European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes thursday june 2, 1977 dutch Molus cams can t agree on a mediation team Assen Netherlands up the dutch government has accepted a Media Tion request by moluccan gunmen holding some 60 hostages aboard a hijacked train and in a school or the 10th Day a spokes Man said wednesday. But he said there was still disagreement on who the mediator or mediators would be. He said the estimated 15 gunmen had proposed two persons As mediators tues Day but these had not been accepted Byth government. Ine government in turn proposed two persons wednesday but the gunmen rejected them the spokesman said. The spokesman did not identify any of the proposed mediators or specify Why hey had not been , signalling what officials called deteriorating health conditions on the train a Man fainted triggering an angry Telephone Exchange Between negotiators and the estimated 10 hijackers. Rich poor. Continued from Page i Crenco statement said that after trying various approaches the participants could not reach an agreement on the Vari Ous aspects of external participants however indicated they were not prepared to let that hurdle destroy chances of a final Compromise. They said the conflicting position stated Here could form a a useful basis for continuation in other appropriate forums " diplomatic analysts said the problem would be handed Over to one of the United nations specialized agencies but not All problems were put off. The 27 participating delegations agreed that development Aid will be stepped up and that a commodity stabilization fund will be established the announcement confirmed a Declara Tion by . Sen. Jacob k. Jails earlier in the Day that the two Western offers had been accepted by the 19 underdeveloped nations represented at this Cabinet level conference on International economic co operation. Conference spokesmen said the Rich countries led by the United states agreed that each of them would spend at least 0.7per cent of their Gross National product for Aid to underdeveloped the second Concession the Industrial world also agreed to help set up a special fund to smooth out the and Downs in the prices of the raw materials produced by the poor countries. All 27 delegations Here Rich and poor agreed to work out details of the special fund s mechanism and finances at the United nations conference on Trade and development starting in november. Conference officials said the fund would Stan with a common Pool of $1 billion which would gradually be raised to Smuch As j6 billion. It was the Industrial world s counteroffer to earlier third world demands that raw materials prices be indexed to inflation. Europe Annie fr.d4y4.19 m temperatures recorded slam 4pm .1 w Alft is a 1 5s Benin re j u Brussels p6 60 copenn0qn, to cities or w pm Tif i auf san the not 4 Art 3? j7 46 j7 4 61 iffy inure car a to Dulcet 4pm m Frank Jet p m tongan p 31 much p u parts p j3 rom eld i Juif i Vedmer Vij railway officials who had earlier Esti mated the number of train hostages at 56, now put the number Between 54 and 59."premier Joop Den l Al said earlier the number could not be firmly established until the hostages were actually freed. A second band of about five moluccan gunmen held four teachers at a nearby elementary Man s collapse prompted what an official called an angry heated Exchange Over government insistence the gunmen free the Man and a pregnant woman gunmen emphatically refused slamming Down the Field Telephone linking them with the government crisis Center at Assen Midway Between the train and the school the official snid. It was one of the angriest exchanges inthe tense deadlock since the twin sieges began with authorities charging the terrorists were endangering the health of All their sent Back the hijackers did allow an ambulance to draw close to the train but quickly sent it Back. Later they had a 23-year-old woman medical student among the prisoner phone the crisis Center with news the col. Lapsed Man was now Okay a govern ment spokeswoman said. She confirmed the government had Cut direct phone link Between the two armed bands saying it was no longer needed after the release last Friday of the More than 100 child captives from the besieged school. They grumbled a bit when we told them of our decision but they Are no longer asking for the phone to be she said. The two terrorist groups Are linked by separate Field telephones to the crisis Center. Advantage with government officials said privately the government now has All the psychological advantage sin dealing with the gunmen. The gunmen Are dependent on the authorities for everything from Contact with the outside world to their food and the terrorists turn violent some 2,000 troops and police Are ready nearby among them marines trained in boarding and capturing a train from specially equipped armed gunmen have abandoned earlier de mands to take their hostages out of the country. And the threat of epidemic at the besieged school forced release of their child hostages. Talks have been interrupted on the gun men s remaining demand to Fly 21 Molus cans jailed in earlier terrorist attempts out of the country. Economy a Queen s re in is no cause for jubilation London a Boyds Bank wednesday added a gloomy note to Queen Eliza. Beth s Silver Jubilee Celebration with a review of changes in the British Economy during the 25 years of her its observations on the second elizabethan 1952, the Pound was Worth 12.81. Today the rate is $1.70. A housewife needs More than 5 pounds to buy the food she could have bought Forone Pound then. Other goods Cost nearly 4 4 times what they did 25 years ago and prices of houses Are nearly six times what they British Economy has grown at an average rate of 2.4 per cent a year Over the period compared with 3.5 per cent in the United states. 4.8 per cent in Italy 4.9 per cent in France 5.4 percent in West Germany and percent in weekly pay has risen from 8.60 pounds to 65.10 pounds. But because of Price increases the purchasing Power of the average weekly pay packet has not even doubled. There were 203.000 unemployed when King George i died and his daughter sue needed him. Now there Are 1.31 million 5.7 per cent of the work Force. Coal production has dropped from 223 million tons a year to about half the brighter Side one in three britons now has a television set there were one in 66 at the Start of the reign. One in four has a car compared with one in 20. And two in every five have a Telephone compared with two in 20 in 1952. Strike by israeli troops into Lebanon reported Beirut up israeli forces have swept into the Fatah land Border Village of far Chou a 3 Miles inside Lebanon and clashed with palestinian guerrillas reports from the South and guerrilla sources said wednesday the reports said the predawn operation involved up to 50 israeli military vehicles and 1,000 soldiers and was accompanied by heavy Long Range artillery shelling of the Are our from inside 30 persons in the Region were Esti mated to have been killed or official lebanese army spokesman in Beirut denied any knowledge of such a attack. In Beirut a spokesman for the Radical popular front for the liberation of pales Tine pulp said about 1,000 israeli sol Diers went in and surrounded the Village last night. Some 70 of them entered it an searched the spokesman said the israelis also entered the nearby Village of Halta before withdrawing from the official at the palestinian Nens Agency Wafa said he Only knew that there had been a fierce Battle in the area. The pulp reported a similar incursion six Days ago farther West 70 Miles South of Beirut at the Border Village of the radicals said they fought a three hour Battle with a tank supported israeli Force estimated at 120 men. The guerrillas reported at least five israeli wounded in that Exchange but did not Dis close their own losses. In May 1970, the israelis attacked both far Chou a and nearby Khiam a pales Tinian held town that now plays a key role in the guerrillas running Frontier conflict with israeli supported Christian rightist militiamen. In that assault an estimated 100 Israel military vehicles and 2,000 troops were deployed and six lebanese soldiers and about 30 guerrillas were killed. Full los. Continued from Page 1 need to maintain and strengthen conventional capability i am not Happy with our conventional capability he stated and explained that nato leaders Are in agree ment that the partnership can do More to improve the Overall efficiency readiness and rapid reinforcement of Allied Host for the arrival ceremony maj. Gen. Evan w. Rosencrans commander of3rd air Force noted that the newly As signed fill fighters will More than double the payload of the previously assigned phantoms. He told the crowd it is mow powerful faster and More flexible than the f111e fighters already stationed in the United kingdom at Raf upper Scyford. Rosencrans said the fill has repeatedly demonstrated its effectiveness As an All weather precision bomber in the Tough european environment. It can Fly Day or night and in the most Adverse weather conditions he said. Music for the arrival ceremony was provided by tote Safe band and a group of Royal air Force pipes and Drums Fromma Honington. Amin indicates he won t go to that conference after All smoking Nairobi Kenya a Uganda president Idi Amin said wednesday his country May not be represented at the British Commonwealth conference in London june 8-16, according to the official radio Uganda monitored Here. The radio said the announcement was made in a Telegram from Amin to Commonwealth Secretary general . With copies to British prime minister James Callaghan and other Commonwealth government Leaden. The Cable appeared to end weeks of speculation on whether the flamboyant military Leader would keep to his earlier threats to attend the conference in the face of bitter opposition from Britain and other countries in the36-Nalion has made it Clear Amin would not be Welcome in London because of alleged atrocities committed in Uganda since he seized Power in a military coup Jan. 25,1971. Although Britain has not formally announced any ban on Amin attending the conference Callaghan s labor govern ment has been hoping he would take the hint he was not wanted continued rom Page i a ban on All tobacco advertising in Britai nand a Campaign to encourage persons to smoke Milder report called smoking a lethal Epi Demic and urged that All but lower tar cigarettes be withdrawn from the Marketto Cut Down the amount of cancer and Dis. Ease causing tar which smokers inhale. It recommended a 15 Milligram tar limit. Besides the life shortening aspect of cig Arette smoking the report claimed each year More than 25,000 persons die unnecessarily in Britain because they smoked. Many Are under age 40. Smokers Are twice As Likely to die of heart disease As nonsmokers and heavy smokers arc 3 i times More Likely. British Industry loses about 50 million working Days each year because of illness caused of smoking
