European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 3, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 gunman gives up after holding bahamian Diplomat hostage a photo hostage taker self identified As David Maltby leans out of the window of the bahamian High commission in Ottawa. Ottawa a a gunman who held the bahamian vice Consul hostage in a downtown office building overnight peace fully surrendered to police wednesday and released his hostage unharmed. Police took the handcuffed Man who identified himself to the Canadian press during a Telephone Call As David Maltby out of the building at 7 13 a.m., nearly 15 hours after the incident began. The Man earlier told reporters he was armed with a bomb a handgun and a vial of hydrochloric acid. Posing As a courier the gunman took the vice Consul Janet Rahming hostage at the High commission of the Bahamas on tues Day afternoon. He demanded that an unused Ottawa firewall be turned Over to the City s Desti tute and that Tim Engen an inmate at the Kingston Ontario Penitentiary be re leased. It was not immediately known whether either demand had been met. Several hours before Rahming s release the Man told four reporters that the Inci Dent had been staged to show that kids fio have nothing have no  the Man 1 asked to be released from Kingston is in the same boat. Those kids walking around with their mothers in mar Ket Square with no place to go they re me when they grow up he said. City police and officers of the Royal Ca Nadian mounted police had cordoned off two blocks around the building which also houses the offices of corrections Canada which runs the Federal prison system. Rahming told the Canadian press in a Telephone conversation tuesday that the gunman had held a gun to her head. Police later Cut the Telephone lines to the embassy office on the third floor of a nine Story building in downtown Ottawa. Police spokesman Robert Kelly said there appeared to be no political Over tones to the gunman s demands. Why he chose it the bahamian embassy is in  Rahming said the gunman gained in trance to the offices about 4 30 . By posing As a courier. Police were notified about the incident just before 6 ., after the hostage taker called a local television station to state his demands. Just before 11 ., Rahming appeared at an open window and told reporters she was not being mistreated. A few minutes later a dark haired husky Man came to the window and shouted the 11 o clock deadline Lias been extended As an act of Good  but did not say what the deadline had been. In an earlier interview broadcast on Tele vision station Cjohn the Man said he was an sex convict and was armed with a bomb a revolver a vial of hydrochloric acid and a collection of  Patricia Rodgers the bahamian High commissioner and head of the embassy was in the Bahamas at the time of the hostage taking. Thank goodness that Janet is nor Mally a Calm person. This could be her Sav ing Grace Rodgers said. She said in Nassau that she called the embassy and spoke to Rahming who told her the gunman had asked for Rodgers by name saying he had documents to deliver. Rodgers said it was possible the gunman got her name from the front door. Rodgers Rahming a Secretary and a Driver Are the Only embassy employees. Rahming 33, was appointed vice Consul a year ago and lives in Ottawa with her husband and her 13-year-old daughter. She previously worked in Miami. He s not Ashen faced up photo supermarket bag boy Garrett Treadwel finds a Way to do his grocery carrying Job in Kenai Alaska without having to breathe Fine Ash from a recently Active Volcano. The town of 5,500 people is 120 Miles Northeast of the Volcano on the uninhabited Island of Augustine. The Peak has been erupt ing since last thursday. On tuesday the Volcano in the Cook Inlet Shook simmered and steamed in a quiet phase after a blast that shot Ash High into the sky and turned Day into night in the 4,000-population town of Homer 70 Miles away. Weinberger visits 2nd Ini div hoops on korean dm2 Camp Greaves South Korea a defense Secre tary Caspar w. Weinberger visited american troops wednes Day near the demilitarized zone that divides Korea. Weinberger came to South Korea for the 18th annual Security consultative meeting Between Washington and Seoul which opened earlier in the Day. He visited South korean troops at a Forward Obser vation Post before coming to this . 2nd inf div Battal Ion Headquarters about 1.5 Miles South of the Doz. Donning a camouflage Field jacket Over his civilian suit Weinberger told 1,000 troops that the people of the i United states Are very very appreciative of their role. Before setting out on his Field trip Weinberger met with South korean president Chun Doo Hwan at the Blue House presidential residence. Earlier he joined his official Host Lee Kibaek minister of National defense for the formal opening of the Security consultative meeting. There Lee said the korean-. Alliance has maintained peace and Security on the  Lee reiterated South Korea s concern about Security for the asian games and olympics that Seoul is hosting. South Korea fears the North might attempt to disrupt the two events because of conflicts. North Korea had unsuccessfully suggested jointly hosting the olympics. Some 40,000 . Military personnel Are based in South Korea and the two countries have had Long close ties. . Forces led the Effort that halted the North korean invasion of the South in the 1950-53 korean War and South Korea sent combat units to fight alongside americans in Viet Nam. Banning order lifted from activist Winnie Mandela Johannesburg South Africa a lawyers said wednesday the govern ment has ended 23 years of restrictions on the movements of Black activist Winnie Mandela. The government is abandoning its at tempts to uphold the Banning order said Ismail ayob Mandela s lawyer. Banning orders Are used by the govern ment to suppress dissent by restricting the activities and contacts of prominent opponents of apartheid the system under which 5 million Whites dominate 24 million vote less Blacks. Mandela the wife of jailed anti apart Heid Leader Nelson Mandela said she planned to return immediately to her Bun Galow Home in Soweto Johannesburg s Black township of 1.5 million people. That is where i belong in my Ghet to she said. Ayob said Mandela remained listed under the internal Security act meaning that she still May not be publicly quoted in South Africa. But he said the government s decision not to uphold the order would have the effect of setting aside the Banning  Mandela the Best known of a handful of anti apartheid activists still under Banning orders and ayob spoke to reporters at a hotel outside Johannesburg. She was expected in Soweto later in the Day. There was no immediate comment from the government. Elsewhere police Headquarters in Preto Ria reported several incidents of overnight violence. In a township outside port Elizabeth a Black policeman was injured when his Home was hit with stones and gasoline bombs and Blacks near the town of Mossel Bay stoned and set fire to a bus injuring the Driver police said. Most Black students returned to classes wednesday after easter recess heeding a weekend decision by a conference of parents teachers and students. But Low attendance was reported in some areas including the Black townships around Cape town and the tribal Homeland of be Bowa in the North. The decision not to resume school boy Cotts which involved up to 200,000 students before being halted last december was made sunday in Durban at a conference of 1,500 teachers parents and students organized by the National education crisis com Mittee. Organizers said the government had not met several of the demands made in de Cember such As removing troops from Black townships and lifting a ban on a militant student group. But they said the return to school would be accompanied by a move to assert control of Black students curriculum and to use the classrooms As a base for anti apartheid campaigning