European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d discussion of base closing in Greece expected. Page 2 d Dukakis urges insurance Bush Waves Flag Page 4 d Mars makes closest approach to Earth in 17 years Page 5 d olympic coverage begins on Page 21 nor s c Era i the author it unofficial publication Forth . Of Oditt Good morning vol.47,no.157 thursday september 22. 1988 i 011 a Bun toy d 8693 a eath Madero Qadi Ufa doming shown from left Mohammed a a Jurdi s egyptian translator Himadi Ai guard and Hamedl s defense Mattoi Stet Bein s parents Richard and pal ride aware attending Hamedl s trial in Frankfurt West Ger Nany for hijacking and in the right drawing is of nary diver Robert Dan . By de reams staff writer the i asked him Why. He gave no , who is standing trial for air Iracy and murder during the 198s i alleged killer of a . Navy Dier seemed proud of the death during Lac stay of a hijacked Twa jetliner in a Flat Lebanon the Purser of the plane Saif tuesday. Ulrick Derickson told a Frankfurt court she was sitting in the cockpit with Mohammed Al Shamadi when he asked her if she remembered the Young i knew Etc meant Bob St chem an said yes Hamadi made a gesture and said whoosh1 meaning he a dead. Coming toward the cockpit."1 was just reaching in my bag for a bottle opener when iwo men rushed at fore the hijacking was Over the few Back and Forth Between Beirut twice. Court earlier he did not murder Robert Dean St them. The hijacking began june 14 and lasted 17 Days before the last of149 passengers was released. So chem was shot and thrown from the plane Ai sisal on a Beirut runway. Derickson often called the heroine of he ordeal said she realized the plane was being hijacked when shortly after Takeoff from Athens Greece she heard loud talk in arabic and heart footsteps me against the Wall demanding i Ope the cockpit door. They screamed at me Over and Over,.,. They carried grenade with pins pulled and a Derickson told the hijackers in arabic that she was a West German citizen. Hamadi immediately began speaking Toher in German she said. After demanding to be flown to Al Giers Algeria the hijackers had to Settle for Beirut for Lack of fuel. Ond land Trhlin Algiers when a third Hijacker was Allyc Wadlo come aboard. Derickson said she was Able to build shaky relationship Frith the Hijacker by translating for Hamadi during the Vidys she spent on the plane. During the hijacking. Hamadi was called Castro by the other one whom Hamadi called later said was police see Hamadi on Back Page adm. Byrd s medal of Honor to be sold at auction London a the medal of Honor awarded . Adm. Richard Byrd for his historic 1926 night Over the North pole will be offered for Sale in november auction of items belonging to historic Fig ures rotheby s announced awarded the medal the nation s highest military Honor to Byrd on oct. 2, 1927, a year after he and Floyd Bennett became the first people to Fly an air plane Over the North pole. The medal of Honor is among 80 lots of Byrd decorations scientific instruments and uniforms which rotheby s said could bring in $250,000 in the nov. 10 Sale. A spokesman for the auction House said the medal alone should fetch up to $33,000.the collection forms part of the estate of Byrd s widow Marie who died in 1974.Byrd, born oct. 25, 1888, in Winchester a. Was the first Man to Fly Over both the North pole and the South May 9, 1926, Byrd and Bennett took off from the norwegian Island of Spitsbergen in Fokker Tri motor aircraft for a 15-hour trip Over the North flight captured the imagination of the Ameri can Public. In addition to the medal of Honor Byr received awards from his Home town another from see Byrd on Back Paga ., Spain to resume base negotiations Jip Uiki trip Adi _ to. Lining cum Ai Ciciani few Itaru of stale to. Base negotiations. in sum rite j500 Milton Washington a the United Stalatt Muir will Ratimir Onan agreement thai could scale Down use of military bases in Spain and Cut . Military Aid to the strategic Mediterranean country a senior state depart ment official said. Preparations for relocating the super sonic f-16 jets and Crews of the 441st air tac Wing from Torreon a outside Madrid to Italy Are going very smoothly said assistant Secretary of stale Rozanne Ridgway Sumii ii Edja removal of the 441 St from the High prof Flati Ionut ase Early in the current talks. It is expect Etever that . Air and naval forces be allowed to continue using Otish installations. Testifying before Herf Louse subcommittee on in Portri and Middle Eastern Lagway gave few details of the Bas negotiations Mer Ano expected to ambassador Reginald jut Holemes the chief . just resumed to said. Its wish to get this she said. Bwe re main hopeful that at few remaining issues Ridgway said Spain will nol con Tab Striction costs nato will pay for thess. Unit s new facilities in Italy and under the new base agree mini will no receive . Military Aid. . Budget austerity last year reduce american Aid to Spain to slightly Over $100 million Down from $403 million i military credits and Grants annually in an expiring five Yea see Spain on Bac Page
