European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday july 30,1990 news John jets Driver blames brakes Nassawa truck Driver into two cars killing eight brakes for the ties said Frida the Driver 25, of Buffal with six coun cide. No it. . Apr a Rtoise Rig careened a construction site ple blamed failed fiery crash author Manuel Cruzado jr., n.y., was charged of negligent Homi her charges were planned until fall the victims were identified j Cruzado to suffered minor bums told investigators his brakes failed. J Quot the Guy had passed three signs that there was a construction site one at a Milci one at 1,500 feet and one at 1,000 feet and there was a big flashing Arrow. Braxton county pros editor William Martin said. F a frankly i think he could have avoided the wreck even if he did no to have brakes a Martin said. Quot at least he buld have avoided hitting two carloads of  death of Rocker Lafayette Calif. Apr investigators said it could be several weeks before Tufty know what killed Brent mydland a the keyboard player for the popular counterculture Rock band grateful dead. Mydland 37 was found dead thursday at Hie Home in the san Francisco suburb of Lafayette. He had returned Home tuesday night from a three week National tour with the band. An autopsy i Friday morning failed to show Bow mydland died said sgt. Richard Terry of the Contra Costa county coroners office. He said to ecological tests will take two to four weeks. There were no indications of foul play Terr Faid. The Tribune of Oakland quoted Law enforcement sources As saying no drugs or signs of drug use were found in mydland a House. The sources were not identified. Bhopal settlement new Delhi India Fuji a indians attorney general Friday was unable to answer questions from the supreme court about Why the government violated a court order and converted s465 million into rupees after receiving on a settlement from the Bhopal Gas disaster. Chief Justice Sabyasachi Mukher Jee asked attorney general Soli so Rawjee to explain the reasons for violation of the supreme court directive to keep the compensation intact in . Dollars with the state owned Reserve Bank of India. Sorab Jee said he would Check on it. Soldiers executed Lagos Nigeria up a the government Friday executed 42 soldiers who staged an aborted coup during april to try to topple president Ibrahim Baban Gida and bring greater autonomy to Nigeria s Christian dominated states. Vice adm. Augustus Ai Khomut chief of the general staff said the executions took place but he did not specify How the soldiers died. The usual execution method is by firing squad. Among those killed was the ringleader maj. Gideon Torkar who had commanded the april 22 attack and prematurely announced on National radio the downfall of Baban Gida. In his broadcast Torkar accused the regime of being a corrupt inhumane sadistic homosexually oriented and  ., asian nations on Khmer Rouge ree Jakarta Indonesia apr Seri tary of state James a. Baker Iii and Southeast asian nations were at Odds saturday Over whether communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas should be included in a cambodian transitional government. Quot if we Are serious about the objective of cambodian self determination we need. To urge the formation of a supreme National Council and the holding of  elections a Baker said. A that impetus can come from offering new diplomatic incentives and from showing no tolerance for the Khmer rouges dialogue of death a he said at the annual meeting of the associate in of Southeast asian nations or ase Ajeff. The Khmer Rouge known for its brutal Rule of Cambodia froqt975-78, is militarily the strongest Riffel group fighting an 11-year-old War against the vietnamese backed coir must government in phenom penh two other rebel groups Are non  consists of Thailand Malaysia Singapore Indonesia Brunei and in Donesia. The organization scheduled a series of meetings saturday in their an Titi dialogue with major trading partners the United states Japan Australia Canada new zealand and the european Cost immunity. The association holds thatty cambodian National  have to include Quot All shades of a wifi Cal opinion a including the Khmer  announced last week that the United stat amp would withdraw recognition of the . Seat held by the tree member cambodian resistance coalition because it includes the Khmer Rouge. The group blamed for hundreds of thousands of deaths when it ruled Cambodia now threatens a military comeback. Baker said Washington would open talks with Vietnam Ana possibly phenom penh itself to try to end the fighting. Asean wants the cambodian guerrilla coalition to form the Council which would occupy the . Seat at the next session of the general Assembly. The association expects former head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk to a Kef Idle. His non communist followers in addition to anti communists in Deil former Premier son Sann make up the weaker portion of the coalition. In other developments at the Asean meeting Ltd Baker on Friday said the United states has done its share in helping indochinese refugees and that criticism of . Policy is unfair. A a senior state department official said the sultanate of Brunei has joined Singapore in offering american armed forces Access to its territory. Quot Singapore and Washington Are negotiating an arrangement for increased use of the islands facilities by . Warships and Plahs a Brunei is also prepared for an enhanced Security relationship a said the . Official  on condition of anonymity. S the Oil Rich sultanate on the North coast of Borneo is expanding its Navy with new patrol boats and buying its first fixed Wing combat aircraft a to British built Hawks. Study estimates 3 million children women will die of aids in 1990s London apr at least 3 million women and children worldwide will die of aids in the 1990s, a medical journal said saturday. The report published in the London based journal the lancet said aids has become the leading cause of death for women Ages 20 to 40 in Many places including new York City and Central african cities. Quot in these cities infant and child mortality could be As much As 30 percent greater than what would otherwise have been expected Quot the report said which cited figures from the world health organization. A during the 1990s, not Only can hundreds of thousands of paediatric aids cases be expected but also More than a million uninfected children will be orphaned because their his infected mothers and fathers will have died from  the his virus causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome a disease that attacks the body a immune system and leaves victims susceptible to a wide variety of infections and cancers. There is no known cure. Aids is most often transmitted through sexual Contact. Other Means of transmission include transfusions of tainted blood or blood products and the sharing of contaminated hypodermic Needles or syringes by drug abusers. Aids can also be passed from Mother to child at or before birth. The report in lancet said Geneva based who estimates that during the 1980s, there were about 500,000 cases of aids in women and children. Quot during the 1990s. Who estimates that the pandemic will kill an additional 3 million or More women and children worldwide a the report said. The report was written by who researcher James Chin. He said the estimates cited had been developed by who a global program on aids. Chins report entitled Quot current and future dimensions of the Huv aids pandemic in women and children a gave no estimate of aids deaths among males in the 1990s. But who last year estimated that a total of 6 million people was Likely to have aids worldwide by 2000. Saturdays report said that during the second half of the 1980s, his infections among homosexual and bisexual men showed a decreasing trend in most areas of the world. Berlin disco bombing suspect arrested Berlin up a a 32-year-old lebanese Man wanted in connection with the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin discotheque that killed three people including two . Servicemen has been arrested at his apartment City government officials say. A spokesman said in West Berlin on Friday that Ali Mansur now a West German citizen was arrested wednesday during a police search of his apartment in connection with the april 1986 attack on the la Belle discotheque which was frequented by americans. Arrest warrants were issued july 19 for Mansur and five other arabs charging them with murder and Organ izing the attack in which 204 people were injured the spokesman for the City government said. He said a search of five West Berlin apartments and a prison cell uncovered evidence written in arabic implicating the suspects. Authorities would not say How Mansur became a citizen or account for his whereabouts following the la Belle bombing jilting that an investigation into Mansur and the others is continuing. In 1986, Fprmer president Reagan ordered the bombing of Libya shortly after that Belle attack alleging the involvement of libyan officials. The West Berlin spokesman said that investigators had asked East Germany for files from tie now disbanded ministry for state Security known As the Stasi but had not yet received them. A former High ranking Stasi official told West Berlin police that Mansur was ordered to coordinate extremist activities from the libyan embassy in East Berlin which led to the arrest. Erich Mielke the former head of the Stasi was arrested thursday in East Berlin on charges that he aided a variety of extremists wanted for violent attacks in Western Europe. East German state prosecutor Ginter Seidel said he investigated whether Mielke and other senior East German communist officials knew in Advance of the la Belle bombing. Army colonel Dies in Parachute jump fort Bragg . Apr an army officer plunged to i death during a Parachute training exercise the second such fatality at fort Bragg this year authorities said Friday. Col. Richard j. Malvesti died of injuries received in a Parachute jump at fort Braggs Holland drop zone about 10 . Thursday an army spokesman said. The 44-year-old colonel was the director of operations for the 1st special operations come at fort Bragg maj. Doug Foster said. Malvesti was a native of Quincy mass. He was commissioned into the army in 1967 and had been assigned to fort Bragg since 1980. Military authorities declined to release More details about the Accident pending an investigation. The last Parachute fatality at fort Bragg was in january also during a training exercise officials said