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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes May Kuwait Leader escapes assassination try Kuwait up the islamic jihad organization claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt saturday against the ruler of Kuwait and threatened All Gulf thrones with similar the claim came hours after Kuwait Sheik Jabur Ala Mcd Aljaner Al was rushed to a Hospital after a Boob trapped car Tore through his motor Cade while he was going to a waterfront Palace to attend a Cabinet the 57yearold Prince walked out of the Hospital a few hours later with minor Glass but two of his guards and a pedestrian were killed in the blast and 12 other people were a government statement police began an immediate investigation into the attempted and an initial report said the car was rigged with explosives and detonated by Remote to let improve radar system Reykjavik a foreign minister Geir Hallgrimsson announced saturday he had approved a request to build two new radar stations in Iceland and modern ize two existing the announcement came a Day after the Iceland reiterated unanimously the country ban on nuclear weapons in its water or All 48 members present of the 62seat lathing voted to uphold longstanding icelandic policy that no nuclear arms can be stationed on this Island nation close to strategic sea lanes near the Arctic Hallgrimsson told reporters that work on the new radar stations in Northern ice land replacing installations destroyed by storms in the 1960s will begin this sum they will be functioning by the end of he joining the existing stations in Southern the icelandic facilities will be a part of natos Earl warning system in the North they will be manned by Iceland ers and will be paid for by nato and the information from the stations about weather and foreign traffic in Iceland Waters and airspace will be made available to local a founding member of has no military of its its defense Force is composed of some american sol airmen and diplomatic sources said one of the cars in the motorcade was damaged by the Force of the blast at there were no other the Emir received our said an arabic speaking Telephone caller who claimed to represent the islamic once More we ask him to liberate our comrades held in kuwaiti otherwise All the thrones of the Gulf will be the caller told a Western news Agency in shaken but apparently not seriously in Jaber made a two minute television address to denounce the criminal act and assure the citizens of the Oil Rich emirate that he was All thanks to i am in Good and such incidents will not dissuade me or Kuwait from continuing to work for the Prosperity of our As Well As the Arab and islamic he he made no direct reference to the but political observers in the Gulf said his Brief statement was tantamount to an affirmation that Kuwait will not agree to the jihad on May the jihad issued what it said was a last warning to the United states and demanding that the Reagan administration seek the release of 17 mos Lem fundamentalists jailed in connection with a string of bomb attacks on French and kuwaiti facilities in december the warning was accompanied by Pic Tures of six westerners the jihad said they were including four kidnapped in Beirut Between March 1984 and March photo by red Grandy Jean and Liane Fols Chette place Flowers on the grave of Earl he remembers a Man he never met by Joe Mapother staff writer Luxembourg since Jean Fols Chette has been tending the grave of an american sergeant he never 1 adopted his grave in Fol Schetter said saturday shortly be fore memorial Day services began at the american military cemetery emergency training of doctors criticized London up Many of Britain Junior Hospital doctors Are unable to give Basic life support to Hospital patients in and the standards of reviving patients Are scandalously the British medical journal has the publication said almost half of the Doc tors tested in a London teaching Hospital could not perform external cardiac Massage and Mouth Mouth resuscitation on a although 55 percent did the re port said none would have passed the advanced cardiac life support examinations held in the United Earl Springer was killed in action on his body is buried with More than other service men killed during the latter stages of world War among them is the body of George Patton whose grave Marker stands at the forefront of the ranks of White crosses located in the Hamm District of Luxembourg but it is not the memory of the com Mander of the 3rd army div that brings Fols Chette and his Back to the cemetery seven or eight times each it is for memorial we make something Fols Chette said As he and his wife placed a bouquet before the Marker bearing springers the other times we bring Flowers we have in the now assistant police chief in the Luxembourg Border town of was just into his teens when the War ended in one of his friends was an Ameri can Soldier who eventually returned to the United states and looked up the surviving members of springers the family wrote and a 40year labor of Jove Fols Chette has his own reasons for undertaking the task of giving a personal touch to the sergeants Folsch ettes father was arrested twice by the Gestapo for refusing to become a conscript in the German twelve thousand Luxembourger were forced to become German on third of that number never the americans Are remembered As lib Fols Chette so it is not unusual that he would want to remember a Long fallen sergeant by the name of Earl Fols Chette has gone beyond tending the he has travelled to Maryland to meet springers eight Sisters and Brothers and other family members living in Hagerstown and we never can he the military cemetery is run by the american Battle monuments commission and is one of 24 american military Ceme teries summer hours at the 50acre site near the Luxembourg Airport Are from 9 to 6 on weekdays and from 10 to 6 on the pro iranian fundamentalist group said the westerners would be released u Kuwait freed the two Days another caller claiming to rep resent islamic jihad warned of hell on Earth for kuwaiti diplomats around the world if the 17 detainees were not re Kuwait will not give in to any threats or the emirates prime Crown Prince Sheik Saad Alabdallah Al said in an official statement while the ruler was in the Hospital for doctors carried out the necessary tests and examinations and reported that the health of our father and Leader is in Good he Jaber became Kuwait 10th ruler in succeeding his who died of a heart news update scientology verdict a the Church of scientology has asked that a mistrial be declared in a Mil lion fraud judgment handed Down to a former Church the verdict came May 17 in the Case of Julie Christofferson Titch who said the Church defrauded her by claiming it could raise her in and Correct weak Eye sight when she joined in the Church filed the motion in mul Tomah county circuit across the Street from a Park where Church members have been holding protests against the 20year Extension Moscow up the presidium of the supreme soviet has Rati fied the 20year Extension of the Warsaw pact and claimed that socialism has preserved peace in Europe for the past 40 members of the presidium of the supreme soviet of the unanimously ratified the signed in Warsaw on april on prolonging the period of Validity of the treaty of cooperation and Mutual the official news Agency Tass the protocol was signed by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev on his first trip outside the soviet Union As general Secretary of the communist the Warsaw pact was created in 1955 to counter the formation of 4 surrender to police Ohio a four men have surrendered to police after being charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of nine workers at what police called an Ille Gal fireworks a county prosecutor Mahoning county prosecutor Gary Van Brocklin identified the four As Anthony Aulisio of the owner operator of the factory Robert Antho nys Cousin John of Beaver who owned or occupied the property at the explosion site and Chris of Youngs Robert Aulisio is accused of help ing run the fireworks Tor Nello leased a warehouse where chemicals for making fireworks were stored before being shipped to the site of the Van Brocklin  
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