European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday february 22. 1986 terrorists wound aide to italian Premier Rome a four terrorists Riding on two motor scooters Friday shot and wounded a senior aide to Premier Bettino Praxi police reported. One terrorist a woman was shot and killed by the official s bodyguard a police Man who was driving him to the office police said. Police after checking her fingerprints and photographic records officially identified the slain woman As Vilma Monaco 28, wife of a red brigade terrorist arrested several months ago. Police said the terrorists left a two Page typewritten leaflet on the scene claiming the attack in the name of the fighting communists coalition a group with no previous terrorist claim. Police sources said they believe the group was formed in Paris in 1984 by breakaway red brigade terrorists. The official was identified As Antonio a Empoli 47, a Counselor in charge of budget and economic planning in the office of the socialist Premier. A highly regarded expert on Industrial politics. A Empoli was a member of the european commission based in Brussels Belgium Between 1977 and 1983. He has been working in Praxi s office since 1984. Doctors at Villa san Pietro Hospital said a Empoli was shot in the right Elbow and leg and will require about 40 Days of hospitalization. He was reported in satisfactory condition after surgery. The attack occurred about 9 . Just outside a Empoli s Home in the fashionable francs Ina residential District in North Ern Rome police said. Police said two men and two women aboard two motor scooters drove up to a Empoli s White Fiat As it approached a newsstand where he normally buys newspapers and opened up with pistols. A Empoli s Driver immediately returned fire fatally wounding one woman terrorist police said adding that one of the male terror is also appeared to have been shot and wounded. Police were Hunting the three terrorists who left the slain woman and fled on their motor scooters. One of the scooters was later found abandoned several blocks away police said. The Agi news Agency said police were questioning two Young men who were picked up several Miles from the area shortly after the shooting but the report could not be confirmed immediately. The Ansa and Agi news agencies quoted police officials As saying that police retrieved a ,38-Caiiber pistol and a German made sub machine gun used by the terrorists As Well As 15 spent cartridges. The attack came 11 Days after terrorists shot and killed Lando Conti a former re publican mayor of Florence. The murder was claimed by the red brigades Italy s most feared leftist Urban guerrillas responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in the 1970s and Early 1980s. On thursday Interior minister Oscar paper runs photos of israeli captives Beirut. Lebanon a a moslem newspaper Friday published a photograph that it said showed two captured israelis lying in Beds in a room plastered with photographs of shiite religious leaders including Iran s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The weekly Al and mouthpiece of the Radi Cal Hezbollah or party of god said the Pic Ture was taken before the kidnappers of the islamic resistance front claimed wednesday night they had executed one Theca this. Pie islamic resistance front a coalition of shiite moslem zealots Loyal to Iran said the Man was killed when the israelis ignored an ultimatum to withdraw by Nightfall wednes Day. It did not say which prisoner was killed and so far no body has been produced. The israelis have identified the missing men As pvt Yossi Fink a British born Immi Grant and pvt. Rahamim Al sheikh both 21. The islamic resistance front which Cap tured the israelis in an ambush inside Israel s self proclaimed Security Belt in South Leb anon has said both men were wounded. The. Picture showed one Man with his head bandaged and a plasma drip in his right . A drip was also attached to the other Man. Both were covered in White sheets with Only their Heads and arms visible. Above a bottle cluttered closet Hung a poster in arabic that read the gun of the islamic resistance alone is the answer. Caravans of martyrs make Honecker planning visit to Bonn during 1986 Kin Stonell police searching for missing girl 14 Heidelberg military police Are searching for a 14-year-old Jarl last seen leaving her family s borne in Patrick Henry Village at 12 15 . Friday. Kim Stovall was wearing a White top and White pants when she left a Public affairs spokesman said. The teen Ager is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. The ninth grader is the daughter of it. Col. Wittard Stovall. Anyone sigh information about the girl is asked to Contact the maps at Heidelberg military 8800 or 6400. Bonn a East German president Erich Honecker will make his Long awaited visit to West Germany probably sometime after the communist party Congress in april the head of the East German parliament said Friday. In a joint statement issued on the third Day of his visit to Bonn vol Skammer president Horst Sindermann also said East Germany was committed to Progress in human rights and travel across the closely guarded Border Between the two states. Sindermann 70, who arrived in Bonn wednesday for a four Day visit is the High est ranking East German official Ever to visit the West German capital. Premier will Stop visited Kassel in May 1970 but did not go to Bonn. Western observers say Honecker is expected to be re elected at the party Congress in East Berlin. He has been the party chief since West German officials said thursday after talks with Sindermann that they expect Honecker 73, to make the unprecedented visit to Bonn later this year. Alfred Dregger the floor Leader of the ruling Christian democrats in the bundestag Federal parliament quoted Sindr Mann As saying it is High time and he Honecker Honecker at the last minute cancelled a planned visit to Bonn in september 1984, under pressure from the soviet Union. Although officially a guest of the opposition social democrats Sindermann has met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl Philipp Jenninger the president of the West German bundestag and Leaden of All West German political Par ties represented in parliament. Chancellor Kohl Jenninger and the so Cial democrats told Sindermann this week that they wanted to see improvement in East Germany s human rights record especially regarding travel. East Germany fearing defections does not allow its citizens to travel to West Ger Many before retirement age except for funerals and similar pressing family business. Hans Jochen Vogel the social demo cratic party s Leader in the West German parliament said thursday that Sindermann had told him communist authorities had relaxed some restrictions on family travel to West Germany starting feb. 1. Sindermann was to travel to North Rhine Westphalia state on Friday afternoon for talks with gov. Johannes Rao the social democratic candidate for Chan cellar in next year s Federal elections. On saturday he goes to Trier to visit the Birthplace of Karl Marx before returning Toast Berlin. Sex Board chairman Dies Chicago a Edwin a. Bergman former chairman of the University of Chi Cago Board of trustees has died at 68. Luigi Scalfaro warned of signs of an up swing in terrorism in Italy after Yean of relative Calm. After visiting a Epou at the Hospital Scalfaro went to Sec Praxi. Speaking with reporters outside the premiers office he said the attack painfully confirms the Validity of thursday s evaluations in which Law enforcement and judicial officials warned of a new wave of terrorism. He also said it follows the same line die terrorists used against Tarantelli refer ring to the 1985 assassination of leading economist Ezio Tarantelli in Rome. That murder was also claimed by the red Bri noted that like Tarantelli a Empoli has played a prominent role in shaping economic policies of the country. There is a tendency on the part of the terrorists to strike at a certain Type of eco nomic policies. A Empoli is Cratl Collaborator in this Praxi also visted a Empoli at the Hospi Tal. News update snakebite death Harlan by. A authorities said no charges will be filed in the death of a woman who was bitten by a Rattlesnake she handled during a religious service. Harlan county attorney alas wagers said no charges would be hied in the death of Shirley Mcl eary 38, of Toledo Ohio. Mcleary died after being bitten by a rattle Snake at the Baxter Church of Jesus Christ according to state police. She was bitten during a Wake for her Uncle in Harlan. Under state Law handling snakes during a religious service is a Mise Meanor punishable by a one of $50 to Slop. Members of some Funda mentalist churches in Appalachia be Lieve that handling snakes is a test of their Christian Devotion. Wagers said people who were at toe Wake with Mcleary or who supplied snakes for the service com have been charged with criminal facilitation. Investigators determined other people at the Wake were handling snakes state trooper bin Riley said. But wagers said because of Mcl Cary s death the facilitation charges would be difficult to prove. Beauty Queen s trial Salt Lake City up former Wyoming Beauty Queen i -edinl97? missionary in end been ordered to stand trial charges connected with her. The same Man six Yean circuit judge Hutchings set the Date for Joyce Kinney,35, Mckinney was accused of hum Ping and raping her former Boyfriend in spa if Tat 1977. Mckinney was arrested in june 1983 in Salt Lake City when she Alleg edly was shadowing him again. Defense attorney Gil Atway Toh Hutchings he hoped a settlement could be reached before the Cue went to trial. Chinese Pilot defects to South Korea with m/g-j9 peking a China appealed for the Quick return of an air Force Pilot who landed his plane Friday in South Korea saying he had lost Contact during train the South korean defense ministry announced earlier that a chinese air Force Mig-19 fighter was intercepted by South korean fighters and signalled it wanted to land. South Korea s state run radio network lbs said the chinese Pilot had defected. We Hope that the South korean Side will provide assistance in returning the plane and the Pilot to China at an Early Date the statement from China s foreign ministry said. The South korean defense ministry later identified the Pilot As Tseng Pao Chong. The government owned radio in Taipei. Taiwan reported that he was a 26-year-old Wing commander and flew from the North Ern chinese City of Shenyang. The last such defection was in August 1985 when a chinese Navy Light bomber crash landed South of Seoul. South Korea. The defecting Pilot later went to Taiwan where he was bailed As a hero. One of Bis Crew mates was killed in the crash and the other chose to return Home. Peking bad appealed for the return of All three men
