European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d German woman to wed in 2 d the answer Man for 9 d Phillies Bury mets in 267 Section the stars authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 57 june 1985 and sunday d 8693 a hijackers blow up jordanian plane Lebanon a hijackers of a jordanian Airliner released 66 passengers and Crew members including two then blew up the plane As it sat on the runway at Beirut see Page shortly a Lone Hijacker com wandered a lebanese air plane in route from Beirut to on Board were the two americans and six Crew members who had just been released from the jordanian the state department the who demanded to be flown to later left the plane with Cyprus the 80 passengers and six Crew members aboard the Middle East air lines plane were reported to be after the Hijacker was he and the Crew members boarded another air but it remained on the runway apron More than two hours Airport officials said there was no immediate explanation for the delay in eight jordanian sky marshals who had been held aboard the first aircraft were taken away from the plane by members of Lebanon shiite moslem but were later released said officials of the jordanian red Cross officials and Airport officials had said earlier that the sky marshals had been killed in the Munib vice president of the jordanian airline told reporters in Amman our manager says he has there in Good were going to put them on the first flight out of the Pilot of the hijacked Ulf a said the hijackers fled from the plane with the sky marshals As hostages before it was blown the hijackers raked the plane with automatic weapons then a series of explosions rocked the Boeing 727 and set it on witnesses soon after the the planes fuel tanks caught fire and it broke up into burning sections of twisted Only its bearing the Crown of King Hussein hash emite remained the plane was hijacked in Beirut on after slopping in it tried twice to land in refuelled in returned to attempted to Fly to Syria and then came Back to Beirut on tuesday the identified by Sultan As members of the amal were de manding that All palestinian guerrillas leave Beirut for Tunisia where Yasser Arafat Palestine liberation organization has its various reports put the number of hijackers at four or at one the hijackers opened fire at two shiite moslem militiamen who drove a jeep to within about 25 Yards of the no one was was not see hijackers on Page 24 double dipper a photo Foury Earold Scott Zierlyn of gets a Little crossed up while trying to Down a chocolate ice Cream Cone at a festival in grand coma victim Karen Quinlan Dies in her mothers arms Morris a Karen Ann who lapsed into a coma a decade ago and prompted a historic right Todie court decision after her parents sought to have her disconnected from a died tuesday in her mothers she was miss Quinlan died of pneumonia at at the Morris View said James who pronounced her dead about 45 minutes they were they had tears in their Wolf said of Joseph and Julia miss Quinlan had suffered from pneumonia for five he said by late death was clearly Immi she went into Shock before she stopped he said at a news conference at the nursing the initial cause of death was respiratory failure Fol lowing acute pneumonia on top of a chronic vegetative Wolf in the last 36 it certainly seemed like she was in More distress than in any of her last 10 he miss Quinlan Mother was with her embracing when she said Paul the family just outside the room were her father and family the family priest and the the family had kept a today Vigil because of her deteriorating Wolf monsignor Thomas who has served As the family spiritual described the Quinlan As in some sense he said the likelihood of karens death had always been on their Trapasso said burial would be Friday or saturday at our lady of the Lake Church in mount miss Quinlan lapsed into a coma april at her boyfriends birthday she had apparently consumed tee Quinlan on Page 24 a photo Karen Ann Quinlan was in coma for 10 years ways to identify enemy planes called deficient Washington up the United states and its nato allies have a hard time telling Friendly and enemy aircraft increasing chances of shooting at the wrong planes in a top Pentagon official told Congress assistant Secretary of defense Donald Latham told a House government affairs subcommittee that the military methods of identifying enemy aircraft Are seriously it is widely recognized in Allied and nato operational communities that our current identification capability has serious Latham said in a statement released before the Public was ushered out of the hearing for National Security the result is in Many combat Situ we May face the unacceptable Choice of either restricting the use of weapons or risking the engagement of or Allied be our current identification capability has need of improvement in All major no interoperable Friend identification system exists throughout the Richard Davis of the general account ing which studied the testified that in wartime the problem could result in significant degradation in our Abil Ity to manage and win the air Battle by restricting the flexibility of our a nato commander who participated in recent nato War games said that Friendly forces shot Down All his aircraft in five Davis to require our air Crews and air defenders to obtain visual identification before engaging a tar set negates any tactical advantage we have i longer Range Airt air and surface air it would place our people within the lethal Range of enemy he Davis and Latham both said the United states and nato Are working on a new identification system but that it would not be working fully before the turn of the Cen the existing developed More than 20 years has significant limitations most has never been totally accepted by Davis Latham predicted that work now being done will Lead to dramatic advances in our identification capability As a our National Security will be substantially