European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 28 the stars and stripes moluccas dutch of mediators Assen. The Netherlands up1 dutch authorities and moluccan gunmen agreed Friday to bring in the widow of a renowned moluccan guerrilla Leader to try to medi ate a bloodless end to the 12-Day-old Sei Zure of about 60 hostages aboard a hijacked train and a nearby elementary . Ventre Soumikh and a local physician. Or. Hassan Dan received approval from both sides after four Days of efforts to find acceptable middlemen. Saturday june 4, 1977 to the task and have made an initial con tact with the gunmen Over a Field Tele aboard the train appeared to have broken off relations with their col leagues at the school since children held there were released declining to allow authorities to mend a Telephone line which formally linked the two terrorist is the widow of the first presi Dent of the South moluccan Republic who was captured and executed in 1966 after leading a guerrilla struggle against indo Nesia which now includes the More than 1000 spice islands known As the moluccas. Car. Continued i ram Page ii the Means of the lower pay Are about Many things thai affect the morale of our service Mem Bers he said asked about the doctor and dentist shortages in the services White said our obligation is to do what is Neces sary to attract doctors and dentists for the services and assure Good health i us subcommittee has held two Days of hearings on a champs like program for dental care but he said it is premature to know where the push May be for establish ing a champs like program for dependent and Retiree dental still have to remain open minded he said. It May be that we want to look Ata dental health care program that addresses itself to the dependents of tic lower ranks he said. White a world War ii Marine Veteran said that he found some support in Europe for military heard complaints of varying de Grees about the grievance procedure not White example he reported one incident of a Soldier wanting to be with his wife when she had their first child. But the Soldier had to go on an exercise instead. " i think thai Type of thing is unnecessary in this time Frame while stressed that i am not an advocate of unionization but rather for effective procedures dealing with situation such As i White noting that there is an estimate shortage of 400.000 personnel in the various components of the us Reserve there Art two measures now under study for building up the manpower of the Reserve forces one measure would provide betwee Nemjo and 2.000 fur educational assistance for High school graduates who Are Willingto obligate themselves for eight years in the reserves Hie second measure is a Bonus system for service members who reenlist after 10years of service in the reserves. This pro Gram is an alternative to the possibility Ore instituting a Universal selective service system for the reserves. White enactment of legislation to build up the reserves. While said we must have widespread Public approval. In a time when most people advocate reduction in our defense spending it is difficult to get such so can Strhan second from right convicted Ashanin of sen. Robert f. Ken Nedy smiles As he talks with officials who Are trying to get More information trying to jog sir him s memory about toe ims Kennedy slaying. Lot an prison thursday quizzing Surban but Rusken Regeles county supervisors Kenneth Hahn left and Baxter Ward right spent three hours at the Soledad calif., could not penetrate what Strhan claim Sis a mental blackout. Beside Strhan is his lawyer Godfrey Isaac. A Strhan still can t remember killing Soledad. Calif f a convicted As Sassin Sirhan Sirhan told two los Angeles county supervisors thursday that he still has a mental blackout about the killing of sen. Robert f. Kennedy and repeated i can t remember i can t Hahn and Baxter Ward who spent three hours inside Soledad prison interviewing Sirhan said they believed he should undergo further psychiatric examination and possibly is still More to be known said Hahn. We still have to find out the answer. The investigation is not Hahn and Ward said they both Presse Sirhan to say whether or not anyone else influenced him to shoot Kennedy. Sirhan Sonly answer they said was i can t re s attorney Godfrey Isaac who Sal in on the meeting stressed thai Sirha said he knew of no conspiracy to kill Ken 32-year-old Sirhan s menial Black out begins at the time he entered the Losangeles ambassador hotel on the night of june 5,1968, the supervisors told them he remembered nothing Cuba. Conf input a rom Page 1 Exchange released Here and in Havana said tills agreement will facilitate communications Between the two government Sand will provide a greater Range of consular services for the citizens of the two coun tries As arc currently the agreement although far Short of diplomatic recognition will establish Middle level representatives in the Capi Las of each nation. The . Diplomats will be at the Swiss embassy in Havana Andice cubans at the czech embassy in Wash into negotiated recently in new York and Havana the agreement will provide the closest tics Between the two countries since the United states broke off relations with Casl Rojan. 31.1961.it opens the Way for direct negotiations on several thorny issues such As the Cuba presence in Africa human rights political prisoners compensation for nationalized american firms the us naval base at Guantanamo Bay. And the 1962 . Trade . Robert Dole. A Kan. Meanwhile announced he will introduce a Resolution inthe Senate next week to oppose both Diplo Matic recognition of Cuba and easing the Trade embargo. Castro has made no concessions to said yet the president seems intent upon sending an american ambassador to the Island before the year is out. Until he was lying on a steam table in the hotel Kitchen where he had been wrestled after the said Sirhan still has a Clear con science because he does not know for sure whether he killed the wants to know himself did he or did he not kill sen. Kennedy Isaac attorney said that during the meet ing Sirhan suggested that he be taken Backoo the scene of the killing the ambassador Kitchen perhaps with a psychiatrist along to help him said he would visit Sirhan again in a week and determine the next step to be a10 test Pilot Dies in crash at Paris air show Paris up Veteran test Pilot Howard w. Sam Nelson was fatally injured Friday when a fail child a10 attack aircraft he was demonstrating at the Paris air show crashed in full View of the open ing Day crowd. Nelson director of flight operations for Fairchild International died As an ambulance helicopter was flying him to the hos Pital. His wife. Jackie was waiting for him inthe company Pavilion at the show when the crash occurred and did not see to Tony Wall a British cameraman who was filming the demonstration of the a10 at the time of the Accident. Nelson was doing a series of loops and Rolls. Describing the crash Wall said on this particular Loop he came toward us. He came out of the Loop but he was Kerylow. He seemed to Yaw slightly. As he pulled up his Tail hit the deck and that wait. The plane turned upside the flags flying Over the show which was inaugurated by French president Valery Giscard d Estwing thursday night were lowered to half staff. The air show continued. The Aid. A descendant of one of the Stan Dard Workhorse combat planes of the Viet Nam War is to be officially introduced into the air Force Fleet at a ceremony at Myrtl Beach air Force base in South Carolina on june 10. Nelson a Veteran of world War ii and Korea had logged 10,000 hours of flying in his career including 500 hours in the Aid. The last Accident at the Paris air show occurred in 1973 when a prototype of the soviet turn lev 144 supersonic jetliner exploded and crashed onto a Row of House during an exhibition night killing 14 per sons. Taken to try to jog his memory. Hahn noted i tried to ask him several times of his motive and he did t remember. But he did say that when he came from Palestine he had a very negative feel ing toward Bobby Kennedy s foreign had said at his trial he resented Kennedy s favourable attitude toward Israel. Hahn said Sirhan told them he had expected Kennedy to become talked to him for three hours said Hahn. We went through every step of this tragedy. We asked every question was very Frank with us. He was not hostile he added. But he said Man questions went unanswered because of sir Han s memory Hope we can have medical authorities pull Back the curtain in his mind hah said. Kennedy was shot moments after reclaimed Victory in the California demo cratic presidential primary. Sirhan seized at the scene was holding the .22-Caiiberpistol which killed the senator. Bodies
