European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 o the stars and stripes tuesday november 26, 1985 commandos storm hijacked Jet in Malta continued irom Page 1 All inc hijackers were killed " Levy said Al least two belies were thrown off the hey pair jetliner before the assault. Several wounded passengers also were tossed off. Kloven women were Al Lowed to leave before the commando charge. Authorities issued a full medical Alert calling for All assistance and emergency blood donations. The runway and most Ter Minal lights Hud been turned off earlier in the evening and they came Back on after the assault Levy said the commandos arrived earlier sunday aboard an  military trans port plane. Egyptian officials in Cairo said the com Mando unit included 80 troopers selected from special  and paramilitary police units. The hey pair jetliner involved in the hijacking is the same plane . Navy jets intercepted last month with the Achille Lauro pirates on Board. Slate department spokesman Daniel Lawler said that while . Personnel took no part in the Rescue operation we said we were prepared to offer All appropriate assistance the jetliner was hijacked about 15 to 20 minutes after leaving Athens saturday night. In a radio conversation one of the sky pirates said they were members of the group Egypt s  egyptian aviation authorities said Egypt s revolutionaries is an extremist group opposed to Egypt s peace pact with Israel signed in 1979. Greek Security police reported 97 people were aboard the Fig Plair flight including six Crew members and four egyptian Saccu a photo a hounded passenger is helped onto a Stretcher after the attack by egyptian forces. Rity agents. Mifsud said the hijackers never identified themselves or made political statements but had demanded that the plane be re fuelled. The Pilot Galal earlier pleaded with air port officials by radio to cooperate with the hijackers to save passengers lives. In a tape of the conversation broadcast by Abc news Galal spoke of the killing of the american woman and said he is killing her now so. Say again say do something he is killing her now. He is outside shooting her now. I am the Cap Tain you arc wasting life you Are wasting life. He is killing her. He has killed her already and in a few minutes he will kill another  Mifsud said an american woman Jackie Nink Pflug was thrown from the plane with a head wound and left for dead. But two Airport officials who delivered food to he plane found her alive conscious and appeared in relatively Good shape he said. According to a list released by greek Security police the plane carried 87 Passen Gers the Crew members and guards. The american passengers were listed As Scarlett Rogenkamp 3h Pflug. 30. And Patrick Scott Baker 28. The . Embassy in Athens said Riig Kams was from Ocean Side Calif. Baker s Hometown was not available. June Pflug. Of Minnetonka minn., said her son. Scott Pflug was married to Jackie Nink Pflug. From Pasadena Texas. He had put her on the plane in Athens. Mrs. Pflug said her son had called her and said his wife had been shot in the head and was undergoing surgery at a Malta hos Pital. They both taught at the american co lege school in Cairo she said. He was in Athens for a volleyball tournament. He s a coach. She came for the weekend and she was going Back because she had to teach  Egypt revolutionaries took responsibility for the aug. 20 assassination of an israeli Diplomat in Cairo and the wounding of another israeli envoy in june 1984. In letters to Western news organizations the group said it opposed the egyptian israeli peace treaty. One letter claimed the group includes egyptian soldiers who be Lieve their  should be deployed against Israel and not Libya. The Athens Airport where the flight originated also was where two armed lebanese terrorists boarded a trans world airways Boeing 727 on june 14 and hijacked it on the flight from Athens o Rome with 153 people aboard. They forced it Back and Forth Between Beirut Lebanon and Al Giers Algeria during which time they re leased most of the hostages and killed a . Navy diver. Blast from Page 1 lion and Shock. No one has claimed responsibility Ger Man police said. A guard who was on duly at the Lime was one of the people injured in the blast the associated press quoted v corps spokesman maj. Christopher Chalko As saying. Police with dogs trained to sniff out bios checked the area Afler the blast for other explosives he told the a. Alexander proc Helcl of the Federal prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe told the a he assumed terrorists carried out the bombing As they did a similar attack aug. 8 at Rhein main a outside Frankfurt a re ported the Rhein main explosion which took place at 7 15 a.m., just As people were re porting for work killed two americans and injured More than 20 others. The terrorist groups red  faction and direct action claimed responsibility for that bombing. Hans Beilstein spokesman for the Hessen slate prosecutor s office in Wiesbaden said the bomb was packed in a Silver metallic Bow 525 Sedan that was bought by a moroccan looking Man saturday at a second hand car Dealership near Frankfurt. He said the car bore an Aschaffenbur License plate. He said police arc looking for witnesses who May have seen the car or the Man since saturday. Witnesses May Call the prosecutor s office at 06121-86090 or May Contact any local police station. The a quoted Frankfurt police spokes Man Karl Kraus As saying the Bow was bought at the same Dealership that sold the car used in the Rhein main bombing american officials estimated that several thousand shoppers May have been at the Exchange Complex As the Busy sunday shop Ping Day was drawing to a close. A witness to inc explosion told the Ameri can forces network All of a sudden there thousands commemorate Franco s death in Madrid Madrid Spain a tens of thou Sands of Flag waving spaniards marched through downtown Madrid sunday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Gen. Francisco Franco. Madrid provincial authorities estimated the crowd at 50,000, while other observers put it closer to 200,000. The veterans confederation an association of those who fought with Franco against the second Republic during the 1936-39 civil War predicted the March along Madrid s Central Pasco do la Castcel Lana would attract i million people. No incidents were reported although the March was halted at midpoint while police checked out a suspected car bomb. The two hour March was the Only one held in Spain but participant came from All Over the country. An estimated third of the March ers appeared to be in their teens and 20s. Franco s 35-year regime ended with his death Al 83 on nov. 20, 1975. Until 1982, the veterans confederation commemorated Franco s death each nov. 20 in inc Plaza Del Oriente in front of Madrid s downtown Royal Palace. City officials subsequently banned All gatherings in the Plaza and issued permits for the commemoration for the sunday Fol lowing nov. 20. The Franco marches Are characterized by the use of Spain s red and yellow Flag occasionally bearing the Franquist Symbol of a Black Eagle with five arrows in a Yoke together with the Black and red banners of the Falango movement founded by Jose an Tonio Primo de Rivera. Was a real loud crash. I turned around to look and see where it came from. Automatically 1 put my hands Over my head. I looked and there was a big yellow Flash from Between the two buildings military and German police scaled off the entire shopping compound after the blast. The explosion blew a Hole in the Back of the pick up Point through which Racks full of dry cleaning could in seen. Windows were blown out of the nearby Baskin Robbins ice Cream outlet Topper club an studios and other buildings within about 300 Yards of the explosion. The United press International quoted a spokesman for the Frankfurt fire depart ment As spying the pick up Point building probably will have to be torn Down German police who Are conducting the investigation said it was too soon to determine whether the explosive had been planted in a car  the compound or whether the car had been driven to the site with the explosive in it. They also were unable to say How much explosive had been used. The explosion damaged 42 cars including some Al an cafes car sales outlet. The car in which the explosion occurred was barely recognizable a mass of Black charred Metal. The roof of a nearby Van looked As if it had been peeled Back with a can opener. Sheet Metal from damaged aulos was strewn about the area some hanging from the roof of the pick up Point. John Shaffer 35, an employee of the Community and family support Center Europe was inside the pick up Point when the bomb went off. I d probably been there for about a min Ute. I was looking through a for my clothes and could t find them so i headed Back to the front desk to get some help. That s when i heard a huge Kaboom it was really loud. Stuff was flying All Over. There was real heavy smoke. I could smell the explosion. I could smell a gasoline smell. And i said to myself what the hell was that i wanted to run toward the door i did t know whether another bomb would go off. Then i heard another Guy screaming and Yelling in Back. He was Yelling my leg is broken. 1 knew by looking at his leg that it was a compound fracture. I yelled out the door to gel an ambulance and there were other people screaming and Yelling and 1 did t know if the building was going to go up again. I went to the door to gel other people to help. One of them was a paramedic. I went Back to him the injured Man he was rolling around and moving and 1 did t want him to injure himself any More. I went Back and tried to find a splint to keep him from moving so i took a piece of tile from the roof to slide under the Guy. Then we took what looked like a Bathrobe and Tore it up to splint the  he said he remained in the pick up Point for about 20 minutes. Helping the injured. Shaffer estimated he was about 20 feet from the blast. I Don t know How i did t get Hurt. Why i did t get Cut Why i did t get hit. 1 just Don t  still Willen Diana Valdati Brinda holler him  Loewll or. Contributed to Iii report. I. 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