European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday March 3,1968 in. Workers freed by moslem captors be rut Lebanon a two scandinavian . Relief workers freed from 2s Days in Captivity said tuesday thai heir moslem abductors moved them often did not reveal their identities an treated them Welt. Swede Jan Slining. 44. And norwegian William Jorgon san so freed by their abductors tuesday night made the comment at a packed news conference at a hotel in Christian East Beirut. We were very Well treated during the whole period of Captivity Stening said. Sterling said neither of them had any idea about the identity of their Captora their motives or their demands All our guards were masked Ston ing said. We changed locations Sevin or eight limn we never knew a there we were held at any Lime. News briefs we were held together. Both of us were blindfolded Al the beginning for an hour or so but then the blindfolds were removed and we were allowed la talk freely to each other. We were moved from one location to another at night and in the trunk of the  he said their Caplon interrogated us in a polite manner asking such questions As the names of countries we worked Al and the kind of jabs we  after the news conference the former hostages left Lebanon in a . A Clieo tar from Christian East Beirut for Lama Ca Cyprus on the first part of their Jour Ney Home Slining said tour gunmen kidnapped them near South Lebanon s provincial capital of Sidon a they were driving in a . Cur from their base in lie Southern port of Tyre to Beirut on feb. 5. The two worked for the . Relief and works Agency which cares for 230,000 palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The first word about the release came in a Handwritten arabic statement delivered to a Western news Agency in Beirut late tuesday. It was accompanied by a picture of the two men. The statement said after they were proved innocent they were released the statement did not say what they had been accused of but in earlier statements the group claimed the men were involved with the intelligence sen ice of an unidentified foreign power.. Official blamed the abductions on palestinian acting individually for per Sonal not political motives. The kidnappers of . Marine it. Iggins South Lebanon feb. It Aid in a statement released tuesday they would put him an trial. They accused Higgin iof working for the Cia. The organization of he oppressed Onearth which claimed Higgins abduction said Israel s crackdown on Ami occupation palestinian riot in the Weil Bank and Caza strip and the Middle East trip of Secretary of state George  make us More determined to try this criminal  both the United nations and he United Stales have denied hat Higgins who served with the .Pcaeekecping Force in South Lebanon in Cia spy. Reporters in Sidon 25 Miles South of Bei rut said the two scandinavians were turned Over by their abduction tuesday evening la b Palestine liberation organization representative. Israelis storm Hospital in search of Arab rioters Ramallal occupied West Bank a israeli troops Hunting for Arab protesters raided a Hospital compound wednesday and fired tear Gas into the reception area of an emergency room driving out dozens of elderly patients doctors said. Palestinians hurled firebombs and troops fired tear Gas in scattered clashes throughout the night in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip where violent protests have occurred daily since dec. 8, violence erupted for the second consecutive Day at the government run Ramallal Hospital about eight Miles North of Jerusalem the latest in a recent series of intense clashes Al medical facilities in the occupied territories. About a dozen israeli troops arriving at the hos Pital were  by Rock hurling palestinian Prol Sicri who blacked a Street outside the  smoking minister landed in the reception area of the no Artency room and another landed in Hospital courtyard doctors said. Two physicians Dunne Gas masks and others held onions to their noses to Blunt the effects of the tear Gas. One doctor said. About 3d patients including elderly people were driven outside. Iraq batters Tehran with Long Range missiles Nicosia Cyprus a raq said in pounded Tehran with surface to surface missile wednesday for a third straight Day and fired two rackets at Iran s holy City of Pom seat of Aya Zollah Ruhollah Khomeini s religious Hierarchy. Iran said it launched three Long Range missile against the iraqi capital of Baghdad Early wednesday in retaliation one iranian missile hit Baghdad at Daybreak killing or wounding several civilians including women and children and destroying houses shops and cars the official iraqi news Agency said without elaborating on the casualties. Iraq id it Hod Ien 19 missiles into the Irani an capital since monday including two wednes Day that Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency Aid wounded 15 civilians among them eight women and five children. Iraq s news Agency reported a third missile was tired into Tehran in the afternoon. Summit from Page 1 Surprise attack and Large scale offensive action a feasible option the nato statement said. Reagan said he nato leaders displayed no funds Mcnut differences in the opening Day of the Summit nato s first in six years. All were supportive of what s going on he  be never seen such  Reagan also announced thai Secretary of state George Sli Ultz would return to the Middle ens thurs Day to continue pitching the american peace  spent four Days in the Region but he arrived in Brussels tuesday without having made much Progress in talks with israeli and Arab Leaden. Asked whether the Secretary s return indicated a renewed Hope for peace in the Middle East Reagan said Hull was in Brussels Only for the nato Summit and was going  it is Clear thai the countries in he Region believe hat in is useful that the United states remain engaged in the process. We will spare no Effort in car search for a comprehensive peace settlement Reagan said. In an evening news conference. White House pres Secretary Marim filzmaier said he Summit leaders offered support for Reagan s upcoming strategic arms talks in Moscow and hoped for Early Senate ratification of the intermediate Range nuclear forces treat signed in Washington in december with the inf Accord behind them he Summit Lead in hoped to be Able 10 push Forward with their next priority their proposal limiting conventional forces Fez Walcer said. When and if nato will modernize it Arsenal of Short Range nuclear missiles and artillery wot addressed Only broadly Fitt Waitr said. There was agreement and disagreement on ill the issues the press Secretary said adding that the United states stands by the decision to upgrade the weapons. Everybody has some feelings about hat Issue some More supportive than others. Leave it to those countries to describe their own  West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl facing stiff Public reaction against the upgrading has asked other Western Leaden to delay the modernization unlit a full review has been conducted of nato s ability o deter Warsaw fact aggression. The review expected to take two years would push a decision on the modernization perilously close to the Date to the Early 1990s, when the Pentagon says its Lance missiles would become obsolete. The United Stales already has agreed to Day a decision on the upgrading until Al least May when Kohl s conservative coalition faces important state elections. Apparently anxious to support recent improvements in French German relations French president fran Cois Mitterrand said Over the weekend that he believes the modernisation should be shelved. However reappeared to distance himself from that View is the Summit opened following Public criticism from his prime minister Jacques Chirac Chirac who Hopes to replace Mitterrand after up. Corning presidential elections in France said any real delay in modernizing the weapons would play into the soviets hands Mitterrand s position on delaying the upgrading is further weakened by the fact that France is not a. Mem Ber of the Alliance s military Structure. Additionally France Long he been a critic of Short Range arms in general believing that Long Range strategic weapon provide the Only Rue deterrence. The Summit leaders were expected to leave Brussels at midday thursday after a morning work session and die release of a final communique. Tests from Page 1 by unioa., 2,200 civilians at fort Stewart 6a. 3si employees atthe Sharp army depot in Lathrop Calif and 190 civilian guards at Aberdeen proving ground my but the order applies to All drug Testini of civilian army employees. Of the army s nearly 450,000 civil Ian employees 9,400 Sre subject to random drug test ing including 2,800 pilots and those in other aviation refuted jobs and 3,700 police officer and guards the Pentagon s anti drug initiative it not rooted in the discovery of any particular drug problem among in civilian employees or any group of employee wrote Megan noting that a 1983 Survey showed Only 4 per cent of 7,000 civilian defense department employee reported using drugs. In the anecdotal evidence of on duty abuse by civilian employees is spare and unconvincing Hotan said. The judge also dismissed As eminent argument hat off duty drug use could to blackmail or bribery of civilian employees. Speculative the gov Vermont from Page 1 actually beat Dukakis in 27 communities and tied him in two. We have found the common chord that is linking the american people said Jackson from his Mother Home in Greenville so. It s putting to rest once and for All that he is candidate for Black people said Burlington mayor Bernard Sanders a Jackson Backer. We arc he whitest stale in America. 1 think it s an extraordinary showing in unofficial results with 100 percent of the stale s 262 precincts reporting Dukakis had 28,244 votes or 97 percent Jackson 1030 votes or 16 percent Gephardt 3,968 Volet or b percent Simon 2.s96 Voles or s percent and hot 2,052voles or 4 percent. Bush received 23,550 or 49 percent Dole got 18,636 or 39 percent former television evangelist Pat Robertson 2,447 votes or i percent rep. Jack Kemp 1,866 votes or 4 percent. Drop outs Pete Dupont and Alxander hah received 794 Voles or 2 percent and 327 votes or i percent respectively. The Robertson and Kemp campaigns put up tue Effort in the state although Robertson plans to compete in the caucuses. I really did t Conwil in said Robertson in Orlando Fla. We bad virtually no organization in  in Yean past Vermont s primary won rational Media attention because of its tuning. Candidates could us a Victory in the slate to build momentum following a victories in new Hampshire or Iowa. Or they could try to repair an image wounded by a loss in either of those two tunes. But the Liming Clement worked against the state this year. Because no delegates were being allocated the candidate practically ignored the mate o concen trate on he Mega Delegate race in he South. The primary was part of the state annual ritual. Town meeting Day when vermont1 Voien decided own birdied Road repairs and a Host of other fee issues. Turnout was lower than expected with just under 100.000 venturing to the polls