European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes August 1985 divided on How to Deal with hijackers Many favor putting Bounty on terrorists dead or new York a americans Are divided Over How the government should Deal with but a Clear majority favors the offering of a Bounty dead or alive for those like the hijackers of a Twa jetliner in a Media Genera associated press poll forty four percent of adults in the nationwide Telephone poll said the United states should negotiate for the release of american hostages even if it Means giving in to terrorist fort two percent said the government should not negotiate even if it Means some americans taken hostage Are injured or but two thirds said they would favor a substantial Bounty for the capture or killing of kidnappers and Mur such As the hijackers of Twa flight the poll Only 24 percent said they thought a Bounty was a bad the Reagan administration is considering offering for the capture of the shiite militants who took Over the flight and killed one of the White House spokesman Larry Speakes said last Speakes said he did not know whether the Bounty offer would be available to someone who produced the hijackers dead or the poll was conducted july soon after Speakes made his the hostage siege ended on june a congressional subcommittee is considering legislation that would allow the United states to capture terrorists in other countries and bring them to trial Here if the Host country failed to locate and extradite but state department Legal adviser Abraham Sofaer warned Congress last week that such a policy would have grave implications for the effective conduct of foreign one possible problem of such a policy is it could result in reprisals against americans by militant said Robert an expert on terrorism at the Georgetown Center for strategic and International stud i think there Are a lot of mixed he the american Public May see the offering of a Bounty As a cheap Way a Way to avoid direct Ameri can intervention and possible Kupperman in a wed like someone else to do our dirty and a Bounty Well give you the one thing we can give you he Kupperman said Many americans who believe in negotiating with terrorists hold those beliefs because the image of the israeli counter counter reprisal Cycle is not what America i think that the Media have explained enough during this period of time to suggest to America that to not negotiate May very Well Lead to that Type of i think America has a almost an isolationist to stay out of All of Kupperman and it cant respondents in the poll included a random scientific sampling of adults across the As with All Sample the results of Media Genera Lap Tele phone polls can vary from the opinions of All americans because of Chance variation in the for a poll based on about the results Are subject to an error margin of 3 percentage Points either differences in exact wording of in the timing of interviews and in the interview methods could also cause publications of Media general a communications company based in include the Richmond time dispatch and the Richmond news the Tampa Tribune and the Winston Salem the company also owns television stations in Tampa and woman gets her wish to Fly air plane a like Many other Novice Karen Prendergast first Landing was a Little in her the flight instructor had to describe the in sure i Felt just like any other Pilot going said who has been Blind for the the adventure of it the Duxbury whose dream to Fly was first realized made one repeat flight on sunday and two More on monday with flight instructor John manager of Marsh Field i can change some of the antiquated feelings of some people that handicapped people cant do Prendergast said monday a stranger called me you really changed my attitude about Blind that what its All she had control of the Cessna 172 about 80 percent of the time on monday she made two doing everything from Takeoff to Landing under the direction of its a wonderful she the Only thing i did miss was seeing the actual but Marchelletta described the As he had described the controls to her before her first theres no reason Why any person cant Fly a plane with a certified instructor like she he says i do As Well As a physicist or a sitting in the Copilot with Access to the dual control a Karen Prendergast sits at the controls of a single engine plane in a photo Yoke and rudder led Prendergast through Maneu vers to familiarize her with the sensations of banking and she said she refused to believe she had sole control of the plane until Marchelletta put both of his hands on her right Arm to prove he talked her through Landing the plane on the Landing was but she bumped she a Crosswind made mondays Landing a Little More i had to use All my strength to keep the plane from tipping she adding that she want afraid because she knew if something were to go wrong he would be Able to get me out of it in a tenth of a she said her slightly rough flying did not bother her because she could not see the i could have flown Cross country at a 50degree said who lost her sight in 1975 to a degenerative disease of the Marshfield Airport commissioner Jim Breen helped her get Federal aviation administration permission for the an assistant director and chief con Tro room Engineer three Days a week at the talking information Prendergast plans to use a tape of her cockpit conversations with Marchelletta in a broadcast for the radio service for the visually no More flights have been but she said Shes ready whenever the next invitation into the cockpit i cant wait until i go its like an she 12 doctors among 43 accused in prescription drug fraud Atlanta a fort three including 12 doctors and 13 were charged tuesday in an alleged scheme to obtain prescription drugs at discount prices and resell sometimes under false Federal officials attorney Larry Thompson said state and Federal agents seized mis branded and Sample pharmaceuticals Worth More than during a two year they also seized about Worth of weapons and ammunition at a House in if these drugs seized during the investigation had reached the general they would have posed a health he in a the Justice department said other drugs sold in the alleged scheme had been manufactured with Spanish labels in Mexico and were imported without fed eral those drugs and others marked As samples were sometimes by using Nail polish remover on the capsules Federal agents the charges in the criminal information filed in District court Here include wire mail inter state transportation of drugs obtained by and drug alteration and Misbrandt Thompson said at a news the from 12 Are accused of obtaining prescription drugs at Low prices through misrepresentations to manufacturers and then repackaging and Resel Ling them at substantial they Alleg edly claimed to represent hospitals or non profit the joint state and Federal codenamed involved an undercover Fri agent who posed under a series of aliases As the director of a fake hos Pital pharmacy management firm set up in in addition to the Thompson three pharmaceutical wholesale companies were charged in criminal information which Are charges brought by the attorney rather than by a grand a House subcommittee began hearings on diversion of prescription drugs last a staff report warned that con Sumers can no longer Purchase prescription drugs with the certainty that the products Are Safe and an investigation of 40 other suspects is Thompson our investigation indicates that drug diversion practices Are quite said although he would not Esti mate what percentage of the prescription drug Market is