European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday june 10, 1977 dutch say come get us message flashed from train from press dispatch Sassen. The Netherlands hours after mediators relayed a Blunt dutch demand to terrorists to free 51 hostages from a hijacked train a government spokesman said thursday that a Man had flashed a Morse coded come and get us Call from the train with a hand Van Leeuwen spokesman for the Justice ministry at a government crisis Center Here told the associated press that the incident took place around midday wednesday. It is True that a message has been received from the train Van Leeuwin said when asked about a dutch newspaper report of the incident. The message has since been decoded and one line did say come and get us " he Mirror was flashed by a Man in the front or Northern end of the stalled train on the utrecht Groningen double track line some eight Miles North of Here. Queen has a Royal trip londoner � aft pot Van Leeuwen said that come and get us was Only part of the message. He could not say what else it contained and he refused to say whether the message flashing thursday. He added we arc very unhappy with the published press re ports. We feel that we May be endangering the life of someone if we give any More he did not say whether authorities Are sure that the Man flashing the Mirror was a hostage. The front motor coach unit of the train contains both hostages and terrorists dutch officials have said in recent Days. They said that the terrorists who spend most of their time in the Engineer s Cabin Section and front benches of the motor coach have segregated men and women inthe rear Section of the same coach and the other three the Hague government officials indicated plans Are afoot to use military Force to seize the train hijacked by South moluccas gunmen 18 Days ago rather than allow the 51 hostages to undergo weeks More of gunpoint terror. Four teachers also Are being held at gunpoint by moluccan gunmen who took Over the Bove Smilde elementary school nearby. The government has made it Clear it considers the hostages will be mentally and physically damaged by an indefinite prolongation of the siege one official said. We cannot tolerate this situation much longer he said. If the talks fail you can guess what action we would asked if he was referring to a possible plan to seize the train he replied of Cadet Battles Boss for Bills army Secretary Clifford Alexanderjr. And Cadet Lawrence Joustra Jostle or Possession of a bag full of Dollar Bills during graduation exercises at West Point. The Money was presented to Joustra at the ceremony because he was the last Man the so called Goat in hit class. Traditionally the Goat receives a Dollar from each member of the class. A photo he s Back in Uganda Commonweal Fth shies from action on Amin London a Commonwealth government leaders denounced the White minority rulers of Rhodesia and South Africa thursday. But there seemed Little likelihood that their 33-nation conference would censure absent fellow member president Idi Amin of was reported at Home in Kampala after mystifying the world and upstage ing the conference with reports of a cloak and Dagger style journey toward London. He had vowed to attend despite British opposition based on his alleged six year reign of terror. Nigeria declared that Only War will bring Rhodesia s 22-to-l Black majority to Power and accused Britain of ineffectual hand wringing in its efforts to negotiate a settlement with the White minority govern ment of prime minister Ian Smith. A nigerian spokesman refused to com ment on claims of mass murder under Amin s regime and said the Burly unpredictable ugandan Leader should have been allowed to come to London and present his Side of the Story jamaican prime minister Michael Manley led a fresh wave of criticism against Amin but like other third world leaders before him he did it outside the conference and sidestepped questions about a possible move by the organization of Britain and us former colonies to Cen sure Amin. Likewise archbishop Makarios. Presi Dent of Cyprus resisted reporters appeals to both his religious and temporal roles for comment on Amin. Meanwhile radio Uganda coupled the announcement of Amin s Surprise return with a statement that an unnamed briton had been arrested on spying charges and faced a firing squad if found guilty. The radio also accused other unnamed britons of subversive activities an indication Amin intended to keep pressure up against the 300 British residents he has banned from leaving the country and is holding As virtual hostages. Amin s return to Kampala ended one of the most bizarre episodes in the six year military dictatorship of the flamboyant former , he dropped out of sight Declar ing he was flying to England to Gate crash the Commonwealth conference from which he had been barred. After reports Amin s aircraft had been sighted All Over Europe. Radio Uganda Early thursday announced he had eluded All British Security and had slipped secretly into hours later the same radio blandly reported Amin had returned safely to Kampala from a meeting with top revolutionary military officers from Tanzania and Zambia held on the Border Between Tanzania. Uganda and Rwanda. Irs auditing Carter return continued from Page 1 Gia As part of the review Powell said. Powell added one reason for the audit might be that the tax Agency wants to avoid any criticism like the flood which Fol Lowed revelations that then president Richard m. Nixon had been granted tax deductions for his gift of vice presidential papers to the National archives. Mondale s vice presidential counsel Michael Herman and an accountant he employed to prepare his return will meet with an irs agent within the week Eisele said. The spokesman replying to queries from reporters said Mondale s 1976 income consisted largely of his salary As a democratic senator from Minnesota three Days of transition salary As vice president elect and some speaking fees. The Mondale salary figures were no immediately available nor was any other information about their tax was audited on his 1972 return Eisele said and was found to owe no additional taxes. He thought it the 1972 audit was politically motivated said the spokesman. Mondale was on one of the enemies lists prepared by Nixon aides. Information about Carter s audit emerged from a tangle of what Powell con ceded were mistakes and unwarranted assumptions made by Carter spokesmen during a 2 hour news briefing devoted almost exclusively to questions about the irs audit of the president s 1975 tax return
