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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, September 24, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 24, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 accused terrorist denied . Will wait bail in court appearance to decide Fate of embassy Washington up a lebanese accused of terrorism in a 1985 hijacking and arrested at sea by Fri agents. Who had both his wrists or akan while in custody appeared under heavy Security before . Magistrate Jean Dwyer tuesday and was denied bail for fear he would flee the United states Fawn Zounis sat through a lengthy hearing Dur ing which an 18-Minulc videotape of the end of the hijacking ordeal two years ago was played. An Fri agent identified Younis As the Arab Leader of the operation. Younis court appointed attorney Frank Carter questioned . Jurisdiction in the hijacking and asked that his client a moslem Shi Ilc be released to the custody of the lebanese embassy in washing ton. Dwyer denied the petition. Younis. 28, was arrested last week by Fri agents who lured him to a rendezvous in International Walers in inc Mediterranean with the Promise of a drag Deal. I has been kept under heavy guard at a secret location near Washington officials said. Younis a member of the shiite amyl militia was indicted for conspiracy hostage taking and destruction of an aircraft in connection with the ls5 hijacking of a jordanian Airliner in Beirut on which two americans and two . Resident aliens were passengers. He has pleaded innocent to inc charges. Patriek Kurt in a spokesman for the Justice department said after the hearing that . Officials have not been Able to determine How Younis wrists were broken Only that it occurred before he arrived last thursday in Washington. Friends Shore $12 million lottery win new York a Robert Hauff and John Dree land who met on a Mediterranean cruise 24 years ago and became friends began playing the new York stale lottery together when it began to was always agreed if we win we win  Hauf said tuesday at a news conference. And so they did. Hauff 59, and Drevland 60, won $12 million in saturday night s lotto drawing enough to give each of them $228,571 after taxes every year for the next 20 years. I m still not used to it it still seems like a dream said Dreeland who retired two years ago after 33 years with the new York City department of general serv ices. Hauff. N former professional figure skater Interior designer and antique dealer has worked the past two years in the Legal department of the City s human re sources administration but has Given notice. Washington a top state department and Cia officials told members of Congress on tues Day they will Wail for at least a year before deriding whether to tear Down or reconstruct the new . Embassy in Moscow which is so riddled with listening devices that it cannot be occupied. Rep. Dan Mica d-fla., chairman of the House for eign affairs subcommittee on International operations said he had been assured of the falsity of published reports that the Reagan administration has firmly decided to tear Down and rebuild the lop five doors of inc eight Story embassy instead Mica said the administration want to spend 120 million to $30 million to rehabilitate the existing embassy and use it another five Yean. It will Lake a least that Long to bring the new and unoccupied embassy building up 10 strict Security Stan Dards Mica said. He said preliminary estimates of chg Cost of ridding the new embassy of built in listening devices and meet ing occur in y standards Are j90 million. That is $90 million because of Sorn big mistakes Mica said citing inc decision to permit soviet contractors to precast some of the elements of the new embassy away from the building. Those precast elements were laced with Complex listening devices. Dod opposes Reform acquisitions chief says Washington a the first Pentagon official to be put in charge of hailing wasteful military spending told Congress on tuesday that defense department opposition to Reform led him to resign and he said the problem May have worsened. We have not been As successful As i would wish in implementing reforms Richard Godwin told the Senate armed services committee. In fact on this Central Issue we May have last  Godwin submitted his resignation after spending a year As the defense department s first undersecretary for acquisition. His resignation Lias not been for Mally accepted. Godwin s position was created by Congress and the Pentagon last year to bring about procurement reforms recommended by a presidential panel that had investigated How the government s larg est single Agency makes its purchases. The commission headed by former Deputy Secretary of defense David pack Ard was appointed after what defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger called Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. Sept. 24, 1947 Nikola Velkov a Leader of the political opposition who was convicted Oft Cason was executed by hanging in Sofia Bulgaria. Horror stories about $400 hammers and s 5,000 Coffee pots. Godwin detailed what he said were turf Battles and confusion within the Pentagon which he said interfered with the overhaul of purchasing practices. Changing the Way the i in Wagon buys things will require some degree of reorganization and clarification of executive roles and organisational discipline he said. This mandate was clearly stated in the Packard report but was less Clear in executive direction legislation and the subsequent directives Godwin said my decision to resign rested upon my judgment that we were not prepared to move ahead with a new acquisition system. 1 did not think it was doable under the conditions of status quo prevailing in the  bureaucrats preferred to adopt a business unusual approach with no change or with Only modest adjustments to the present proven method of doing business he told the panel. For some proposed changes were considered As an assault on their turf 30 years ago today. Sept. 2j, 19s7 mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann of Little Hock. Ark., ordered nine Black students withdrawn from Central or git school when an angry crowd of Iso to 200 White men protesting the Blacks Entrance to the school threatened to break through police lines. 20 years ago foray. Sept. 24, 1967 the expo world s fair in Montreal broke the world attendance record of 42 million set by the Brussels fair in 195s. Expo officials feared however. Thai a strike by the City s mass transportation workers would squelch chances of reaching the to Millton Mark. 10 years ago today. Sept. 24,1977 the Carter administration proposed rules that could bring supersonic concorde flights into As Many As 13 . Cities in 1978.11 also extended permission for the. Concorde to continue Landing at Dulles International and John f. Kennedy airports. Khar to you the unidentified owner of a summer Home to Burka an the Stockholm Guzys up m the Bow at us � dish Tanker Kunja which ran aground a the Rocky Short there were no reports of leaking Oil  
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