European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page s8 the stars and stripes monday May 1fl, 1986 2 victims Portland Ore. A More than 200 friends and relatives jammed u Church saturday for the first of the funerals for nine climber who died during an annual. School Outing on mount howl Erin o Sci try a i a year old student of the Oregon Epis Copal school was remembered in the service it a Small roman Catholic Church in a Hilly wooded Section near downtown Portland. The Rev. Joseph Hoffman told the mourners including 11 schoolmate who safely made it off the Mountain to let their emotions go rather than keep them battled up. O scary had just performed the female Lead in the school play and was preparing to go to Washington d.c., far a National debating Competition. She and another Vic Tim Richard la Nader had been running against each other for Studem body president. At the episcopal memorial service for i a car old Al Ison lil7cnbergcr, about 800 people crowded into the Sanctuary and Parish Hall of a Portland Church. This loss is so enormous said the Rev. John Scannell and each life is so precious. Nothing is lost or wasted when it is offered up to god -.  was described As a serious student who excelled at French and who Sang in fac school chair. The bodies of the two girls were found at the fool of a Cliff wednesday morning two Days after the Mountain was enveloped by a Savage snowstorm. The body of a boy was found at the top of the Cliff. Six More bodies and two survivors were found thursday in a nearby Cave dug into he deep Snow As a Refuge from the blizzard. The two teen agers who lived through three Days and three nights of by incr cold remained in critical but stable condition at Portland hospitals saturday. The condition of Giles Thompson 16, of Longview wash., had stabilized after treatment for bleeding from incisions made As doctors treated him. He still required blood infusions every couple of hours said or. Diane Bilz of Providence medical Center. Thompson will remain on kidney dialysis at least three weeks. Bilz said and he still required a ventilator. But he Ralph Summers. Said doctors were optimistic the boy would suffer no brain damage. He was much More Active his morning. In fact he had to be sedated bids said since doctors did not want him to do a lot of  Thompson s Mother Ann Holiday issued the three word statement we Are hopeful.". The second survivor Brinton Clark of Portland was rescued on her 16th birthday Emanuel Hospital officials said. She showed no signs of frostbite Clark continued to improve saturday said Hospital spokeswoman Lori Callister. She is moving her feet on command and moving her eyes when asked and she does recognize her parents Callister said Bietz said the fact that the group did not have Access to a Siovic and candles in their backpacks was a major Factor in the deaths two members of the group who left tuesday to seek help told searchers they could not find the packs after digging the Snow Cave. Rescue workers found the packs about 10 feet from he Cave buried under a few feet of Snow. Boy that would have made a big difference Bietz. Said. ,.the nine deaths were the worst climbing disaster on mount mood since the first recorded death on the 11,235 foot Mountain 90 years ago after a three hour meeting Friday Oregon episcopal Board of trustees issued a statement supporting the school s wilderness program. The program requires sophomores to either climb the Mountain 50 Miles cast of Portland or do 40 hours of Community service. We Are committed to our school and All of in goals philosophy and curriculum. Including our longstanding wilderness program the Board said a group of three adults and 15 students left Timberline Lodge at 2 to . Monday for what was to have been a one Day trip to the Summit. Five of the students turned Back later complaining that they weren t feeling Well. Only a few feet from the Summit the group was hailed by a blinding snowstorm. The climbers turned Back and dug a Snow Cave to wait oat the storm which pushed temperatures to 50 below Zero. The group s 30-year-old guide Ralph Summers and 17-year-old Molly Schula walked through bad weather tuesday to gel help. Summers said that although the group knew a front was approaching the severity of the storm was not anticipated. He said the. Weather was Fine when the climb began. The Mother of the Rev. Thomas Goman the group 42 year old Leader said her son had been critical of a decision that had taken the school s climbing program out of his exclusive control. You need one person in charge that knows every thing Laverne Goman of Puyallup Wash we the Tacoma news Tribune. Goman s wife mar told the oregonian newspaper in Portland that for some unexplained reason this is one of the first school climbs thai Tom did not feel  says efforts to free hostages disrupted Washington a president Hafez Assad of Syria said sunday his efforts to free westerners held hostage in Lebanon were halted after the american bombing of Libya. Assad in an interview with the washing ton Post also said the negotiations were hailed because of american accusations of syrian involvement with terrorists. He said his country had made serious efforts to win the release of americans and French nationals being held by Kidnap pers in neighbouring Lebanon. However the . Attack on april 15 on Libya disrupted those efforts he said in the interview which was conducted in Damas Cus. No one can do anything when the . Administration is carrying the Hammer of War Assad said through an interpreter it is very difficult to handle the question of the hostages in isolation from the . Political  he said that following the attack on Libya and other . Political acts the Small groups holding the hostages had Bro Ken off contacts that were aimed at winning their release. Our attitude in Syria toward these hos tages has nothing to do with our relations with the american administration Assad said adding that Syria would continue to do All that we can for the hostages. He said he would not be intimidated by criticism of his government "1 Don t think that i made any statement threatening the United Stales while Amer ican officials and president Reagan himself daily throw verbal bombs at us he said. In my assessment american officials Are these Days talking too much and More than strikes against Syria if the country was sup porting terrorists. Assad took Strong exception to statements by . Officials who said Syria appears to have supported terrorism. Speaking of the Abu Nidal palestinian group he said Abu Nidal is not in Syria. He  not operate anything in Syria there is an office doing cultural and Politi Cal work among the palestinians but those who Are in Syria have nothing to do with terrorist  Assad said no terrorist actions would be allowed from syrian soil the Post reported. He further said that the american Central intelligence Agency has a hand in every terrorist organization in the  he also Laid the is. Bombing of Libya produced much hatred against the United Stales in Arab and third world coun tries. Temperatures. We do not want a confrontation with the United states but we strongly defend ourselves. We do Nat fear threats or the implementation of threats. We stick to a Rule which says that nobody can strike Syria and evade punishment he said. Reagan pressed by reporters said this month that he would consider ordering air Kohl from Page 1 Channel from Page 1 possibly Syria have bit airports an Airliner a cruise ship a nightclub and other buildings in Western Europe. The . Bombing of Libya has wised fears of reprisals and some 2 million americans Are estimated to have dropped or can celeb plans to visit Western Europe. A dutch military police spokesman said sunday that a state of increased vigilance with regard to passengers and cars had been declared at the Cross Channel port of Hock at Holland near Rotterdam and an other military police spokesman at the Southern ferry port of Vlissingen said Simi Lar measures had been instituted no More details on Security measures were divulged by the military police who act As Border police in the Netherlands. Rotterdam police spokesman Johan Van maa Sloo said that the Alert referred to a car which might go aboard because an Arab terrorist action might be connected with  earlier this year the Netherlands declared a terrorist a Erl for american israeli and jewish targets after it received information via intelligence sources that it was one of several Western european nations targeted for possible terrorist attacks by a Middle Eastern extremist group. No such attacks materialized but on mar i police at Amsterdam s Scalp Biol Airport arrested a japanese National in pos session of explosives and blasting Caps in the Airport s arrival lounge. The suspect remains in dutch police Cus Tody but the intended target of the explosives has never been disclosed by police and the suspect has denied any knowledge of the explosives. Rance of the accidents like that at Cherno Byl As tic did in a speech on Friday. 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