European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday april 21.19b8 5 med 40 being held by gunmen in Bank los mochas Mexico a gun men holding More than 40 people hos Tage in x Bank tried 10 leave he building thursday Bui police tired Back and wounded one gunman. The red Cross Laid five people have been tilled and Ai least 15 wounded in the 24-hour stand off. We wan id leave now one a the seven gunmen said in a Telephone Casilo Mexico s major morning to news pro Gram on inc private Tel visa network. We want a helicopter. They Don twant to meet their agreement he said clearly agitated after he shooting of the gunman. I m not going to respect any one anymore they started to  Guillermo Ochoa appealed to the gunman to stay  minutes Sinaloa state gov. Francisco Labastida Ochoa was on theline and offered to Lei Ibe gunmen meet with a committee of red Crow officials journalists a roman Catholic print and state police who would guarantee lately and due Proeu of Taw. The red Cross volunteered to escort gunmen from the Hank but it we Noi known whether the offer would be accepted. Hundreds of police surrounded Theba Namex Bank in los Moc Iii a City of 120,000 on the Gulf of California about500 Miles South of Tucson Ariz. Jesus Acosta a spokesman for Thel Al red Cross said one of its Rescue Worken was among those killed in a gun fight wednesday Between police and the gunmen. Me said the other four victims Wen a female Bank Teller and three Cus  accounts said the dead included � Bank official and a policeman. Earlier reports said there were Jit gunmen. The gunmen were demanding to bellowed to travel to a nearby Airport and leave on a plane Laid Ignacio Lara spokesman for the Sinatra stale Gover nor. The standoff began at 12 45 . Witnesses said the gunmen Bam into the Bank and took hostages after an alarm alerted police to the Rob . In a live interview with Telvi a said the negotiation were being con ducted with serenity in Hopes the gun men would turn themselves  he said the goal is for the gunmen to accept thai Ibey have co mixed a crime that they Lake care of the lives of innocent people that Ibey accept Reali  of the gunmen in an inter View broadcast live on Tel visa thurs Day morning said All the hostages Wen being treated  where they would go if Given Safe passage he replied "1 would t Beable to Tell you where we would go. We can t turn ourselves in he  want to Lull us. We re  televise said the gunmen appeared Tobe about 19 or 20 and thai none wore masks. The gunmen made Telephone Calls to Ochoa and televise demanding to be Al Lowed to leave the site. We Don t have anything to do with politics one was quoted As saying. Bomber from Page 1 ing up on radar. While the air Force has flatly reused Lonis cuss the bomber since design work began in to Lac 1970s, ils general shape has actually been known since 1985 when former Arizona sen. Barry Cpl dealer disclosed its resemblance to a flying  the drawling distributed by the air fore wednesday if cows an air plane that to some sex. Tent re Sembla a Boomerang a Small cockpit rises in the Fudle on of and Isle for the Jet engines Are placed to each Side of the cockpit also on top of Fie Wing. The design allows the aircraft to be made j or right angles. According to the plane also relics on the use coatings on its exterior sur in materials for construction. No been the object of Esperi drop corp., which ii building Force. The company Lew Alion of such a of inc known is icon. He yap9, first slew in sled by Wair Force. 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However the than originally pro plan ans going to Cost be cedi. While the acquisition of 132 b-2 bomber originally estimated 10 Cost 536.6 billion in 1 dollars the air Force m re evaluating Cost images for the program ajar result of current a projected fiscal  the service said 31 freed hostages by to Kuwait hijackers location still unclear Algiers Algeria of thirty one hostages Reed after 15 Days aboard a hijacked kuwaiti jumbo Jet flew 10 waiting families in Kuwait thursday. Officials in Beirut denied reports thai the hijackers found Haven in Beirut the 24 passengers arid seven Crew members from the Kuwait airways Boeing 747 that was the died april 5left Algiers Airport at 3 20 . They were freed , Kuwait s official news Agency said an offi Cial and Public reception was planned for thursday night. Most of the former hostages Are kuwaiti. The hijackers had demanded that Kuwait free 17imprisoned terrorist which Kuwait rejected. But there were reports that Kuwait agreed la commute i Edeath sentences of three of the prisoners before the hostages left aboard a Kuwait airways Boeing 767, kuwaiti official Ahmad fahd said All were found fit to travel after medical examinations at the military Hospital in Algiers. Fahd a sent Here to oversee the Crisi  nine hijackers who had killed two kuwaiti hos tages were believed to have left Algeria after slipping out of the plane ahead of the hostages at Dawn , citing unidentified algerian sources said algerian mediators promised the hijackers Safe passage to travel o Beirut or Tehran. Western diplomats in Algiers said they believed in hijackers went to Beirut. Lbs said thursday that the hijackers had arrived i Beirut. But Beirut Airport officials told the associated press that the hijackers Hud not  plane was seized april s on a Bangkok Lou wait flight with 112 aboard and diverted to Mashhad Iran where the terrorists released 57 hostages. Freed passengers said they believed More gunmen boarded at Mashhad with sub machine guns and Dyna mite which was later wired to the plane doors. Alter three Days in Mashhad the plan flew to Lama Ca Cyprus. During five Days there the hijackers beat two kuwaiti Security men shot them to death an dumped their bodies from the aircraft. The hijackers let 13 More hostages go in Exchange for fuel thai brought them to Algiers. Several Days before giving up the hijackers freed nailing passenger. Throughout die ordeal the hijackers demanded that the persian Gulf Sheik Dom free 17 pro iranian extreme Isle imprisoned for the 1983 bombings of the . An French embassies there. Kuwait steadfastly refused and its rulers were lauded by their people on wednesday for standing firm. But there was Tome anger expressed in Kuwait because the hijackers had been allowed to go free Heilem intelligence official have said they believe two of the hijackers were lebanese nationals under . Indictment for the 1981 hijacking of a Twa Jet liner in which a . Navy diver was slain. Rodney Wallis Security director of the International air transport association told the associated press we can assume we have not heard the last of the hijackers. We now have the possibility that a number of trained hijacked could Lead missions of their  neither Algeria nor Kuwait would disclose terms of the Deal. However Abc mews reported that unidentified . Officials believed the algerians provided the hijackers with letters or tapes from the 17 prisoners in Kuwait so friends and relatives could see the prisoners had not been harmed. A . Official in Washington Slid efforts were made to assure the hijackers the 17 were not mistreated. But the official did not confirm the the hijackers were Given letters or tape. Higgins from Page 1 our lebanese us palestinian Peoples participation in american conspiracies against our moslem  or of the statement also said Higgins was Mot nor supervising a Pentagon team to Jean bit lebanese Andral Euisun. Islamic  in Palestine and Leb  the  Higgins was charged with Colleoni  and reporting to the Pentagon about the military and political situation in South Leo Anoo it said he also provided the . Defense depart ment with he personal views on the situation to tie South which include All military activities in Witting Israel and ways of  Titi Tiv Ami the Fugile chm no Sabo Wai in cud or set up an efficient information a Niering " i South to help further their cd Supira  i it claimed he Watt number of what it called an american coordination com Mii a on Lebanon an Palestine made up of officials  department the state department and it cd Nln intelligence Agency. Meese Choice for no. 2 Justice Post withdraws Washington a attorney general Edwin Mcew i Choice for the no. 2 Post at the Justice department withdrew from consideration wednes Day As Mecie struggled to fill top level posts. We be Only had a very few Resig nations Mcne defiantly told a Senate subcommittee on Capitol Hill defending his leadership of the Justice  and his personal ethics  a. Jong criminal investigation. Sen. Ernell slings , told the attorney Generalis Minuit Justice depart ment is seemingly  an asked can you continue Al effectively under these Cirei the news papa t Durf stave it quite right a fisc respond re. There s been Enumerable exaggeration John Shepherd the 62-year-old former american Bat association president whom Meese hurriedly recommended tothe White House april 5 to become Dep Uty Atto face of y general _ Oul in Thean alleged affair my wife and i were not prepared Forto which someone recon mende3t�fc  at Tab Lime would be Lub Jeni Etc Herd said in a statement. La also was disclosed tul Meese Friend e. Robert Wallach now under indictment in the we Lech scan dal had recommended Shepherd Tomeese for a Justice department poit in 1984 or 1985 and that Shepherd by Ottlo an All White country dub and an w Rule social dub. Meese told a. Saute appropriation subcommittee thai he would appoint u acting Deputy while he searchers Tor replacement to till inc Post