European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes ski resort Ransom paid january 1981 Fri stages command hostage game a hostages were bound and gagged by phony a brutal knee capping was staged and a Ransom was paid out in play Money when four ski resorts became sets for an elaborate game aimed at teaching local Law officials How to Deal with the played out Between Fri agents and Aspen la enforcement officials during the simulated a fake Comman do raid on the resorts in which a million Ransom was officials said the exercise attempted to create a possible scenario which might have evolved from an actual extortion attempt two years in that past four stale ski areas received letters which said that their lift towers would be blown up if a Ransom of wide Price violations Laid to Oil firms Washington up four Petroleum firms have been cited by the Energy department for a series of alleged pricing violations that the Agency estimated at Al most the Agency office of special counsel is sued 16 notices amounting to million in probable violations under Complex Feder Al Oil and Gas pricing rules Texas City refining of Texas City was cited for five alleged violations totalling american Petrosina of dal Las was cited for nine violations amounting to Clark Oil and refining of Milwaukee was cited for a million inter North of was cited for a the citations generally Challenge the Way the firms calculated their allowable costs under the regulations or accused the com Pany of overpricing their Petroleum prod the Agency demanded a refund to customers of which inter North said in a statement consisted of Mil lion in alleged overcharge plus million in the firm vowed to vigorously pursue All administrative and judicial appeals available to it and charged that the Energy department was trying to retroactively apply new interpretations to rules and regulations published approximately seven years drought perils 1 million new Delhi up acute drought conditions threaten More than one million people in the Western Indian desert state of the press Trust of India the news Agency said villages and half a million cattle arc affected by the in its second million in Cash was not handed no Money was and the threat was not carried Aspen is a potential spot for terrorism because we have notable figures including movie other celebrities and wealthy arabs coming Here on a regular said Aspen police chief Rob who played one of the hostages Mcclung was bound and gagged at gun Point for four along with Pitkin county sheriff Dick a third hos Aspen ski employee buddy or was shot in the knee by terrorists who wanted to reaffirm their commitment to obtaining Mcclung said he got a real Good feel for the disorientation and confusion experienced by we experienced some of the Stockholm he refer ring to a term psychologists use for a tendency that some hostages show to identify with their he said while negotiators seemed to be delaying the whole the captors seemed to be trying to the captors Are negotiating for they loosen your shackles Ana otherwise provide for your Mcclung the simulation began when officials at Copper Aspen and Keystone ski resorts received a letter from the fake terrorists threatening to blow up 10 Aspen police officer Terry quirk and Fri agent Neil Fores captured the hostages at gunpoint and held them until a Deal was a rescuers reach firefighter Robert Dhein extends his town she was carried Arm to Vivian during a Down the firemen ladder and is in sat fire in an apartment building in Down factory condition in a a Disneyland visit is Good for a lifetime a Gert Schel vis walked into Disneyland on a red carpet thursday to a fanfare of trumpets and the ringing of he was the amusement Parks 200millionth weve been Here four times said a 26yearold Santa Barbara resident accompanied by his wife Debbie and 2yearold son for his part in the Schelvis and his family received a Glass key to the Disney kingdom and a lifetime we will really enjoy that its what you could Call a National inst int it said Disneyland spokesman Bob Park attendance had soared to a record million in the year of Disney lands 25th despite a rain soaked Winter last year that sapped Atten weve got a centralized counting machine and weve been keeping track of at Tendance since the Day we Roth Roth said 75 percent of the Parks visitors Are there on repeat visits like and 60 percent of the visitors come from South Ern California Between san Diego and Santa the Park has come a Long Way since it opened on july a Day still remembered As Black tempers grew raw that Day As people poured into the Park and rides broke Concession stands ran out of food and drink and streets were but the amusement which began As the dream of Walt soon became a Success Story and received the ranking of the top tourist attraction in Southern Cali the Park now has 58 attractions and Disney officials say they have invested made for their an Exchange of Money for one hostage was decided upon after a lift Tower at Vail was declared de Kienast was released for in play Money when negotiators decided his Bald head and Stout figure made it easy to distinguish him from his the Fri conducts similar operations twice a year in each of its 15 Tom a member of the Bis special operations and research unit in called the Aspen operation a Fri special agent Jack Egnor assisted Mcclung in the planning and staging of the which included activities by Neotia special weapons and tactics an intelligence unit and a command Titan report describes Accident Washington a an airman whose wrench socket dropped and touched off the fatal explosion of a Titan ii missile in september failed to Check whether the pieces of the wrench were firmly an air Force investigating team the investigators also said that weekly tests show no fuel or nuclear contamination of water or soil from the silo explosion in one airman was killed and 21 others were injured in the which reportedly ejected the rockets nuclear warhead from the missile a copy of the 30page summary portion of the teams report was obtained thursday by the associated the report said senior airman David who took the wrench socket and Ratchet into the launch area to perform Rou Tine maintenance did not Check the socket on the Ratchet and did not know if it was firmly socket Falls it said that before Powell could place the socket on a pressure Cap to remove it from an the socket fell from the hit a fell 66 feet and then bounced into a lower portion of the missile apparently either a fuel tank or the engine the missile exploded after the wrench socket pierced the fuel tank and allowed volatile fuel to according to invest the report also said one of the crewmen doing the routine maintenance on the airman Jeffrey was not trained on the relevant it said plumbs assignment was protective cloth ing and equipment the report concluded that the first part of the explosion sequence at the Arkansas site was probably vapor the team found that after the alarm was Given about the there were some difficulties establishing Telephone connections As military personnel were being assembled at a command Post to Deal with the in a separate issued earlier in the the air Force team said the nearly 18yearold Titan ii weapon system was basically Safe but also potentially a japanese fishing Accord Tokyo a a japanese Power company has agreed to pay million to fishermen in the Northern town of Radomi Hama who will relinquish their fishing rights so the Utility can build a nuclear Power