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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, July 16, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes july 1985 lebanese official orders search for hijackers says names released earlier apparently were from forged passports Beirut a a lebanese state prosecutor announced monday that he has ordered a judicial investigation to arrest and formally charge the hijackers of a Twa and he said the killer of an american passenger could face a death sen Maurice prosecutor general of mount Lebanon which includes Beirut International told the associated press in an interview that he did not know the identities of the shiite gunmen who seized the Boeing 727 on Takeoff from the Athens Airport on june the names reported last week apparently were from forged he but he said he had instructed the mount Lebanon presiding Sabah Hai to Institute a judicial inquiry and prosecute the sky pirates on charges of hijacking and smuggling weapons aboard the police who spoke on condition they not be said the gunman who shot and killed Navy Petty officer Robert Stethem could be sentenced to the two other and about a dozen accomplices who later joined them in could get up to 10 years at hard labor if convicted of sky piracy and taking guns aboard the Khawam told the a in addition to ordering the judicial he had also told army intelligence and Airport Security officers to redouble their efforts to identify and arrest the Khawam said the names of the alleged As reported by both the state con trolled and Independent news Media last were probably he said greek authorities had told him the hijackers car ried forged passports bearing the names that were reported last on the state run Beirut radio announced that government attorneys were ordered to prosecute the whom it identified Asah a Younis and Ahmed the announcement was broadcast once and then was dropped with out greek authorities arrested a lebanese identified then As before he boarded Twa flight 847 on june he was later released and flown to where his two comrades had forced the plane to greek Security authorities in a Telegram to my that the two Hijack ers aboard the plane and the one arrested their accomplice carried forged pass Khawam the hijackers forced the plane to Fly twice to Algiers and three times to thirty nine american passengers and Crew members were held captive in the air plane and in buildings in Beirut until their release was arranged through syrian the United states immediately after urged Lebanon to bring the hijackers to barred lebanese commercial planes from Landing in the United states and called for a blockade of Beirut International delegates to forum on women told to avoid divisive political topics news updates Kenya a the Secretary general cautioned some delegates at the conference on women monday that they should not try to tackle the divisive political issues being discussed in other Javier Perez de Cullars statements at the opening session came amid signs that political issues such As South african racial the plight of palestinians in Israel occupied territory and the Call for a new International economic order already were splitting the the two week conference Marks the end of a decade dedicated by the United nations to it is to review the decade and map strategies for the next 15 it is recognized that women issues cannot be dissociated from the economic and social problems which beset countries and de Cuellar but he cautioned the delegates from 120 countries against trying to tackle longstanding issues that Are being discussed in other you owe it to All women in the and to to approach the work of this conference in a manner that will Lead to positive and enduring he its my belief that despite understand Able differences in there is a shared concern and common desire to ensure a sue air Force Roundup Cess Ful president Danial Arap Moi of who opened the carefully avoided sensitive political differences of opinions Are bound to he told the adding that he Hopes that issues important to women Are not neglected As a we have come a Long Way since the Mexico conference 10 years Moi referring to the Mexico City gathering which launched the a Start has been and we cannot afford to slow Down the momentum of a matter so crucial to the Well being of All Mankind Equality of the sexes he our efforts to redress the plight of women have achieved less than what we had the ability to the audience broke into sustained applause when Moi said it is time we see women As a vital part of the human besides the official selected by their another people Are in Nairobi As observers and news Media participants in forum a 10day non governmental meeting which began last wednesday and overlaps the have set the scene for the conference by denouncing both the Reagan administration and the makeup of the american Del led by president reagans Daugh the opening sessions of forum 85 were primarily to map strategy for lobbying the conference the american delegation has tried to Block discussion of political arguing that they will take time away from Genu Ine concerns of third world and East bloc nations argue that political questions Are legitimate Wom ens problems and were included in previous women they say the United states is trying to dictate the Agenda to prevent the adoption of policies opposed by the United states has found backers for its position among moderate developing countries and some members of the com an organization of former Brit ish territories which includes several Afri can delegations still had not agreed on voting procedures with the United states and most pro Western nations urging adoption of resolutions by third world composing the single largest voting want passage by a simple the composition of the delegation has been attacked As unrepresentative by Angela rican and Coretta Scott an american a civil rights studying English Hanoi a Kim the Vietnam wars napalm girl who was forced to abandon medical studies due to her continuing is studying English in Southern the Viet Nam news Agency has Kim then nine years was critically injured in 1972 when jets of the South vietnamese government rained napalm bombs on her Village in Trang about 30 Miles from a photograph of her fleeing naked Down a screaming in pain and came to symbolize the suffering of the she underwent surgery in Germany last August and returned to socialist candidate Lisbon a the socialist party has named its parliamentary affairs Antonio Almeida As its candidate for prime minister in an Early general election scheduled for the realignment at the top of por Dugals biggest party is designed to free socialist Leader Mario the present prime to run for president in an election planned for december or a party source will remain in of fice As a caretaker prime minister until after the october three Security police units Washington three units in Europe were among those named in the outstanding Security police unit awards announced by he air Force office of Security an air Force news release the 501st Security police Raf Grenham com won outstanding Security police runners up for the outstanding Security police medium Active duty unit were the 435th Security police Rhei main and the 406th Security police Zaragoza 42nd electronic combat so assigned to Wing in Germany Raf upper hey England the 42nd elec tronic combat Home of the ef111 changed commanders and wings july instead of being assigned to the 20th tac fighter the Squadron is now part of the newly activated 66th tac fighter Wing of Sembach according to a july 10 news release issued by the the Squadron will remain at upper the change results from the formation of the 65th air to which the 66th is the release the change is intended to bring safes electronic combat assets together in one Bergen divided Over proposal to name Street after Anne Frank Germany up a bitter Row raged monday Over a proposal to rename a Street leading to Belsen concentration Camp after Anne the teen age jewish diarist who died Many local residents feel Germany has worn Long enough a hair shirt for its nazi and they do not want a daily reminder of the horror of the Camp in which people died of hunger and local Christian democratic Leader Guenther Ernst told the Frankfurter Mundschau newspaper monday he is against the it would be a daily Public he the proposal to rename the main Belsen Road from Bergen after Anne Frank was made by the opposition social democrats on the town Council shortly after presi Dent Reagan visited the North of on his controversial visit to Germany in in a speech the president made reference to the who died at age 15 of typhus in Belsen in but her diaries were published after the War by her the Only member of the family to survive the two weeks after the proposal was the memorial to the Belsen 50 percent of them soviet prisoners of was smeared with Antisemitic among them jews out of Germany and Adolf we thank the proposal split the town Down the Middle and started a flood of letters in the local most against the promo we dont want to be branded with the Mark of and germans must eventually take off their hair said some of the the majority of citizens simply do not want to be confronted Day after Day with the topic of said the local Liberal free Democrat chief Hasso the local evangelical Church has again put Forward a longstanding Compromise suggestion to name a school in the town after the dead but it appeared the original social Democrat suggestion will come to a straight vote in the Council Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt to German jewish parents who moved to Amsterdam to avoid nazi Perselu there the family members were hidden from to 1944 from the invading nazis by a dutch family until finally arrested by the Gestapo and shipped to their deaths in concentration and extermination her often claimed by nazi apologists to be express a moving belief in the eventual Triumph of moral right and express Hope for the  
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