European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday december 20.1989 news Brief fatal bomb held nails suggesting new blast link Savannah a. A a parcel bomb that killed a civil rights lawyer had been packed with nails suggesting another link to two other bombings one of which killed a judge in his Alabama Home authorities said tuesday. There s a Strong similarity in the three explosive devices and it appears there is a relation ship Fri agent Tom Moore said in birding Ham Ala. Officials said the bomb that killed circuit judge Robert s. Vance in Atlanta on saturday hurled nails when it exploded. A package thought to be a bomb was also found tuesday at the local a act Headquarters in Jacksonville. Fla., the Fri said. The area was evacuated and bomb squad officers were brought in said Fri spokesman George Wisnovsky. In Alabama police a Rayed a package left on the Doorstep of a Birmingham City councilman who was a Friend of the slain judge but the concluded that it was probably an innocent mailing. This is one of Many screening processes Well probably be going through because of the situation said Fri agent Allen Whitaker. The Fri meanwhile warned judges lawyer Sand a act activists to beware of strange pack Ages saying that White supremacists might be behind the attacks. Robert Robinson a 42-year-old Black lawyer and City Alderman was fatally injured in his Law office monday night hours after police remove Dan explosive device delivered to the 11th . Circuit court of appeals in Atlanta and two Days after a mail bomb killed Vance. Gate from Page 1 his id Point plan for strengthening relations with East Germany. Kohl said his plan Calls for a Community of contracts a term coined by Modrow to be formed Between the two states. He explained the term meant establishing common parliamentary committees at All Levels to Deal with All problems that affect both said he could agree with All but one Point of the Kohl plan that the two countries merge someday. Ionly say we should work together As two Independent countries and let the future decide what is Best Modro said. Other Points in the Kohl plan Call for extensive humanitarian Aid immediate improvement of telecommunications systems within East Germany an immediate environmental Protection program for East Germany and establishment of a democratic voting system with multiple panics. Kohl said a timetable has been set for Many of the measures and that he and Modrow would meet again in january in East agreements announced tuesday a joint committee has been established to determine How West German Aid should be used to help East Ger Many recover and boost production. East Germany will work to allow All interested air lines to Fly to West Berlin outside the Allied prescribed corridors. Only British French and american airlines have been allowed to use the corridors to West Berlin Stegel Airport. West German credit guarantees for exports to East Germany will be raised from $2.6 billion to s3.5 billion to ensure delivery of goods to the strapped socialist the news conference Kohl bathed in television lights gave a 40-minute speech in front of the ruins of a memorial to the 194s bombing of dres Den in which an estimated 100,000 people told a cheering crowd of thousands that his goal As a politician is German unification. Kohl was constantly interrupted by shouts of Ger Many Germany Germany from the crowd which waved hundreds of West German flags and East German flags with the communist insignia Cut out he also told the crowd that he and Modrow were Well aware that the world was watching their meeting with some trepidation because of the germans bloody must find Unity in Freedom and Only in agreement with our allies and our neighbors Kohl every five minutes during the speech a chant arose among the banners and posters Helmut Helmut Helmut and Germany fatherland Germany a crowd joked and laughed. Only a rare appearance of someone carrying the communist Flag changed it humor. Those Guys with the communist Flag an older Man said those Are the zeros the russians forced upon us after the War. They Haven t a Chance in hell in a new society. You can t bake a new cake with old arrived in Dresden on tuesday morning amid welcoming shouts from the local than 1.000 dres Denen took time off from work to line the Street in front of the hotel Bellevue where Kohl met with Modrow. Waving huge West German flags the crowd called for German Tanner an Engineer who went through world War ii called Kohl s visit a Chance for East germans to show that they want unification and nothing else. Ninety percent of the Dresden ers if they Are honest want unification he said. Tanner said he did t think German unification should happen overnight but Steps must begin now. Elenor Scheer came to demonstrate with her 3-year-Oldson, Wastl. I Hope for my Sake and Wastl s that some thing positive comes of this meeting and that we move toward unification she said. The voices against unification were not audible in dres Den. The Only signs that there Are other opinions in the City were the slogans painted on Walls near the main train station and the International press Center. The slogans often were plays on Kohl s name which can mean one read put Kohl in the another said watch out for collision from Page 1 the collision occurred. Smith could Given information on the Maneu vers the three planes were executing before the collision. The Accident is being investigated by aboard of officers headed by col. Stephen St Csc vice commander of the 316th air div at Ramstein a. In Maxdorf. Low flying jets Llew Over the town s 6,000 residents tuesday. An air Force spokesman could not say whether the jets came from . Bases. The town s wholesale vegetable mar Ket remained closed tuesday. A Large piece of one of the fighter planes plunge through the roof of a hangar like building there monday and visitors from neigh Boring towns tried to catch a glimpse of the aircraft Section tuesday. A spokesman for the Ludwigshafen county administrative office said that during the Winter Only about 20 people work at the Market. In the summer months however hundreds of Farmers gather there to sell their crops. About six employees were working atthe time of the crash monday said spokesman Jurgen Schwerdt. They were in the opposite end of the building fro where the aircraft piece hit. Resident Inge Hartke said she s trying to erase the incident from her memory. Hartke lives in a town House about 59yards from where one of the Jet s engines landed in a Field where children often play. She said she was driving into her garage monday when she heard a hissing sound. I thought perhaps my car tire was Flat she said. I looked and then noticed that it came from above and then Isaw four burning pieces were falling Down. I saw two in the distance and i saw that two were directly Over me. I looked Back and Forth wondering where i Hartke a Maxdorf resident of two weeks joined her neighbors in running to the Woods behind their houses. One of Hartke s neighbors was especially upset by the crash. She and her two Small children had been injured in the Ramstein air show disaster which claimed 70 lives when three italian air Force planes collided and plunged into a crowd of spectators in August 1988. After the scheduled candlelight March City Hall officials were expected to pass a Resolution in protest of Low level flying mayor Eckard Leyser said. However the Accident did not involve Low level flying. They also plan to gather signature saturday and write letters to the West German government and Safe com Mander Gen. Michael j. Dugan he said. Such actions Aren t new to Leyser a so Cial Democrat and his constituents however. For the past year and a half Many of the town s residents have joined in Simi Lar protests said Leyser. We re not against the military or Mil itary pilots Leyser said. We Only ask that it flying be reduced or that it be slopped Over populated areas because it s too authorities with the state of Rhein land Pfalz where the Accident took place also have lodged a protest wit military officials. Rheinland Pfalz Interior minister Rudi Gail has sent a letter to the Bonn defense ministry and to Dugan asking for a Radical reduction of training flights Over heavily populated areas said Jurgen Dietzen a ministry spokes Man. To counter German protests the government and nato agreed this fall to reduce noise by slowing Down planes cutting interception exercises by one third and reducing by 45 percent flights at an Altitude of 247 feet. In Washington Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said he hoped the crash would not renew the West German de Bate on Low level flights. We have been responsive to their concerns Williams said. Everyone is very sorry that the Accident i can t image that this would reopen the whole question. I think people under stand that accidents during the past two years 21 .servicemembers and one German Pas Senger have died in accidents . Military aircraft in Europe. Seven people have been killed on the ground i Germany. A response team of 70 airmen fro Sembach a has been assigned to clean up the area a spokesman said. Leakage of hydrazine a chemical used to restart a Jet engine in midair required Crews to remove 60 cubic meters of topsoil. An air Force ordnance disposal Tea was expected to have All 510 rounds of inert 20mm target practice munitions collected by tuesday night Smith said. Officials could give no estimate of damage. A claims officer was on the scene assessing private property dam age. The . Government will reimburse the West German government 75 per cent of the damage. The remainder willbe paid by the German government. Hundreds of romanian protesters reportedly killed Vienna Austria a shooting and fires were reported tuesday in Western Romania where wit Nesses say Security forces May have killed hundreds of people who protested the harsh communist regime of president Nicolae Ceausescu. Greek students who crossed into Yugoslavia fro the romanian City of Timisoara site of the greatest unrest Over the weekend said shots were fired indiscriminately killing they said Many children were killed or wounded because people used them a Shields assuming that Security forces would hold their fire. A romanian doctor who arrived in Austria spoke of protesters stoning armoured vehicles. He said one vehicle drove into the crowd crushing a woman and rows of people were mowed Down by gunfire. Unconfirmed reports trickling out of Romania put the death toll at up to 400. The roman Catholic news Agency Kal press in Vienna said a doctor told them by Telephone from Timisoara 30 Miles from the yugoslav and hungarian Borders that hundreds were wounded and deaths could surpass 400. The yugoslav news Agency Tan Jug reported from Bucharest capital of Romania that students there had declared Solidarity with the protesters in Timisoara and in response police guards were posted in Dormi tories. The soviet news Agency Tass said an unusual ten Sion is noticeable in Bucharest. The guarding of government agencies plants and factories has been strengthened. On the streets soldiers armed with Auto Matic weapons and members of the patriotic people s front militia Are patrolling. Buses Are parked with soldiers and accounts trickling out of Romania suggested that Ceausescu the last stalinist ruler in the soviet bloc sanctioned unprecedented Force to crush the protest. None of the accounts could be confirmed because journalists and nearly All other foreigners were barred in an Effort to Stop word of the unrest from attempts to Telephone Bucharest from Vienna and Budapest on tuesday were unsuccessful. Tass said soviet authorities had been told no soviet tourists could be accepted due to Advent weather conditions the absence of Snow needed for Winter tourism and a great demand for hotel space from Stu dents on holidays
