European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world thursday. April 28,1994 Jet May have stalled causing Japan disaster Nagoya Japan a the Pilot Ofa taiwanese Jet May have pulled up top fast after deciding to abort his Landing causing the plane to stall said an Engi Neer who joined investigators wednesday at the site of Japan s second worst aviation disaster. The China airlines a300-600r Airbus exploded and burned beside an Airport runway tuesday night. The crash killed262 people and seriously injured nine including a 3-year-old boy and his 6-year old brother whose Mother was believe among the dead. A 10th person rescued alive died wednesday afternoon. Virtually Dione of the Blane was recognizable. Most of the bodies were burned or mangled beyond  Fujiwara an aerospace Engi Neering professor at Nagoya University said the wreckage suggested the Pilot May have pulled up too fast after deciding to abort his Landing. The plane May have then stalled and hit the ground Tai first. Minutes before the crash Pilot Wang to Chi radioed that he would abandon his Landing attempt and try again a transport ministry official  message gave no reason. In his last transmission the Pilot said Only going  Chang Tai Hsih chief of the China air lines Branch in Japan arid others Dis counted reports of engine trouble in Tai Pei before the 1,180-mile flight to Nagoya. Flight 140 carried 256 Passen Gers including two infants and is Crew bound from Taipei Taiwan to Nagoya. All seven of the identified survivor were seated toward the front of the plane and most were near windows. All except 3-year-old Seiji Nakayama investigators at Nagoya Japan Check Over the rubble of the taiwanese were unconscious. Jetliner that crashed tuesday night costing the lives of 262 people. Chernobyl will be Safe again in 26,000 years mourners told Kiev Ukraine a the land around chernobyl on t be fit for human habitation for 26,000 years mourners have Learned from scientists. Eight years after the world s worst nuclear Plant Acci Dent victims were memorialized in Moscow and else where tuesday on the anniversary of the 1986 catastrophe. An explosion in unit 4 of the four reactor Power Plant released a huge Cloud of radioactive material april 26,1986. At least 32 people were reported killed in the imme Diate aftermath of the explosion and fire. But scientists and doctors have Long said the actual death toll was inthe thousands. The explosion still haunts Kiev and its population of3 million. The ukrainian capital is 50 Miles Down Stream from the chernobyl Plant. Many ukrainians still Battle chernobyl relate health problems or live with fears that disaster could strike again. Since the blast 1 guess not a Day has passed without chernobyl cropping up in the conversation said Helen Chy Chyrynko a student at Kiev  try to joke about where the food we buy was Crown about our strange drinking water. But then rehear about someone with cancer and we remember this is serious.". About 250 people attended a memorial service out Side the chernobyl museum in Kiev on tuesday. The environmental group Greenpeace built a huge mock upon the Cement Tomb around the damaged reactor. Schoolchildren politicians and passers by daubed Mes sages in red paint on the Monument calling for Cherno Byl s shutdown. In Moscow 60 relatives of victims gathered at the Kiev railway station and a service was held at a City cemetery. Ukraine still spends about 15 percent of its annual budget on chernobyl related cleanup and health campaigns ukrainian Deputy prime minister Valery so Marov told the inter fax news Agency. Ministry invites tourists to Cean nuclear site tour Kiev Ukraine a thrill seeking tourists take note. The site of the world s worst nuclear Plant disaster is open for visitors. Ukraine s chernobyl ministry has begun offer ing escorted Tours of the nuclear Power Plant where an explosion and fire devastated one re actor april 26, 1986. At least 32 people died in the immediate aftermath but scientists say thou Sands More died later of related illnesses. Visitors drive to the Edge of a restricted dead zone established within an 18-mile radius of the ruined reactor. They Park in a clean area and hop into a zone car to tour the site All for a $100 fee to use the zone car plus $25 a person. There was no immediate word from the government on How the Tours which began recently Are faring. Chernobyl Union an environmental group estimates that 5,000 people have died and 30,000 were disabled As a result of the disaster most of them soldiers police and firefighters sent into the disaster zone in the Day following the explosion. The russian government newspaper Rossinskaya a Zeta said tuesday that a third of the 5,000 had committed suicide because they could not Cope with the debilitating effects of radiation. Inspectors from the society for reactor safety in Bonn Germany said monday that ground water is seeping into the sealed off reactor and that the danger of contamination from the site is worsening. . To oppose canc. Iraq sanctions saudis Jold v from wire reports / Riyadh saudi Arabia six Arab Gulf states received assurances from Secretary of state Warre Christopher on wednesday that the Clinton administration would fight efforts in the . Security Council to lift a Trade embargo against Iraq. -. ,. .,.this was Welcome news to saudi Arabia and its five Small partners Kuwait the United Ara emirates Qatar Oman and Bahrain which consider iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein a threat to their Oil riches. However Christopher May have trouble delivering. China Russia and France Are lined up to try to lift or at least ease the sanctions that were imposed after Iraq s invasion of Kuwait ten 1990.  will come before the Security Council in mid May. -. I /. " defense lants Devi Idle Moscow a Quarter of Russia s defense plants ground to. A halt or ran at Only half capacity last month because the government has slashed arms spending according to a top defense Industry official. Arms production shrank 38 percent in february compared with the same month in 1993. If parliament approves the proposed 1994 budget up to 3 million defense workers will be Laid off this year Viktor glue High chairman of the state committee for defense industries said in a interview in the newspaper Komsomol Skaya pravda glue High s comments appeared to be part of a lobbying Campaign for higher arms spending. More than 200 Wori cers from defense plants have been picketing this week outside the russian White House the former parliament building. V they Are demanding that the government slow the conversion of defense plants reduce taxes on the Industry and pay off debts to factories. Auschwitz lie targeted Bonn Germany Germany s highest court ruled tuesday that those who spread the Auschwitz lie the denial that the holocaust Ever took place Are not protected by Freedom of speech and May be banned from stating their inaccurate views in Public. The constitutional court Germany s equivalent of the . Supreme court said that the extermination of 6 million jews in Adolf Hitler concentration Camps was a fact and that holocaust denial was a proven  the court backed the City of Munich which had threatened to break up a rally by the Radical rightist National democratic party on marcjh2,1991, if the party s guest speaker delivered at Laried a speech denying the holocaust had occurred. The Parry held its rally and its Tongue but later sued the City for violating members Freedom of speech House of horror for Sale London the House of horror i Gloucester Central England where police have spent the past two months unearthing the decomposed remains of nine women is up for Sale. The decision to put the House on the property Market was announced by Leo Goatley the lawyer acting for the wife of the Home s owner Frederick West. The police presence at the three Story Home inno. 25 Cromwell St. Drew to a close wednesday As officers made sure the property was Safe and secure before being handed  bricks have been Laid Over the Home s windows. Concrete has also been poured into the property s foundations to strengthen Walls and replace those areas turned Over. Peacekeepers buy cars Moscow hundreds of russian soldiers Are returning Home with something besides War memories from their peacekeeping duty in former Yugoslavia cars. The commander of the russian airborne Force Yevgeny Podkolzina told the inter fax news Agency tuesday that most of the 600 peacekeepers being replaced this month bought cars with their $6,000 pay from a half year s duty. The $1,000 monthly salary they received for serving in the . Force dwarfs the average monthly salary in Russia of less than $100.a total of 1,300 russian peacekeepers All of them from airborne units Are stationed in former Yugoslavia