European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday february 5,1986 israelis intercept libyan passenger Jet from Page 1 an air Force base in Northern Tripoli radio monitored in Nicosia Cyprus re ported the israeli Jet tighten intercepted the plane on a flight to Damascus Syria from Tripoli Libya where several pales Tinian guerrilla Leaden attended a weekend broadcast said Abdullah Al Ahmar assistant Secre tary general of Syria s ruling socialist baath party was among the passengers of the plane but did not mention who the others might quoted Libya s official Jana news Agency As accusing the United states of assisting in the interception by jewish air vessels of the . Navy which had been Maneu Meringoff the libyan coast provided the information about the libyan plane to the air pirates the radio quoted Janaras saying. The Navy has been conducting Maneu vers off the libyan coast after the United states and Israel accused Libya of providing support o the Abu Nidal terrorist group that claimed to have attacked the Rome and Vienna airports dec. 27. Those attacks claimed 20 lives including five americans and four terrorists. In Washington Secretary of slate George Shultz was asked at a congressional hearing about the report of the interception. I Haven t heard that senator. No Shultz said to sen. Jesse Helms House spokesman Michael guest said we Don t have any comment on a source at the Nicosia air control Center speaking on condition of anonymity said when he the libyan Pilot was about 50 Miles East of Cyprus he told us he was being approached by two unidentified Jet said the fighters rocked their wings indicating the Pilot should follow them and then we lost Contact wit him but we could still see him on radar flying about 70 Miles Southeast of Cyprus in the direction of Israel. Tuesday israeli foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir said in Jerusalem during an interview with the associated press that the time will come when Israel will crackdown Abu Nidal whose real name is Sabry Al Banna. You have to find ways to hit them even in the Remote places Shamir said. Abu Nidal who leads a breakaway faction that claimed responsibility for the attacks on airports in Rome and Vienna is believed to have maintained Headquarters a various times in Libya Syria and Iraq. There was no indication that he was among the palestinian leaders who held an emergency conference with other Arab leaders last weekend although his faction was Habash head of the marxist popular front for the liberation of Palestine and Saeed Mousa belter known Sabu Mousa the Leader of the breakaway Wing of Fatah that opposes Plo chairman Yasser Arafat Aid attend. In Tripoli George Habash told reporters this show who Are the terrorists in this he did not reply when asked whether any Arab reprisal operation we called s interception was not the first occasion on which Israel has forced Down a plane it believed was carrying palestinian leaders. Last october us. Carrier based jets forced Down an Egypt air Airliner carrying the hijackers of the italian cruise liner Achille Lauro in Sicily where they were ar-5,rested by italian authorities. On August 10, 1973, israeli air Force planes forced an Iraq airways Airliner to land at a secret air base in Israel with 74 passengers. It was released two hours later. Israel said it had information that Habash and three other pulp chiefs were to be aboard but that they changed their plans and took another night. On feb. 21, 1973, two Israel phantoms shot Down a? airlines plane in an attempt to Force it to land after it flew Over a highly sensitive area near Suez 5egypt, Over the Sinai. Five of the 113 people aboard Sor a o Vived. An investigation showed the Pilot ignored repeated orders to identify and land because of communication of a problems. \ in 1976, israeli jets forced a saudi military plane to land at Ben Orion International Airport after it strayed Finto israeli airspace from Lebanon. It was allowed to take off the next Day. Toll from Page 1 descended on the a Losole a stretch of Highway running from Florence to Rome. Two of the victims were identified a Vincent Grammatico 39, of East Meadow ., and Joseph Bisconti 46, of Baldwin,. Consul Marie Burke of the us. Consulate in Florence said the third fatality was a companion from Texas but his Iden. Tity could not be released until his relatives5 were notified. Weather forecasters in London mean while predicted continuing cold weather. In Northern Germany for instance some area reported mid Day High temperatures of Only 23 pressure pattern has blocked the nor Mal weit to East flow of weather an there s no sign of an end to it really said a senior forecaster at the London weather enter. In Italy Rescue Crews tuesday found the bodies of three unidentified men in a Van apparently crushed by an Avalanche near the san Pellegrino pass in the Dolomite mountains. The body of Marcello Moretty 25, was found in his car buried in Snow on the voile Spass near the Northern City of tremor. In Dom Dossola on the Swiss Border a estimated 200 italian families remained in temporary shelters because authorities believed their Homes were endangered by Passi ble avalanches. Officials in the Alpine City of20,000 began calculating damage from the storm which they expect to hit $13 Italy was digging out from up to 9 feet of Snow which fell in mountainous provinces Over the weekend and other cities suffered damage from Days of torrential rain that ravaged the Peninsula. Many cities from Rome to Venice asked the italian government to declare a state of emergency because of heavy storm France authorities continued a state of emergency in four Southern Region stretching from the Rhone Valley to the pyrenees with new Snow falling particularly hard in the Arteche Region near the Rhone some 20,000 people were reported without electricity tuesday morning across the area. About 1,500 workers including 300 from the state owned electricity network continued Relief operations in the Arteche. In addition to helicopters rescuers we reusing snowmobiles and 100 soldiers of the elite Chasseur Alpine Mountain regiment were brought into the Region to help. The Eastern pyrenees got a break Mon Day night when predicted Snow failed to appear and Road Clearing and Power Lin repair Crews were out working tuesday under Blue skies. Major roads betwee France and Spain were reopened and some electricity supplies higher areas,.Power was expected again by late tuesday in ski resorts where ski lifts have been still for Days. The body of the 11 the direct victim of the cold spell in France was found monday a 51-year-old Frenchman who went for walk in the town of la Roque d a theron near the Central Mediterranean coast apparently collapsed for unknown reasons and froze to death. In Spain numerous towns in Catalonia in ithe Northeast and across Northern Spain. Continued without electricity because of downed Power lines. Some Mountain panes f i remain closed to traffic while others Are Lopen Only to cars equipped with chains. Eight spaniards lost their lives at sea last thursday when heavy storms hit their boat sin two separate incidents. In one a wave swept a Man off his fishing boat and in Tael other seven seamen were lost when the 1freighter Alpo Sank off the port of Malaga f in a storm at a time when winds were rag-1ing up to 78 Miles per hour. F soviets from Page 1 comment on the reports of a proposed Pris Oner Exchange but a Western government source in Germany said monday the Swap would take place. Israel radio said the Reagan administration sent a message about the plan to prime minister Shimon Peres and foreign min ister Yitzhak Shamir. Shamir tuesday de Nied he had been told Shch Aransky would be released. Up to this moment we have nothing. Idon t know anything about it. I would like to believe it s truer Shamir said in an interview in Jerusalem. But he said he would not attach any political importance to the reported Swap. The release of Shch Aransky and maybe some others will be a Public relations move to make Western Public opinion More forthcoming toward Russia be said. Other israeli officials in Jerusalem speaking on condition they not be identified said the Deal involved 12 prisoners held in Western countries to be exchanged for Shch Aransky and perhaps one or two other people whom they did not identify. In Chansky s wife Aziul who has campaigned worldwide for her husband s release was not at her Jerusalem Home monday. The radio said she would meet her husband in source in Bonn woo is in a position to know the details of an Exchange said i would take place feb. U on the Glinicke Bridge linking Potsdam in East German with West Berlin. It will involve both spies and East bloc dissidents he said speaking on condition of anonymity. The source would not say whether the jewish dissident was involved in the Swap. Shch Aransky 38, was a Leader of the so Viet human rights movement in the 1970s. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison after being convicted in 1978 on charges which be denied of passing intelligence to foreign countries. His family says his health has deteriorated during his imprisonment. The bit said soviet bloc agents it did not specify How Many would be exchanged for Shch Aransky and 12 former Western undercover agents. The mass circulation paper which is known to have Good soviet sources quoted ranking soviet released spies Are eased Back to Normal life writer if anyone knows what happens to a spy who is released by the other Side Richard Meier should. Meier former chief of the German Agency for internal Security at least knows what happens in Germany. The main thing is to do everything Mease him or her Back to Meier said in a Telephone interview from co Logne Germany. F an sex spy is met upon release by his station chief who has taken care of the person s family during his or her imprison ment Meier said. He debrief his Man and then continues to take care of him and Bis family financially help integrate him Back into his profession before becoming an agent or find suitable work for Meier Aid experience Bis shown that there Seldom o a need for medical or psychological help for the released spy but itis available. As for observing the person to ensure that he has t been turned around bythe other Side Meier said it is done Only if officials have received some indication pointing to that possibility. But the Man is in any Case being carefully cared for for several months if not longer until his life gets Back to Normal and it would be difficult for him to be of any use to the other Side he said. As for recycling a caught spy. Meier said it is out of the question. 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