European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday. October 20, 1985page 28 j ship waiter tells of throwing body overboard Rome a the hijackers of the Achille Lauro forced the ship s Hairdresser and a waiter to throw Leon Klinghoffer s body into the sea italian newspapers reported Friday. Joaquim Pineiro a Silva 27, was quoted in corriere Della Sera Italy s largest newspaper As saying that two hijackers held an automatic Rifle to his Back and threat ened to kill him and the Hairdresser Ferruccio Alberti. If they did nol obey. So Ferruccio and i picked up the old american by the armpits and turned him around he said. He was All covered with blood so much that we could t figure out where he was hit. V e picked him up. He was already almost cold. I wish i could cry but i can Tda Silva a portuguese citizen said. The newspaper said the waiter gave the account in an interview after inc cruise ship returned wednesday night to Genoa ils Home port in Northern Italy. Ii Lavoro of Genoa carried a similar Story. Prosecutor Dorcino Favi an investigating magistrate from Sicily said thursday there was no doubt that the four pirates killed the 69-year-old new yorker who was confined to a wheelchair. Klinghoffer s body drifted ashore in Syria on monday and was brought to Rome for an autopsy. Officials said after the seven hour examination that he was killed by gunfire. State run television quoted Francesco Mclonis a Genoa Deputy proc Cuylor As saying Friday the autopsy showed he had been shot once not twice As reported previously by . Officials and diplomats in Syria. The prosecutor s office was closed for the Day and the report could not be confirmed. Klinghoffer s body will be flown from Rome to new York on sunday and a private funeral is planned for Mon Day a family spokeswoman said Friday night. Corriero Delta Sera said the waiter gave this account to its interviewer it All happened tuesday afternoon oct. 8, Between 4 and 5 . With All the others i was also in the Aram lounge. At one Point one of them enters and whispers something to a colleague. Then he turns looks at me an the Hairdresser and orders us with a shout and Gesl Iris that we must follow him. I get up with Ferruccio and the two palestinians come behind us and push us with barrels of sub machine guns. Terrified we Start walking with nobody saying anything. I Don t know whal to think but it All becomes Clear in second when we arrive almost at the very end of the Stern and Sec the body of that american Man. He was Fiat on his face with the wheelchair turned Over. There was blood All around. My god so they really went ahead and did it. So they arc really ready to kill us All. I m afraid 1 am so afraid i could hardly move. And the Hairdresser next to me turns Pale. I feel in my Back the no7/lc of a machine gun. They scream words that i Don t understand but their gestures arc very Clear. They want us to throw the body into the sea. I Don t move. I try to say something but the Only thing i could utter is a murmur. The terrorists insist screaming and threatening to kill us too. I feel that if we Don t obey they will surely shoot us. There was a desperate tone in their order. So Ferruccio and i picked up the old american by the armpits and turned him around. He was All covered with blood so much that we could t figure out where he was hit. We picked him up. He was already almost cold. The ship had t moved for some time and there was no noise from the engine room. We threw the body overboard and i tried not to look. I heard it fall in inc water. I wish 1 could cry but i can the Achille Lauro was off Tartus on oct. 8, but it was denied permission to enter the syrian port. Radio monitors reported a radio conversation in which one pirate said they had killed an american passenger. Radio monitors also said the hijackers identified them selves As members of the Palestine liberation front a faction of inc Palestine liberation organization. The hijacking ended the next Day off porn said Egypt when the gunmen surrendered. The four men were later flown out of Egypt bul . Navy fighter planes intercepted inc Egypt air Boeing 737 and forced it to land in Sicily where italian authorities arrested the men. Achille Lauro passengers in bus wreck Karlsruhe. West Germany a three people were killed when a bus carrying passengers Home from their voyage on the italian cruise ship Achille Lauro slammed into wreckage from a car truck crash police said Friday. Fifteen of the former passengers of the luxury liner Achille Lauro were Hurt five of them seriously police said. The bus Driver a travel Agency employee and the Driver of inc car were armed hijackers seized the Achil la Lauro with More than 500 passengers off the egyptian coast on oct. 7. The hijackers were arrested in Sicily after the egyptian plane carrying them was intercepted by . Navy jets. They Are of killing an Ameri can passenger. The Road Accident occurred late thurs Day on an autobahn South of Karlsruhe in Southern West Germany police said. Two trucks collided and one of them went through a Barrier into oncoming lanes and rammed a car police said. The travel Agency bus carrying the ship Pas sengers then crashed into inc wreckage. The bus was travelling from inc italian port of Genoa where the Achille Lauro docked late wednesday to Frankfurt. Police said they found a list with 44 names of ship passengers on the dead travel Agency employee but it was not Clear How Many of them were aboard the bus. Many of the passengers had gotten off the Achille Lauro for a trip to Cairo to Sec the pyramids before the hijacking and it was not known whether any of i Host on the bus actually had been aboard when the ship was hijacked. Rioters from Page 1 Ier Perez de Cuellar Learned of the Early morning hanging of Joloise with pro found regret said spokesman Francois Giuliani. The Sec relay go neral of the 49-nation Commonwealth of Britain Shri Dath ram Phal of Guyana said the execution again demonstrates the contempt with which the South african government treats world the european Community and govern ments of Britain West Germany and Norway warned that the execution could Lead to More violence in racially divided South Africa. France s socialist Premier Laurent Fabius called the hanging scan delegates to the . Educational scientific and cultural organization or in Esco meeting in Sofia Bulgaria observed a minute of silence to mourn Joloise. The Street Battles in Johannesburg began with what looked like a routine protest. Singing african Freedom songs to Lois s mourners spilled out of an Assembly Hall and about 300 began dancing in a main Street blocking traffic. Police arrived. About a dozen police without weapons waded into the dancers. Scuffles broke out. One policeman was stabbed in the Back of his right shoulder. Another bloodied officer said he was stabbed near his left Eye. Hundreds of mourners retreated toward the South african Council of churches building where the memorial service washed. A few were seen pulling stones from their pockets and throwing them at police. Thousands of Black passers by began filling the streets. Police with dogs tried to scatter the crowds but the Security forces were clearly outnumbered. Looting started and then Black gangs set upon Whites. Al Nightfall. President . Botha Issue what appeared to be a major statement on the unrest that he said has killed 761 people since sept. 3,1984. Botha reiterated his opposition to talk ing with the outlawed african National Congress claiming it advocates violence. Week s 4th Paris bombing hits airline office ?9 38 67 7 so 6? 48 63 39 67 65 79 44 59 32 59 3 54 70 77 42 79 41 72 42 76 36 65 6 73 40 60 69 35 60 18 29 Dev Dallos Denver Dei Mollei Rale i of 71 Reno 79 97 m Salt Lake City 70 Sand go 64 san Francisco 67 san Juan be toll Syracuse Tucson so Langton Alta Houston Indianapol Jacksonville Kansas City la be Limle r id vide Lew High Low 62 63 s4 45 41 37 69 50 77 57 Paris a a powerful bomb Early saturday morning devastated the ground floor of the main Paris office of Uta the French Long haul airline that serves South Africa. The terrorist group direct action claimed responsibility for the blast saying it is a reaction to the racist crime of the South african government in hanging Black militant Benjanim Joloise. The 5 . Explosion shattered windows Over a radius of at least 100 Yards covering the Broad streets around the made lain Church in Central Paris with Glass from display windows of luxury shops and fro upper floor windows of offices and apart ments. Police on the scene said they knew of no casualties. It was the fourth bombing in Paris this week by direct action an extreme leftist movement with links to West Germany s red army faction terrorists. The three earlier bombs hit French state radio and television offices and those of the supervisory authority for broadcasting. Direct action said the bombings were to pro test radio and television interviews with Jean Marie be pen. Leader of the extreme right Wing National front party. The movement claimed responsibility for the Uta bombing in a Telephone Call to the French news Agency age acc France or Csc. Ion from Page 1 Over their subordinates to eliminate inter service rivalries. Despite the Pentagon s icis of the study f be examined very carefully and it would take some time for the task Force to com Jolete its own review. A the present str i sound 1 sources for fur ,1 he said. But Sims said the introduction of legis lation aimed at rearranging the Pentagon s Complex bureaucracy should await a report by president a Furj to jul do
