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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                L inside stripes d reformer units moving out for certain strike exercise Page 2 d tops in air Force Talent Daity Magazine q Moses wins 400-meter hurdles title sports Page 21 the stars and tripes authorized unofficial re i Catton for the . A to forces vol. 46, no 137 wednesday. September 2, 19b7 0693 a reports of pow sightings ignored organization says Washington apr a conserva Tive think tank is accusing defense officials of suppressing information about sightings of . Servicemen in Laos and says in has  evidence of six men being held in one laotian prison. The american defense Institute on monday released . Government documents quoting laotian informants As saying that maj. Morgan j. Donahue and five other unknown americans Are iraqi Pilot rescued by Navy in Gulf by Norman Buck a p military writer Washington a . Navy ship operating in the persian Gulf rescued an iraqi Pilot on monday who had been Drifting in a ran since ditching his Jet fighter saturday afternoon the Pentagon said tues Day. The defense dip ariment said in a prepared statement that the unidentified iraqi Pilot had been rescued by the Guadalcanal an amphibious assault ship that in serving As a floating base for Navy mine sweeping helicopters. A Small boat was dispatched to Rescue the Pilot the Pentagon said after he was spotted Drifting in a raft in the Central persian Gulf. A defense official who re Quested anonymity said the Man had been spotted South of inc iranian controlled Island of Farsi where the Guadalcanal was operating in support of a . Escorted Convoy of kuwaiti Oil tankers. According to the rescued Pilot he bailed out of his military aircraft Over International Waters of the per Sian Gulf on the afternoon of aug. 29, after his aircraft was hit he believes by an iranian missile the Penta gon said. Spotted by a member of n Guadalcanal gun Crew the downed airman was subsequently recovered by Small boat and taken aboard Guadalcanal Tor medical sea Pilot on Page 28 being held in the Eastern part of Laos Khammoun province. Former rep. Dill Hendon r-n.c., director of the Institute s pow policy Cen Ter said several other cases of prisoner sightings have been swept under the Rug by defense officials. Hendon quoted William Casey inc late Cia director As saying fast year thai everybody knows they re there. What do you want another hostage crisis Donahue s father retired air Force col. Vij. Donahue of Cocoa Beach Fla. Said he believes his son intentionally sent information about himself out of the prison. The father said he would Appeal 10 president Heagan for a new Effort to win the release of his son and Oiler americans in Laos. The elder Donahue said in a news con Ference with Hindon that the defense intelligence Agency sent him documents that were or least j main Why he i he Impi i die Tim administration has not attached much credence lot he laotian informants. Though laotian leaders have Reaf firmed a pledge to provide information on the Fate of missing americans . Officials private told reporters after National Security Council official Richard Clil dress visited the country last month see pow on Page 2b in Good shape a Sun Ballier s Solitude is disturbed by marines lab ing part in n id mile conditioning March in Sun die go s Balboa proc. They arc inc first marines in Drill in the Park since world War ii and Ute off base in an ill met in Hau More combat oriented Condilis Vinink rather than marching in Circle on him1. E. German Bulldozer Way through Border Fulda Germany and older a Tai a Here nol released. In was the third do Fevidun of an cast Insun Border guard to to test Germany m four  the two others occurred saturday and sunday in the mate of lout Saxony. In Warsi Berlin tuesday an Lait Hiram nun ind to flee to inc West by running Zig a through barricades at the  Charlie crossing but at a poured by East German police officials said. Jorg Henschel. 4 if Desman for the West Herlyn Gou cum Cal did East German police did not fire their weapons while stopping the Man. Who in Michl said was about 25 ice Iolj  
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