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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes when the wife. Is a husband Page 28. D Booster tests draw concern Page 2 d soviets beat nil stars Page 21 the St arg filpes uthoii�0 unofficial fun Lichtin for Thiu. Aft Mfd Force vol. 45, no. 301 sunday february 15,1987  d b693 a kidnappers suspend Exchange demand Beirut up the kidnappers of three americans and an Indian saturday dropped a demand for an Exchange of the hostages for 400 arabs held in israeli jails saying that they would not beg the United slates for the impassible. The islamic jihad for he liberation of Palestine suspended its earlier de mands in a statement delivered to a Western news Agency in Beirut accompanied by a photograph of hostage Ameri can Robert Polhill Polhill 52, a professor or accounting who was seized with three colleagues Jan. 24, looked grim faced but relatively healthy. We do not ask for negotiations with anyone especially America and the zionist enemy said the group adding that the Fate of the tour hostages would be humane and refraining from Reite rating previous threats to murder them. We cannot betray the blood of our martyrs and Stab the religion of the Prophet Mohammed by negotiating with the enemy of god.1 said the moslem Cir crisis warning against any . Mil itary attack in the Region. The demand for the release of 400 see suspend on Page 28 reef convoys reach refugee Camps Beirut Lebanon up trucks loaded with food reached thousands of palestinian refugees in two beleaguered Camps in Lebanon saturday easing crippling Tiege but workers reported an urgent need Tor More supplies. Shiite moslem amal militiamen first allowed is Loni of flour and milk aboard vehicle provided by the iranian embassy into the Bouri Al Baraj Nch Camp in Southern Beirut before Dawn saturday after a . Effort failed. Police said they later also permitted three trucks loaded with 20 tons of food and several ambulances into the smaller Ras Hidiyeh refugee Camp near the South Ern port of Tyre 46 Miles South of Bei rut. But amal said the Success of future Relief efforts would depend on palestini an fighters withdrawing from positions Easto Sidon. The ambulances evacuated some wounded from Ras Hidiyeh where amal started the so called War of the Camps by surrounding palestinian fighters in late september before ringing the Camps in Beirut in october. A palestinian spokesman in Beirut said the supplies that made it to Bour Al Baraj Nch would Only last for a Maxi mum of two  the situation in the Beirut Shantytown is considered More serious than in the Tyre Camp. Speaking to the British broadcasting sea Camps on Page 28 a put Oil College students David Basl right and Brent Rasmus sen Are rescued after their plunge into Lake Michigan 2 students pulled from icy water Macatawa. Mich. A people watching the Sunset from the Shore of Lake Michigan joined diners from a nearby restaurant in rescuing two College students who plunged through ice into the turbulent water authorities said Friday. Brent Rasmussen 21, of Greenville and David Bast. 20, of South Holland 111., were treated at Holland Community Hospital for hypothermia and were released Friday one Day after the Rescue. They were  cled with sin food Waves which carried ice chunks of up to four feet in diameter said John amyl general manager of the nearby Point West inn restaurant and Motel. I hit he ice so Many times i was Semi conscious Rasmussen said. The Waves would pick us up out of the water and throw us right into the ice. My hands Are All Cut  the Hope College students were walking on the ice when they fell through about 6 p.m., according to the Ottawa county sheriffs department. It just kind of Avalon Chad. The whole thing went at the same Lime Bast said. Four or five people watching the Sunset from Shore saw he men fall Inlo Chest High water said Arndt and one of them ran about 100 Yards to Point West inn and called an ambulance. In the meantime he said two restaurant patrons found a 100-foot Extension Cord and tried to drop it into the water from Shoreline ice piled about 12 feet High. The Extension Cord broke but another pos scr by found a 20-foot-Long Nylon dog Leash and lied it to the Cord Arndt said. The rescuers pulled Bast and Rassmussen with that line Arndt said. Navy ordered to maintain 2 carriers in med by Norman Black a military writer Washington the Reagan admin is ration has directed the Navy to keep two carriers in the Mediterranean sea indefinitely informed sources said Friday the decision Means the aircraft Carrier Killy Hawk on patrol in the Indian Ocean will move to the Mediterranean via the Sun canal in Early March to relieve the Carrier Kennedy whose departure for Home from the Region was delayed Laic last month said the sources who agreed 10 discuss the matter Only if not identified. The naval build up in the Region began More than two weeks ago in response to rising tensions in the Mideast and a wave of hostage taking in Lebanon. Although the Pentagon reduced the Battle group slightly last week to defuse rumours of an impending military strike the United slates still maintains two carriers and a Marine amphibious group of 1.500 men in the Eastern Mediterranean. Besides the Kennedy the Ballac group includes the Carrier Simiu and about 20 other snips including the Marine group. Pentagon and White House spokesmen have insisted that the naval Force was fortified As a precaution and that no military strike in Lebanon is planned. Pentagon sources said inc Force is there primarily in Case president Reagan wants to order a response to any hostage executions. The sources said Friday that . Efforts to gather intelligence in the Region on the activities and whereabouts of terrorist groups had improved Over the past year but that it would still be difficult to retaliate with precision against a terrorist organisation american and other Western hostages in Beirut arc believed to be held by several terrorist groups. The Pentagon sources said the Kennedy remained see carriers on Page 28  
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