European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes storm dumps heavy Snow on Northwest Page 5 n Quality handicraft bargains in Portugal daily Magazine q redskins Down cardinals 27-10 in pro football Page 21 the stars and Stipes authorized unofficial publication of vol. 44, no. 174 wednesday october 1985 Romeo forces d 8693 a hijackers seize italian cruise ship with Over 400 aboard port said Egypt a palestinian hijackers seized the Lillian cruise liner Achille Lauro at sea monday with More than 400 people aboard demanded that is Rael release 50 prisoners and threatened to blow up the ship if attacked officials re ported. Italian defense minister Giovanni spa doling placed the nation s armed forces on Alert. Owners of the Achille Lauro listed 78 americans As passengers aboard the ship but Patrizia to Cruse a duty officer at the foreign ministry said 72 americans and 20 britons were among 600 passengers who left the ship in Alexandria for a Day Long land tour meaning that possibly six Ameri cans were still aboard the ship. An american passenger who left the ship in Alexandria said there Are americans still aboard. Harriet Hauser of Hollywood fla., said in Cairo i have two friends that stayed on ship because they had been Here  another passenger Matthew Polito of new Jersey also said he knew of americans still aboard the ship. Polito said Security was Good in Alexan Dria but he criticized the Security measures in Naples the second Stop on the cruise. In Naples you could go on and off the ship As you Felt. And i saw kids running up and Down the ramps and just one Hullabaloo there. There was no Security whatsoever in Naples he said. An italian embassy spokesman in Cairo said tuesday that an undetermined number of ., British and greek hostages were aboard the vessel As it drifted off port said up reported. There were unconfirmed re ports in Cairo that 28  Citizens were aboard up said. An egyptian Security official who asked not to be identified said the pirates had threatened to kill the hostages one by one but they set no deadline. Up said in Washington state department spokesman Mike austrian said the  Embassy in Cairo was trying to locale the cruise organizers to find out How Many americans left the ship to visit Cairo. He also said the state department had established an informal task Force to Monitor the situation. Egyptian officials said the Achille Lauro had left Alexandria and was about 30 Miles West of port said its next destination when it was commandeered by an undetermined number of hijackers and headed out into the Mediterranean its destination unknown. Word of the takeover came by radio from the hijackers Leader at about 9 30 . He said the hijackers were members of the pal Estine liberation front a dissident faction see ship on Page 28 passenger ship hijacked i is. Of limit recognition of world court decisions Washington administration stung by charges that 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_im�ji6tyjuris., a a Judi i i i  no Start  said in a statement. It using the court formal notice of the decision b Dent Reagan a and Cuba of department spokesman Charles Redman Way ofe Arr Uellar and it will Theon is having with Italy Over  in six months. This action does not signify any Diminu Tion of our traditional commitment to inter of disputes Redman said National Law said the statement read by the action will affect mostly political we still support the peaceful settlement the world cases but also comic rival Legal or Border Hurt Juns diction As compulsory an other official who insisted on anonymity Iarud to appear before official said. But we re see court on a peaceful demonstration members of Norway s no to atomic arms Nataa organization stage a peaceful demonstration against nuclear arms in general alongside the us. Battleship Iowa which is on a five Day port Call at Oslo. The Nataa demonstration which had police approval was peaceful but after it ended a mob of about 250 broke into the Dock area and tried to approach the ship police adjutant Einar Berger said. Mounted police slopped the demonstrators and drove them into a Side Street where about 20 of them were taken into custody. Atlantis return after top secret Maiden Mission Edwards a Calif. A Jef the space shuttle Atlantis glided out orbit to a Zajf desert Landing Mon Day to end a Clandestine Maiden nation that deployed two military communication la Sallys under a Light news blackout. \ commander Karol j. Guided the 100-ton space poll packed Sand runway at i for an air Force colonel to a touchdown on a hard after a four Day Orbital Nasa s four Craft shuttle Shakedown cruise of the la Fleet. An hour earlier bobs jihad find braking rockets High above the Indian of Canso drop an Antis out of orbit and Start it on its descent Toj Rard the Mojic desert. Mission control Lifus its curtain of Tracy to announce the successful firing i the two rockets and to permit live television coverage Ujj he Landing. The National aeronautics and space administration broke three Days  on the Mission sunday to give a 24-hour notice Ebie planned Landing. The other or Jap members were air Force la vol. Ron Ald j. Grabe tax Pilot Marine maj. David c. I hrs and army it. Col. Robert c. Stewart Mission specialist and air Force my. William a. Pailes the payload specs act. Mission control said the astronauts conducted a a of tests of systems aboard the Craft and said Atlantis solid throughout the  All of the main systems functioned within parameters1 established by her sister ships Mission control said. The see Atlantis on Page 28