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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday october 11, 1985page 2" services to repent for the National sin of  polio c reported two  killed by mobs in Black Lown ships outside port Elira Bolh earlier in the Day in what has become ritual for those seen As collaborators with the White government tires arc put around the neck soaked i gasoline and set afire. Deaths in clashes Balw can police and Rio Lars and slay Ings of Blacks by other Blacks have occurred almost daily in Black townships for 14 months the longest Over continued unrest in South Africa. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu and about 100 other worshippers abandoned prayers briefly in a Central Johan Nesburg Cathedral because of bomb threats. Witnesses reported Black youths attacking workers As they returned Home to Black townships. Thousands of Blacks stayed Home rather than risk confrontations with roving pangs that sometimes confront workers returning Home on Sta away Days. Most Black townships that have been caught up in 14 months of bloody rioting leaving More than 750 dead appeared relatively Calm during the nationwide display of support for peaceful change. The Pray away was organi cd last month by about400 Church leaders from 48 Christian denominations who launched a National initiative for  Tutu the 1984 Nobel peace prize Winner initially asked the group to endorse a we Klong Boycott of work to press for Reform of racial policies but inc Church group decided instead on a single Day of prayer. Anti apartheid groups have called protest strikes in the past and about 800,000 workers joined a two Day  Wiy last november that resulted in widespread violence and More than two do in riot deaths. This time unions and anti apartheid organizations made Clear they opposed a full scale work Boycott and endorsed a peaceful prayer Day in part to help remove ignorance of events in South Africa and prepare people for living in a changed and totally non racial  Many employers cooperated by giving workers time off to Pray or allowed employees to leave Early to attend services. The Church group called on people to join services and accept their complicity in the apartheid system and to repent for the National sin of apartheid in a voluntary show of Solidarity with victims of race segregation. Bus and train companies reported ridership was Down by 40 percent in Johannesburg 40 to 50 percent in Dur ban and smaller percentages elsewhere. Hijackers from Page 1 Chine gun he said. They hoped to find Asylum in Syria he said and when the syrians refused entry they told me to head toward  radio monitors in Beirut Lebanon said tuesday that they had picked up an Exchange Between the Achille Lauro and syrian authorities in which a Hijacker said we threw the firs body in the water after shooting him in the head. His wife is wailing about it. We shall kill one every 15  de Rosa had said by radio tuesday eve Ning in a Call monitored by Beirut port officials that everyone on the ship was  a dozen americans were aboard and earlier unconfirmed radio reports had said two were killed. . Ambassador Nicholas Veliotis went to the ship wednesday on orders from pc i silent Reagan to Check on american Pas sengers and find out what had happened. Veliotis later said in a radio transmission to the . Embassy in Cairo monitored by american television networks that after Klinghoffer was killed the terrorists showed de Rosa the passport of Mildred hods another american passenger and told him she goes  Veliotis said she pleaded for her  said Okay but you the Captain Tell those syrians that we be killed two the then kept a gun on them constantly and anyone else near the radio and threatened to kill anyone who told the  after his investigation Veliotes ordered the american embassy to Tell the egyptian foreign ministry that the United states insisted on prosecution of the hijackers. Veliotis radioed to the embassy i wan you to do two things in my name i want you to Call the egyptian foreign minister Tell him what we be Learned Tell him the circumstances Tell him that in View of this and the fact that we and presumably they did t have those facts we insist that they prosecute those sons of bitches the hijackers who number four will leave Egypt foreign minister Ernat Abdel Meguid said. He did not say where the hijackers would go. The foreign ministry said the terrorists surrendered to representatives of the Plo. They were taken to the port said naval base. A top egyptian official said the Plo negotiator was Haniel Hassan a political adviser to chairman Yasser Arafat. Morgan said general manager Gactano Casimro told him the Achille Lauro would sail for Ashdod inc next scheduled Slop on the cruise without entering port said har Bor. But the plans were changed after the ., italian and austrian ambassadors boarded the ship. Some of the More than 600 passengers who had gotten off the ship at Alexandria for an Overland tour and were to have rejoined the cruise at port said were sent out to the ship in Small motor launches wednesday night. Ca Sicro plus four americans two French and three italians who had friends or relatives aboard were driven from Cairo. Company spokesmen have said the Pas sengers who left the liner at Alexandria could rejoin it if they wished at Ashdod. In Washington White House spokesman Larry up cakes said the United states will do everything possible to see that those responsible for hijacking the vessel Are brought to Justice regardless of the arrangements Egypt made. The Palestine liberation organization denied involvement in the hijacking and Arafat said in an interview wednesday with French television from Tunis Tunisia that the pirates were not Plo members. Maureen from Page 1 intended target of the palestinian hijackers who seized the Achille Lauro in the Eastern Mediterranean. But in Washington Mau Reen Reagan s spokeswoman Susanne Rich said she had no information to substantiate that. George Cruys a . Spokesman for Royal Viking lines of Oslo Norway said � Maureen Reagan had Only planned to travel for a portion of inc 12-Day voyage an had completed her trip As planned. Cruys called the report in the Jerusalem Post completely  he noted that published reports in Europe said the hijackers had been aboard the italian liner before knew some of those on Board had detailed deck plans and were very familiar with the ship they were  Cruys refused to discuss any special Secu Rity precautions taken for the president s daughter. But he said Royal Viking lines stepped up All its Security in the Mediterranean following the hijacking last summer of Twa flight 847, adding armed guards on Shore and protecting the gangways of its vessels checking Access Points to its ships local police procedures and the facilities available in Case of attack. Maureen Reagan was a featured lecturer aboard the Royal Viking sky cruise liner which left Venice Italy sept. 27 with Sev eral port Calls in the Mediterranean before its scheduled arrival in Piraeus Greece on wednesday. She was scheduled to discuss women s issues and her recent role As head of . Delegation to the International con Ference on women in Nairobi Kenya. The Royal Viking sky docked last Friday in Alexandria where the hijackers seized the Achille Lauro three Days later. The norwegian ship went on to port said on saturday arrived in Haifa Israel sunday morning and Piraeus wednesday. Discussing the scuffle Gioldasis said the Security men were very polite and helpful. They let me through so i could take a picture. But is. Reagan was trying to hide her  the incident took place at a basement Entrance to the Grande Bretagne hotel in downtown Constitution Square As Maureen Reagan and her husband were returning from lunch at Ger Finikas one of the City s Best known restaurants. A group of 10 greek women reporter Sand five photographers were gathered out Side the Grande Bretagne hotel Square waiting for the couple. They saw us waiting and changed direction to enter the hotel by the basement door. The Security men blocked the rest of us from getting close said photographer Al cos Manla Faras. An american answering the Telephone in Maureen Reagan s suite at the hotel said she was not accepting Calls from reporters. Earlier wednesday she visited the 5thcentury . Temples on the acropolis Hill in the City Center. Budget from Page 1 could borrow1 up to the full $15 billion with no additional congressional action where As the Senate legislation would have held the amount to $5 billion. The Treasury action took the pressure off Congress to Deal with the debt limit Exten Sion right away congressional leaders suggested. The balanced budget plan endorsed by president Reagan would dramatically alter the process by which government funds Are authorized and spent requiring that the president and Congress meet increasingly stringent yearly deficit reduction targets. Government spending would have to match receipts beginning in fiscal year 1991 and remain balanced from then on. The deficit for fiscal 1985, which ended sept. 30, was about s210 billion. Although denounced by democratic leaders the plan authored by Sens. Warren Rudman r-n.h., Phil Gramm a Texas and Ernest f. Hollings d-s.c., ultimately picked up the support of 27 of the Senate s 47 democrats. This thing is coming from the people Hollings said after the lopsided vote. Temperatures Desensi from Page 1 their military policies resting on the nuclear doctrine known As Mutual assured destruction and on arms control in an Era when the United slates had a Clear military advantage. The purpose of the Tion buildup he said Mph regain Mili tary Loo Smiy in to reduce the risks of War by convincing the soviet Union that i could not successfully exploit opportunities for aggression. Our defense program expansive As it has to be makes no pretence of regaining our earlier position of superiority he said. We now struggle simply to win from con  that will assure that we can deter rars9ihjanfrom aggression against our vital interests.1 Weinberger the news aug of Sekrit pillar of no the notion of Mutual erred destruction which holds that both the United states and the soviet Union will refrain from a nuclear attack because of the certainty of mass retaliation. The growth of the soviet nuclear Arsenal he said has weakened the strength of this deterrent. If the soviet Union sees that in response to a limited nuclear attack by them behave no response other than to trigger a sequence or events that might mean Mutual suicide he said Sava of Gogh come Irta  repeated his recent assertions a Itanion has Given up the notion of Mutual Des Lumli starting a research program to seek a de. The second pillar do scripts Berger is a continued buildup in conv Nal weapons. 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