European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars an uthohi2ed unofficial publication vol. 44, no. Ie9 Friday october 4, 1985 d 8693 a i s Gaudy vision stripes Magazine slow by 5 planes collide in Texas Page 7 dodgers Clinch ill West title Page 17 abducted soviet Attai a Beirut Beirut a the body of one of four kidnapped sort embassy employees was found in an comply lol near a Beirut spelts stadium wednesday Lebanon s cd Coroner said. An Anonymous Calk threatened to blow up the Sovichf Massy. Coroner Ahmed Harrij Jabid the associated press that that Hoy of cultural at tache Arkady Kajj Kawwas identified by Igor political Secretary at the so Viet e stroy 32, was abducted by gunmen in West Beirut on monday with commercial attache vai00vtinwrcss attache Oleg Spiru for embassy doctoral italia Svirsky. Skatkov s body was found Jlas cd cite sport if stadium after an yous caller claiming to represent the is"1 Lamia liberation organization telephoned a Western news Agency in Beirut to say the kidnappers had killed one of the captives. In another Anonymous Call a Man claim ing to speak for the same group telephoned the associated press Bureau in Beirut and threatened to blow up the soviet embassy within 48 hours. There was no Way to authenticate the Call. The . State department condemned the killing of the soviet attache and called for the immediate release of All remaining it and american Kidnap victims in that Coil n Charles Redman said the United stat5fljbjiccn in touch with soviet authorities on Tny a flipping Issue but he gave no details. The killing of the soviet disk abhorrent Redman said. The Nunci see attache on Page 24 Ock Hudson 59, Dies of aids los Angeles a Rock Hudson the Cinema idol whose Gallant admission of a yearlong Bayle against aids won sympathy and attention for victims of the disease died wednesday at his Home. He was 59. Please god. He has not died in vain his Friend and one Lime co Star Elizabeth Tay Lor said. Hudson was the Star of giant a a gathering of eagles and several comedies with Doris Day on film and Mcmillan and wife and dynasty on television. He died peacefully in his sleep at 9 o clock this morning publicist Dale Olson said. Life ii eternal and i know 1 will see him again Day said in a statement. Working with him was unlike working with anyone else. We had a special humor Between us and we always laughed and had Tun together. I m really going to miss him she said. At the while House president Reagan issued a statement saying Nancy and i Are saddened by the news of Rock Hudson s Rock Hudson in 1982, and in 1982 right after he was stricken with aids. Death. He will always be remembered for his dynamic Impact on the film Industry and fans All Over the world will certainly mourn his loss. He will be remembered for his humanity his sympathetic spirit and Well deserved reputation for kindness. May god rest his Taylor who starred Wilh Hudson in giant and the Mirror crack a was one of his closest supporters in his final Days. She also was co Host for an aids Benefit sept. 19 with actor Burl Reynolds. Hudson donated $250,000 to the Benefit which grossed More than $1.2 million for aids research and sent his last Public words i am not Happy that i am sick. I am not Happy that i have aids but if that is help ing others i can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive he had known for More than a year that he suffered from acquired immune do Ficici see Hudson on Page 24 Arafat vows revenge for raid Hamam Plage Tunisia a hundreds of tunisian and palestinian Rescue workers searched for bodies in the bombed out ruins of the Palestine liberation organization Headquarters w after an israeli air raid. Yasser Arafat the head of the Plo vowed to retaliate for tuesday s attack and Tunisia demanded a meeting of the . Security Council to condemn the raid. Palestinian officials said at least 45 members of the Plo Headquarters staff and some 20 tunisians were killed. The Plo said about 100 people were injured. The israeli military said As Many As 50 people were killed and medical sources in Tunis put the toll at about 30 dead and 100 injured. Security precautions were stepped up near the american embassy and other . Offices following rumours that the israeli jets had refuelled at an see Arafat on Page 24 Gorbachev arrives in Paris a photo soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev foreground and French president Francois Mitterrand in Paris. Paris a soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Paris on wednesday for a four Day visit his first to the West since taking office to try to promote his Campaign against . Space weapons research. Gorbachev warned wednesday night of rough times ahead if the United states persists in developing the space based defense system commonly called Star he said the Reagan administration plan has wrought a major change in the arms race which consists of the fact that an attempt is being undertaken to Transfer military rivalry into extra atmospheric space As if we lacked it on in the event that the instigators of this Enterprise stubbornly continue Down the perilous path they have Laid the world must indeed face up to rough times Gorbachev said at a banquet. He spoke in russian and a French translation was provided. The trip seven weeks before his november Summit in Geneva with president Reagan is his first to the West since becoming Kremlin Leader in March. Gorbachev s response to a Toast by president Francois Mitterrand confirmed that his opposition to Star wars whose formal name is the strategic defense initiative would be the major theme of his visit. Soviet opposition to Star wars has been a major see Gorbachev on Page 24
