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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Walesa says workers have right to 2 d Summit could come this White House 6 d Nobel winners concerned Over Sakharov 9 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 75 july 1985 1se oozy Ond sunday d 8693 a Berri frees All 39 hostages Damascus a the 39 american hostages seized in the Twa hijacking were released after 17 Days in Captivity sunday and were driven from Beirut to Damascus for a flight to West Germany and the Convoy from Beirut began rolling almost two hours after shiite moslem amal militia Leader Nabih Berri announced he was freeing the the red Cross Convoy entered the syrian capital at and the hostages went into the Sheraton hotel As gunmen of the lebanese shiite moslem who had held the stood guard the hostages wearing clean clothes and appearing relaxed and unharmed dined in a Sheraton restau rant and spoke with they held a news conference moments were most Happy to be in Damascus with your hostage Allyn of told syrian its Good to been route he were really anxious to hug our loved ones and be on american soil Conwell said he  ask for Retalia Tion against his he said he would like to see Justice speaking for the 36 passengers and three crewmen held throughout the or said he Doest really know who the people Are who took and he added that retaliation sounds an awful lot like re a air Force Jet waited at the dam ascus Airport to transport the hostages to Rhei main near president Reagan hailed the release Sun Day of 39 americans held hostage in Leb anon As very Welcome news and aides portrayed the end of the 17day ordeal As a Triumph for reagans Han Tough policy against we made no we made no no White House spokes Man Larry Speakes said As he announced that the red Cross Convoy carrying the americans from Beirut had reached the White caught off guard sat urday when a Snag blocked a planned re lease of the remaining captives from the see hostages on Page 28 Security tightened As Hospital awaits released captives by Mary Hladky staff writer Germany the air Force Hospital Here littered with uncertainty sunday As officials and Media awaited confirmation that american hos tages freed in Beirut would but Security tightened considerably As the event seemed More Security is much tighter said a Lindsey As Public affairs i dont know All cars driving into the Amelia ear Hart hotel parking lot were being searched by military an increased number of Security offi cers patrolled the grounds of the air Force Hospital next where the 39 hostages Are expected to receive medical and psychological if and be Media allowed onto nearby Lindsey As saturday if escorted by a Public affairs were banned from the Post sunday pending firm word on the hostages to Crews were allowed in briefly to set up their Public affairs officials were unable to answer any including whether hostage families had arrived in some hostage family members arrived in Frankfurt on the associated press the Amelia Earhart hotel was Rife with rumours that some families were being housed on the eighth a who asked not to be said he had talked with a hostage family member on an he said he did not know the persons name or when he had the resident said he was told that family members dont even know whats going he seemed anxious to get it Over the resident Public affairs officials denied that families had not that in aware said Jack Giese of Ramstein who is temporarily working at Rhei main we Haven received any word on any thing that is going said a Lindsey As he and others could provide no information on preparations being made for the the Type of care they will or How Long they will remain in Wiersba As the wait to Crews maintained their Vigil outside the 500bed hos which is considered one of the Best american military medical the Hospital is an austere White build ing with Gray window since sat about 50 Small american flags have waved from Hospital add see Security on Page 28 splashy sport photo by Emmett Lewis or american ouster Martha Povich keeps her bad for More about balance while toppling her German Opp othe traditional event that goes Back 400 nent at the annual boat jousting contest at see Page probes find no evidence bomb was on London up Irish air traffic controllers recorded a Dull a gushing noise and finally a human shriek in the final seconds of the air India Boeing 747 jumbo that crashed into the Atlantic off killing 329 the observer newspaper said but crash investigators so far have found no evidence of sabotage or a bomb on Board and Are moving toward the theory the cause of the crash might have been aircraft or Pilot the newspaper the flying from Montreal to new Delhi with 329 passengers and fell into feet of water 120 Miles off South West Ireland while it was heading for Lon dons Heathrow Airport to refuel june the newspaper said investigators stressed without locating and recovering the aircraft two Black Box flight recorders from the Bottom of the the exact cause of the disaster May never be it quoted Canadian investigator Arthur la flamme that air traffic controllers at Shannon Airport taped the final horrify ing seconds of the a cockpit microphone picked up a Dull a gushing noise a human it the observer said a senior investigator at where an International team of crash experts is said if there had been a bomb some Evi Dence of it would have turned up by now among the 131 bodies recovered and the four tons of wreckage taken from the evidence has also emerged which suggests that the jumbo did not break up at feet but probably hit the sea More or less in once the newspaper aviation reporter initial inspection of the recovered bodies indicates that some died from decompression and others from the report examination of the bodies has failed to reveal any shrapnel wounds or pieces of seat burned onto bodies which would have been the Case if there had been an explosion on it  
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