European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes August 1985 hostages release Kuwait paper says Beirut a american and lebanese officials say they have no information to confirm a kuwaiti newspaper report that american and French Kidnap Vic Tims in Lebanon will be freed the kuwaiti newspaper ass Yasah said tuesday that Syria will arrange the release of five americans and three frenchmen to steal the limelight from an Arab league Summit opening in Morocco Syria and other leftist governed Arab countries Are boy Cotting the which is scheduled to discuss a Jor Dan Andulo Effort to form a joint delegation for preliminary talks with the United leading up to peace negotiations with Syria opposes the move and backs opponents of pales Tine liberation organization chief Yasser the Independent kuwaiti newspaper quoted an unidentified Western diplomatic source As saying that the release of the hostages will come a few minutes before the Arab Summit opens in there was no Way to confirm the report Lebanon police Osman told the associated weve heard the but weve got nothing whatsoever to corroborate or substantiate police forces have nothing to indicate an imminent release of the he Edward a White House said in Washington on tuesday we have no confirmation of this the syrians obviously do have a position of influence on this matter and May or May not be Able to do something at a Given Point in but it is speculative to make any further the spokesman for the French embassy in Gilles said weve heard the but we have nothing to Tell we Haven been officially notified of anything like the newspaper in Kuwait quoted the Western Diplomat As saying Syria wants to pull off a vast information Festi with the aim of attracting the limelight away from the in View of the Impact this gesture would have on official and information circles in America and such a move would Heap Praise and commendation on Syria at a time when its government faces Broad criticism for trying to undermine the the american and French hostages Are believed to be held somewhere in Eastern Lebanon Bekaan a Syria controlled shiite moslem the Christia controlled voice of Lebanon radio reported sunday that the four kidnapped frenchmen recently were moved from unidentified hideouts to the Bekaan Vil Lage of bridal and would be released Only in a package Deal that includes the the report could not be ver the kuwaiti newspaper did not explain Why Only five americans and three frenchmen were reportedly going to be seven americans and four frenchmen Are held hostage by Radical shiite moslem in Lebanon who seek the release of 17 comrades convicted on bombing charges in the Oil Rich Gulf state has refused to free the the seven kidnapped americans Are Terry chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press William a political officer at the embassy in Beirut David administrator of the american University Hospital in Beirut the Lawrence Martin director of Catholic Relief services in Lebanon Peter a librarian at american University Thomas acting Dean of agriculture at the american University and the Benjamin a presbyterian news update no zoo negligence new York a police have found no negligence on the part of Bronx zoo officials in the death of a zoo keeper who was mauled to death by a pair of siberian the new York Post detective William Larkin told the newspaper that investigators ruled that Robin Silver mans death was an Accident and the Case is Barbie ruling sought France a seeking broader charges against alleged nazi War criminal Klaus six organizations of former resistance members and victims of the German occupation have asked a higher court Here to revise the indictment handed Down in the associations Appeal to the Lyon appellate court seeks to reverse a Deci Sion issued july 19 by the investigating Christian to drop charges that Barbie personally tortured and murdered members of the French held in Lyons Joseph could go on trial this fall on charges of illegal detention and deportation brought under a French Law concerning crimes against House arrest Italy up Giulio operator of the mine whose dam collapsed last month and killed More than 250 people in a dolomites Alps resort has been released from jail and placed under House who had been jailed since july and his both face manslaughter and negligence charges because of the disaster in the Mountain Village of Aldo who was hospitalized shortly before the dam break with a heart was granted provisional Liberty by magistrates investigating the Giulio Rota was placed under House wife of african Black Leader takes Refuge after raid by police South Africa a Winnie wife of South Africa top jailed Black has taken Refuge in a Safe place after a police raid left her Home in a her lawyer said it seems to me from what happened in the House that the violence was excessive and that is Why i am afraid for Man it is too terrible a said lawyer Ismail using tear whips and raided her three room Home tuesday morn saying they were pursuing part of a crowd which rioted outside the stoned police and hurled a who arrested 30 people including mandelas Nony amnio said seven gasoline bombs were found in the no caretaker George Bosman said in denying police charges that gasoline bombs were in the Mandela is among South Africa most prominent apartheid and one of just a dozen people serving under strict Banning she May not leave Brand fort township without May not be quoted in South Africa and May not meet with More than one person at a Bosman said at the deserted Home wednesday that police returned about five hours after the morning raid and ransacked a two room medical clinic she runs in a two room building alongside her Mandela was having a medical checkup in 220 Miles North of at the time of the she returned to Brand fort with ayob after news broke of the but they went straight Back to Johannesburg tuesday the lawyer she is now in a Safe ayob told the associated press from his Johannes Burg he declined to disclose her Mandela is the wife of Nelson Leader of South Africa outlawed african National he was jailed for life on sabotage charges in mandelas Home was badly dam aged curtains burned by tear one door ripped off the hinges and another smashed medicines and equipment in the clinic remained strewn Over the floor Pope assails apartheid before trip to 7 Blac ruled african countries Vatican City a Pope John Paul on the eve of his third trip to Afri lashed out wednesday at South Africa apartheid policy of racial the addressing people at his general audience in Peters said the recent violence in South Africa has highlighted the Issue of the so called apartheid our repudiation of every form of racial discrimination is absolute and total to those who suffer the violence of such an inhuman situation i express sentiments of fond participation and the Pope John Paul said his thoughts went out to All the african particularly to the millions suffering from War and other forms of suffering and he also expressed Hope that the people of whose government was recently overturned in a military will be Able to enjoy a real and lasting internal peace with the Assurance that the rights and free Doms of the various ethnic and religious communities will be the pontiff was to leave thursday on a 12day tour of seven countries the Central african re Ivory coast and although the Pope is not going to White ruled South Vatican officials have said John Paul is expected during the trip to speak out forcefully for racial women in pass a poster of in the the Pope has issued condom the who was to arrive nations of a photo Halberstam murderer seized in Pennsylvania Washington a marshals captured escaped fugitive and convicted murderer Bernard Welch wednesday in a suburb of a spokesman for the Fri a marshals Bill confirmed that convicted for the 1980 shooting death of Washington cardiologist Michael was apprehended in by the a police Secretary in Greensburg said Welch was captured after officers responded to reports of a car blocking an we had an Anonymous Call about a Park ing we just went up and ran a License and saw it was a stolen said the who declined to give her she said Welch was being held in the Westmoreland county jail in Greensburg magistrate Michael mos Chetti said he arraigned Welch on the Fugi Tive warrant and on two counts of receiving stolen property and ordered him jailed on million Welch was charged with having a stolen 1977 Bow late last Federal officials posted a Reward for information leading to the arrest of who escaped in May from a Federal prison in a marshals spokesman said at the time that a special task Force was at work on the Welch in addition to his conviction for first degree murder in the Halberstam Welch had been convicted of armed on May Welchs name was put on the marshals list of 1s mos wanted Welch was serving a sentence of 143 years to life for the murder of who was shot outside his Home when he surprised Welch during a burglary Halberstam managed to run Welch Down with his car be fore succumbing to the Bullet on May Welch and another inmate escaped from a downtown Chicago prison by breaking through a Concrete Wall and descending six floors to the using a 75foot electric Extension