European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 23, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 10 die in British marines school blast Deal. England al1 the Irish re publican army blew up a Barracks build ing at the Royal marines school of music in South Asl England Friday kill ing 10 people officials said. It is not yet absolutely confirmed that it is a bomb but All the evidence is quite Clear that this is an Ira atrocity said defense minister Tom King after inspecting the wreckage in the Seaside town of Deal. Earlier the Irish Republican army claimed responsibility but gave no de tails of the operation. Al a news conference i aul Condon chief Constable of the Kent police Force said nine Marine Bondsmen and one other unidentified male were killed and 12 of the 22 wounded remained in Hospital. He said an earlier police toll of 11 dead was an error caused in the confusion of retrieving Bod ies. Me added that the dead ranged in age from 20 to mid-30s. Rescue workers who frantically dug through the rubble of a building that col lapsed in the explosion initially reported that 30 people were injured and at least17 were missing. Later the defense min istry1 said Only 12 were injured and one was missing As the search continued in the collapsed building. The blast occurred at 8 26 . In a lounge in the school s Barracks near Deal a coastal town 70 Miles Southeast of London. One of the bands had just stopped play ing on the Parade ground said a defense ministry spokesman speaking anonymously in keeping with British custom. Scotland Yard said it sent anti terrorist officers to Deal. Firefighters used heavy equipment to lift debris and Thermal cameras to search for victims said Kevin Simmons a Kent fire brigade spokesman. Ten doctors gave emergency treatment at the scene and 11 ambulances took the injured to two hospitals the ambulance service said. They Are suffering from Flash Burns to their Heads and arms fractures an the sort of injuries you would expect after an explosion said a spokesman for Buckland Hospital in Dover. British military installations arc a fre quent bombing target of the Ira in its Campaign to rid Northern Ireland of British Rule. A statement telephoned to Ireland in Rescue workers dig through the rubble after a blast at the Royal marines school of music in Deal England left 1c people dead. Tar National a Dublin news Agency said we have visited the Royal marines in Kent in response to prime minister Margaret Thatcher s visit to Northern Ireland nine Days ago. The Ira said Thatcher went to the Brit ish province with a message of War but we still want peace and we want the Brit ish government to leave our  twas signed p. O Neill a Nom do Guerre the Ira usually uses to claim responsibility fractions outside Northern Ireland. The last Ira bombing attempt on the British Mainland was in february when about 60 soldiers were evacuated fro their Barracks in Shropshire Western England just before a bomb exploded. One Soldier was killed and nine wounded in an Ira bomb attack on an army bar Racks in North London in August 1988. In july 1982, eight soldiers died in two Ira bombings near the household cavalry Barracks at knights Ridge in Central Lon Don and at a bandstand in the capital s Regent s Park where an army band was playing. Three people later died and a total of 51 were injured in the two bombings. The music school is the training Center for Young recruits who want to play inthe seven Royal marines bands. Up to 250 Young men most Between 16 and 20, arc based at the school where they receive military and musical training. Small groups of stunned neighbors began gathering in the streets around the Barracks shortly after the blast. The roof of Janet Minnock s House was torn off by the Force of the blast and All the Back windows were  s next door neighbor. Heather Hackett said that at the time of the explosion she was standing at her Kitchen window which faces the Barracks. Shews holding her 4-Momh-old son. Luke in her arms and her other boys Ben 3.and Joshua 2, were at her Side. I looked up from the sink and i just saw the whole building explode she said. I told the boys to run and As Joshua turned a Sliver of Glass embedded itself in his Back. The whole window was blown across the Kitchen. I just screamed and ran out of the room. The bang was so loud i thought the whole House was coming  senator Calls radar jamming program flawed Washington a the defense depart ment s planned $4.8 billion system for jamming enemy radar is seriously flawed and production of the joint Navy and air Force program should be put on hold a senator charged thursday. "1 believe we have discovered a Pentagon embarrassment and a potential waste of billions of dollars said sen. David Pryor dark. The airborne self Protection Jammer under development since 1969, is used to deceive or Jam enemy radar and will be used on Navy and air Force fighters. Including the f-14. F-18, f-16 and av-8b. The de sense department plans production of 2,369 Jam Cis. To Date. $577 million has been spent on research and development of the system. Pryor in a speech on the Senate floor said unclassified Navy documents quote testers As saying the Sis Lem is marginally operationally effective. In order to become potentially effective. Asp effectiveness must be improved for All threats not meeting reference  the senator complained that further testing on the system is not planned until 1991 when More than 300 systems will have been produced or committed to production at $2 million a copy. All arrows Point to a multimillion Dollar rip off Pryor said. In a letter to . Comptroller general Charles Bowsh or Pryor asked that the general accounting office the investigative  of Congress review the testing costs and possible alternatives to the Jammer system. The defense department declined comment on the charges until it has seen Pryor s comments. A Emp letter bocks moving of Auschwitz Convent London a British jewish officials Friday welcomed a letter from car Dinal Jozcfa Glemp the primate of Poland in which he changed his position on a disputed Convent at Auschwitz and said it should be moved. The letter appeared to reflect a Radical change of heart on Glymp s part. He wrote that he now realized that the shrill voices and aggression in the Campaign against the Convent at the nazi death Camp in Southern Poland did not represent world jewry. Auschwitz should never be a place of controversy Glemp s letter said. On tuesday the Vatican issued a statement saying the Convent should be moved. The primate had opposed moving the Convent despite an agreement Between Catholic cardinals and jewish leaders that the carmelite nuns would moved to an inter Faith cultural Center to be built farther away from the site of the Camp. The letter was made Public by sir Sig Mund Stem Borg a philanthropist who Heads the International Council of christians and jews. Glemp handed the letter to  at a dinner at the polish embassy in London on tuesday. It said it is essential not Only to move the Convent outside the perimeter of the site but also to set up the new cultural  asked if this meant an end to the controversy Hayim Pinner Secretary Gener Al of the Board of deputies of British jews said it does t put an end to it. The controversy will be at end when the Convent is moved As promised by the agreement signed in Geneva in 1987. But Pinner told the associated press the letter shows a better understanding on the part of those who so far have not been ready to implement the agreement. It s Progress and we Hope that it will now be  the Convent has angered Many jews who suspect the Catholic Church of try ing to insert itself into what they regard As a jewish catastrophe. Of the 4 million who died at Auschwitz 2.5 million were  Geneva agreement said the con vent should be moved by feb. 22 this year. But the deadline passed and last month the archbishop of Krakow Cardi Nal Franciszck Macharski said the Church was abrogating the Accord be cause it could not be implemented in an atmosphere of aggressive demands. Glemp has steadfastly defended the nuns right to choose their own course of action and his recent pronouncements on the Issue have included remarks that Many interpreted As anti semitic