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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, February 18, 1981

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes february 1981 jailed for months on spy charges North Yemen releases 2 americans Washington a two Ameri cans accused by North Yemen of being israeli spies were released last week after Many months in state depart ment officials said monday one of the pair said their captors tortured the spy charges have been denied by the two Duwayne of Colorado and William Thomas of Accord ing to the who asked that their names not be they were freed 8 but the Yemen government gave no reason for their the officials who said he was held for a year and four Days on spy said in an interview monday night from Colorado Springs that he was beaten and tortured in the yemeni prison until he signed a false confession that he was an israeli spy and that Thomas was a spy for the Central intelligence he later disavowed the Terrell said he had worked briefly for whom he described As a he said Thomas also was tortured while in he said six yemenis three jews and three muslims also were charged with being part of the alleged spy plot and re main imprisoned in North which is located on the red sea South of saudi Ara Terrell said he was arrested while visiting the burial site of Salaam Sha a Well known yemeni jewish he said he had spent about a month in the seek Nim so Wii Stephen King author of the dead zone and fire starter with 8 pages of film youll enjoy the movie More after Reading the now at most country doing research on yemeni a project he became interested in while living in he said he was imprisoned in a town near the burial and that he was interrogated there for two his Cap tors later moved him to the he i was put in a Small cell with Little Light ing and with no other my mind went bad on i cried out several i thought they were going to kill he Terrell said the yemenis became suspicious of him because he had several letters written in he said the letters were addressed to friends in Israel and contained nothing but his captors did not believe his Story that he was in the country to do they beat me so badly that i lost four he adding that several times he was beaten on the soles of his feet until he lost Terrell said he did not have any Contact with the government until last novem when a Consul was allowed to see until he government officials did not know Why he and Thomas had been a Duwayne Terrell tells of torture attack squad kills rescues ending standoff at Florida prison a a lineman attack squad stormed a prison office in a burst of gunfire killing a convicted murderer and rescuing a hostage to end a 10hour standoff at Union correctional in officials another prisoner was critically wounded in the Earl morning which came alter two inmates armed with homemade knives seized two secretaries and demanded Safe passage from the minutes after the inmates seized the three prison employees managed to pull 26yearold Debbie Wright officials 22yearold Terri Rimes didst get away until when a special weapons team stormed the office used by an assistant said department of corrections spokesman Vernon Rimes escaped with minor he the dead inmate was identified As 18 year old Ray Anthony convicted of killing four people in their suburban Miami Homes and sentenced to a life term the other 27yearold Jerry Ras was convicted in the Petersburg area of robbery and assault and also was sentenced to Rasberry was in critical condition at a Gainesville Hospital with multiple gunshot Bradford he said the prisoners wanted a car with guns in and they were going to take the girl with the prisoners told authorities they would release their captive once they were assured of a Safe flight from the North Florida Bradford the incident was the latest in a series of violent episodes in Florida last week an inmate was stabbed to death at Florida state which houses nearly s inmates on Friday an was stabbed five times at Home of death late last a death Row officer at v and measures that followed touched off several nights of unrest m which officers used tear Gas to quell rioting in riot police Mon Day quickly settled a racial disruption at Georgia state prison in where five inmates have been stabbed in As Many a spokeswoman prison spokeswoman Sara Englade said the police were called in when White and Black prisoners refused to sleep in the same she said there was no these things she we have some inmates who refuse to have any thing to do with the other inmates were led out of the dorm and shaken Down in a weapons and an extra guard was she of the five recent Only one resulted from a confirmed racial she two others concerned gambling while one concerned a homosexual incident and the cause of the other was not May of Byrnes etiquette aide quits lob Chicago a Noreen who was hired two weeks ago to advise Chi Cagos mayor on the proper etiquette for dealing with foreign has re signed her mayor Jane Byrne the resignation followed published re ports that was fired last year from her Job As a sales clerk because of tardiness and whose appointment of an Eti Quette aide Drew fire from officials who considered the Job a waste of said from Palm where she was that Mcbride had contacted her chief of staff and informed him she was Mcbride collected unemployment Bene fits for six months after she was fired from the clerks though she later said she was running an etiquette school from her Home during that the Sun times reported  
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