European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes saturday March 30, 1991 in Moscow a . Diplomats scrambled Friday to restore sensitive communications and set up temporary offices after a six hour fire badly damaged the american embassy. Soviet firetrucks rushed Back to the blackened embassy Friday morning after a hot spot re ignited spokesman James Bullock said. The new flames were quickly extinguished and embassy Section chiefs were allowed into the severely damaged building to retrieve essential papers and assess the damage. / the embassy has not reopened since the Blaze. Diplomats set up temporary quarters in a recreational area of the nearby new embassy Complex which has not been fully occupied. No one was seriously injured in the original fire on thursday but Many of the 200 employees had frightening escapes. A a a a about 18 staffers raced from offices High in the 10-Story building Down the Central stairway As it rapidly filled with smoke said one employee Yho did not want to be identified. They opened the door at the ground floor Only to find themselves staring at a Wall of flame. Veering to the right they were trapped in a courtyard Between the fire and the 20-foot embassy Wall. A we literally built a ladder out of nothing a the staffer said. They piled boxes and junk to make a Small Hill and boosted each other up other the Wall. A Marine an american construction worker and a soviet firefighter suffered smoke inhalation state department spokesman Richard Boucher said in Washington. None was seriously Hurt. State department specialists were dispatched to Moscow to assess damage. One source in Washington said thursdays fire destroyed 80 percent of the embassy a capabilities and that nearly All secure operations had been halted. The diplomatic Pouch now is the Only a secure Means of communication he said speaking on condition of anonymity. Another . Source said the United. States May reinstall a top Security Van once used during a High level meeting in world Moscow to restore critical a. A a a. The fire struck at a critical time. The soviet Union is undergoing a Domestic crisis and .-soviet negotiations Are incomplete on a strategic arms treaty and a conventional arms Deal. Those talks Are holding up a Moscow Summit Between presidents Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. According to soviet reports welding Sparks in an elevator Shaft caused the Blaze flames swept to the attic extensively damaging the roof which bristles with antennas. A major renovation was under Way when fire broke out and. A new sprinkler system had not been completely installed Bullock reported. Soldiers guard the site of a car bombing that killed four people Friday in a Beirut Lebanon suburb. Good Friday car bomb kills 4, injures 22 in Beirut suburb Beirut Lebanon apr a a car bomb exploded in Beirut a Christian suburb of an Clias Friday killing four people and wounding 22, police said. It was the second car bombing in the Northern suburb in 10 Days. The attack came one Day after president Elias Era wins government ordered All militias and armed groups ii Lebanon he disbanded and disarmed by april 30, the blast set fire to about 25 cars parked nearby and scattered debris for a half mile. Traffic in the normally bustling suburb was Light because of the Good Friday Holiday. Otherwise the casualty figures would have been much higher said an army officer on the scene. A police spokesman who because of regulations cannot be. Identified said a Black Chevrolet Caprice rigged with about 220 pounds of explosives exploded. Two of the bodies were pulled from the wreckage of cars parked near the blast scene the spokesman evacuated wounded people from the blast scene but two of them later died at hospitals the spokesman said. The Chevrolet was parked about 10 feet from the site of a car bombing on March 20 that killed eight people and wounded. 20. It had targeted the motorcade of defense minister Michel Murr but he escaped the blast with Only minor injuries. Lebanese soldiers armed with assault rifles sealed off the blast scene and prevented civilians from a preaching it. By police count 0 people were killed and 130 wounded in eight car bombings last year. Raw Yorder to disband the militias was among his governments attempts to end a nearly 16-year-old civil War that has claimed More than 150,000 lives in Lebanon. American woman in Nairobi Kenya up a unknown assailants apparently a fled with a Hammer and nails battered and killed the wife of an american Southern Baptist missionary on a lonely Road at Kijac 30 Miles North of the capital the daily nation newspaper reported Friday. Linda Bethea 42, of Oklahoma was travelling with her husband. Ralph from a Mission station shortly before Midnight wednesday when they stopped to break up an apparent fight Between two men by the Roadside a police spokesman said. The two men reportedly turned on the couple and forced the husband to watch As they stripped mrs. Be Thea naked and smashed a Hole in her head. Police retrieved a Hammer two nails with blood on them and a Kitchen knife from the Beth East car the spokesman said. He did not comment on whether mrs. Bethea had been sexually attacked. Her body was found in Bushes beside the Road. There was blood everywhere. One of mrs. Betheay a shoes was found in the trunk of the car. The other was on the passenger seat police said they found evidence of a Small fire farther up the Road apparently used to destroy a pair of yellow plastic gloves. Injured 9 arrested As Paris police quell riots from wire reports. Paris a police fired tear Gas to disperse Youthful rioters who threw Molotov cocktails and rocks Friday torching a store and several cars in a parisian suburb where an 18-Ycar-old of Arab origin was shot and killed by a supermarket guard earlier this week. The clashes began shortly before Midnight thursday at Sar Trouville and lasted for three hours before police brought the situation under police officers two firefighters and one demonstrator were injured. Nine youths were a a a v. A three Story furniture store was gutted and several automobiles set afire during the disturbances. Qadhafi opens Border Cairo Egypt a libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi on Friday Tore Down a British built Frontier Post saying the egyptian libyan Border no longer existed and egyptians and libyans Are free now to move from one country to the other. Qadhafi made the remarks at Mousaad near libyans Mediterranean City of Obruk and egyptian Border area to Mark the 21th anniversary of the evacuation of the last British troops from Obruk. His remarks were broadcast by Tripoli radio and monitored in Cairo. Using a Bulldozer Qadhafi destroyed a Gate built 20 years ago by the British near the egyptian Border and a visa Check Point declaring the Border Between Libya and Egypt his Strong neighbor to the East a no longer existed a the radio station reported. / leftists claim Izmir blasts Izmir Turkey a a leftist group claimed responsibility for setting off two bombs at a stale Gas station in Izmir. The bombs caused damage but no injuries the sem official Anatolia news Agency reported. Dev sol an underground leftist organization claimed responsibility in. A Telephone Call to Anatolia. V Dev sol has made More than 30 attacks Over the past three months some aimed at americans in turkeys three biggest cities Ankara Istanbul and Izmir. In their propaganda the leftists have attacked turkeys role in nato and the Gulf War. A Rock stars attend funeral Ripley England a some of Britain a leading Rock stars were among the 90 people attending the funeral thursday of Eric Clapton a 4-year-old son who died last week after falling from a new York City apartment building. Conor Clapton a coffin was covered by tulips and Jasmine during the service at St. Mary mag Daviene Church in Clapton a Hometown of Ripley 15 Miles Northwest of London. Those attending the funeral included Phil Collins George Harrison and members of Clapton a current band. Clapton in a dark suit and sunglasses was subdued during the 30-minute service and comforted italian actress Lori Del Santo 31, the child smother
