European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday december 30. 1985 tourists return with Airport horror tales new York not relatives of the americans sin in in Rome s Leonardo a Vinci Airport wondered Why they had to get ought in this while others headed for Luly sturdily to he with wounded Jovad ones. Some of the tourists who were in the attack Clu Rcd Ith tales of horror. More photos. Page .1. My son hid a Sweet Short Happy life and i m Here will his friends celebrating his life i s we ii he would have exile Buonocore said of her son John or. His friends ire Here hoisting a few and celebrating the Good moments of his life. What else can we in none of us will Ever understand Buonocore. 20, was to have returned Home to Wil Mington. Del., on i riday Tor his father s 5 the birthday his Mother said. At least 13 americans were wounded and five were killed in f riday s attack by Arab terrorists at the Airport. Those killed included Natasha Simpson. Ii year old daughter of Victor Simpson news editor for the associated press in Rome Buonocore a student at Dickinson College in Carlisle. A. And f redbrick Gage 29, a news paper executive from Madison wis., the stale depart ment said. Don Mai and .10. A finance officer for Ford aerospace in Cairo t Egypt. Who was from new Purl Richey. Ha., died saturday during surgery the state department said. The italian Interior ministry said later that Lilina Tomarello i also died at a Rome Hospital. It s a shuck i Don t think there s any words that say How you feel said Tomarello s son Armando Pep panel la of Naples a. Tomarello was preparing to catch a flight to the United Stales after n six month vacation with her sister who lives in a Small town near Rome he said. Peppe Clu said his Niece. 1 Manoffe an italian was injured in the attack. Travellers who had been in the Rome Airport some of them italians on their Way to the United states arrived during the night at new York s John f. Kennedy inter National Airport women and children had blood All Over their faces and clothes. Alt we did was throw ourselves onto the floor. The whole thing took no More than five or 10 Luciana Graziani. 50, of Rome said through an interpreter. When f heard the bomb go off i said of. It s my turn " said air Force diet. Fri Abath Tamassy 32. Of new York City who was knocked Down by a grenade blast. We did t even talk about it on the flight Back Here but Here skis a lot of Upp Kiuse when we landed the same gunfire thai fatally wounded Mahinda also wounded his brother Mark 37. Of Fli Abath. . They and a third brother. Tim. 32. met in Rome on tues Day and spent Christmas together their parents said. Tim had flown to Munich where he lives shortly before the attack. Their father. Ray Mai and of new port Richey fla., said his two daughters were flying to Rome on saturday and Tim also was returning to the italian City. Me said Mark was in Pood condition. It s unreal. You wonder Why they Hud to get caught in this. You just Don t believe it Ray Mai and said. The elder Mai and said his sons had called the Day after Christmas. They were just Happy he said. They said they walked from one end of Rome to the next. They saw it i knew there an attack and i actually knew my Mother was in the City. One does t Ever expect any a Iid David Root. 4k, of Ruslon. A. Whose Mother was wounded. Elizabeth Root 77, of Columbus. Ohio regained consciousness saturday after surgery in Rome. Root and his brother James 51. Of Westport conn., also were to travel to Rome. Attacks from Page 1 out where an unknown number of accomplices arc believed to have provided them with the band grenades. Kalashnikov As Sault rifles and Kielce passports used in Fri Day s attack. The terrorists carried the weapons to the Airport in their Luggage police said. Investigators found five of 11 hand grenades wrapped in towels and underwear in a Golf bag one of the terrorists carried and said they found traces of an Oil used to lubricate automatic weapons. The Only terrorist to survive the Rome raid Mohammed Sharam 19, underwent several hours of questioning saturday at Clio military Hospital in Rome. Investigating magistrate Domonico Sica resumed the interrogation sunday. Sharam told Sica he and his three accomplices had no other accomplices at the Airport but had been aided by unidentified accomplices Rome s ii mass Aggro news paper reported. We had the charge of realizing the mis Sion in agreement with our companions sent to Vienna Sharam was quoted As saying. We have sufficient help and determination to carry on our fight against imperialist and zionist objectives. I arrived in Italy at the beginning of december together with two other of my companions. 1 will not Tell you How. We were helped. I will not Teji you How. One of my fallen companions at the Airport was named Yassir Abbu the other was named Darwish the third i Only knew by his fighting name. I Don t have anything More to medical experts began preliminary autopsy work sunday on the three terrorists killed during the attack photographing and praying the clothes and bodies of the terrorists. Pope John Paul ii in a Strong statement delivered in St. Peter s Square condemned the twin attacks and urged world leaders to unite against the spread of terrorism. Services were scheduled monday in Rome for the youngest victim of Friday s attack american schoolgirl Natasha Simp son ii. Natasha the daughter of Victor Simpson the associated press news editor in Rome died As she and her family were preparing to Fly to new York for three weeks vacation. A funeral mass was to be concil curated at the Chapel at North american College at 11 30 a.m., followed by burial at Rome s Rome flight terminal controls tightened Rome up police set up Metal Detec tors at entrances to the terminal building at Leonardo a Vinci Airport sunday and stepped up controls on foreigners arriving from the Middle Hast Airport officials said. Officers also said they had received instructions to refuse entry to people flying in from Mideast and North african countries who do not have the required visas or return tickets or sufficient Money to support them selves. Plainclothes agents and Al Al employees mounted tight controls on anybody trying to approach the israeli airline s cd
