European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n retired hispanic officer suing military Page 9 d Boom Box and Beer on the Job series Page 13 d Molitor extends mining Streak to 32 sports Page 21  authorized unofficial publication for i vol. 46. No. 123 wednesday August 19, 1987 1 Armel Force 08693 a Beirut hostage Glass escapes Beirut Lebanon a american journalist Charles Glass who was kid napped in West Beirut in june escaped from Captivity before Dawn tuesday and was Sale in syrian hands police said. A Barefoot Glass walked into the sea Side Summerland hotel in West Beirut at 2 30 . Tuesday and told the hotel receptionist i am Charlie Glass. I need a place to hide a police spokesman said. Glass 37, was Clad in a Blue track suit. He also told the receptionist i want a Force to protect me said the police spokesman who cannot be identified understanding regulations. The receptionist whose name was withheld called in syrian troops who arrived an hour later in a truck a jeep and a Sedan the spokesman said. Abc news reported that Glass its for Mer employee was either freed by his captors or had escaped and that he walked into the hotel and was seen an spoken to by one of the network s Beirut employees. Glass then left by car with syrian Security officials. Abc reported. Glass is the second . Journalist and the fifth foreigner to escape from Captivity in Lebanon. American Jeremy Levin 55, Beirut Bureau chief of Cable news network who was kidnapped March 7, 1984, escaped his captors in cast Lebanon s Bcka Valley 11 months later. Two other British journalists and a free Lance French photographer also said they escaped their captors in Lebanon. In Santa Barbara calif., White House spokesman Bob Hall said we be heard the reports. We have no Independent confirmation. The state department of course is checking it  Glass a former correspondent Forab to was abducted on june 17 by 14 gunmen at the suburban District of Mouzai along with Ali Osseiran son of Leb anon s defense minister Adel Osseiran. Glass was beaten with Rifle Butts and stuffed into a car trunk. Osseiran was released a week later. A group calling itself the organization of the people s defense claimed july 7 that it had kidnapped Glass calling him a spy for the . Central intelligence Agency. The group is believed made up of shiite moslem extremists Loyal to Iran. The Mouzai area where Glass was abducted is a stronghold of Hezbollah the umbrella of pro iranian shiite militant factions believed holding other foreign hostages. Mouzai is about two Miles from the Summerland hotel. The abduction embarrassed presi Dent Hafez Assad of Syria because Glass was the first foreigner seized in Lebanon since the syrians moved 7,500 tro9ps into West Beirut on feb. 22 to curb feuding militias. His kidnapping occurred just 300 Glass Yards from a syrian army checkpoint at Mouzai s coastal Highway. Glass formerly of los Angeles had been researching a Book on the Middle East when he was seized. He lived in London with his wife Fiona and five children. Hitler Deputy Hess Dies in prison of Adolf heu during Nuernberg trial Berlin a Rudolf Hess last of the nazi leaders died monday in West Berlin s Spandau prison where he had been the Only inmate for 21 years. He was 93. Related photos Page 3. A statement from the Western allies announcing the death of Hess former Dep Uty fuehrer to Adolf Hitler released by British spokesman Anderson w. Purdon did not give the cause of death. After the necessary arrangements have been made the body of Rudolf Hess will be handed Over for burial to the family residing in the Federal Republic of Germany the written statement said. Hess is survived by his 87-year-old wife use and his son Munich business Man Wolf Ruediger Hess. The younger Hess drove from Munich to his Mother s Home in the Southern bavarian town of Hindelang to Tell her of Hess death because her Telephone was out of order a spokesman for his Busi Ness office said. The gaunt Beetle bowed former Dep Uty was convicted of War crimes at the Nuernberg trials after world War ii and was sentenced to life in prison. Hess family lawyer Alfred Seidl told the associated press previously that Hess wanted to be buried in Wun Siedel a town in northeastern Bavaria. For years there were reports that the body would be cremated immediately after Hess died. Toward the end of his life Hess had lung heart and stomach ailments. He was nearly Blind and increasingly de pressed. He attempted suicide three times while in prison. Hess was the last relic of Hitler s third Reich which the dictator said would last a thousand years but was gone in 12. A guard at the prison once called Hess a strange sight As he shambles around in an old German army ski Cap and Long military overcoat that flaps around his  Hess spent Many hours feeding Birds in the prison Garden As Over the years his onetime comrades in the nazi elite were executed died natural deaths or served out their prison terms. The United slates Britain and France repeatedly asked that Hess be freed on humanitarian grounds but the soviet Union said that would constitute an am Nesty for fascism. The soviet news Agency Tass issued a two sentence report in russian from West Berlin announcing that Hess was dead and calling him one of the main nazi  West German leaders also had asked that Hess be freed and his family filed lawsuits to get him out of prison. In a first reaction to the death West Germany s Adf television network predicted the news would bring a certain Relief to Many elderly germans. Most germans Are too Young to have continued on Page 28 investigators search for clues to Detroit crash Romulus Mich. A walking among charred bodies covered with Bright yellow sheets teams of fed eral investigators monday began looking for clues in the wreckage of a jetliner that slammed into the ground and exploded killing As Many As 156 people. Witnesses said the Northwest airlines plane rocked from tide to Side and plunged to the ground moments after Takeoff sunday night. It trailed fire As it skidded beneath an interstate 94 overpass and broke into Doz ens of burning pieces on the interstate and midd Lebelt Road which Borders Detroit metropolitan Airport. It was the nation s second worst air disaster. Authorities disagreed late monday about the exact death loll. Wayne county officials said two people had died on the ground and John Launcr of the National transportation safety Board said 152 aboard the plane died. But Northwest spokesman Kevin Whalen said the see crash on Page 28 wreckage of Northwest airlines flight 255 lies strewn across a Road near an overpass in suburban Detroit