European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q cocaine deaths report 2 n Navratilova wins at 21 q searchers Zero in on jets Black 28 the authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 80 july 1985 d 8693 a moslem meet to counter blockade threat Beirut a enraged by a threat to blockade Beirut Leb anon moslem leaders gathered in Damas Cus saturday to work out countermeasures at a time when Reagan has asked syrian president Hafez Assad to seek the release of the american feuding christians and moslem in the fictionalized Beirut closing ranks in anger Over the pro posed an emergency session of the 22mem Ber Arab league to Back Lebanon stand against the shadowy islamic jihad in a Telephone Call to a Western news Agency by a Man claiming to be its rejected any syrian mediation in the Fate of the seven after increased talk about an attempt to free the seven american hostages who Are with us through president Hafez assays we turn to Reagan and Tell him that we hold a lot of respect for president Hafez Assad in our the caller but we wont release the captives except when we decide we equally might decide to set their souls free in the the caller warned Reagan of a severe blow from us against America in the event of any military he urged iranian revolutionary patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to order a Boycott by moslem of All american the Call was made As syrian vice presi Dent Abdulhalim Haddam saturday conferred in Damascus with Lebanon Justice minister Nabih Leader of the shiite moslem amal the official syrian Arab news Agency lebanese who requested Ano said in Beirut that the threat was to be High on the Agenda of weekend talks in Damascus Between the syrians and three other top moslem they Are prime minister Rashid parliament speaker Hussein Husseini and transport minister Walid who leads the druse main supporter of rival lebanese militias and the Power broker in his neigh Bor won the Freedom of 39 Ameri can Twa Hijack hostages who were held 17 Days by shiite gunmen demanding the re lease of More than 700 lebanese from is Israel has freed 331 lebanese so during the negotiations to free the Hijack Reagan at one Point asked Assad to help secure the release of the seven americans held captive since March last the state department Friday said the see moslem on Page 28 up in the air a photo skydiver Dave Huber floats to Earth of broke for the 250th time in a 24hour period the record after More than 22 hours of to break the old record of 236 continuous foiled Guinea coup ignites ethnic riots Guinea a president Lansana Conte of Guinea confirmed sat urday that the foiled attempt to seize Power by former prime minister Diara Traore has instigated ethnic resulting in deaths and radio Conakry said Conte appealed to the nation to avoid ethnic and he specifically called on the people to avoid animosity toward the Mahnke of which Traore is a Mem the radio Conakry was Calm one Day after the coup but its streets bore testament to the widespread looting and destruction that were triggered by the Call to overthrow the radio said a colonel from the minority Soussou has been raised in rank to brigadier general by the military committee for National redress for serv ices rendered to the Traore and a still unknown number of followers seized radio Conakry Early Fri Day and began broadcasting rebel an military sources said Traore was arrested Friday in a Large Villa he owns in a residential Section of there has been no official confirmation of his after the announcement by Traore on the the Young Soussou and Foula people went out in the streets and went to shops owned by Malinkey and destroyed and looted said Conakry resident Aziz the coup was foiled As government forces mounted an attack on the radio station to dislodge according to various re the Walls of the radio station were charred and marked with Bullet Conte came to Power in an april 1984 coup following the death of longtime presi Dent Ahmed Sekou a major figure in the was demoted last december to education min Crews gaining upper hand on blazes in West by United press International weary fire aided by moist fog and calming began beating Back a summer Scourge of Brush fires that have blackened More than acres of tin Derry canyons and hillsides in 10 West Ern leaving hundreds see Page firefighters in Southern California seemed to be gaining the upper hand on the regions largest Blaze a week old wildfire that has ripped through 122 Square Miles in Ventura but Crews were just beginning to Battle a pair of new fires that have scorched thousands of acres in Nevada and in the past week and a fires set by careless military weapons and illegal trash fires have killed three peo destroyed More than Iso burned More than acres and caused tens of millions of dollars in As record temperatures past the Cen Tury Mark began Cooling and erratic winds began dying firefighters some from As far away As Missouri and other Midwest states cautiously optimistic that the end was firefighters battling the wests largest Blaze near the Mountain Village of Ojai in Ventura county prevented flames from advancing toward the coastal town of car Penteris and renewed their Battle against the uncontrolled Northern flank in a wilderness the second largest fire in had grown to acres in san Luis Obispo county by Friday but a wet Marine air layer was expected to help Stop flames from spreading into populated another fire in the misstate county was Only 40 percent contained and continued to hug the popular Lopez where visitors were evacuated earlier in the in another George Deukmejian offered a Reward for information leading to arrest of the arsonist who set a fire in the Baldwin Hills area in Southwest los Angeles that killed three people and levelled s3 i Hope this Reward will help Speed the apprehension of those responsible for this despicable he noting that he would Send a letter to president Reagan asking that Baldwin Hills and fire stricken parts of san Diego county be declared disaster Battle weary firefighters in other areas across the West appeared to be closing in on some of the Brush fires that have consumed some acres in new be Washington and