European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes saturday october 19, 1985page 28 of j 60 Hurt 1 critically in Iowa rail Accident Thayer. Iowa a a freight train sides wiped Amtrak s California up fir on thursday night smashing windows aboard the passenger train and injuring 60 peo ple one critically authorities said. Most of the injuries to passengers and crewmen on the Amtrak train in route to the san Francisco Bay area from Chicago were cuts from flying Glass although some suffered neck injuries and bruises and at least one person complained och Cal pains officials said. The 13-car Zephyr carrying 307 passengers and 21 crewmen was struck by a car of an eastbound Burlingto Northern freight train at 8 55 p.m., according to Clifford Black an Amtrak spokesman in Washington. Five Burlington Northern employees were operating the Amtrak train at the time of the Accident by cause burling ton Northern owns the track in the area he said. One car of the 46-car freight train which was hauling flour derailed and tipped into the Side of the Amtrak train striking the second locomotive and All 13 cars of the passenger train said Gary Tel for a spokesman for Bur Lington Northern in Minneapolis. In this process it broke most of the upper windows on the super liner equipment he said. That on Amtrak is where most of the people Are especially in the  the lower level on the super liners arc mostly restrooms and baggage areas he said. The cause of the Accident was unknown Telfer said. It s dark it s raining and the two trains arc still Side by Side there he said. The Amtrak train did not derail Black emphasized. However numerous windows. Were  we be had a couple of neck injuries. One came in with Chest pains said Richard Gamul administrator of the greater Community Hospital. The rest have All been minor cuts abrasions and  at least 14 of the injured were taken to Clarke county Public Hospital in Osccola said Kim Gackle medical records director for the Hospital. We be had one critically injured Gackle said. She said that patient was to be transferred to a larger facility As soon As his condition stabilized. Services Nof working As Feam Nunn says Washington up1 sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., said thursday defense department reorganization is necessary be cause the armed forces arc composed of four All stars who Don t operate As a team. Nunn the ranking Democrat on the sen ate armed services committee made the comments in support of a committee staff report released wednesday that cited inefficiencies infighting duplication of Effort and poor command Structure. The report recommended vast organizational changes. Interviewed on the lbs morning news Nunn said the problem is not that the . Military establishment has fallen into disarray but that so much More can be done with resources available. We be got a group of All stars out  Nunn said. We be got a Good Navy. We be got a Good air Force a Good army and a Good Marine corps. But when you try to put them All on the same team which we must do in any kind of modern War then that team is simply not prepared because they Are not working to Gether training together every Day. And they re not planning together. They Are not making resource decisions  the key word said Nunn is  we be got to emphasize the word joint. The word joint to the Pentagon is always relegated to the last place on the list. We have to have everybody on one  the committee staff report which out lined 91 remedies recommended replacing the joint chiefs of staff with a joint Mili tary advisory Council. Unlike the joint chiefs of staff the advisory Council Mem Bers would not also head their individual services and presumably would advise the president and defense Secretary without a service Bias. Committee chairman sen. Barry Gold water r-ariz., said the staff study the first major look at the military system since 1953 will serve As the starting Point for fall hearings on defense reforms and for legislation next year. The suggestion that the joint chiefs of staff be replaced by the joint military advisory Council brought a Sharp rejoinder from committee member sen. John warn or. R-va., a former Navy Secretary. The chief of naval operations would have been reduced to the role of honorary chair Man of the Board Warner said. You re literally stripping his Epa lets in front of i troops making him a  and with the merged staff he said you really have stripped the chief Down to his Sivvy  troops from Page 1 Power the egyptian Crew and put the hijackers and their two palestinian escorts aboard a waiting plane to be flown directly to the United states. At that Point however italian troops arrived in Force and a heated argument broke out Between the italian and the american commanders at the scene according to the report. The americans finally gave in the network quoted one source As saying be cause the alternative was a shootout with our  the night of the interception the White House said nothing about a confrontation with the italians. Italian Premier Buttino Praxi who re signed thursday in the Wake of the Hijack ing and ensuing tensions said in a Farewell address to parliament that after the egyptian Airliner was forced to land in Sicily italian soldiers faced Down 50 american soldiers under order by the White House to pick up the  in a stale men monday however Praxi said there was no tension Between Amer ican soldiers and italian soldiers at the air base. He said that after a Telephone conversation with Reagan the . Soldiers re turned to their plane. The Day after the intercept when Mohammed Abbas one of the palestinian escorts whom the . Says masterminded the hijacking was flown to Rome from Sicily the american commander insisted on Fol lowing in a . Plane lbs said. It said the italians blocked the runway to prevent him from leaving but the com Mander s plane managed to take off from a nearby uni Way and followed the plane through italian airspace to Rome. There its Pilot declared an emergency Landing in order to follow the plane Down to the ground the report said. Once on the ground the . Commander lost track of Abbas the report said. Italian authorities then spirited him to a yugoslav Airliner. Premier from Page 1 could dissolve parliament and Call National elections before the next scheduled Date in 1988. Praxi said in his speech that the United states had asked him to gel in touch with Yasser Arafat the chairman of the pales Tine liberation organization at the Start of the negotiations for release of the Achille Lauro and those aboard. The Premier said he had lodged a protest with the United states charging that ital Ian air space had been violated. He claimed that two american warplanes followed the egyptian Airliner without authorization when it flew from Sicily to Ciampino Mili tary Airport in Rome last Friday night with Abbas aboard. Defense minister Spadolini whose Resig nation caused inc coalition to collapse told reporters later thai Praxi s account of the alleged violation by . Planes was accurate in every  Praxi said the italian government has decided to open an investigation and a pro test was immediately hied with the Washington government. The polemical tone of the first reactions of the american government could not but provoke the strongest. Surprise Ai Well at a feeling of bitterness for the ignorance on the part of a Friendly government of every thing that the italian government had done to overcome with Success a particularly Crit ical and difficult situation Praxi said. Twa from Page 1 onto the Tarmac of Beirut Airport. The arrest warrants were issued three Days after the hijackers released the last of their hostages from Beirut. The Jet had been commandeered after leaving Athens on a flight to Rome. The announcement on thursday was the first time the United Stales has publicly identified the hijackers. The complaint listed Hassan Izz Al Din Mohammed Ham Madei and Ali Atwa. The Justice department said it had sufficient evidence to indict the men. Prosecutors decided to delay the indictments be cause a continued grand jury investigation might reveal new evidence the department said. We believe it is possible that there is More evidence to be had said Patrick kor ten a department spokesman. He said the decision to announce the Reward and the warrants on thursday was partly a result of recent publicity Over the recent hijacking fan italian cruise ship. With All the attention being Given to hijacking Over the last few weeks this seemed to be a Good time he said. In a written statement Meuse said that the arrest warrants demonstrated a deter mined coordinated Effort by the United states to bring those responsible for a Noto rious act of terrorism to Justice and to As Sert the need for the Rule of Law among the nations of the  Honduras turns Back . Aid for contras Tegucigalpa. Honduras Honduras announced thursday it will not allow the United Stales to use honduran territory for delivery of so called non lethal Aid to con Ira rebels Flag Ling i throw the " a plan Load of . Supplies for the con tras that landed in Tegucigalpa will be setback the government said. The announcement was made to report ers by foreign minister Edgardo Paz bar Nica As he left a four hour meeting of the ,._,National Security Council Dur ing which it of Fri jotutoinv1 1rin july Congress i in humanitarian Aid Lor the Conn appropriations to resume military Aid to the rebels. Acting on that approval the Reagan administration sent a first plan Load of sup plies such As boots clothing and Medicine to Tegucigalpa Honduras capital to be forwarded to the rebels who mostly Are based in Honduras. Paz Barnica said the plane made a sur prise Landing at to Contin Airport and immediately was surrounded by honduran Diers. He told reporters the honduran plane Andic Nim off this altitudes a reunited Stales hurts the dignity of  offends inc dignity of our nation. Anotte in the Good relations of Mutual  have existed Between Honduras and the United slates Paz Barnica said. 1 temperatures 1 l 41 47 67 58 5.1 46 66 45 55 44 46 68 56 34 .13 45 54 37 3 42 22 21 45 68 63 44 71 45 49 s3 october u h l h 59 Albany 61 b4 lot a 9t n so Albuquerque 46 74 lout Al let 4? 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