European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday december 18, 1985 belgian police arrest key terrorist suspects Brussels Belgium to Justice minister Jean Gol said tuesday the arrest of four suspected terrorists 24 hours earlier has virtually if to put the Cellule communists combat Tantes fighting i my Unis cells terrorist organi action. A we now have in All probability the Kirsons who must have played an important role in the Gol said a Day after three men and a woman All of were arrested in connection with a series of born attacks in Belgium since oct. 2. 1984 for which the Csc has claimed responsibility. Me said the four had links with the French direct terrorist group. He indicated House the arrests provided valuable evidence in the prof Brussels. They did not resist arrest and have mad to statements Gol said. One of them piece car Ltd a 33-year-old Printer and Long time is allegedly the acc Leader. The others Are Didier Che Volt 30, Pascale Vand go Croc. 28 and Bernard Sassone 22. Sources Che Volt and Vande Gjerde founded a Pri Mif i 1981 dedicated to disseminating militant adj a cams. Sassone they said is also a in Tor desertion and at one time lived with Maupin Rathe Brussels address listed in the print shop sort offing statutes dated feb. 8,1981. Gol sai4jtour have been charged with conspiracy illegal arms forgery and carrying false Iden a pcs and were being held in a secret last summer police arrested Chantal Paternostro a 39 year old anarchist in connection with acc activities after i raid on a Brussels apartment. Out a year after the emergence of the phenomenon Gian terrorism five people suspected of terrorist acts in jail Gol said. Barely lining his pleasure with the performance of his Law enforcem9v officials he added compared to bigger countries. Tara employ much More to combat terror is this is not a negligible result for a Small country like since oct. 2, 1984, the acc has claimed responsibility for 21 bomb attacks in Belgium including one in which six bombs exploded in five Rural locations along nato i emergency fuel pipeline. Other targets were offices of political parties. Western defense contractors and Banks. The explosions Many at night caused much property damage. One bomb killed two Brussels firemen after police failed to notify them of an Anonymous phone Call warning that a bomb would go off. The acc claims were made in verbose statements to news Media that espoused hard line marxist Leninist theories. The five suspects All belgians have not been charged with terrorist activities As such charges do not exist under belgian Law. Gol said House searches in Namur and nearby Charleroi on monday and tuesday produced written documents of interest to the acc a typewriter and about $1,150 in belgian currency. Congress from Page 1 Dole r-kan., was even More optimistic saying he thought the appropriations mud dle could be worked out this week. They can Send us a Short term Money Bill and then go Back to conference and do whatever they have to do he told reporters As the Senate went into session. We could be out of Here by tomorrow on a 392-20 Vole the House added a provision to the Short term Bill imposing a moratorium to keep the . Synthetic fuels corp. From awarding any new con tracts this week. Legislators moving to abolish the Agency have expressed concern that the Agency would Rush to spend Mil Lions of dollars before going out of business. Rep. Silvio o. Conic r-mass., the top Republican on the House appropriations committee said these bandits on the syn fuels Board would award is billion in con tracts without the moratorium. He added that the president would accept the Short term Bill and the moratorium. But o Neill angrily warned that the House s rejection of the Money Bill could keep Congress meeting right up to Christmas. We have enough work to carry us until next monday or tuesday o Neill said. Conservatives upset with the Overall size of the omnibus measure liberals angry at increases included for the Pentagon and other legislators concerned about a possible future pay raise for members of Congress joined to kill the measure on a 239-170 vote shortly before Midnight monday. It s never Wise to keep the House in after ii . Said rep. Lynn Martin a Iii. It s like managing a Nursery school without a with no sign however that the end of the first session of the 99th Congress was in sight president Reagan sought a resurrection in the House of his tax overhaul plan. The proposal was buried last week by near unanimous Republican defections. I would assume tax Reform is still alive said House minority Leader Robert Michel r-ill., tuesday after administration officials said at least 50 gop House members would support the Bill on votes the minimum commitment democrats had sought to bring the measure up again. Congress chaotic year end lurch also included possible action on massive five year farm legislation touching everything from food Stamps to agricultural research and providing about 152 billion Over the next three years for crop Price and income support programs. A Rescue package for the troubled farm credit system including a backup line of Federal credit. Legislation promised in the budget adopted last August to Force about j80 Bil lion in deficit reduction action Over the next three years. Government workers were told to report to work As usual tuesday although the spending authority of Many Federal Agen cies technically ended at 6 . Monday with the expiration of a Stopgap measure Congress enacted last week. Edwin l. Dale jr., spokesman for the while House office of management and budget said late monday All workers will come to work tomorrow morning and they will get the word then As to whether they will go into a shutdown Mode or the overnight lapse in spending authority was not expected to cause any disruption of government operations. In the push toward adjournment legislators have scrambled to use the urgently needed spending Bill As a vehicle for pet projects that otherwise would not been acted. In addition. House and Senate negotiators finishing work on the spending Bill monday voted to allow senators to earn an extra $7,510 a year in speaking fees and opened the door to a 1987 pay raise for i1 legislators. Critics decried the increase in senators speaking income when spending for Many programs was being Cut to reduce Federal deficits. For us to sneak it in or for us to appear to have snuck it in docs us a disservice said sen. Dennis Deconcini a Ariz. The provision would allow members of the Senate to earn As much As 40 percent above their 3175,100 congressional pay in outside Honor aria. The current limit is 30 percent and the increase would lift the Cap from slightly Over $22,500 to a Little More than $30,000 annually effective Jan. I. Hie old 30 percent Cap would remain in effect for House members unless they took a separate vote to change House rules. Mourners from Page 1 Home for the holidays ended in tragic he called their deaths the ultimate a Rifice and added that soldiers who follow behind them will know of their dedication patriotism and the base mortuary handled casualties from the Vietnam War the marines killed in a terrorist bombing in 1983 in Beirut Lebanon and the bodies from the Jim Jones cult who. Committed suicide in Guyana in 1978. Meanwhile in Gander the chief investigator into Lre crash of a chartered dc-8 to Daubma 256 american soldiers and Crew i embers says it May take a year or Rojy of determine the cause. A big problem is a Large portion of the aircraft was consumed by fire and it s just not there Peter Boag the Canadian aviation safety Board s investigator in charge told the associated press in an interview monday night. Boag 32, said the 40-Mcmbcr invest in team will look closely Vocu of is at the aircraft pieces gtd Musof Doc fld transcripts offer views. Oncel Kli an inish their work the safety Boal full hold Public hearings. follow with the finally Annruth m its findings in deluding the cause of the a year is a reasonable pc to of time Boag said talking in his inthe vip lounge of Gander interns Airport. People want to know Why right away Boag said. You can t determine the Why until you determine what the cause will Eppl a slowly he said unless Ycu re my Ernly Lucky and get the get lation has focused on such possibilities As iced wings weight problems or Sud Den reverse thrust by one of the engines. We re not focusing on any particular cause at this particular time Boag said monday morning. Also at monday s briefing he disclosed that the plane s flight data record or Black Box had yielded important de tails of the Speed and path of the Arrow air charter s Brief flight. The plane achieved an adequate Speed on Takeoff 190 Mph but suddenly veered degrees to the right and steadily slowed Milf until it crashed seconds after liftoff. Temperatures december u 26 35 24 49 70 31 35 50 77 45 13 46 15 42 22 53 2 in 27 37 19 29 23 29 34 54 34 43 19 23 27 39 24 3277 a 16 41 13 20 17 v -7 6 -13 23 36 58 60 46 52 19 35 30 57 29 33 32 64 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Alln la Atlantic Chy Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston . Charleston w a. Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas fort Worth Denver do Molnes Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Lai vegas l h 30 54 55 79 27 43 25 52 63 74 -4 3 22 5 27 s3 30 41 29 52 71 49 16 25 47 63 21 45 2b 33 19 33 27 40 20 39 23 4v 16 45 29 34 46 57 in 29 51 71 42 6 35 44 22 32 37 67 26 46 26 41 Little Rock los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Moll is Paul Nashville new Ortean new York City Norfolk Oklahoma Civ Omana Orlando Philadelphia pm Tiburon Portland main Portland or. Proved tact Raleigh Reno St. is. Petersburg sail Lake Colv san Feeo san Francisco Seal Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita drug from Page 1 live Sample. The cutoff is at such a level so that a person in a room where marijuana u smoked won t show As a positive Perdue said. But the person who actually smoked it will show As the the vast majority of the servicemen contacted by the two services who were tested during the 1982-1983 time period have failed to respond to notices advising them of their right to Appeal. The army for exam ple sent out More than 46,000 notices and received Only 4,747 appeals Henrion said. Of the army cases completed 1,404 cur rent or former soldiers were granted full or partial Relief from their disciplinary sanctions which ranged from fines and demotions in rank to discharges or bars to re enlistment. More than 300 appeals were denied she added and 2,664 cases Are pending. It. Col. Michael Gallagher a spokesman for Randolph fab in Texas said 217 Active duty air Force personnel out of 458 whose test results were set aside had applied for and won appeals. The cases of 200 of 1,993 former air Force members Are being considered he said. According to Perdue Brooks performs about 250,000 drug tests per year on urine samples from air Force or army personnel. The tests Check for marijuana and on a random basis the samples Are checked for other drugs such As cocaine or amphetamines. Other drug testing was performed at Tripler army medical Center in Hawaii at the Wiesbaden army base in Germany and at fort Meade my. The Pentagon s drug testing program be came the subject of controversy last year fuelled in part by publicity Over the air Force s handling of a Case involving capt. Edward. Pearson. Pearson a former Pilot assigned to a b 52 Squadron was charged in 1983 with using on the basis of � urine Sample. He denied the allegation and decided to Challenge the testing procedures on grounds the Laboratory personnel could not show that his Sample had not been confused with someone else s. The air Force eventually dropped its charges against Pearson and he resigned with an honorable Dis charge Carlei this month. European weather forecast Lor wednesday Cloudy skies with toe Ana occasional Del Jive in Benelux Central and southwestern Germany nor i Hern and Southeastern Germany we have Cloudy skies and occasional rain. High tempera Tures mid to to per 40s, lows wooer 30s Lolow 401. Sunset wednesday tit. Surf so thursday tit. Outlook Lor thursday continued Cloudy skies with fog occasional Light rain in Northern Germany Little change id temperatures. Temperatures recorded tuesday 4am 4pm Adana. P 45 60 Amsterdam 10 4b 49 Athens m so 57 Aviano m 27 39 Berlin cd 46 40 Bremerhaven cd 43 42 Brussels cd 46 49 Copenhagen d fran Turl cd London cd Madrid f Munich d Paris m Rome 0 39 3 45 44 46 52 x 14 4i 41 4s 41 34 54 provided by Del 13, in weather so. Graben tray tech. Oiler worldwide tempera lures Cairo r a Jolln cd Helsinki. Jerusalem Lisbon i High Low 70 54 52 43 25 5 57 48 59 43 sumo item by the associated Prthu. Flair cd Clouds no mostly Cloudy a Carlev Cloudy tic or Rains Snow. High Low Montreal 21 of Moscow cd 23 if Olio cd 21 21 to Rollo s 25 19 Vancouver d 45 34
