European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday february 14,198b Valentine greets hostage family sends message Beirut Lebanon Uhi rela Tives of . Hostage Thomas Suther land missing in Lebanon for More than two years sent him a love note and a family photograph on the Occa Sion Oft. Valentine s Day. The note was accompanied by a photograph taken it Christmas time and showing Sis relatives of Suther land a Christmas picture with in Len Tine love loyalty strength acc. And steadfast Hope and Faith said a Brief message which was published in a Beirut daily newspaper saturday. Sutherland s4, from Colorado was Dean of the agriculture school at the american University of Beirut. Lie was abducted june 9, 1985. The shadowy islamic jihad group claimed responsibility for Sutherland s kid napping As Well As for the abduction of american journalism Terry Ander son of the associated press tight americans Are among the for Eigners abducted and Stilt reported missing in Lebanon. The Nuyianes include anglican Churell envoy and hostage negotiator Terry Wail. Who disappeared Jan. 20. 19b7, reportedly during a meeting with the islamic Jih id to negotiate the re lease of Anderson and Sutherland in a development related to the hostage Issue in Lebanon the . Relief and works Agency Friday withdrew two foreign employees from the country and an a ency official said that it will cancel the Mission of the 12-Membcr International team in Lebanon. The move came As two Unhwa scandinavian employees spent their eighth Day in Capri Vii. The unwrap provides Aid to palestinians living in Camps Aroul move of Ulkins the feb. 5 abduction of swede Jan stoning an norwegian William Jorgon san South of the port City of Sidon 24 Miles South of Beirut. No group has claimed responsibility for the Abdulai. But i palestinian sources believe the captors arc link Edlo the Al Fatah palestinian guerrilla group. To Tom Sutherland a Lori picture with Valentine love loyalty strength. Perseverance and steadfast Hope and of Ittoli. Beirut Jean tort Chilim Atvin ind Ann i h. 1 Kiv. Of Leimomi Valentine from Sutherland s family As it appeared in Beirut paper. App Tolo 3 held in Gemayel assassination try Beirut Lebanon apr authorities on saturday detained three suspects in connection wild an attempt to assassinate president Amin Jemayel by Plant ing a bomb in his plane police said. A police spokesman said the three suspects were being held in solitary Confin Mcnol pending completion of i Vestiga the spokesman who in line with standing regulations cannot be named refused to identify the suspects beyond saying that they Are All lebanese Airport a charge of a Pound of int was plan Ted under the Pilot s scat of the Middle East airlines Boeing 707 jetliner that was to leave for Laro Aea Cyprus Friday to Fly Irma cd to Sana North Yemen and later to Sudan. The bomb was found and defused by explosives experts at the Bei rut Airport. Mea Lebanon s National Carrier As signed another Boeing 707 for the presidential flight and Gemayel left Lavaca for Sana on saturday. Gemayel. 44, usually travels by Mili tary helicopter from the Christian heart land Northeast of Beirut to Warnaca and flies from there to world capitals. Gemayel a Maronic Catholic has not used Beirut s Airport in the City s moslem sector since 1984, when moslem and leftist militias wrested control of West Beirut from the lebanese army. The Beirut Airport surrounded by shiite moslem slums is currently con trolled by syrian troops who were deployed in the capital s Western sector Al most a year ago in an Effort to end three years of militia anarchy marked by assassinations kidnappings hijackings and other crimes. The police spokesman said the explosive charge was equipped with a sophisticated pressure fuse that would have detonated it when the plane reached an Altitude of 30.000 this meant that the bomb was de signed to explode during the presidential flight from Lavaca to Sana when the plane usually flies at 30,000 feel and the spokesman said. Planes during the 20-minute trip from Beirut to Warnaca. Usually do not Fly at an Altitude of More than 10,000 feet he said. It was obviously an attempt to kill the president the spokesman adder. He did not elaborate. Lebanon has been plagued by assassinations car bombings and gunpoint kidnappings since its moslem Christian civil War broke out in 1975. The conflict has claimed More than 130.000 lives. Moslem prime minister Rashid Kara i was killed in a bomb explosion aboard a lebanese army helicopter that was flying him from North Lebanon to Beirut on june 1. Moslem leaders blamed tic assassination on the lebanese forces right Wing Christian militia Alliance and accused Gemayel of covering up for them. Gemayel s brother Bashir who led the lebanese forces was killed sept. 14 i
