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’ RAFAEL - - $ DIAZThe Associated Press SHARING GRIEF: Unidentified family members show their emotions after arriving in the small Spanish enclave of Mellila in northern Africa Friday to identify the victims of a plane that crashed killing all 38 people aboard flights between Mellila and Malaga each week In a statement Pauknair said the company was deeply affected by the crash and wished to express condolences to the families of victims The wreckage of the plane was spotted by a Spanish air force plane carrying out maneuvers on 86-se- at belonged to the Spanish charter airline Pauknair which 146 specializes in flights between Mellila and cities in Spam The airline runs 55 of the Fnday It was the first serious air crash involving a Spanish anline te years In 1985 a Madrid-boun- d Boeing 727 of the state earner Ibena hit a television antenna on top of a hill in the northern city of Bilbao killing 148 people The world's deadliest aviation disaster occurred on March 27 1977 in Spam’s Canary Islands A KLM jetliner crashed into a Pan Amencan jumbo jet on the runway of Tenerife airport killing 585 people in We 'I Beat Asiy Price ness He told some 8000 enthu- siastic backers that the choice was one of ”a new start or stag-- y reputauon Hel- mut Kohl and challenger business-friendl- Schroeder has tried to widen his appeal by giving few specifics of what he would do as premier What detailed plans there are involve repealing modest cuts in social welfare and retire- After 16 years in office many voters can hardly renfember a ment programs that the Kohl government has pushed through in the last four years Both candidates staged major rallies Friday - Kohl in the Rhine River city of Mainz and Schroeder in Berlm - in a final push to win over the 24 percent of voters who remain undecided in the Emnid poll Before 10000 supporters in the cathedral square in Mainz Kohl insisted the election Sunday was a choice about the direction of Germany would take into the 21st century “I hear a lot of applause when I say that there’s still a lot to be done” he said “But we’ve also accomplished a lot There are blossoming landscapes in Germany” At an arena in Berlin Schroeder called Kohl “the chancellor of unemployment” responsible for record double-dig- jobless it SI Germany without Kohl as chancellor Kohl is counting on his steadfast image - that of “thev eternal chancellor” r to £efjj him win a record fifth term 4 Asked during a question-ani-answshow Fnday on the national RTL network to describe er the ideal chancellor Kohl quipped: “One is sitting right in front of you” on 38 But with the parties so close it seems most likely that Kohl’s w Democrats Christian and Schroeder’s Social Democrats will have to share power in a “grand coalition n something Germany hasn't seen in almost 30 years Anything is possible Even the candidates sound wary t For the first tune Kohl conceded it “possible" on Wednesday that his conservative party might not manage a wide victory over the center-le- ft opposition" - 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