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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Late news Rome a an italian cruise ship was Hij cd in she Mediterranean sea off inc k a i Tian coast monday reportedly by a group of palestinians demanding the release of prisoners held in Israel the news Agency Ansa reported. Quoting unidentified foreign ministry sources Ansa said the Achille Kijiuro had been commandeered by palestinians shortly after it left Alexan Dria , in route to port said. The Agency said there were about 4110 people aboard. The stars and stripes vol. 44, no. 173 tuesday october 8, 1985 . D 8693 a world court recognition limited . Says if will accept decisions Only in certain cases Washington a the Reagan administration stung by charges thai the United states controls and directs Nicara Guan rebels monday announced that it will limit american recognition of decisions by the world court. Our experience with compulsory Jurl diction has been deeply disappointing the state department said in a statement. It accused the soviet Union and Cuba of using inc court As a political  formal notice of the decision by presi Dent Reagan was Given to . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cullar and will take effect in six months. This action docs not signify any Diminu Tion of our traditional commitment to inter National Law said the statement read by department spokesman Charles Redman. By Way of example Redman said the United states had agreed to have the court take up a dispute an american firm Ray Theon is having with Italy Over a subsidiary there. We still support the peaceful settlement of disputes Redman said. The action will affect mostly political cases but also comic rival Legal or Border disputes with countries that do not accept the court s jurisdiction As compulsory an other official who insisted on anonymity said. We re quite prepared to appear before the world court on various issues the official said. But we re withdrawing from compulsory  Only about no third of the countries in the world accept the court s authority As binding. With the . Action Britain will see world court on Page 28 honest Erik recovers embassy cub s Money by de reav1s staff writer Bonn not Many kids get to meet Llic . Ambassador to Germany nor do they get to sit on his Lap in his private offices. Erik James Livingston Voss 7 years old. Is one of the few. He did both. On monday he not Only got to shake Richard Burl s hand he also received a Check for $100 and the right to cat lunch i free of charge for three months in the Tanch Keller restaurant in the . Embassy club. A id Livingston Voss will get to Host a parly there for his second Grade class at Bonn american elementary school any time he chooses. The reason for All the attention is that a week ago monday Livingston Voss found an envelope on the Street White he was on his Way to swim classes in inc Bonn american housing area in Plit lers Dorf. I Shook it and peeked inside and saw it was  mis first reaction Liv Ingston Voss said with a Grin was to keep  instead he packed the envelope in Hij bag went on to class and then went Home. Erik came in the door shouting this is my Lucky Day,1" said his Mother. Erik James Utin Mon Voss holding $100 Reward sits with ambassador Richard Hurt. Wendy Voss an embassy employee. The m Story of ownership was soon solved. Besides a considerable amount of Cash the envelope also contained several checks made out to the . Embassy club All in All. About . Voss said. They knew it had to be returned. Club manager i. Col. David l. Helm said he sighed in Relief when in got the Call from Voss. Apparently the messenger dropped one of the envelopes from the stack he was carrying when he stooped to unlock the door of his car and just drove off without it. I m glad Erik found it when i think of what could have happened. And 1 guess i la soon know How much lunch a 7-year old can eat a Lewins said. Too often we locus on people who mis  Hurt said in a Brief presentation ceremony. We thought we d do something else this time. Thank you. And we re proud of you and we thank your parents for bring ing you up will the Correct values in life he said. Erik was not unaffected by the solemnity of the occasion. Amidst the Glare of to lights and the clicking of cameras with the ambassador holding his hand Erik James Livingston Voss broke out in nervous hiccups. Cologne car dealer research Institute targets of bombs Cologne Germany up bombs exploded Al an automobile dealer s showroom and Al a City botanical re search Institute monday just 24 hours after delayed action incendiary bombs sparked fires at half a do in department stores in Hamburg one bomb wrecked the showroom of a Mercedes dealer shortly before 1 a.m., causing $56,500 Worth of damage. The second went off an hour later at the University Botan ical Institute causing damage estimated by police at is 1,300 to the Entrance Hall. No one was Hurt in either attack. In two letters to the Girmai. News Agency spa the revolutionary cells left Wing a a Aorist group acknowledged responsibility for the bombs but indicated one of the targets should have been the University genetic Engi Neering Iru Tiute next door to the botanical Institute. The letters said the bombings were revenge for the death of a left Wing demonstrator killed by a police water Cannon truck in Frankfurt. Two other firebombs were found in Hamburg stores monday morning. One detonated causing a Small fire and the other was defused police said. Atlantis returns safely to Edwards after 4-Day flight Edwards fab Calif. A the new  shuttle Atlantis glided out of orbit to a Safe desert Landing monday to end a Clandestine Maiden mis Sion which deployed two military communications satellites under a tight news blackout. Commander Karol j. Bobko an air Force Colo Nel guided the 100-ton space plane to a touchdown on a hard packed Sand runway at 1 . After a four Day Orbital Shakedown cruise of the last of Nasa s four Craft shuttle Fleet. An hour earlier Bobko had fired braking rockets High above the Indian Ocean to drop the Atlantis out of orbit and Start it on its descent toward the Mojave desert. Mission control lifted its curtain of secrecy to announce the successful firing of the two rockets see Atlantis on Page 28 policeman killed 252 Hurt in riots in Northern London London a youths rampaged through an inner City District sunday attacking police with shotguns arid machetes looting and setting fires. Police said one officer was killed and 252 people were hurl in Britain s worst Urban i Ilance in four years. Following inc six hour overnight spree in which do ens of cars and buildings were burned inc total Cham area of Northern London was Quiel monday. About 500 Young people mostly Blacks poured into the streets of the racially mixed neighbourhood sunday a Day after police said a Black woman died apparently of a heart attack during a police search of her Home. The roving bands of youths looted stores set cars and building on fire and bombarded police with gasoline bombs bricks rocks and bottles police said. Scotland Yard said More than 100 youths armed with knives machetes Staves and other weapons were involved in the attack that led to the death of patrolman Keith Henry Blacklock 40. To patrolman was slashed across the neck possibly see riots on Pago 28  
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