European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes o . Jobless rate Falls to 5.4% in april Page 2 d Dukakis cd legs Bush on Cabinet discussions Page 5 d trying to hitch a ride on air Force one pages 14-15 d no rejects Pete Rose s Appeal sports Page 25 the sars and Fries be six vol. 47, no. 20 saturday May 7, 19b8 Ceca morning f 08693 a . Hostages treated brutally after escape try report says Paris a former hostage Jean Paul Kauff Mann told his family Hinl american hostages in Leb anon were treated brutally because they tried id escape the French news Agency Agency Francc Prusse reported Friday. Kau Fernann and diplomats Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine arrived in Paris thursday Aller being freed wednesday from three years of Captivity. They were the bit French hostages to be released from Lebanon. Premier Jacques Chirac hinted that France might restore diplomatic ties with Tehran which he said helped secure the hostage Freedom. The government denied reports that it had paid a Ransom. Asp quoted Kaufmann i sister Maric Gencil Csc Dagin. As saying he shared a cell recently with Frank Herbert Reed who was mistreated to the Point of being led  Reed was kidnapped sept. 9,1986, and is one of nine american hostages in Lebanon. I Piitmann. 44, Carton 62, and Fontaine 45, were in the Val do Griec military Hospital for two Days of examinations. In a statement issued alter the Asp dispatch quoting his sister Kaufmann said he intended la speak Cully at a news conference next week and did not want anyone speaking for dim or relaying his impressions until then. Dagin s Telephone in Rennes was constantly Busy see hostages in Back Page a photo smoke rises from the debris of the British copter that crashed at Hannover. British copter crashes at show at least 2 dead Hannover West Germany a a British military helicopter crashed and bunt into Lames at an International air show Friday killing at least two people and injuring sever Al others officials said. Airport officials in Hannover said the crash occurred As the .-made helicopter returned from a Short demonstration Light. They said the copter hit a loading ramp at tic Airport with its Back Rotor. It was not immediately known whether the dead were members of if Crew or whether there were Fatali ties on the ground. In Early reports eyewitnesses said the helicopter belonged to the . Military but Airport officials later said the aircraft was a .-made Chinook helicopter flown by the Brit ish. The Accident occurred at about 6 p.m., shortly after the end of the air show officials said. The copter had town to Hannover from the British base at Gutersloh about 65 Miles Southwest of Hannover. West German fire officials said Ini tial reports indicated that two people were seriously Hurt. Among the injured were air show visitors officials did. Witnesses said tying wreckage accounted for some of the injuries and damaged aircraft parked nearby. Official said there were several explosions after the helicopter crashed and that names shot up More than 25 feet in the air. Cleanup inquiries begin in aftermath of disasters by the associated press the death loll from this week s Indus trial disasters Rose to six Friday with the discovery of two More bodies at the kill burning Shell Oil co. Refinery at Norco la., As investigators began looking into a los Angeles skyscraper lire and explosions at a Nevada rocket fuel Plant. The string of accidents began wednes Day afternoon when earthquake Force explosions destroyed the Pacific Engi Neering production co. Building and 11 others Ai a Henderson ncv., Industrial Park killing two people and injuring at least 255, that night fire broke out at the 62 Story firs interstate Dank Tower Cali fornia s tallest building incinerating four floors and causing $450 million damage. One worker was killed when he became trapped in an elevator and 40 other peo ple were injured. A Tew hours later explosions that broke windows 20 Miles away in new Orleans soft fires at the Shell refinery. Three people were found dead and four More were still missing Friday morning said Wendy Jacobs a Shell spokeswoman fourty two people were injured As windows shattered and doom and roofs were torn off throughout Norco. Small stubborn fires continued to bum Friday at Lite refinery Complex fun eled by residual gasoline and Oil in tangled lines and equipment bul the Low ering Blaze that sent Black smoke Over the area was out. A specially trained Crew of 25 Plant workers poked through the wreckage Friday looking for the missing men said Sarah Collotti. A Plant spokeswoman. The Federal occupational safety and health administration mud the Environ mental Protection Agency sent investigators to the refinery Friday to assist Shell in determining the a Nus of the Accident. Investigators had t determined the cause of the skyscraper inferno yet either and los Angeles fire officials said they were calling on the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms to help because of the severity and scale of he Blaze. The request does t necessarily mean anon is suspected but rather that there is a need for the ats technical exper Tise said fire department spokesman Greg acc Cdo. Fire officials cited a flashover effect a phenomenon in which materials become superheated causing a firestorm see cleanup on Back Page brownies Hopes of sending cookies to sailors crumble Corpus Christi. Texas a a Brownie troop s Hopes of shipping More than 400 Bones of Girt scout coolies to sailors aboard a . Aircraft Carrier Are being dashed after japanese customs officials blocked the delivery. I Don t think it s fair Nickells Clarks said thursday. I m  she sold More than 500 boxes of Coo Kies this year including some to a Sailor aboard the Tirier Midway who had writ ten to say he missed the annual treat. Troop 807 Leader Man Chelta White said a $2,000 duty lax prevented the Coo Kies from Clearing customs and going to 35 servicemen who ordered them. Am Iran airlines official arc trying to figure out what to do with 402 pics at girl scout cookies piled up in the Back of their ticket office Here. The airline offered free passage Tor the cookies to the Crew of the Carrier which is based in Al Sugi Japan. They were shipped april 26, but were resumed after four Days in a japanese customs Ware House. Jean Titus american airlines general manager in Carpus Christ Texas said she s working