European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d jobless rate drops again Page 2 o baseball great Greenberg Dies of cancer Page 21 q Delta rocket launched in Star wars1 test Page 28 the stars and ripes unofficial publication vol.45.no. 141 saturday september 6, 1986j q 8693 a american killed by hijackers gunfire injures scores on Jet Karachi Pakistan a four Arab hijackers suddenly opened fire Friday inside a pan am jumbo Jet where they had held about 400 people hostage forbore than 17 hours. First estimates indicated at least 100 people were wounded Early in the hijacking the gunmen killed a american passenger and they also wounded three Airport workers. According to pan am figures 41 other americans were on the plane when the shoot ing began. Pakistani army commandos captured at least one of the gunmen. It was not known if the commandos had taken control of the plane. An associated press reporter who was beside the jetliner said Security forces were taken by Surprise when the hijackers began firing inside the Cabin with automatic weapons. A wounded passenger told the Apas he was being lifted into an ambulance All of a sudden they started firing. Nobody was expecting terrified and wounded passengers streamed off the Jet. Some said the plane s lights went out just before the firing started. Others reported explosions an see hijackers on Page 28 few fears comforting words a re Sun Dodds school year begins learning his Way around it Jfe first Day of school and tint school teachers Kim Krieger left and or Chris Perry already is learning Betty Homer came to Chris Rescue lesson be right classroom can be Friday and brought him la the proper difficult to Hod. Ramble in elementary room. See other photos. Page 3. Walczak it Ion writer Len a Germany Mary met each arrival to room ending Low to get a closer look the children who were about to to run the focus of her life for the next nine months. See related Story Pho tos. Page 9. The Little people received More at Tention than their parents who stood aside As Parsons introduced herself to the 24 first graders assigned id her Ramstein elementary class. Hello Brandy i m your teacher mrs. Parsons she said to the i4lh arrival there s a coat rack Over there. Why Don t you hang up you coat and then sit anywhere you Brandy my Kinzio looked up speech Lessly then look her first Steps into room 206. The classroom featured the usual blackboard desks and. Chairs. But inflated fish Hung from the ceiling dancing animals adorned the Walls and a bookworms Are neat sign was posted opposite the american hag. It s going to get pretty crowded in Here by the end of the year Parsons id in a quiet voice that somehow nand cd attention. I always try to a Fig in new things. I want to make this a face where the children want to come Corv Friday asked the first Day of the school yes for More than 185,000 depart mint to defense dependent school stud Cal a Parsons has a Man hand for nine Odds opening sex at Ramstein elementary the to Kim s largest school. The school a More than see Dodds i Page 3 Forrestal cuts Short Naples Call by Norman Buckay military writer Washington the Navy in what was described As a prudent pre caution in the Wake of an airline Hijack ing in Pakistan Friday ordered the air Craft Carrier Forrestal to Cut Short a Portnall and head for he Central Mediterranean Pentagon sources said. The Carrier and an unspecified num Ber of smaller warships got under Way Friday afternoon from Naples Italy the sources said. Harbor authorities in Naples later con firmed the Forrestal s departure. A second . Carrier assigned to the Mediterranean remained in port in la in dorm Spain. The hijackers Are supposedly de manding to be flown o Cyprus a Pentagon official said. If they come to Cyprus they re in the Mediterranean. This is simply a prudent decision a prudent precaution. You can t do anything if you re sitting in the forr Celal arrived in Naples Sun Day after a we Klong exercise in the East pm Mediterranean with egyptian forces. The huge Carrier with about 85 aircraft aboard had been expected to remain in port at least through wednesday. The Pentagon sources stressed Friday that no military operation had been planned for the Forrestal adding that the Carrier was expected to move to a Posi Tion of readiness just in it s a precaution said a second source. Thai s the Beauty of a Carrier. You can move it when you want to be four arabs armed with machine guns see Forrestal on Page 2b 34 i in document destroyer blast a. By Connie Dickey staff write thirty four people were injured Fri Day when a document destroyer exploded in Berlin spewing out shr routine training a per Sorinc a . Air said. Staff so Mary Sellinger said one de sense department and 32 air Force members we Rejnin the explosion Ljubo Mem a . Even of the injured were hospitalized in the american army Hospital and three were in German hospitals. The others were treated at the army Hospital and though there also were lacerations and at sly ill sait. Blanck commander of the. _ Tal. The other hospitalized America were in fair to Good condition. Blanck described their wounds As bum and blast injuries to the extremities Al the injuries were not As severe As appeared Blanck said. By and Lucky on , Community relations spokes wbb said see i
