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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, March 16, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pags2 the stars and stripes monday March 16,1987 controllers to handle More Washington a the Federal Al Avion administration will soon Pul into effect in informal policy designed to reduce Airport Dclay by increasing the number of hights air traffic controller handle an Agency spokesman said. Faa officials believe the number of experienced con trollers has increased sufficiently since the 1981 strike to handle More traffic spokesman Fred Farrar said saturday. Whal we re saying is that w mow r3b in Otto. 4b 37 t won to. 1 m m 30ii 41 33 4dms by 41 4ft 32 h37 3j 54 45 2 captives in Lebanon could be freed if Bonn rejects . Plea paper says Bonn a two German hostages held in Beirut could be released by the end of the month if the Bonn govern ment agrees to turn Down a . Request for the extradition of a suspected Twa Hijacker the did newspaper reported sunday. The mass circulation bit said Syria president Hafez Assad has informed the Bonn government of the offer made bythe kidnappers of the two German businessmen. Assad told officials that Bonn must reject the . Extradition request and put Hijack suspect Mohammed Ali Ham and i and his brother. Ali Abbas Hamadi on trial Only for illegal Possession of explosives according to the Bild report. If Bonn agree to those terms German hostages Alfred Cordes and Rudolf Schmidt could be released by the end of the month the newspaper added with out citing it sources Juergen Findeisen a Bonn govern ment spokesman declined comment on the Bild report citing a two no rate old news blackout on reports concerning the German hostages. The government has nothing to Sarto that the Bild report Finde Fien told the associated press. Cordes and Schmidt both German businessmen were abducted in Beirut in january shortly after Mohammed Ali Hamadi was arrested at the Frankfurt Airport carrying explosive  s brother is also being held in a Frankfurt jail. He was arrested in february and is suspected of involvement in the Beirut kidnapping. Mohammed Ali Hamadi is wanted inthe United Stales on charges of murder and air piracy in connection with the june 1985 hijacking of a Twa jetliner to Beirut in which a . Navy diver was jolted. The Bild report which was to appearing the newspaper s monday editions we Tel exed to other news organizations on sunday leftist protesters clash with police at demonstration near Torrejon a Madrid. Spain a a Small num Ber of leftist demonstrators clashed with police near a . Air base sunday after about 10,000 people rallied peacefully to protest against the . Military presence and demand that Spain pull out of nato. The demonstration coincided with the scheduled arrival sunday of . Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger for a visit to Spain. Pentagon officials have said one Issue on his Agenda is a Spanish govern ment demand that the United stale re Duce its military presence Here by about 40percent. According to a spokesman from Torre Jon a most of the demonstration took place in the City of Torrejon. He said 100-200 demonstrators walked Over a Highway overpass that separates Torrejon City an Torrejon a. They were met by 350 Span ish riot control police which included 52mounted men and a water Cannon. The demonstrators had been told the were not to Cross the overpass the base spokesman said. About 100 of the police set up a Skir Mish line in the Middle of the  crowd was Given three minutes to Dis Perse. The riot police then moved their Lin Forward pushing the crowd off the Bridge into a nearby Field he Laid there was some Rock throwing by dem on Siratirs. Seven demonstrators were arrested and tour policemen received alight injuries he said it was the seventh demonstration since1980 to protest the us. Military presence in by left Wing and pacifist groups and the Spanish communist  United states operates four bases in Spain including Torrejon a which is the Home for the f-16 Jet fighters assigned to protect nato s Southern flank Spain leased the bases to the United Stales under a 1953 treaty of military cooperation. The leases expire in May 1988, and negotiations Foret tension began last  negotiations recently were recessed without significant Progress being  arc scheduled to resume in april the government of socialist prime min ister Felipe Gonzalez bad promised volts in a referendum on continued Spanish membership in the nato last March that it would seek a reduction in . Military presence in return fora favourable vote. The referendum was passed. The United slates has said it would re Duce the number of troops and weapons if the Spanish military would take Over cer Tain tasks without diminishing nato Security in the area. Spain wants the United slates to with draw the Al 6s at Torrejon but us. Negotiators have made it known they do no believe the Spanish military can Fin the Gap. On March 13, assistant , defens Secretary Richard Perth told reporters there is no reason to believe that we will nol Beable to achieve a satisfactory agreement Wilh the Spanish government. Weinberger is scheduled to Hay in Spain until tuesday. Other stops on his six Day trip Are Turkey and the portuguese azores islands where the United states maintains an important mid Atlantic base at a Ainsfield. Nationality plan Sparks Paris protest supp Al by hip ask Manl a of Larf plan ii a study. M Nuj Hijii coh dyed Tia t a Iain Paris a thousands of people marched through Paris sunday to de Mand the withdrawal of a proposal to change the nationality code now under study due to earlier protests More than 10,000 people including Leaden of the left joined the March from the Bastille to Richelieu Drouhi near the opera according to reporters. Har Lem Disir head of sos racism a Lead ing Ami racist group estimated the crowd at 30,000. We Are Here for the total withdrawal. Not the delaying of the project said socialist party Leader Lionel Jospin this demonstration is a first Success like the delay of the project  Premier Jacques Chirac cancelled a Spe Cial session of parliament which Wai to vote on the changes in the nationality cod and other controversial social reforms Fol lowing protests Over the proposal. Justice minister Albin Chalan Dothen said the proposal would be studied. On thursday he said thai following review by a special commission it would either be changed or amended. The demonstrator Are demanding Hui the current Law remain intact. The proposal would have made Ilmore difficult for certain people to obtain French nationality among other things eliminating the automatic right to citizenship for 18-year-Olds bom i France of non French parents the Case for Many of France s Large North Africa Community. Currently such people arc automatically made French citizens provided they have lived Here five years  
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