European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes. Saturday August 17, 1991sunken Barge located off China wearing protective clothing two British Navy crewmen aboard the Plover search for survivors Friday of an Oil exploration Barge that Sank in the South China sea. Hong Kong up rescuers located an Oil exploration Barge Friday that Sank in typhoon Force winds off Hong Kong. But searchers failed to find a decompression chamber holding four deep sea divers who were feared dead after oxygen in the device ran out. Rescue coordinator Trevor Barry said a new count of survivors and victims indicated 172 men aboard the american owned Barge that Sank thursday were rescued 13 were killed and 10 were missing including the four occupants of a diving Bell being used As a decompression chamber. He said no survivors and no bodies were recovered in a full Day of searching the turbulent South China sea on Friday and Hopes were fading of finding any More survivors in the water. Barry said searchers located the sunken Barge late Friday morning and launched a Remote controlled underwater camera in Hopes of finding and recovering the diving chamber. Three of the missing divers were British and the fourth was a new Sealander a government spokeswoman said. She said the Barge Sank in water at least 200 feet deep. The panamanian registered Oil construction Barge was owned by Mcdermott International a new Orleans based Marine construction fim working out of Singapore. A the sea state is still quite rough a said Michael Ellis a helicopter Pilot with the Hong Kong auxiliary air Force. A it is possible that there is still someone alive out there but obviously As time goes on the Chance gets less and rescuers in two helicopters and one fixed Wing aircraft repeatedly crisscrossed the massive search area throughout the Day Friday without Success. Workers plucked More than 170 people alive from the wind churned water during a Daylong air and sea search thursday Many survivors criticized the Captain of the Oil exploration Barge for heading out to sea with a typhoon approaching. A we knew about the typhoon about 48 hours before it hit a said a British Crew member. A in my opinion we were in trouble from minute Barry said the american Captain of the Barge identified As Billy Gene Young was among the victims of the sinking. His body was recovered thursday. A government spokesman said 112 of those aboard the Barge were malaysian and there also were 26 filipinos nine americans eight australians seven britons five singaporeans six new sealanders and one each from Egypt Thailand Germany Canada and Indonesia. The nationalities of 17 others were not known. Computer failure helps suspect in iranian s death avoid arrest world Geneva apr an International Hunt for the killers of former iranian prime minister Shapour Bakh Tiar was stepped up Friday after a computer failure helped one of the iranian suspects in the aug. 6 Paris assassination escape arrest in Geneva. The suspect Ali Rad Vakili had spent monday and tuesday night at a downtown hotel carrying a turkish passport with the name Musa Kocer. His hotel registration card was inserted into the police computer As part of a regular Check to Sec whether names of guests Are on the wanted list. But a computer failure delayed the process until wednesday when the suspect had already checked out of the hotel police spokesman Thierry Magnin said. There has been no Trace of another suspect Mohammed Azadi who had earlier been travelling with Vakili. The third iranian far quorum Boyer Ahmadi vanished immediately after the stabbing. His car was later found in Paris with traces of blood in it. Warrants for the arrest of All three have been distributed to police posts and Border control Points throughout Switzerland and photos of the wanted men were posted in Geneva buses and streetcars thursday afternoon. Italian and German authorities also have joined in the search for the suspects according to Swiss press reports. Bakhtiar was killed at his Home outside Paris on aug. 6, according to the Coroner. Vakili and Azadi had been briefly detained by Swiss police when they tried to enter the country with forged Swiss visas aug. 7, one Day before Bakhtiari a body was found. They were fined 200 Swiss francs $133 and were returned to French police who released them because their French visas were valid. French police monday found a Wallet belonging to the suspects in a town 15 Miles from the Swiss Border. There were no clues on How Vakili managed to Cross into Switzerland unnoticed. Bakhtiar an outspoken critic of the Shah of Iran a policies who had spent five years in prison during his Rule was named prime minister less than a week before the Shah left Iran and yielded Power to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. Khomeini denounced his appointment As illegal. In 1980, Bakhtiar survived an attempt on his life that left a neighbor and French police officer dead. Iranian exiles have blamed his assassination on the iranian government. Iran has denied the charges. Pope begins five Day visit to help revive catholicism in Hungary Budapest Hungary apr Pope John Paul ii arrived Friday for a five Day visit seeking to revive the roman Catholic Faith in Hungary after four decades of communism. The pontiff was welcomed by president Arpad Grencz and members of his government including prime minister. Jozsef Antall on his arrival from his native Poland where he began his latest travels. A both the polish and hungarian Peoples can stand with their Heads raised High before the whole world because these two nations inflicted the first wounds on the dictatorial world system a Grencz said of communism �?o1 have come to you dear Brothers to help you with this tiring Labory of rebuilding a democratic society said the pontiff Clad in White vestments at a ceremony broadcast from the Budapest Airport by state television. Before leaving krak6w, the polish City where he once was a popular archbishop John Paul called on the newly United Europe to embrace Christian values anew. A after the extremely painful experience of this Century after the fall of ideologies which bore fruit in the cruelty of totalitarian systems it is essential to reach Back to the Christian roots a the pontiff said. It was John Paul a fourth pilgrimage to Poland since then archbishop Karol Wojtyla was elevated to the papacy in 1978. The pontiff made an eight Day trip around Poland in Early june and a four Day visit this week highlighted by a Joyful meeting with More than 1 million pilgrims at the Vatican sponsored world youth Day in Czestochowa. He also visited his parents and brother a grave in Krakow and returned to Wadowicz the Market town near Krakow where he was born and water reported at chernobyl from wire reports Moscow a nuclear safety inspectors Are investigating a leakage of contaminated water during repairs at the chernobyl nuclear Plant the government said in a statement Friday. A leak in a system of exterior Cooling pipes allowed Low radioactive water to seep into the building housing the plants second reactor on thursday said Olga Chernova spokeswoman for the governments nuclear safety oversight committee. The reactor was not operating at the time of the Accident she said. There was no contamination outside the building no damage and no injuries she said. Chernobyl was the site of the worlds worst nuclear Power disaster. An explosion and fire on april 26,1986, spewed radiation Over a wide area of the Ukraine and the neighbouring republics of Russia and explodes in Rome Rome a a homemade bomb caused slight damage to the front door of the Spanish cultural Institute Early Friday in the latest in a series of attacks against Spanish targets in Italy police said. Officials said that a bomb placed inside a leather briefcase and made up of a 6-Pound Gas canister a timer and five Spray cans went off a 2 20 . Friday in front of the Institute. There were no injuries police said. No group has claimed s bodies found Lima Peru a peruvian authorities have uncovered the bodies of at least 50 child labourers some of them apparently shot or tortured in a Jungle plot in a Gold mining Region near the brazilian Border reports said. The newspaper Al Comerio said thursday that authorities found the bodies mostly those of youngsters Between the Ages of 10 and 14, in the Madre de Dios Jungle 420 Miles East of Lima. A local government official Victor Solorio was quoted As saying the children had been conscripted into working on Gold dredges working Rivers of the Region. He said they often Are a inhumanely exploited or drown in the River a
