European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Q Good old Charlie has a birthday Page 3 d what 3% pay hike Means to you Page 8 a a corps youth in the spotlight pages 14-15 vol. 44, no. 166 tuesday october 1, 1985 0. 5oio, 0 8693 a four soviets kidnapped in Beirut Beirut a three soviet Diplo Mats and a doctor working at the soviet embassy were kidnapped by gunmen from embassy cars in two separate incidents in moslem West Beirut monday a soviet embassy spokesman said. The can were later found abandoned Tome distance from the scenes of the kid Tuppings and police said empty Cartridge leases were found in one of them. Callers claiming to represent the shiite moslem islamic jihad or islamic holy War telephoned two Western news Agen cies in Beirut and said the fundamentalist group kidnapped the soviets and will kill them unless syrian backed leftists end their siege of moslem fundamentalists in the Northern port of Tripoli. They said the soviets were seized in retaliation for an offensive by leftist militias including the Moscow oriented lebanese communist party besieging moslem fundamentalists in Lebanon s second larges City. Witnesses to one of the kidnappings said one of the embassy cars was  at about 1 . By several gunmen who drag ged two soviets out of it firing handguns at their feet. They said the two were bundled into another car and driven off while one gunman drove the embassy car  authorities identified the Diplo Mats As second Secretary Valeri Kornov Commerce attache Oleg Pirine and Cul Tural attache Arkady Kazakov. The physician was identified As Nicolai Veroski. They arc the first soviet citizens known to have been kidnapped in Beirut since moslem gunmen began seizing foreigners i january 1984. Thirty five foreigners have been abducted in that period and 14 sin Ameri cans four frenchmen three britons and a italian Are still missing and believed held by islamic  others were released and two a dutch roman Catholic priest and a British teacher were found dead. No one survived a Federal aviation administration inspector examines be wreckage of i Cessna 208 caravan that crashed shortly after Takeoff from a Rural Georgia Airfield sunday killing the Pilot and 16 parachutists who were aboard. The plane had been grounded two Days earlier because of fuel contamination. See Story Page 28. . Will make no concessions to kidnappers Washington a the United Stales refuses to make concessions to the kidnappers of six americans in Lebanon but is willing to talk to any parly to obtain i hair release the White House said monday. Presidential spokesman Larry Speaks was asked to comment on a report from Beirut of an abductors warning that time is running out for the United states to meet demands that 17 prisoners of the kuwaiti government be released before the americans Are freed. Speaks repeated the Reagan administration s often stated refusal to make concessions to terrorists in Exchange for the Kidnap victims release. However he added we re willing to talk to any party in order to obtain their Safe and prompt  he refused to say whether the United states has been in direct Contact with the kidnappers. The caller for the kidnappers reportedly said the hos tages soon will be shown to journalists for the first time. We would of course Welcome any first hand evidence of the Well being and the actual situation of the hostages said Speaks. The president s goal Speaks added is the prompt and Safe release of All the  As concerns the demands of the terrorists our position is Well known he told reporters. The . Government does not negotiate concessions with terrorists or give information or give in to terrorists  fourteen westerners Are missing in Lebanon. Police Block protesters1 March in Frankfurt Frankfurt a riot police blocked about 600 leftist demonstrators from marching into downtown Frankfurt on monday night but sporadic violence including the smashing of a police Van broke out elsewhere in the City. About 100 people predominantly teen agers gathered at the Entrance to a major pedestrian shopping Street downtown later in the evening and yelled insults like fascists at 15 nearby police officers who did not have riot gear. As one police Van pulled away its win Dows were smashed Fay rocks and bottles hurled by the youths. The Van did not Stop. A number of youths grabbing chairs from sidewalk cafes began fighting with one another and three with head injuries were taken by ambulance to hospitals. The violence occur d Afler riot police blocked about 600 y ung leftists from marching into downtown Frankfurt follow ing a Vigil at the site of a protester s death during weekend disturbances. No clashes or arrests were reported As police equipped with plastic Shields Hel mils and truncheons encircled the Demon see March on Page 28 army get 46,000 new hard Stripe sergeants by Charlie Bow Den Munich Bureau Munich yesterday spec. 5 Gumersindo Medina was just another specialist. Today when he answers the phone in the Munich personnel office it will be As sgt. Medina. Medina joins about 46,000 other army specialists five and six who today traded in their specialist insignia for stripes. Although Medina will remain a personnel specialist something he s been doing for his five years in the army he believes the new stripes on his sleeve arc More than just decoration. The stripes he says will give specialists More respect in the army Chain of command and in crease chances for leadership positions. People tend to listen to you More seriously if you re hard Stripe Medina said. Our opinion will mean some  that perception is indicative of a dilemma that has faced the army since it began the split Grade Structure in the 1950s. At that time soldiers in specialist grades were considered jus that specialists. The real leaders were the sergeants the hard stripers. Under that initial system All specialists no Mailer what their pay Grade ranked below any no which the army considered to be a Corporal or above. That Structure continued until 1969, when the army changed the enlisted prude Structure so that a specialist was one step below the equivalent hard Stripe no. It brought to an end however the see sergeants on Page 28