European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday March 8, 1986 police predict they la find palme s killer Stockholm Sweden a police said Friday they Are investigating a grow ing number of tips in the killing of prime minister Olof palme and predicted they would eventually find the Slayer. It s a Tough Case but i think we re going to solve it police commissioner Hans Holmer said. The thing is to keep the Puzzle Holmer predicted that Sweden s biggest manhunt Ever a week old on saturday would drive even the country s criminals to help find the tells us that criminals will want to help to get police off their backs he said at his daily news conference on the Progress of the manhunt. Holmer said police were building a computerized file of the information they had collected so they could Hunt for connections More easily. Palme 59, was killed late last Friday night As he and his wife walked Home unguarded from a movie. He was hit in the Back with one Bullet fired from a powerful american made .357-caliber magnum re Volver. His wife Lisbeth 55, was grazed by a second Bullet. Officials of palme s social democratic party handling his funeral arrangements confirmed Friday that swedish King Carl Xvi Gustaf would be among the speakers at his funeral March 15. Party Secretary to Toreson said he believed it was the first time a swedish Mon Arch had spoken at the funeral of a prime minister. The 39-year-old King had earlier broken with tradition by ordering his Palace s Royal Flag normally lowered Only for Royal deaths lowered for palme on the Day of his funeral. Up to 600 foreign representatives Are expected to come to Stockholm for the civic funeral in the City s Neo medieval Waterside City Hall. Police spokesman Kenneth Karlsson said funeral guests would be protected by the largest Security apparatus Sweden has Ever party officials disclosed the route of palme s funeral cortege a procession that will wind Over the City s Bridges and streets until it reaches the churchyard where he is to be buried privately. Palme s casket is to pass the swedish parliament the King s Palace Central Stockholm s business districts and the red Square where he always delivered his party s May Day labor Holiday speeches. He will be buried at the 18th-Century Adolf Fredrik Church near the site of his party s founding and near the grave of Hjalmar Branting Sweden s first social democratic prime minister. The funeral will be the biggest such Gath ering in Sweden since 1961 ceremonies for . Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold who died that year in a plane crash in Africa. Sex Arrow air Pilot says Fiancee gave pre crash warning Washington a a former Arrow air Pilot testified thursday that his flight attendant Fiancee warned of engine trouble on a military chartered Arrow air plane four Days before it crashed in Newfoundland killing the woman and 255 other people mostly american service personnel. Daniel e. Hood now flies for pan Ameri can world airways. He told a Senate hear ing that during their Cross country Tele phone conversation dec 8, he tried unsuccessfully to persuade his Fiancee Ruthie Vargo Phillips to quit Arrow air immediately. Hood said she promised to resign after one last flight the trip to Cairo to pick up army paratroopers returning to fort Campbell ky., from peacekeeping duty in the Middle East. Four Days later on dec. 12, the four engine Arrow air dc-8 crashed shortly after Takeoff from a refuelling Stop at Gander Newfoundland. All 248 passengers and eight Crew members were killed. Hood and Phillips had planned to be married in May. Hood 42, a 23-year Veteran Pilot with More than 16,000 hours of flight time Testi fied that he had resigned after two years As an Arrow air Pilot in april 1985 because of the Miami based airline s marginal maintenance of its planes and prolonged flying hours that left Crews exhausted. Hood said his Fiancee in a Telephone Call from Takoma wash., where the ill fated flight began reported that the plane had a bad engine that would not be repaired until its return from the Middle East. Hood and another former Arrow air Pilot Michael Sanjenis told the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee that Small financially strapped non scheduled airlines such As Arrow routinely skimp on air plane maintenance and extend their Crews flying time to 18 or 20 hours at a stretch. As a result said Sanjenis it is quite common for All three pilots to fall asleep on Long International flights while their plane is on automatic Pilot and have to be awakened by Cabin attendants. Hood said flight attendants become so fatigued that they fall asleep in their jump seats during a Landing when they might be needed for an emergency evacuation or even doze off standing in the aisles while serving drinks to passengers. Habib from Page 1 Aragyan communists finally agree to sit Down and talk with their opposition both armed and unarmed to bring an end to the strife and repression in their promising that the United states will pursue change through diplomatic Means Reagan added but let there be no misunderstanding ambassador a bib s efforts to achieve a diplomatic solution must be accompanied by an increasing level of pressure on the nicaraguan comm asked if he would accept a Compromise proposal to put the nicaraguan rebel Aid in escrow for six months to be released Only if the sandinista government refuses to come to the negotiating table Reagan said no i think six months is too Long a time with what we re facing Down asked if a Compromise might be possible he said i think so but when asked if that meant he was willing to Compromise on his Contra Aid proposal Reagan said no i was talking about Compromise Between the contras and the sandinista govern Habib compared the situation in Nicara Gua with developments in the Philippines where he had been sent on a diplomatic Mission by Reagan. In both cases i think it s fair to say that one can pursue a different course that is to say you can pursue a course which could and should bring about a democratic Solu Tion one in which whatever compromises Are made Between the contending forces Are done peacefully and Are done through negotiation and the president praised Habib As Wise and patient and he will succeed Twa from Page 1 that City. Iam spokesman Jim Cooley said he did not know How Many machinists were Honor ing picket lines. Mcelwreath said most were reporting to work. Pilots who signed a no strike contract in january were not honouring the picket lines Mcelwreath said. In new York Twa cancelled 12 of 14 flights from la Guardia Airport and 15 of 53 from Kennedy International Airport. Also suspended were 13 of 19 flights from Chicago 40 percent of the service at Detroit metropolitan Airport seven of the 11 daily departures from Indianapolis 10 of i4 flights from Kansas City and two of the four flights from Minneapolis St. Paul according to airline officials in those cities. Several International flights were can celeb a leg from Madrid Spain to Barce Lona a leg from London to Copenhagen and flights from new York to Tel Aviv and Athens. Twa s Chicago London service and flights from Boston to London and Paris also were cancelled. Icahn the financier who took Over the airline in january said the Carrier was pre pared to weather the strike. With the Cost cutting that we re doing we think we Are going to be of he said. We have $600 million in Cash right now and we Are going to Twa under pressure from Low Cost competitors and declining traffic reported losses of $193.1 million last year. Icahn who won wage and work Rule concessions from pilots and machinists had sought a 22 percent wage Cut from flight attendants. The airline also Cut pay 15 percent for its managers and 5,400 non Union employees earlier this year. Company officials had estimated the annual savings from All those cuts at $275 million. In the hours before the strike Icahn said he had reduced the wage Cut proposal but had held firm in demanding two More paid hours in the air each week for flight attendants. The Union said that would have required its members whose base salaries Range from $16,080 to $28,862 a year to spend an additional eight to 10 unpaid hours per week away from Home. Frankovich said the Union offered to accept wage cuts of 15 percent. Flight attendants claimed that the combination of wage cuts and work Rule changes that Icahn proposed amounted to a 45 percent Concession. She accused the airline of singling out the flight attendants to take bigger cuts than the other employees because 85 per cent Are women. We Are Only in the position of a strike because of the sexist View of Carl Icahn she said Friday. Their posture is unreason Able at Best discriminatory at worst. That s where we i Don t think i should even dignify that with a comment Icahn responded later. It s a Complete German anti terrorist gets . Award Bonn Germany s top terrorist fighter Gen. Ulrich k. Wegener was presented the . Armed forces legion of Merit Fri Day by ambassador Richard Burt. Burt cited Wegener for his invaluable assistance to the . Counter terrorist Effort Wegener As founder and Leader of the elite German counter terrorist Force Gsg 9,played a significant role in helping the . Government develop organize train and equip its counter terrorist forces Burt said. The 9, or Federal Border guard group 9, was formed after palestinian terrorists gunned Down 11 israeli athletes at the Munich olympics in september 1972. Wegener has said Ger Man officials then realized How helpless they were. Five years later the top secret unit in a Midnight attack on the Airstrip at Mogadishu Somalia liberated a Lufthansa Airliner and 86 hostages. After the Rescue israeli and american experts called the tactics and training of the German special unit the Best in the world. Burt said that although Wegener s award was late in coming he thought it would underscore the seriousness of the coun Ter terrorist Effort. German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher attended the ceremony at the . Embassy. Harry Shlaudeman who is expected to be named soon to a new diplomatic Post. Reagan said the nicaraguan people just like the filipino people have the right to self determination through democracy. And we in this administration and in con Gress must now decide whether Nicaragua is to be the next staging ground for subversion terrorism and soviet communist expansion on our Reagan trying to marshal support for his embattled plan announced thursday he would make a nationally broadcast speech about Nicaragua. Two More democratic controlled House committees voted against the plan thurs Day while one committee voted for it. That brought to three the number of full commit tees rejecting his plan in two Days and Only one committee favouring it. Temperatures March 6 l 8 38 18 12 12 8 39 36 6 68 so 26 55 h 20 56 24 32 19 18 64 58 18 83 70 32 79 Albany Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Houston Kansas City Las vegas l 59 52 14 46 45 57 12 8 4? 44 52 70 18 h 72 76 16 70 72 84 32 18 57 62 62 86 36 los Angeles Miami Minneapolis new Orleans Orlando Phoenix Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland Salt Lake City san Francisco san Juan Washington european weather forecast for saturday partly Cloudy to fair skies with Patchy morning fog locally dense along coastal areas. Highs will Range from the upper 30s to old 40s, lows from the Low to mid-30s. Sunset saturday 6 17 p.m., Sunrise sunday 6 54. Outlook for sunday partly Cloudy skies with locally dense morning fog along coastal areas Patchy elsewhere. Temperatures nearly the same. Temperatures recorded Friday Adana f Amsterdam f Athens p Valano r Berlin cd Bremerhaven Brussels p 4am 4pm 48 66 34 43 46 59 45 50 41 45 Fig 28 38 36 41 Copenhagen Fig Frankfurt f London f Madrid the Munich p Paris Fig Rome Fig 4am 4pm 32 32 38 46 34 50 45 49 36 39 32 52 48 52 provided by det. 13, 7th weather so Graben Trarbach. Other worldwide temperatures High Low High Low Cairo f 77 54 Montreal cd 18 9 Dublin cd 47 36 Moscow f 37 34 Helsinki cd 34 30 Oslo cd 43 32 Jerusalem cd 64 45 Toronto s 27 21 Lisbon f 63 54 Vancouver r 50 43 supplied by the associated press of far cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a fog a rain the thunderstorm
