European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday March 23, 1992 the stars an6 stripes a Page 3u.n. Team sees iraqi arms graveyard Manama Bahrain apr . Inspectors visited a weapons a a graveyard sunday where Iraq has claimed to have destroyed substantial quantities of hidden missiles and chemical weapons in june to comply with world body orders. The 35-member inspection team arrived saturday in Baghdad to verify some of the disclosures Iraq made last week in an attempt to head off a growing confrontation with the United nations. Iraq has failed to fully cooperate with . Security Council resolutions that ended the persian Gulf War and mandated that it must surrender All weapons of mass destruction and dismantle the factories and laboratories where they were made. The United states and Britain have threatened possible military strikes against weapons installations unless Iraq proves More cooperative. On sunday a . Official reached by satellite Telephone in Baghdad said the . Inspection team went out Early in the morning to visit the site. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity said he did not know the Sites location. On saturday evening the team held lengthy meetings with iraqi officials mainly at the ministry of Industry. Before leaving Bahrain on saturday team Leader Derek Boothby said his task was to verify iraqi claims that it destroyed substantial quantities of scud missiles chemical weapons and other arms in june. Bahrain is the regional Headquarters of the . Special commission charged with overseeing destruction of Iraq s weapons of mass destruction. The . Team also is to receive iraqi proposals for destroying missile production and repair facilities and it May destroy some weapons Boothby said. Iraq agreed last week to destroy missile production equipment dropping earlier demands to be allowed to convert these to civilian , Kohl Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany right greets first lady Barbara Bush upon his arrival saturday at the presidential Retreat in Camp David my. Hanne lore Kohl wife of the German Leader is at left. President Bush in Cowboy hat and Kohl planned to discuss ongoing International Trade China train collision kills at least 12 Beijing apr a passenger train and a freight train collided in Central China and derailed smashing into an apartment building and killing at least 12 people official news reports said sunday. Five other people were missing and feared dead according to the daily Renmin Ribao. It said 34 people were injured eight seriously. The Accident took place before Dawn on saturday in a train station in , which is located in Hunan province. The no. 211 passenger train an express heading South from Nanjing to Canton with about 1,300 passengers collided with freight train no. 1310 at we Idun station in Zhizhou. None of the reports explained what led to the crash. The state run Xinhua news Agency said two locomotives five passenger cars and eight freight cars derailed and overturned onto a nearby residence for rail workers. A Xinhua photograph showed a derailed passenger car lying partly on the roof of the demolished one Story Brick apartment building. The other end was on top of a second car. Only a few parts of the buildings Walls remained standing. Xinhua said three of the dead were train Drivers. Also killed were relatives of rail workers living in the building that was hit and a peasant who was crushed by a derailed train car. Railways minister i Senmao went to the scene to oversee Rescue work by soldiers and police Xinhua said. China a state run railway system carries about 940 million passengers a year. Trains Are frequently overloaded. The last reported fatal train Accident was last year when a soldering cigarette caused passengers to panic and jump from a moving train. Fifteen people were says it plans to ignore possible . Sanctions Rome apr Libya on sunday shrugged off impending . Sanctions saying it would simply ignore hem. Libyans foreign ministry said the country will a not be concerned with and will give no credence to any Neasure or Resolution which May be adopted. Bemused this would constitute a dangerous precedent and a flagrant violation of the . Charter a state owned libyan radio reported. The ministry added that if some countries applied the sanctions a then history cannot write that Libya should implement the consequences of such dangerous deviation reported the radio. The United states France and Britain have drafted a Resolution that would Cut off commercial air traffic and bar sales of weapons and aircraft parts to Libya As Well As urge nations to expel most libyan diplomats. The sanctions Are aimed at punishing Libya for refusing to hand Over six libyans suspected of being involved in the bombings of pan am flight 103 in 1988 and a French Airliner in 1989. . Experts arrive in Israel for Patriot probe to reports Jerusalem a a . Team of experts has arrived to look into reports hat Israel sold american made Patriot missiles or missile technology to China Israel television reported saturday. The . Embassy confirmed that the earn was coining but declined to elaborate. The team is headed by state depart nent officials and includes investigators Tom the defense department and the . Armed forces. Team members will examine the two Patriot missile batteries n Israel Israel television said. Israeli defense minister Moshe Arens acknowledged Israel has an arms Trade agreement with China but denied any violation of . Law. Arens has promised full cooperation with the investigators. Abihu Ben nun the recently retired commander of israelis air Force called the accusations a a it was not done so those who Are saying All those things either want to disrupt that special relation with the United states or done to know what they Are talking about a Ben nun said saturday. Suburban pot growers nabbed Inverness 111. Up Federal agents raided a multimillion Dollar marijuana factory run inside an elegant House in a quiet suburb seizing up to 5,000 plants and arresting two people in what authorities called a record drug bust. Michael Coffey 40, and his Girlfriend Lilliana ditch 27, were held saturday in the metropolitan correctional Center in Chicago after what the Federal drug enforcement administration called the largest indoor marijuana growing seizure in Illinois history. Police and Federal agents Friday found 3,000 to 5,000 High Grade marijuana plants with an estimated Street value of $15 million in the $650, pm Home in an affluent suburb Northwest of Chicago. A Well in a surprised a one of Coffey a neighbors said. A it was a perfect setup for this Guy. He had a Nice three of the rooms in the House had been converted into environmentally controlled growing rooms
