European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b 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 world 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. Parly with warning of coup Moscow apr Alexander Yakovlev once among president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a closest advisers resigned from the communist party on Friday with a dramatic warning that hard line leaders have been plotting a coup Yakovlev quit the party As it prepared to expel him for his role in the formation last month of the democratic Reform movement a Loose coalition that May Challenge the party for Power. He is the latest of several leading reformers to quit or be expelled from the party amid a deepening split in its ranks Between hard liners and advocates of a free Market democracy. A i would Tike to warn society that a influential stalinist group has formed within the leadership Core of the party speaking against the political course since 1985, and slowing social Progress in the country a Yakovlev said in his resignation letter according to the. Independent inter fax news Agency. He added that a the party leadership despite its decorations has freed itself from the democratic Wing in the party and is making preparations for social revenge a party and state  Yakovlev 67, said that in these conditions Quot serving the cause of democratic transformation within the framework of the communist party of the soviet Union is impossible and amoral and so i announce my departure from the ranks of the cps. Thus my conscience  from Gorbachev a ascension to Power in 1985 until last year Yakovlev was among his senior advisers and was widely viewed As the architect of his policy of Glas nost or openness. He is a former Secretary of the party scentral committee and was a member of the politburo the party Stop body until last year when his influence waned As Gorbachev turned toward the hard liners. He resigned from Gorbachev a staff in july when he took the new Post of chairman of Moscow s City Assembly a largely ceremonial Post in the capital s reformist government. The party s disciplinary Central control commission recommended thursday that Yakovlev be expelled from the party. The democratic Reform movement is headed by Eduard Shevardnadze who resigned As foreign minister last december warning that the country was slipping toward dictatorship. He quit the party in july. The democratic Reform movement plans a conference in september or october to decide whether to Register As a political party and become a formal opponent of the communist party. Some of its leaders have left the party and some have not. Pope begins five Day visit to help revive catholicism in Hungary Budapest Hungary a 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 an Tull on his arrival from his native Poland where he began his latest travels a both the polish and hungarian Peoples Ean 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. A i 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 slate television. Before leaving krak6w, the polish City where he once was u 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 krak6w 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