European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wilander tops lend Page 21 the St is and filpes $s&w3$si&r authorized unofficial publication Fob the a it. Armed forces Good morning vol.47.no. 148 tuesday sap tamber 13, 1986 in i a d 8693 a shiites free w. German hostage group Nof abandoning Hamad Pilot identifies Hamadi As killer by de reavi5 staff writer Frankfurt West Germany the Pilot of the hijacked Twa jetliner monday identified Mohammed Ali Hamadi As he Man who shot and killed is. Navy diver an Board the Plant. A face to free confrontation Between to audland John Leigh Testrake Pilot of Twa flight 847 which was hijacked la 1985. Resulted in the Surprise identification of Hamadi As the alleged murderer of Robert Dean Stethem. Hamad on trial Tor air piracy and murder has claimed he Ai Only on accomplice in the Hijack ing and bad not shot sell him. The second of the two hijackers identified As Hassan Izza a Dine is Mill Al Large. The stake 60. From Richmond to initially testified during the 16th session of the trial that he could not distinguish Between the two men who commandeered his plane. He did say one of the hijackers seemed to enjoy the violence they inflicted in passenger and Crew More than the other. Bui following a 10-Miniiie recess Testrake told the court he had had an Opportunity to get a Good look Al the defendant and was certain Hamadi was the Hijacker who enjoyed he to take said hat Nudi took Stethem to the open door of the plane behind the cockpit bulk sea Hamadi on Back Page Dukakis says Bush flunked 3 policy tests by the associated press Democrat Michael Dukakis declared monday that George Bush has failed in three critical foreign policy tests while Republican Bush look a new shot a Dukakis on military policy. Bush also defended Frederic a Malek his adviser who abruptly left a lop Republican party past sunday after a news Story saying he counted the number of jews in a Federal Agency for then president Nixon in1971, Dukakis in Philadelphia said the three key Points of his National Security policy would be a solid do my Iii Economy making the United states Strong in International Trade unwavering opposition to terror ism and a St Ppd up Effort 10 halt International drug trafficking. In each of these three areas George Bush has Dukakis told a crowd of about 250 people in a Union Hall. I want to beat our foreign competitors he s willing to Settle for second Best. I want to crack Down on terrorism he knuckled under to the Ayatollah. I want a real War on drugs his answer to drug Kingpins like Noriega is j. Danforth Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega is the panamanian Leader charged in . Federal court with drug violations. Quayle is Bush s vice presidential running mate. Bush meanwhile said in Washington that Dukakis would lean on International organizations Loo much sea Dukakis on Bach Page Beirut Lebanon a Shi Ilc moslem kidnappers freed West German hostage Rudolf cords on monday Afler declaring in a statement that they were ending his 20 month ordeal in response to syrian and iranian intervention an official said. The official an aide to Inte rior minister Abdullah Rassi said the 55-year-old business Man was freed at Midnight incest Beirut s Verdun neigh boyhood outside inc min ister s Home. The aide demanded anonymity. It was not Clear Why the Cap. Tors chose to free him there despite earlier statements say ing he would be released at the Seaside Beaurivage hotel close to inc command head quarters of the syrian army s peacekeeping contingent in West Beirut. Rudolf Cordes in their third and final statement delivered monday Handwritten in arabic the capture threatened to delay the release unless the ambassadors Ahmed Dastic Melian of Iran and Wolfgang Gott Elmann of West Germany and an unspecified syrian official showed up by a 9 . Deadline at the hotel. That statement was accompanied by a Polaroid photograph of the captive to prove its a Thant icily. Golly Mann arrived an hour later. After a 20-Minulc stay at he hotel he was whisked away by syrian escorts and driven in ins bulletproof Mercedes Carlo an undisclosed destination Beirut s an Nahar newspaper on monday published a letter from cords that it said was delivered to its West Beirut offices at Dawn monday along with a statement signed by the holy warriors for Freedom. A second statement signed by the same group was delivered Laic monday afternoon. The third statement delivered to a Western news Agency said Iran and president Hafez Assad of Syria have guaranteed the problem of Mohammed Ali Hamadi and his brother Abbas who arc jailed in West Germany will be resolved. The second statement said the decision to release cords do snot in any Way mean inc abandonment of Mujahid holy War rior Mohammed Hamadi he remains in our heart and mind. But we will Lake Legal and judicial ways to release him. If these fail then we shall be obliged id again resort to Vio Lence the statement said. The letter attributed to cords said to the govern see free on Hack Page so you Haie � few mho a howitzer puked Cross your Farmland playing War with mythical enemy and threatening four crops. So maybe their tracks dig rots Nicrosi your careful ueding. So they might for few founds out of their eight Inch guns shaking you up. And your Ciki. Certain farming Challenge when you re i Farmer it does t Nutter you i till hire to do your daily chores. 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