European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Q Frenchman wins literature prize Page 2 d House oks hike in building funds Page 5 q Soldier Hopes Cornea will save career Page 8 vol. 44, no. 183 Friday october 18, 1985 d 8693 a italian Leader Praxi Steps Down Rome a socialist Premier Buttino Praxi hurl ing bitter charges at the United states Over the Achille Laura hijacking resigned thursday ending a 26-month Rule by his five party coalition. The Fate of Italy s 44th postwar Cabinet was scaled wednesday when defense minister Giovanni Spadolini and two other Cabinet members from the Republican party withdrew to protest Italy s decision to release a Plo official accused by the United states of masterminding the hijacking. During the hijacking an american passenger 69-year old Leon Klinghoffer of new York City was killed. The foreign policy conflict brought do. The Center left coalition Only a month before it would have become Italy s longest lasting government. Praxi submitted the resignation to president Francesco Corsiga after a speech to parliament in which he expressed bitterness toward the United states for the polemical tone of its criticism of Italy s release of the Plo official Mohammed Abbas. The president asked Praxi to stay on in a caretaker capacity i the Quirinale Palace adding that Corsiga will begin consulting with leaders of All political parties rep resented in parliament Friday before naming a Premier designate. Ing statements which i believe derive from an incomplete evaluation of the facts and circumstances in which the italian government  he also charged that .  violated italian airspace and that a protest has been Lod cd with the . See Praxi on Page 28 no of uhf Klinghoffer killed by hijackers Rome a an italian magistrate investigating the death of Leon Klinghoffer said thursday there was no doubt the 69-year-old american passenger of the cruise ship Achille Lauro was killed by the ship s hijackers. Prosecutor Dolcino Favi a magistrate from Siracusa Sicily investigating Klinghoffer s death said the seven hour autopsy conducted at the Institute of Legal Medicine had provided a great contribution to the investigation and Many confirmations of hypotheses that we have made earlier thursday Favi told a news conference in Genoa that officials who questioned Crew members and passengers had found 10 witnesses to the killing. Me said the investigators were certain they knew who killed Klinghoffer. Favi said he did t know when the body could be re turned to the United slates. The body washed ashore in Syria on monday about a week after officials believe he was killed. It was flown to Rome wednesday. . Stale department officials in Washington said Klinghoffer apparently was shot twice once in the head and once in the neck. Meanwhile Yugoslavia confirmed thursday thai pales Tine liberation organization official Mohammed Abbas wanted in connection with the hijacking of the italian cruise ship has left Yugoslavia the White House said. At the same time Yugoslavia formally turned Down for the first time a . Request for extradition of Abbas. Abbas was released by italian authorities and went to Belgrade the capital of Yugoslavia earlier this week despite an arrest warrant obtained by . Authorities from a Federal judge in Washington. Meanwhile the Boston Globe reported thursday that see hijackers on Page 28 a syrian military policeman stands guard As i con klingon after s coffin is put aboard a plane in Rome. . Identifies Twa hijacking suspects Washington a the United states thursday publicly identified for the first time three lebanese shiites it wants in connection with the hijacking of a Twa jetliner and murder of an american Passen Ger. Just hours earlier the Reagan administration offered a Reward of up to $250,000 As a Bounty for the Trio and attorney Gen eral Edwin Meuse said the government would make a determined coordinated Effort to punish them. We just decided to go Public with this now Justice department spokesman Pat Rick Korten said when asked Why the names of the suspects were being released. The arrest warrants and criminal complaints actually were issued in . District court Here on july 3, just a few Days after the passengers of Twa flight 847, including nearly 40 americans were re leased by their captors who demanded the release of prisoners held by Israel. The complaints and arrest warrants obtained through . District judge Aubrey e. Robinson were announced not Long after the state department disclosed it was of Fering a Reward for information leading to the apprehension of the suspects whose whereabouts arc unknown. Militant lebanese shiites commandeered the . Airliner on june 14 after it took off from Athens Greece precipitating a nearly two week crisis. During the course of Pic seizure Navy diver Robert Dean so them a passenger on flight 847, was beaten then shot to death. The three individuals All charged with air piracy and murder were identified in the documents As Mohammad Hamadi Ali Atwa and Hasan Izz Al Din. The criminal complaint said Hamadi also goes by the name of Ali Hamadi or  it said that Izz Al Din also is known As  and the complaint said Aida also is known As Bou slim Korten said he United Stales would proceed through extradition or other Means such As by the use of International conventions regarding hijacking to try to get Cus Tody of the suspects. The United states does not have an extradition treaty with Lebanon and extradition might be possible Only through a third country. Mcnese said the release of the documents and the offering of a Reward pm phase is the determination of the administration to bring those responsible for a notorious act of terrorism to Justice and to assert the need for the Rule of Law among the nations of the  in an affidavit to support the request for arrest warrants prosecutors said the defendants did knowingly wilfully and unlawfully  and control by Force Vio Lence and the threat of Force and violence. An aircraft within the special aircraft jurisdiction of lie United  it also charged the three did unlawfully murder and cause the murder of Robert Stethem while aboard an aircraft which was within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United  card Nas royals win Peri Nanys see Page 21