellin suburb of Tagui heavily damaged a two Story commercial building including a Bank an insurance company office a shoe store and an optical shop an Ita Gui police spokesman said. Five people were wounded Alons Villanueva of the colombian red Cross in Tagui said. The blast came half a hour before a 10 p.m.-to-6 . Curfew took effect in Medellin and several suburbs including Tagui. There was no claim of responsibility but the attack was similar to others car ried out by drug traffickers who Are com bating an unprecedented government anti narcotics sweep that began aug. 18when a leading presidential hopeful was assassinated. In the sweep authorities have seized hundreds of millions of dollars in prop erty and arrested thousands of suspects. Two bombs were tossed from a motor Cycle into a Garden of Medellin s inter Continental hotel on sunday but no one was Hurt police said. In the Northwestern City of Monteria an air plane of the . State depart ment s anti narcotics division burned atan Airport sunday a . Embassy spokesman in Bogota said. The plane was bound from Peru to the United states when it made an emergency Landing in Monteria because an engine failed the spokesman said. He said the cause of the fire was being investigated. Drug traffickers have declared total and absolute War on the state judges industrialists and journalists in response to the government crackdown which has included seizure of their property and renewal of extradition to the unite states. Eight observation and attack jets from air National guard bases in Illinois and Michigan were to be delivered monday to the country s military at the Caribbean port City of to . Ambassador Thom As Mcnamara the shipment also includes other unspecified gear As part of a $65 million emergency Aid package approved by president Bush to help Colombia wage its anti drug United states also has promised rifles pistols machine guns rockets an grenades and even bulletproof vests for colombian officials and judges who prosecute drug traffickers. The Aid began arriving sunday when two hulking us. C-130 transport planes landed at a Bogota air base. They were formally handed Over by . Air Force officials and Mcnamara to the Colombi an military
