European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dutch Rescue operation frees 49 train hostages 2 6 gunmen die in blazing assault authorized unofficial publication for the u Aramco 56 june 1977 if 21855 a the Netherlands up1 in a blazing Dawn assault backed by Jet fight dutch troops saturday plucked 49 hos tages from a terror filled 19day ordeal aboard a hijacked ending the longest one of the 49 hostages liberated Early saturday from the train hijacked by end of a Long ordeal South moluccan terrorists in the Netherlands is carried into a Groningen Hospital after Rescue by dutch More photos on Page a 1 of 6 fugitives recaptured Ray escapes prison at i with the Fri in searchers using a helicopter racked Down one of James Earl rays fellow escapees saturday and continued their Hunt through a Snake infested Mountainside for the convicted killer of Martin Luther King related picture on Page the recaptured fugitive was identified As David Lee also a convicted Tennessee prison chief told reporters Powell offered no resistance As he was taken into custody while walking Down the Road near the Entrance to the Frozen head state Park some 8 Miles Northeast of the he said Powell apparently had been sighted first by a officials said earlier they believed the six convicts had split into two or More groups and were pretty much going around in circles in the heavily forested Cumberland mountains of East Powell was returned immediately to the Penitentiary past a gathering of reporters and cameramen the search continued for Flay and the other this time of someone who knows How to live in the Woods could make out very said Tennessee corrections commissioner c Murray Henderson they could hide out for 10 Days and not Henderson ruled out the possibility that Ray had outside help in the spectacular Friday night escape from Brushy Moun Tain stale the men bolted Over a Wall on a makeshift ladder As other prison ers created diversions in the As helicopters equipped with infrared sensors and fresh teams of tracking dogs were brought More than 150 searchers concentrated on the thickly forested Hills above the forbidding residents of the area were alerted by Telephone that the fugitives were at but there were no reports of in the nearby town of Petros residents were reported mostly staying Home and keeping firearms close at hand for protect in the Fri announced sat urday that it had taken Over the search and placed Ray on its list of 10 most wanted i continued on Page col it mass hostage siege on bursting onto the train in a Roar of explosive charges and a Tattoo of troops killed six of the South moluccan hijackers including a but two hostages also died in the Cross a 19yearold ans and a 40yearold Van Haarsel twelve hostages were injured along with two of Tho marines backed by armoured cars staged a simultaneous assault on the Bove Smilde elementary school and rescued four teach two men and two still being held they arrested the four moluccan gunmen who seized the school and held 105 children at gunpoint for four like eternity the assault lasted Only a few but it seemed like Daan Peter a 20yearold student said after his re lease front the in the operation took about 10 minutes after troops went into action at both locations at but Holland emerged from one night Marc to face longer term and More Subtle the Prospect of serious racial conflict Between the dutch and South to Many of whom seek to return to an Independent Homeland in what is now part of soon after the assault moluccan militants Here hoisted the Flag of their phantom hailed their fallen fighters and pledged the Battle will go on one Radical group condemned the government for its cowardly action in storming the train and and said authorities will have to Bear the consequences of their the same group had said the use of Force would be met with new terrorist Premier Joop Den Uyl promised to Clamp Down on moluccan paramilitary or on Page ii americans ignoring the experts by Richard Lyons Washington not Ameri cans in growing numbers Are turn ing a deaf ear to the pronouncements of Public officials and eminent Many of them continue to refuse to Wear seat decline to immune their protest a proposal to ban saccharin and believe laetrile to be effective in the treatment of the result of what appears to be the rising refusal to heed Eipert advice in Public and personal health is needless death and suffering from excessive rates of heart attack and lung and from preventable childhood diseases that reach Cpl continued on Page 1 i