European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday. September 24, 1989 bomb caused French Airliner to explode officials confirm Paris a analysis of the Black Box retrieved from last tuesday s wreckage of a French Airliner con firmed thai explosives caused the plane to blow apart above the Sahara desert killing All 171 people aboard the French government said. Analysis of the do id s flight data and voice recorder show that the flight proceeded in a Normal manner until a total interruption indicating an in flight expo  said the statement saturday from the transport ministry. The announcement signals the Start of an intensive search for the individual or group responsible for the bombing of Uta flight 772 in route from Brazzaville. Congo to Paris. Police already have begun pouring Over the plane s passenger list for suspects concentrating on nine peo ple who got off in the chadian capital of n Ndjamena the plane s last Slop before it exploded Over the desert in Eastern niger. Investigators now will attempt to determine the pre Cise nature of the bomb where it was located on the aircraft and How it got on Board. A Brief statement by the transport ministry late Friday night confirmed thai an investigating commis Sion of officials from France niger and Chad had found indications of explosives aboard the flight but provided no details until the saturday announcement. The pro iranian shiite moslem group islamic jihad based in Lebanon claimed responsibility for the crash in Telephone Calls in London and Paris. Officials said they could not authenticate the claim. The French news Agency Agency ,quoting an  source at the presidential  see Palace said Friday that authorities would focus their manhunt among the shiite network in Africa. Ash Shiraz a Beirut weekly quoted islamic Mili Tants earlier last week As charging France with reneging on a 1988 Deal that resulted in the release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The newspaper said the militants were planning attacks against French interests in Africa. France continues to deny making any Deal for the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. Nevertheless recurring reports in the French press detail a Deal in which France secured release of the hostages by agreeing to free Anis nac Cache a pro iranian lebanese terrorist serving a life sentence in Paris for attempted murder. The French news Magazine l express reported Fri Day that French agents were trying to dismantle islamic terrorist cells based in France s former West african colonies. French officials in Paris on Friday denied portions of the l express article that indicated officials in Paris had prior knowledge of a possible terrorist attack. French soldiers and military doctors working at the wreckage site were to begin airlifting by helicopter the bodies of victims to Agacz a Village in Central niger. From there they will be flown to the capital of Niamey for identification. French military sources in Cha said speaking on condition of anonymity. Rugged desert conditions and temperatures up to 113 degrees have hampered Rescue work. Hunger strike against gambling a Ducor checks the blood pressure of Guillermo , a former panamanian presidential Candi Date on the second Day of his hunger strike in Panama City. Kindara begun the strike wednesday in an Effort to Stop people from Kum Blinn and thereby pre vent the government from i Duinink the Revenue. World Toda Auschwitz ids handed Over Moscow a identity cards of 130,000 prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration Camp during world War ii once stored in scaled soviet archives have been turned Over to the International red Cross for processing the official Tass news Agency said thursday. The deaths of Over 74,000 people were neatly re corded Day after Day. Hour after hour in 46  Valyntina fal Bukhina. Head of the soviet red Cross research department told Tass. Their names the birth dates and the names of parents were written Down she said. The information was made available to the International red Cross earlier last week Tass said. The existence of the 46 volumes in soviet archives was revealed in 1964 when germans assigned to Auschwitz went on trial in Frankfurt West Germany Tass said. Until recently however the archives had been sealed the news Agency said. Turkey Italy pledge to fight drugs terrorism Ankara Turkey a Turkey and Italy agree Friday to increase cooperation in fighting drug smug gling and International terrorism following talks be tween the countries Interior ministers. Turkey s Interior minister Abdulkadir Aksu and his italian counterpart Antonio Gava announced at a join news conference that a working committee would Exchange information about the two issues on a regular basis. Gave said drugs smuggled to Italy and Austria from asian countries were carried via Turkey Bulgaria Greece and Yugoslavia. He said that in their talks turkish and italian officials discussed ways of blocking the transit route in the Balkan countries. Southern african nations planning Ivory Cartel Harare Zimbabwe a Zimbabwe launched plans Friday to form a Cartel of Southern african nations to regulate Ivory sales and Challenge Western bans on Ivory imports. Natural resources and tourism minister Victoria Chipepo said the plan awaiting formal ratification by members of a nine nation economic group will represented to International conservationists meeting in Lausanne Switzerland in october. In Zimbabwe s first official response to Ivory bans recently imposed in Europe and the United states Hilepo said prohibition did not take account of african nations with abundant elephant herds whose controlled Harvest ing provided income for Rural communities. Strict Export controls with standardized legislation and High penalties for infringements should prevent the Cartel irom being used As a conduit for illegal Ivory from the rest of Africa the zimbabwean minister said. Experts Hope to save Cave damaged Byroad workers maale Efraim. Occupied West Bank a a spectacular Cavern discovered in an arid desert was partially destroyed by Road construction workers and researchers Are now fighting to save the remaining stalactites stalagmites and Cave pearls. Officials met last week to decide the Fate of the Cave and geologists and biologists descended to study the drip Stone wonders in the Cavern damaged by workers minutes after its discovery earlier in the  or Road construction managers often want to save time and Money said Gad Schwager of the Israel Cave research Center which is run by the nature Protection society. The Cave which has no name is about 22 Miles Northeast of Jerusalem. Suspect kills self in Belgium hostage drama Liege Belgium a a Man sought in France for a siring of holdups and prison escapes committed suicide saturday during a shootout with police that occurred after he released three hos tages police said. Police first reported they killed Philippe Delaire 28, of France and seriously wounded one of his belgian accomplices Tony Wagemans 31, during the shootout in an apartment building. But prosecutor. Anne Bourguignon later said Claire killed himself during the confrontation. A third gunman. Belgian edouard do Lecki 36, was arrested unharmed. The shootout ended a standoff that began sept. 16 when the three men Kidnap Ped a Bank manager his wife and their two daughters in their Home in till. A residential Southern suburb of Liege. The banker escaped and alerted police who surrounded the Villa. After a week of negotiations with police the three gunmen agreed to release their hostages for a Ransom of $750,000 and a Mercedes Benz. They released the two girls gaelic 10, and Francois 12, on Friday and drove away with the Mother whom they later freed on the Road toward Holland. Two police helicopters chased the men and All main roads and Border Crossings were guarded. Spotting police officers at the Border the three men drove Back to a 28-Story apartment building in Liege where the shootout occurred. Police said Delaire killed himself with a Bullet in the head. The wounds of Wagemans were not described. Claire who was born in Northern France had a Brief but wild criminal Ca reer there police said. Jailed for holdups he escaped for the first time from a prison in Lille France in 1985. He committed other holdups in France and Belgium Manyin the Liege area taking hostages to cover his escapes. Arrested several times in France and Belgium he escaped again and again. Last year he forced a helicopter Pilot to free a Friend from a prison in Nice Southern France police said he also was sought for questioning in the killing a 20-year-old african Boxer in a Liege bar in 1985.in several cases police said he molested or injured his hostages. But no in juries were reported to his hostages in Tiff