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Texas 693-2335 1504 Holleman Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, September 2, 1988 World and Nation I U.S. removes rockets from bases J in accordance with treaty signinc FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) — Five years after West Euro peans took to the streets in massive anti-missile protests, the United States on Thursday began removing its intermediate-range rockets in accordance with a superpower treaty signed last year. A truck convoy hauled nine Per shing 2 missiles from a base near Stuttgart, and U.S. officials said they would remove the remaining 420 medium- and shorter-range missiles from Western Europe in the next 36 months. “This is an important event in post-war history,” West German government spokesman Friedhelm Ost said during a news conference in Bonn. The stationing of the missiles had sparked huge protests in Western Etirope, including a coordinated demonstration in several cities that drew hundreds of thousands of peo ple in October 1983. Deployment of the missiles began the following month. But the anti-missile fervor waned, and by the time President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorba chev signed their treaty banning in termediate-range nuclear missiles in December, only a handful of protes ters was still active in West Germany. A group of anti-missile activists who came to witness the removal ap plauded as the 15 U.S. Army trucks carrying the missiles left the Heil- bronn site in southern Germany, about 35 miles north of Stuttgart. A rocket motor explosion at Heil- bronn in January 1985 killed three U.S. soldiers and injured 16 others. West German news reports said the accident led then-Defense Minister Moslem guerrillas strike Pakistanis in violent attack ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Moslem guerrillas launched rockets at Kabul and its airport Thursday, and Afghan fighter planes struck deep into Pakistani territory in one of the most violent days of Afghani stan’s 10-year-old civil war. Western diplomats, quoting dis 1 patches from missions in the Afghan capital, said the airport was shrouded in thick black and gray smoke from the rocket attack. Earlier in the day, Pakistani au thorities said seven Afghan fighter- bombers struck the deepest to date into Pakistani territory, killing one person and injuring seven. Kabul all afternoon,” a U.S. diplo mat said on condition of anon\ mit\. “The force of the explosion indicates it may have been an ammunition dump,” he said. “Opposition units today were sub jected to massive bombardment with ground-to-ground rockets the Kabul international airport area,” the offi cial Soviet news agency l ass said in a report from Kabul. “The rockets damaged depots and transport air craft.” Diplomatic dispatches from Kabul said the rockets started hitting the city around 2:55 p.m. at Kabul air port and significant parts of the city. “By 3:20 the fire was out of con trol,” a dispatch from one western embassy said. “There were second ary explosions and foreigners were ordered to evacuate (the airport),” it said. “Rockets have been exploding in Investigators search for clues about crash GRAPEVINE (AP) — Speculation centered on engine trouble as inves tigators and manufacturers’ rep resentatives today tried to determine the cause of a Delta Air Lines jetliner crash that killed 13 people. Nearly 100 people, many leaping through thick smoke and blazing jet fuel, survived the crash of the Boe ing 727 that broke open and burned during takeoff Wednesday morning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The same flight today taxied out for takeoff but then turned back to the terminal, Delta officials said from Atlanta. “1141 did not take off from Dallas today and it has not at this point,” Cindy Mullennix said at 9:51 a.m. CDT. The flight was scheduled to depart at 8:31 a.m. “I do know that they did taxi out, and for whatever reason they turned back,” Mullennix said. “I do not know what the problem was, and I Manfred Woerner to promise resi dents that Heilbronn would be the first site from which missiles would he removed: U.S. Navy Cmdr. Get t \ Rvan of European Command Headquarters in Stuttgart told the Associated Press: “It's the first time that U.S. in termediate-range missiles have been withdrawn in Europe. “ Elie remainder of the U.S. Arms European-based, intermediate- range nuclear missiles are scheduled to he removed over a 36-month pe riod,” he said. The Soviet Union began remov ing its missiles from Czechoslovakia and East Germany in February, be fore the U.S. Senate had ratified the treaty. East Germany’s official news agency ADN said in March that the Soviets had completed the removal oi all 54 shorter-range SSlil siles, but said nothing aboutil SS-23 missiles also covered t| treaty. 1 he official Czechoslovak I ageiu v C 1 K reported in Julvii of the 39 SS-12 shoner-ranpl siles based in that country had I remov ed in February and MarJ Original NA TO plans calltl 572 intermediate-range nudeal siles iu live West Europeancoul to r outlier the Soviet rocketsixl at the West. But the United States ultiirl deplov ed oulv 429 missiles ini Germany. Britain, halv andfirl after plans to station the rodl the Nethei lands were scrapped I (>1 those deployed, 108 Pel 2 missiles and 96 cruise missile*I stationed at four bases in Wei manv. S|>< The report added that several rockets exploded in residential dis tricts of Kabul, and authorities had put out the resulting f ires. Reports said it was not clear how many rockets had fallen. There were no immediate reports of casualties and state-run Kabul radio, in its nighttime broadcast, made no men tion of the attack. Both the Kabul attack and the bombing of villages near the Paki stani frontier city of Peshawar ap peared more daring and destructive than any operations this year. World briefs State ends deficit with positive balancj WASHINGTON (AP) —I exas should end the new fiscal veat on Aug. 31, 1989, with its biggest cash balance since 1984 —§660 million. State Treasurer Ann Richards said Finn sdav. Richards closed the books Thursday on fiscal year 1988 with the state posting a cash balance of SI 13 million, which was the first positive balance in two years, she said. “This is further evidence ol an improved I exas economy.” Ri« h- aros said. “Sales taxes have Imwm higher than expected, when combined with tlieS5' lion tax bill passed in (helavt islatnre. have erased the 1 million deficit the state star w ith I 2 months ago. “We started fiscal year’tifUi the largest deficit in the sta histoiv. and we have endr: $1 13 million to the good. Th .in $858 million catch-uu, »r, should signal the rest of (lieu, tiv that I exas is moving she said in a statement. Florida plans hunt to control alii do not know what the resolution was. Whether it will (depart) later, I do not know,” she said. Survivors of Wednesday’s flight, many suffering burns, crawled or jumped through gaping holes in the fuselage and clambered over red-hot wings to safety as black smoke bil lowed three stories high, witnesses said. “You heard the thing crumple, so you knew you were going to crash the whole time,” passenger Penn Waugh, a lawyer from Dallas, said. “You were just looking for a way to get out of the plane. You’re hoping you weren’t going to die.” Ninety-seven passengers and a crew of seven were listed aboard the aircraft, Flight 1141 en route to Salt Lake City, but the exact count was uncertain because babies were not included on passenger lists. The flight originated in Jackson, Miss. Nearly two dozen investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board converged on the crash site. CLEWISTON. Fla. (AP) — Like tiny beacons at night, alliga tors’ eves reflect a brilliant red when struck by a beam of light. So flashlights, along with such items as harpoons and sharpened knives, were among key pieces of equipment being checked Fhurs- day as more than 200 hunters, many of them novices, waited for the sunset opening of the first statewide gator hunt in 26 years. “It’s time to get some gators,” John Swindle, 34, ol Clewiston, on the south shore of Lake Okee chobee, said before the hunt be gan. “I’m not talking much about it. though. 1 don’t want following me out there.” With gator hides sdlins I $42 a foot and meat runiuitl S6 a pound, profits are a tnJ on the minds of the state-sdrefl hunters as adventure. The J planned the 30-day hunt as one means of contiollin|! J population o| the onceendJ gered alligator. “ File money is the big fan J said Rodney Crawford, a 19-vtJ old cook from Like Worth, will seek gators with his fatheil 1 ..ike (ieorge in CCentral Floriil High death toll forseen on long weeke CHICAGO (AP) — At least 420 people will die in traffic acci- dents during the three-day l.abot Day weekend that traditionally marks the end of summer, ex perts said Thursday. The National Safety Council estimates 420 to 520 people will die on the nation’s roads during the long weekend. For counting purposes the weekend begins Friday at 6 p.m. local time and ends at midnight Monday. L ast year, 441 people diedd* ing the Labor Day weekend. I The highest toll for the hoMJ was logged in 1968, when t® people were killed in traffic*! dents. 1 he average toll for a non bi dav three-day period at thisici of year is about 410, safety ci)L , l c il spokesman 1 erry Millersaidl On average, the numberofn! c deaths increases about I percent during holiday perio! council ol I icials said. Hit Helicopter crash kills 6 in California BARS FOW, Calif . (AP) — A California Air National Guard helicopter crashed in a Mojave Desert mountain range I huts- day, killing all six people aboard, authorities said. The helicopter from Moffett Naval Air Station went down at 10:55 a.m., Tech. Sgt. Rick Cor ral at George Air Force Base said. I he bodies were discovered by a rescue team, Gapt. Kent Knight ol the California Highwav I’j I said. I he rescue team dispatchd| helicopter to the scene. 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