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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, June 26, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside Itepes q military open houses not open to All Page 5 u suspicions ground 2 d today Dollar buys Page 27 the 70 authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces june 1985 tsp daily and sunday d 8693 a Reagan considering new Steps to increase pressure on Lebanon Washington a president Reagan is consid ering actions that would shut Down Beirut International Airport and Cut off goods and services to the lebanese capital in an Effort to increase pressure for the release of 40 american the White House announced tues presidential spokesman Larry Speakes refused to say what Steps the president might order to Force the Airport other than to suggest International cooperation As one Speakes told reporters at a briefing tuesday morning that Reagan could decide later in the Day which of a series of Steps the United states would take to put pressure on the Libya and any other nations or groups supporting the hijackers of Twa flight Speakes that no direct military action to free the hostages was saying the safety of the 40 americans being held captive remains a top the president has pledged he would do nothing that will put the lives of the hostages in but i do not Rule out any other the spokesman asked if an embargo of the port City or closure of its ports were among the options Reagan is Speakes refused to telling that for you to figure the spokesman said in a meeting with advisers monday asked for Steps he could take that could increase the pressures on those who Are holding our citizens and those who support the since yesterdays these measures have been developed and Are ready for presentation to the president see Steps on Page 28 peace conquerors7 say they set Frankfurt bomb we decide to choose violence because our last and desperate but 19th Mia Only a warning Stop Mesa Sci Stop Stop Airport our Brothers have just strike in plan spurt before the end of the a nth Well destroy major Frankfurt Airport and a never mind for killed women and there it no More explanations within a few from staff and wire reports Frankfurt a previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for the bombing at Frankfurt International Airport last week and has threatened to make another attack on an Airport build ing and on a jumbo the which Calls itself the peace claimed in a letter to the associated press to have set off the bomb in Frankfurt and to have caused a blast that destroyed part of the facade of the Brussels Headquarters of the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer on the Airport bombing june 19 killed three people and injured spokesmen for German state and Feder Al officials said they Are taking the threat despite the fact that the group has never been heard of a letter purportedly sent by the group to the a office in Brussels says it will strike again in the name of ecology and to protest the a the wire service said it received a ram bling three Page letter denouncing the american Way of life and Reagan ism and demanding a nuclear free world and a Dis mantling of All military a said the letter was postmarked in the the peace conquerors have members on All continents because evil is every we will strike where or when we want and at the moment we the letter a series of bomb attacks in Belgium has been levelled at nato and Nat related targets in the past nine responsibility for the blasts was claimed by a group called fighting communist on May a group calling itself the fighting ecological movement claimed responsibility for two bombs that felled four High voltage towers in a spokesman for the German ministry of the Interior told the stars and this is the first time we have Ever heard of this group the peace they May be anything Neo nazis or agents of any political we just dont he said it is curious that the letter see bomb on Page 28 this is the worst thing we have Ever done7 air Force Par Rescue specialists describe search for crash victims Ireland up Brian Stephens and Stan two air Force Par Rescue special said monday the recovery of bodies from the air India jetliner that crashed into the Atlantic is the worst Mission they have Ever been weve never done anything As massive or horrific As said of we usually pick up pilots who have one or maybe two at a not this is the worst thing we have Ever said from see related Page the sergeants Are members of the 67th aerospace Rescue and recovery so that assisted Irish and ish Navy and air Force teams in the search for the 329 bodies from the downed air India flight a spokesman from Raf Woodbridge said the base Dis patched two hhs3 commonly called super Jolly Green each chopper carries a Crew of several c130 cargo planes have been flying to the crash scene on a rotational the spokesman who dived into the North Atlantic to Pluck bodies from the none of the Bod ies was wearing a life they we rent prepared for that Accident at no life rafts were the air Force sergeant said he and his fellow Par Aresu Emen had to be very gentle with the you have to be All you think about is trying to get someones loved one Back in one Stephens and Saunders told How they jumped into the water near the bodies from their hovering Helicon they swam to the bodies and placed them in Metal stretchers lowered to the the Rescue specialists were then plucked from the water by mechanical seats attached to the we wore dry suits and spent 20 to 30 minutes in the Saunders i dont think anyone could have lasted in that water for More than three asked what he thought about when he jumped into Saunders other Crews said they saw Sharks hovering around the he the two Par Rescue specialists said the wreckage of the plane was in very Small the biggest piece we saw was two seats Saunders no one could have lived through he said he was glad he could help in the but insisted it int something i could do All the i just got Back from my honeymoon said Ste i flew on a it really makes you  
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