European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Coffee drinking Granny gets apology Page 2 d Texas troopers ride 150-Mph Mustangs Page 5 d . Yacht wins again sports Page 23 the is and raises authorized unofficial fugal cation kit tit . Juk Ltd pc Iii . 288 monday february 2, 1987  d 8693 a terrorists link hostages Fate to release of 400 prisoners Beirut Lebanon a a terrorism group thai claims in kidnapped three Ameri cans and an Indian last week said in will kill them if Israel docs nol free 400 prisoners within a week. A Handwritten statement signed islamic jihad organization for the liberation of Palestine said 400 prisoners held by Israel should be Down in an International red crass plane to the syrian capital of Damascus. Otherwise he detention of the four hostages alive becomes useless the terrorist wrote. Therefore they will be executed and heir bodies tossed at the garbage tots of  if Israel frees the prisoners during that Lime we shall set the hostages free in said adding thai the one week deadline for he Exchange is nol  officials responding to the threat to kill the hostages said the jewish state would nol negotiate with terrorists we have a position in principle on this hat we Don t Deal with terrorists said prime minister Yitzhak Shamir s spokesman Avi Pazner straight into the camera he appeared  was abducted from Beirut University College on Jan. 24, along with Alann Sleen 47, of Boston mass., a communications instructor Robert Polhill 53, of new York City a lecturer in accounting and filth Ileshwa Singh 60, Ait Indian and resident alien of Floc United states who taught finance a Western Newt Agency in West Beirut announced later that it had received an identical statement along with a Polaroid picture Ofstein. The photograph showed clean shaven smiling Steen without his eyeglasses. Jesse Tomer it was the third statement issued by the extremist group since the tour were seized y gunmen posing As police but the first to carry terms for their  first claimed the four were using the facade of teaching to carry out american see hostages on Page s8 Alann Sleen applet la icelanders making Hay in Middle of Winter Reykjavik Iceland a rowers Are Blooming and formers Are harvesting crops in a wave of tempera Tures that Are unseasonably Balmy by Iceland s standards this has been without a doubt Ojie of the five Wann est january in Reykjavik and the whole of Iceland in this Century Markus Einarsson a meteorologist with the icelandic meteorological Institute said sunday. Taking Reykjavik As an example said Einarsson the temperature has hardly dropped below freezing since Jan. 6, the average this year was 40 degrees. And this warm weather applies to All of  Trausti Jonsson another meteorologist said the temperature is More than three degrees higher than Normal he said a High pressure system Between Iceland and Norway was causing excessive cold in Europe while drawing warm air to Iceland All the Way from the azores islands West of Portugal in the Atlantic. The weather has been so warm that Flowers Are in Bloom and Hay and potatoes Are coming up months before their usual september sprouting. The grass looks very Fine at this time of year Sai Gudmundur Asmundson a Farmer who harvested his Hay on Jan. 23, there is one concern about the warmth however if crops Start in january then in can be very dangerous later on says Gylfi Orrason an office manager of the Farmer s Union. With the possibility of a Frost in february All the crops that Are coming up now can  however that has t stopped icelanders from enjoy ing the warmth and harvesting some Hay anyway. . Showing rambo-like1 attitude in Trade disputes dec official says Brussels Belgium a a senior official of the european economic Community said sunday that Trade relations with the United states arc clearly wors ening and that Washington s rambo Liker attitude toward settling Trade Dis Putes is to blame. Willy Declereq the dec s chief Trade negotiator told belgian Brt television that the United Stales was wrong in claiming its huge Trade and budget deficits Are linked to unfair trading practices by Europe. Their reasoning is pretty simplistic he said Declercq said the Reagan administration was not facing up to the True causes of . Economic ills including a decline in Industrial competitiveness. The United slates did not do what Europe did the painful restructuring of whole sectors of its Economy he said. Declercq was the dec s chief negotiator in a Grain sales dispute with the United states hut was settled last week averting what both sides said would have become a debilitating Trade War. Declercq. A former belgian Deputy prime minister said All . Trading part ners Are confronted with an american Atti tude prompted by worry fear resistance and a wrong perception of Floc  they react in a rambo like manner which we certainly Don t appreciate but which we will have to Lake into account in the near future he said in a refer ence o the violent movie character. He said it is abominable that the unil de slates and Western Europe with a history of close ties and amicable relations have come to the Point of threatening each other with punitive Trade measures. In the Grain Sale dispute the Reagan administration said in would slap sharply higher tariffs on import of european Gin Brandy and other selected products while the dec was poised to strike Back with higher duties on . Com gluten feed and Rice. The Exchange was avenged by a last minute settlement thursday. That s not the Way civilized people try to Settle problems Declercq said. In a Trade War you know where it starts but you never know when and where it ends he said despite averting the outbreak of com Mercial warfare de be req said he was worried by what he considered an increasingly protectionist mood in the United states which is suffering from an enor Mous Trade deficit. The government Repon de Friday thai the merchandise Trade Defi Cit for Oil of 1986 was a record $169,8 billion. Relations arc clearly worsening Declercq said. He noted thai the untied states and the dec arc at Odds Oyer Many important Trade issues including european subsidies to the Airbus Indus Trie air plane manufacturing consortium dec steel exports dec farm Export subsidies and . Efforts to limit imparts of German machine tools. Slain at Home maty Mcgill Ncncy wife of imprisoned Irish pics Rill Lender Dom Nick Mcclaf Mcbey we killed saturday by two gunmen it her Home in Dundalk Ireland. See Story. Page 2.