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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday. February 9,1987 mexican inmates escape during riot Culiacan Mexico a inmate sat Sinaloa slate Penitentiary seized rifles from he armory and fought a gun Bat Lewith guards and 61 leaped during the uprising authorities said saturday. The said he escapees took inc Warden with them As a hostage but that he was late released. Three inmates were reported killed during the riot Friday night. Mario Rocha Reyes a spokesman forthe Sinaloa District attorney s office said seven escapees were recaptured Earl saturday by Highway patrolmen. He said the rioting continued Earl saturday and about 500 state troopers surrounded the Penitentiary where the inmates had started several Small fires by noon the troopers entered the Pris on and peace was restored and there was no further violence Rocha said. The Federal attorney general s office i Mexico City said More than 3,000 Feder Al and state police plus military person Nel were searching the mountains and coast or Sinaloa stale for the 54 inmate still at Large. Roadblocks were set up in the Pacific resort Awn or Mazatlan and the Nav was watching ports the statement said. Food water blankets and Medicine we resent by helicopter to searchers in Remote Mountain areas. Twelve of Hose at Large were drug traffickers or Bank robbers and Are considered extremely dangerous because they arc carrying weapons most of them stolen from the prison armory it said. Stale officials earlier had said four prisoners died in the gun Battle and about 50" escaped fleeing in to trucks they commandeered. Officials did not say if Here were casualties among the guards or other prison Security personnel. Rocha said the escapees took Warde Maximo Torres Toledo hostage but re leased him on a country Road about 17 Miles South of the Penitentiary. The revolt began at about 7 . Fri Day when a group of inmates overpowered the guards at the armory and seized14 rifles according to Rocha. The prison is just outside Culiacan the capital of Sinaloa state in Northwestern Mexico. Somali rebels free 10 captives Paris a ten French medical workers held hostage for nearly two weeks by somali rebels were welcomed Home saturday by Premier Jacques Chirac. The six women and four men from the group Mcc coins sans frontiers doctors without Borders were turned Over o French officials in Addis Ababa Ethiopia on saturday afternoon and then flown on a French military aircraft to orly Airport Chirac and foreign minister Jean Bernard Rai Arnond greeted the freed hostages then left without making any Public comments. Valerie Schwoebel a member of die group acted to spokeswoman. She told reporters that the group was taken across the somali ethiopian Border on foot kept in underground shelters but allowed to move about under guard. The Only act of brutality we witnessed was to see one of us hit on the head with a Rifle Bull she said. She said the hostages were fed adequately generally treated Well and told after about 48 hours after their capture that they would soon be freed an unidentified Djibouti citizen also was released with the French men and women in Addis Ababa. Assess woe de head of the european desk in the ethiopian ministry of foreign affairs said his government had arranged the release of the French hostages through peaceful dialogue in line with  longstanding Friendly relations thai existed Between Ethiopia and  from Page 1 of the Atlantic comfortable Hel it s a combination of political  acceptability that everyone can buy Legere Saio the europeans like to think in terms of nuclear ,deterrence." but the Reykjavik Summit and Currea actor Rais ing the nuclear threshold have mfg plans closely watching . Political . This coming in Raj Frh Ririe increased Calls from americans Forsmit Type to Bear a greater part of the Burden for its defense Legere said. Europeans respond that in the 1970s, the unite states was not increasing its real spending on nato defense Legere said. European countries also paint tothe non financial Burden of station Nell nips on their soil. A the situation now Rhino worry Legere said. Ato  always been a cause of de sea Mongle allies is nothing new. To overhaul the nato strategy Legere said. Ihm  about any Chang thai needs to come along i to allay the nervousness in Wied Stales must mate its wishes known through pro Mund institutions within the nato framework thatch pc Jap ans know and Trust Legere said. Waite from Page 1 keyed during the Twa hijacking to Beirut in june1985. Bui Bern stressed his latest offer was no the Resul Lof pressure from a . Flee dispatched to within strik ing distance of Beirut last week. ". Intervention Isth Best Way to kill everyone he said. Saturday s caller said Wail Stu disappeared Jan.20 on his Way to meet the islamic jihad kidnappers of two americans was freed under the supervision of National forces pro syrian leftist militias. The caller said Waite was released in Beirut s South Ern suburbs a Maze of narrow streets controlled by moslem fundamentalists. Sunni moslem voice of the nation radio reported the Call saying the speaker wanted to be identified As Security  Christian voice of Lebanon he said such sources claimed Watte s release came after negotiations. Security networks have been alerted and our Secu Rity men Are searching the streets of the suburbs said an amal official. Berri s offer coincided with druze moslem warlord Walid Jumblatt reportedly telling visitors to his Palace near Beirut that he was giving White s captors 48 hours to free him or he would name them publicly. Jumblatt provided Wail s bodyguards until he left them to meet with the captors of americans Thomas Sutherland and Terry Anderson. The druze Leader Hassid Waite was partially detained by lebanese with foreign  said Friday that he was in Contact with Hiz Bol Ali religious guide sheikh Mohammed Hussein fad Lallah who has said he believes Waite was on a propaganda Mission to Lebanon for the United slates. Militia sources have said that Waite was held in the Southern suburbs after a Deal with Kuwait to Exchange at Leas one of the americans for a prisoner in Kuwait fell victim to recent regional  the islamic jihad has demanded that the United state pressure Kuwait to free 17 iraqis and lebanese jailed for a series of bombings in Kuwait in december 1983. Kuwait has publicly refused to consider any such Exchange. Seize from Page 1 their connection was to the passengers he said. Reports said the vessel had been heading Forth Alec just South of Beirut the lebanese capital. A military official speaking on the condition of Anonym ily said the ship was Lakin to a port in Northern Israel but would not say which port. Bin Shoshan said he Maria r apparently is owned by lebanese and registered in Honduras. He said the passengers were not armed. However military officials demanding anonymity said earlier thai weapons were seized aboard the vessel. The officials said the ship also carried rubber dinghies that could be used As lifeboats or Landing Craft. Israel radio said the boat aroused suspicion because twas overcrowded. Ben Shoshna defended the seizure say ing we Are preventing terrorists from reaching Leb anon. We Are preventing the infiltration of weapons and attacks on Israel. We have nothing to do with any of the blockades against Lebanon or the refugee  he said Cyprus had turned into a main Way station far the smuggling of terrorise into Lebanon and that cypriot government efforts to prevent this apparently had failed. In Nicosia the government said an investigation i being carried out by cypriot  Israel radio quoted the military As saying the ship was part of a Plo Effort to smuggle fee Hicks and weapons into Lebanon where palestinians Are battling shiite moslem for control of palestinian refugee Camps.  Riel search called off for,9 using in boat acc Diego a the coast mid Calledo fairer and sea search for victims bin fishing boat Accident after finding the Bozof one  0thole were presumed ii exit the sch areas were sat jolted with vessel Sand aircraft there were of uple or debris to be found they Muld have or spotted coast guard Petty offer to Jonke said  Man and a pm t7were rescued after a wave swamped Thoday four Miles off Cabo san Quintin the coast Lgeorge Slin Sonja of a search of a fish a fool thurs mexican coast town of guard said. The body of on Friday during area of the Pacific the search we called offal Dijt Jim Simsik of Riverside Vio was picked up thur sep by mexican Fleshe in told the coast guff that he and three oof Ettam to Island 2 a Miles away Buwe Swift Jerried the others off. Compton 38, of san Diego thl Captain was rescued by a coast Ter thursday night after More thanars of clinging to four life rafts lashed " of she was treated for leg injuries. 2 cosmonauts link up with space platform Moscow a two soviet cosmonaut linked up successfully Early sunday with the or biting Mir space Laboratory Tass reported. The official news Agency said the Docking of the soyuz tm-2 capsule carrying Yuri Roma Nenko and Alexander Lav Eikin took place at2 28 . Moscow time. Tass later reported according to telemetry information the inboard systems of the Mir manned Complex including the base unit an the soyuz tm-2 and Progress-27 spaceships Are functioning normally Romanenko and Laver Kinase in Good  ii said the two cosmonauts Are to carry Rutan extensive program of astrophysics geophysical technological medical and biological studies and experiments aboard the  reports in the soviet Media said Romanenko and Lav Eikin would remain aboard the space station for several months. Philippine communists Call Early end  Manila Philippines a communist rebels declared president Corazon Aquino s peace initiative a failure saturday one Day after killing five soldiers and one Day before a 60-Day cease lire formally expired. Armed forces chief Gen Fidel v. Ramos promised to hit hard Al rebels who resume fight ing their 18-year insurrection. The cease fire that took effect in december expired at noon sunday. Bui the rebels who pulled out of National level peace negotiation son Jan. 30, declared an Early end to he Nice. Teofisto Guingona the government s chief negotiator with he rebels told a news Confer ence sunday the refusal of the Adf the National democratic front to return to he negotiating table betrays a hard line position of a few communist leaders. They arc dramatically opposed to the desire of he people and Many of Heiron members who genuinely want   
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