European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes n strategic air come reorganizing 2 d Chappaquiddick Book rips Ted Kennedy Page 5 n visit . What to see where to go daily Magazine q Boston Bruins gain Stanley cup finals sports Page 21 authoii1co be Fici a of to . Aimed vol. 47, no. 29 monday. May 16. 1988 syrians set to search Beirut a shiite moslem am militiaman ulna rocket propelled grenade while a Comrade fires r Rifle in be nil Beirut Lebanon a thousands of tank led syrian troops rolled Down from Lebanon s Centra mountains saturday and prepared Longcr the slums of South Beirut where Western hostages arc believed being held by pro iranian Nightfall More than 4.000 soldiers and 250 tanks and armoured personnel earners were deployed ill the Edge of the 16-Squarc-Milc slum area buttressing 7.500 syrian troops already in West Beirut military source said. The buildup is a pc cd to be completed sometime sunday perhaps at Daybreak or a Little later after which the forces Wilt move in one source guns fell silent in the embattled slums who n the syrians arrived police move followed the Conquest of the slum by fundamentalist fighters of the iranian Allied Hezbollah or party of god in nine Days of Savage fighting with the pro syrian Arnal shiite moslem militia. Police said 211 people were killed. Police estimate Hezbollah has 3,000 combatants fighting am which has thrown about 6,500 Mili Tiamen into the South Beirut slums arc where most of inc 18 foreign hostages including nine american Are believed held by kidnappers affiliated with Hezbollah. The Beirut based Magazine Ash Shiraz said Friday the hostages had been moved from an exposed Hezbollah Barracks to the Home of Hezbollah s spokesman Sheik Ibrahim Amin to prevent their liberation. Ash Shiraz broke the Story of secret . Arms sales to Iran in november 1986. The Vanguard of the incoming syrian Force Sal see syrians on Back Page rioting Oklahoma inmates holding 3 guards Stringtown okla. A in mates at an overcrowded slate prison held three guards hostage sunday Mam ing following a fiery uprising that left one dormitory gulled and two other damaged officials said. One guard and one inmate were injured. Eight guards were grabbed by 10 prisoners when the disturbance began Laic Friday Bui five were released unharmed saturday and the others were reported i Good condition officials at the medium Security Mack Alford correctional Cen Ter said. The inmates believed to be armed with homemade knives threatened to kill their hostages if authorities at tempted a Rescue said Jerry Massie spokesman for the state department of corrections. One inmate it keeping it going said prison spokeswoman Anita Trammell. I think the inmates arc tired. We have one Leader. I think if it was t far the Leader things would have been closed the uprising began after some inmate licensed others of theft and threatened retaliation authorities said. A group of the inmates was being prepared for Transfer to a maximum Security prison when they seized the guards. They released the fifth hostage in re turn for getting to talk 10 two specific negotiators said Massic. He would no identify the negotiators. Officials inmates had a Short list of specific demands but refused to disclose what they were. I think their primary concern is for their safety and their Well being Massie said. It s just real non specific. H s no like a list of we want better food or belter Waitr " we re Fine. They re feeding re taking care of us one hostage was quoted As saying when inmates permitted him to make a Telephone Call. The 33-year-old red Brick prison was surrounded by Oklahoma Highway patrol tactical learns in camouflage cloth incl Rifle idling corrections department officers and firetrucks that were used lob attle blazes in three buildings. Officers carrying tear Gas launchers donned Bullet proof vests in a parking lot and huddled around blueprints of the prison. Out officials would t say if thai activity signalled any impending action. That s what you Call said patrol spokesman it. Sic Hartmeyer. A spokesman for gov. Henry Belt Mosaid he had no plans to Call in the National guard to assist the Law officer already on hand. The inmates started a fire that destroyed the East dormitory at the prison then moved to another dormitory wit their hostages Massic said. Smoke was still rising from the roof of the torched dormitory saturday. Fires in sea inmates on Back Paga army team s relentless search solved abuse Case incur tootle trn Bureau Kaiserslautern it started with the may198 7 deals of a baby whose father had shaken the life out of him coupled with rumours that another baby belonging to inc father had died a Long Lime ago. But in courts of Law rumours stand up about Aswell As absent witnesses. Then a pair of Young 21st support coordinated a search for ludhtclentle5sly trailing a Rumor and a from West Germany to Shehan Koffa Louisiana Bayo and inside a Crumb Ming coffin. Their quest resulted in convictions against an army computer specialist. In March Sec. Kirklan c. Curry was found Guill micral court martial of killing Rii klan mrw Erik acc in Ihor sentenced to Linn lib i dlr Tisil of whom dic3 Iris birthdays were Curry s children bit tent women. Kirklan Lee Curry s child by his i wife Beth died of suffocation in Alexandria vs., inlay 1976, under Uncertain circumstances. Erik Lee died of shaken baby syndrome at the army regional medical Center in Lan Ditull West Germany in May 1987, the second boy was Curry s child by do disc Brangaitis talc i Iii l i 1rt flare out with the idea we could prove r Case easily said Cape. Peter Cullen who with capt. Larry Morris prosecuted Curry on behalf of he government. The Case just got better As it went the pairing of Cullen and Morris was somewhat unlikely. Cullen inc More reserved of the two is 27, bespectacled and Speaks with a Fain Irish lilt. Mor has a rakish air and a courtroom Demeanour Clies brashness. I to become involved with the Curry Case an began when the local criminal invcsligatlon6pmd Agency notified his office of Erik Lee s suspicious death Al land continued on Page 3
