European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes g Gorbachev tackles soviet 8 d unfinished business Salks War against d flyers reach nil 21 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 31 May 1985 15c Dolly Ond sunday q 8693 a islamic jihad warns of major strike released aide tells of kidnapping ordeal Beirut a an Anonymous caller claiming to represent the shadowy islamic jihad warned Friday that the Ira linked extremists plan a major attack against the telephoned to a French news Agency in came the Day after the United states declared that it will not negotiate with the fundamentalist shiite moslem group for the release of americans kidnapped in the american government should await the largest military operation it has Ever the Anonymous caller the organization has been preparing for this Surprise for a Long the refusal of our demands will mean hell for americas diplomats across the there was no Means of confirming the authenticity of the irishman Aidan the Deputy director of a Relief said Friday after a 36hour Kidnap ordeal that he was pistol whipped by the gunmen who grabbed him he said they apparently thought he was an apart from the he he was not physically harmed during his much of it spent sitting in the darkened Back of a Van somewhere in Bei islamic jihad holy War statements published in Beirut newspapers thursday issued a final warning of catastrophic consequences for four americans and two frenchmen held hostage if Washington and Paris do not pressure Kuwait to free convicted members of the Grainy Polaroid pictures released by the group showed Terry the associated press chief Middle East correspondent embassy official William 56 the Benjamin a 60 year old presbyterian minister the Lawrence a roman Catholic priest and French diplomats Marcel Fon and Marcel islamic followers of Iran revolutionary Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Shomei has claimed responsibility for the octo Ber 1983 suicide truck bombings against Marine and French paratroop head quarters in nearly 300 american and French servicemen were fridays warning gave no indication where the extremists might strike or but islamic jihad warned in thursdays statements that it will not wait Long for Kuwait to free the it also stressed we shall terrorize Amer Ica and France forever if the men convicted in Kuwait for bombing the and French embassies Are not told reporters at the Beirut Headquarters of the Relief and works Agency when gunmen stopped his Sta Tion Wagon in West he thought they Only wanted to steal the he when i got out of the car carrying my briefcase i was grabbed by three of the two of them stuck pistols in my Chest and one had a gun against my i started to struggle a bit and explain that in with the United nations and i said there was no purpose in at a photo Safe and sound Aida an irishman who is the Deputy director of the Relief and works relaxes at his quarters in Beirut after he was set he was kid napped by gunmen who apparently mis took him for an american and was held for 36 one of them hit me Over the head a few times with his the gunmen dragged him to one of la Weir two he bundled him onto the floor in the Back so he  Sec where they were going and sped Walsh said he tried to slay As Calm As i could during his me described it As a very worrying its a Claustrophobic experience being stuck for 36 hours in a Small Walsh bore a Hal dozen dark scars from the pistol whipping on his forehead and around his left but lie appeared relaxed after his in a letter has been received from the kidnapped Catholic it urges efforts to free islamic prisoners in but his sister says the words were dictated by Juncos Juncos family made the letter Public it purportedly was relayed by the islamic fundamentalists who say they have kidnapped Jenco said in the letter that my Freedom is tied to the Freedom of alleged terrorists imprisoned in the family said the received sever Al weeks ago by one of the priests Verna Mae Misclich of was written in Juncos own but sue another sister of said at a news conference thursday while the letter was written by the its not his its been Dic in the head of the Beirut Branch of see terrorists on Page 28 Long wait for the Pope a photo a guard of the Royal military Academy Independence Monument in faulted while waiting for the arrival of the Pope is in Belgium for a six Day Pope John Paul ii at the Cinque attenaire related photos on Page 31 killed in explosion at japanese mine Many trapped below Tokyo a an explosion Friday in a Northern japanese Coal mine killed 31 and about 34 others were still trapped underground following the Gas blast which ripped through its deepest police said Early another 22 people were injured in the Accident at Mitsubishi mining Minami of Tubari mine in Central according to Takeshi a spokesman for the Tubari Akira an official of the ministry of International Trade and Industry mine Security management in the state capital of said the explosion occurred near two Diagonal shafts about feet below sea level and feet beneath the Suzuki quoted Miti senior mining offi Cial Tatsuo Takahashi As saying during a news conference at the scene that one possibility was that the explosion occurred after a leakage of methane which was detected in the Takahashi told the news conference that mine carriages were seen blown off their and some miners found dead in the shafts were apparently thrown against the Wall of the mine in the the level of poisonous Gas decreased to a safer level late and More than 70 rescuers were trying to reach those still re ported in the prospects for a Rescue de japans Kyodo news service re there were no reports of contacts with the trapped miners nearly 11 hours after the Kyodo said searchers were hampered by fallen debris from the the disaster was the third at a japanese Coal mine in the past 16 and the second in three and was certain to further cripple government attempts to re Vive the depressed Coal Rescue operations were initially delayed by More than two hours because a machine which sends fresh air into the shafts broke Down for unknown Tubari mine manager Shin Kamiya said 336 miners were inside the Shaft when the explosion occurred at