European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse D be mans 24 hours of driving fury stripes Magazine d lakers nip celtics 107-106 in game 4 sports Page 17 d today s Dollar buys 1.77 Marks rates Page 23 the Sims and ripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed Force vol. 46, no. 55 thursday june 11, 1987 d 8693 a Summit 7 make Progress . Gof a or items if sought official says and j. King Cruger staff writers Venice Italy despite a final statement that covered Little new ground the seven nation economic Summit hit eight on a scale of 10," Treasury Secre tary James Baker Iii said wednesday. I think we be seen Clear Progress on a number of fronts he said. In fact i can t think of any major item on the economic Side that we came Here want ing that we did t president Reagan Secretary of slate George Shultz left and Treasury Secretary James Baker at Summit table. Is photo by Ken Georoe the statement initiated a program for sum Mit nations to Exchange economic data three times year the three Day Summit is being viewed by Many officials As Little More than an affirmation of existing agreements. And although advertised As an eco nomic Summit this meeting As in the past meetings was dominated by political issues trouble in the persian Gulf arms control relations with the soviet Union and terrorism. The United states managed to place Tough language in the communique Call ing on nations with trading surpluses to see Summit on Page 3 Oriental Man sought in Rome attacks Rome a police Are looking for an Oriental Man they say detonated a car bomb beside the . Embassy Here and launched rockets into the com Pound to protest the seven nation Western Summit in a rocket was also fired into the British embassy compound tuesday but there were no injuries in any of the attacks. A group calling itself the anti imperialist International brigade claimed responsibility saying the revolutionary will is stronger than the High Security measures taken for the Protection of the so called seven giants of the the claim was made in Telephone Calls to Western news agencies in London and Rome. President Reagan and the leaders of France Britain West Germany Italy Japan and Canada Are holding their annual economic Summit in Venice about 340 Miles Northeast of the capital. Police spokesman Riccardo Infelise and col. Roberto Conforti a senior Carabiniero official compared the Rome attacks to incidents during the Tokyo eco nomic Summit last year when mortar shells were tired at the japanese government guest House. There were no injuries in those attacks. Police also said the explosives used Here resembled those used in attacks against the . Embassies in Madrid Spain last february and in Lisbon Portugal in february 1986. Italian officials and Media said the raids could be linked to mid dle East terrorist groups which on monday issued threats against Italy. It is not without significance that terrorist threats against Italy continue from Beirut former italian de sense minister Giovanni Spadolini said after tues Day s attacks. Police released a composite sketch tuesday night of an Oriental Man who occupied a room on the fifth floor of the hotel Amba Scatori directly across the Street from the . Embassy on via Veneto. Police said the two homemade rockets that landed in the embassy compound shortly before 8 . Were fired from the Balcony of the Man s room. No. 418, where investigators later found a crude launch ing device. Only one of the rockets exploded breaking windows and blasting a 2-foot-wide Bole in the pavement. The Interior ministry said the Man checked into the luxury hotel saturday using a Canadian passport is sued in Winnipeg in 1984, with the name Edwin yen. George Rioux a spokesman for the Canadian foreign office said the passport was reported lost in Spain last summer. Using an International Driver s License issued last see Rome on Page 3 military exercise turns into Lifesaver for German by Wendy Bourland staff writer spec. 4 Albert Fagan remembers that the weather tuesday morning was the Best it had been during the exercise As he drove a rocket launcher through the Fields near Fulda Germany. It was also the morning a 50-year-old German Man drove into the nearby Woods to kill himself. As we were pulling into the Woods we passed by this car said 1st it. Timothy Golden. I noticed hoses coming out of the car. I thought some thing was not Golden of the 2nd in 77th Field arty from Babenhausen and spec. 4 Kevin Jones were in a jeep following Fagan and two other crewmen in a multiple launch rocket system launcher at about 10 30 . Tuesday the ninth Day of a 10-Day exercise. The group was moving from one hid ing place to another. The two men drove up to the peach coloured car. Two yellow Garden Hose were Strung from the car s exhaust pipe into a rear window. The windows were rolled up and the engine was running. A Man was inside. Golden ordered the launcher to Stop then he and Jones jumped out of the jeep. I yanked the hoses out of the car while Jones opened the door and pulled the gentleman out of his seat he said. Golden looked for a pulse. It was there but weak. He then radioed for medics. Moments later the launcher Crew arrived Driver Fagan sgt. Keith Zuni a gunner and Section chief staff sgt. Robert Allen. Fagan a former military policeman began car on the Man. The victim s face was purple. I tried to open his jaw but he had muscle spasms in it Fagan said. So i see German on Page 24
