European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes tuesday september 22,1987 iraqi planes hit ship after Iran Tanker attack Manama. Bahrain a Iraq said its Warp ones raided a ship off Iran s Harg Island Oil terminal in the Northern persian Gulf on sunday after iranians in a speedboat attacked a saudi arabian Tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. Iraqi Jet fighters raided a Large Mari time target military terminology for a ship a military spokesman said in Bagh dad the iraqi capital. The spokesman quoted by the iraqi Bra is news Agency in a dispatch monitored in Cyprus said the raid Ai 8 30 . Scored accurate and effective hits on the unidentified ship. Earlier sunday. Iranians in a Speed boat approached the 39,915-ton Tanker pc Reship b and sprayed it with machine gun fire in Iran s first attack on shipping in 10 Days. The attack in the Southern end or the Gulf caused minor damage but no injuries said a source close id the ship s owner pc Romin tankers and Mineral shipping co a report by the British broadcasting corp. Said the sea raiders were iranian revolutionary guards. The Polo ship b Ronti Nudd to Jidida a saudi arabian port with a Toad of kerosene and Dicarl Oil said us source. Arab Leaden meanwhile set a november Summit on sunday to discuss whether to break tics with the Tehran government if it continues to ignore peace Calls. And in Moscow the soviet communist party daily pravda accused the United states and its Western allies or using the Iran Iraq War to turn the Gulf into a theater Tor naval exercises. An italian Navy task Force of three Frig ales and a Supply ship passed through the Suez canal and into the red sea on in Way 10 the Gulf. Cuomo seeks More Trade for release of dissidents Moscow up1 on his first trip to the communist bloc new York governor Mario Cuomo said he would offer the soviet govern ment help in making Western business contacts if they released More Rufu winks. Cuomo said the soviets would nol listen to what he termed moral arguments1 to allow the religious dissidents to leave. They Don t respond to your idea of morality he told reporters. He said he would be delighted to help boost , Trade if they would consider releasing some Cuomo arrived in the . Sunday and rested from a nine hour flight during which he promised a group of hasidic jews be would help them visit a ukrainian rabbi s grave and faced repeated questions from other passengers about his presidential plans. The democratic governor who earlier this year opted against Al 1988 presidential bid was asked repeatedly by passengers if he would change his mind. He hashed reporters a hand made sign that said i m not running i m Cuomo accompanied by his wife Matilda was greeted at Moscow s Airport by Vasily Kazakov Deputy chairman of the Council of ministers of the russian federation the largest of the soviet Union s is republics. Cuomo was to meet monday with Vitaly to Sotnikov chairman of the russian federation s Council of ministers and a member of the ruling communist party politburo on wednesday he is scheduled to meet with Anatoly Dobrynin former soviet ambassador to the United Stales and a member of the communist party Central committee. The governor s press Secretary Gary Fryer said Dobrynin had requested the meeting. Navy Calls off search for 2 missing aviators " Iid hey Island Wash. Up the scary tube two aviators missing Tanc persian Gulf Omalley off and the Reuf Ficlare lost at sea and pressed dead the us said sunday. There Wasi Mign of us Vors in the aircraft i Kage Foundton Island Nas spokeswoman Laid. Searchers beganjurfflfc4jic seas Friday for the two aviators Khanhk a boiled a-6e intruder attack Bombe Tonat crashed Dunn to Airt training flight Fromet aircraft Carrier said. The Are identified As Pilot h cmdr. Denncy. Seipel of Gilbert ariz., and Bombadier it Stephen j. Scaly of Newcastle Del. . Threatened with reprisals Over airline Hijacker s arrest Beirut Lebanon a caller threatened Sun Day that the Al Hussein brigade will launch attacks in the United states and against embassies unless the United states frees a lebanese with Hijack ing a radio station said. The group was previously unknown no Way to authenticate the Anonymous Call mad voice of Lebanon radio station. The station run by the right Wing cd Dian Pha Lange party and based in East Cir unkind the caller As saying the United states Musyk Tawari of the consequences of Fawn Youni the retaliation a lube inside the United Stales and nol a single Anu Erica embassy along the Mediterranean will Surat pc if Fawaz is not freed within a few the caller then Hung up. May be named after the Rit the grandson of the prop the Al Hussein by shiite moslem i Al Mohman arrested Younis last week after luring him a yacht in the Mediterranean. It said be added the boat after being promised a Large amount of drugs that he could then sell. Women agents were aboard the Fri rented yacht to simulate a party Atmo sphere. Younis is accused of hijacking a jordanian Airliner Ciruti on june ii 185. He blew up the aircraft no the passengers and Crew. He pleaded innocent Wien he appeared before a . Magistrate in on thursday. Lebanon s Nabih Bern on Friday denounced Younis Best As an act close to piracy against Bern who Heads the mainstream shiite amal of Floyia said the arrest was an aggression against the dignity of package deal1 in the works to free captives report says Beirut Lebanon a a weekly Magazine re ported sunday that backstage negotiations had made considerable Proniw upward a package Deal for freeing All foreigners held captn4 Lebanon. Ash Shiraz the Magazine that broke the Story of secret american arms sales to ski said the first to be released would be German hostage Ludolf cords and anglican Church envoy Terry Wane. The report which took up two thirds on Olurin on Page 23, could nol be independently confirm it quoted an unidentified highly informed 1 As saying Watte 48, and Cordes s3, would be f the end of this month and the other 22 fore Gnu sometime later. A Ash Shiraz quoted the source As Progress has been made in eff ref a Law Waile who disappeared after leaving a hot Kif moslem West Bei rut on Jan. 20 for talks holding Amer ican hostages. A something posit ins expected so that he will be freed this month Ras part of 3 Deal under which the kidnappers Wil Reive $5 million Ash Shiraz said the Smagaj Esaid that the Ransom was for Waite alone but it did affray who would pay it the Church of England did comment on the report Toffi waive Deal was to be concluded last month but sudden snags appeared Ash Shiraz said. Renewed negotiations Nave now accomplished wide strides to free the anglican Church the Magazine gave no details of the alleged contacts to free Cordes who was kidnapped Jan. 17 As he drove into West Beirut from the Airport. But the Christian controlled uce of Lebanon radio station said sunday tha Conrand iranian Security officials held a in West Beirut two Days earlier to discus rails of Cordes release the Nam said without elaboration that the meet it told at West Beirut s Beaurivage hotel. But _ hotel managers and spokesmen for the syrian com nand in Beirut denied the report the syrians Are Lebanon s main Power brokers. They maintain 7,500 troops in West Beirut to curb militia anarchy As Well As 25,000 troops in Northern Lea Steni Lebanon under a 1976 Arab league Man a Ruhr civil War Affif circa said local regional and International parties in negotiating with the kidnappers for a package Dean free All the hostages especially the american and it did not elaborate. Ash Shiraz s Pul Miber and editor Hassan Sabra it known to have close flt Wilh ranking iranian officials. The kidnapper in Leb Moare shiite moslem Funda mentalists backed by Iran. Sabra 38, is recovering from wounds he sustained sept. 14 in an attempt on his life. His reporting on internal iranian affairs and the plight of hostages in Lebanon have won him Many enemies among hard line militants. Embassy from Page 1 said in an aug. 17 letter to congressional leaders. The task Here is the issues of embassy Security and of working and living conditions of Diplo Mats in Moscow figured prominently in american soviet discussions in Washington in the last week. The United states wants the soviet Union to Kaupf More american contract Pere Affolt to work on both the old Andrw embassies in Moscow and Tolj flt Oiher issues Are still 10 several weeks ago in a classified letter to Hie president that covered a Range of embassy Security issues. Secretary of stale George p. Shutlz and William h. Webster he director of Central intelligence said qty mum support a plan for partial or total the building a senior slate said. The administration recommendation by in. And rebuild of the new a six Story Annex for Sion s most sensitive business. The decision to drop the Annex idea Wai made after an internal review concluded that embassy personnel did not need that much space that the costs would be too High and that adding another building would open a possibility for the soviets to demand the right to build an extra building of their own in Washington. The soviet Union has nearly completed its new embassy in Northwest Washington. Speaking of the Ittem Lull that plan is tit the plan was presented to the white1 in june by James 8. Schlesinger it of defense and former director of . He had been asked to investigateilne�i�8bvlast year As american intelligence expend Ming to discover listening devices in precast i Crete pillars and beams. Under a 15-year-old soviet american agreement the two sides Are to occupy their new Cha Ceries at the same Lime. If the United slates decides to rebuild the the administration is completing Sev eral highly technical engineering Security and Cost analyses of various combinations of razing and construction for the new embassy. We Are focusing on the partial de construction or possibly the Tola reconstruction of the new while head said when used for confirmation but we re not Rushing into a decision. We want to be sure we know what we re doing us time
