European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2b the stars and stripes saturday february 6,1966 2 scandinavians seized in Lebanon Beirut Lebanon a gunmen Friday kidnapped a swede and a norwegian who work for inc . Relief Anil works Agency As inc two were driving across a Bridge just outside inc Southern port City of is Jon. Police said the Agency s chief spokesman. Nail a Lily identified inc victims As swede Jan stoning. 44. And norwegian William . There was no immediate claim of responsibility Tor if kidnappings. Both men arc area operations supervisors with the Agency s nutrition and sup plies program which a arcs for palestini an refugees. They Are based in Lebanon s out Horn port of Tyre. To Miles South of i Ieiri Kiel y said. Police said i tie men were driving in an Agency cur from Tyre to Beirut when three gunmen intercepted them Ai 9 30 . Ai inc Sidiq Bridge on the coastal Highway just South of Sidon. Sidon is 25 Miles South of Beirut. The attackers forced the two victims out of their car Al gunpoint bundled them into a yellow Mercedes Benz and sped off to an unknown destination a police statement said. Police and . Spokesmen said they had no clues to the Idun Lily of the kid nappers or their Tolive. The Agency s Headquarters in Beirut lost radio Contact with the victims Al most Halfway in their trip from Tyre to Beirut. Their while Renault was left on inc Side of the Road Kiely said. Kicky Laid the Agency was in Contact with various palestinian guerrilla factions the shiite moslem amal militia and lebanese government officials in a bid to Rescue the to victims. Many Agency officials had been kid napped in Lebanon since he civil War broke out in 1975. But All of them except new York based journalist Alec Collett were eventually freed unharmed. Collett 66. A briton was kidnapped on Beirut s Southern Edge March 25, 1985, while on a writing assignment for the . Agency. His abduction was claimed by he revolutionary Organiza Tion of socialist moslem a pro libyan group believed linked to palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal. The group claimed on april 23, 1936, that it had hanged Collett to avenge Brit ish support of the . Air raid on Libya a week earlier. A week later the group released a videotape purporting to show colled s body dangling from a Gallows. Bui . Officials with whom Collett worked said they could not confirm that the dead Man was the British writer. No Corpse has been found. Twenty two other westerners have been kidnapped in Lebanon. Terry a. Anderson chief Middle Easl correspondent for the associated press is inc Long est held. He was abducted in moslem West Beirut on March 16,1985. Also among those kidnapped is anglican Church envoy Tenry Waile who Dis appeared in Beirut on Jan. 20, i9b7, on his Way to negotiate with hostage holders for the release of captives. No one has claimed responsibility for wait s Abdul meanwhile the Christian voice of Lebanon radio Friday said in an unconfirmed report that the kidnapper of Waile killed him Artur they forced him to disclose important information. The radio said Wail faced his Black Fate at the hands of his captors after they derived from him he information they were looking  radio gave no source for its report and did not say when Waile was killed. There also Wai no Independent confirmation of the  s death has been reported in the past but has never been confirmed. News briefs ferry Crews continue strike despite Union s order London up striking ferry Crews de fied their Union s return to work order and disrupted sea travel to Europe and Ireland Friday and 32.300 Auto workers Al the Ford motor co. Sita Midnight sunday strike deadline. The National Union of seamen agreed to Call off the ferry strike thursday while appearing in Britain s High court where the iwo main ferry companies i of and Schlink were seeking la enforce an injunction outlawing the walkout. But some 5.000 workers remained on strike Friday despite the Clurn to work order by Union president Sam Mccluskie hulling ferry operations at Harwich. Portsmouth Ito head Fyk Lafait and hover and other smaller ports. Al Hie same time the Ford motor co. Faced the pro Pecl of an All out strike after its 32,500 workers rejected the advice of their Union negotiators and voted against a three year pay and benefits package. Arabs ambush settler 2 americans in West Bank Jerusalem up Arab villagers hurling rocks ambush cd a car carrying two american tourists and a jewish settler in the West Bank critically wounding the settler and injuring one tourist the army said Friday. The attack occurred thursday afternoon in the Arab Village of far Malck As inc three were returning to the Ofra settlement from an Outing and were stopped at a Roadblock of Burnog tires and Rucks the military said. Thursday s attack came amid heightened ten Sions Between West Bank arabs and jews who hive established settlement in the area since it was seized in the 1967 sin Day War. Scattered demonstrations were reported in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip Friday. Al least 42 palestinians have been killed by israeli gunfire since protests erupted dec 9 against is Rael s 20-year occupation of the territories. Reagan Gorbachev get peace prize nominations Oslo. Norway a president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Are among the 89 nominations received so far for the Nobel peace Rue a committee source said Friday. Sine last year there Haiblen widespread speculation that Reagan and Gor Tachev would be nominated when they signed a treaty to ban . And soviet intermediate Range nuclear weapons. Nobel officials never announce the names of candidate but a local television report thurs Day night said there was reason to believe that Reagan and Gorbachev were among the Nomi  peace pric Winner usually is announced in mid october and the prize ii awarded dec. 10. Itt will get computerized link with airline reservation system schwet2ingen, Germany eighteen of the 65 army information Tours and travel offices in Ger Many arc scheduled to be plugged into a computerized airline reservations system in March an agreement Between pan american world air ways and Usa eur for providing automation to the 8 its was announced this week by Usa eur. Agreements with other airlines to provide computer services at other itt offices Are expected to be completed in the near future a Community and family support Agency spokesman said. Pan am s Panama computer system which pro Vides flight information on All airlines is cup cycled to be installed in Early March in Ansbach Nalmberg Frankfurt Fulda. Mainz Karlsruhe. Parma sons Ber Lin Munich Wil Ryburg Bamberg. Gissen Wiesbaden Kniser Slauter Mannheim Worms Heidelberg and the Nordru Lochland military Community. Without the computers night reservations through itt arc being made by Telephone and usually involve a delay of several Days before inc customer gets the ticket. The new reservation system will allow itt personnel to Book directly into the computer accordingly Gail Gorinsky chief of itt Al the Community and family support Agency. However they will not be Able to do the actual lick cling. How customers will gel tickets and How Long it will take under the new system is still being worked out. The tickets could be Scal to itt offices by mail or courier or picked up by the traveler at the Airport. Airline tickets Cost the same whether they Are Pur chased at the itt through a travel Agency at an on base Sato booking office or directly from an airline. Dictator from Page 1 Tell with conspiracy and iwo attempts to import Mari Juana. The indictment alleges that Noriega and pc tilt were involved in a scheme to import thousands of pounds of marijuana to the United states and launder the Money through panamanian Bonks and businesses. It says pay menu of up Losi million were made by drug dealers to Noriega and his associates for his authorization to smug Gle drugs and launder Cash in Panama. The Miami indictment accuses Noriega of racketeer ing and manufacturing importing and distributing cocaine As Well As travelling to Aid inc conspiracy. The indictment says Hal Noriega after he took control of Panama in 199utilized his official posit com to pro vide pro Lection for International criminal narcotics Traffick  including the Mcd Cllon Cartel said to be responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine  Stales. Kellner said Noriega received payoffs from Escobar and Ochoa to rated cocaine shipments flown from med Colin Colombia through Panama Toth Eunile Stales. Ochoa and Escobar were indicted in 1986 an Federal drug charges but remain at Large. When Colombia s anti drug minister of Justice. Rod Rizo Lara Bonilla. Was assassinated by traffickers. Noriega allowed inc Rand leaders to shift Luicir operations to Pina Malo escape a crackdown in their own country. Only one of inc 16 people named in the Miami indictment is in custody. David Rodrigo Ortiz Hermida allegedly Escobar s Pilot was arrested last year on inc Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe after being caught with a cocaine shipment according to pros Culon. He is being held by French authorities. The Justice department reportedly will ask the stale department to notify Noriega of the charges through diplomatic channels. Witnesses told the Miami grand jury and congressional committees that Noriega protected drug ship ments of the Medellin Cartel in return for expensive bribes and provided facilities for smugglers. The witnesses included Jose Blandon fired earlier this month As Panama s Consul general in new York backs front colombian Cartel Bosses to Noriega wife 2 gis held in murder plot Schweinfurt. Germany is the wife of an american Soldier was arrested in Schweinfurt Wilh two 3rd inf div soldiers As suspects in a plot to kill the woman i husband the Schweinfurt chief prosecutor said Friday. The woman is suspected of plotting Wilh the men one of whom was her Lover. According to the chief prosecutor Waller Mulzer to kill her husband a . Soldier a spokesman for the 3rd inf div identified the two soldiers being charged Wilh conspiracy to commit Mur Der As pvt 1 Scot a. Rosenzwcig or he co 2nd in. 64lh Armor and spec. 4 Dniel l. Pack of co t 1st in 30th inf. Bolh soldiers stationed in Schweinfurt. Were charged As a result of an ongoing investigation by the criminal investigation co Tiff the spokesman said. Officials declined to stale which Man was involved Wilh inc woman Mulzer declined to Idun life the woman or stale what charges she would face. Official could not say Friday when the three were arrested. Tie woman is being held at a detention facility in  because Schweinfurt docs nol  women Mulzer said. The men Are in pretrial confine ment at the . Army confinement facility in Schweinfurt the division spokesman said