European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes a fiscal 1991 Bill cuts Croton funding., a Law Chrysler Settle on tentative pact. A soviet Economy on the ropes. Pages 13-14 a formula one series moves to bitter close. The a amp ramp Anil Lpes ult a authorized unofficial publication for the u.8. Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 201 thursday november 1, 1990 a 2m daily and sunday d 8693 a to sailors die in Gul Accident on ship near port by the los Angeles times Dhahran saudi Arabia a a burst of superheated steam killed 10 american sailors tuesday in a boiler room Accident aboard a Navy assault ship forcing a scale Back of a new test for a possible amphibious Landing in the persian Gulf. The High pressure steam line burst minutes after the 29-year-old iwo Jhiria pulled out of port in Manama Bahrain. The ship had just undergone five Days of repairs there military officials in saudi Arabia said. In what the officials described As a a major leak a All 10 sailors on duty at the time were apparently showered with scalding liquid and vapor that spewed across the room under pressure at temperatures As High As 850 degrees. After the mid Harbor Accident the vessel and its 1,100 marines withdrew from a massive amphibious Landing exercise that began tuesday on a beachhead in Oman. The fatal mishap occurred As another Serviceman was reported killed and six others injured in two military accidents ashore. One of them involved a Marine sentry who shot at three Navy sailors As Ivey approached his guard station. The shooting which the military said appeared to be accidental left one Sailor in serious condition with wounds from Nachine gun fire and two others suffering. From less serious injuries. In the other incident a vehicle plunged aver a 20-foot desert embankment during i nighttime training Mission killing one Marine and injuring three others. The series of accidents brought to 42 he total number of . Servicemen Tunnel linkup made beneath the Navy assault ship iwo Jima is towed into Manama Bahrain tuesday after the Accident in which 10 sailors were killed. Killed since the . Buildup began. The 11 american deaths in a single Day ended three weeks without an Accident since the and air Force in response to a series of fatal aircraft mishaps imposed strict limits on night flying. Since the restrictions were imposed there have been no serious aircraft accidents involving either service. But some officers have raised concerns about the prohibitions which Force helicopters to maintain an Altitude of 150 feet and air Force aircraft to stay above 1,000 feet. They say that the restrictions Rule out Maneu vers essential to training for possible combat. The burst steam pipe in the no. 2 boiler room of the 602-foot iwo Jima which occurred at 8 15 a.m., caused the largest number of deaths in a single incident in the theater to Date. It occurred with the ship a Little More than a mile out of Bahrain on the Way to a rendezvous with 17 other Navy amphibious vessels to begin a we Klong amphibious assault exercise on a Remote beachhead in the Northern arabian sea. The operation code named sea Soldier two involves 95 aircraft and thousands of marines. It had been expected to be even larger than last months operation Camel Sand the first trial for an amphibious Landing in the desert military officials said. But the forced withdrawal of the iwo see sailors on Back Page by the Baltimore Sun London a Britain lost its treasured Island status tuesday As the two ends of an underwater Tunnel link-v1w1�?o1 Continental Europe were joined beneath the Middle of the Channel. English and French workers made the breakthrough Mues from the port of Folkestone 10 Miles from the 5s ? be As Calais and 130 feet below the aged a the Waters that have separated the two area see Tunnel on Back Page report cites Dea tie to Lockerbie disaster Washington apr the drug enforcement administration said tuesday night it is looking into the possibility that one of its undercover couriers carried the bomb that blew up pan am flight 103 Over Scotland 22 months ago perhaps without knowing it. Two Hundred seventy people aboard the plane and in the Village of Lockerbie died in the december 1988 attack attributed by Law enforcement authorities to a terrorist group favourable to Iran. The terrorist group put plastic explosive in a tape recorder in baggage that was shipped from Frankfurt Germany according to investigators. Abc news which disclosed the drug policing Agency a new investigation tuesday night sail it had Learned that pan am a flights from Frankfurt had been used in a Cyprus based undercover operation to Fly informants and suitcases of heroin from the Middle East to Detroit. Nazir Khalid Jafaar 20, of Detroit was killed in the bombing and the network said part of the drug see Dea on Back Page
