European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                24 the stars and stripes thursday. September 3,1987  briefs police still Don t know who bombed freight train Hannover Germany Sas no one has claimed responsibility for the freight train bombing that apparently was intended for . Duly train travelling from Frankfurt Lober Lin monday night a lower Saxony state police spokesman said wednesday. Details on the Type of explosive used were unavailable wednesday afternoon. The military train was travelling North of Kas Sci when it pulled into a siding to allow a delayed freight train id pass. The bomb a Trig a Rcd underneath the freight train locomotive shortly after 11  damage was reported to the locomotive and a Section of track was Lorn from its Moor inn no one was injured. Police theorize the intended victims of the attack were duty train passengers. The train Ira vols to Berlin daily. An army Public affairs spokeswoman said wednesday her office had nothing new on the incident. East German policeman escapes across Border Kassel Germany a a uniformed East German policeman crawled through two Security fences along the West German Border to escape from his communist Homeland police said  unarmed 41-year-old police lieutenant crossed the Frontier near Rotenburg in Eastern Essen state tuesday according to a West Ger Man Border police  least six East germans have crossed Border fortifications to escape into West Germany since saturday. The policeman crawled through a barricade equipped with an electronic alarm system and then broke through a badly rusted steel mesh Fence police said. East German Border guards apparently alerted by the alarm set off by the first Fence arrived 10 minutes after the policeman escaped according to the police statement. The East German policeman said he fled be cause he was dissatisfied Wilh political conditions in his country police said. He was no identified in keeping with West German Border police custom. Italian inmates give up free hostages unharmed Rome a six inmates armed with Pis Tols knives and homemade bombs surrendered tuesday and released unharmed the 28 hostage they had held for a week in a prison on the Island of Elba authorities  inmates who had been holding inc hos tages in the prison infirmary since aug. 25 in a Effort to win their Freedom agreed to give up after meeting with four lawyers in the presence of an italian representative of the London based human rights group amnesty International. Five or the sin inmates Are serving life terms for murder or  originally threatened to kill the hostages if authorities did not provide them with a Heli copter to leave the Island off the tuscan coast but the government insisted the hostages be freed before any deals would be considered. Iran gets cease fire ultimatum Washington a the Reagan admin sort lion is giving Iran until Friday to agree to a cease fire ordered by the . Security Council or face the Prospect of a worldwide arms embargo. The stalling is unacceptable state department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said tuesday of Iran s failure to reply to a Resolution adopted unanimously july 20 by the Security Council. Iran has to give a , the . Official said the Council should begin drafting a Resolution to punish Iran next  could be adopted Only with soviet approval and Vladimir f. Petrovsky a Deputy foreign minister suggested thai Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar Nave More time to try to persuade Iran to comply wit the cease fire. Petrovsky also urged the United Swaw to withdraw its warships from the persian Gulf to reduce tensions in the  and Iraq Are locked in a 7-year-old War. Iraq has agreed to comply with the . Order to Slop fight ing and begin negotiations the War has claimed an estimated 1 million casualties and threatened ship ments of Oil from the Region. In our View the iranian response to the Secretary rust from Paga 1 Sion 10 Fly into Moscow until after he took off from Helsinki. An hour later a soviet plane approached circled and flew off without interfering. He cruised along at an Altitude of 2,000 feet Down to 1,000 feet occasionally. His action was not done to evade russian radar but to Stop his plane s Winga from icing  said he was so Uncertain about reaching his Desti nation that he wore a crash helmet in expectation of a emergency lauding. Even after reaching the soviet capital he was Uncertain where to put his Cessna 172  circled two or three times finally spotting the Gargantuan Rossiya hotel beside red Square. He crossed red Square buzzing the Tomb of Lenin Al a Altitude of Only 30 to 40  the time i landed i had my doubts but i had to overcome them the slight Young Man  the Square too crowded to land on he spotted the Bridge across the Moscow River. Rust said two lanes were empty and there were Only six ears on it when he touched  judge presiding Over the tribunal. Robert Tikhomirov performed the role of prosecutor questioning rust Story about a Mission for peace and occasionally leaning Back in his chair As he peered Over his glasses. At the Start a few dozen curious russians an scores of foreign reporters gathered outside the pole Green court bunding in a Light drizzle but rust apparently was brought in by a rear Entrance. However his grim faced family escorted by representative of the German Magazine Stem which has bought the rights to his Story walked silently through the crowd 20 minutes before the trial opened. Rust was visited by West German diplomats Stimes during his incarceration and an embassy representative we attending the court  flight was doubly embarrassing to the Kremlin As it coincided with the Day honouring Border guard Sand came As soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was in East Berlin for a meeting of the Warsaw pact military Alliance. Gorbachev flew Home with soviet defense minister Sergei Sokolov and the next Day fired him and the Bead of soviet air defences Alexander Kordunov. General this week must be a definitive  Oakley said. This is not an open ended process. If the iranian response is negative concerning their readiness Loac cent and comply with Resolution 598, or if they continue to give no definitive response to the Resolution then we believe format drafting of a second Resolution calling for enforcement measures. Should begin immediately thereafter in other words Early next  . Official said Iran had promised to give its reply by Friday and thai Perez de Cuellar would reporto the Security Council Early next week. Despite an apparent disagreement on when to apply sanctions the United suites and the soviet Union agreed the resumption of iraqi attacks last saturday on iranian Oil exports in the Gulf had heightened ten  earlier american diplomats had managed to persuade Iraq to hold its fire. But on saturday a .official said iraqi ambassador Nizar Hardoon turned Down a Appeal for further  on tuesday read a statement criticizing Iraq. Baghdad obviously did not share our concerns thai he iraqi attacks make it More difficult to bring the War to a negotiated end it said. A photocopier in cocoon an ah-64 Apache helicopter wrapped for Protection la unloaded Al Rotterdam Netherlands tuesday from la vehicle Cairo ship Algol. The chopper was one of 18 apaches to arrive in Rotterdam tuesday. Eighteen More we scheduled to arrive Al the port monday. All Hoob the Pichei Wen temporarily grounded Ang 26 fallowing crash at fort Rucker Alt to in helicopters in Rotterdam have received one How flight Clear mice to Fly to Eindhoven Netherlands for any necessary parts. Apaches arc scheduled to be use did the nato certain strike exercise after the array lifts the temporary grounding. Ships from Page 1 Lowed iraqi strikes tuesday on South korean japanese and Spanish tankers Gulf shipping sources and Lloyd s of Lon Don insurers said. The five strikes were the most by iranian a 24-hour period since the 7-year-old Iran Iraq War spilled Over into the Gulf i february 1984. Iran attacks third coun try ships on the theory that they May be carrying cargoes to Iraq or nates thai allegedly support  s official news Agency Iso monitored in Cyprus said iraqi jets wednes Day hit iwo Large maritime targets an iraqi expression for a supertanker near the iranian coast. The first hit was at 7 30 am and the second at 2 15 p.m.,the report said. Wednesday s attack and the Over night strike against the 99,0 ii ton by not Tanker Star Ray raised to ii the number of ships claimed bit by Iraq since saturday Gulf based shipping executives expressed Surprise at the unprecedented numbers and Range of the iranian attacks on Neutral shipping from Waters off the Northern saudi arabian coast to the Strait of Hon Nuz we have to expect More said a Dubai based shipping executive speak ing on condition of anonymity shipping source reported the attack on the Dafni and Lloyd s London base shipping intelligence unit confirmed the attack. At Dawn an iranian gunboat hit the3.717-ton Cyprus owned general cargo ship Leonidas glory with two rocket tack on the Leonidas Story owned by Merinda Marine corp., could not immediately be determined. Lloyd s said two speedboats attacked tue 101,416-ton japanese chartered Tanker Diamond Marine late tuesday inthe Strait of Hon Nuz. The Entrance to the persian Gulf. Hitting it with two  sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the attackers were  Tanker chartered by Nippon Yusen of Tokyo and registered in Libe Ria headed for Dubai according to Lloyd s and the Japan shipowners association. Earlier an iranian speedboat tired rocket that struck the 82,000-ton South korean Tanker Astro Pegasus 40 Miles off Dubai United Arab emirates dam aging a boiler other Gulf shipping sources said. The tinker was travelling from Jubal to Singapore with saudi Petroleum products they said. Radio monitors Aid the 300,07g-Tonspanish supertanker Munguia sent a Dis Tress signal tuesday when hit by rocket by one or two iranian speedboats North East of Bahrain to the Central Gulf