European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 19, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9toll climbs to 15 in Barge Hong Kong apr the two latest bodies recovered after a typhoon Sank an Oil Barge were divers who became trapped in the vessels diving Bell during the Accident that killed at least 15 people officials said sunday. Two planes and 10 police patrol boats continued searching Hong Kong a coastal Waters sunday for seven other crewmen who Are missing. The Singapore owned Derrick Barge 29, carrying 195 workers on an Oil exploration project Sank 65 Miles East of Hong Kong on thursday when it was battered by typhoon Fred. It is unrealistic to expect any survivors world to be found at this stage but no one shall be happier than me to be proved wrong a said Trevor c. Berry spokesman for the Hong Kong Marine department. He said the search was being concentrated closer to Hong Kong because bodies of the missing May have been washed ashore by Strong winds and rough seas. Berry said 173 people including 11 americans were rescued. Fifteen others including Barge superintendent Billy Young of Weatherford Texas were confirmed dead. The body of diver John Lyons a new Sealander was recovered by a Rescue ship thursday night. The body was identified saturday when the Rescue ship returned to Hong Kong. The body of the other diver Terry Dennison of England was recovered saturday when it was spotted 20 Miles East of Hong Kong. George Stapleton a representative of Mcdermott South East Asia pet Ltd. Of Singapore theorized that the door of a decompression chamber that served As the diving Bell burst open. It could have burst when the pressure suddenly changed As the chamber plunged toward the sea bed after the Barge capsized Stapleton said. A the men probably drowned and did not die of asphyxiation Quot he said. A a that a our Best  the four divers were undergoing decompression in the chamber after working on newly Laid Oil and Gas pipes. Officials said they were two Days into a four Day ascent from the sea bed when the typhoon struck. Eleven of the 15 bodies recovered have been identified. The victims also included five malaysians and one each from Mainland China the Philippines and Singapore. Mcdermott owns the 1,500-ton Barge. Liam Kearns left and David Madigan remained in St. Colmans Cathedral on sunday where they sought Protection. 2 men under Ira death threat receive Sanctuary in Cathedra Man kills 3 in Lebanon with dynamite grenades from wire reports Saida Lebanon a a Man went berserk in the Southern port City of Saida on sunday hurling grenades and dynamite Sticks at random. Police said three people were killed and eight were wounded before the gunman was killed by lebanese troops. A police spokesman said the assailant a member of a disarmed leftist militia that controlled Saida during Lebanon a civil War climbed onto a rooftop in the City a Kanaya suburb in the evening to stage his attack. A the had a Bagful of grenades and dynamite Sticks which he threw at pedestrians below him a said the spokesman. He said the dead included two members of the leftist Nas Serite militia and a woman  tests missile Jerusalem a Israel successfully tested Over the weekend a ship launched missile designed to intercept incoming enemy rockets Israel aircraft industries announced sunday. The test was the first at sea for the a bar aka missile developed for the israeli Navy the Iai statement said. Israel also is developing a ground launched antimissile missile called the Arrow. Development efforts were stepped up after the persian Gulf War when  Patriot missiles were rushed to Israel to intercept iraqi scud  returned to sea Brisbane Australia a hundreds of volunteers and onlookers cheered saturday when rescuers dragged a Young whale beached on australians Eastern coast Back to sea. The 30-foot Humpback whale was stranded Friday. Marine authorities state emergency service workers police and residents spent the night planning its return to sea. Volunteers poured water on the whale to keep it Cool. An excavator was called in saturday morning to dig a Trench to ease the whales passage at High tale and a nearby sea world amusement Park sent a boat for the towing. Rescuers built a special harness and struggled to fit it around the whale then towed it Back out into the Coral  gets of to travel Jerusalem a a palestinian actor initially barred from touring Europe and North America with a play he wrote about his detention in an israeli prison Camp has received permission to travel his attorney said sunday. Israeli authorities had refused to Issue a permit for Nidal Khatib an actor from the West Bank Village of Dura to travel with the company of his play Ansar named after the prison Camp. Khatib 27, was told he would Only be granted i permission if he agreed not to return to Israel for three years. But his israeli attorney Leah Tsemel said Mil i itary authorities compromised and allowed Kha Tib to leave the country provided he does not re i turn for one year. Belfast Northern Ireland up a two men who survived a a High Qoon death threat from the Ira on saturday by seeking Sanctuary in a Cathedral remained under Church Protection sunday the roman Catholic Church said. Liam Kearns and David Madigan escaped from their Ira executioners by seeking Sanctuary in St. Colmans Cathedral in Newry 40 Miles South of Belfast after the Ira branded them and four other men  the Ira accused the men of operating a brutal Protection Racket in the staunch nationalist Border town of Newry. The statement said the six men had beaten people in the Community with Iron bars extorting Money for failing to pay for Protection. The Ira had named them that if they did not leave the country by noon saturday they would face a military action a a warning that they would be executed. Three of them have fled to secret addresses in Britain and the Ira said sunday that the death threat against the fourth Man due to marry in two weeks was lifted after he signed a confession. Moscow apr two soviet cosmonauts returned to Earth on sunday after completing a three month Mission on the orbiting Mir space station Tass reported. Anatoly arts Barsky and Sergei Kri Kalev conducted several experiments while in space primarily in astronomy biology Medicine and technology the state news Agency reported. They also took six spacewalks Over this period Tass said. The two cosmonauts blasted off from the Bai Konur launching Center in Kazakhstan on May 18 with Britain a first astronaut Helen Sharman. Their spacecraft docked with the Mir station which Kearns 23, and Madigan 19, Are refusing to leave the Cathedral until the death threat against them has been lifted. The Leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland Cardinal Cahal Daly granted an Appeal by the menus families and anti Ira supporters to give the two men permission to remain in Sanctuary. But he told them that they could not remain there indefinitely. The cathedrals curate father Kevin Cullen said he had been told that the Ira would allow the men to leave their Sanctuary in the next 48 hours to negotiate their Freedom. A i was told by sinn fein the political Wing of the irate situation will be very difficult to resolve. Because of the publicity 1 think the Ira has been put into a very defensive position a Cullen said. A was a result of that i cannot see them easily lifting the ban on these two men. We were told they could Send someone to renegotiate their entry Back into the  was occupied by cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyeva and Musa Sanarov. On May 26, Afanasyeva and Sanarov returned to Earth with Sharman while arts Barsky and Kri Kalev remained to Complete repairs aboard the 5-year-old space station. Sharman a former chemist with Mars confectionary Ltd., beat out 13,000 applicants in a contest that advertised a astronaut wanted no experience  she trained 17 months for her eight Days in space during which she performed medical and agricultural experiments. In october another Crew including an austrian researcher will be launched. 2 cosmonauts finish 3-month Mission