European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 ribbons mean say a Little prayer1 Tor hostages by United press International the yellow ribbons that appeared across the nation in 1980 when Iran held american embassy officials hos Tage were visible again tuesday in the Hometown of Bob Peel his Bob Peel is among some 40 hos tages of shiite moslem hijackers in his daughter inlaw Kristi and son Bob were aboard Twa flight 847 hijacked the other three later were released by the shiite mos in their Hometown of relatives tied yellow ribbons around peels Friendly Beauty Supply and around other stores and its just kind of a Symbol say a Little said Margaret a member of the Kristi peels Violet said the family decided not to Tell the younger peels aged 4 and 7 about the they seem satisfied with what we told that there was something wrong with the air plane and they cant bring it Home Rhorer in near Homecoming will be different for John and Emily Mazurowski and their their House was ransacked last week end by but police said apparently nothing was Treyve been through such an said a Neph when it Rains it the hijackers released Mazurowski Friday night in her husband and daughter were set free sat urday in and the family was reunited in said she and her father were released because he convinced the hijackers she was ill and needed medical dad was insistent about getting me off the said a Par time Model and student at state University of new York at in a Telephone inter View with the Rochester Democrat and he kept trying to reason with them that i was sick and i needed medical he persisted and they finally let us she Paul son of a Chicago travel agent who is a said president Reagan should have immediately asked Israel to release the As the hijackers in a dangerous we should have acted right we should have asked Israel to give up the 700 which they were doing this month any and gotten our people he they delayed and delayed and now were Hill said his father conducts about 10 Tours a year to Israel and was returning Home with a tour group when the plane was residents of West welcomed Home one native late monday and worried about a a sob Bing Mary palesse greeted her family monday in so said hugging a i made its i never thought id be and its another West Allis Jerome was believed to be one of the hostages taken to an undisclosed Beirut site by the shiite Barczak had been living in Egypt As an employee of general dynamics his said his father was always aware of danger in the Middle he thought he might have to get out David Barczak i dont think there was Ever any Arthur of was freed tuesday with greek Singer Demis Roussos and Roussos american Pamela targontsidis1 1 feel so excited right this is the happiest Day of my were going to Start partying at the said Arthur Targo Atsidis in so i just cant believe they let him go so Pilot John test rakes of said he Learned of the hijacking at work last Friday and worried because he knew his brother was flying the Athens Rometch Aviv i heard it and of my that cant be i refused to accept i was extremely Busy and tried to put it out of my he has incredible he Christopher his parents and his younger All of were on the plane when it was hijacked and his father is still a Christopher said passengers agreed not to say anything that would anger the hijackers if they saw or read news and was upset some of the passengers said they had been i didst see any he i didst Hoar any we were treated Well the whole lebanese shiite Leader has close family ties in Detroit a photo Nabih Berri his name Means a Wise Man Detroit up Nabih the lebanese shiite Leader who has become a Central figure in the Beirut hijacking has hundreds of relatives in Michigan and a immigration Green card allowing him to visit at among those living in the area Are Ber Ris a wife and six Nabih Berris ties to the Detroit area Date Back to the 1920s when the or family began immigrating to the United states from the Village of Tibben in South his family was in the Vanguard of a wave of immigration from the Middle East that ultimately gave the Detroit area the largest Arab population in North Many settled in a suburb West of de friends and relatives said Berri holds a Green which would permit him to live and work permanently in the United states if he the card could enable him to establish the required residency to become a Berris works for the Dearborn police department and their six children were raised in the Dearborn the department would not disclose what Job she Berri was last in the Detroit area in no vember he reportedly visits about once every two the French educated is head of the amal movement and the leading spokesman for Lebanon 1 million local friends and family members describe him As a fair and intelligent the hijackers took the plane and thrust the problem into his Abdul a Cousin who operates a meat Market in sub Urban told the Detroit but Tell All the people of the United states to he is the Only one who can do and he has ordered the safety of the in Nabih Means a Wise and he is exactly he is not a terrorist at Imad Fadlallah of the husband of Berris pharmacist de scribed his father inlaw As just a Media Tor who lacks total control of the Situa the hijackers Are comfortable with him because he Speaks from the shiite Point of Fadlallah i dont think the hijackers Are part of the i just think they Are Ordinary people who had relatives killed in one of the terrorist denies he criticized Carter Reagan mutes hard line on terror Washington Apas a Candi Date in Ronald Reagan criticized president Carters handling of a hostage As a president facing his own Reagan sought tuesday night to play Down his past Reagan had told a banquet audience in on april captives have been there in Iran six let alone six later that Reagan said in Louis he could not understand Why 52 americans have been held hostage for Al most a year he said the Carter administrations for eign policy helped create the entire Situa Tion that made their Kidnap and i Reagan the fact that Treyve been there that Long is a humiliation and a disgrace to this asked later in Illinois if he could get the hostages Reagan i dont but i certainly stand by and do during a debate with Carter on Reagan again spoke of the Humilia Tion the nation suffered at the hands of he also said it was High time that the civilized countries of the world made it Plain that there is no room worldwide for but during a nationally broadcast news conference tuesday Reagan muted talk about acting against those who seize asked about the difference Between car ters hostage crisis and his Reagan said the thing that i always Felt about that As i it was much different than what we have you had a government committing that crime in there it was not this crime of unidentified people no connection that you can pin on them As to someone in charge you can go to that he producer Temple Dies a Robert creator producer of Queen for a Day for radio and television and a former television Academy has died at the age of Reagan said that in the current i have to wait it out As Long As those people Are there and threatened and alive and we have a possibility of bringing them Home in going to say a probability of bringing them a reporter asked i wonder if you think that perhaps that How former president Carter Felt about the iranian that he said Many times that he wanted to bring them Home and that was his goal replied Reagan i did not openly criticize and As a matter of in the closing Days of the when it appeared that we were getting them i didst say any word or make any comment on the because i didst want to endanger what was going i just As i that there were two and i it just seems to me that you have a great Many More opportunities then to find vulnerabilities in another and things that you can say in return that you can offer As a for his Carters office in Atlanta has said the former president will have no comment on the current Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago june 1945 Simon Bolivar Buckner 58yearold commander of the 10th army on was killed by a japanese Shell burst As he watched an american attack from a front line 30 years ago june 1955 a committee of Doc tors and Public health officials meeting in new York gave the Green Light to comple Tion of the National polio vaccination pro Gram during the Peak polio summer 20 years ago Forfay june 1965 an italian air Force Trainer winding up an aerobatics Demon stration at the Paris air show plunged into a crowded parking lot and blew killing at least nine 70 years ago today june 1975 the chairman of the Senate intelligence sen Frank rejected a suggestion by Cia director William Colby that Evi Dence of alleged involvement in for eign murder plots be kept literary critic he Feng Dies peking a he a chinese literary critic who was singled out As a counterrevolutionary and jailed 30 years has died at the age of the communist party
