European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 13,1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 seven decades apart seventy years of aviation separate triplane at left is one of Only two reply these two aircraft flying in an exhibit Cas of a famous German fighter that Tion at Soest Germany. The Fokker made aviation history in world War i. The other Craft is a modern Lynx Heli copter of Britain s no. 3 regiment anti tank so stationed in Germany. A photo the planes were taking part in an International air Day organized by no. 3 regiment army corps. Togo says it foiled plot to blow up . Embassy lome Togo up1 Togo said monday it had thwarted a plan by leftist extremists to blow up the . Embassy and an open air Market in the Liny West african nation. Togo said the terrorists planned to use explosive supplied by the libyan embassy in neighbouring Benin. The togolese Interior ministry told reporters that nine people were arrested july 23 for planning the attacks. It said two briefcases containing plastic explosives a grenade and a pistol had been seized but the ministry did not give details As to where they were found. Interior minister a Polivi Tevi Lacle said the suspects confessed to having planned to blow up the .embassy and an open air african Market in the Center of lome using the explosives smuggled from the libyan embassy in Benin a Radical marxist state with close ties to Libya. A group of nine individuals some from Togo and the others from Benin were arrested in Possession of bombs that they were ready to use against the . Embassy and the big Market in the capital Lacle said. Acting . Ambassador Marc Baas said Security had been tightened at the american embassy since it was informed of the plot. We were informed by the togolese government some Days ago that they had in fact discovered explosives and that the embassy was a possible target Baas said. I Don t know anything about the people arrested. We weren t Given All the details. We naturally took the appropriate precautions Buti have no comment on what they were. All embassies of course take precautions for All sorts of eventualities Baas said. He said he could not confirm that the explosives had been supplied by Libya. Lacle said the extremists smuggled the explosives across the Mono River that separates Togo from Benin. . And French Security police were called in to examine the explosives the ministry said. Baas declined to comment on whether american authorities had examined the explosives. Lacle said an investigation was continuing but that authorities had also Learned the group of radicals had planned attacks in at least two other countries one in Western Africa and the other in Central Africa. He declined to name the other countries. The planned attacks Are expected to be one of the subjects of meetings this week in Ivory coast by sever Al african leaders including togolese president Gen. Gassing by a Yadama As Well As Heads of state from Gabon Zaire and Ivory coast. Togo is one of Africa s smallest nations. It stretches 360 Miles North from its capital lome but is Only 100 Miles wide at its broadest Point. Its neighbors arc Ghana to the West Benin to the East and Turkina faso formerly upper Volta to the North. Hostage Anderson ill lebanese sources say Beirut Lebanon a a privately owned lebanese news Agency has quoted Security sources As saying that 38 year old american hostage Terry a. An Derson is ill. The Central information Agency distributed the report saturday. The report could not be independently verified. It said Anderson asked for Medica Tion but Anderson s sister Peggy Sav said from her Home in Batavia n.y., that she knew of no medication her brother needed fora health problem. I Don t know any More than anyone else at this Point said say who recently went to the Middle East to work for her brother s release. I m just worried sick about it but have no Way of finding out  the report carried by the Central in formation Agency said Security sources quoted diplomatic intelligence received by Western capitals involved in the question of the hostages As saying kidnapped american journalist Terry Anderson regional director of the associated press is sick and suffering from health problems that confined him to bed. His captors have managed to provided him with the medicines he re Quested. The other hostages Are in Good  Anderson was kidnapped in West Bei rut March 16, 1985. However a lebanese newspaper Edi Tor gave a slightly different version of the source of the report. The editor told the associated press that a lebanese notable whom he did not identify further said he saw Ander son recently in Captivity somewhere in the syrian controlled Bekaan Valley in Eastern Lebanon. The Man is sick. He was lying in bed the editor quoted the notable As saying during a visit to the lebanese news Agency s offices in East Beirut s Nazmiyeh District on Friday. The islamic jihad organization claims it is holding Anderson along with two other american hostages David Jacob sen 55, and Thomas Sutherland 55. The organization claims to have killed Wil Liam Buckley 58, a . Embassy Politi Cal officer who also was kidnapped but no body has been found. The Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco a roman Catholic priest from Joliet iii., was released july 26 after nearly 19 months Captivity. Beaten up British officer loses gurkha command London up a British army officer who was beaten up by his own soldiers for allegedly insulting them has been relieved of his com Mand of the Hong Kong based Gurk has the defense ministry said Mon Day. The officer major Corin Pearce 31, us Fred two broken ribs and severe head injuries in a Brawl after a British american military exercise in Hawaii last May a defense spokes Man said. He said another officer also had his ribs broken in the fight. The assault led to the dismissal last week of 111 gurkhas of the 1st Bat Talion of the 7th Duke of Edinburgh s own gurkha rifles for refusing to co operate in the investigation into the incident. The spokesman said some of the gurkhas have been reinstated and several others Are considering appeals against their dismissals. The dismissal of the gurkhas named after the tiny gurkha Region in Nepal threatens to cause a rift in British nepalese relations the daily Telegraph newspaper said. It cited reports that Nepal s King Brenda is said to be extremely unhappy about the mass dismissal. The newspaper also said some of the gurkhas claimed Pearce had insulted the Honor of the nepalese nation with patronizing rude and racist  the gurkhas experts in Jungle guerrilla warfare have a proud 171 year history of fighting for the British and remain Britain s surviving for eign mercenary unit. The British honorable East India company declared War on them in1814, and a fierce two year struggle ended in stalemate. The British were so impressed by the Tough gurkha that they asked them to join the Brit ish army in 1816. They have be recruited regularly Ever since now serving mainly Inhong Kong to patrol the Border with China but they also fought in Brit Ain s 1982 Falkland War with Argen Tina. Pearce who had served with the gurkhas since 1984, was due to leave them in october