European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday october 22,1986 expert says Hamadi reared in hate Taug if to believe . Is the Devil by de Reavis staff Fller Frankfurt West Germany accused murderer and Hijacker Mohammed Ali Hamadi was reared in an atmosphere of haired focused on inc United Stales an expert witness testified Friday. Gerhard Konzelmann 55, Veteran television and radio journalist with 20 years experience on the nearest was called on to testify about Hamadi s social and political background. The murder and air piracy trial began july 4. Konzelmann told the court All Young moslem in Lebanon blame the United states for their plight. They Sec israeli invasion troops with the same equip ment As used by . Marines Konzelmann said. They were terrorized by the shelling of the . Navy lT"1 ship new Jersey off the coast. And they read on the Hal destroy i hair Homes made in .a. So right or wrong i hair perception is the . Is the Devil they seem to Hale the . Even More than  Hamadi faces a possible life sentence for the 1985 i jacking of Twa right 847 and the murderer a . Navy diver a Coly officer 2nd class Robert Dean Stethem. Ste Ihm was shot and thrown from the plane at the Beirut Lebanon Airport to Force refuelling of the aircraft. Hamadi and his accomplice identified by authorities As Hassan Ezzeddine commandeered the Jet in route from Athens Greece to Rome and forced it to Battle shells land in Beirut. The Jet flew Back and Forth betwee Algiers Algeria and Beirut Iwine before the 17-Day ordeal came to an end. Hamadi already has testified about his haired for Israel and the United Stales. His defense counsel Gabriele sleek Bromine strongly hinted to the court thai Hamadi May have been following a religious order during the hijacking. Konzelmann author of the Book unholy War told the court what disobeying such an order would mean. If a religious order or edict were not followed it would haunt a religious moslem for the Resl of his  Kon Solmann called to Lesliy by the court itself an not the defense or prosecution said religious men in Lebanon cannot be compared to the clergy in the  is no separation Between religion and politics and As there is no state their word is Law. Konzelmann old the court to forget is idea of Western order and systems. Lebanon is chaos he said. There is no government inc country is run by Large families or clans and they arc the Law. The Kama i clan with is 25,000 members is not the ruling clan but they cannot be  Konzelmann said the demographics of Lebanon have changed Over the years Wilh Shi Ilc moslem hav ing inc majority at 1.2 million followed by the Sun estimated at 700,000, about 250,000 druse and 400,000 Maronitis. Lebanese Law there is no Constitution Konzel Mann said Calls fora maronite head of state and sunni speaker for the powerless parliament the shiites always have been at the Bottom of the social and political ladder he said. Konzelmann testifying about the moslem mentality used the examples of the suicide attacks on the is. Embassy and the Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1982, the shiite and moslem mentality in general a Little truck with life a it is. In spite of the chaw we westerners perceive there is a Strong underlying philosophy. They have nothing but disdain for what they Call the Western Ulrica the idea of trying to make Paradise on  Here the moslem says has Little importance f the world were to explode today it would mean Noth ing. It is Only important to follow the rules set Down by the Koran and its teachers to attain Paradise after death. And they claim they Are working toward i Church stale on the Model of  initially the court tried to determine Hamadi age to decide whether he should be tried As a juvenile or Young , after Konzelmann s testimony on How any official document can be obtained in Lebanon for a few dollars chief judge a cinch Muckin Burger said the ques lion might never be answered to the court s satisfaction. Next week the court is scheduled to hear expert testimony on the psychology of hostages. News update sex Stark Sailor s trial Jacksonville Fla. A a former Sailor who can Trace some of his menial problems Lothe attack that killed 37 of his shipmates on the guided missile frigate Stark is unable to help de fend himself on murder charges psychologists have told a judge. Walter Thomas Taylor remain incompetent to stand trial on charges he killed a woman and he daughter according to a report is sued by psychologists at Florida slate Hospital in Chattahoochee for circuit judge r. Hudson Olliff Taylor 22, is charged Wilh Fust de Gree murder in the August 1987 slay Ings of Paula Smits and her 3-year-Olddaughter, Amanda of Mayport. The killing occurred within Days of the damaged Stark s return 10 Mayport its Home port. Retail prices Rose 0.3% in september Washington a a rekindling of higher food costs brought on by inc drought sent retail prices up 0.3 percent last month the labor department said Friday. Nearly balancing the steeper grocery prices was the sharpest drop in gasoline costs since february. The Overall consumer Price Rise was considered moderate and was Down notch from inc 0.4 per cell rises of july and August. The Good news was that Gas Oline prices dropped 1.7 percent the bad news was that food prices Rose 0.8 per cent. More significant than any of those numbers for some 38.4 million Ameri cans was the effect Friday s report will have on heir social Security checks be ginning in january. Those checks will be up 4 percent or$21 a month for the average recipient. That will be the second highest boost in the last 6 i years. Breaking Down the new report the department said two components food and clothing accounted for 70 percent of the september increase. The Overall gain in food prices was up dramatically from a 0,i percent August Advance and was the sharpest since a 0.9percent july gain which had also been blamed on the drought the other bad news clothing Cost shot up 2.2 percent As prices for nearly All items of apparel reflected higher prices for fall and Winter Lin Drivers however found significant Good news in Friday s report. Septem Ber s Steep drop in gasoline prices sen pump prices 27.3 percent below their Peak of March 1981. Home Healing Oil costs were Down 2.1 percent while the Price of natural Gas and electricity taken together Rose 0.6 per cent. Economists expect this moderation i prices to continue for the balance of 1988 at falling Energy rices should coun Ter further drought driven food Price gains. The september inflation data trigger Dan automatic 4 per cell Cost of Long Benefit increase for social Security recipients. That was Down slightly from the 4,2 per cell increase paid to the elderly Blind and disabled americans who receive checks each month. The government calculates the Benefi increase based on the change in one por Tion of the consumer Price Index wages paid to Urban workers from july through september of one year tothe same period of the following year. Killer s extradition called possible Robison takes Over As cafes Europe head Munich West Germany Sis Brig. Gen. Thomas w. Robison assumed command of cafes Europe and the Munich military Community in ceremonies Friday. Robison. A 27-year army Veteran look command of the Exchange service s european operations from big. Gen. Joseph t. Ellis who is moving to the Dep Uty commander s Job at cafes head quarters in Dallas. Ellis move follows an earlier change in which air Force Brig. Gen. Jeffery d. Kahtia became cafes  had been the Deputy commander since 1985. Before this assignment Robison was Deputy commander of in corps and . Army forces Japan. Correction a photo caption yesterday incorrectly identified a Steamboat taking part in a race on inc Ohio River. The ship Isth Belle of Louisville. Frankfurt Wisl Germany a a German official said Friday that a former . Resident convicted by a so Viet court of murdering civilians during world War ii could be extradited to these vice Union if it waives the death pen  question of whether to extradite Bolislav Maikovskis 84, comes As Chan cellar Helmut Kohl prepares to travel to Moscow on monday for talks Wilh soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. In 1965, the Sovil Union sentence Maikovskis to death in absent a for his role i n burning Down a Village and killing civilians As a pro nazi police commander in his native country of Latvia. West Germany has no death penalty and probably would not agree to extra Dilc Maikovskis to a country where the deals sentence awaits him said Dort Mund prosecutor Klaus Schachl. But an extradition could theoretically be possible if for example the soviet Union agreed to withhold inc death pen ally in this Case Schacht said. Maikovskis is being held in a was German prison while aul Holics investigate the shooting deaths of at least 130men, women and children in the latvian Village of Audrine during world War ii. Maikovskis could Well face a Crimi Nal trial Here Schacht said but he could not estimate How Long investigations would Lake Schacht works out of Dortmund s War crimes prosecution office which is responsible for the Mun scr disc not. West German authorities arrested Maikovskis at his Minster residence lat wednesday and said he probably had been living in the country at least since november 1987, when he applied to the Wisl German government for political Asylum. The office responsible for Grantin Asylum is expected to decide on Maikovskis request by the end of no vember authorities said. Before that. Maikovskis was a resident of Mincola n.y., where he lived tace 1951. He fled the United states at a undetermined Dale while facing Deporta Tion. The United state began Deporta Tion proceedings against him in 1976, but the proceedings were held up by a  supreme court denied his last a peal in 1986. Body in water believed that of Sailor Malaga Spain is a body believed to be that of a . Sailor missing since oct. 12 was found thursday float ing in Malaga s Harbor a Navy spokeswoman said Friday the body discovered by a spaniard tentatively has been identified As Pelt officer 3rd class pc Flory g Brown 21, a radioman aboard the frigate Nicholas u. Jackie Yost  was based on documents found with the body she , a resident of Portage ind. Was reported missing on. T2 when he failed to Velum from Liberty to the Nicholas then on a port visit 10 Malaga Brown and another Sailor were seen together in the port area about 5 . When theother Sailor resumed to the ship without Brown a search of the port and us Waters was immediately begun Yost said. An autopsy was to be performed Friday.. Navy and Spanish authorities Are investigating the cause of death she said