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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 2 the stars and stripes saturday july 25,1987 news update cosmonaut returning Moscow a a Sovil cosmonaut who has spent nearly six months in orbit will return to Earth Ixl wreck because he shows signs of what might be a serious heart problem officials said Fri  announcement about Alex under i. La Voikin came shortly after a three Man Crew successfully docked its soyuz tm-3 capsule with inc Mir space station where la Voikin and Yuri v. Romanenko have been living since february. The capsule blasted off from so Viet Kazakhstan on wednesday with two soviet cosmonauts Ana Syria s first space traveler. It linked up with the Mir station Over the soviet mongolian Frontier a bout 7 30 . About 90 minutes later after circling the Earth on the Hirra spacemen clambered front their capsule into the snub nosed kvant scientific Laboratory which had docked with the 40-fool-Long Mir in april. Lav Eikin and Romanenko greeted them Wilh smiles and syr Tan it. Col. Mohammed Paris 36, said he was very glad temperatures us l h 71 us 90 ugh not 71 90 in Toni 79 � mum 72 90 Mommi 72 90 uT.-64.pd Schroeder makes new Appeal for persian Gulf danger pay by Milliam j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington after weeks of frustration in her Effort to gel danger pay for service members deployed in or near inc persian Gulf rep. Pal Schroeder is beginning to make some Points. Stirred by inc Start of the Navy s escort service for kuwaiti tankers in the Gulf and buoyed by some support from colleagues and a military association the Colorado Democrat this week appealed directly to her colleagues in the House. The Appeal came Only a couple of Days before he kuwaiti Tanker Bridgeton Fly ing the american Flag under Navy escort hit a mine Friday morning As it passed a persian Gulf Island fortified by iranian revolutionary guards. No one was injured but he ship took on water. This incident Only reinforces the fact thai the persian guff is a dangerous place an aide said Friday we be been getting an increasing number of Calls on this Bill and we think support Tor in will grow even More in the next few  aides to the congresswoman Eaid they Enron mean weather Fondeu Tor mum a Rem w ran if win Ontl cum if noon we to Tom us ilm 94. It on � by. Liw tit def 8-vmo.m u.100 Lon no n 9t num. A n 4 4pms b m u u h i7 78 h 70 70 h in vhf clip u 79 m do. 091 � to nod d 72 u a name s ii to 70 73 17 in. Ctr. Van Diu no 4�uu, a Rte of oath. It Xor Acaf. Sports Center reopens Mainz Kastel. Germany the Wiesbaden sports Center has reopened following inventory. The shopping Conler More had been scheduled to be closed through tuesday. Were confident her Bill to Force the Pentagon to Issue extra pay for dangerous duly to the 10,000 to 14,000 affected  would succeed once House colleagues were aware of the Issue. We May Defalc politics bul in is inc Servic members whose lives arc on Ilic line Schroeder said in a letter to House members. We have already lost 37 lives in the persian Gulf. If More lives Urc put in jeopardy let us show our armed forces we acknowledge inc danger they re  Schmo Der s Bill would make the is 10 per month danger pay provision retroactive to May i for military Membre serv ing in flying Over or in the Vicinity of the persian Gulf. As the Tanker escort began this week reps. Frank Mccloskey d-lnd., a Mem Ber of the House armed services com Mittee and Peter Defazio lxpre., decided to co sponsor the Bill with Schroeder. Also the non commissioned officers association wrote to rep. Beverly Byron d-md., chairwoman of the armed services military personnel and compensation subcommittee urging her to skip inc customary hearing process and pass Schmo Cdr s legislation immediately. Among the  who would qualify for danger pay under sen to Cdr s proposal arc the 10,193 afloat in or around the persian Gulf such As in the Indian Ocean and personnel in locations such As Bahrain and Diego Garcia. All Crew members of the guided mis Sile frigate Stark received one month of imminent danger pay after 37 sailors died in an attack by an iraqi warplane in May. According to . Law service Mem ers Are entitled to imminent danger pay if they Are on duty in a foreign area in which they Are subject to the threat of physical harm or imminent danger on the basis of civil insurrection civil War terrorism or wartime  military officials have not found the persian Gulf hours to meet their rules for issuing imminent danger pay. A Schroeder Bill in 1983 forced the Pentagon to pay danger pay to marines assigned to a peacekeeping Force in Leb anon. Hijacker of / of i Ner with 163 aboard seized offer killing French passenger. It _ to to i. J_4 i jul  f  Tirrito Nonh 1ft Hill of Fllch  Fri 1111geneva a a gunman who hijacked an air Frique jetliner to Geneva Friday was overpowered by the Crew and arrested after he killed a French passenger. The plane carrying 148 passengers and a Crew of 15, had been hijacked Over Northern Italy and landed Aboul half an hour later at 8 08 ., it the Geneva Airport. The Hijacker had demanded Hal in be refuelled for a Hight to Beirut Leb anon or Dhahran saudi Arabia. Swiss government spokesman Achille Casanova said that the sky pirate s de mands had included the release of Mohammed Ali Hamadi arrested in Ger Many last january and wanted in the United Stales on charges of murder in the 1985 hijacking of a Twa plane. The gunman identified by a lebanese Security source in Beirut As Hussein All Mohammed Hariri a lebanese National was seized less than five hours after he took control of the dc-10 on a night from Rome to Paris. The plane s French Pilot capt. Edouard Antuzzi told a press conference thai the slain passenger Xavier Beau lieu was singled out by the Hijacker after the gunman demanded that All passports be handed to him. Artu Eti said at one time the Hijacker bookstores closed most stars a stripes Bookstore will be dosed monday for inventory threatened to kill n second passenger unless the plane look off immediately. He was talked out of in by Nabil Ramlawi head of the Palestine liberation organization s office in Geneva according to a senior French custom official to declined to be identified. The official said Ramlawi was at the Airport control lower and was in radio Contact with inc Man a Steward who was instrumental in subduing the gun Ryan was shot by him in the stomach and was listed in serious condition at the Geneva cantonal hos Pital following a three hour operation. A Hospital spokesman said 30 other occupants of the plane suffered injuries in sliding Down an escape Chute before the gunman was overpowered. Army Power lifter regaining limb use Washington Sas usar eur Power lifting Champion Brenton Sewell seriously injured in a stateside diving Accident last month is Prog Ressing Well in his rehabilitation at the veterans administration Hospital in Long Beach Calif. Sewell. 24, a specialist four Wilh inc 3rd in i6ih Field arty in Bau Hoider Germany is in the Hospital s spinal Cord injury Ward. He was transferred to Long Beach july i from the University of Cali fornia medical Center at san Diego. He was initially diagnosed As a quadriplegic but has regained full use of his  a a spokesman said thursday. Therapists Are now concentrating on his legs. He is listed in Good condition and is responding Well to therapy the a spokesman said thursday. His Progno Sis is considered excellent he is currently walking unaided and he is expected to fully regain use of his  the spokesman could not say when Sewell would be released. The therapy is going very Well but therapy by ils very nature is a slow pro Cess he said. Full recovery is going to take  Sewell the Only Usa eur participant on the armed forces team in the National Junior Power lifting championships held in Early june won a Gold medal in the 198-Pound division. Injured go taken to Lan Stuhl Fulda Germany is an 1 Ith  Cav regl Soldier injured in a div ing Accident july 11 was transferred Fri Day to the lands Uhl  regional medical Center. Fac. Bradley s. Holton. 26. Of he troop was paralysed from the neck Down while diving in the for Ducr see in an area where diving is prohibited Fulda spokeswoman Ronale Stiebe Laid. Hollon had been at the Sta Lische Kli Niken in Kassel since the Accident and is expected 10 be transferred to the slates in the nest few weeks slip bar Laid the Soldier who was in stable Condi Tion Friday can make slight movements with his  and tags Stieber said. Doc tors think he will recover fully she said. Reward offered for information in Holdup Ansbach. Germany a 14,000 re Ward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the Man who robbed an cafes facility Al gunpoint last month the criminal investigation come said Friday. Special agent Robert w. Jackson said the masked Man took 56,000 from the Kal Lorbach Woodland at the Ansbach  heliport Al 10 . June 27. The Man wore a Dirk Blue howled pull Over sweatshirt or jacket. He was described As about 6-fool tall and weighing Between 160 and i so pounds with a thin Bui i j. Although the robber was comp Sci by covered one of the clerks Gol a glimpse of his wrist and said he was either a Black Man or a darkly tanned White male in agent Ltd. An one with information Aboul this crime is asked to Contact Jackson Al ets All information will by treated Wilh full confidentiality Jackson said  
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