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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 sunday May 8,19bb Navy gives name of Sailor by train in Italy Naples Italy Navy Offir fats Friday re leased the Nate of the 24-Ycjld 5ij&hii a Natasha Anthis Mother Dora Tromas also of Irving on. A. Lorial services will be 2 . Monday in the Darmstadt Community Chapel. Heidelberg go sentenced for using Selling drugs Heidelberg a to year old Soldier found Guin of using and distributing hashish has been sentenced to four Mont in prison after a pc Oil ,jp2lst support come spokesman said. Jar spec. A Hill fam tonne  Bel air  a live assigned Tove 43�5ignal in Heidelberg also was Given a  discharge demoted to e-1 and ordered Ufa forfeit All pay and allow ances As a Rosul inv it Billy plea in court action last month. S the spoke fan snick he charges against ten St Maraea from his we of the drug a potent form of marijuana to  of the criminal investigation come last september. Tenancy will serve his sentence at fort Riley Kan. E. German official Calls for closer ties with . Washington a Hermann Axen. East Germanuk top foreign policymaker ended talks in Washinton on thursday Jurj a Call for broader Trade ave cultural re Hiloni with the United slates . Wifi Oters said Little Prog Ress was made Lowa Tel Type major differences. Awn a poll Burdete Kier and the highest ranking East Germain visit Washington since his country was a a i de after world War ii told a National Jross cd audience we favor a broadening Jed Tiabi Liolion of the political dialogue bowmen our governments an expansion of coat cos Between . Thek conclusion of a mutually advantageous Trade Jarc Cmunt is important King in English Axen said that although the iwo countries have had diplomatic relations for 14 years real contacts Are still at the  mine Hunting copters escort ., British convoys in Gulf Manama Bahrain a american and British convoys sailed parallel courses Down the persian Gulf on Friday with helicopters scouting ahead for mines. Observers who saw the iwo convoys 30 Miles off Dubai at midday said the British group was made up of five tankers escorted by the Royal Navy s 4,100-ton destroyer Gloucester. Associated press photographer Greg English said in american Jui Dod missile frigate Jack Williams was escorting the .-Flag 79,999-Lon kuwaiti products tankers Chesapeake City and Ocean City and had nicked up a Hitchhiker the liberian flagged Tanker Neston. Other ships often follow those protected by warships through the Strait of Hormuz the narrow Gateway tothe Gulf where iranian gunboats often muck unescorted ships. A total of about 500 ships have been attacked by Iran and Iraq since the countries went to War in september 1980. The . Convoy was the 29lh of the year and the fourth in a week. The convoys were disrupted Las month by a confrontation april in Between . And iranian forces in which iwo iranian Oil platforms and i naval Craft were destroyed or damaged. Culf based shipping executives and Pentagon officials in Washington All speaking on condition they not be named reported earlier that Iran s Fleet of armed speedboats was increasing in is and activity around inc Hormuz naval base at Bandar Abbas but the Rea son was not known. Iran has said it will avenge is losses and adm. Wil Liam j. Crowe jr., chairman of the . Joint chiefs of staff said during a visit to inc Region that the threat could not be Dimis Seil. Officers on the 3.700-ton Jack Williams were said to be More concerned about mines than the reports Farmed speedboats. The Williams played a key Rote in the .-Iran clash and we one of three . Snips that came tinder iranian missile tire near Hormuz. Ii could be anything. Who knows what they re up to one officer Laid according to t Moon filed fro Mihe ship by a Pentagon Cwi Media Pool. Lookouts posted on the frigate s Bow scanned the Waters with binoculars looking for floaters As the helicopters searched farther ahead. Submerged mines sometimes can be seen from the air. Last month the Jack Williams passed unscathed through an area of the Central Gulf Lesi than a Day before its Siller frigate Samuel b. Roberts sailed into afield of newly Laid mines and hit one. Ten crewmen were wounded. Friday s Convoy was the first to negotiate the i id mile Hormuz passage since Washington announced anew policy thai allows . Warships to intervene in iranian attacks on commercial ships bearing other Flag. The policy applies to any ship in International Waters not carrying War related cargo for Iraq or Iran previously . Warships could defend Only vessels flying the american Flag. Since the . Navy began escorting re flagged kuwaiti tankers task july none of the 51 convoys has been molested by Iran s surface raiders i ran condemned the new . Policy As aggression and promised to continue raids on shipping. Crash from Page 1 of los Angeles who said he is a Pilot. Ii was t the Pilot s fault Fontaine said. The Man on the ground directing the helicopter underestimated the radius of the Rotor Blades in inc  Nei ther californian was injured. A British Soldier who was guiding inc helicopter to its parking position with hand signals was among those seriously injured the Royal air Force Salem Cal said. The twin Rotor helicopter flipped Over onto one Sid before bursting into flames. There were several explosions and flames shot More than 25 feel into the air British military officials said a Board of inquiry was set up to investing la the cause. Initial reports had said the helicopter belonged to the . Military but Airport officials later said it was a .-made helicopter flown by the British military. The Accident occurred at about 6 . Shortly after the air show s activities for the Day had ended officials said witnesses said crowds of people were milling about in aircraft exhibits at inc Lime. La look fire Crews More than 30 minutes to extinguish inc fire. More than 420 exhibitors from 16 coun Riei Are Par tick Patong in the air show which opened wednesday. Hostages from Page 1 of brutality  irked to  the dispatch diet opt make Clear whether Kauff Mann specified who in mistreated for attempting to gel away. Dagin was also quoted Al saying thai she Learned from her brother that Monlai Newas briefly detained with Terry wait the special envy of the archbishop of Canterbury. Waite disappeared Jit 20, 1987, while on a Mission in Lebanon seeking or re Locasc of the hostages. Fontaine had said thursday that he  a cell with american Terry a Anderson new Gesl held foreign hostage. Anderson 40, chief Mido Easi correspondent for the a was kidnapped Man 1985, in Beirut. Kauffmann was kept in Tola darkness for no a half his sister was quoted As saying he did not see the Sun or a Glimm Adelight for a single instant an Arm and a leg weep rained permanently to a Radiator even  she was quoted As saying. He told her he was moved old is different locations sometimes transported id coffin the Agency reported. He told us Thal he Lime he feared he would not gel out because Lutc was no air she was quoted As saying. Tehran try vision monitored in Cyprus quoted Ati Ria Moa Piri an iranian Deputy prime minister  As saying Iran interceded far human  Inch govern Cal officials denied they paid Ransom for the hostages release. But Britain and other coun tries accused France of dealing with terrorists while 18 other foreigners remain hostage in Lebanon. In Batavia n.y., Anderson s sister Peggy say. Said thursday she would go to Paris to talk to Fontaine it s wonderful news for the French say said. Bui in makes it All the More frustrating and disappointing to compare whal their government does to what our government  Fontaine Lold a reporter fam Finch television that he passed the time  and Chew with Anderson. Canon font Jie in Kauffmann appeared Ashen and shaky Apley walked slowly Down the air plane Steps on Pmj in Paris. _,fr7kauflmann said that Michel Seurat the 3� a old French researcher captured with him on May 22, 1985, probably died of cancer. Stum s kidnappers claimed he had been executed. Carton and Fontaine were kidnapped March 22, j9b5. Thursday Chirac said Normal relations with Imin Tep uld be  Fra Wand Iran broke diplomatic relations last surn Mer Overman Ian embassy employee Wahid Gordji who refuse my submit to questioning about a series of bombings in if Cris in september 1 986, reports in Pavan Beirut said that in Exchange for the three French rep France agreed to repay the out standing balance on to i billion loan made by the late Shah Mohammad a Pahlavi. Ousted in the iranian fundamentalist re Volti on nov. 1 11 9b6. Siryj before France agreed to a $330 million payment pro iranian extremists re leased iwo French hostages. On dec 24, another hos Tage was released  
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