European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday october 8.1886 5 arrested linked with try to kill Gandhi new Delhi India a five men from Punjab stale were arrested in connection with last week assassination attempt on prime minister Rajiv Gandhi the United news of India reported tuesday. The news Agency quoted officials at the Central Bureau of investigation As saying the men were arrested monday. It said four were from Sang rur District in he South of the slate and the fifth was a sikh priest from Amritsar District. Gandhi 42, escaped injury thursday when a Lone gunman fired As the prime minister left a prayer meet rather Back at work after bizarre assault new York up Dan rather anchored the lbs evening news monday with a slightly swollen jaw but otherwise he appeared a scarred from a bizarre and frightening Park Avenue attack that sent him to a Hospital. The Anchorman appeared nonplussed on the air and mentioned the saturday night attack at the end of the 30-Minule broadcast. Why i was assaulted and exactly by who remains unclear and it May never be deter mined rather said. Perhaps it was just another one of those bizarre and frightening incidents thai seem to happen from Lime to  he said aside from a Little stiffness handsome bumps and bruises i m feeling fide i just want to thank those who came to my  earlier monday Raiher s doctor said the journalist was fit to return to work. Rather was punched in the face and kicked in the Back and kidney saturday night by two strangers while he walked to his apartment on Park Avenue. Before the men beat rather the asked Ken Nch anal s the frequency postal service approves improvement plan Washington a an $11.7 billion five year capital improvement plan was approved tuesday by the . Postal service Board of governors. The plan includes significant investment in facilities mail processing retail and other equip ment said postmaster general Preston r. Tisch. More than half j7.2 billion will be for building remodelling and replacing postal build Ings. The Agency is trying to use Standard plans for new buildings to Speed their construction. Another sz.3 billion will be spent on Auto mated sorting equipment. The Agency estimates mail volume will grow from 146 billion pieces a year to from 165 Bil lion to 175 billion by 1w. The plan earmarks j707 million for self serv ice stamp vending machines and of her equip ment expected to make things More convenient for customers in Post office lobbies. Enhancing the service we provide our Cus timers at the counter and in the lobby is very High on the list of priorities we have set for our selves said Comer f. Coppie senior assistant postmaster general for finance and planning. Ing in new Delhi. A Man arrested at the scene Karamjit Singh 26, a from Sun am Village in Sang rur District. He is in police custody. Uni said the four men arrested monday in Sang urrere named Singh Bill did not say whether Why were related to Karamjit Singh. Singh which Means lion is part of nearly All male sikhs names. Militant sikhs have been waging a four year guerrilla Campaign in Punjab state for creation of an Independent Homeland. Extremist sikhs have issued numerous threats aija inst Gandhi whom they accuse of report. J Sive policies. Officials at the Central Bureau of investigation lined comment on the uni report. The report did not give a reason for the reports 3arrests, but uni said police believe that the gun ruin did not act alone. " Gandhi s Mother and predecessor Indira Gandl was assassinated by two of her sikh bodyguard 31.1984. After her death riots in new Delhi and cities resulted in the deaths of at least most of them sikhs. Terrorists from Page 1 against libyans living abroad who were accused of being hostile to the libyan regime. During that time several libyans living in Rome and other european capitals were shot. One of the freed libyans Yussef Thida killed libyan businessman Jalil Abdul Aref with six pistol shots on april 19, 1980, As Aref sat Al a sidewalk cafe on Rome s via Ven to. A Rome court sentenced Thida to life imprisonment the maximum penalty in Italy bul the sentence was reduced by an appeals court last year to 26 years. The other two libyans Mohamed Sidki saved Dous and Juma Mohammed Ali Mazda i were serving sentences of 14 years and ii months for wounding two two lebanese businessmen following their arrival Froeb Kuwait at Rome s Leonardo a Vinci Airport feb. 24, 1981. 1-, Dous and Mazda i testified that the shooting was a Case of mistaken identity and their intended target Wail Mohammed Yussef Al Mug Reif reputed Leader of libyan factions opposing Qadhafi. The four italians swapped were building contractor Edoardo selic Ialo and construction worker Enzo Castelli jailed since their air gust 1980 arrests on charges of participating in an an Gamba i plot in the libyan port cily of Obruk. They were sentenced to life imprisonment. Mauro Piccin and Massimo Caporali serving 10 year sentences for illegal drug Possession. Piccin was convicted in 1982 and Caporali in november 1984. Although the Exchange was kept secret until after it was completed relatives and friends of the four italian were advised. They met the freed men at the Rome Airport and escorted them Home to Northern Italy. M soviet sub from Page 1 Rcd by two nuclear reactors. The warheads atop one of those missiles could have been blown into the sea and sunk when the submarine experienced a fire and explosion while submerged on Friday Carter said. Asked if the sunken submarine posed a threat to the environment Carter responded really if you re talk ing about radioactivity or a nuclear explosion  Burpee said the United states had already con ducted some sampling in the Vicinity of the sunken submarine and the initial or preliminary results of he. Air sampling and he water sampling have prove negative results. Brian Gorman a spokesman for the National Marine fisheries service in the National oceanic and atmospheric administration said the possible on Marine life Are minimal Al that distance and depth. Even if there were some damage to the reactor containment vessel you be got such an enormous vol ume of Waler compared with a relatively minuscule Amu no of potential radioactivity there would be Al most no Ettell on the environment Gorman said the sinking was observed by a u a. Navy p pc Orion reconnaissance plane and later confirmed by the soviet news Agency Tass. Three men were killed in the initial fire Friday but the remainder of the ship s Crew escaped. Evidence from Page 1 lice by Larouche followers against a Boston Federal grand jury investigation of the operation. It s a Gold mine a Law enforcement official said of the evidence. Everyone is very Happy. They state and Federal people Are toasting each other. Hudson refused comment on whether they plan to ask for More indictments or if they plan to bring charges against Larouche. Warren Hamerman chairman of a Larouche Politi Cal action committee held a Washington news Confer ence and said the raids on the Larouche offices were a conspiracy cooked up by the Reagan administration and Hie soviet Union. No Federal paramilitary raid like that which occurred against Larouche monday could have happened without the approval of the White House Hamerman said. He said soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev in soviet publications had asked for Larouche i head on a Platter and thai in was delivered when the Law enforcement agencies staged the raid. Hamerman said Larouche heard through Media re ports that he May be indicted along with ciders in reported credit card fraud scheme. Participating in Lite predawn raids monday were More than Iso heavily armed Federal authorities if a Ludig Fri secret service and internal Revenue serv ice agents and another 150 state troopers and 21 loud nun county sheriffs deputies. We were prepared for every eventuality Hudaon said. The agents encountered no resistance and the ii. Rouche people were cooperative he said. The source saw. We were prepared for explosive and armed res Unok the source said the authorities monday bad armore vehicles helicopters hostage Rescue teams and dogs. Nicaragua from Page 1 Ca thai the plane was on a Cia operation with Cia  Nicaragua identified the Man As Eugen a Afentul 35, but he said it was not sure How the name waste bed. In Wisconsin people who identified them selves As relatives of the survivor said the Man was Eugene Hasenfus 45, of Marinelle wit in Washington Pentagon spokesman capt. Lay far Rar said there is no one by that name the one provided by Nicaragua in the Active . Military today. We Are Tiliti checking to see if an individual with the name Given served in the . Military in the past but so far the remit Are negative. And we also have no record of missing us. Military personnel or aircraft in Central America fairer said. Several rebel groups Contra have been fight ing to overthrow the nicaraguan government for 4viyears. The United Stales supports the rebels. However Congress has barred using . Military personnel in support of the contras including the presence of . Advisers on nicaraguan toil a woman who answered a Telephone listed in the name of Eugene Hasenfus in Marinette and who identified herself Ashu wife. Sally told the associated press her husband was the surviving Crew member. She would not say whether be was connected with the military. "1 Only know what i see on the to. Too and i really Don t know any More the said. William has Ofui of Osh Kob. Wit., who said hews the survivor s brother said Eugene was a former Marine who worked for an air freight company in Flor Ida. To nid he did t know the name of the company. The United states station 55 military adviser in Al Salvador to train in Forcet in putting Down Lej Tuit re Bels but these advisers arc banned from going into combat there. F a us. Embassy spokesman in san Salvador capital of Al Salvador told the a the plane s surviving ref member a not an adviser not an employee of in embassy and has no relation with  t the spokesman said there was no mention of the nun in embassy records. The nicaraguan defense ministry said the Paraf believed to have been a tactics transport we to Down with a soviet made surface to air Mamik =-.12 45 . Sunday. In a statement Trio ministry Laid the plane carried4tleast 50,000 round of ammunition Jar automatic i fact dozen of Rifle an unspecified number of  grenades and other equipment. Presidential press Secretary Manuel eap Nom Day Laid poor visibility prevented reaching the crash Lite. He said the a. Brought to Managua a Toon As possible