European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d general denounces Story of flies junk Over Germany Page 3 d smoking curbs go into effect in new York City Page 5 o . Reportedly helped would be Assassin Page 7 o major league baseball season gets under Way pages 21, 23 vol. In no. 352 wednesday. April 6. 1988 Goodman Tegt 08693 a hijackers Force kuwaiti Jet with 112 aboard to Fly to Iran Nicosia Cyprus api aral hijackers tuesday forced a Kuwait air ways jumbo Jet to land in northeastern Iran threatened to blow it up and demanded thai Kuwait release 17 pro Ira Nian prisoners. The Boeing 747 was carrying l12 peo ple including three Mcm bin or Kuwait s Royal family and 9 Pasic Ngor with a . Passport on a flight from Bangkok Thailand to Kuwait. The hijackers brandishing pistols and hand grenades id .-n1ificd themselves Only As arabs. They demanded fuel for the aircraft and Ihre Alch a to blow it up if the iranians approached. The iranians refuelled the plane then surrounded it on the Tarmac a1 Mashhad Airport. Kuwait urged Iran to handle the Inci Dent wisely and requested that the air Craft not be allowed to leave. Iran said it would try id resolve the crisis peacefully but said the plane would have to leave if the situation were not resolved quickly. The plane was commandeered three hours after it took off from Bangkok with 97 passengers and is Crew members. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia said a jordanian passenger with a heart Condi Tion was freed several hours after the plane landed at Mashhad Early tuesday. The passenger businessman Mustafa Issa 41, later appeared on Tehran television also monitored in Cyprus and said five or six hijackers arc demanding to Fly loan undetermined location. The passenger list includes 30 kuwaitis. 21 britons eight to Finis various other nationalities and one person identified Only As r. Attila Llali with a . And an egyptian passport. Bui the slate department said it be Lle pcs no americans arc aboard. Airline sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the Pilot was an iraqi. Bias h. Shiber the airline s manager in Bangkok said the three members of Kuwait s ruling family aboard Are Biesam Khalid a Sabah Fadil Khaled Al Sabah and the wife of Khaled Anwaral Sabah. The 17 prisoners demanded by the hijackers were jailed in the 1983 bombings that targeted . And French embassies in Kuulii the Kuwait government re fused to negotiate. Mics holding foreign hostages in Lebanon Ateo have demanded the prison ers release. Nine americans Are among die 22 foreigners missing and believed kidnapped in Lebanon. Iran first denied the plane permission to land but reversed its decision when the Pilot said the Jet was running out of fuel Irna said. Diplomatic relations Between Iran and Kuwait have been strained since August when iranians stormed the embassies of Kuwait and saudi Arabia in Tehran. Pro iranian gunmen hijacked a Kuwait airways jetliner to Tehran in de Cember 191ft and demanded the release of pro iranian kuwaiti prisoners. They killed two american passengers before iranian commandos stormed the aircraft ending the six Day ordeal. Helicopter crash kills army Pilot German passenger by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau bjss1noen an or Teck West Germany a . Army helicopter crash cd on the Side of a thickly wooded Cliff about 8 40 . Tuesday killing its 2s year old Pilot and a German passenger. The observation helicopter a hell oh-58a known went Down in heavy fog and came to rest in thick Trees which hampered efforts to retrieve the bodies from the wreckage. The crash site is about 20 Miles Southeast of Stuttgart. Killed in the crash were 1st 1.1. Glen t. 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Ujj army helicopter units left their Home base Jeff Day and prepared to Fly in Panama on s orders to beef up the . Military pics Jeffi in the troubled country. About 200 Temps Many of them dressed in combat gear and 26jflkoplen were moved by air and land 130 Milc Sisikh to Travis fab. They were to depart for in Nab tuesday afternoon fort Ord spokesman Paul Bdl Cesarid. To troops members of the 7lh Light inf div Are Padff a Force of about 1.300 scheduled la leave from a feral . Bases his week in response to increased see copter on Back Page code of conduct revised to remove sexist language by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington a female Navy reservist a helped drag the military s code of conduct Inlo inc 1980s, continuing a trend thai has sum inc introduction of Gencur no ural bibles and the fall of such words As spokesman and chairman. 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