European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 plane still 1 month after hostages freed Beirut a a month after shiite moslem gunmen freed the last hostages from a hijacked Twa the remand White Boeing 727 commandeered in the 17 Day drama is still at Beirut International unclaimed and we really dont know what to do with said a civil aviation directorate spokesman at the the owners Haven come to collect and it just stays in new Twa spokesman David Venz said nothing bad has happened to the the worst thing weve heard is that the inside was pretty Well we Are certainly holding out every expectation that we will get the air plane Tom a spokesman for Boeing in said he could not give a precise figure on the value of the he said it could Range from million to depending on the year delivered and the Overall Cole said the Price was about million each when Boeing stopped producing the plane last the hijackers of flight 847 from Athens Spray painted Graffiti in the cockpit and the Cabin All our problems come from the we will not Bow Down in front of our enemies Reagan is number 1 the slogans have since scrubbed off by maintenance workers from Middle East Lebanon National Airport Security police said they have thoroughly inspected the plane for possible Booby rap bombs and declared it maintenance engineers have checked the ruling that it is in Good condition to but they say Lebanon Midsummer humidity and the Salt air from the Mediterranean a few Hundred Yards away could damage sensitive Airport and Middle East airlines officials said they believe Twa has not sent a Crew to Fly the plane Home because of fears they May be kidnapped or and they contended that the plane could be blown up by lebanese extremists angered by threats of retaliation against the sky the Boeing was seized june 14 on a Rou Tine flight out of Greece and was forced to Fly an Odyssey around the Mediterranean before Landing for a third and final time in most of the original 153 passengers and mainly were Between eight and 14 extra amal shiite moslem joined the three kept the three remaining crewmen aboard under guard and scattered the others in hideouts in moslem West Bei rut until their release june the hijackers shot dead Navy diver Robert Stethem and dumped his body onto the pistol whipped and Rabbit punched Many of the passengers and played russian Roulette with the hostages were freed and flown Home after president Reagan appealed to syrian president Hafez Assad to use his influence with amal to release the by lebanese and syrian a Deal was struck to Swap the americans for 735 lebanese shiites held by although 400 shiites have since been both the United states and Israel insisted there was no the Boeing featured on newspaper front Magazine covers and television screens around the remained i can Tell you when the Crew left the air plane they Felt it was in a flyable and they would have been willing to Fly it Venz in they were All prepared to do except the red Cross insisted that All of the including the leave for Damascus to Venz stressed that he was reluctant to say much about the plane or efforts by Twa to recover directly or through third parties he declined to we just Arent sure what we might say that might upset weve been close in the and it just Hast worked but he said that the most Likely scenario following the retrieval of the Boeing would be to Fly it to Athens for a preliminary Check before it goes on to Kansas where Twa has its main maintenance a asked who was in control of the he that very difficult to say because its kind of difficult to say who in charge in after the one of 12 involving the Beirut Airport in the last a syrian sponsored peace plan for West Beirut called for the expulsion of rival militiamen from the terminal and for the police and army to be put in charge of tightening passengers and their baggage Are now thoroughly militiamen have Dis police and troops patrol the building and the and a syrian army officer is in charge of there have been quite a few compared to two years a Security offi cer two people were arrested yester Day while trying to smuggle a few Grams of something like that has not happened for a Long army Roundup team will conduct interviews in Usa eur Germany the military personnel Center air defense arty Branch team will be in usar eur conducting Branch briefings and personal career management interviews for officers and warrant officers according to a 32nd army air defense come news locations and Points of Contact Are military 2371 military military military military 2365 military military military military the briefings Are designed for air defense rant times and locations for the briefings can be obtained from the Point of air defense unit first to get new Rifle cleaning system Kaiserslautern the first unit in Europe to receive a new streamlined Rifle cleaning system is 108th air defense according to the units com the Max weapons cleaning system was originally designed for use by civilian police said Timothy Rosemore said he began working on procuring the sys tem for his Battery after he read about the system last j985 Usa eur teen forum of be held in Berchtesgaden Germany senior american teen leaders Active in Community affairs Are invited to apply for attendance at the 1985 Usa eur teen planned for 1114 at the general Walker hotel in according to a 1st personnel come the forums theme will be journey and it will Combine computer operations and outdoor recreation a according to Lee director of youth activities at 1st personnel teenagers interested in attending the forum should Contact their local youth activities directors for further a photo newspaper photo taken from a videotape shows Andrei Sakharov As the dissident reportedly left a Hospital in paper says Sakharov out of Hospital Hamburg a soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov has been released from a Hospital in Good health and has been reunited with his wife in the soviet City of a German newspaper reported the Mas circulation Bild daily said Sakharov left Gor keys Semashko Hospital on july obviously in Good the newspaper said Sakharov was placed in the Hospital in mid april after starting a hunger Bild said its information was based on a 10minute color video that was played for the newspaper by unnamed Moscow in the Sakharov made a Fine physical impress Bild said in a report for its tuesday the newspaper said Sakharov spoke loudly and Clear moved with Confidence and appeared to be in full com Mand of his mental and physical a nuclear physicist and Nobel peace prize was banished to Gorky in Early 1980 for criticizing the soviet unions human rights his Yelena has been sentenced to five years of inter Nal exile with Bild said the film also showed a Man identified As the hospitals talking with the two discussed medicines Sakharov was to take at Home and whether he wanted to leave the Hospital in a taxi or an according to in other Bonner was reportedly shown sitting on the Bank of the Volga River in Gorky and shop Ping at a City Bild has carried several reports in the past year about Sakharov the newspaper has attributed some of its earlier reports to Victor a soviet journalist whom the newspaper has described As a confidant of the