European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday August 19,1988 of 0 for pm my m pm m a b a T refuse to free 2 unless demands met Beirut Lebanon a pro iranian shiite mos Lem extremists holding at least two americans hostage thursday said they will not release any captives unless All their demands Are met. The typewritten statement from islamic jihad was delivered to the Beirut office of the Reuters news Agency along with a Black and White photograph of Ameri can hostage Terry Anderson. Islamic jihad or holy War has admitted holding both Anderson and Thomas Sutherland. Anderson 40, of Lorain Ohio is the chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press. He is the longest held foreign captive kidnapped in moslem West Beirut on March 16, 1985. Anderson s photograph was released with the arabic language statement which is the group s Normal Way of proving the statement is authentic. It follows a wednesday night Telephone Call purportedly from islamic jihad to Reuters saying British hos Tage Terry Waite an anglican Church envoy might be released on a shiite anniversary that Falls on monday if the British government shows Good  none of the captives will be released until our demands Are met in full said the islamic jihad statement that was released thursday. The statement outlined the demands As the release of All our Mujaheddin holy fighters from All Arab and foreign prisons including 17 shiites convicted in 1983 bombings of the . And French embassies in Kuwait. The release of All lebanese and palestinian Mujaheddin from the prisons of Israel and its surrogates in the Southern lebanese Security zone and Chris Tian East Beirut. The unconditional withdrawal of All the israeli forces and their allies from South Lebanon. The reconstruction of South Lebanon and Beirut which have been devastated by the american israeli plot and compensation for our oppressed people in Lebanon for All the losses it  the statement said any expected rapid release of the hostages is a Mirage assumed to be water by a thirsty  we Are the Only Side that decides the Fate of the captives be it at the level of releasing them executing them or maintaining their detention. British hostage Terry Waite is alive and we might release him if the government of British prime min ister Margaret Thatcher shows Good intentions the caller said in arabic late wednesday night. Waite 48, disappeared Jan. 28,1987, after leaving West Beirut hotel to negotiate the release of hostages with representatives of islamic jihad. There was no Way to authenticate the Telephone statement which would be the first admission by islamic jihad that it holds Waite. No group has formally claimed responsibility for his abduction. In addition to Anderson the group has admitted 40 winks Paris style a a tourist sleeps peacefully on the parapet of the Tui Fie. In mid August most parisians traditionally leave series Garden enjoying Early morning privacy in a the hot City on Holiday trips. And this is the time spot that normally would be surrounded by mad tray when tourists take Over the capital. Holding Sutherland 57, of fort Collins Colo. Suther land acting Dean of agriculture at the american University of Beirut was abducted june 9, 1985. Islamic jihad repeatedly has issued warnings not to Trust the authenticity of Telephone statements attributed to , a Man purporting to speak for islamic jihad announced the release of three French hostages in a May 4 Telephone Call to the East Beirut Headquarters of the Christian radio station voice of Lebanon. The three were released in moslem West Beirut less than an hour later. The Telephone caller said wednesday that wait would be released on the occasion of ashoura a shiite anniversary of the 7th-Century killing of Imam Hussein the Prophet Mohammed s grandson and on of the sect s most revered saints. The occasion Falls on  s ambassador to Lebanon Alan Ramsey said he had no information relating to the phone statement. Eighteen foreigners nine of them americans Are held captive in Lebanon and Are believed to be in the hands of pro iranian shiite moslem extremists. Earlier this month the British government sent a High level Diplomat to Iran for talks and archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie the spiritual Leader of the anglican Church met in London with a top Irani an Diplomat in an Effort to gain the release of Waite and two other British hostages in Lebanon. World today Soldier explodes grenade at Wake kills self 12 others san Salvador Al Salvador a a Drunken Soldier accidentally exploded a hand grenade at a Fune ral in Eastern Al Salvador and killed himself and 12 civilians authorities said wednesday. Twenty people were reported wounded. A police source in Santiago de Maria 73 Miles East of the capital said by Telephone that the explosion occurred tuesday night in a Home on the outskirts of the town where a Wake was held earlier for a child. The source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Soldier belonged to an army brigade deployed in the Region against leftist guerrillas. Speaking in a Telephone interview col. Jose Galileo Torres Public relations chief at the defense ministry identified the Soldier Only As Hector Tulio Garcia Mendoza and said he was on leave and drunk at the time. Swaziland police conduct search and seize raids Mbabane Swaziland a police said wednes Day they arrested 198 people in a massive Security operation in which they had blockaded every Road into the capital and searched cars houses and pedestrians. The blockade began at Dawn tuesday in an attempt to stamp out a crime wave that has plagued the coun try for several months. Authorities said most of those arrested were illegal Mozambique refugees who would be repatriated. Police said they also found arms ammunition an drugs As they conducted body searches of pedestrians and made House to House searches in the suburbs. Travellers waited in lines nearly 2 Miles Long while police searched every Corner of the cars including schoolchildren s Book satchels. Search is on for Siberia s abominable snowman Moscow a soviet zoologists Are heading to Siberia to search for the abominable snowman while remains of a Mammoth have been found else wherein the Frozen expanse soviet news re ports said thursday. Tass the official soviet news Agency said fishermen from the siberian City of Yakutsk discovered the fossilized Mam Moth in permafrost near the Khroma and ind Girka Rivers. Scientists said the Skeleton was Well preserved because it had been Frozen in the ground for at least 15,000 years in Northwestern Siberia. The Mammoth remains will soon be taken to Yakutsk where they will be assembled Tass said. The newspaper  in dust Riya socialist Industry reported that 12 scientists sportsmen and enthusiasts planned to search in the Tyumen Region of Western Siberia for the abominable snowman. The expedition will Fol Low the same route that a Leningrad explorer used several years ago. The explorer Vladimir Pushkarov disappeared in the Region while interviewing residents who Tell legends about the mysterious creature they Call Kompoles the newspaper said. A group of tourists also disappeared inthe area and the expedition will look for them As Well As the snowman the paper said. The newspaper did not say when the expedition would begin. The hairy Behemoth said to roam the snowy expanses of Siberia Asia and other areas is a favorite legend among superstitious soviets. Tass reported in january that the soviet culture ministry had set up a society of crypt zoologists to search for the snowman. In March Leni Skoye Namya the Moscow area s communist party newspaper said a mongolian adventurer claimed to have made plaster holds fan abominable snowman s footprints and photographed the creature sitting Ona Rock. The sighting was alleged to have occurred in the Altai Mountain Range of extreme Western Mongolia just South of Siberia