European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pinching italian style stripe.1 Magazine o Bill offers champs Cap Page 2 d Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 o Molitor hits again sports Page 17 the stars  us go authoiiiir.0 unofficial publication for the  Ahmed Force vol 46. No. 124 thursday. August 20. 1987 As. ,.dsd.r d 8693 a . Confident Iran had Glass kidnapped Washington a american intelligence has concluded Iran ordered the kidnapping of journalist Charles Glass and is in control of the eight other americans who remain captive in South Ern Beirut a Reagan administration offi Cial said. So far there is no hard evidence How Glass gained his Freedom after 62 Days of Captivity but . Experts Hope to know More after interviewing him in London. Glass interviewed wednesday morn ing on Abc tvs Good morning Amer Ica said that if it were True his escape had been allowed to occur it s certainly something that i could t have known at the time it would be meant that the syrians had somehow arranged for my guards to stay asleep during the time i was escaping because everything else was my own doing he said. The journalist on tuesday claimed he escaped after Locking up his sleeping kid nappers before Dawn in a seventh floor Beirut apartment. The . Official told reporters at the state department that until we talk to him that should be our  we be just begun to talk to him said Phyllis Oakley a state department spokeswoman. The poor Man just got out  but the . Official who spoke Only on condition of anonymity offered a the see Glass on Page 24 family disputes report Hess committed suicide Berlin a Rudolf Hess family expressed disbelief wednesday of official assertions that a suicide attempt May have caused the aging nazi War Crimi Nal s death earlier this week. Allied authorities said they had found a note in his  officials wednesday said that Hess wrapped an electrical Cord around his neck shortly before his death and that he died of asphyxiation. While some Laboratory tests Are still to be completed the primary cause of death has been determined to be asphyxia Tion British diplomatic spokesman an Derson w. Purdon said. In a statement released to the news Media Purdon added the note which was found on the Hess body the contents of which have been released to the Hess family clearly implies that Hess planned to Lake his own  Hess died on monday at age 93 after nearly 41 years in prison. Purd9n added investigations arc continuing into the precise circumstances surrounding the  the statement did not specify that Hess had committed  Purdon s statement noted that a British physician had performed the autopsy on Hess and that medical representatives of the four Allied Powers were also present. Less than an hour after German television quoted the Hess family lawyer As a soviet military vehicle passes the prison on wednesday where Rudolf Hess died. Unidentified persons have placed Lowers on a German Flag As a memorial to Hess. Sharply disputing the official version of an attempted suicide British authorities released a one line statement to the news Media. Further to the statement made on August 18 at 17 06, we arc now Able to stale that a note was found in Hess  said the statement from British diplomatic spokesman Anderson w. I Urdon in  statement on tuesday said Hess had wrapped the electrical Cord around his neck in an attempted  i Urdon said that any detailed information on the note would have to come from the Hess  s up to the family to decide whether the contents of the note can be Given to the press or not Purdon  spokesman said he could not comment on when the note was discovered until the results of the investigation and autopsy Are made  he said the note was fairly  is the official spokesman for the four victorious world War ii allies in matters regarding Hess who die monday in the British military Hospital in , the mayor of the town of runs icel in northeastern Bavaria con firmed to the a that Hess is to be buried  is certain mayor Karl Walter see Hess on Page 24 wind shifts recorded at Airport just before crash Romulus Mich. A potentially dangerous wind shifts occurred at Detroit metropolitan Airport just 30 minutes before the crash of Northwest flight 255, which killed As Many As 158 people Federal investigators said tuesday. John Lauber of the National transportation safely Board said the condition known As wind Shear was selected a number of times on one runway prompting air traffic controllers to move the plane to a Shorter runway. Such a sudden shift in wind can cause an air plane to suddenly lose Speed and has been listed As a Factor in several air crashes. However Lauber said at a news briefing that the preliminary reports were not Complete enough Lor investigators to draw a conclusion about what caused the crash. Be related Story Page 3. Lauber also said the cockpit recorder chronicled the computer generated voice of a warning system chanting stall stall stall Only seconds after the plane look off sunday night. In Washington investigators said they have had problems with the readout on one of the critical Black Box recorders taken from the Jet. But a spokeswoman for the Nosb said the prob Lem is believed to be in the decoding machine and not the flight recorder tape. Investigators have determined the plane reached an Altitude of 100 feet to 150 feet before it began its final plunge he said. Officials disagree about the number of fatalities. Ijar Werner spit Wayne county medical examiner said the death toll could he As High As i5h. Figur my is2 were aboard the plane and one or six were killed on the ground. Northwest officials said they believed 155 were aboard the plane and 154 were killed. Spit said about half of the bodies had been positively identified. The Mcdonnell Douglas md-80 had been plagued with engine problems on at least three previous lights Between november 1985 and last january that forced pilots to shut Down an engine and turn Back. Federal aviation administration records stored in Oklahoma City show. The january 1987 flight was a Northwest Accord ing to Faa records. But Northwest says the incident never occurred. Earlier in the Day. Nosb investigators began Back ing Awa from the possibility that a catastrophic engine failure caused the crash. The flaming plane skidded under three viaducts. Two freeway impasses and a train trestle sunday night after taking off from Detroit metropolitan air port on a flight to i lion my an/., and suburban los Angeles. The Lone Surmora. Cecilia Cichan 4, of tempi1, ariz., was listed in serious condition at an Ann Arbor Hospital Wuh third degree Burns Over 29 per cent of her body. She was identified by her Grandfather Anthony Cichan of Maple Glen. Pa., who Ruc Ogni cd her chipped tooth and purple Nail polish