European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday novembers 1988 Wei Marine buried seventy years after the Battle the re Mains of an unidentified us. Marine wet Bill of saturday in alone Marne a cutlery War Bell wit. France. The re main were found in a nearby Field the site of an Allied offensive on july in to aug. 6,1918, to which 67,000 us. Sot iceman trere killed or wounded. India maldives still trying to free hostages on boat male maldives a Indian and maldivian military officers joined in negotiating on the High seas saturday with a group of foreign mercenaries who fled the maldives in a boat with is hostages aboard after failing to overthrow Thema Divian government. We have started talking said a Man in the maldives National Security serv ice we have not yet reached any conclusion. There Are Many lives involved. There Are threats to  the Man gave his name Only As major  the negotiations began after two Indi an warships halted the boat with the mercenaries and their hostages. At Sun Down saturday the talks were still under Way said . Bane ice the Indian High commissioner in male the capital. Zahir said out of concern for the hos tages safety soldiers refrained from boarding the boat whose location he declined to reveal. We fear that the mercenaries May harm the hostages so we want to be cautious he said. The maldives is 500 Miles Southwest of India and More than 600 Miles West of sri Lanka. The nation of islands with a population of 190,000, gained Independence from Britain in 1965 and became a Republic in 1968. The mercenaries boat was intercepted in route to sri Lanka said an Indian general who helped Rescue besieged president Manmoon Abdul Qayoom after the attempted coup thursday on the in Dian Ocean Island nation. Maldivian officials and foreign Diplo Mats in sri Lanka said the mercenaries were thought to be sri lankan tamil guerrillas. But in sri Lanka a spokesman for the biggest tamil militant group the liberation tigers of tamil Edam denied involvement in the attempted coup. The tigers have been waging a five year separatist War against sri Lanka s sinhalese dominated government. The Indian general who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Mercena Ries boat escaped from male on Friday after Indian paratroopers reached the maldivian capital. India s Banc Iee whose rank is equivalent to ambassador said Between 27 and 32 people died in the attempted coup Bangnee said the mercenaries estimated to number about 150, fled in two boats and one Dingy. He said the four Whu fled in the Dingy surrendered Friday on a neighbouring Island. One boat carried mercenaries and the hostages and the whereabouts of theother boat was unknown he said. Shops and businesses in the maldives were closed saturday after Qayoom declared a Day of mourning for those killed inthe attempted coup. Ahmed Suleym a maldivian foreign. Ministry official said there were about is hostages aboard the boat slopped by the Indian Navy and that the hostages included transport minister Ahmed Fuji Lhasa and his wife. No one could say How Many mercenaries were on the boat. A senior Indian air Force officer til the South Indian Airport at Trivandrum said the hostages were hustled aboard the 5,000 ton boat when the gunmen red through blasts of Indian machine gun fire on Fri  from Page 1 and four former rivals sen. Paul Simon d-lll., Jesse Jackson former gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona Andsen Al Gore jr., a Tenn. Dukakis running mate Lloyd Belsen. Was in Losangeles for a rally aimed at nabbing California s 47 electoral votes. We win this one we win it All . Senator from Texas said upon arrival Friday at Burbank Airport. Bush interspersed his Campaign appearances with. Individual interview she president Reagan and run Ning male Dan Quayle rushed to use a Boston Herald headline what a mess referring to the state s i dances. ". " he got into it by overspending Bush told a rally in Fairfield. Conn., How did he get out of it or in to by raisins taxes a total of is 80 million this year alone. Now he s borrowing like mad writing checks that he does t even have enough Money in the Bank to cover.". Reagan campaigning in Voorhies township n.j., said Massachusetts ranked 30th among slates in an Nual Job growth in 1986 and 1987. And with yester Day s papers reporting a slate Bank account overdrawn by As much As $190 million for a month the Massachusetts mess is getting Sloppie and Sloppie by the Day he likes to talk about a Massachusetts Miracle Quayle said in Monroe la., but the Only Miracle involving Massachusetts will be the one he needs to gel out of the mess he created for his  Bush and Dukakis interviewed Back to Back Friday on Abc s world news tonight were asked about he nastiness that has pervaded their race Bush said his Campaign has been hard hitting but it s been fair and it s been accurate Dukakis countered that Bush was attacking him to divert attention from a failed record on the War against drugs from the kind of sleaze and corruption we be seen in  in an interview with the associated press Bush also said the idea that this Campaign is so different from others i Don t believe it. 1 Don t think the american people believe it All this stuff about being turned   were pouring a Fortune into net work advertising campaigns Over inc weekend $1.3 million was the announced figure for Bush and $375,000 for Dukakis not to mention additional thousands on both sides for commercials targeted to Battleground slates. In addition to the weekend advertising each Candi Date has paid nearly is million to buy a Naif hour Slot on All three networks on election eve. Dukakis will make his final Appeal at 8 . Est followed by Bush at 8 30 . Soviets from Page 1 Geneva accords also depended on whether the other signers obeyed it As Well indicating that the soviets May be considering keeping soldiers in the country after the deadline. Verb Nosov did not address that Issue in the remarks carried by Tass and did not say what kind of an International debate the soviet Union wants on Afghanistan. More than 13,000 soviet soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan and the War has became increasingly in popular in the soviet Union. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has called the War a bleeding wound an Nobel peace prize Winner Andrei Sakharov has said it is one of the greatest tragedies of Pur  Bessmer Nyoh said at a news briefing Friday that the withdrawal was due to the Good will of the soviet government and would occur Only in honorable con  atmosphere created by rebel bombing mortar and rocket attacks on civilians departing soviet forces and government forces docs not provide the conditions for such a withdrawal of soviet troops Bessmer Nyoh said. News briefs last Mia search fruitless but More planned Bangkok up1/ a second joint . Vietnam use search for evidence of the Fate of americans missing since the Vietnam War uncovered no remains but More such investigations Are planned a . Military spokesman said saturday. While no remains were recovered in the second investigation the joint cooperation is encouraging and continues to indicate the vietnamese govern ment s willingness to cooperate on this longstanding humanitarian Issue said maj. Dan Trout spokesman for the . Pacific  said information gathered from the joint investigation carried out West of Hanoi from oct. 14 to nov. 3, was still being Analysed to plan fur ther activities. J prosecutor says suspects knew of Gen. Dozier plot Padua. Italy a a prosecutor said hat two men on trial for allegedly belonging to alarmed group knew in Advance of the plan to Kidnap . Brig. Gen. James l. Dozier. The italian news Agency Ansa said prosecutor carmelo Ruberto said during a hearing Friday in Padua that Claudio Corica and Marcello a Ganolli knew of plans by the left Wing red brigades terrorist group to Kidnap Dozier Ansa said. Dozier was kidnapped in december of 1981 and rescued by italian police in Padua the next month Cerica and Fagan Elii Are charged with membership in an armed group and weapons  have not been charged in connection with the Dozier kidnapping