European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 8 the stars and stripes May 1977 kidnappers offer to free envoy if message is read Guatemala City a guerrillas who kidnapped Al ambassador to Guatemala said monday they would re lease him if the president of the inter american development Bank read a guerrilla communique to delegates attending the Banks annual meeting the who called themselves the guerrilla army of the made their demands known in a communique distributed to tic news they said president Antonio Ortiz Mena must read a communique listing their organisations programs and distribute it to All the delegates attending the meeting new soviet repression wave feared Washington up1 exiled soviet author Alexander Holzhe Tsyn has received messages from russian dissidents warning of a new wave of repressive Mea sures reminiscent of stalinist it Wao reported has received smuggled messages describing numerous Assassin arrests on trumped up break ins by state police agents and the disappearance of ant soviet pro Mutual broadcasting system Cor respondent Philip Clarke said a major target of the soviet crackdown is the russian social which the author set up to help dissidents he said there Are indications that Alexander the funds custodian in and two other dissident Yuri Orlov and Anatoly will be tried on phony criminal criminal prosecution Solzhenitsyn said dissidents known to the West Are being subjected to criminal prosecution prior to the june is Start of the Belgrade when the question of political prisoners is raised it the Belgrade human rights the soviets will claim they Are holding Only common he the West will be prepared for that the most urgent is to save those who Are in immediate danger and those in peril of following them to some delegates from 38 countries Are Here for the there was no immediate word from Bank officials if the demands would be five gunmen intercepted ambassador Eduardo Casanova and his wife near the embassy residence sunday afternoon and took him he was the second influential member of Al Salvador conservative military regime to be kidnapped within six leftist guerrillas kidnapped foreign minis Ter Mauricio Borgonovo there on april 19 and killed him three weeks later after president Arturo Armando Molina refused to release 37 political it was just the two of us in the said the ambassadors Chato thought that a truck Driver had pulled in front of but then they made him get out of the car and took him they pushed me Back in the we Haven heard anything a Friend of the family said the ambassador had a chauffeur and a bodyguard but never used the ambassadors wife added the car we were in has Only two doors and he likes to drive it if there had been body guards somebody would have been killed for special Security units of armed police and army troops surrounded the ambassadors Home and set up roadblocks in the District As soon As the kidnapping was re Mobile squads started Surprise searches throughout the and extra police units began patrolling the pan american Highway from Guatemala City to the Border with Al special police and army guards were Al ready ringing the hotel where the Dele Gates to the meeting were the meeting had been scheduled to be held in san and the government there said the site was changed because accommodations were not but diplomats said it was because of political violence Fol lowing the presidential election in Gebru Molinas candidate was declared the Winner by a wide and the Center left coalition that opposed him charged the government stole the eleven persons have been killed during May in political violence in Al a Central american nation of 45 million Juan Carlos reviews Parade Madrid i api King Juan Carlos re viewed a military Parade to commemorate the first Day of the armed angry youths demonstrate Banne bearing leftist students raise fists in protest at the new Tokyo inter National Airport As riot police in Back ground look the leftists objection is based on a claim that the Airport would be used for military Purpo a police clash at new Tokyo Airport Japan up thousands of riot police clashed sunday with hundreds of leftist students protesting against the new Tokyo International Airport police said 71 students were arrested and four policemen the steering a car by Remote rammed into a police truck on a Highway linking the new Airport with metropolitan Miles East of this town ship of police said there were no a Radical leftist group protesting the opening of the Airport claimed responsibility for the who hurled fire bombs and stones at policemen near where two tall beware of Yak on a hunger strike some animals can predict quakes Tokyo up for those who worry about a japanese scientist offers this advice keep a pet any time the Yak refuses to begin earthquake countermeasures a Yak on a hunger strike is a sign that a quake May be Only a few hours animals often do Odd things before says Tsuneji a scientist at the Tokyo Institute of he has just finished compiling 157 Rase histories of strange behaviour of animals before big quakes in China and Europe during the last 300 years the a Tib fan is Only one of Sev eral animals thai May he Able to Antici Pate caged Birds and even tigers in zoos All have histories of acting up before the ground begins to in local governments keep sever Al types of animals under observation As an earthquake forecasting Riki take says detection of strange animal be Havior is credited with saving Many lives in a 1975 quake in chivas Fukien prov Ikitake theorizes that some animals May have a built in ability to detect slight changes in the earths magnetism unusual movements of fish also have been a Tipoff of an approaching quake Ikitake says that just before the temblor that devastated Tokyo and Yokohama in Catfish were seen leaping from Rivers like something they normally dont he notes several cases in which mice and Birds disappeared from a locality just before a major cats deserted a number of villages in Northern Italy two or three hours before they were hit by a severe quake in in other caged Birds begin flying violently and beating against the bars of their Ikitake said he so far has no systematic Way of using animals for earthquake warning he said his completion of Case histories was Madr to she the need for More research on the steel towers blocking the airports runway had been torn were driven Back by tear Gas and streams of water from hoses manned by riot at a nearby More than elderly Farmers and students opposing the open ing of the Narita Airport held a protest police officials said that sundays rally was perhaps the last in a series of this years protests against the million air which earlier this month led to the death of two persons after officials demolished the two steel but Isaku a Leader of an anti Airport stressed at a rally that the fight was not i am sure we can win this Tomura the protest rally at a nearby Park was primarily designed to commemorate the death of a 27yearold taxi Driver who died of injuries in a clash with police shortly after the towers were torn police demolished the Lowers in the pre Dawn hours of May 6 As a Skeleton group of leftist students was guarding the Struc which had served As a Symbol of opposition to the new in the series of rallies and demonstrations that a policeman also died the fourth policeman to die in the 11 year struggle at police said riot police were in and around the new Airport the Airport was completed in but it has remained Idle due to protests by local Farmers who lost their leftist Stu dents who say the Airport May be used for military purposes and local residents who arc concerned about noise Airport authorities have expressed Hope that a Coull be opened for International flights by Tho end of this
