European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 7, 1987 the stars and stripes Pago 3kidnap victim freed ordeal revealed Dublin. Ireland it the family of a wealthy k Tislim. Kidnapped Lur 21 Days by Ireland most Noto rious outlaw. Said Friday tic Lul nappers several Iwu thirds this Milc Finger with a Hammer and chisel. Polite meanwhile faced charges that hit Blun dered by allowing i a in three kidnappers in escape from the swoop thai treed John o Grady 37, in a Blac of gunfire thursday. Hirn bungled again when they let one suspect later ruptured to flee again from a Small police station. Police organi de n nationwide manhunt. Backed by army Helix piers and  commandos for the three escaped gang members including their Leader a former Irish Republican army member known As the Border of and suspected in 30 kill Ings. O Grady s father in Law millionaire or. Austin Darragh one of Ireland s wealthiest men revealed that the dentist had lost two thirds of each of his iwo Little fingers and they had been severed Wajih a Hammer and chisel some Das ago. He said o Grady. 37. The father of three had been handcuffed and chained for most of the 22 Dilys in Captivity during huh he was  to Vannus hide outs around Ireland Darragh. Founder of a leading medical research firm with a . Subsidiary had planned to pay a 1.5 Mil Linin Pound s3,5 million Ransom to the kidnappers after they left a his in a. Cathedral with o Grady s two Finger pans and a in Arnink that he would he killed if the Money a vent paid but. Just As a Catholic priest was driving to a Rendez Vous with a representative of the kidnappers to hand nver the Money police following a suspicious car As part of their nationwide Hunt for o Grady discovered the gang s hideout in suburban Dublin and stormed the Home. A gang of up to four masked men ran out firing Ai police and two policemen were injured one critically. One gang member a is arrested. A wounded gang member and the in others escaped in a succession of up to five hijacked cars. Two of the members after kidnapping two women and later releasing them unharmed were stopped in a labial tipperary 100 Miles Southwest of Dublin. Police Siirid they were taken to a local police station. And one us Speed made a run for it and escaped. Police took the other Mun inside and handed him Over to the single policeman on duly before leaving to join the Hunt for the runaway authorities said. Hut the second Man attacked the policeman and dashed to Freedom after Chr Shin was ripped from his Back. I Clicc said one of the escapees was recaptured two hours later after he had hijacked a car driven by a 30 year old woman. The car crashed into a ditch during a High Speed Chase. Amid charges from politicians of police bungling the chief superintendent. Bill o Herlihy said there appear to have been deficiencies to is most Embarrass  police warned the Public to lock their cars and said the remaining gang members arc very ruthless they include the Kidnap Mastermind former Ira Momb churned regular outlaw pcs in o Hare a 29 year old who gained the name the Border Fox for the Way he slips Back and Forth Over the Border with Brit ish ruled North in Ireland on his murder and Hank robbery forays. Black african party Leader Beki freed port Elizabeth South Africa not a longtime Leader of the outlawed african National Congress was freed thursday by the government after 23 years in prison. The Leader. Govan a. Mocki a close colleague of Nelson r. Mandela is the first senior member of the Congress to be released from prison without apparent conditions. He was convicted in 1964 of plotting the violent overthrow of South Africa s White government. He was flown by helicopter from the maximum Security prison on Robbin is land to pol Smoor prison in Cape town. Where he was allowed to talk with Man Dela for an hour. They had not seen each other since Mandela was transferred to the Mainland prison in 1932. Mocki was then flown to port Elizabeth a port on the Indian Ocean about 600 Miles from Cape town. He was arrested in part Elizabeth 24 years ago and insisted that he be released Here rather than in the Nomi Nally Independent Homeland of Transki where he was born. The release of Beki and the arranged rendezvous with Mandela seemed to constitute a gesture to he african National Congress by the Pretoria govern ment though official s preferred to characterize it As a humanitarian act because of Beki s age he is 77 and reported in ill health. The move was welcomed by the unit re Stales among other nations and by guerrillas of the Congress military Arm in civic in Zambia. Mocki who also belongs to the South african communist parly is listed by the government meaning that by Law be May not a quoted in the press. But thursday Casper Venter an official of the Bureau of information told reporters that Justice minister Kobie h. Loc Sec had waived the restriction so Mocki could appear at a news conference at a Seaside hotel Here. At the news conference Beki said he had been assured that his release was unconditional. He emphasized that he had not renounced violence and still supported the african National Congress whose members have been waging a War against White Rule in South Africa for 27 years. Coven Beki after his release by the South african  in port Kliu Bolh. . To Supply stinger to Chad Washington not the United slates has agreed to Supply Chad with stinger missiles and has sent an american team to n Dja Mcna to train its army to use them administration officials said thursday. The �2 million Deal which provides for 24 stinger missiles and 7 launchers signals an in creased american commitment to Chad in its conflict with Libya the officials said. Under the Accord which was concluded in the last few weeks. Chad will become the first Afri can country to receive the sophisticated Shoul Der fired weapon. A Small . Army team of instructors technicians and maintenance personnel was sent to the chadian capital within the last two weeks. Delivery of the missiles is expected to begin in about two weeks. Until now. France which provides an air shield for most of Chad has been the main sup plier of arms to the government in n Ndjamena. Although the Dollar amount of the stinger Sale is Low. The weapon is expected to enhance significantly Chad s military strength at a time when Chad has expressed frustration at France s clue Lance to provide More weapons. Soviet Model not mandatory Gorbachev tells world leftists Moscow a Kremlin Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev said the soviet Model is nol a mandatory Blue print for other communist nations and declared that his reforms have eliminated fears of a soviet  the arrogance of omniscience is Akin to fear of nol being Able to Cope with new  Gorbachev old a gathering of representatives of 178 leftist panics and revolutionary movements wednesday at the Kremlin. We do not in the least claim a monopoly on the truth he said we arc engaged in search ourselves and invite others to look jointly for the ways along which humanity could crass the minefield of our limes and emerge in the 21st Century in a nuclear free and non violent  Gorbachev s remarks prompted one soviet official to say historians should re Chamine the soviet led Warsaw pact invasion of Veeh Slovakia in 1968 that halted Liberal reforms and imposed the Kremlin s Brand of socialism. The delegations Are in Moscow for a two Day session marking the 70th Annn Crary of the re Volti Ion that brought the communists to Power in Russia. We Klong ceremonies continue through saturday ending with the traditional nov. 7 military review on red Square. The gathering of foreign communists socialists and members of political mos Mcmenis was the larg est such Assembly in the soviet capital since Gorbachev became communist parly general Secre tary in March 1985. Western diplomats said they believed the meeting was the first in soviet history to include delegates from Westem socialist and labor parties and formations like India s Congress pan and West Germany s Green Gorbachev tarty. Gorbachev called on the foreign socialists and leftists Lojkin with communists in trying to assure peace and Security for the world and disavowed any leadership role for soviet communists Gorbachev praised  his  prut Jam for economic and social Reform but said the Kremlin leadership did not claim to have All the an Swers to problems of world affairs economic relations  ecology. No one has any reads of us Prescript ions he said