European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 20, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 soviet paper backs Beirut captives says of Anderson hold on Terry Moscow ai1 a soviet newspaper published an emotional outpouring of support saturday Tor Terry Anderson the hostage held longest in Lebanon urging him to be Strong and assuring him his captors would he punished. The article in sock Tsinya Rossiya was one of the strongest expressions of Public support for Vestern victims of Middle East terrorism Ever to appear in inc state run Media. Was in line with cur rent Kremlin policy seeking closer East West cooperation against terrorists. Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press was kidnapped in Beirut on March id 1985.he was returning from a Tennis match when three men dragged him from his car shoved him into a Mercedes and drove off. Sovie Skaya Rossiya noted that Ander son 40, has never seen his daughter us lome who was born nearly i ret months . Club ends ban on women Washington us l one of America s oldest bastions of Rnald Ness the Cosmos club voted saturday to end its Century old tradition of Bannin women from membership in the prestigious Washington.  organi action. By an almost unanimous stand up vote the nearly 800 members present saturday decided to allow women to join the club. Results of the vote were announced Al the dub s first news Confer ence in its 110 sur history. We arc pleased 1t announce very pleased to announce that henceforth the Cosmos club will Welcome into its rants individuals who meet our admission standards without regard to gender said Tudson Meyers dub president. The club s management Board had endorsed admitting women in the Wake of a ruling last november by the . Human rights office that she club is not a distinctly private group and is not cd cup from anti  Laws. The club previously admitted women visitors who May use the downstairs dining rooms. Membership in the club is 1900 annually in addition to a one Lime $900 initiation fee. In recent years membership in he club has declined with the resignations of Many government officials including supreme court Justice Harry of Blackmun who left the club after 18 years As a member. After his abduction. Hold on Terry the. Paper said. We want you to know that Here in Russia our Hans too Are gripped Wilh pain and indignation when we try 10 imagine your anguish and sufferings. And another thing. Terry your jail ers Are bound to face punishment. Human life and human dignity Are supreme values and nobody must be Al Lowed to get away Wilb abusing  Anderson a native of Lorain Ohio is the longest held foreign hostage in Leb anon. In All 18 foreigners including nine americans Are missing in Lebanon. Most Are believed held by groups linked to the iranian backed militant shiite moslem organization known As Hezbollah or party of god. These groups include islamic jihad islamic jihad for the liberation of pales Tine revolutionary Justice and holy warriors. Islamic jihad claims to hold Anderson. The kidnappers have demanded free Dom for 17 pro iranian crr wrists jailed in Kuwait for bombings in 1983 of inc . And French embassies in Kuwait. So Iet Skaya Rossiya. Published by the communist party Central committee and the government of the russian federation the largest of the soviet Union s 15 constituent republics offered no sup port whatsoever for the kidnappers or their goals. The religious fanatics who kidnapped Terry and other hostages Don t Al ail consider life to be a holy gift from Allah for them the murder of totally innocent people has become common it said Sovic Skaya Rossiya said it was not possible to identify with certainly inc brain can scr directing inc kidnapping in Lebanon but in strongly hinted that it was Iran. It mentioned the storming of inc . Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and the holding of 52 . Diplomats and embassy workers for 444 Days. The Reader is bound to remember in what conditions they were held in added. After the 1979 hostage taking by Iran the soviet press had accused the unite states of hysteria and attempted blackmail against Iran and in por prayed . Concern for the hostages As a smoke screen for possible armed intervention against Iran. The. Soviet Union recently has Bee trying to improve relations with Iran Al though in has been the no. 1 arms sup plier to Iraq Iran s enemy in a War that began in i9uo. Despite those diplomatic and com Mercial overtures. Soviet officials have privately expressed dislike of the mos Lem fundamentalist Rule of Ayatollah re Iollah Khomeini firing up the Celebration i lie Gornor uen nil Al Australia sir ninian Stephens lights a Bonfire sat urday in Sydney is put of the country s Celebration of its Bicentennial. The Bon fire  the first of 500 fires that Here la be log hit d around Australia. Bush accuses Dukakis of being soft on criminals Springfield Iii. Al1 vice president George Bush on saturday accused Democrat Michael Dukakis of being soft on criminals for hacking a Massachusetts program it log inmates including murderers out of prison on weekends. What did the democratic governor of Massachusetts think he was doing when he let convicted first a circe murderers out on weekend passes said  ail Bui Lenain Republican presidential nominee. Even after one of the criminals brutally raped a woman and stabbed her Fiance Why did l he admit his mistake Bush who was touring the drought damaged mid West issued his sharpest attack so far on Dukakis Over inc prison furlough Issue. "1 think governor Dukakis owes the people of the United states an explanation for Why he supported his outrageous program a k ill t1T" s ""1republican convention Bush told the Illinois state Bush told his audience thai at least one woman was raped As a result of the prison furlough program. Eight Monlai later he was still defending his pro. Tram Bush said of his democratic rival for the while a Lousy. And Only when inc Massachusetts legislature voted by an overwhelming majority to abolish the pro Gram for murderers did he finally give  in april. Dukakis signed a Bill Banning furloughs for first degree murderers. The Bill was prompted by Public outcry Over the rape which occurred last year in Maryland. We Don t Lei murderers out on vacation to terrorize innocent people Bush said. Bush also was visiting a drought stricken family farm while agriculture Secretary Richard e. Lyng suggested politicians might be overreacting to the drought because it is an election year. The vice president was to Visil a nearby farm later saturday where com and soybean crops arc threatened by the Long dry spell. Lyng meanwhile said that while the drought was clearly a serious problem for . Farmers a drought in an election year is worse Ilton a drought in a non election  people overreact Lyng told a group of reporters Al Andrews fab near Washington. As he prepared to Board air Force two with Bush for the flight to Illi Nois. With people running for office you gel a sense of added urgency Lyng said. The agriculture Secretary said he did not mean to imply thai the drought was not a major one. It s a real  he said. Asked what measures the government might Lake Loaid Farmers Lyng said we be tried Aboul All we think we can do in terms of emergency Steps except Money. And ii s Loo Early to consider  whal you really need is rain and there s no Way you can bring that he said