European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                G Christmas colouring contest Back after weekend off Page 3 q first Batch of letters to Santa Are  9 o Alabama beats Auburn 25-23 in College football Page 21 vol. 44, no. 228 monday decembers 1985 d 8693 a Israel apologizes Over spy Case Jerusalem a prime minister Shimon Peres government apology cd to the United slates sunday in connection with the Case of a . Navy analyst accused of spying for Israel. In a government statement read to reporters by Cabinet Secretary Yossi Icilin and broadcast live on Israel radio Peres government also promised to take action against Hose responsible. The statement said the government would disband the intelligence unit involved it an investigation justified the suspicions that Israel had used the american Navy Intelli gence expert Jonathan j. Pollard to spy on the United slates. If there was such activity it was wrong and the government of Israel apologies for  said the statement. Peres government has been under mounting pressure from the american jewish Community to resolve the crisis. The spy scandal has resulted in the worst Strain in relations with the United states since a rift prompted by Israel s invasion of Lebanon in june i9s2. Israeli newspapers had said earlier sunday that israeli officials believed the . Administration had exaggerated the importance of secret documents sold to Israel by Pollard. The Jerusalem Post said Israel was also expected to announce later in the week that it would cooperate with . Investigators and that disciplinary action would be taken against Low level officials believed connected to the spy Case. But the Post said the government was not willing to allow All israeli officials involved to be questioned and would not agree to u full turnover of documents sought by the americans. Commentators and officials were quoted by the Post and two other newspapers As suggesting that . Officials especially in the Federal Bureau of investigation had overplayed the significance of material sold to Israel by Pollard who was arrested nov. 21. Unidentified senior israeli officials quoted by the Post disputed suggestions Pollard was used to spy on the United states itself. They contended he was not providing information thai pertained to . Security or that could com Promise american Security. We May technically have spied on them. But pol lard s material makes it blatantly Clear thai it was not a one Way so ret the English language Post quo cd an israeli source As saying. The Post and other papers claimed thai part of the material gathered by Pollard including information on soviet weaponry and Arab slates should have been shared with Israel through regular intelligence channels As part of a routine Exchange of information. Israel s Cabinet met sunday but minister of communications Amnon Rubinstein told reporters the Pollard Case was not the subject of debate. The government is dealing with the Pollard affair not in the full plenum of the Cabinet bul in a different Way he said. An israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that Minachem Micron director general of the defense ministry had left for the United slates As head of a group scheduled to hold talks on strategic cooperation. Reports have said that Racli diplomats controlling pol lard were part of a special defense ministry unit. Israeli sources identified the diplomats involved As Yosef Yagur the science attache Al the consulate general in new York and Han Ravid Deputy science attache Al the embassy m Washington. Israeli s death brings hijacking toll to 60 va1.i Etta. Malta a the number of victims of the hijacking of an egyptian plane and the Rescue opera Tion has risen to 60 with the death of an israeli woman shot by the terrorists Hospital officials said sunday. Nil an mind Olson 23, one of five people shot execution style by the hijackers of the Guy pair hoeing 737, died Al St. Luke s Hospital in Valletta according to a doctor in the intensive car unit who spoke on the Condi Tion of anonymity. The doctor refused to say How or when she died. Men Delson had been kept alive on life support systems after being declared brain dead by doctors last week. Mendelson he second passenger shot by the Hijack ers before the storming to die. The first was Scarlett Marie Rogenkamp 38, of of inside. Calif., a civilian employee of the . Air Force maltese authorities say that most of the victims died from smoke inhalation in the inferno that swept through the plane after the commandos blasted their Way in. A nurse at St. Luke s Hospital who also refused to be identified said that mind Olson s Friend and travelling com Panion fellow israeli Tarnar arum. Was released from the Hospital on sunday. Artzi also was also shot and dumped out of the plane onto the Tarmac by the terrorists. But the Bullet which lodged just Millimetres from her brain Only stunned her Ana she tried to help Mendelson until the hijackers saw her move and shot her again in the hip. Meanwhile one of the hijackers was moved from the intensive care unit to another area of the Hospital Accord ing to Hospital employees who refused to be named. The Hijacker has identified himself As Omar Marzouka 20, of Tunisia and had been reported to be the Only terrorist to survive the drama. But the plane s Pilot. Capt. Hani halal said n egyptian television on his return to Cairo that a second sky pirate had survived the raid and that he was owing Ira Iii for Shock in a maltese Hospital. Hospital officials refused to comment on the report. Referring All questions to government spokesman Paul Mifsud. Mifsud said he knew nothing about a second surviving Hijacker and Egypt s ambassador to Malta. Ahmed Ali Amr also denied knowledge of a second Surv  also said he did nol know anything about news Psi car carry she in Skol of Scarlett Roc Kump the Only american killed during the Kepi air hijacking after funeral sen ices saturday at St. Mary s Star of the sea Catholic Church in Ocean Side Calif. Reports that two . Military officers provided technical assistance to the egyptian commandos and that another american  team had sought to Fly to Malta to help the egyptians. I cannot answer que Lions about any of these things because i really do not know anything about them he said. Amr also said he had no answer to questions about american technical assistance. Joel Levy . Deputy chief of Mission said last week that a group of americans from a variety of government agencies have been in Valletta during the past week to assist the maltese in their probe. Airport sources said sunday that members of the group have been at  Airport Over the past few Days examining the burned Oul plane and taking photographs. Sources Al the University of Malta Anatomy lab where the autopsies were performed on the bodies of the victims last week said that a . Forensic specialist had been on hand during the procedure. Amr said n saturday that egyptian authorities had opened their own investigation into the hijacking and its aftermath. Cruea s very furry Christmas Page 5