European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d final solution1 site to get new role Page 3 d what happened on Wall Street pages 19,20,27 o Auburn beats Alabama 10-0 for sugar bowl berth Page 21 authorized Runoff Iota Putli cation 01 Thi u � my for�e1 vol. 46. No 2s5 sunday. November 29. 1987 d 6693 a Farmer hostage or a Tuque 31, smiles for the cameras soon after his release in belial. Al right Jean Louis Normandin .16, is guided from reporters by a French official. 2 frenchmen freed in Beirut Beirut Lebanon a two French hostages held by pro iranian captors in West Beirut were freed Friday evening and one said he had been imprisoned with two kidnapped americans. Roger Tuque 31, a free Lance journalist who was kidnapped Jan. 13. And Jean Louis Normandin 36, a lighting Engineer for French television who was abducted March 8. 1986, were delivered to the summer land hotel in West Beirut. They were whisked from the moslem sector of the capital to the French embassy in Christian East Beirut in a bulletproof car. Under escort by syrian troops and lebanese police. Reporters and photographers raced behind the 25-car Convoy. Normandin told Abc news "1 was with to Ameri cans Joseph Cicippio and Edward Tracy since the 12lh of he gave no indication As o Why he was released or whether the kidnappers of the revolutionary Justice organization intended to release the two americans. Cicippio 57, of Norristown pa., was acting comp troller at the american University in Beirut when he was kidnapped sept 12, 1986. Tracy also 57, a writer from Rutland vi., disappeared the following month. The revolutionary Justice organization claims 10 have abducted both men. On thursday night the revolutionary Justice organization an underground Shine moslem faction had said it would release two French hostages. No move was made by syrian troops to Slop either of the cars that dropped the men at the hotel indicating thai French government negotiators had worked out an agreement with the captors before the release. Pandemonium broke out As a que and Normandin under heavy escort walked to the hotel s main Gale see freed on Page 28 orders freeze on hiring i byc Washington Bureau Washington Secretary of the Navy James Webb has ordered a Complete hiring freeze for Navy and Marine corps civilian jobs because of continued uncertainty about the size of the fiscal 1988 1989 defense budgets. In a nov. 20 message sent Ioanu Aii a Marine corps commands Webb pm Texas ordering the freeze now Tiraj i la possible damage later. He said the Martnus contain civilian personnel until revised payroll figures Are deter by a defense appropriations. 1988, fiscal j Are generally in _ Jetton s budget requests for fiscal 1988 and 198 those Levels May not be realistic Webb said. In addition the services have to contend with unspecified Gramm re Iman cams this year. The Impact of these fiscal 1988 reductions will carry Forward into fiscal 1989, when even greater reductions May be Mandau her a. Until the implications of the current budget actions Are More fully understood the Navy and Marine corps can t afford to incur costs for civilian employees at Levels which May not be sustainable Webb said. Fee did not indicate How Long the freeze might last a that it will be lifted As soon As Navy and Mannet flip should consider reducing overt Imani my Milf up ant preparing for Early out authorizations. Transfers Between agencies and conversions of see hiring on Page 23 negotiations with cubans stalled in Louisiana by the associated press negotiations 10 end a we Klong siege at the Federal detention Center in Loui Siana stalled Friday As inmates raised new demands. It s fair to say that when they looked at the proposal they added things to it that made it impossible for us to accept it sen. John Bream of la. Laid a news conference at Oakdale la. There comes a time when we just can t go any further. We can t have them asking far 40 acres a House and a trac Tor Breaux said. He defined to describe the demands or the terms of a tentative agreement reached earlier. Meanwhile authorises urged cubans holding the Federal Penitentiary in Allan la to negotiate or surrender. Authorities in Atlanta blamed inmates for the breakdown of talks on releasing at least some of the 94 hostages they Are holding. Bream said the negotiations m Louisi Ana were suspended until an estimated 950 inmates in the samples which was burned in nols a week ago considered their nem move. Am disappointed the cubans did nol follow through with an apparent agreement of last night As we watched the negotiators shaking hands on television he said. Our government has gone far Down the Road with an offer. It is Lime for the cubans to realize there is Only so far we can go earlier. Bream Lold hostages relatives Hal ihi1 cuban Neghiu orb Ere Una he to persuade All the inmates to agree 10 a Deal
