European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Blast injures at least 15, damages Banks offices from wire reports Bogota Colombia a a powerful car bomb injured at least 15 people late thursday and damaged Banks and other buildings in an affluent Section of the capital police said. It was the first major bomb blast in Bogota in years and came just three Days after fugitive drug Kingpin Pablo Escobar threatened in a letter to the nation s attorney general to renew a terrorism Campaign. The car packed with about 165 pounds of explosives was thrown More than zoo feet by the blast among the buildings damaged were several High Rise offices and Banks including a Branch of Citibank. Windows were knocked out five blocks from the blast site. Helicopter crash kills 4 Novara Italy a a helicopter crashed during a test flight thursday near a military Airfield outside Novara killing All four a coptic aboard police in this Northwestern italian City said. The dead were employed by Agusta a helicopter company that was testing the new he 101 Model said col. Alberto Bollotti of the Carabiniero paramilitary police in Novara. The cause of the crash was under investigation to ads must pipe Down Paris a fed up with to stations that blast viewers with ads up to four times louder than the shows the government wednesday ordered broadcasters to turn Down the volume. In a decree the higher Council for broadcasting ordered that commercials a not exceed the average sound volume of the rest of the  a recently completed Council study says to ads Are louder than programs a in 95 percent of the eases measured on All  of probing f-4g mishap on Span Dahlem runway Spagnda Willim All Germany a amps air Force officials Are investigating an Accident that occurred Here wednesday when an f-4g phantom 11 veered off the runway a spokeswoman said Friday. The Pilot and electronic warfare officer aboard the aircraft whose names were not released were not injured said tech. Sgt. Sandra Whipps a base spokeswoman. Investigators arc not saying yet if the Accident was due to Pilot error a mechanical malfunction or the weather. A they done to state a cause until they Complete their investigation Quot Whipps said. The Accident occurred shortly before noon wednesday As the f-4g was Landing Whipps said. The plane veered off the runway to the right travelling about 600 feet before coming to a Slop in a Grassy area t Here was no fire or fuel leak Whipps said. A Crane had to lift the aircraft from its resting place about 12 hours later because of heavy Rains that turned the Grassy area to mud. The aircraft was taken to a hangar for a cleaning and further inspection. The f4gs Are known for the so called wild weasel Mission which involves destroying enemy radar Sites thus crippling anti aircraft artillery and surface to air missile Sites. Service member s wife 20, Dies after lengthy illness Mannheim Germany a the wife of a service i neuter died wednesday after an extended illness.  m. Newsome 20, died at the University of Heidelberg Hospital according to a statement Friday front the 1st Arnulf it in. The illness was not disclosed. Newsome is survived by her husband spec. Martin p. Newsome of 5th Len 77lli Armor 1st army div in Mannheim. She was a native of Killeen Texas. A memorial service is planned for 4 . Monday at Benjamin Franklin cd Lac Chapel in Mannheim Berlin apr widespread criticism has forced Chancellor Helmut Kohls coalition to drop a plan to Cut family benefits As part of a proposal to reduce the governments budget deficit. The Central Bank the Bundesbank has Bee pressing the government to reduce the deficit be Otic a cuts Germany a High interest rates which have been blamed by Many a coptic for the worsening recession in Europe. The bans announced after its weekly Council meeting thursday that the rates were unchanged. Kohls government announced wednesday that it planned modest budget savings by reducing the Kinder Geld a or children a Money Benefit a for families with annual incomes above $62,000. The Benefit now gives parents about $44 a month for each child whether a family is Rich or poor. A but the payment is an icon of the social welfare state and the announcement brought an immediate outcry from opposition politicians As Well As members about 50,000 people mass in the marketplace in downtown Stuttgart Germany on thursday As part of anti rightist demonstrations. Police estimated 100,000 pc vessel Sank a newspaper said thursday citing secret military documents. Sergei Premium s previously unreported death raised to four the number of people who died aboard the k-219 submarine when it Sank on oct. 6,1986, in the Atlantic about 1,000 Miles off North Carolina. The Accident was first reported by . Authorities and confirmed by the soviet Union. But soviet officials released virtually no details at the time except to say the submarine Sank several Days after a fire and that it posed no danger to the environment. The Brief soviet statement after the Accident said three Crew members died aboard the submarine. In its account thursday the trud newspaper said the soviet military had investigated whether the k-219 collided with a . Submarine before it Sank but had uncovered no evidence of a collision. The Yankee class submarine was carrying 15 strategic nuclear missiles and bad 113 sailors on Board when it left its Northern base on sept. 4, 1986, trud reported. Of Kohls governing coalition. Coalition member met late into the night before shelving the proposal. The coalition also reversed a plan to make High in come families ineligible for the governments childbearing Benefit which pays $373 a month for two years so a Parent can Stop working after a child is born. Instead the Benefit will be Cut slightly to $342 a month. Despite that Retreat the leftist opposition social democrats complained bitterly about proposed cuts in unemployment benefits and student support. The debate appears headed for gridlock in parliament. The social democrats have a majority in the upper House of parliament the bundesrat and say they will Block the budget cutting plan unless the a socially weak Quot Are spared civil servants and the self employed Start paying into unemployment insurance funds and the Bundesbank cuts interest rates. Pie participated in rallies and torchlight parades held in at least 50 other towns across Baden wort Temberg state. It said the submarine sustained an explosion in one of its missile shafts that caused a fire and released toxic gases. Several sailors who were inside the compartment inhaled the Yellowish toxic fumes and three died trud said. It said an emergency system was activated and shut Down one of the submarine s two reactors. But when Moscow finally ordered the vessel abandoned it became Clear that automatic devices could not lower the containment bars of the remaining reactor. Pre Minin and another Sailor it. Nikolai Belikov were sent into the hold to lower the bars manually. The hold was filled with toxic gases and temperatures that reached 158 to 176 degrees trud said. I lie two men managed to partially lower the bars before returning when Belikov suffered a heat stroke. Pre Minin went Down again and lowered the remaining bars. He became trapped when an Iron door to the hold jammed the report said. I he last Crew members and capt. Brit nov were evacuated two minutes before the submarine Sank trud said. Kohl bows to protests drops Benefit Cut plan i 7 \ s \ s a Saj it p a. A t a. A  Ltd 1 a. Ifeng Tamm a Quot i it a a j s v s a. If. T f r i.1tophil a l4.u Marc pol cd ii a a. To \ it f i i . A i a a v. A Siva t a it a it a b a it % t is v m. A a i k tit f a it a a a j it a a v Quot it a k it i y a v a 7 Amin ,. To i a it s v a ? t. A 1 \ anti rightist rally a soviet went Down with sub a a. 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