European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the Sta a and stripes thursday july 7, 1988 5 palestinians sentenced to die for fatal 86 hijacking prod today Kadiyala Pakistan a five palestinians were convicted wednesday and sentenced to hang for the bloody 1986 hijacking of a new York bound pan a jumbo Jet in which 21 people were killed. The trial before a special one judge tribunal washed in a makeshift courtroom in a prison in this town 30 Miles West of Islamabad. It began in september. The plane which had started its flight in Bombay India was seized on the ground on sept. 5, 1986, in Pakistan s Southern port City of Karachi. The plane Saton the Tarmac for 17 hours before the ordeal ended in a fusillade. In addition to those killed nearly 200 of the 400passengers were wounded. We Don t care about the sentence said Moham mad Hafiz Al Turk the suspected Mastermind. We care Only about the millions of arabs and  Al Turk a libyan arrested in Islamabad less than week after the hijacking was convicted of conspiracy. He was the Only one of the five not to Board the Panama Jet. The other four Mohammad Ahmed Al Munawar Khalil Hussain a Kayyal and Saeed Abdul Rahim All of Lebanon and Abdul Latif Sarfani of Syria were convicted of hijacking and murder. The four were convicted of killing 10 people. All five will Appeal their sentences and have 30 Days to do so. No Date was set for the hangings. In an interview after the sentencing Al Turk thyself appointed spokesman for the group said if he and his comrades were free they would Hijack  in a statement issued in january the five said their aim was to Fly the plane toward some sensitive strategic Center of the zionist enemy and to blow it up there with us  witnesses told the court that four gunmen dressed. As Airport Security guards drove a Small Van to the pan am Jet. They said the four charged the plane and demanded that it Fly to Cyprus to pick up palestinian comrades. Early in the hijacking the three Man cockpit Crew escaped through an emergency Hatch. After shooting an Indian american passenger the tension reached a Climax around 9 30 . When anon Board Generator ran out of fuel plunging the Cabin into darkness. Fearing an attack the gunmen began spraying the inside with bullets As pakistani Security forces stormed the plane. Throughout their trial the five blamed the pakistani commandos for the killings. But judge Syed Zafar Babar discounted that argument. Still he found the defendants guilty of just 11 deaths saying there was insufficient evidence to con vict them of More. Pan am was targeted because of its american Ori gins. By using pan american it was a strike against America Al Turk has said. But he explained we Are friends to american peo ple. We Are against the administration and the crazy Man in new York or Washington wherever he  hews referring to president Reagan. A photo British Queen Elizabeth ii right and dutch Queen Beatrix tour the arnhem Oosterbeek War cemetery. Queen honors Battle of arnhem dead Oosterbeek Netherlands a the Wail of single bagpipe drifted across this tiny Village wednes Day As Queen Elizabeth honoured British paratrooper who died in one of the great Allied tragedies of world War ii. The Queen visited a Small cemetery on the outskirts of this Eastern dutch Hamlet. Buried there Are hundreds of members of a British airborne Force that tried to secure a Bridgehead across the Rhine in september 1944. Promised Allied reinforcements failed to arrive an the attempt to gain a foothold for an Early invasion of nazi Germany was crushed in what has become known As the Battle of arnhem. The Battle was the Centrepiece of the movie abridge too  Elizabeth Prince Philip and their hosts dutch Queen Beatrix and her husband Prince Claus paused at several Graves As they walked through the arnhem Oosterbeek War cemetery. As a bagpipe played Elizabeth Laid a Wreath of re poppies at the 17-foot memorial Cross that dominates the cemetery. The Wreath bore the inscription in memory of the glorious dead from he Queen Eliza Beth in those buried Here were members of Britain s 1stairborne division which took a Forward position on the Northern ramp of the Rhine Bridge in the nearby City of arnhem. The 600 men ran into fierce opposition from Ger Man army and is units who used tanks and armoured vehicles to crush the assault. About 200 invited guests Many of them medal be decked veterans watched the ceremony which took place under the same tight Security that has marked the rest of Elizabeth s 41-hour official visit to the Netherlands. The Security measures on All the Queen s stops were prompted by two Irish Republican army terrorist at tacks in the Southern Netherlands on May 1, which killed three British airmen and wounded three others. They were the first Ira attacks in the Netherland since the 1979 assassination of British ambassador Richard Sykes outside his residence in the Hague. The cemetery was the final Stop on a Royal visit marking the Tri Centenary of the naval Armada led by dutch Prince William Iii in 1688 to topple the tyrannical James ii from the British throne. The dutch Prince took the throne himself in the glorious  one fourth of japanese will be Over 65 by 2025 Tokyo a in less than 50 years one fourth of the japanese population will be 65 or older straining the medical resources of a coun try that enjoys one of the world s longest life expectancies a report says. A projection from the population research Institute at Nihon University also says the aver age japanese male will live 78 years and the average woman 83.6 years by 2025, newspapers reported wednesday. Three times More japanese More than 1.1million people will be bedridden by that year than Are now and More than 2 million will suf Fer from senility the Institute said. Japan s elderly now account for about a tenth of its total population. Improved living conditions and a lower birthrate Are among the causes of increasing longevity and a growing percentage of old people in Japan. 5 East berliners sentenced for destroying tombstones Berlin a an East Berlin court sentenced five youths to prison terms ranging from2 /2 to 6 /2 years for destroying More than 200 jewish tombstones in a Drunken rampage Testate run adn news Agency said. Adn said the youths had been influenced by Western television broadcasts. It did not elaborate but the statement appeared to refer to reports on Neo nazi groups in West Germany. The youths sentenced tuesday had Bee convicted of destroying or damaging 222 tombstones in an East Berlin cemetery in March adn said. The names of those sentenced and their specific sentences were not released. The news Agency said the youths were also ordered to pay dam Ages. Ancient treasure ship to be salvaged by China Beijing a China announced tuesday that it plans to Salvage a commercial vessel Laden with treasures that Sank to the Bottom of the Ocean near Southern China More than 1,000 years ago an official report said. Southern China s Huangdong province will spend 600,000 Yuan $162,000 to bring up China ornaments ancient coins and antique from the ship s hold a spokesman for the Guangzhou Canton Marine salvaging bureaus id. Experts who studied 200 objects that have already been retrieved from the boat said it dates Back to the song and Yuan dynasties which reigned Between 960 and 1368. The boat is in Good condition buried under thick Silt South of Taishan county in Western Huangdong province. The report did not say How the ship Sank How far off the coast it is or when salvaging would begin. Japanese police arrest n. Korean spy suspect Tokyo up police said tuesday the arrested a suspected North korean agent who is believed to have recruited japanese dissidents for spy training in the communist country since Chu Kyong Sook 69, was arrested june 29 at Osaka Airport in Western Japan after taking a flight from North Korea via Beijing police said. His wife Han do soon was arrested the someday at the couple s Tokyo Home. Both were charged with violating the alien registration la by using false names. Tokyo metropolitan police said they suspected Chu was a member of North Korea s intelligence network and had been recruiting Japa Nese dissidents for spy training in North Korea since 1971