European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 b the stars and stripes thursday june 6, to l Spanish officer killed in Madrid area car blast from wire reports Madrid Spain a an air Force officer was killed wednesday when his car exploded As he turned on the ignition police said. Four girls were injured in the blast believed to have been carried out by Basque separatists. The incident occurred at 8 30 . In a Madrid suburb. Although no one claimed responsibility for the killing police believe it was the work of Eta the Basque separatist organization that has taken responsibility for the deaths of 17 people so far this year it abductors hold executive Rio de Janeiro Brazil a the director of five coca cola plants in Brazil has been kidnapped by a band of criminals and is being held for a �$2,5 million Ransom police said tuesday. Corinne coffin 46, a brazilian woman with american born parents was kidnapped May 28, but it was Only recently made Public because the kidnappers had told the victims family to keep quiet said commissioner Otavio Seiler head of the police departments organized crime division Algeria s president Calls emergency halts of a Algiers Algeria t cracking Down on a growing Challenge from Muslim fund mentalists. President Berry a old Chad i declared a state of emergency wednesday arid postponed the country a first multiparty parliamentary elections. Armoured vehicles were _ sent into the capital in the Creek i sme which followed nearly weets of violent demonstrations by seep porters of the islamic Sahara. Front a the front had called a Lederail strike that widened this week Ard suggested that voters Boycott the elections which had been set for june 27. Thousands of Dermon Strates filled the streets on tuesday Ami is a in it Algiers h a \ Tunisia v stale of emergency declared it it m Algeria Ual a air Tii teb ii Art try a least seven people were killed and dozens cum Ito to clashes a dish Security forces who opened fire oct . More Street Battles occurred after she a Exner Genty was announced but casualty Fig. A is a variable. The president a amp of Aroi me u. U. It m in Marion of Bis prime minister. Moulded ilm a u. O seen a gradual Disman Tina it to in a who bad Over or Manas svs tem in this country that won Independence from France in 1962. The state of emergency which suspended civil liberties was met by More violent protests of the Type that had swept the streets and plazas of the capital for the previous 11 Days. As Chad i sent in armoured vehicles members of the islamic salvation front used rocks sabers and firebombs to Bat lie police who fought mainly with tear Gas and live ammunition. Demonstrators hurled firebombs at police stations and the Justice Hall. Police vehicles As private cars burned in the streets wednesday and soldiers manned key intersections and guarded government buildings. W most shops and Small businesses Vvera. Dosed but it was not Clear whether this. Signalled new support for the fundamentalist group or fear of trouble. On May 25, the front called for an unlimited general strike and launched a series of protests seeking to Force a Chad i to hold presidential elections at the same time As the legislative vote. Y until this week the strike Call went unheeded. Niger a nes Sidon Lebanon apr israeli jets blasted guerrilla bases in Southern Lebanon for a third straight Day wednesday. The attacks came barely 12 hours after the jewish state mounted its biggest attack in Lebanon in nine years. Police said three guerrillas were killed and nine wounded in the latest raid where warplanes targeted palestinian and leftist militia bases in Hills overlooking the Eastern Hank of this Southern port. A police spokesman said four israeli jets fired six rockets on a base of Ahmed Jibril s popular front Tor the liberation of Palestine Genopal command in Hills above Sidon a Eastern flank at 12 30 . Two other rockets blasted a base of the syrian social nationalist party a leftist lebanese faction that advocates the merger of Lebanon Syria Jordan pre Israel Palestine Iraq and Kuwait into a a greater the pulp go has been linked by Western intelligence officials to a de Cembor 19hs bomb explosion aboard a pan am jumbo Jet Over Lockerbie. , that killed 240 say at least 15 people were killed and 62 wounded in tuesday s three hour air assaults that targeted bases of other palestinian guerrilla fictions and the Plo Allied assents lebanese militia. Four people were killed and wounded in an israeli air raid monday that destroyed the military command of Fatah the mainstream action of Yasser Arafat a Palestine Liber-atior0rganization. The attacks were seen by president Elias Al Rawin a government As a threat a . Efforts to resolve the Arab fsr Aeh conflict and a Challenge to a newly signed cooperation pact be tween Lebanon and Syria israelis main Arab foe. The raids also coincide with the Iri rect. Anniversary of Israel s la 82 invasion of Lebanon which forced the Eva Wuagon of the Plo from its main Middle East Power base. An estimated Ham Core Plo guerrillas have filtered Back Tare base in Southern Lebanon. Pope Calls for free Lithuania during meeting in Poland Lomza Poland up Pope John Paul 11 met with lithuanian government and Church officials wednesday and said the soviet Republic should join european nations As a tree country participants said. A Kaxmiere Prunskiene former prime minister of the breakaway Baltic re pub lie said in an interview that the Pope talked privately for 3 1 minutes with the delegation during a meeting at the Bishop s Palace that was not on his Ottie Ial schedule. A the problems of Lithuania should he solved in a peaceful Way a. Prunskiene quoted the Pope As saying. A Lithuania should join the european family of nations As a free country. According to another delegation member the Pope condemned the soviet unions forced annexation of Lithuania., along with Latvia and Estonia in in do. The Delegate said the Pope also noted that even the soviets now say the soviet German agreement that led to the annexation w As illegal. The problem of Lithuania a considered one of biggest us aes in punning i papal trip to the soviet l a n. The Pope told the i discussions with Moscow oboe n v Mility of a papal visit next year he s rasing the Issue of in Huankui. Prunskiene Aid sire t. In the go re All lithuanians Are w a a a r a come to Vilnius the a Geo c Quot if they Are . A Ali _. Me Rne. The former Premier qua me am. U Sun inc. Flight from destruction t a k a in ii inti re. If a fire engine race to escape a volcanic flow roaring Down Floine c i Mam Stu inv of , Japan. The Volcano which erupted Mon a in or in. A Cust a a deaths with Many bodies charred beyond recognition. To a to. Of Ngum wednesday by tremors and experts have not ruled out Tor a i inuit of Stu 4.-Isf-foot Volcano about 600 Miles Southwest of Tokyo
