European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday june 14. 1986 met Nam of a German Tolun Attr group Are shown after Irrl Tal in Mingo Nicaragua of Downe their it Cost by Contra. German official rejects Shultz claim Kidnap victims were combatants Bonn up the Man who coordinated Germany s Effort to win release of eight germans from  nicaraguan rebels Friday emphatically denied official is. Assertions the kidnapping victims were combatants. Nobody can come and Tell me anything about combat ant status Hans Jurgen Wischner Sci a High ranking opposition social Democrat told a news conference on his return from Nicaragua. This is a formulation i am not prepared to  . Secretary of stale George so Pultr had said thurs Day the eight kidnapped germans had taken up the Rale of military  he said the captives were re leased by the rebels is we discovered their identity and that the Nicaragua government was to blame for the fact that this release Cnoc Only after 25 Days. The victims four men and four women were in a group of 12 germans abducted at gunpoint from a Rural development project on May 17. Four escaped the same Day and one of them remains hospitalized with a Bullet wound inflicted by the rebels. Asked about Shultz s charge foreign ministry spokes Man Juergen Chrobot at a news conference said his government had no information of its own but thai the victims had emphatically denied they Dereco Balanis. Wischnewski who had described Shutlz s assertion As an outrage said this was the third kidnapping of development Aid workers by i he  rebels and that the contras fired on our  the contras also murdered a German doctor he said. Thatcher plays Host to americans who won free flights to Britain London a prime minister Margaret Thatcher served Cucumber sandwiches to 30 americans at a no. 10 Downing is. Lea party thursday for some of the winners of free flights to London. It was the latest British bid to recapture the tourists who Are reluctant to Cross the Atlantic for fear of terrorism. Mrs. Thatcher ii a fantastic lady Sard Bea Ford from Montgomery 111. She brought round the sandwiches and Little cakes herself and Tea in White turn Wilh a Flower Border. Then she took us on a Lour of the state rooms and told us All about in history and stood outside with us fora photograph.1 it was amazing to Sec her and 10 be there in that very old House said George Contos a new York City firefighter. She actually thanked us for coming said Denise mul Lins of Detroit. We Hope a lot More of you will come Oner  the prime minister said on the Steps of no 10 Downing St., her official residence As her guests Oak snapshots in London s brightest Day so far this Spring. London is among the safest cities in the world far safer than Many places in the untied Stales she said the guests were among 5,791 winners of a free flight to Britain drawn from 960.000 names sent in by readers an swering newspaper advertisements of the offer in the 15 u.5. Cities from which state run British airways flies 10 Britain. Jim gallery a senior vice president of the airline in new York said the free night idea emerged after British airways got 27,000 More cancellations than bookings in the week after the april 15 . Air strike on Libya. The air strike which followed a nightclub bombing that killed two american soldiers in West Berlin prompted fears of More terrorist attacks in Europe. There is no logic to this irrational fear of terrorism so we decided to do something to counter it Cal cry said. Thatcher gave her guests an autographed Booklet about no. 10 Downing St. I know mrs. Thatcher is called the Iron lady said Ford. But we found her gentle and kind. She has such to important position and so much Power and we think she fish to be Strong when the occasion demands  neither new York City fireman cantos 47, nor his wife Mary from Flushing n.y., hid visited Europe before. Brit ish airways flew them Over on the concorde in three hours. We Don t see a Tot of the Classy Side of life and we have been treated so Well nothing shoddy lie said. No we never thought about terrorism. Between Marga ret Thatcher and our president i Don t think there s much to worry  William Coghill 62, and his wife Gerry from Ancho rage Alaska said they were surprised by the Low key Security at London s Heathrow Airport. No Tuu that i could see said mrs. Coghill Al though my handbag was frisked when i went to a i office in Kensington the Rev. Albert Leonard of Pittsburgh pa., said when i went to the White House i had to pass through a Metal Detector. Ii was just As a tourist and i did not see or. Reagan. But Here i had Tea with the prime minister and was not searched at All he said. The red carpet has been rolled out for the free flight winners. Free or Cut rate services use being offered by hotels restaurants car rental firms Heaters shops stores and resort towns. The airline is spending s6 million on its biggest Over . Marketing Campaign to attract More americans to Britain this summer. Work today Vatican turns Over control of jewish Catacomb to Italy Vatican City a an ancient jewish Catacomb an the App Ian Way has been turned Over to Italy by the Vatican. The Vatican said in an announcement thursday thai i waa fulfilling the terms of the i9a4 revision of the holy see s 1929 concordat Wilh Italy. It said a second jewish Catacomb in Rome in the Villa to Lunia on the residence of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and now a oily Park also would be turned Over to i Laly. Jcj dvrs of the Lallian jewish Community said they hoped to work Wilh author tics to open he catacombs to the Public. The Vatican flawed scholars and jewish groups la visit the App Ian Way Catacomb but said costly restoration work and a custodial staff were needed before it could be opened to the Public. Jewish historians say the catacombs Date from he first Century . . Military oks new pact with South korean workers Seoul South Korea a the . Military has reached a labor agreement with its South korean employees ending a two week dispute an announcement from the military said Friday. The state Mem said a memorandum signed thursday by the two tide covered wages and Bene fits. Workers accepted the 6.9 percent raise offered by the military and received other benefits in return the announcement Aid. Abii 20,000 sooth korean worker staged a one Day strike May 29, but a military spokesman said at that time it Aidna tit Sci on he combat readiness of the estimated 40,000 us. Soldier ill toned in Sonh Korea. The striking employee returned to work the Fol lowing Day and talk continued. Military searches in Uganda net huge haul of illegal arms Kampala Uganda up the biggest Mili tary searches Ever mounted in the ugandan capital idled nearly 1.500 illegal guns 40 hand grenades and led to 260 arrests an army spokesman said thursday. Speaking to journalists at Kampala s Zubiri bar Racks Deputy army commander Fred Rug Yema Dis played the weapons and said Only 98 of them were pistols. Rug Yema said of the total 1,365 weapons were found hidden at the main Luz Ira jail just six Miles outside the capital. But he had no explanation for the huge Cache there. He said 200 people were arrested in the five Days of House to House searches from june i to 5. The searches were backed by army roadblocks at Strate Gic intersection and t dusk to Dawn curfew. Only 40 people now remain in custody he said. . Sends Greece pelicans to help increase tourism Athens Greece a eight pelicans arrived Here thursday As a Gin from the United slates to boost tourism in the greek islands. The four pairs of Brown pelicans from a Florida Bird Sanctuary will become Mascot on the retort islands of Rhodes ski Athos Tinas and Para. We Hope these Birds will encourage other americans to come to Greece. Pelicans Are a famous Aiu action Here said Costas Kyriazis president of the greek tourist organization who greeted the Birds and their escorts on the Tarmac at Athens Airport. Few american tourists Are coming to Greece his year because of fears of Mediterranean terrorism. Only 44,842 . Visitors arrived Between january and the end of april a 50 percent decline front tic same period in 1985