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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday. October 2, 1985 kidnappers threaten to kill 4 soviet hostages Beirut a an islamic fundamentalist group tuesday released photographs alleged to be of four soviet hostages with guns to their Heads and warned it will kill them unless a syrian backed offensive against their allies in Tripoli is halted. The color photos were delivered to a Western pews Agency in Beirut with the statement we will Start carry ing out the death sentence on the first Kosuge at 9 . Sharp unless the atheistic Campaign against islamic Tripoli  the photos and statement allegedly came from the islamic liberation organization Khaled Ben Al Walid forces the Beirut  they Are a sunni moslem group linked to the Lawheed islami or islamic unification movement fighting leftist militias in Tripoli 50 Miles North of Beirut. Lebanese intelligence sources said none of the soviets has been killed As Many Anonymous callers have claimed. The sources who spoke on condition they not be identified said lebanese intelligence knows where the soviets Are being held in West Beirut but stressed they cannot do anything about it because the moslem sector of the City is controlled by militias. The photographs climaxed a Day of contradictory Tele phone Calls by men claiming to represent at least three different fundamentalist factions. Earlier tuesday some callers claimed two soviet hostages had been killed. There was no Way to authenticate any of the Calls All of which have demanded that Moscow use its influence on Syria its main Middle East ally to Hall an offensive against moslem fundamentalists by syrian backed Force in the Northern port of Tripoli. One Anonymous caller who claimed to speak for islamic jihad told a Western news Agency we have executed the soviet commercial attache and the doctor. Our demands still stand. We Are not going to execute any More  prior to that the Christian voice of Lebanon radio said a caller claiming to represent Lawheed islami said the kidnappers had killed one of the soviets. Copter from Page 1 tire. The spokesman called the confrontation Brief c id a mismatch suggesting the helicopter was not in a position to attack a Jet. The helicopter managed to evade the missiles and it returned to its base without further incident Sims said. The attack which took place inside Federal Republic of Germany airspace in Clear weather was observed and confirmed by two separate groups of German civil ians Sims said. The . Government has protested this irresponsible act which endangered the lives of the is.  the spokesman said the Pentagon has been unable to determine precisely How Many or what kind of air to air missiles were fired at the helicopter or How close the rockets May have come to the copter. The helicopter was engaged in an entirely routine . Operation and did Noth ing to provoke the attack Sims said. He said there May have been a second l 39 fighter in the area but Only the attack ing Jet was in West German airspace. The spokesman said he did t know How close the helicopter and Jet were at the time of the attack or the helicopter s Altitude. He also declined to release the names of the two crewmen. Sims said the United states had strongly protested the incident government to government with Czechoslovakia. He refused to discuss the substance of the protest nor would he say whether the czechs had responded. Sims said the crewmen radioed during the incident that they were under attack but no general Alert was sounded. The Heli copter returned to its base the Crew was debriefed and an investigation was launched Sims said. The spokesman described the location of the attack As several Kilometres North of fre Yung which is in the Southeast Corner of West Germany near the czechoslovak Bor Der and North of Austria. Sims said the United states had no plans to change its Border surveillance operations and that such flights by american helicopters were continuing. Sims said the helicopter Pilot had More than 680 hours of flight experience including 250 hours in the Border Region. The spokesman said there had been no unusual tension or military activity in the Region at the time of the attack. Heckler from Page 1 that you have offered me the Post of Ambas Sador to the Republic of Ireland i see a new Opportunity for Public service she added. She said Reagan had offered her the Choice whether to stay on or take the ambassador ship. Could she have stayed on if she wanted to Reagan was asked. Yes he responded. He said no successor had been selected. Heckler had once described the Irish pasting As a Lovely position for someone else. Asked Why she changed her mind she said the great communicator had persuaded her. This was a reference to Reagan. I looked upon this assignment with new eyes having heard the presentation that he made and having also his Assurance that it was my Choice to stay on As Secretary of has or become ambassador to  she said it would have been irresponsible to have said no to the  asked if presidential chief of staff Donald t. Regan had forced her out of the White House heckler said the president and i Are the Only two to have discussed the Issue of my service both in the Cabinet and my service As ambassador to  As to criticism of her administration of her department. Heckler said i am very proud of what i leave behind but i am also very proud that this president has asked me to take on a new  heckler 54, had met with the president at her request to discuss her future and asked afterwards for a few Days to think Over the presi Dent s proposal. Heckler is of Irish heritage. Her full Maiden name was Margaret Mary o Shaughnessy. Rumours of heckler s impending departure have circulated periodically for months Gener ally focusing on questions of her ability to Man age the Mammoth 145,000-employee depart ment with its $330 billion budget. The department s activities directly affect tens of millions of americans through medi care medicaid social Security the food and drug administration or dozens of other subsidiary agencies. Besides questions about heckler s manage ment capabilities however there also have been questions about her commitment to the Reagan philosophy she was a moderate to lib Cral Republican congresswoman before losing her seat. Rioting from Page 1 night about 200 Black Clad leftists went on a window smashing rampage in the South Western City of Stuttgart. Police made an undetermined number of arrests. In Frankfurt demonstrators in Black leather and wearing hoods smashed the windows of a Large Bank hurled flares and set Small fires along the Mainzer Landstrass Boulevard. They were screaming fire and flames on the  some protesters set fire to a Large Gar Bage dumpster adjacent to a skyscraper which houses the offices of american express and other Large firms. Vans with wailing sirens rushed riot police to the March area to Block off Side streets and isolate the demonstrators. They dispersed without clashing with police. About 200 Young demonstrators set up a barricade across a main Street near the rail Road station and set fire to it. Some fought with police and five were injured from Trun Cheon blows. Concern Over three previous Days of Vio Lent protests prompted Frankfurt mayor Walter Wallmann to order riot police to prevent the protesters from marching through City streets according to his spokesman Alexander Gauland. Wallmann gave permission for the rally. The ban came after the third straight night of violent protests in seven cities. More than 60 arrests were reported. The disturbances were sparked by a Frankfurt conference held saturday by the Neo nazi National democratic party. One demonstrator died and 22 police officers were injured when a group of leftist protes ters clashed with police that Day. Police spokesman Hans Neitzel said a pirate radio station broke into a regular broadcast in the southwestern part of the country and called for an armed Demon stration tuesday in Frankfurt. The Frankfurt daily newspaper Abend Post said police bad found leaflets in several German cities vowing to bring fire and flames upon Frankfurt. It said Federal police authorities warned that violence prone hard Core leftists Nave mobilized them selves throughout the country. On monday about 600 people staged a Vigil at the site where Guenter Sare was hit and killed by a police vehicle saturday night As he was demonstrating against a the National democratic party session. The protesters dispersed peacefully by Early evening after police told them they would not be allowed to March downtown. Later in the evening gangs of teen agers some of whom had been at the Vigil showed up in the fashionable zeil shopping area downtown alternately taunting police and fighting each other with chairs grabbed from sidewalk cafes. One Man was arrested after protesters smashed the windows of a departing police Van with bottles and rocks. They scattered when hundreds of police arrived. In West Berlin about 1,600 demonstrators marched peacefully monday night but some 200 protesters later clashed with police in the District of Kreuzberg. Police said 55 people were arrested after the protesters set Small fires and threw stones at police cars. Hamburg police reported that several dozen protesters marched through the streets of their Northern port City setting five fires and attacking several buildings late monday. They reported four arrests. Police said a total of 300 people marched in Hanover Goettinger Braunschweig and a Elzon but reported no major clashes and no arrests. Raid from Page 1 lion of Abu Musa was hit in that raid. Tuesday s attack was the first israeli air raid outside Lebanon since june 7, 1981, when then prime minister Menachem begin sent israeli jets to bomb the iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad. Tuesday s raid was to punish the Plo for the slaying last week of three israelis in Cyprus defense minister Yitzhak Rabin said. This action was intended to show that there is no immunity for any Factor of the Plo anywhere Rabin said during a news conference hours after the israeli jets re turned from the Mission. Plo members claimed responsibility for the killings of the three israelis. However the Plo has issued repeated denials and has condemned the attack. The Long Arm of the Israel defense forces will know How to locate hit and punish terrorists Rabin warned. The raid reportedly destroyed Arafat s secret residence near the Complex. He was not in the building but Many of his guards including several tunisians were believed to have been killed there. The Plo established its Headquarters in Tunis after being driven out of Beirut in 1982 by the israelis. Plo sources said israeli phantom jets dropped one ton bombs on the Complex. Temperatures september 10 l h44 75 31 4446 a 60 79 61 73 � 76 i 51 65 ii 35 64 s3 7651 77 44 73 67 71 48 is 45 61 57 76 51 76 44 61 21 40 31 so 53 67 37 45 34 46 41 75 71 17 51 60 57 6471 40 51 60 16 50 59 Albany Albuquerqu Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic Cut Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bol Boston Buffalo Burlingto Charleston . Charleston  Cincinnat Cleveland Dalles i. Worthon nver on Molne Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kantat City lat vagal la Lett Rock l h 4v 77 41 75 54 69 71 14 40 44 61 so 71 13 54 77 51 7637 54 39 4 71 m 51 76 61 � 47 77 45 71 39 75 46 7550 71 40 74 46 5073 90 34 65 61 74 51 69 74 m 44 49 41 7757 n a 76 35 55 lot Angeles Louisville Miami  Nashville naw Orleans Norfolk naw Yor Oklahoma ally Omaha Orlando  Pittsburg Portland. Maine Portland  Raleigh Reno   Lake City san Diego san Frencl Cosan Juan Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita european weather forecast Lor wednesday mostly Cloudy skies  Nehl rain in Northern Germany and Ine Benelux. Elsewhere fair to partly Cloudy skies with morning tog or Haie. High temperatures will be in the wooer 60s to Mld-70i, lows in the 40s. Sunset wednes Day 6fll. Sunrise thursday 6.19. Outlook for thursday Little change in weather with slightly warmer tempera Tures. Temperatures recorded tuesday Adana i Amsterdam fathers f Valano. Benin f 4am 4pm 63 1657 n 64 70 61 ii 50 73bremertiaven, i 55 71 Brussels i 57 79 4am 4pmcopenhagen, to s3 Frankfurt f 46 75london, f 59 i Madrid p 64 to Munich. I 43 73, Paris i u Home i 61 79 provided by Del 13, 7m weather in. Graben Trarbach. Other worldwide Lemper lures High Low Cairo d 86 61 Dublin Aht Hinkl r Cru item 1ll.boo, d 66 54 46 45 70 55 14 66 Montreal Moscow cd Oslo a Toronto d Vancouver cd High low61 46 41 34 so 45 57 41 61 4i Sun had by la   air a partly clouded Douds Frain a Foa  
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