European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday december 27.1986 Abshire named special aide on Iran Washington a president Reagan Friday appointed David Abshire . Ambassador to nato to coordinate while House responses o congressional and other probes into the Sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to the .-backed rebels in Nicaragua. Ahshire Wili be Given Cabinet rank Reagan said and will serve As a special Counselor to the president Abshire former president of the Georgetown University Center for Sirat Chic and International studies was appointed permanent representative on the coun cil of the North Atlantic treaty organization on March 30, 1983."he will head a team that will coordinate White my us Brief French rail system offers to talk with strikers Paris a the management of France National Rait system said Friday it will negotiate with striking workers if they go Back to their jobs. The 9-Day-old strike has Cut train service by 25 percent across France with management using buses to replace trains on Many routes. Jean do pity director of the Railroad known As the in of said he was ready to negotiate on the two main Points of Contention in the strike working conditions and a new pay scale that emphasizes Merit ratings at the expense of seniority management originally had refused to discuss those issues until january and March. As soon As the trains Are rolling the Over Tures that 1 just made which Are very Large ones can be made Concrete Dupuy said. Bombs in Spanish cities kill cop injure 2 others Madrid Spain a bombs exploded i French owned businesses in Madrid and the Basque City of san Sebastian killing a member Ofa bomb squad and injuring two people police said thursday there was no immediate claim of responsibility but police said they suspected the Basque terrorist group Eta. The initials stand for Bas que Homeland and Liberty in the Basque Lan Guage Madrid police said a bomb exploded late thursday in an upstairs room of the hotel no hotel after a Cark received a telephoned warn ing. There were no injuries but the bomb caused serious damage. Police also reported that civil guard officer Jose Pena Medina 26, died instantly wednes Day when a sports bag he was inspecting exploded in the Prycak hypermarket a food store near san Sebastian. Ship sinks off Iceland at least 9 crewmen die Reykjavik Iceland up a British owned cargo ship Sank in Stormy seas off the East coast of Iceland Friday taking the lives of nine crewmen the icelandic Rescue service said. Three other crewmen were presumed dead. Rescue service spokesman thro Stur Sig Ryggs son said nine bodies had been recovered from the sea. But an Alt Day search for three other missing crewmen was called off because rescuers hid there was Little Hope of their being found alive. The 1,260-ton British owned syne a left Liverpool for Iceland a week ago and radioed an sos Call for help just after Midnight saying it had Bil a Rock and was too close to the coastline to launch its lifeboats. It appears that the 12-Man Crew jumped into the sea when the vessel began to sink said Johannes Briem another Rescue service spokes Man. He said the Only Man pulled alive from the sea died later the Crew of the Gibraltar registered vessel was made up of six British nationals and six citizens of the Cape verde islands. House activities in Oil aspects of the Iran matter the White House announcement said. Abshire was considered a candidate for the Job for Reagan s National Security adviser following the 1980 election but the appointment went instead to Richard. Allen. Abshire s name also was mentioned As a Suc Cessor to vice adm. John  when Poindexter resigned As National Security adviser nov. 25 following the disclosure of the diversion of proceeds to the con tras from secret arms sales to Iran. Instead Reagan chose Frank Carlucci a Veteran trouble shooter in re publican administrations. Abshire will Start his new assignment Jan. 5 and will continue some nato duties until a successor is appointed and confirmed by the Senate the while House said. The president is pleased and grateful for ambassador Abshire s willingness to undertake this important special assignment and looks Forward to working with such a talented and dedicated Public servant the White House statement said. He has served at nato with the utmost distinction and  a native of Chattanooga tenn., the 60-year-old Abshire is a former member of the president s foreign intelligence advisory Board he is a 1951 graduate of the . Military Academy and earned his doctorate at Georgetown in 1959. He is married and has five children. Red army faction puts Schmidt at top of hit list paper reports Hamburg up West Germany s terrorist Baader Meinhoff gang which took responsibility for two spectacular assassinations already this year has put former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt atop its latest hit list a newspaper said Friday. Bild newspaper said it had gotten a copy of an eight Page Tetter in which the gang also known As the red army faction threatened to murder Schmidt As Wellas Juergen Warnke the current minister for foreign Aid and Juergen Muellemann a Deputy foreign min ister. The mass circulation newspaper said authorities had strengthened Security precautions around the three politicians while keeping the letter a secret Bild said Security experts regarded the three men As acutely endangered because their names were specifically mentioned. The Baader Meinhoff gang is blamed for numerous assassinations kidnappings robberies and bombings dating Back to the late 1960s. This year the gang claimed responsibility for the ambush that killed Sie mens corporate science chief Karl Heinz Bec kurts and his Driver with a Remote controlled bomb on a Road in suburban Munich on july 9 and the fatal shooting of Gerold Brau Muehl a nigh official in the foreign ministry in Bonn on oct. 10. Bild said the latest letter from the gang criticized the government s policies toward Arab and poor countries. Bild said the letter linked the death threat to the fulfil ment of two demands. The letter demanded that captured hard Core terrorists of the gang be confined in the same prison quarters As captured sympathizers Bild said. Ii also demanded the release of terrorist Guenter Sunnenberg who i serving a life sentence and immediate surgery for terrorist Angelika Roder who is serving a 15-year Ter for involvement in a kidnapping and has a nip prob Lem Bild said. A few dozen gang terrorists and sympathizers Are being held in German prisons. Two members of the gang were sentenced this week in the aug. 31, 1981, terror bombing at the . Air Force s european head quarters at Ramstein a. The bombing injured 17 people. . Ambassador to Cosfa Rico linked to contras secret Airstrip Miami not the . Ambassador to Costa Rica helped secure initial Costa rican permission to build a secret Airstrip for the nicaraguan rebels Early this year and was deeply involved in overseeing its use according to a senior government official in Central America according to sources ambassador Lewis a. Tambs maintained close Contact with others involved in a private Supply network for the contras that was set up by la. Col. Oliver l. North of the National Security Council the Supply operation was established at a Lime when Congress had made it illegal to Send military supplies to the contras. According to Costa rican records the Airstrip was built by Udall research a Panama based company that has since been dissolved. The company reportedly was tied to other companies that administered secret Swiss Bank accounts tunnelling profits from arms sales to Iran and that also set up the Supply network. The companies appear to have been overseen in party retired maj Gen Richard v. Secord a key figure in the Iron Corn affair. Sources said Tambs May have acted without state department authorization working directly wit North and the White House Tambs unexpectedly announced his  festive in january shortly after the Iran Centra affair became Public. Crash from Page 1 ing a forced  saudi official contacted by Telephone in Riyadh said an inquest is under Way and we have no conclusive evidence of an attempted  he said that shortly before the crash either the Pilot or the co Pilot died. But i Don t know the circumstances  he did not elaborate. A Knowle Gable source in Amman who demanded anonymity said one captured Hijacker told saudi interrogators the plan was to Force the Airliner to Fly to Damascus Syria and then on to Tehran  Paris Iraq s ambassador to France Mohammed Sadiq Al Maschat accused Iran of masterminding the Hijack attempt Callin Gita crime of the iranian  in the Muia Hedeen Khaliq the main opposition group Active in Iran said the attempted hijacking was linked to Iran. The sources who spoke on condition of anonymity claimed iranian leaders including prime minister Hus Sein Musavi and shiite leaders from other Middle Eastern countries discussed terrorist actions during a meeting in Tehran on dec. 20. The actions were discussed As a Way to divert at Tention from Iran s problems particularly setbacks in the War the sources said leading shiites from Leb anon Syria the United Arab emirate and other coun tries attended the meeting one source  jordanian government said 95 people were on the plane 30 of whom  saudi defense ministry said there were 107 aboard 91 passengers 15 Crew members and a Security Man. La said 62 people were killed and 32 of 44 survivors injured. It did not account for the other person survivors said one of the hijackers tried to run into the cockpit with two grenades. Sky i vials wrestled him to the floor but he detonated the grenades blast ing the door Oft he  hijackers emerged and the gun Bailie began. Screaming passengers tried 10 hide under the seals an the Cabin ruled with smoke. Survivors said the plane then went into a nosedive and crashed. One survivor former jordanian Interior minister Suleiman Aarau said the plane was commandeered about an hour after leaving Baghdad and had just entered saudi airspace when a Man stood up with a grenade three Security men jumped us and tried to Stop him and wrestled him to the floor but he slipped out of their grasp and crawled into the cockpit Aarau said