European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d shortage of Huey part results in sole source contract Page 2 d Gloria Steinem on women telling the truth to each other Page 13 d Molitor extends hitting Streak to 33 games sports Page 21 au1hqriecd unofficial Pulu Catton of vol.46,no. 124 thursday. August 20, 1987 to armed Force d 8693 a Glass joins family in England journalist denies he was allowed to escape from press dispatches Crawley England american journalist Charles Glass who shaped after 62 Days As a  in Lebanon arrived in Britain Early wednesday for a joyous reunion with his family. "1 feel Good. The people who really suffered arc my wife and children the 37-year-old Veteran Middle East correspondent old a press conference in Damas Cus before his flight Back to Britain where he lives with his British wife and five children. In the press conference. Glass said he locked up his two sleeping moslem kidnappers in a Beirut apartment before Dawn on tuesday and escaped to Freedom after two months Captivity. Syrian troops whisked him from Beirut to Damas Cus where he was handed Over to . Charge d affaires David Ransom a Reagan administration official said in washing ton that . Intelligence has concluded that Iran had ordered his kidnapping so it is Safe to assume Iran was responsible for his  but Glass j6, said he had no double he escaped on his own and thai his captors did not allow him to dec. A syrian source also suggested that Iran under Syri an pressure had arranged the escape. A syrian source who is closely connected with the syrian military based in Lebanon said Glass shiite moslem kidnappers allowed him to get away so they would not appear to have bowed to syrian pressure to free the american. The source spoke on condition of anonymity and there was no Independent confirmation of his version. However presidential spokesman Jibran Yourich Lold the associated press that Vernon Walters the United Stales special envoy and , ambassador had telephoned president Hafez Assad and expressed his i Hanks and the thanks of inc . Administration As to the syrian Effort la obtain the release of journalist Charles  Walters also expressed his deep gratitude ind pleasure As to the results obtained by syrian diplomacy in this Field Yourich said. I feel Good a beaming Glass said when he was turned Over to Ransom by syrian foreign minister see Glass on Page 26 Fiona Glass wife of Charles Glass and their son George 9, with reporter at their horns in i Andon. Death of Hess was apparently suicide Berlin a Rudolf Hess the last member of Adolf Hitler s inner Circle apparently strangled himself with a length  Cord after nearly half a Century in prison British officials said tuesday. Hess died monday in a British Mili tary Hospital in West Berlin at the age of 93. He had been a prisoner since a bizarre peace flight to Brilain in 1941 and. For 21 years was the sole inmate of Berlin s Spandau prison. Former army la. Col. Eugene k. Bird once he lop american officer guarding Spandau told the associated press the one Lime nazi Deputy fuehrer tried to commit suicide on four other occasions. Bird said his first site not at suicide came soon after he parachuted into Scot land on what he called a Mission to end the War and the other three occurred during the nearly 41 years Hess spent in the prison. Soldiers of the four world War ii Al lies he United Silies soviet Union. Britain and France took turns guard ing Hess fora month each at the prison in Berlin s British sector. Americans Ore on duty this month. The military guards were used solely to patrol he perimeter of the prison and did not come in con act with Hess. A second group of civilian guards known As warders and also provided by each country was used to oversee the prisoner directly. In Washington the state department issued a a Lalemant which said Al though warders of various nationalities were working in the prison on the afternoon of aug. 17, an american warder happened 10 be in charge of accompany ing Rudolf Hess to inc prison Garden. As was standing Traci inc the warder icel Hess alone in the Small Garden House but remained nearby in the Garden. Approximately five minutes later he re turned to Check on less and then immediately called in medical  Thomas Homan spokesman for the . Diplomatic Mission in West Berlin see Hess on Page 28 and shifts endangered runway us before crash potentially dangerous wind shifts were record in rib Mommi port just 30 minutes before the crash or flight 2ii, which killed As Many As 158 people Federal investigators said tuesday. John Launcr of the National transport Tao Board said the condition  was det cycled a number of times a a runway prompting Nir traffic Conirouw-1�movc 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 including Jar Ibric fing that the pre sports were  Torero draw a conclusion about what cause Launcr also said the cockpit recorder chronicled the computer generated voice of a warning system chant ing stall stall stall Only Secundi after the Liine Loov off sunday night. In Washington investigators said they have had Ai blackout on one of the for the Nosb said the problem is believed to be in the decoding machine and not the flight recorder tape. Investigators have determined the plane reached an tide of 100 feel 10 150 feet before it began us final number of fatalities qty medical exam or. Werner spiner. Said inc death toll could see crash an 28