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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Iris fee stripes q Europe medical care praised by official Page 2 no Odds tightening fiscal controls Page 8 q cardinals beat mets royals Down Angels Page 21 the stars and stripes vol. 44. No. 170 saturday october 5, 1985 d 8693 a Beirut terrorists report murder of american hostage Buckley Beirut a Shi Ilc moslem extremists chimed in a published state Mcnol Friday that i hey executed Kidnap Ped . Diplomat William Buek Lcy in revenge for alleged american complicity in Israel s air raid on Tunisia. Also Friday the soviet embassy evacuated 120 dependents and non essential staff members after a suicide bombing threat from another moslem faction which killed a soviet Diplomat wednesday. The victim was one of four soviet embassy officials who were kidnapped two Days earlier. Leftist militias ringed the walled embassy compound in moslem West Beirut with t-54 tanks and armoured vehicles to Block any attempted car bombings. A 4 . Dead line passed without violence. The shadowy islamic jihad or islamic holy War. Announced that Buckley 57, was killed after he was tried and found guilty of involvement in american intelligence crimes in this  the statement gave no details of Buckley s reported slaying and there was no Way to confirm it independently. . Embassy spokesman Terry Mcnamara said ii it s True i think it s horrible. But we have absolutely no  Buckley a political officer at the . Embassy in Bei rut was of of seven americans reportedly kidnapped by islamic jihad and the first to be reported killed. He was of and Navy test recruits for aids virus by Cunt Swift Washington Bureau Washington the air Force and Navy have begun testing All recruits for signs of the aids virus and the army should Start the testing next week Mili tary representatives said Friday. The army expects to Start testing oct. 10 under a contract with a civilian lest lab said Tansill Johnson spokeswoman for the surgeon general. The army chose to have its testing done by Damon clinical laboratories of need Ham Heights mass., the contractor that will run the tests at the nation s 66 in trance and examining stations she said. Those stations serve All the services. Johnson said blood samples of recruits who enter the army Between oct. I and oct. 10 arc being Frozen and will be tested when the contractor begins work. The testing is being done in response to a directive signed aug. 30 by Deputy Secretary of defense William Taft. The memo ordered the testing begun no later than oct. I. The tests also will be Given to men and women entering the National guard the reserves and the military academies and to senior Roth members. Pentagon health officials say there is no Blanket testing for other diseases although recruits generally Are tested for measles and syphilis shortly after being inducted. Blood is routinely tested at military and civilian blood Banks for signs of the aids virus but this is the first time the process has been used for general employment screening. A Pentagon spokesman. Army it. Col. See aids on Page 28 William Buckley in a photo  h his captors. Kidnapped March i 1 x4 mis alleged execution came Only three weeks at Ler the group of Klmle Fundaun Emalus released the Kev. Benja rain Weir a a Presb Lenan in Monar. As a humanitarian  the islamic jihad statement.  a two Beirut dailies said Buckley s Bod would be placed at the Dispo Sal of the families of our moslem tunisian and palestinian martyrs who died in 1 units a sunni moslem faction the islamic liberation Organ i action. Claimed responsibility fur killing the soviets Cul Tural attache. Arkady Katkov .12, wednesday. I body Vas left on a garbage pile. The fundamentalists Sei de Katkov arvo three other so Viets on monday seeking to Force Mosev to pressure Syria its main Arab ally to Call Oil an of fens a by its leftist militia allies Agassi sunni fundamentalists in the port of Tripoli. Weir warned after his release thai his captors threat ened to kill their hostages if Washington did not pressure Kuwait to tree i 7 of i hair comrades jailed there for bomb Ings in i9k3. Kuwait refuses and Washington Wilt nol negotiate. Mamie jihad said Buckley was kilted in Menge for see Buckley on Page 28 waiting watching and hoping standing behind a police line Sonia Maribet Maldonado watches anxiously Friday As workmen in Mexico City Tun Nel into the rubble of an apartment building searching for her 9-year-old son. The Hoy apparently has been rapped beneath the ruins since sept. I1when the building collapsed during an earthquake. Rescue workers said they culled out a riday asking if a boy was inside und a twice responded  More Tholos. Page 3.  
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