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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday october 2, 1978 finnish Hijacker is arrested Helsinki a police stormed into the Home of Finland s first Hijacker Sun Day and overpowered the tired Man within seconds with the help of two police dogs. The Hijacker was captured 24 hours and40 minutes after he seized a finn air super Caravelle on a Domestic flight saturday. Police had promised him he would be Al Lowed to stay at his Home until monday which was the main condition on which he walked out of the Caravelle and drove Home from Oulu Airport. The Blitz attack put the end to the Hijack by Aarno Lammi Porras. A 37-year-old businessman of Oulu whose firm recently went bankrupt. The aimless Hijack drama started Satur Day afternoon Over the City of Tampere when Lammi Porras went to the cockpit of the flight from Oulu to Helsinki pulled out a pistol and seized control of the plane. After the plane landed at Helsinki air port saturday afternoon All male Passen Gers were ordered out and All women or dered to stay in their seats. The Hijacker demanded a Ransom of 675, 000 finnish Marks $168,000. With eight women passengers and a Crew of three the super Caravelle flew Back to Oulu and after a Promise of another Ransom of 150,000 Marks from a Helsinki newspaper the Hijacker ordered the plane flown Back to Helsinki Airport where he re leased the remaining hostages but kept the Crew. He refused to accept a new Crew even though the one he had seized had been on duty since 6 . Saturday. He ordered the plane flown to Amster dam then after 30 minutes ordered it Back to Oulu. On the Way to Oulu he stopped for about id minutes at Helsinki Airport and collected 100,000 Marks he had left behind plus two bottles of whisky. He had wanted 175,000 Marks of the ran som to be Given to an orphanage and a War veterans Hospital. Carter. Continued from Page 1 like today s rockets but will land like an air plane. It will carry up to seven men and women to and from orbit and will haul most of America s military and civilian satellites into space. At the ceremonies Carter presented the congressional space medal of Honor to five former astronauts and to the wife of the late Virgil i. Grissom who died in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape canaveral in1967. Other astronauts receiving the medal were Neil a. Armstrong Frank Borman Charles Pete Conrad John h. Glenn and Alan. Shepard. Armstrong 48, was the first american to set foot on the Moon. He is now an Engi Neering professor at the University of Cincinnati. Borman 50, commanded the Apollo 8 Mission that circled the Moon for the first time with men aboard 10 years ago. He is now president of Eastern airlines. Conrad 48, flew on four space missions and As commander of skylab 1, was credited with saving a $2 billion orbiting Laboratory project. Glenn 57, was the first american to or bit the Earth circling the Globe three times in his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. He is now a democratic senator from Ohio. Shepard 55, in 1961, was America s first Man in space. He now owns a Texas Beer distributorship. Grissom followed Shepard into space completing a suborbital flight in 1961. He also commanded the first two Man gemini spacecraft and was preparing for Ameri Ca s first Apollo test flight when he died in a launching pad fire. Will Block palestinian state begin outlines position Tel Aviv up the israeli army will prevent the establishment of a pales Tinian state in the occupied territories prime minister Menachem begin said in interviews published sunday. If there were such a state he said they would not Only determine their own future they would determine our future for kill ing murder and War. We will not agree to this  he also said if peace with Egypt comes we would encourage and initiate capital investment by american jews in  the interviews Given hours after Parlia ment endorsed the Camp David peace accords were published As doctors released the 65-year-old prime minister from the Hospital and said he was in Good condition. Begin asked to be admitted to Hadassa Hospital in Jerusalem Friday for a rest and checkup after a Busy week capped by a 55-minute talk summing up 17 straight hours of debate in the Knesset. He spent the weekend catching up. On Reading undergoing tests and chatting with friends. Doctors said he would rest at Home during the jewish new year Holiday which ends tuesday night. Asked about . Insistence that he committed Israel not to establish new Settle ments in occupied territory for five years after the Start of negotiations he said the commitment was for three months and three months  although president Carter says the commitment applies to the period of negotiations on a settlement on the West Bank and Gaza five years begin said he wrote him a letter denying it. I will prove to him that the Promise about refraining from settlement in Judea and Samaria the West Bank and Gaza is for three months during negotiations with Egypt he said. . Officials have been quoted As Call ing the Council proposed for the occupied population a palestinian transition government but begin said a palestinian state will not  we Are responsible for this he said. The israeli army is responsible for this. It s no Accident the name of the Council will be the administrative Council administrative and that s  himself to settlers from oth israeli Navy sinks gunship of guerrillas Tel Aviv up the israeli Navy blew up and Sank a guerrilla gunship sail ing up the Gulf of Aqaba to Shell the South Ern port of Eilat the military command said  men who said they were members of the Al Fatah guerrilla group were arrested three of them wounded a spokes Man  Navy spotted the Craft off the resort spot i Zahav on the Eastern coast of the Sinai saturday afternoon. The boat tried to evade the naval Cutter after warning shots were fired and the israelis then fired into its Hull. The israelis attack on the raiders boat set off Large quantities of  guerrillas said they intended to arrive at the port of Eilat in the evening and Shell it with the 42 Katusha rockets they brought along. They then planned to blow up the ship the Adios Dimitrius with the three tons of explosives aboard. Finally they said they intended to make their escape in a Small rubber boat apparently to the neighbouring jordanian town of Aqaba. Dahab lies 60 Miles South of Eilat in the territory occupied by Israel in 1967 which is scheduled to be returned to egyptian control As part of the recent Camp David accords. Sports in Brief Boston up Luis Tiant spun a two hitter and Rick Burleson and Jim Rice belted homers sunday to Send the Boston red sox into a one game playoff for the american league East championship with a 5-0 win Over the Toronto Blue jays. The Victory coupled with a 9-2 new York loss to Cleveland sunday set up a one game playoff monday at Boston s Fenway Park. Watkins Glen . Up Carlos Reutemann of Argentina won the . Grand prix sunday As he beat Australia s Alan Jones by 20 seconds. World Champion Mario Andretti was forced out on the 27th Lap As first his brakes failed and then his engine blew. Earlier Story on Page 24. Arlington Texas up the Tex As rangers sunday fired manager Billy Hunter and replaced him with Pat Cor Rales the team s third base coach. Sunday s baseball american league Cleveland 240 100 002-9 13 0 new York 200 000 000-2 5 0 Waits and Alexander Hunter Tidrow 2rajsich 7mccall 9lindblad 9 and Munson. A Waits 13-15. A Hunter 12-6. Hrs Cleveland Thornton 33alex Ander 27. Toronto 000 000 000-0 2 1 Boston 0 020 21x 5 6 1 Kirkwood and Cerone Tiant and Fisk. A Tiant 13-8. A Kirkwood 4-5. Hrs Boston Burleson 5rice 46. Minnesota 000 000 000-0 2 0 Kansas City 0 100 Oox-1 4 1 Zahn and Borgmann Gura Throop 4mcgilbery 7mingori 8paschall 9 and Porter Kusnyer 2. With Roop 1-0. A Zahn 14-14. Baltimore 010 001 0204 9 0 Detroit 001100000-241  and Skaggs Rozema Hiller 9 and May. A Martinez 16-11. A Rozema 9-12. Hrs Baltimore Kelly 2 11. Detroit Thompson 26. National league Montreal 000100004-5100 St. Louis 000010000-1 s2 a Rinsley and Carter Vuckovich dressier 7o Brien 9bruno 9 and Swisher. A Grimsley 20-11. A o Brien 0-2. Philadelphia 000 200 100-3 9 0 Pittsburgh 000040 olx5 7 0 Kaat Pina 3saucier 5boitano 7larson 8 and Foote Moreland 6 , Carroll 6tekulve 8 and Nicosia.  2-0. A Saucier 0-1. Or Pittsburgh Berra 6. New York 000 021 011-5 8 3 Chicago 0 000 0123 11 2 Kobel  8 and Trevino Benton 3 Mcgloth Len  8geisel 9 and Cox Rader 9. Who Bel 5-6. A Mcglothlen 5-2. San Francisco 000 000 0000 5 0 Houston 111 000 oox3 6 1 Nastu Plank 5curtis 7 and Tamargo Niekro Ruhle 6lemongello 8 and Bochy. A Niekro 14-14. A Nastu 0-1. Or Houston Cedeno 7. Nil results Buffalo 28, Kansas City 13 Pittsburgh 28, by jets 17 Minnesota 24, Tampa Bay 7 new England 28, san diego23 Green Bay 35, Detroit 14 Houston 16, Cleveland 13 Miami 24, St. Louis 10 Atlanta 23, 20 los Angeles 26, new Orleans 20 Philadelphia 17, Baltimore 14 italian workers pay tribute to terrorist victim Turin Italy a thousands of workers Many carrying red flags at tended the funeral of Piero Coggiola a Foreman at the Lancia Auto factory who was assassinated by red brigades terrorists. Also in the crowd were executives of Fiat Lancia s Parent company. The coffin of the slain Foreman was car ried by Lancia factory workers in overalls. Coggiola 46, was fatally wounded when three youths ambushed him and fired at least 12 pistol shots. Or territories worried about the decision to remove their comrades from Sinai he said we will strengthen existing Settle ments and make new  mayors of a number of West Bank towns meanwhile evaded a ban on political meet Ings in occupied territory by gathering in an Arab suburb of Jerusalem that Israel annexed after the 1967 War. Joined by labor leaders and Heads of Charity organizations they issued a state ment against the Camp David accords endorsing the Palestine liberation Organiza Tion As their representative. The results of the Camp Davis Summit left no room for the Plo in the peace pro Cess and Carter later compared the group to the nazis and the Klu flux klan. The mayors who took part refused ear Lier in the week to meet with . Envoy Al Fred Atherton to hear his explanation of the Summit but they sent him a copy of their statement. Dod to hike urine testing continued from Page 1 degree in social psychology. Discussing the urinalysis testing he cited one Surprise test in which the army s entire 3,300-Man Berlin brigade was marched off for urinalysis at the close of the 4th of july Holiday weekend. The results Johns said showed 4.2 per cent of the soldiers As positive for heroin or other hard drugs. Fifty of the positives were already in drug programs he said and another 94 were ordered into rehabilitation or coun Selling programs. Johns said however that the Pentagon faces hard and politically difficult Deci Sions on whether its current approach works especially the rehabilitation and education programs that Center on class room lectures and have no  military statistics claim 71 percent of mar Ijuana users have been rehabilitated and 92 percent of those in hard drug pro Grams completed treatment within six months. About All our figures mean Johns said is we just Don t catch them again for at least a year. It May be the Best thing to do is discharge these people and get rid  one Factor in the drug abuse picture is that the Pentagon with agreement from Congress and president Carter has lengthened overseas assignments to save Money spent on transfers. Johns said the 30 months an 18 to 20 year old i spends in a strange Environ ment in Europe contributes to drug abuse and an Effort is now under Way to shorten the tour to 18 months. The ghetto mentality overseas is definitely a Factor he said. Outside the bar Racks there s no Mcdonald a there s no drag racing. If a kid goes to a disco he can t understand the language or afford to get in because of the deflated  Johns also said he believes alcohol is a More serious problem although it has gotten far less Public attention. He agreed with the findings of a 1976 general accounting office study that said 37 percent of officers and 67 percent of enlisted people Are either heavy or problem drinkers. Europe partly Cloudy to Cloudy with occasional rain showers monday. Partly Cloudy tuesday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 57, Low 45. Sunset monday 6 03 . Sunrise tuesday 6 28a.m. Temperatures recorded sunday. 4pm Athens p Berlin p Copenhagen p London m Munich r Rome m a partly Cloudy cd Cloudy a mostly Cloudy a rain c Clear. Det 25,31st weather so 4am 4pm 59 82 Adana p 56 55 Aviano cd 50 50 Brussels m 46 54 Frankfurt m 61 59 Madrid cd 45 54 Paris m 4am 4pi 61 72 41 54 43 50 52 55 39 43 63 59  
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