European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes july 1985 Shultz says knows 2 hijackers names new York Dpi Secretary of state George Shultz said monday that the United states knows the identities of the original two hijackers of Twa flight 847 and will take Legal or other Steps to bring them to jus asked in an television interview How the United states will go after the Shutlz said youll youll he did not name the two men who hijacked flight 847 shortly after Takeoff from the Athens Airport in route to Rome on june among other there arc Legal Steps that will be and its important to Lake Shultz these people committed murder is a hijacking is a asked How Legal Steps would be effective in View of the apparent anarchy in Shultz said they May or they May not be but we will take them never and then Well take other Shultz said he did not consider that pursuing the Hijack ers would amount to retaliation for the i dont consider that bringing somebody to Justice is really its just if somebody murders another you want to find that person and try that person and sentence that person properly for that Shultz asked whether the government took innocent lives into consideration when discussing reprisals for acts of Shultz that obviously something that you have to have on your Shultz also that the hijackers were running around free men and to a certain extent Are being exalted by All of the interviews that have been held during this and it is one of the problems that As soon As somebody becomes a terrorist that person becomes a he said that one aim of the administration is to let it sink in to the people of Beirut that those they Are harbouring Are doing them great damage and we have to develop our techniques for getting Back at Shultz said the administration in isolating the Beirut As announced to place of limits internationally that Airport until the people of Beirut put terrorists a senior state department official said monday that the administration Hopes debriefings of passengers of flight 847 will yield the identity of the killer of Navy Seabee Robert and plans efforts to bring the gunman to the Man who pulled the As of now we dont the official the requesting told reporters the exact addresses of the hijackers Are not yet All of the facts Are not in on those who initially hijacked the plane and who were joined apparently by elements of the Hezbollah a Radical shiite he Well be sifting through a Good Deal of evidence before we reach any firm he said officials have the names of the original and each one seemed to have More than one More than one As to who actually killed that what i Hope is going to come out of the ongoing debriefings of the he we want Stethem killer brought to we will be pursuing that question with the authorities of he said the May seek extradition of the islamic jihad bristles at foolish threats Beirut up1 the shadowy Funda mentalist movement islamic jihad holy War said tuesday that its followers will hit american targets if the sky pirates who took 39 citizens hostage Are the Hijack of the american plane has ended with a great Victory for the oppressed and a Clear submission by America and Israel to the demands of the fighting Hijack a jihad statement it is ironic that there should be a Rise in the threatening tone of president Reagan and his and that those foolish people should make which they know they cannot carry the communique was typewritten in arabic and was handed to an International news Agency in the statement did not say explicitly what threats it was referring the jihad statement said that since moslem Are one nation and one hand against we cannot stand Idle to wards the american threats to our oppressed we therefore proclaim that our who passionately love have pre pared themselves and Are ready to Send an eloquent message at the appropriate the communique we also hold the administration responsible for any attack that May take place against the oppressed As an act of retaliation by it or its protege jihad is believed to be holding most of the 13 westerners and an iranian Kidnap Ped in Lebanon since March the pro iranian group has said it would release them if a group of moslem guerrillas jailed in Kuwait for a series of bombings against and other targets in the persian Gulf Are lebanese ministers and officials said tuesday that american plans to isolate the Beirut Airport May deter Hijack ers but could also cripple Lebanon nation Al airline and Are therefore regarded Asun fairly we Are already losing a lot of said Selim the chairman of Middle East airlines which is the Only Carrier now using the rundown beachfront Israel gains support from hijacking most approve of of crisis Washington up1 president reagans handling of the crisis of the hos tages from hijacked trans world airlines flight 847 won overwhelming approval by the american a poll published tues Day while the president got High Marks for his about 40 percent of those polled said the hijackers won the greater and Only on third said the response will deter similar according to the Washington Post Abc news the poll questioned 654 people sunday when the hostages were in route from Beirut to for even Tual flight to West by 1 Soldier 3 Hurt in crash near Rothenburg Germany one 1st army div Soldier was killed and two others Are listed in Good condition Fol lowing a sunday morning Accident on a winding Road near the bavarian walled City of a 1st army div spokesman said a fourth Soldier was treated for minor injuries and released from the Rothenburg City he said the other two injured soldiers were recovering and Are expected to be released All four Are assigned to 1st 13th in a Small town about 12 Miles Northeast of the spokesman said the Driver lost control in a tight turn about three Miles from Rothenburg on Ansbacher Strasse in Neu the car left the Road and overturned about he names of the dead and injured Are being withheld until the families can be air Force at that time the poll showed a markedly favourable turn in sentiment toward following a period of crisis during which a growing minority favored the United states distancing itself from Israel in Hopes of stemming terrorism against the Post three quarters of those surveyed said they approved of reagans Overall handling of the hostage among other poll findings were two of every three interviewed said they were afraid to travel on some International flights because of the threat of two of every three believed that the hijacking had made no change in the Way the world views the United the remaining third was about equally split Over whether this nation now appears stronger or More than half said they opposed Mili tary while about on third approved of but half of the latter group backed away from any action that might Lead to a significant minority 36 percent said they believed Reagan was not Tough enough during the according to three earlier Post Abc news surveys taken during the a steadily increasing number said Israel should have released the More than 700 shiite prisoners it had taken during israels withdrawal from Southern with or without a request from the United by a 2tol ratio in the three surveys 50 percent to 26 percent respondents said Israel had not done enough to help resolve the hostage sundays showed those Fig ures changing in israels with 46 per cent agreed that Israel had helped the United states Settle the crisis As much As it could Only 37 percent disagreed with this while 17 percent had no More than 55 said they favored the television networks showing of interviews with the hostages even though their shiite captors set the ground forty one percent a hostage urges action new York up the first of the 39 freed american hostages arrived in the United states on saying he is angry and urging the government to act against the shiite muslims who held him captive for 17 Arthur of Louis clutched his pregnant and told reporters after arriving from London that there is still a lot of anger and there is still a lot of terror in togas a psychiatric was also a hostage on Twa flight but she was released earlier because of her she is expecting the couples first child in Justice should be served against the hijackers who Are responsible for that kind of he said of the amal militiamen who held him and38 other american men for 17 i have no sympathy for terrorist activities no matter what the he suggested that Security and Intelli gence operations need to be beefed up to prevent such Toga is an assistant research professor in neurology at the Washington University school of Airport South of the he said we can resist for a while be fore being forced out of business by presi Dent reagans announcement denying land ing rights to Mea for its twice weekly flights to new Reagan encouraged other countries to do the Salam said he favors any government moves to beef up Security at the which is controlled by the shiite amal militia of Nabih the which has been targeted or used As a springboard by hijackers seven times this has Long been abandoned by foreign airlines because of its lax it handles Only about passengers news updates abortion Law eased Madrid a the Spanish parliament has passed for the second time a Bill making abortion in limited cases Legal in the Bill will become Law once it is signed by King Juan Carlos and published in the official the part of a penal code re form allows abortion when the mothers life is when the fetus is malformed and when pregnancy results from rape or the Bill permits abortion in Spain for the first time since the Short lived 193136 second among european Only Ireland and Belgium continue to ban abortions bus Driver charged Diano Italy a police said that a British bus who claimed that irate italians vandalized his bus after the Brussels soc cer riot that killed 38 was charged with allegedly causing the damage Michele an officer with the paramilitary Carabiniero police in this italian Riviera resort said that Michael Stirling is charged with faking a crime and it is now up to a local court to decide whether the 34yearold Resi Dent of must stand he would face a possible sentence of one to three years in Pris on and a Stirling had reported to local police that his parked bus had been damaged by italian hooligans in retaliation for the Brussels riots last month in which 31 italians were among those