European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1 inside stripes q surrogate mom gives birth for her sister Page 6 q a Day of thrills in the mountains pages 14 and 15 3 Csc football championship today Hahn at Ramstein Page 25 the sars and tripes sub a authorized unofficial publication for the  armed for cos vol. 44, no. 205 saturday november 9, 1965 i my d 8693 a hostages make plea to Reagan Beirut Lebanon a a letter bearing the names of tour american hos get and appealing to president Reagan to negotiate their release from kidnappers who Are growing impatient was delivered to the associated press Bureau in Beirut Fri Day. An unidentified Young Man threw a package of letters containing the Appeal at the feet of the guard at the a Bureau and told him to deliver the parcel to the news Agency. One of the four hostages is Terry Ander Ion the a s chief Middle East correspondent who was seized in Beirut March 16, 1985. A staffers said they recognized an Derson s handwriting in the letters and his signature. The Reagan administration rejected the Appeal Friday saying we do not negotiate with terrorists. The open letter said Reagan should negotiate because there is no  they say they will not be moved and arc growing impatient. It is in your Power to have us Home by Christmas will you not have mercy on us and our families and do to it said. The letter continued or. President. Bow Long do you suppose these people will wait we have no Chance of escaping and our captors say if any attempt is made to Rescue us they and we will All  the letter was signed by Anderson the Rev. Lawrence Jenco a roman Catholic priest David Jacobs in director of the american University Hospital in Beirut and Thomas Sutherland Dean of agriculture at the american University of Beirut. The letter was dated Fri Dathe Day after Anonymous Telephone callers in Beirut claimed the hostages were shot by firing squads. The signatories said in a separate letter to the a that the letters were written voluntarily without coercion or  in a separate letter to the Media signed by the four the captives said. We have just been told that someone has claimed that islamic jihad has killed All of us. Obviously this is not True. Our captors Lay it was an attempt by the . Govern ment to spoil  an Anonymous caller telephoned a West Ern news Agency in Beirut thursday claim ing to speak for the shiite fundamentalist Terry Anderson group saying the hostages were to be killed because Neogia ions with the United states have reached a dead  two later Calls claimed the hostages had been killed and their bodies dumped in Bei rut. But police searches turned up no Bod ies. Apart from the open letter to Reagan the package contained a letter to two . Congressmen one to the Media saying they arc still alive a letter to the archbishop of Canterbury. Or. Robert runic and per Sonal letters to each of their families. The letters gave no indication where she hostages were being held. But in the open letter to Reagan they said we Are kept in Small Damp two words scratched put 24 Houis a Day with out proper exercise sanitation fresh air or balanced diet. We have Only intermittent Access to outside news. It is difficult to remain cheerful and optimistic when we see no sign anywhere of Progress toward our  the hostages said they have been told by their captors that another hostage . Diplomat William Buckley is  clocks will run Down but time will go on London a Britain s keepers of Greenwich mean time plan to let their clocks run Down and Stop. John Pilkington head of timekeeping at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Said Friday that the Observatory s six atomic clocks will be allowed to Stop Over the next two or three years because there in t enough Money to keep them going. The Observatory which has been keeping time since its founding in 1675, will now have to rely on time readings provided by the International pram a Tion of Legal metrology weights and measures in Paris. The problem is that it costs 50,000 100.000 pounds $70,000-s 140,000 a year to keep the clocks going. Pilkington said. The state funded science and Engi Neering research Council which runs the Observatory wants to spend More of its Money on a new International Observatory that has been built at la Palma in the Canary islands. Greenwich mean time the Standard for world timekeeping since 1884, will not really cease to exist. It is now known As coordinated Universal time and is based on readings from 150 atomic clocks around the world. Even after the clocks Stop it will still be 1200 get when it is noon in Lon Don. David Jacobson islamic jihad claimed in a statement oct. 4 that Buckley 57, was killed in re Venge for alleged . Complicity in Israel s oct. 1 air raid on the Tunis Tunisia head quarters of the Palestine liberation Organ i Alion. The group produced blurred photographs of what it claimed was Buckley s shroud wrapped body. But . Officials have said the photos Are not conclusive proof that Buckley is dead. The hostages made no mention in their letter of a sixth hostage Peter Kilburn 60, a librarian at the american University of Beirut who has been missing since dec. 3, 1984. The Rev. Benjamin Weir a presbyterian minister was released by islamic jihad sept. 14. He said he had seen Anderson Jenco Jacobsen and Sutherland during the latter stages of his 16 months Captivity. But he said he had never seen Buckley and Kilburn. The hostages said in their joint letter to Reagan we have read and heard Over the past months of your refusal to negotiate see hostages on Page 28 12 judges murdered Bogota Colombia a leftist re Bels killed 12 supreme court judges including the chief Justice during their 28 hour occupation of the Palace of Justice police sources and family members said Friday. A radio report said 90 people died in the siege. Army troops blasted their Way through the building s Walls to Rescue the last of the hostages late thursday. Pictures on Page 3. Military authorities in a preliminary report said 60 bodies were retrieved. Radio stations quoted police officials As saying at least 10 people including the rebels were killed. The government has not issued an offi Cial statement on the number of victims. Thomas Sutherland reported by rebels according to unc radio report police said the victims included chief Justice Alfonso Reyes and the other judges. 17 soldiers policemen and private guards and 20 others including lawyers and office work ers. They also said authorities found 41 rifles and other weapons leading them to believe there had been that number of rebels All of whom were killed. The newspaper  Timpo reported More than 100" people had been killed including 30 members of the april 19 movement the leftist guerrilla organisation that look Over the Palace. The build ing was virtually gulled inside by a fire that swept through part of the building wednesday night and thursday morning