European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 columns the stars and stripes Friday july 24,1967 hostages miss simple pleasures Are Lima when i Don t have much Contro Over what thought come into my head or when. The american hostages in Lebanon showed up. Unbidden in my head this morning when i got up Ai 5 40.it is almost Light at that hour and i can look Down on our Back Yard from the Are tulips in from of the hedgerow and the Magnolia tree is in Bloom. It was while 1 was looking tithe Garden that he captives came to my mind. The pleasant thoughts i was having flew out of my head what would the cottages give for a glint be of the tulips for the warm Shower i d just had for my breakfast of fresh Orange juice Coffee and Toast for the friends and family id be surrounded by All Day la is Jicky singly sad to Contemp Fale these americans cooped up in 9ome miserably hot dark lifeless place chained perhaps with Only their Hope to live on. That Hope has failed them so often it must be difficult for them to continue having it. The hostage Are intelligent and educated men Al though he fact that they re intelligent and educated should t make their situation any sadder. They Are held As Best we know in Small rooms with almost nothing to do. They get no news hear nothing Fromi heir friends or families and in at likelihood despair of Ever being released alive. It is far worse than a Crimi Nal s prison tile. You wonder what their captors think of them. Some personal relationships must have developed with the people who guard them and bring them food. Their captors must know now that thu americans Are decent intelligent innocent people. The captors arc almost certainly deeply religious people. The mid dle Eastern wars Are basically religious wait. Do the captors feel any guilt any remorse Over what the have done to Hoe innocent individuals do they feet any compassion for their prisoners to is Likely these zealots feel the sacrifice of their hostages Freedom is serving a higher cause. There is no Fervour Tike religious Fervour. It would be a simple matter for inc terrorists to murder their captives. There s no one to Stop them. No one need know for week. You wonder if he Caplo keep the hostages alive merely because they Are Worth something to them alive and nothing to them dead. Suicide must certainly come to the hostages mind but it is Likely that even voluntary death is not an option available to them. What is it the terrorists want we hardly remember if we Ever knew. Whatever it is. It is Likely that the demand is not within our Power to Grant. There in t time in our lives to feel sorry for every one who ought to be fell sorry for. I jus wished this morning hat hostages could have looked out on our Garden this morning and then gone to work. Trinum Medd services 2 fools and a Moderator on to by Joe , Texas anybody who lets himseh1 be interviewed on to u � journalists being big enough to know better Are the biggest fool of a the Case for Hodding cuter Carl Bernstein and f. Andy Messing jr., appearing As the did the other night on can s Harry King live with Hodding sitting in for the vacationing Point of such programs is to bring together opinion makers of differing opinions let them argue themselves silly emphasis on the silly twist and shout. Gonzo Cong show journalism As it this program f. Andy Messing or. Of the National Security Council foundation whatever that is appeared As the conservative and cart but Stein investigative journalist whatever thai Isas the Liberal it s my longtime observation that the problem with conservatives is thai they most often have names lha sound As if they were invented by liberals for the Pur pose of ridicule. Liberals seem to have a similar prob Lem with their personal Groom ing i thought the intellectual highlight of the evening not counting the commercial where father Pra Enli the Sod be love with � Box of gift wrapped condoms was this declaration by of Andy Don t try to pull that Liberal crap with me the Issue not that it matters happened to be the testimony and telegenic a of la. Col. Oliver North. Sur prise Surprise. The upshot of the verbal Shola if that matters was that the Liberal Bernstein lambasted North while the conservative Messina lauded him. Sur prise Etc. Hodding in keeping with Larry King s style reserved comment to thoughtful questions something on the nature of of yeah but try As i May to Avert my eyes i m drawn to these spectacles horror show fan that i am. My Only complaint is thai each new program seems to be a re run. There Are no fresh truths just the same tired lies the lies one person or another uses 10 kid himself. Interestingly enough they Are swapped Back and fort according to the Issue. In the Case of North it s the liberals who arc main Taining rather piously that no Man is above the Law. Conservatives i avoid the term pious herein fear of redundancy proclaim for All the world that a Man must do what a Man must have no complaint particularly Wilh either proposition. I Only wish they would t change around a invariably they will when the next Issue Cornea around. Because when the Law Watts against the liberals will he they who Lell us a Mart must do what a Man Musi do Doo Dah Doo Dah while conservatives will declare no Man is above the Law Lawdy Lawdy. Always have always Wilt i suppose regardless of whether Larry King s on vacation. But that s nothing More than my opinion and in deed you May disagree. If so write me a Tetter to the editor and i la be Happy to print it. Belter yet. Go onto. Mom vat Tito Nitti Swicor today s crossword across1 with 4 across of in sesame Hay it 4sff Iacross 8 rieawuu12 a hit "harry13 native14 Cameo itone15 Cinema girl of door"17 Ford the 31 Bikini half Sauff Titwood 3 7 Marat Skiller 39 Guy s Dale 40spherr41 relaxing command4s Surprise Fortu Denlin 48 planing time 50 noted de chartist 05 craze Down 1 actor Ray 2 roller owner future3 concerning 4 Militi Ned Lurkey 20 butter in tag 23 Fielding wed Prutt drinks2sjedl teacher26 of Morv bte27 venetian 18 Sug. 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