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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes strikers say they deserve a Little respect Page 5 n Spielberg gets directors award refers to Oscar snub Page 6 g Duke Louisville Kansas win in basketball Page 21 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 325 monday March 10, 1986 i Ooisy Ond sund0y d 8693 a shuttle astronauts remains found Cape canaveral Fla. A searchers have found remains of challenger s astronauts in the debris of the shuttle s Crew compartment 100 feet Down on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean Nasa announced sunday. Family members of challenger s Crew have been informed a statement said. In deference to family wishes Nasa will not make further comments until recovery operations and identifications Are  the statement said a search ship the leu made a possible identification of the compartment Friday night while making a sonar search about 25 Miles Northeast of Cape canaveral. On saturday morning after securing operations during the night for safety Rea sons the  preserver whose divers Are thoroughly briefed on debris identification began to work the statement said. Subsequent divers provided positive identification of challenger Crew Compart ment debris and the existence of Crew re Mains it said. Nasa said depending on weather and sea conditions the task of recovering the compartment wreckage and remains could take several Days. Seven Crew members died when Chal f  T  Lenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff Jan. Space shuttle challenger astronauts from left front Row Michael j. Smith Francis r. Scobee Ronald e. Mcnair Fiack Row Ellison s Onzuka Sharon Christa Mcauliffe Gregory Jarvis Judith Resnick. Four frenchmen Are kidnapped in Beirut Beirut Lebanon apr four French television crewmen were kidnapped by gun men in moslem West Beirut and an Anonymous Telephone caller on sunday said they had been detained for questioning by the islamic jihad group. The Crew from France s Antenne-2 Tele vision network was abducted by gunmen in a Seaside District saturday afternoon. The kidnapping took place hours after an Anonymous caller claiming to speak for islamic jihad threatened to kill one person in an other group of French captives. The journalists were identified by other French reporters As Philippe Rochet Georges Hensen Ourel Cornea and Jean Louis Normandin. The sunday caller who telephoned a Western news Agency in Beirut said the four newsmen had been detained for questioning about their suspicious movements in the islamic  the wording of the claim indicated that the to Crew had not been abducted to be held As hostages. The caller who did not identify himself made no specific demand for their release. But he declared we give the French government one week to recover our two comrades from the dungeons of the iraqi  the iraqi underground activists referred to were deported by France to Baghdad last month. Islamic jihad believed to be made up of shiite moslem fundamentalists Loyal to Iran claimed wednesday it killed Michel Seurat one of four frenchmen it claimed to have been holding in retaliation for the deportations. There was no Way to authenticate Sun Day s Call. But the arabic speaking Man began it with a quotation from the Koran islam s holy Book. He said god almighty has soldiers in heaven and on Earth. May he always  islamic jihad statements usually begin with another koranic saying in the name of god the merciful the  in Paris an emergency meeting was held Early sunday in Premier Laurent Fabius office to study the latest abduction involving French citizens. Fabius told reporters after the hour Long meeting that the information received from Beirut was very  Fabius said he called the French Ambas Sador in Beirut and gave instructions to try to do the maximum and to make contacts with lebanese authorities to try to find the Kidnap victims. When one starts to accept blackmail at that moment All French citizens All Over the world Are threatened he said. Several hours before the to Crew s kid 10,000 tipsters fuel napping a Man called a Western news Agency in Beirut and said islamic jihad would kill one of Seurat s fellow captives if the two deported iraqis were not sent Backoo France. The caller gave no deadline. A purported islamic jihad statement wednesday said Seurat was executed in retaliation for the deportation from France of 13 moslem including the iraqis Las month. The iraqis Fawzi Hamzeh and Hassan Khaireldin belonged to an iranian Allied underground opposed to the iraqi govern ment which is fighting a Border War with Iran. The caller saturday said that if the French government does not move swiftly to return the iraqis then we will execute one of the French diplomats. We Are thinking seriously of executing one of  Stockholm Sweden a Stockholm police said sunday their investigation into the killing of prime minister Olof palme was moving ahead fuelled by 10,000tips to investigators. Police commissioner Hans Holmer said police were checking 200 swedish registered Blue Volkswagen Pas sats. It was thought a passant might have been the killer getaway car. He declined in a sunday news conference on Progress of the investigation to confirm newspaper speculation about suspects in the area of the killing. I Don t know exactly what men you re talking about he said. As i said before there Are several persons whose behaviour is  Holmer confirmed that police had still not been contacted by the author of an Anonymous letter that he said saturday contained some interesting observations about the night palme was shot and killed. Were interested in the letter because it referred to a weapon or other material that might be related to Palm a s killing. Holmer disclosed no details however about Why police were interested and the radio report was not mentioned atthe news conference. We Are not stuck fast Holmer said of the investigation predicting that it could continue for weeks at it present intensive level. In his news conference the previous Day Holmer had also Given no details of the letter s contents or any Indica Tion of How important police considered it. The Stockholm newspaper afto bladet speculated Sun Day that the letter supported a theory that a second Man involved in the attack was on foot near the scene of the slaying. Holmer said the author of the letter reported he or she had been walking on a Street near the scene of the shooting. Afto bladet speculated that the writer might. Ii Sunug a  i  Viiu m True Signia news program on Sweden s National radio said police have seen the same person reported by one witness last dish probe week to have been hurriedly picked up by a car not Long after palme was killed. The reported incident of the pickup is not known to have been linked to the killing by the police and it took place far from the site where police believe the killer met disown getaway car. Police spokesman Leif Hallberg confirmed sunday that there had been no Contact yet from the author of the letter. Asked if he could confirm the afto bladet report he said i m afraid i cannot answer that  Holmer had used his saturday news conference to a peal to the writer of the letter to Contact police again. We want help now he said. Palme 59, was shot in the Back with a .357 magnum revolver As he and his wife Lisbeth 55, walked Home unguarded from a movie. The swedish prime minister who had resisted tight personal Security measures for years had Given his body guards the evening off Ami had not told Security officers hews going to the movie  
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