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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Marine guard charged with perjury Page 7 d Becker tops czech As Wimbledon begins Page 21 d today s Dollar buys 1.83 Marks other rates Page 27 the s cars and of Lpes vol. 46,no. 68 wednesday june 24, 1987 in for the . Ahmed forces is 11,0 6693 a . Reported willing to let germans try Hijack suspect Bonn a . Attorney general Edwin a Csc told Bonn officials tuesday that Washington would accept a decision la try a suspected Twa Hijacker in Germany instead of extraditing him to the United slate government sources said a Csc did the United slates wants assurances that the lebanese shiite moslem Mohammed Ali Hamadi would be tried on murder and air piracy charges the German sources said. Those arc the charges for which Hamadi was indicted in the United state. The sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said Melesc was concerned that Germany might try Hamadi Only for Possession of dangerous explosives the charge for which he was arrested at fran fun air port Jan. 13. Concern for the lives of two germans kidnapped i Lebanon after Hamadi s arrest prompted Donn officials to decide against extraditing Hamadi to he United states Security sources said earlier. The kidnappers have demanded the 22-year-old Hamadi s release. Interior minister Friedrich Zimmermann assured a Csc thai the More serious charges would be filed against Harandi the Bonn government sources said. Mcnese also Laid the germans that the United Stales would Supply them Wilh further evidence against Ham Adi he sources said Hamadi is under indictment in the United slates on air piracy and murder charges in the june 1985 Hijack ing of a Twa jello Beirut. A . Navy diver was killed and other americans were held hostage duringlhcj7-Day ordeal. Mcnese said he americans were worried Ilia we would just charge Hamadi with explosives charges Agerman source said. Llu a i u. Ih-4  i i told him that would not see Hijack on Page 28 smoke engulfs he two sections of the Oil Tanker Vitoria after it collided with a japanese Tanker tuesday an the Seine a collision an explosion and a Tanker splits River near Rouen France. The collision split the Vitoria in two killing at  one person and leaving five others miss ing. The japanese Tanker was slightly damaged in the collision. Both ships had delivered heir cargos of kerosene. A pm rain but the storerooms acted like a bottle of butane in exploding upon Impact officials said. Stork s Captain relieved of command in Bahrain Washington a Cap. Glenn a Brindel the skipper of inc guided missile frigate Stark was relieved of his command tuesday in Bahrain where the ship has been tied up since it was at tacked last month by an iraqi warplane the Navy said. Pentagon officials had predicted earlier his week that Brindi would not be replaced before wednesday Bui the Navy said cmdr. John b. Noll who arrived in Bahrain sunday was installed As the new skipper after completing his transition briefings on tuesday. Noll 39, of East Orange n.j., had been lapped months ago to replace Brin Del As the next Captain of inc Stark in a routine change of command. Following the May 17 attack the Navy debated allowing Brindi to bring the ship Back to its Home port in Florida after Tempo Rary repairs in Bahrain. But on june 19, the Pentagon announced thai he and two of his lop offi cers had been ordered relieved immedi Aily following the completion of military inquiry. An iraqi warplane attacked the ship while in was on routine patrol in the per Sian Gulf killing 37 sailors. The United states and Iraq have termed the attack abase of mistaken identity. Although the inquiry report has Cyl to be released publicly. Pentagon sources have said in recommends courts martial for the three officers. The report is said to be highly critical of the Slark s failure to take defensive actions against the iraqi Jet. The last goodbye it gets rough sometimes  Riler Frankfurt the Little stuffed dog tumbled out of the bag and landed on the tiny be Low and White infant s dress As the mortuary staff inventoried the Young girl s belongings i have to admit it gets rough some times said spec. J Dewayne Council grave registry specialist at the . Army memorial affairs activity Europe especially when we have Little Chil Dren Hack there because i be got a Vitile baby of my own at Home he said pointing to the Large wooden doors Sepa rating the lab from the rest of the Frank fun mortuary the Frankfurt mortuary is the latest of the three facilities of the memorial affairs activity the others Are in kaisers Autem Germany and Vicenza Italy. Five civilian morticians and 12 Mili tary grave registration specialists in Frankfurt serve department of defense employees in Belgium Denmark France. Germany Northern Italy Luxembourg the Netherlands and Yugoslavia. Their work brought them face to face with the cold reality of the loss the nation endured when 37 sailors were killed last month in a missile attack on the .Navy frigate Stark in the persian Gulf they also identified prepay d and ship Ped the bodies of the 237 americans killed in the terrorist bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut in october 1983, As the country mourned Fie sailors killed on inc shark the mortuary workers busied themselves with the brutal  task left them Little time for grief or to fathom the magnitude of what had happened. It did t bother me until the ceremony we had said spec. 4 Sean a Ben Dele assistant no in charge of the preparation room the Mission. I mean we wanted to get that Mission through. We had All thai pressure on us to gel these remains out. See goodbye on Page 28  
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