European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 othe stars and stripes monday september 8.1986 Reagan appeals for Daniloff release by the Washington Post Santa Barbara Calif. President Reagan has written soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev appealing for the release of american reporter Nicholas Daniloff informed sources said saturday. In he idler inc sources said Reagan told the soviet Leader that Daniloff Moscow correspondent for . News & world report Magazine is not a . Spy and was not engaged in espionage activities. The president who wrote the letter from his califor Nia ranch thursday appealed to Gorbachev for a Quick Resolution of lie incident he sources said. The i tilt is the first indication of Reagan s involve ment in efforts to free Dan loft and defuse an increasingly tense superpower confrontation. . Officials previously warned that continued de Tention of Dan loft could interfere with .-Soviel  control talks and planning for a Reagan Gorba Chev Summit. It could not be Learned if Gorbachev has responded to Reagan s Appeal or if the soviets have agreed to free Dani Oftas pan of an indirect Exchange involving Vasovic . Official who has been arrested and accused of espionage in new York. However sources indicated that inc matter is being negotiated by . And soviet officials one source said we need an answer soon very  the soviets have said they would hold Daniloff 10 Days before deciding whether 10 put him on trial. That period expires tuesday. Dan lofts arrest by the Kab appeared to be in retaliation for the arrest in new York of Gennady Zakharov a soviet scientific affairs officer assigned to reunited nations. Zakharov is awaiting trial on espionage charges. Last week . Officials said they had proposed to the soviets an indirect Exchange in which Daniloff would be freed immediately to the . Ambassador in Moscow Arthur Hartman and allowed to leave the country to Exchange the United states would resubmit to a new York Federal court a request for the temporary release of Zakharov to inc custody of soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin who would have to Guaran tee Zakharov s appearance at trial. Secretary of state George p. Shutlz insisted last week thai the United states will not Trade Zakharov for Daniloff and other american officials have taken pains to say that the . Proposal is not a Swap. Dan loft has said he was not spying and docs not want to be part of any Trade. He was arrested by the Kab after a russian Friend handed him a packet that inc Friend said contained newspaper clippings but which the Kab said contained secret maps and photos of soviet military installations. . Officials have repeatedly claimed that the charges against Daniloff arc groundless. Sources said that the letter to Gorbachev was Rea Gan s idea and was prepared Al a Lime when officials were also considering a Strong Public statement from the president demanding Danio its release. On thurs Day . Officials apparently decided to delay making the Public statement. While House officials expressed anger that the ice scr had become Public knowledge. The Appeal seems to indicate that Reagan shares the concern of other top officials in his administration that the Dan loft affair will interfere with a series of super Power talks now reaching a sensitive phase. These in clude the informal discussions tast week on  control the planned mecking Between Sulu and soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze scheduled for later this month and the planned but still unscheduled Reagan Gorbachev Summit later the s year. Hijack is. Ambassador Richard Burt left and Mali rotary of Stile notch Al Newlyn. From Page 1 Burt called the hijacking a despicable and outrageous set he lauded the government of Pakistan saying it was important for like minded countries to work together against terrorism. Austrian said the c-141 carried five  and five air Force doctors plus military mental health specialists in addition to the plane s regular medical staf tand flight Crew. Other passengers were expected to leave Karachi on the special pan am charter at 7 . Sunday for the flight to Frankfurt and London. In London the Airt inc will decide whether the flight will go to John of Kennedy International Airport in new York the final destination of the aborted flight or whether passengers will Transfer to direct flights to other parts of the United states. Four american military planes filled with . Hijack specialists were on their Way to Karachi before hijackers opened fire on the passengers and pakistani commandos scrambled aboard a pakistani official told United press International saturday. Pakistani officials meanwhile issued conflicting statements about the Fate of the four hijackers All believed to be palestinians some said All four survived. Others said one was killed and three survived one of whom was wounded. The gunmen wearing the uniforms of Airport Accuri in workers seized inc aircraft with nearly 400 people aboard Early Friday. They initially demanded to be flown 10 Cyprus in a move to gain the Freedom of palestinian terrorists jailed there. The hijacking ended 17 hours later when the lights went out inside the aircraft and the hijackers fired a passengers and hurled grenades. The commandos gained control of the aircraft half an hour after the shooting began. Pakistani officials said at least 15 people were killed among them three americans. Hospitals reported 127 people injured. White House officials said 17 of the injured were americans the associated press reported sunday that five Security personnel at Karachi Airport have been sus Pended on suspicion of negligence in the hijacking ofic pan am jetliner. Senior officials of the Security Force announced that iwo officers and three troopers of the Karachi Airport detachment were suspended. The five had been As signed to guard the Gate through which the hijackers drove the Van said the officials who spoke to a on condition of anonymity. The head of the Airport Security Force at Karachi International Airport brigadier Tariq raft who said he was with the commander of the commando Force said the Rescue was not a failure. "1 think it was a partial Success but there Are 17 dead he told up. Rafi also said the four hijackers were alive on after undergoing surgery. Rafi told up one of the men claimed he was a member of inc Arab liberation organization. Of the four one said he was a lebanese one a palestinian one a syrian and one said he was from Bahrain. Said it took the full commando team 25 minutes to Jet into the aircraft. They waited for a ladder after the first commando scrambled up an emergency slide which ran with blood from the wounded. However Rafi said that the full Rescue took 25 min utes from Start to finish but the first few commandos reached the aircraft in six minutes Mirza and Rafi said is passengers a pan am flight attendant and a ground Crew member who was mistaken for a Hijacker were killed. Rafi said the commandos shot the ground Crew member during the storming of the Craft when they mistook him for a Hijacker the aircraft Carrier Forrestal conducted routine operations in the Mediterranean West of Italy on sat urday after putting to sea a Day earlier in response Votrie hijacking a Pentagon source said he said the Forrestal was ordered Friday to Cut Short a Jort Call to Naples Italy As a precaution in Case its Jet fighters were needed to intercept the Airliner. The hijackers had demanded that the plane Fly to Cyprus. Turkey from Page 1 Ammerman said seven rabbis were killed. Ammerman said . Authorities in Turkey were trying to determine if any americans were killed or wounded. Police sources said All the dead worshippers were turkish men and a Bull said most were elderly. However Anatolia said the dead included an unidentified visiting rabbi from Israel. Akbulut said the terrorists entered the Neve shalom synagogue at about 9 20 ., secured the main door then stood about 10 Yards part and began firing sub machine guns. He said the terrorists were killed by three hand grenades they detonated Al close Range. Turkish officials had said earlier Only four worshipper in the main prayer room where the attack occurred escaped uninjured. But there were five or six women in an upper Balcony in the building and they also fled unharmed one of the women said. We heard a deafening sound. Every body was panicked and started running out of the building Refka terrain 47, said. As we left the building we saw bodies of three or four men on the ground covered with their prayer  in Jerusalem prime minister Shimon Peres said in an appearance on israeli television old people in the midst of heir prayers innocent people were shot in cold blood. This Lime we have to Lake  victims bodies were borne away in Pine coffins to a Hospital for identification. Police said 12 victims were identified but released no names or nationalities the Neve shalom synagogue w the largest in Istanbul. A spokesman for Istanbul s jewish Community estimated there were about 20,000 jews among the City s nearly 3 million people. Turkey is98 percent moslem. There were three conflicting claims of responsibility on behalf of a shiite moslem group and two previously unknown groups one calling itself Palestin Ian and the other saying it was Arab. Istanbul police said Only that the attack ers were arabs in their 20s. In Beirut Lebanon an Anonymous Cal to to a Western news Agency claimed responsibility in the name of the shiite moslem islamic resistance. Islamic resistance is a code name used by the pro iranian Hezbollah or party of god that has carried out at tacks against israeli soldiers in South Lebanon. The caller said the suicide attack11 was in retaliation for the aggression committed by gangs of the israeli  against our people in the South especially in the Village of  israeli troops Friday raided whal they said was a guerrilla base near Zabine in Southern Lebanon four Miles North of the israeli Border. Israel said one Soldier died and four guerrillas were captured. In Nicosia Cyprus a previously unknown group calling itself the Palestine revenge organization claimed responsibility. A Man in a Telephone Call to Anat Olia s office in Ankara said the North Arab Unity organization a name unheard of before in Turkey was responsible. In Washington Ammerman said we condemn this cowardly attack and deeply deplore the terrible loss of life which resulted from