European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 6 the stars and stripes wednesday january 28,1987 stateside form to hostage Jura Salt Dell Palmer of Little Rock ark., ays Mohammed All Himadi we one of his asian daring the ims hijacking of Twa Tell lit. Sex hostage identifies Hamadi As captor during 85 hijacking Little Rock. Ark a one of the passengers aboard a Twa jetliner hijacked in 1985 said monday he recognized a Man in a photograph shown on television news As one of his former captors. La i definitely him Jimonie Dell Palmer 50, of Little Rock Laid while examining a picture identified As Mohammed a i Hamadi on Abc news monday night. He reaffirmed his statement after seeing the Sam picture a full face photograph on a lbs news tape viewed at a Little Rock television station. The lbs tape also identified the nun in the picture As Hamadi. Palmer his wife Sammie and teen age son Joedon were aboard Twa flight 847 when it was hijacked from Athens Greece to Beirut Lebanon. Mrs. Palmer and Jcj Don were released in Algeria and Palmer was freed hours before his fellow hostages be cause he needed medical treatment asked How he recognized the Man. Palmer said it s just his face. It was definitely him. That s ail i can  asked whether he saw the Man in the picture participate in any violence against passengers Palmer said i saw him slap a couple of people  Palmer then added he was the Leader As far us i was concerned. There s no doubt in my mind Hamadi 22, a shiite lebanese was arrested i Frankfurt on Jan. 13. He has been indicted in the United Stales in the hijacking in which a . Navy diver Robert Lethem was lulled at Beirut s Airport. Palmer said he did not Exchange words with the Man in the picture. Asked whether he would be willing to testify against the Man. Palmer said you bet i  Palmer has previously expressed regrets that the United Stales has agreed not to consider the death penalty As a possible punishment for Hamadi if he is convicted in the hijacking. There is no capital punish ment in Germany. December surge Caps beef year since 79 for . Home resales Washington a a Rush to take advantage of expiring tax Breaks helped push sales of existing Homes to an All time monthly High in december Clos ing out the Best year for Home resales since 1979, a real estate Trade group has reported. The National association of realtors said monday existing single family Homes were sold at a seasonally adjusted annual Rale of 4.17 million units last month 6,6 percent higher than november arid the highest monthly sales Pace on record. Analysis attributed the big surge to unusually warn december weather and a Rush by some homeowners to sell while their profits would still be axed at favourable capital gain Rales before the new lax Law took effect Jan. I. Tail change was particularly important to Sellers of higher priced properties who wanted to take their Capi us gains under the old lax rules said association economist Glenn Crellin. For All of 1986. Sales of existing Homes totalled 3.57million Uniti 10.9 percent higher than 1985 and the Best annual sales Tula since 1979, when 3.83 million existing Homes were sold. Analysts attributed the strength last year to a dra Matic drop in mortgage rates which Felt below double digits for the first time this decade. Currently fued talc mortgages Are averaging 9.1 percent the lowest level since january 1978, according to a weekly Survey by the Federal Home loan mortgage corp. A belief that mortgage Rales will bold at this level or decline even More in coming months is leading economists to forecast that sales of both newly built an existing single family Homes will Rise even higher in 1987. Sales of new Homes for 1986 Are expected to lop 700,000 units when december figures Are released Early next month. Crellin said that As Consumers realize that Home mortgage payments Are one of the Best income tax deductions left under the new tax Law this will help sales As  nationwide median Price of existing Homes sold in december Rose $200 to 580,600, reflecting a 6.8 percent increase from the $75,500 median Price a year ago. Half the Homes sold for More and half for Lea than the median Price. All of the december Price increase was confined tothe Northeast which was the hottest sales Region All year. Median Home prices Rose si4,400 in the North East Over the november level to stand at $120,800 in december 28.9 percent higher than a year ago. Or club attributed part of the Rise to owners of High Price Homes deciding to sell and collect their proms before the tax Law  Home prices were 562,900 in the Midwest Down 1600 from november but up 7.3 percent from a year ago. The median sales Price in the South was$75,400 last month Down 5900 from november and just 1.8 percent higher than a year ago. The median sales Price in the West was s 100.600. Down 51,8.00 from november but up 6.5 percent from a year ago. 3 More decommissioning of nuke subs scheduled Bremerton Wash. A three More nuclear submarines will be decommissioned at the puget sound naval shipyard in 1987 and 1988, bringing the total at the shipyard to 14. The scamp launched in i960, is to arrive in july for deactivation. Shipyard spokesman Bruce Andrae said monday. Two other subs will be towed to Bremerton for storage later this year or Early next year after being deactivated at Pearl Harbor naval ship Yard in Hawaii and Mare Island naval shipyard in California. The names of the two subs were not disclosed. The Snook another nuclear tub is being deactivated at the shipyard and 10 subs Are in Mothballs. The Navy Hopes to remove the def eled re actors from the submarines transport them up the Columbia River and Bury them on the Han Ford nuclear reservation. Funding has not yet been provided for the project Justice won t dismiss suit filed against Perot pm new York up a state Justice monday refused to dismiss a 5750 million damage suit against millionaire businessman h. Ross Perot general motors corp. And the pm Board and ordered the group to appear in court next month to try to carve out a Compromise. Stale supreme court Justice Irma Vidal san Paella set feb. In As the Day when Perot the Maverick former pm Board member and other major actors in the Case must appear for an exploratory  the suit was filed in december 1986 by Mil ledge a. Hart i a wealthy Dallas businessman who is a founder and former president of elec tronic data systems corp., the company Perot also founded and sold log in 1984. La. Terminals evacuated after chemical spill los Angeles up cockroach Poison spilled from Luggage at International Airport emitted Skunk like noxious fumes thai forced the evacuation of two terminals made 13 people sick and delayed air traffic. Two one gallon Ceramic containers of the chemical dime tote apparently ruptured Sun Day night in a piece of Luggage. Us customs service spokesman Mike Flem ing said monday that investigators saw a woman carrying the leaking containers of pesticide Wither suitcases on a Luggage rack. They said her clothing and bags were covered with a yellow ish Green  noxi9us fumes from the spill prompted the evacuation of about 150 people from terminal no. 5, used by Mexicana and Western airlines and terminal no. 4 used by american airlines Airport spokeswoman Virginia Black said. Founder of protest group ordered to stand trial Seattle a Silas trim Bissell a founder of the Radical Weatherman group involved in Vietnam War protests in the 1960s, has been ordered to stand trial March 31 on charges replanted a bomb on a College Campus 17 Yean ago. Bissell was arrested last week at his Home in Eugene ore., where he had been living under an assumed name and working in a Hospital. At a preliminary appearance before . Mag Istrate John Weinberg on monday Bissell was asked whether be understood the charges against him. Yes your Honor he replied in a Strong voice. Bissell. 44, great grandson of the founder of the Bissell carpet sweeper company is being held Al the Pierce county jail in Tacoma Wash