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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, February 17, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Baker getting ready for candidacy run Page 2 q amerika ministries draws pro anti demonstrators Page 5 d Bill Elliott wins Daytona 500 sports Page 21 Juith Xico unofficial Publio Tion Foi vol. 45. No. 303 tuesday. February 17, 1987 med Force d 8693 a avel aide freed in Beirut Beirut Lebanon up kidnappers Sund. Released a lop adviser to president Amin Gemayel and a druse warlord urged the pro iranian fundamentalist Hezbollah group 10 free Church of England envoy Terry Waile fit has him. Jean Obid release came the moslem Leader a crying i it Roii travel to and in Jimmon to Sion aimed at securing Freedom land All lebanese and foreign hostages. Id was handed j terror minister harmed in Moalc  a Mobsy Afler meeting Wilh the speaker of is parliament Obeid a senior but unofficial adviser to Gemayel keeps Contact Wilh moslem leaders in Beirut and Syri an officials in Damascus. Druse warlord Walid Jumblatt meanwhile called Ollah to free hostage negotiator Wail. Missing since Jan. 20, if he is held with them because this Gic Aland not  mob i Abollah after talks concerning Waite  pfc ador John Gray who passed on a message from a my Ejary sir Geoffrey Howe. Us contents were not disc Hezbollah has dented it is holding Wail. La was these Gemayel on Page 26 prominent dissident freed from prison soviet official says Moscow not jewish dissident Losif 7., begun whose continued imprisonment Sci off a series of increasingly violent Demon Stalions in downtown Moscow last week has been freed a senior soviet official said sunday. He s free no 1 can Lell you the soviet official Corgi a. Abalov said in an interview via satellite on the lbs news program face the nation begun s wife Inna when told by Western reporters of Arbatova s remarks said sunday night "1 have nothing offi Cial. 1 Don t know where he is How it is he s been freed whether he s going to be Scal straight Home or How this will All Lake  begun s son Boris also said he had heard nothing official. The announcement of begun s release delivered by satellite to an american television network without mrs. Begun s knowledge underscored the extern to which the Kremlin has been using the special sen ginning tomorrow the daily Magazine. American Media to disclose i easing of restrictions on human rights activists soviets have been Given scant details by their own press television and radio. The 56-year-old begun has been the most prominent jewish dissident imprisoned in the soviet Union since the re lease a year ago of Natan Sharansky who was then known As Anatoly Shch Aransky. Begun s reported release comes after the pardoning of about 140 prisoners under two separate stale decrees this month. It also comes after a series of demonstrations on behalf of begun thai resulted in increasing violence. The demonstrators were allowed to display placards unmolested for one Day then were sup pressed Wilh increasing Force. His Case was in the process of reassessment Abalov director of t lie soviet Institute of the . And Canada said of begun. He would have been freed several Days ago would not it be for this  Western diplomats said the continuing demonstrations marred a week of favor Able publicity on the prisoner releases. One prisoner who was released from Chi Stopol prison 10 Days ago said that he had talked Wilh begun just before he left and thai begun was the last remaining prisoner in Chi Stopol sentenced under the criminal statute that bars anti Sovi cd agitation and  the foreign ministry spokesman. Gennadi i Gerasimov said last week that prisoners who had been released had signed a statement promising nol to engage in anti soviet activity. It was nol Clear if begun had relented or whether soviet authorities released him without any signed Promise. Among detained demonstrators was Boris begun 22, who was sentenced to 15 Days i n jail for anti soviet slander. Sas Polo by have c staff sol. Larry Castcel in fat and the i 11e named the other  Job t to see thether woman  Elliott when spit sgt Larry j. Castcel tells his Jyle he s off to see the other woman of his life she just smiles and tells a to try to be Home in Lime for Dinn cof other woman is sleek and a Fust mover and swings in All Hij Fredit places. She weighs about wooo pounds is 20 feel tall and 63 Jet wide. She travels at twice the Speed of sound at a height of about 40,000 Fet the on woman is a n f-111e fight or both from Raf upper Heyford s 2d�tac fighter Wing. Castcel is its Cre chief. The nickname a Jet number 040 came about when a Eccl was racking his brain to come Fly with a Snappy name for it. Lall my names were Cort of corny so 1 asked my wife to Imp me  see woman Page 28 higher retentions slow of promotions "1 some air Force members who have tested for a months for the next promotion lists to come out according to personnel officials. The air Force underestimated its first term and rear retention Rales for fiscal i9s6. Causin a Iii Lilii in the promotion system a i i i i iiinill1 in i said. We  a our Lisl term retention Rale by about Jouand our retirement rate by about 1,100 last  he said. So we expected  by Congress denied an air Force re ucello add 6.000 slots to enlisted grades of u-4 and above leaving even less room for promotions the spokesman said. What All that Means is that the promotion lists currently in the system Are taking longer to exhaust la will Lake a few months for the Sis Lem to return to  a Long Erm  he  expec7inmbwff�iiftiyjving again shortly and the problem should be nil in j trillium i 111 Fri the end of this fiscal  he said an Early release program this year for air men nearing the end of their enlistments will help ease the backup  
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