ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A crowded passenger bus skidded off road Saturday and plunged into 1 ravine, killing at least 36 people and seriously injuring another 25, police said.
Police authorities said the accident occurred at Jura in the Neelam Valley, 40 miles from Muzaffarabad the administrative headquarters of Pakistan controlled Azad Kashmir state,
‘Authorities said 30 persons were killed when the overloaded speeding passenger bus skidded off the road and plunged 300 feet into a ravine. Another six people injured in the accident died later of their ‘wounds in a military hospital, they said.
PARIS Opponents Saturday ‘charged President Francois Mitterrand with playing unfair politics for intervening in television programming to Scherr and Friday ordered the state-run television station TEI to drop a talk show called “7 on 7” and schedule an edition of “That which interests us, Mr. President” an hour long interview Sunday night with the head of state,
Conservative opposition leaders called the move an obvious political ploy and said Mitterrand had broken an earlier promise not to intervene in the campaign for March 16 elections for the National Assembly, or parliament.
Opinion polls give the conservatives a nearly2I lead over Mitterrand’s ruling Socialist.
PARIS Prime Minister Laurent Fabius said Saturday the government will investigate news reports two freighters transported arms from a French port to Iran.
‘The Normandy region newspaper La Presse de la Manche last week reported two ships, carrying artillery ammunition, left Cherbourg in August and September of 1985 and January of this year.
‘The official destinations were listed as Portugal, Brazil and Thailand when in fact the ships docked at the Iran’s Persian Gulf port of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz, the newspaper said.
France backs Iraq against Iran in the Gulf war and has armed Baghdad with sophisticated Except sea skimming missiles.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 7, 1986
