European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Rehnquist memo Sparks controversy Page 5 o officials explore kidney program at Lan Stuhl Page 9 q College football s first big saturday. Sports vol.45. To. T43 authorize d u40fficui publication Eon the . Named monday september 8t 1986 in o d 8693 a Hijack victims land in Germany . Romi Mcki Slit it writer Rhein main a Cic Manv eleven people seriously injured of Vijay in the hijacking of a i an am jumbo Sci m Paki Stan arrived Here Early sunday aboard in air Force transport plane. Sis americans were aboard the pm i Star lifter that also carried six uninjured family members who had been Passen Gers aboard i in1 Airliner when in was. Hijacked in in Ranchi. Pakistan. Be Tali stories pm tit on pugs 2,3 and 7. More tha Kyj other passengers who were aboard the hijacked plane arrived in Frankfurt sunday Al 7 10 . On a special pan am Light from Karachi. An Indian airlines Airbus k Al Karachi for Bombay shortly after the special pan am flight took off inc associated press reported. Ii carried 89 Hijack survivors including 15 wounded Indian diplomats at the Karachi Airport said. Conflicting news reports put the death loll at 15 or More including Al least one american. Reports said More than 120 we re injured. Pakistani officials said Al least 15 peo ple were killed among them three americans. An Indian Man died of his wounds saturday night raising the death toll to 18. United press International of cloned sunday. Among the dead were 16 Pas sengers a flight attendant and a ground Crew employee up reported. Al Rhein main. Air Force and Ger Man medical technicians immediately began removing the wounded. First off the Sla Lifler , an austrian who was transferred to a waiting commuter Jet. Two american were Pui aboard an army helicopter for the minute flight to the army regional medical Center in lands Uhl which specializes in the treat ment of bums and head injuries. A victim of the pan am hijacking in Karachi Paul Itan is wheeled id a German ambulance at Astin main a. The other wounded were placed in wailing ambulances a slate department spokesman said. He said the group in eluded a German an Indian who Jim in Germany a briton and an italian the family members on the flight including four children were put aboard a medical transport bus. An entire British family was on Board the . Air Force plane. A reported. I lard jul Singh Matharu. 35, who suffered shrapnel wounds in the hijacking his wife their three children and a Niece were Alt on the c-j4i. Derek Page the it Ilish vice Consul in Frankfurt told inc associated press. Matharu was hospitalized in the . Army s regional medical a scr in Frankfurt with shrapnel wounds in his Back and Heel. Page told the a p. Salhani s wife had Aino been slightly wounded in the ankle but did not require Hospital motion. Panes and. The children we re not Hun. The family was allowed to travel with Matharu on the c -i4 and to slay with see victims  Page 28 survivors Tell of ordeal in Jet escape s45 photo by Ken i Hijack victim Dick Melhart talks la reporters it Frankfurt International Airport. A Daryl Green  and Dave Wai Cak staff writers Frankfurt Dick Melhart told of opening a door and escaping the Iraq Edy thai befell Al least 15 of Nis fellow passengers aboard i an american world airways right 73 in Karachi Pakistan. "1 was standing near a door and 1 opened it. To was easy. All the Lime there was no panic he said. Four gunmen look Over the jumbo Jet Friday Asil stopped in Karachi in route to Frankfurt. Afier 10 hours on the ground the plane s lights went out and the gunmen opened fire killing the Pas sengers. Mel Hall was one of 209 survivors who boarded a special sunday night from he Pakistan port City to Frankfurt. Most of those arriving on pan am flight 6073 declined to talk to reporters who jammed a Frankfurt International Airport departure Gate. Melhart 44, said the lights went out and is minutes later they opened fire when he a gunman tired at me i was glad he missed. They opened fire on  Nei children  asked his reaction to the pakistani handling of inc incident Melhart said there Wai no pakistani action. "1 was one of the first ones out. I ran away toward the terminal As fast As i could. Then there was a Hunch of people screaming lie Down lie Down lie Down " me Harl of Pullman. Wash., was continuing the flight to Juk International Airport i m getting out of new Vork As fast As i can he said. Once Home the first thing i m going to do is hug my  he said a flight attendant hid his and other americans passports which probably did a lot toward saving our lives i know who she is but i m not going to Tell you Thomas Raeuber a German architect who along with his wife Carman spoke to reporters said the atmosphere Ai he rear of the air plane was pretty relaxed. The kids were playing cards we did t even know anyone had been killed re Ferring to the death of Racsh Kumar who was thrown off the plane before the nearly 17-hour Wail on inc Airport s tar Mac. One thing i m mad about is the hijackers said they did t like americans but they tried to use pressure on Ameri cans to get to Cyprus Clarence Malo nay told the associated press. Paloncy is a 52-Yearkild anthropologist who lives near Munich. No pakistani commandos Ever came see survivors on Page 28