European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday december 27.19b6 okla. Go gets yuletide Chat with Reagan Bourland spec. 4 Michael t. Cav stood guard on inc Midnight 10 4 . Tiri shift Al Camp acc near bad kissing in Germany. He d be thinking about Home and not about the phone Chat he d Hod with president Reagan. Rut the 20-year-old my Lank gunner with co 12nd is. I Lulli army Cav Rygl said he nervous when the while reached Camp Lee at about 5 l5djwffctrislmas eve Calvert a nauy0walala, okla., waited two min lies for the Fesi Donl to come on inc line. He said the president s first words were a Christmas greeting to him and 85 other members of inc Blackhawk on duty at Camp Lee Abdul 10 Miles from the East Der. Ghent hell Lull he Hull Ali i ii Pecan. Ivas based Al the Lime. He said in was one first movies Calvert said. During the five minute conversation Reagan also asked Calvert about his Hometown How Long he d been on the Border 21 Days this rotation and How the unit did in Lank gunnery Competition. Ai fun in i told him Wethe cavalry _ 16 have a hold on inc soft tank gunner who said he did t ask inc presi Dent any questions. I could l think of anything to ask he said. Flow soldiers on the other Liand had a kith several questions to pose to the comma Ernie a Phil i tul armed forces. He would Noi say Whai the que they were he said laughing. Floh t think i need to say App Clit French journalist aural Cornea and his wife Aurora. Terrorists free French newsman Paris a aural Cornea inc French hostage Reed by his moslem captors from 9v months Capri Vii in Lebanon arrived in Paris thursday for Christmas. Premier Jacques Chirac greeted Cornea As he descended from Ilic government plane which brought him from Cyprus Cornea s wife other family Mem Bers and Claude cont Amine the president of Antennc-2 television also greeted Cornea a newsman for the station. Cornea was kidnapped March b in West Beirut along with three colleagues. His captors in inc revolutionary Justice Organ Alion believed made up of shiite moslem Loyal to Iran released him wednesday evening in Whai in called 11 Goodwill Christmas gesture. Revolutionary Justice said in releasing Cornea thai it was acting in response to med ilium by Iran. Syria and Algeria it urged franu1 to Slop arms supplies to Iraq with which Iran has been at War for More than six years. Poor get helping hand from Page 1 Francisco Capet Ted to serve 6.000 Christmas Day Din ners but by 8 . It was already Clear inc number of people seeking help and the number offering help would exceed Especial ions. Merrill Lynch opened its new York corporate head quarters to Nearl 1,300 elderly people a life were Al Lowed to make free Calls Many of them overseas on company u Leal itunes in Vineland n.j., former major Patrick Fiorill continued an eight year Christmas tradition by serving a gourmet seven course meal fur elderly citizens. Inmates at South Dakota Penitentiary in Sioux Falls sponsored a party for 28 Ceic bral palsy victim wednesday. In Plainfield ind., a Young Carpenter his wife and 6-Wcck-old baby living in a Liny Motel room received several carloads of gifts wednesday from Hendricks county sheriffs deputies who called the couple our own Mary and passenger claims hijackers detonated grenades on Jet Amman Jordan a a former jordanian cab inet minister who survived the crash Landing of an iraqi jetliner thursday said women tried to Hijack in Boeing 737 and detonated at least two hand grenades As it tried to land. The iraqi airways flight in route from Amman to Baghdad crashed off the runway Al a Small desert Airstrip at Arar 60 Miles South of the saudi jordanian Border and 250 Miles Southwest of Baghdad. Thesauri defense ministry said 62 of the 107 people aboard were killed. Suleiman Aarau a former Interior minister told re porters on arrival in the jordanian capital 10 hours after inc crash the Captain had just announced thai we d entered saudi airspace when one passenger from the Economy class jumped up with a hand grenade and ran towards the cockpit. Three Security men jumped up and tried to Slop him and wrestled him to the floor but he slipped out of their grasp and crawled into the cockpit. The door was slammed shut. Then there were loud noises and screaming from the cockpit and behind in the Economy Section. A few moments later Here was an explosion inside the cockpit Aarau said. Then there was another explosion in the Economy class compartment and pistol shots in the cockpit he said indicating there were Al Leas two hijackers. The Bahrain based Gulf news Agency quoted an iraqi official As saying in Baghdad that the Hijacker were agents of the iranian regime travelling on Leb anese passports. The Back of the plane was on fire and the Cabin was filled with smoke Aarau continued. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. Then the plane started Sway ing and began a nose dive. Ii hit the ground and we were All on the floor he said. The fuselage split Inlo two with the two pieces on the ground about 200 or 300 Yards apart. An attendant in the first class Section pulled me and my brother Khalid from under the scats and All three of us threw ourselves out of the plane Asil continued to he said. Exp is kill 1, injure 2 in Spain Madrid Spain a French owned businesses in Madrid and City of san Sebastian killing a member of a squad and injuring two people polio there was no imm dig but he Basque terrorist Groupie initials land for Basque Homeland Ana Liberty in inc Basque language. Madrid police said a bomb exploded late thursday in an upstairs room of inc hotel Novosel after a clerk received a telephoned warning. There were no injuries but the bomb caused serious t officer Jos Tedina 26, died instantly wednesday when a he was inspecting exploded in the Prycak Ai food store near san Sebastian. Pena cof Lucean searching inc store after a clerk received an Anonym Lonj Telp Hryc warning. A store Security Gua Retada cleaning woman we retreated at a Hospital for Minjir and released police said. They estimated that thetfcbt1 contained 6.6pounds of plastic explosives and Shrap candles in the dark candles not Christmas presents Light up the faces of Black children in Soweto South Africa where most parents did not buy gifts because of a Boycott of White owned stores in nearby Johannesburg. Blacks were also asked to turned off their House lights for he Christmas against the emergency Campaign which was called to protest stale restrictions on the press speech und Assembly
