European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Pogo 28 the stars and stripes dutch Spur bids to free hostages Page i she was rescued unharmed from a bicycle shed by two the dutch general elections will go ahead As planned wednesday but political parties abandoned their campaigns As drama enveloped the at the school in the tiny one Street Vil Lage of police tightened Security around the Low modern the hostage children have occasionally been heard singing songs to keep their spirits up behind the plat class windows blacked out with curtains and re eyed parents in the eerie quiet of the the sporadic warning shots rang out with chilling re eyed parents keeping Vigil in a nearby begged police not to take any action against the Blu helmeted police moved in some a Mored personnel carriers but otherwise kept a and carefully checked residents in and they were also guarding against reprisals against the moluccan Community in Assen some 12 Miles away to the the hijacked yellow and Blue four Couch train stood on open trucks in shimmering Spring while combat ready troops backed by armoured cars crouched beneath canal dikes and in clumps of Trees several Hundred Yards troops and police apparently made their Headquarters in a farmhouse some 130 Yards from the train and were feeding information in a team of psychiatrists at the crisis Center in police take in food two policemen pushed a hand trolley with fixity supplies along a parallel track one of the gunmen whisked the food then the t Rolley was wheeled it was within a few Miles of Here that an other train was hijacked 17 months ago and the indonesian consulate in Amster dam was in a Carbo copy terrorist the sieges lasted 17 Days and four people were the release of the Siuth moluccas who look part in these raids is one of the de mands of the present they want a 40sejiter plane to take them to Amsterdam scup no Airport and a hoeing 747 with full tanks to take them out of tilt1 country to an unspecified Desti former red congressman in Argentina kidnapped blk nos Ahks i Al former com Munsil congressman Juan Carlos coming has Iten by righting us toasts his they to Mingmo was seized by unidentified armed civilians in the relatives be purus the disappearance to then her May 1977 smoke and debris in ruined Village a Lone Walker passes charred Trees and soldering rubble after win whipped names swept the Canadian town of sixty buildings were destroyed soviet Boss Podgorny freed from politburo continued from Page ii act even without approval from the full Podgorny is the first of the three men who overthrew Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 to fall by the political still in Power arc communist party Leader Leonid viewed As the country most powerful politician and Premier Alexei Podgorny had recently appeared in robust political and physical he toured Black states in Southern Africa in March in a major diplomatic foray by the Kremlin into that his name was on soviet pages As late As tues Day mornings which carried the text of a diplomatic Telegram he his last Public appearance was last when he saw off visiting finnish president urho Kekkonen at Moscow f thought his Progress through Africa was quite triumphal and he has been very Active said a Western Diplomat Here who was As surprised As most by pod Gornyes demise As a politburo it would be difficult to Sec any out standing political differences Between him and the rest of the no new member was named to the Polit buro to take Podgomy in other organizational changes announced after the Central committee Konstantin a Secretary of Central committee with Broad responsibility for relations among communist lost his Post As Sec his Only Post now is a Deputy premiership he received March 16 with responsibility for economic contacts within the communist Konstantin an aide to Brezhnev with previous experience in supervising relations with other communist was named As a new Central committee keeping the total number of secretaries at Western diplomats said Rusakov had been rising in the Kremlin effective Hier Archy for some time and his promotion to a party Secretary was Only a if the changes tuesday appeared to improve the standing of Brezhnev among the country top but Brezhnev High stressed by the heavily publicized Celebration of his 70th birthday last dec had hardly seemed in need of additional Podgorny and Kosygin had clearly been background figures in the soviet Hierarchy for several receiving virtually none of the Public adoration that has been heaped on Brezhnev by other soviet officials and the controlled news the Only known disputes Between pod Gomy and Brezhnev were believed to have Arisen shortly after Khrushchev was de when Podgorny was appointed to the ceremonial Post of president in Dod studies ruling making baggers salaried workers i Iago i i am not against commissaries but i am against commissary and an involved system of salaries Tor bag boys docs not make for improved the Pentagon estimates grocery baggers Are working at commissary stores for tips Aspin figures that if they Are put on a salary it would Cost the government from to million a an Aspin aide said monday the Legisla Tion is in the hands of the House labor Stan Dards subcommittee chaired by John a staffer assigned to dents subcommittee said monday that spins legislation is pending because other things arc taking a higher we have no plans on hold ing hearings in this the Aspin aide said anyone interested in saving the commissaries from paying Sala Ries to the baggers should write to John Dent House labor standards subcommittee 20515 sweepstakes for control the communist there was no sign of any immediate re action in Moscow to Podgorny pod a former sugar Plant was 14 during the 1917 bolshevik he was bom in Karlovska in the Ukraine but later moved with his family to the ukrainian capital of he became a communist party member in his government career involved the food Industry almost exclusively As he Rose from the sugar Plant Job to the directorship of a Moscow food Institute during world he eventually moved into How with the help of fellow ukrainian Khrushchev and became chief of the communist party in the in he took Over Khrushchev As party chief of the entire Ukraine in 1957 u the fire devastated the Ontario town new the Quebec a photo fire destroys Center of Canada town Canada api a wind whipped fire that apparently started in an abandoned store swept through this Small Ontario mining town destroying about 60 authorities they said 500 including Many volunteers from surrounding and water bombing planes succeeded in con Taining the but some buildings were still burning after the fire destroyed most of the business Section of this town of about near the Border with firefighters said a several two service stations and houses were among the buildings gutted by the no serious injuries were but Hospital officials said 10 persons were treated for 34 Forest fires five water bombing planes were called in 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