European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes june freed hostage we corned Home in Little Rock Little a freed hostage Jimmy Dell arriving Home Friday told 200 people greeting him at the Airport that american people Are the greatest people because they love free was accompanied by his on the flight from London via Louis to Little in a Brief ses Sion with Palmer refused to com ment on the plight of the 39 remaining hos tages held by shiite moslem his voice tight with Palmer said i did try to collect some of my thoughts on the Way but i dont think i can hold my composure to even think about id just like to say to my Fame my friends and my fellow this is the greatest Homecoming anybody could Ever ask a jazz band played tie a yellow rib and the crowd cheered As the palmers left the Twa City and state officials presented proclamations declaring Friday Jimmy Dell Palmer Day in Little Rock and spectators wore yellow rib Bons pinned to their and there were yellow balloons tied with yellow ribbons and a hand painted after the 20minute Palmer and his including three sons who greeted their parents on the plane along with about 29 other family members and were driven Home in a Cit provided Van with a police officials were notified Early Friday that Palmer and his wife had left where they were reunited thursday after he was held hostage for 12 Palmer and their youngest Joe were among 153 Passen Gers and Crew aboard Twa flight 847 when it was hijacked june Palmer and her son were among the first hostages to be amal militia Leader Nabih Berri set Palmer free in citing his heart prob palmers doctor said he was to undergo a heart Catheter nation to see How much arterial blockage he Palmer told reporters he believed he was released strictly for medical he said he will return to saudi where he worked As an air conditioning Hijack from Page 1 lease which included plans to take the hostages from the hijacked Twa flight 847 to occurred after the hostages were assembled at a staging area in a schoolyard in West leaders of the amal militia demanded guarantees that the United states and is Rael not launch reprisal raids for the june 14 hijacking by shiite extremists who killed an american Navy Man aboard the a a member of amass ruling also demanded that warships of the 6th dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean after the be with drawn and that Israel free the 735 lebanese citizens it is holding in Atli prison near the hostages had been expected to be taken to Damascus in a Convoy of to be freed there under a agreement when Israel freed some of the prisoners at amal sources said the shiite leaders had been stung by president reagans branding of Lebanon shiites Friday As murderers and but the main problem apparently was in where a government official stressed that Israel was not involved in any Deal to release the american captives and has not made a decision to free the Atli the official did not Rule out the possibility that Israel might release the prisoners but he said any Large scale release must first be approved israels 25mem ber scheduled to meet who is Lebanon Justice spoke with syrian vice president Abdul Halim Haddam six times by Telephone in an apparent Effort to Iron out details of the planned Jubran spokesman for syrian president Hafez indicated that re leasing the americans was part of a Deal under which Israel would free its mostly shiite prisoners seized during israels three year occupation of South Syria Hopes that every party concerned will fulfil its commitments and the Leb anese prisoners in Atli will soon be re Media focus is on Wiesbaden Hospital by Mary Hladky and Beverly Bundy staff writers Media were converging on Lindsey As and the air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden saturday in the Wake of reports that the 39 hostages of hijacked Twa flight 847 would be doctors and other staff members inside the Hospital were Busy preparing the facility in Case the hostages should be a Hospital staff David said staff members at the Hospital had been Mon their toes since learning of the hijacking june but he said the Hospital didst Start gearing up to receive the hostages until Handrahan said past experience led the staff to assume the Hospital would receive the the air Force Hospital received americans released by their iranian captors in january it also received casualties after the bombing of Marine Headquarters in Beirut on the line of television vans parked put Side the Hospital Gates attracted curious onlookers As soon As we saw the to vans lined up we knew something was said George Montano of we were hoping today they would let them and if theres a Chance wed even stay and Greet Montano said his and were driving past the Hospital when they noticed 50 Small american flags decorating the Hospital Entrance and saw the television a former Marine who now works for the Raythelon company at the Miessau army said he believed it was important to Greet the returning hos tages because they Are i know the trauma that people can go through and All the heartache associated with such an he i also feel in incidents like this we must maintain a Strong deterrent to let people know we wont put up with the Larinda Saylor arrived in Wiesbaden last sunday for a medical appointment at the air Force she came from where her a master ser is stationed at hell Nikon Saylor knew that business was not usual at the air Force Hospital because of the flurry of activity at the Amelia Earhart where she is staying along with Many other americans who Are receiving medical treatment at the Hospital next its a zoo in she Saylor said she was told saturday afternoon to double up with another woman because visiting vips needed her staff Chester Johnson agreed that the atmosphere at the hotel is much More frantic than everything been he Johnson and his flew from hell Nikon to Wiesbaden last sunday be cause their 19 had a medical the Johnsons said the atmosphere in Athens has been tense for the last two they cited recent car bombings in the Helle Nikon area As continuing evidence of anti american sometimes you have to ignore it to get on with your Marcia Johnson when something like this the hijacking it All pops Back up in your Chester Johnson the Johnsons said they would go to the Hospital to watch the arrival of the hostages if they Are still in Wiesbaden when they Are they need to see a Friendly someone who Speaks their Ches Ter Johnson air Force Art a Supply noncommissioned officer with the 1st com Bat information systems group at Lindsey heard about the possible hostage release Early saturday morning and stopped by the Hospital to see what was i cruised by Here and saw the to cameras and thought id Check it he air Force Lisa a ground maintenance radio tech the same said she would like to remain to Greet the when they get off the Heli copters it might be Nice if they looked Over Here and saw a lot of people Are con Treyve been out of touch with everyone from America so they should know they Are in a place with a lot of americans she Tom and Greg seniors at Arnold High school in were just hanging put with the other onlookers outside the persons said it would be a neat thing to Tell our friends we saw the hostages come our school gave the marines from Lebanon presents when they stayed at the students raised sent Flowers and gave gifts to the its really neat now if you Wear a Wiesbaden High school letter jacket in the states everyone knows where it Korieth amal officials said 32 of the plus the Threeman cockpit Crew of the Boe ing 727 parked at Beirut International Ait were gathered at a school in the South Ern suburb of Bour Elbara Neh saturday ready for the ride to the hostages identified the four missing captives As Robert Richard Herz Jeffrey and Robert they were believed to be still held by or party of the Radical shiite faction believed responsible for the but amal officials insisted All 39 hostages would be it was the first time the which had been held aboard the had seen the passengers since they were taken off the Jet two Days after the the passenger hostages had been split into some under amass in houses in the shiite slums of South Bei apparently to prevent any Rescue the hostages were seen by some report ers inside the tree shaded compound of the two Story ringed by amal Mili Tiamen with truck mounted machine guns North of the beachfront they initially appeared relaxed and Smil in evident anticipation of their As the Day wore they became grim faced and sitting on their Luggage that had been taken off the in the gunfire crackled along Beirut dividing Green moslem and Christian militiamen traded temperatures june 28 l h 55 63 89 los Angeles 53 89 81 Louisville 48 65 77 Memphis 71 76 92 Miami Beach 56 70 Atlantic 70 56 74 79 Nashville 48 81 86 new Orleans 71 81 64 new York 59 92 75 Norfolk 55 62 85 Oklahoma City 51 73 Buffalo 75 Omaha 56 65 89 Orlando 73 84 71 Philadelphia 53 85 111 Phoenix 65 78 76 Pittsburgh 61 83 60 56 74 77 62 88 68 Providence 48 82 82 Raleigh 54 76 Des 86 Reno 54 76 80 Louis 48 73 91 Petersburg 48 60 93 Salt Lake City 55 65 78 san Diego 68 89 71 san Francisco 72 86 92 san Juan 60 84 70 Seattle 69 89 66 Syracuse 52 82 Kansas 107 Tucson 66 107 Las 79 Washington 64 83 Little 89 Wichita air base sets up Security barricades by Chris Estes staff writer Rhei main Germany Security barricades were up saturday to sep Arate news Media and bystanders from the released hostages from Beirut when they but officials Here declined to Dis cuss other until were sure that there coming were not going to talk about a said Navy Jay a Neucom he said the flight from Damascus would take 5vi if they get airborne to have plenty of Advance no were we just dont know that the hostages Are Coupe in the event they Are we do have contingency in not going to talk about what the contingencies he also would not discuss any itinerary that May have been saying the hos tages Are private citizens and not under government about the hostages who Are be theres a pro Gram for them on their but he said Little distinction would be made be tween the civilian and military one Section of runway was cordoned off for the news with a guard at the Gate checking for passes and a Security policeman with an explosive sniffing another barricade was set aside for Public bystanders to watch the arrival of the Rhei main Public affairs spokeswoman Lorrie Bourland would not Dis cuss Security arrangements on the saying we Are As secure As we need to european weather forecast for sunday mostly Cloudy skies with rain in the Benelux and Northern half of the South Ern half of Germany will be partly Cloudy with morning becoming occasionally mostly High temperatures in the upper 50s to Low 60s in Northern mid605 to Low 70s elsewhere lows in the upper 40s to Low Sunset sunday Sunrise monday Outlook for monday no significant change in but temperatures will be temperatures recorded saturday f r p p p cd i 4am 4pm 75 93 54 59 72 63 54 54 55 4am 4pm 79 66 57 59 m cd m p p m 64 51 64 57 66 w 88 54 70 54 68 60 81 a parity Cloudy Elc Loudy no mostly Cloudy mar provided by Del 7th weather tract Norw