European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes g rep. Kennedy assails British occupiers Page 2 d rain does t Dampen Camporee fun Page 3 q Many foreign nurses must leave Page 5 d Lyle holds slim Lead at masters sports Page 21 vol 46. No. 357 monday. April 11, 19bb seed morning 06693 a Jet hijackers threaten slow quiet massacre Warnaca Cyprus map hijackers of a kuwaiti jetliner started to Hurt passengers sunday after their demand for More fuel and Freedom for pro Irani an extremists jailed in Kuwait were not met. According to a message from the , the hijackers threatened a slow and quiet massacre of the hos tages but a noon deadline passed with out incident. Then one minute before a second afternoon deadline expired someone in the cockpit told the Warnaca Airport control Tower they be already started to Hurt on the the speaker was believed to be the nigh Engineer. Two hooded gunmen Luid ripped the inflatable escape chutes out of the plane and thrown them onto the Tarmac the demanded that workers remove them from the runway to Clear a Patio for inc 3 p.m., the night Engineer told the Airport Tower the hijackers Are dictating this message. If hey Don l gel a Posi Tive response in one hour and 15 minute regarding fuel and services icy will Start hurting occur Passof the the Engineer said an unspecified num Ber of passengers were sick but when the control Tower asked that they be re leased a voice came on the radio and said earlier the hijackers said they would Force inc Pilot to take off and crash into the kuwaiti Royal Pabco. There were believed to be in people still on Board the Kuwait airways hoeing 747, including three members of Kun Aii s Royal family and about six hijackers. The latest threats cart Afler a sixth round of talks Between the gunmen and Plo officials from Copius. There was no see Hijack on Back Paga a three Man my of nest Hinlers Pic puts to talk n Ith hijackers aboard Airliner. Pilots say flying now less Safe Atlanta api More than two thirds of pilots responding to a Survey said flying has become More dangerous in the 10 year since deregulation began Bill Many stressed they continue to re Gard it As the safest Way 10 travel. The Survey of i ,j60 pilots with air transport certificates was take by Trie Atlanta journal and the at Lanta cons dilution. Which published he remits in the newspapers combined sunday editions. Sixty right percent of Glicr pilots said they consider air travel less Safe since Llic government began deregulating the airline Industry in 1978. Twenty nine percent said air travel is safer now and 2 percent found no change. But 82 percent said they never Hod been pressured to Fly a mechanically unsound plane and 77 percent rated maintenance As Good or excellent. Sixteen percent said they had been pressured to Fly unsafe planes 1 percent rated maintenance As fair or poor. The Survey also found 47 per a Cal said air travel is just As Safe now As before the 1981 firings of striking air traffic controllers and ii percent said it is safer. Thirty nine percent said safety has declined since the strike. More than half the pilots added written comments the newspapers said and Miliny of them said air travel is still essentially Safe the press is not giving the air lines a fair shake . Air line system is far and away the safes in the world said a Pilot see pilots on Back Page soviet military corrupt pravda says cleanup under Way general reports Moscow up the soviet armed forces Are so riddled with corruption poor discipline and improper personnel practices that their combat readiness is greatly diminished in Many eases the communist 1 any newspaper 1 Ravda said sunday. In a single two Mouth period this year soviet Mili tar officers a Ere fined a total of 15 million rubies $4 i lion for various abuses of military regulations including theft and wilful Danny to army property. Pravda said quoting i Urc a t rum the military procurator s office. The snack on the armed Lones came As the country celebrated air defense Das honouring she country Sair defense forces it. Gen. Boris Popov Clef of the military Procura Tor s office which is Rnic male for investigating Vio lations of military discipline. Aid part of the problems that his own office is full of bribe takers and drunk Ards who arc unwilling to enforce the Law. He said a major cleanup is under �4v the report said corruptions rampant in the service especially among officers. Thefts of military property Are on the Rise and the improper use of soldiers for non military projects such As civilian construction has badly Hurt the combat readiness of some units the report also implied that som senior officers have been using soldiers for personal projects such As private just two months this Vejr officers have been Fiol d 25 million rubles for various abuses. I Wasno cd that a psychology of irresponsibility has taken Root in some units and sub-urn"., breaches of Laws Anil military standards by commanders and political work ers have become customary and there have been Many casts of violations of military be ice rules the news paper said there arc cases of enlisted men and noncommissioned officers renting apartments on the Blac Market and living off base in blatant violation of regu lations. Thefts Are on the Rise along with cases of wilful damage to military property harm to combat readiness is caused by soldiers being diverted to Var ious non military economic works outside of Barracks and unit pravda said. Soviet soldiers often arc used for t variety of not military tasks ranging from civilian Road repair to Grain said the Effort to restore discipline in the armed forces is beginning wish his office. We an now ruthlessly getting rid of procurators and investigators who Lake bribes of drunkards and workers in the procurator s office Olio close thir eyes a inc violations of military Popov said. According to Western estimate there arc 5.2 Mil lion men in the soviet armed forces which arc ripped with 5,000 warplanes s3.doo tanks and
