European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 9. 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3pope urges angolan rebels to keep peace Cabinda Angola apr at an Oil Rich enclave harassed by secessionist guerrillas Pope John Paul ii on monday urged rebels to Lay Down their weapons and join the process which has brought an uneasy peace to Angola for the past year. Piny Cabinda wedged Between the Congo River and a slice of Zaire produces 80 percent of the Oil that makes Angola the largest sub saharan producer after Nigeria. The Oil provides the country with 90 percent of its foreign Exchange through joint exploitation with american italian and French companies. The separatist front for the liberation of the enclave of Cabinda or flex has warned it will disrupt angolans first free elections scheduled for sept. 29-30. Earlier this year buses belonging to Chevron Oil company of san Francisco were burned by rebels but there were no injuries. Chevron and son Angol the angolan state Oil company operate the Cabinda Gulf co. As a joint venture. It is the major Oil producer in the enclave. Although flex had said it could not guarantee the Popes safety during his three hour Stopover at Cabinda Airport there were no incidents. The crowd including 50 . Oil workers was quiet and disciplined. A your Homeland this great Angola needs work and Solidarity from everyone to rebuild itself. The reconstruction will not Progress without peace. I Hope that All will help solve the problems of Cabinda without violence but with peace and dialogue respecting the people and their desires but looking also at the necessities of the entire country Quot the Pope said. The use of a greater angolan was in effect a Rebuff to the rebels who seek Independence of the enclave a an Independence that could make it Richer than Angola itself with an income of More than $3 billion yearly. On May 31 last year angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos and Unita rebel chief Jonas Sav Imbi signed a portuguese brokered peace Accord in Lisbon after 16 years of civil War. Both sides reject Cabinda a Independence. At the height of the civil War cuban soldiers protected the installations of the Oil companies not Only from flex guerrillas but also from .-backed Unita rebels in a strange twist of a cold War conflict. More than 4,000 Oil workers Are based in the 30,000-population enclave. Most of the workers live in self contained compounds with Access to a nine Hole Golf course for sunday Breaks. Monster truck hits crowd kills boy hurts 13 others Galesburg Mich. Apr a monster truck veered into the crowd at a Speedway killing a 6-year-old Hoy and injuring at least 13 people. The truck went out of control during a race late sunday at Galesburg motor Speedway said Kalamazoo county sheriff s dispatcher John Loskota. Todd l. Abbott of Kalamazoo was killed in the Accident. I he dead boys name Wasny to immediately released. The trucks Driver Doug Harland 31 another Man and a 13-year-old boy were listed in fair condition. At least 10 others were treated at hospitals and released. Witnesses said the truck jumped a Row of cars during the race landed on its left front wheel and turned sharply toward the crowd. The truck ran Over a Stock car jumped a Wall and hit the grandstand said Deputy Rusty Shelburne. It was the second time this year that a Spectator has been killed by an out of control monster truck. In March an 82-year-old Man was crushed by a truck at an event in Niagara Falls . Monster truck races began in the mid-1980s As an offshoot of truck and tractor pulls. Drivers give the trucks More horsepower and oversized tires and race them Over piles of wrecked vehicles. A amps. Ken George Petty officers 1st class Tim Taber right and 2nd class David Aucoin ready a Mission plan for p-3c Orion flying out of Lajos Field in the azores. The two Navy Aero Raphers arc assigned to a unit in Rota Spain. Navy gears for draw Down of most operations in azores by j. King or Tiger Mediterranean Bureau Lajes Field azores a the . Navy will soon Start drawing Down operations and May close the bulk of those on the portuguese Island of Ter Scira within the next few years. A within the next two or three years the Navy at Lajes As we know it will be gone Quot said . Navy capt. James m. Piotrowski commanding officer of the naval air facility at Lajes Field on Terceira. Quot it the naval air facility May possibly be in caretaker status if not totally gone a said Piotrowski who cautioned that the draw Down so far consists Only of working plans. The Navy s plan Piotrowski said a is All tied to the draw Down worldwide and is part of the peace  the air Force expects minimal cuts in the azores. The army a Only unit there the terminal transportation unit will experience a dramatic draw Down in the coming months. The Navy is the Only service represented in the azores in which a variety of units will be affected by cuts. The services anti submarine warfare operations Center at Lajos Field is scheduled to Start drawing Down at the end of september. A it could be Down to caretaker status by april of next year. It could close Down a Piotrowski said. A your aircraft intermediate maintenance division will Start closing Down in Calendar �?T93. We will Start losing people from  next Spring. We will probably close maintenance by the Middle of next year a Piotrowski said. The naval aviator said the main purpose of the naval air facility at Lajes is to support anti submarine warfare in the Atlantic. A that ask has been reduced to basically very Little or Zero activity on our part in this part of the Ocean a Piotrowski said. Anti submarine duty has been performed since 1962 from Lajes one of four . Bases charged with such a Mission in the Atlantic. The other three Are in Bermuda Iceland and Rota Spain. They have the combined ability to cover All but 3 million Square Miles of the Central portion of the Atlantic Ocean. That area is left to p-3c Orion anti Summa is Rine patrol aircraft operating from Lajes. But with the decreasing undersea threat offered by what is left of the former soviet Union p-3 s Are no longer permanently based at Lajes operating from there Only sporadically. A i can to see a Squadron of i-3cs Here regularly or permanently deployed in the future. What we will see Are p-3cs coming into Lajes for exercises out of Rota and Iceland Quot Piotrowski said. The anti submarine warfare operation centers at Lajes and in Bermuda Are being targeted for draw Down to free up people and resources to staff a new Center at Roosevelt roads Piotrowski puerto Rico Accord ing to Piotrowski the senior . Navy officer at i Ajes. Piotrowski said the Center at Roosevelt roads will he used for drug interdiction. A a that a where the action is Quot Piotrowski said in Lerring to the anti drug Colfort. The naval air facility at , located about 2,200 Miles East of new York City and 850 Miles West of Lisbon Portugal a capital has approximately 16 officers and 200 enlisted  killed in attempt to Hijack soviet plane Moscow up a a police commando sneaked aboard an Aeroflot Jet with 113 passengers Early monday and killed a Man armed w Ith a hand grenade. 1 he Man had threatened to blow up the plane if it were not flown to Turkey. No one else was Hurt in the incident reported russian television. T he russian state news Agency itar Tass said a Man identified As Ramazan Daiev 30, demanded that the Tu-154 jetliner change course for Turkey As it neared the end of a flight to Moscow from Grozny in the chechen Region of Russia. Crew members landed the plane at Moscow a Vnuk ovo Airport despite the hijackers threat and a special Interior ministry police squad surrounded the plane on the runway shortly alter mid night. T to hours of negotiations with the Hijacker were unsuccessful and at 2 40 . A police commando entered the plane through the cockpit and shot and killed the Hijacker with a machine gun said russian to. Police said Daiev was armed with a hand grenade. There was no explanation Why Daiev w anted to Fly to Turkey