European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes june 1985 car bomb kills 23 in Beirut finns freed Beirut a two suicide bombers drove an explosive loaded car into a Leb anese army position in Beirut ing 23 people and wounding the state radio in Southern an Israel backed Milita saturday released 21 finnish peace keeping soldiers it had held captive for eight Sec Page the car bombing rocked Beirut shortly after Nightfall Friday along a Seaside Boulevard in West Beirut a few Hundred Yards from the luxury Summerland the state radio said there were three soldiers among those kilted and six soldiers among the 36 witnesses told reporters that two Young men were Riding in the car and died when it they said at least eight cars were lined up at a checkpoint outside the army Posi Tion when the attackers sped past a Sand bagged guard Post and detonated the explosives inside the fenced the army mainly shiite moslem 6th brigade controls West the windows of the hotel and other nearby buildings were and Sev eral cars were it was the first major explosion in Bei rut since a car bomb exploded in a Chris Tian neighbourhood in East Beirut on May killing 58 people and wounding about the finnish soldiers of the interim Force in Lebanon single out of a Small House in where they had been they complained airports on Alert after hijacking Washington a the terrorist hijacking of a Twa Jet Over the Mediterranean put Airport Security officials on Alert even though mandatory passenger screening has sharply reduced the threat of Domestic it has been More than a dozen years since air plane hijackings were almost common occurrences in the United last year the Federal aviation administration re ported seven hijackings of air planes in this compared to an average of nearly 30 a year in the Early despite successes in thwarting i Federal officials remained uneasy warning airports to remain cautious in Case someone might try a hijacking after seeing news reports of the Twa hijacking in the Middle in los Lee a spokes Man for the cites department of said Airport police were asked to be extra but the Basic screening procedures did not significantly Between 1969 and 1972 there were 117 Hijack attempts on but a year when the mandatory including requirements for travellers to pass through Metal was put in the number of hijackings fell to according to the since then there have been an average of eight hijackings a year in the United there were Only two hijackings in the United states during the last six months of but there were 14 Accord ing to the most of these hijackings can be attributed to weak or nonexistent passenger screening concluded Faa administrator Donald hijackers from Page 1 relieved she was getting and the last thing i said to her no matter what remember i love the release of the last group of Passen Gers came several hours after an alleged accomplice was freed by greek authorities and arrived in the hijackers killed a passenger and threw his body onto the Beirut International Airport the hijackers said he was a but no officials had confirmed the official algerian news service said most of the hostages in the first group freed saturday were and a greek spokes Man in Athens said All of the greek Passen Gers had been the hijackers had said they would kill the greek passengers unless greek authorities released a Man arrested in Athens shortly after the Athen torome flight was hijacked on that a was released saturday and flown to earlier three people identified As an american his daughter and an american woman had been freed from the a statement attributed to the denying that they were members of the lebanese terrorist group islamic was printed saturday in Beirut islamic jihad has claimed responsibility for several terrorist including the bomb ing of the embassy in Beirut on april and the suicide bombing of marines in Beirut in october the plane landed in the algerian capital at almost 24 hours after the aircraft was i Algiers Airport officials authorized the Landing on condition the hijackers re Frain from official algerian radio said the plane was allowed to land at Houari Boum Dienne air port for humanitarian and because it was Low on they gave the same Rea sons when the plane landed in Algiers for the first time Friday French news reports quoted unidentified diplomatic sources As saying algerian authorities and officials in Algeria were working in close cooperation to re solve the among those at the Airport was the plane has been Back and Forth to Bei rut and Algiers twice since the hijackers seized control of it shortly after 9 Fri the seizure came after it left Athens on its Way to and the hijackers forced the plane to land in Beirut at 11 they released 19 hostages and refuelled after threatening to blow up the the plane took off from Beirut Friday afternoon and landed in despite Ini tial refusal from the the plane took off from Algiers at Friday after the hijackers released 22 More it landed at sat urday at and the Pilot reported that the hijackers had killed a later the plane took off again for Algiers with a fresh Load of sandwiches and Landing about four hours Mengele from Page 1 listed after verification by the body was buried under the name of Wolfgang a Soldier in the nazi army who is alleged to have protected Mengele in police say he was reported to have Given his brazilian identification card to Mengele when he left Brazil in Gerhard died in Austria in and West German vice Consul seep Woelker told reporters in Sao Paulo on Friday that his asked Austria to exhume gerhards Adolf gerhards said in that the family will release a statement telling what it knows about his fathers dealings with Mengele Only after investigations in Brazil Are i was dismayed when i heard that Ger hard should have passed his identity to such a said Stefan head of an advertising Agency in and gerhards former Wech described Gerhard As More than 6 feet experts in Brazil Havo said the remains Are of a Man about 5 feet 8 inches Mengele was 5 feet 716 inches according to medical Wech praised the elder Gerhard As a conscientious and competent advertising Salesman who made no Bones about being a 150 percent but Wech would not discuss details of gerhards life in South Wech said Gerhard had problems with his personal so he apparently stayed in West Germany for a while before returning to the head of the Justice depart ments nazi Hunting Neil said in Washington that the department has taken no position on whether the remains Are Reagan denounces communist bullying7 Washington a president in separate has called for a United Effort to prevent the spread of communism around the world and to coun ter what he called communist bullying in an interview broadcast Over radio free Europe and radio Liberty in Europe and a speech at fort Mchenry in Baltimore on Friday Reagan returned to his familiar theme of opposing what he called communist Imperial in the radio free Europe and radio Liberty Reagan declared if the communist leaders come to real ize that their Imperial ambitions through out the Globe will not be they will be compelled to address the other problems which they face the welfare of their own the problems of their the problems of internal for this to take the Western democracies and the free and Sovereign coun tries of the world must be United in a com Mon Effort to prevent the further expansion of totalitarianism throughout the if we succeed and we Send a message to the soviets that communism can in fact be re then the soviets will find it in their self interest to accommodate the desires of their at fort he said in those countries around the world where the tyrants still hold new resistance move ments Are gaining in Nicara Afghanistan and the Freedom fighters now fight for their Freedom and for human they fight for the same ideals that inspired our fore a though the tyrants they Battle Are incomparably More of nothing More serious than goodbye and Good said Antoine a retired lebanese army general who commands the Israel backed militia known As the South Lebanon the israeli military command had announced on Friday that the finns would be it did not specify the but gave reporters the time and place where the release would take Lahd also declined to discuss terms when he confirmed that the release was Crew optimistic about shuttle launch monday Cape up the shuttle discovery International Crew including an Arab Prince arrived at the spaceport Friday optimistic for a Mon Day launching despite Stormy weather expected through the we Hope to give you a big flame on monday commander Daniel Brandenstein thick Clouds and drizzling rain at Ken Nedy space Center greeted Copilot John Creighton and Crew mates Shannon Steven John Fabi Frenchman Patrick Baudry and Prince Sultan Salman Asaud of saudi they arrived at the spaceport from hous ton to begin final launching Saud will be on Board the discovery rep resenting the Arab satellite communications a consortium of 21 Arab nations and the Palestine liberation the 28yearold Prince will Monitor the launch of an arabs at communications station and will conduct several simple the five full time Nasa astronauts plan to launch arabs at and two other communications owned by Mexico and the american Telephone Telegraph Landing is scheduled for june 24 at Edwards temperatures june 14 l h 51 64 62 93 47 60 57 61 56 71 48 75 60 81 55 81 49 85 53 68 43 68 50 57 69 83 44 75 47 74 49 73 45 71 62 91 55 83 60 74 50 71 48 74 58 70 50 69 72 89 68 88 52 73 68 76 62 75 78 107 60 85 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Des Molnes Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las vegas Little Rock l h 64 81 49 74 56 82 71 84 54 65 51 80 66 87 55 69 53 77 62 87 61 75 71 88 53 74 83 111 45 67 50 69 62 73 49 69 46 78 48 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