European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday december 31, 1985 . Airports tighten Security at Al Al counters by the associated press Airport in the l United Stales increased Security in ii Ai Licke counters As i result of list priday s Serrur i .kl.tck1. In he rom Pmj vicrin.1 .nrporl.s. In i , is Many As 1 5 heavily armed special Secu Rity were seen a nil la Al counters it o International Airport. Increased numbers of police i i were deployed at the Airport. Pillar . D a it i s \ no los in Ierna Airport for the Stopover of in i i Al flip it sunday. I t Mart Iannuccio of porn authority police at John f. Kennedy International Airport in new York said the police Force has increased manpower around the clock. I i m Iki his its own Security a Luck Lan Nucezio called excellent hut he said he could nut say whether the air line has changed any procedures. Lib Hireen people including five americans died in the near simultaneous attacks 1 riday at the Rome and Vienna airports. In both cases the terrorists opened fire with grenades and machine guns near the ticket counters of 1-1 Al the israeli state airline. In i s Angeles we Are taking every precautionary measure be can in Light of what happened in Hur pc. But i cannot divulge our Security details said Bill Carey superintendent of los Angeles Airport operations. In c hic ago Deputy commissioner of aviation Leroy o Shi Cid declined to say anything about the guards there except thai they had anti terrorist experience. We be tried to play this thing Down said o shield. Who is in charge of Security at o Hare. That s what a terrorist wants. A terrorist wants Public people in the los Angeles said they were glad it Sec the officers. Etc a ally appreciate aul a i Koch uni of los Angeles. Hut it s i strange feeling. A c look separate from the other meanwhile american Surv wus of 1 relay s attack in Home some still recuperating i Rorm hospitals expressed thanks that they were Noi killed. I m Lucky to be said Kalherine Golf 11, of Corona Del mar. Calif/., in a Telephone interview from her bed in Rome s san Tetro i Hospital. I just heard the Muse and i got Down on the floor. That s what i saw everyone else do. "1 did t see any terrorists. I really Don t know what happened it was All so fast she said. A suburban Chicago Man injured along with his four children said the youngsters have told him icy no longer want to venture out or Chicago. In an interview in Rome Michael Sweis said i tried to cover my children. My first thought was my family. But i Don t know what happened. I did t Sec a thing. I did t want to Sec one Bullet grazed the Back of Sweis head. Another hit him in the leg. Shin pc from two hand grenades wounded daughter Julie 6, and sons Daycl 13, and Sammy. H. Daughter Jeanette. 11, was hit by two bullets that broke both her legs. All the kids Tell me now is. Daddy we Don t want to leave Chicago no More " he said relatives of the a wises said sunday the five were recovering smoothly. 30-hour hostage drama ends As police sniper kills gunman Newport by. A a police sniper shot to death a gunman monday who had claimed to be a killer and held two teen agers for More than 30 hours demanding $50,000 and plane tickets to England. The hostages were freed unharmed. Dennis Lucas 20, of Dayton ky., was killed by a state police officer after one hostage was removed by police and officials decided the second youth was in certain Immi nent danger said state police capt. Dale Fortner. Moments before the end of the siege Fortner said a woman and her two preschool children were evacuated from an upstairs apartment. Officers armed with rifles also had begun closing in on the building in a neighbourhood of crowded Row houses and Small storefronts. No details were available on How hostage Bobb. Ward Low 14, was removed from the building. Fotu Ier said officials moved in after becoming concerned that the life of the remaining hostage. 16-year-old Larkin Wardlow was in danger. The situation quickly deteriorated and due to the fact that the hostage s life was in danger it became necessary to Lake the subject s life Fortner said. Larkin was handcuffed to the bed he said. His life was in certain imminent police had said Lucas was an acquaintance of the boys but officials did t know Why he took them hostage. Police said Lucas seized his hostages around 5 . Sunday in this Northern Kentucky Community across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. He fired shots out a window several times during the Day and night with a handgun. The gunman had initially set a 5 . Sunday deadline Tor his demands but that deadline passed and police said Lucas had not threatened to kill anyone. Krc to in Cincinnati reported that the Man called the station sunday night and said he had Given authorities until noon monday to give him the Money and three plane tickets one for him and two for his hostages. He did not say Why he wanted to go to England. Police spokesman Jimmy Kim said police talked to the Man several times but he would not elaborate. They have Good communications. They Are talking from time to time Kim said sunday night at a news conference. Officers had cordoned off a four Block area around the House. Residents were evacuated from their Homes in the Block where the House is located plus people who have done it on their own Kim said. The gunman apparently called Cincinnati radio station wow am sunday afternoon and boasted of tilling two people recently. He said one of the bodies could be found in a wooded area in Cincinnati across the Ohio River from Newport and the other could be found in the Licking River near Newport. The caller said he was a big heroin addict. I m a big addict. But my mind is just sick because prison makes your mind Kim later confirmed that police found a body sunday in the Licking River about eight blocks from where that a Cholo Stanley Riley Dodge bullets As he flees the Newport ky., apartment building where Dennis Lucas wis holding two hostages. Riley a relative of one of the hostages escaped safely despite being tired at by Lucas. River joins the Ohio River at Newport but he did not link the death to Lucas. Campbell county Coroner or. Fred Stine identified the body As that of James Cain 15, of Covington. Sting said the boy last seen saturday night apparently was stabbed five times in the Back and slashed on the neck and had been dead 12 to 18 hours. Lucas had served time at an Indiana prison on two theft convictions but no further information on him was Avail Able k been through this mice. The Good i Oril must be w Matching Over him very closely win i lords father. Clemens we Imdorf. Loisil the Dallas morn ing news on saturday from his Home in Hondo . On Friday a error isl pointed a gun at win Doris during the sic pc in Rome the cd scr Weindorf said. The gunman Vas shot Down b police officers before he could pull the trigger. Relatives of Flona Tommarello. A 67-year-old Pitts Burgh woman who died saturday in a Rome Hospital of injuries she suffered in the attack said they Are Consol ing themselves with memories of the woman s healthy Happy life. She was always Busy and could t sit still. We re just glad she went healthy said her , mar Lene Pepenella. Tommarello. N naturalised . Citi in was returning from a six month visit to a Small town near Naples where she was brought up. She wanted to have Christmas with her sister in Italy and then come Home for new year s. The last time we talked to her was on Christmas and . Well see you in Tuo Days " said. News update Bird Rescue try abandoned port Angeles. Wash. A efforts to Rescue Birds contaminated with crude Oil spilled from a Tanker were abandoned because workers were finding More dead Birds than live ones. Nine Skimmer boats continued to mop up Oil from the Arco Anchorage which ran aground dc-.-. 21 in the port Angeles Harbor spilling 189,000 Gallons of crude that has washed ashore As much As 40 Miles away said coast Riuard Petty officer circa Robinson. Cleanup Crews used absorbent pads vacuum trucks picks shovels and plastic bags to remove gunk from beaches along the Strait of Juan de Fuca the body of water connecting puget sound with the Pacific Ocean Robinson said. Of the 1,469 oily Birds recovered by volunteers 632 died 59 have been cleaned and released and the rest remained under treatment said Rescue coordinator Bob Steelquist. Farmers sit in is Over Madison wis. A Farmers have ended a four Day sit in at the Wisconsin Capitol protesting Federal and state farm policy and six of the demonstrators departed to help needy Farmers in missis Sippi. It s a matter of Farmers helping Farmers. We re All in the same boat said Douglas Haish of Mon Dovi president of the Wisconsin farm Unity Alli Ance which sponsored the four Day event. The protesters who staged the sit in around a 40 Root tall Christmas tree in shifts of about 20 people each called for a state moratorium on farm foreclosures and a More generous farm Bill than the one signed recently by president Reagan. The Demon run Dali. " s ccpin8 spread us the policeman sentenced Suez City. Egypt up -. A military court turning a deaf ear to clamors of protest from leftists and moslem fundamentalists sentenced an Egypt t to 25 cars imprisonment at hard so Van " Uriss " the Sinai z Owci her Ian a in Usta of non t pal Cecal Suleiman Khater guilty Ald Mur scr for "p"11 finndis gun Mustaf Suleim for a san i 3 or up Al vacationers la stat. I and killing seven of them. Sue a a i army Camp Aboul 10 Miles North of ouch Uty the court sentenced Khater to life in
