European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes trekkie time Page 3 g anti abortion protesters March on hospitals Page 5 Blue jays royals cardinals Clinch baseball titles Page 21 q Pitburg beats Ramstein 54-7 in Safe football Page 25 vol. 44, no. 172 monday october 7, 1985 Ona so d 8693 a moslem won t free soviets caller says Beirut up a caller chiming to speak for mos Lem extremists holding three soviet officials said sunday they will not be freed and appealed to the islamic jihad movement to keep its six american hostages in Captivity. The Telephone caller saying he spoke for the islamic liberation organization told a Western news Agency in Beirut that a Casc firc against moslem fundamentalists in the Northern lebanese port City of Tripoli did not meet their demands. The halt of attacks on the moslem Tripoli and the deceptive deployment that has happened do not necessarily mean the end of the conspiracy against the moslem. Thus we will not free the soviet hostages he said. In the first Contact since the group s Khalid iban Al Walid forces killed kidnapped soviet Diplomat Arkady Katkov and dumped his body in Beirut wednesday the demo filibuster blocking action to hike debt limit Washington up the Senate meeting in a rare sunday session rejected pleas from president Reagan and refused to kill a Democrat led filibuster blocking action on a balanced budget and a boost in the National debt limit splitting along party lines the Senate voted 57-38 to end the filibuster six votes Short of the two thirds needed leaving the Fate of the budget proposal hanging and moving the Federal government to the Brink of a Finan Cial Crau. Republican Leader Robert Dole of Kansas scheduled a second vote monday on ending the debate. There were indications both sides might seek a Stop Gap increase in the debt ceiling which would allow the government to keep borrowing Money to pay its Bills. From his Retreat at Camp David md., Reagan called for passage of the budget proposal saying americans Are very weary of delays excuses and inaction and he urged approval of a $2 trillion debt ceiling because by monday the Federal government will be practically out of Cash. The balanced budget proposal is attached to legislation to push the debt ceiling from $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion. The Treasury department has estimated it will run out of Cash on monday and needs More borrowing authority in order to sell government securities to raise Noncy. Persistent budget deficits ranging around 200 billion a year in recent years have pushed the National debt to roughly twice what it was when Reagan took office five years ago. Under the balanced budget proposal deficits would have to fit under gradually decreasing limits reaching Zero in fiscal year 1991. If Congress exceeded the ceiling by 5 percent the president would have the Power to make reductions in All government programs except social Secu Rity. Caller demanded concessions from the United Stales and soviet Union. We urge our Brothers and comrades in the islamic jihad organization to intensify their operations against both the soviets and americans and Appeal to hem not to release their own hostages until the scheduled president Reagan Mikhail Gorbachev Summit decides to end the lebanese crisis and puts an end to the ordeals of our people he said. The soviet and . Leaders arc scheduled to meet in november. The pro iranian islamic jihad says it is holding six americans and four frenchmen kidnapped in Beirut. It said Friday it executed . Diplomat William Buckley. No Trace of his body has been found. The Price of the superpowers indifference regarding our causes will turn into a War against them inc caller said. After today they will nol bin Ceil from the race or the space Star wars to impose their authority on the world. The moslem revolution is at the doors to smash every oppressor said the arabic speaking Man. Adding Hal the entry of syrian troops into Tripoli sunday and a three Day Casc firc did nol Clear the Way for the soviets to be re leased. The unbelievers agents and traitors think they can exploit this truce to throw Ash in our eyes in order to push us to release Sprinc Sversky and Mizikov so they can pursue their action against the caller said. Katkov was abducted in West Beirut with attache olog Sprinc embassy physician or. Nikolai Sversky and com Myrical attache Valery Mizikov in the first such incident involving soviet diplomats in he world. In a Call claiming responsibility for the kidnapping of inc four last monday the extremist group demanded the soviet Union pressure its ally Syria to Stop an offensive against moslem fundamentalists in Tripoli. I Hope the soviets will be released soon because the kidnappers demand was for a dec the head of syrian intelligence in Lebanon Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kanaan said earlier sunday. There is one now so they will have to do it he said. Syria s leftist and communist lebanese militia allies started an All out Campaign to crush the moslem Funda mentalist Tach cd islam movement in Tripoli last week. Non swimmer is Afef Niagara a Guy Niagara Falls ont Arr a a Canadian die Al Mechanic who says he is terrified of water and does t know How to swim survived a barrel ride Over Niagara Falls on saturday ending a 20-year obsession. I m not a Guy to gel beat John David Munday 48, said at a news conference after he became the seventh daredevil to survive a plunge Over the Falls in a barrel and the second to do so in two months. Nothing Ever beats me Ever said Munday. I would t have been Able to live with myself if i had let Niagara Falls beat encapsulated in a 7-fool-Long, 4-foot-Diamctcr alumni num barrel Munday was carried Over Horseshoe Falls at 8 55 a.m., said Niagara Parks commission spokesman George Bailey. Munday was arrested As soon As the barrel marked to Challenge Niagara. September 1985," was pulled ashore. I m not a stunt Man Munday said. I m just an Ordinary Guy.". His feat was first performed by Annie Edson Taylor in 1901. Although badly injured she survived. An eighth person 7-year-old Roger Woodward was accidentally swept Over the Falls in i960 while wearing a life jacket and said he lost consciousness for a few minutes when he landed and suffered some bruises on his neck see Niagara on Page 28 a photo aluminium barn i holding John David Munday is swept ton ird inc Brink of Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls Ontario
