European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday october 18, 1977 Gold hits highest Price in 2 years As Dollar plunges a soft. London a the Price of Gold spared above $160 an ounce for the first time in More than two years monday As the Dollar continued to fall against Europe s major currencies. Investors traditionally turn to Gold in times of trouble for the Dollar and the Price of the Metal has gradually gone up As the Dollar suffered setbacks. Gold closed at $160.25 per Troy ounce in London up from $158.65 on Friday. In Zurich Europe s other major Bullion Center the Metal closed at $160.375, up snowstorm isolates a. Residents continued from Page 1 interstate 80 was reopened by mid morn to 12 inches of Snow fell in the Lewistown and seven mountains area of Pennsylvania. Falling Trees overburdened by Snow and ice snapped Power lines and Cut service to about 45,000 persons in Luzerne county. A. About 3,100 persons were without Power in Williamsport. A. Some schools closed in Williamsport Scranton and Lewistown. A Frost or freeze spread deep into the Midwest and Northern portions of some Gulf states. Record lows were recorded in Many Florida cities. The nation s morning Low was 17 at Grayling Minn. Temperatures l 38 34 38 45 52 50 43 46 44 33 42 44 60 40 33 45 56 42 50 41 34 34 40 50 39 40 37 42 31 32 30 43 13 31 32 52 35 30 71 53 40 37 48 45 h 78 39 50 61 67 74 60 75 59 75 72 63 85 42 54 78 66 47 60 74 51 48 47 65 40 71 48 80 59 45 56 75 19 64 74 72 69 70 90 75 52 67 72 47 Amarillo Anchorage Asheville atlant Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Bois Boston Brownsville Buffalo Burlingto Casper Charleston , . Charlotte Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnat Cleveland Columbia Dallas it. Worth Dayton Denver Desmoines Detroit Duluth Elpaso Fairbanks Fargo Flagstaff great fall Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson Jacksonville Juneau l 35 35 42 60 42 42 65 42 34 28 45 551 50 30 31 33 52 48 71 31 49 37 45 36 35 43 34 51 43 52 62 53 28 50 37 26 44 45 70 35 48 44 34 h 41 44 10 55 44 14 77 47 51 57 70 45 73 11 70 42 11 47 16 52 47 43 55 7� 82 43 57 81 77 56 74 61 41 41 71 56 65 51 90 68 57 59 70 Kansas City Las Vega Little Rock los Angele Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Midland Odessa . Paul Nashville new Orleans new York Norfolk North Platte Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Portland me. Portland Ore. Providence Raleigh rapid City Ren Richmond Richmond St. Prog. Tampa Salt Lake City san Antonio san Diego san Francisco Sault Ste. Marie Seattle Shreveport Sioux fall Spokane Topeka Tucson Tulsa Vancouver Washington Wichita Europe Cloudy to partly Cloudy with morning fog tuesday and wednesday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High $5, Low 41. Sunset tuesday 5 30 . Sunrise wednesday 6 54 . Temperatures recorded monday get 4am 4pm65 6252 39 46 46 it 68 5746 5944 41 _1. Adana p Athens Paulano c Berlin Brussels p Cape Hafen c 4am 4om 46 48 41 43 48 54 52 6675 46 44 44 Frankfurt p London Madrid cd Munich Csc arts p Rome p from $157.875 last time that Gold was Worth More than $160 an ounce was aug. 28,1975, when it closed at $162.05 in London. Bullion has risen by about $6 an ounce since the begin Ning of the month and is about $24 above its level at the Start of the year. The Dollar meanwhile continued to plunge As dealers reported a Rush to sell the . Currency monday. The Rush to sell dollars follows the continued Outlook for the Dollar which is Only one Way Down a London dealer said. In London the Pound Sterling climbed almost half a cent to $1.7725, the Pound s Best level against the . Currency in 13 months. The Dollar dropped to a nine month Low against the italian lira at the Milan fixing. It closed at 879.80 lire. The closings in Europe s other major financial centers Zurich 2.2645 Swiss francs. Frankfurt 2.2610 West German Marks. Paris 4.84125 French francs. Amsterdam 2.4240 dutch guilders. Hijack Routt route of the hijackers this is the Odyssey made by the hijacked Lufthansa 737 Airliner which landed monday in the somalian capital of Mogadishu. The plane was seized after flying out of Mallorca last thurs Day and subsequently made forced stops in Rome Cyprus Bahrain Dubai and South Yemen. A map hijackers kill Pilot extend deadline det 25, list weather so continued from Page 1 jails and a Ransom of More than $15 Mil lion. In West Germany government spokes Man Klaus boiling said our goal now As before is to Rescue the hostages from the hijackers who have shown by the murder monday what they Are capable but he indicated Bonn would not free the 11 terrorists As the hijackers demand. Terrorists released previously had returned to their crimes he said. Boiling said the government had the Well founded impression that the Pilot 37 year old Jirgen Schumann was shot in mid flight from Aden to Somalia. The body was thrown on the runway at the Mogadishu Airfield in German state minister Jirgen Wischnewski the troubleshooter who has been following the hijacked Jet As it roamed around some of the remotest re Gions in the world talked by radio for Sev eral hours with the guerrillas in Mogadishu. It was not Clear whether the negotiations were interrupted or would continue to the new deadline. One report reaching Bonn said Schu Mann had been murdered before the eyes of the hostages. Friends said Schumann a former West German air Force Star fighter Pilot spoke often of the possibility of being hijacked and said if it happened he would play it Cool. I m no Type for heroic gestures he told his wife once the West German news paper die Welt reported. The Pilot s murder swelled a worldwide tide of indignation and protest. In Vatican City Pope Paul i said he would offer himself As a hostage if rethought that would persuade the hijackers to free the Many innocents aboard the plane. West German airline pilots said monday there should be a worldwide strike of All pilots to make governments enforce civil aviation Security regulations. They said there should be a drastic reduction of hand baggage allowed to Pas International federation of air line pilots associations said meanwhile that governments of the world Are the True kill Pilot Jurgen Schumann ers in the murder of Pilot Schumann be cause they have failed to take positive action which would ensure the eradication of acts of violence against civil German editorial opinion supported the government but a Public opinion poll con ducted by the Allensbach Institute for the Stern illustrated Magazine showed West germans were divided. Forty two per cent of those questioned said the hostages should be sacrificed if necessary to oppose terrorism another 42per cent said the 11 prisoners should be re leased to save the hostages and 16 per cent were undecided. A delegation of relatives of the aircraft hostages seven men five women and two children came to Bonn to plead forthe lives of the hostages and met Chancel Lor Helmut spent most of the Day and night conferring with his Security officials aides and Cabinet was on the phone one hour talking to somali president Mohammed Siad to Dis cuss the Steps now necessary after the murder of the Pilot boiling reported. Boiling said Schmidt informed Siad of the crimes and murders committed by the 11 members of the red army faction the Baader Meinhoff anarchist gang apparently in an Effort to Harden the somali stand against the hijackers. The Fate of harms Martin Schleyer 62 year old chairman of the federation of German Industry remained unknown Billing told newsmen. The terrorists who kidnapped him sept. 5 had threatened to shoot him if the 11 prisoners were not freed by 9 . Sunday. It was not known if they had carried out the threat. His family monday appealed to the kid Napers to Contact it in a message to Geneva lawyer Denis payot who is acting As an intermediary. In Rome the extreme leftist daily news paper Lotta continue received monday a photograph of Schleyer and two letters about the Lufthansa plane hijacking. One letter a copy of one made known in Beirut Friday claimed that the hijacking was engineered by a group known As Sazio or struggle against world imperialism organization. The second one which was said to have been a copy of one also received by the West German government saturday threatened to kill Schleyer and hostages on the Lufthansa plane unless terrorist de mands were met. West Germany s protestant and Roma Catholic leaders agreed monday to hold nationwide services for the Airliner hos tages and Schleyer. The Church prayer services were set for 6 . Tuesday. Sports in Brief new York up an angered Defigueroa a 16-game Winner for the new York Yankees this year quit the club monday because he was upset Over Man Ager Billy Martin s passing him Over an naming Mike Torrez to pitch tuesday night s sixth game of the world series against the los Angeles dodgers
