European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday. February 19b7 american journalist detained in Iran Rome not Iran has detained an american newsman the italian foreign ministry said sunday the journalist Gerald f. Seib the Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street journal had spent 10 Days in Iran at the invitation of the government be fore a group of men seized him outside his hotel in Tehran Iran s capital sat urday even ing. A Diplomat from the Swiss embassy who was accompanying the journalist also was detained briefly but was later released according to a Swiss foreign ministry spokesman. Seib sought consular help from the news briefs Soldier s wife Hurt in 10-vehicle crash Darmstadt Germany is the 30-year-Otd wife of a Darmstadt Soldier was slightly injured in a 1q-vehicle crash on the autobahn South of Rhein main a monday morning a spokesman for the District attorney s office said. At 7is . The woman started to pass traffic on the out Side Lane headed South on the Highway Between Rhein main air base and Darmstadt but then decided to thread her Way Back into traffic the spokesman said apparently she lost control of her ear and hit the divider Knock ing several sections of blinders into the Road on the opposite Sid of the Highway. Six trucks and one car Hil the Blinder. Her vehicle came to Stop in the outside Lane and was rammed by two oncoming cars thai could t Stop in  the spokesman said damages totalled about $30,700. The american was treated for minor injuries on the spot and no one else was injured the spokesman said. Station owner Dies Darmstadt Germany is the owner of a Darm Stadt Eberstadt Gas station die Friday two weeks after being shot during an attempted robbery in which an american Soldier is suspect German police officials said monday Englebert Buechl was shot three times in the stomach Jan. 16. Staff sgt. Carlos Ponce he Del Darmstadt military Community will be formally charged with the murder Community spokeswoman Linda Howley said monday. Ponce has been held at the army confinement facility in Mannheim since shortly after the incident German and us. Mili tary police arc continuing to investigate. No found dead Ramstein a. Germany an air Force Ilaff sergeant As signed to he european communications div at Kapaun As Ger Many was found dead monday of an apparent drug overdose. The staff sergeant was found at 9 40 . In his apartment in Mie Senbach a Village eight Miles from Kaiserslautern said maj. Johnny Whitaker Public affairs officer for inc 316th air div. The Man s name is being with held until his family has been Noti fied. The air Force office of Spe Cial investigations is investigating. Swiss embassy which represents Ameri can interests in Iran after immigration authorities impounded his passport thursday As he made plans to depart. Shortly after his detention the iranian press Agency reported a spy of the zionist regime posing As a journalist had been arrested after entering Iran on a false passport. Bui the Agency did no state his name or nationality. Seib was not specifically accused of anything when he was taken away according to diplomats in Tehran. In new York Norman Pearlstine the managing editor of the Wall Street journal said their can be no basis for the detention. We Are seeking explanations through iranian and other diplomatic channels. We Hope any confusion will be cleared up and we Are requesting his immediate release from detention and from Iran. Jerry Seib entered Iran legally on a valid . Passport and is obviously a Well known and Well respected journalist. We see no reason to link or Sib s detention with the iranian news Agency  the state department issued a Gerald stub off too statement in Washington urging that Sci be released immediately and Al Lowed to depart  the statement also said from official Diplo Matic sources we do not know Why he has been  Bern Switzerland a Swiss foreign ministry spokesman said the Swiss ambassador in Tehran planned to protest the detention of Sci and of Thomasf Urelester the Swiss Diplomat who was with Seib. The United states has had no diplomatic representation in Tehran since the . Embassy there was stormed nov. 4,1979, audits staff held hostage for 444 Days. Seib was one of More than 100 journalists from around the world invited to visit Iran in recent weeks. He participated last week in a government escorted tour of he Battlefront in the Iran Ira War. Seib a 30-year-old native of Kansas has been a reporter for the journal since 1978. He and his wife Barbara Rose Wicz have been based in Cairo Egypt for the journal since 198s. Although Seib had travelled extensively in the mid dle East this was his first trip to Iran filipinos favor new Constitution Manila Philippines a unofficial returns showed filipinos voting nearly 4-Lo-1 in favor of a new Constitution in a plebiscite seen As a major test for the nearly year old government of president Corazon Aquino. The opposition conceded defeat Only six hours after he polls closed. The military was on full Alert after last week s failed coup attempt by sex president Ferdinand e. Marcos supporters who oppose the charter but the eight hour ballot ing ended at 3 . Without reports of the kind of widespread violence that marked last year s fraud tainted election Between Marcos and Aquino. 1 n the most serious incident the govern ment s philippine news Agency said three communist rebels were kilted and three army soldiers wounded when guerrillas at tacked several precincts monday in South cot Abalo province on Mindanao Island. Ramon Felipe chairman of the election commission described the election As the cleanest and fairest in More than 20 years. Official returns from the Manila area traditionally the first to report were not expected until late monday. Election officials said final official results would note available for Days. But an organization conducting an inde pendent count said that with 15,503 of86,703 precincts reporting nationwide there were 3,490,214 votes for the charter and 888,567 opposed. That represented an approval margin of nearly �0 percent. The Early returns showed Strong opposition to the Constitution Only in Marcos Northern Luzon stronghold. Partial unofficial returns from the seven Northern Luzon provinces showed about 34 percent opposed to the Constitution with 46 percent in favor. Precincts in Manila military installations also reported no votes predominating. Novelist Maclean Dies in Munich London a Alistair Maclean author of the guns of Yavarone fee station Zebra and Many other adventure novels died monday in Munich his publisher William Collins sons and . He was 64. The scottish born writer of 29 books suffered a stroke three weeks ago while visiting a Friend in Munich and died in a Hospital of heart failure his publisher said. Maclean s novels of War and adventure sold millions of copies and Many were made into films including where eagles dare break heart Pasi the neigh Bells toll and puppet on a  although he was Britain s Best Selling writer he once said i m not a novelist i m a storyteller. There s no Art in what i do no mystique. It s a Job like any other. I m Good Al my Job he allowed however. No i m very Good at my Job. I m a thorough professional Maclean old interviewer Barry Norman in 1971 at his Hong in Geneva Switzerland. In a 1985 interview he said All i do is write simple stories. There is enough real violence in the world without my adding to  Maclean bom in 1922 in Daviot in the scottish Highlands was the son of a Clergyman. He joined the Royal Navy in 1941 and spent five years on Convoy escorts using the experience for Back ground for his first novel  after the War he graduated with Hon ors in English from Glasgow University 1 St army div Soldier Dies of traffic Accident injuries Ansbach Germany a 24-Yeaj old 1st army div Soldier died saturday one week after he was pinned Between a car and a ditch in a traffic Accident near Lorchheim a division spokesman said monday. Pfc. Kellie r. Buck of co a 3rd in 34th Armor died of multiple internal injuries said maj. John l. Shea division Public affairs officer. Buck had been unconscious and in critical condition since his admission to the . Army Hospital in Nuernberg Fol lowing the Accident on an icy Road. He is survived by his wife Shelia of Byrdstown tenn., and a son. Also injured in the Accident was sgt. Keith c. Delmage 30. Delmage also of co a was treated and released from the army Hospital in Nuernberg Shea said. The Accident occurred Jan 24 when the two soldiers were attempting to push their car from a ditch after it had Slid off the Road according to the military police report. While they were pushing the vehicle it was struck by another car pin Ning the soldiers Between the ditch and their car. The occupants of the other car were not injured. The Accident is under investigation by German police and . Mili tary police. And became an English teacher Al Callow rat school near Glasgow Scotland. He wrote Short dories in his spare time and won a newspaper Competition with one of them. Ian Chapman who worked Tor Collins publishers spotted the Story and encouraged Maclean to write a Book. Maclean wrote has Ulysses Dur ing the evenings Over three months ini95s. The Book sold 250,000 hard Back co pies in six months a year later he wrote the guns of Yavarone drawing from his experience during six months he spent in the Aegean sea on the British warship Roy Alist. That sold 400,000 copies in six. Months. Chuck the Hopes for Early Spring Punxsutawney a. A Punxsutawney Phil the nation s most prominent four legged Prugno locator ambled out of his heated Burrow at Sun Rise monday saw his Shadow in the Over cast Dawn and proclaimed that Spring is at least six More weeks away. As 1,000 people looked on the plump and surly woodchuck a saw his Shadow al7 29 . Groundhog Day folklore has it that Ifa woodchuck sees its Shadow six weeks of Winter follow if it does to Spring ii just around the Comer. Phil does t always deliver but if his handlers Are to be believed he s never wrong