European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday november 7,1988 20 maldivian hostages rescued male maldives a Indian com Mandos on sunday captured sri lankan mercenaries fleeing an abort in coup inthe maldives and rescued 20 hostages after an Indian warship fired at the mercenaries crippled getaway boat officials said. Four of the hostages were dead and three others unaccounted Tor said Indi an government spokesman Ramamohana Rao. Of the remaining 20, he said seven had Bullet wounds and had been Hospi talk cd at he South Indian port City or Trivandrum. Rao said the 46 mercenaries on Board news briefs were captured during the Rescue opera Tion. An estimated 150 mercenaries believed linked to tamil rebels in nearby sri Lanka fled Friday aboard the 5,000 Lon cargo vessel after Indian paratroop ers foiled a coup attempt in the Mal dives. The boat damaged by Indian gun fire while fleeing was surrounded saturday by two Indian frigates in the Indian Ocean As it head id toward sri Lanka. The warships trailed the boat a military officers tried to negotiate by radio for the release of the hostages who included maldivian transport minister Ahmed Muj Ithaca and his Swiss born wife. Officials were investigating allegations that former maldivian president Ibra him Nair and his former aide Abdullah Luthuli instigated the thursday coup attempt. Nasir has denied any involve ment. Fatulla Jameel foreign minister of the maldives told a news conference ear Lier on sunday that he mercenaries were sri lankan echoing statements made earlier by several officials in the Mal dives India and sri Lanka. A acct said All the attackers fled by boat were captured or killed after the coup attempt in the maldives a 475-mile Chain of 2,000 Coral atolls and islets. He said 14 people were killed during the coup attempt eight maldivian Security men three civilians and three mercenaries. He said 40 people were injured and four mercenaries were Cap tured. Jamel said the mercenaries we remembers of the people s liberation organization of tamils one of several Mili Tant groups fighting for Independence in sri Lanka which is predominantly sin Halese. W. Germans begin to Mark victims of Kristal nacht kon1gstein, West Germany a West germans began sunday to Mark the 50th anniversary of the nazi Krist Allnach calling to mind How the brutal night of terror led to the devastating holocaust. One of the first ceremonies took place in the picturesque town of Konigstein near Frankfurt. A dispute Over whether West Germany s jew ish Community Leader should address the nation Al parliament As part of the government ceremonies has been threatening to overshadow the. Anniversary ceremonies. Over the next few Days hundreds of local gatherings panel discussions and expositions will be Nold throughout West Germany. The major National Day of Observance will take place in Frankfurt on wednesday a half Century to the Day after the pogrom started. The night of terror started nov. 9, 1938, As nazi thugs burned synagogues destroyed jewish businesses beat up jews and sent 30,000 people id concentration Camps. The nazis boastfully dubbed the night of terror Krist Allnach or Crystal night because of the broken Glass thai filled the streets Hirohito s failing condition causing mounting concern Tokyo a concern mounted Over the Fate of ailing emperor Hirohito after he coughed up and repeatedly discharged blood on sunday and the Imperial Palace announced it had summoned his grandson to return to Japan from  court doctors gave massive blood transfusions to the 87-year-old Monarch after he vomited some blood and discharged a Large Quantity from his bowels sunday said Kunii Maeda spokesman for the Imperial household Agency. In a hastily called briefing at 12 30 . Mon Day Maeda told reporters that Prince Aya,22, younger son of Crown Prince Akihito was scheduled to return to Japan later that Day to Call on his ailing Grandfather for the second Lime. Aya who is studying at Britain s Oxford University resumed Home Del. 1 after the emperor s condition worsened. Moderate quake shakes islands station off Alaska Washington a a moderate Earth quake hit the Remote Aleutian islands in the Pacific Ocean off Alaska and was Felt at the Adak naval station there the . Geological Survey said sunday.1 the quake measured 5.2 on the Richter scale when it was measured at 3 21 . In the an Dreano islands part of the Chain of volcanic islands thai spreads Oul Southwest of Alaska. David Terrell a spokesman for the Survey said the Center of the earthquake was about 80 Miles from Adak an Island thai is about 1,000 Miles from Anchorage and is the location of the Navy station. ,. Tremors were fell at the station but there was no initial report of damage Terrell said. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion As recorded on seismographs. Every in crease of one number Means a tenfold increase in magnitude. A quake of magnitude 5 can cause considerable damage in a populated area. Sakharov takes plane for . To see Farny attend meeting Moscow a Andrei d. Sakharov left sunday for a two week visit to the United states less than two years after being recalled from internal exile stemming from his opposition to the soviet invasion of Afghani Stan. Sakharov who won the 1975 Nobel peace prize for his human rights activities said at Moscow s Sheree Levo Airport that he was pleased to be going to Washington d.c., for a meeting of the International foun Dation for the survival and development of humanity. But his first Stop is expected to be Boston where he will visit his Stepson Alexei sumy nov his wife Liza Alekse Mcva and their 4-year-old daughter Alexandra whom he never has seen. He also is expected to receive medical treatment in the United states. Sakharov kissed his wife Yelina Banner in a Diplo Matic lounge where they had waited smiling and hold ing hands and then headed for the new York bound plane. Reporters were not allowed in the lounge bul could Wales from a distance. On a Brief walk from a while Volga Sedan to the lounge he said there still Are political prisoners in the soviet Union including an unknown number in men Tal institutions. Sakharov left using the Blue passport of a member of an official delegation not the red passport of an aver age Sovil citizen. He is travelling Wilh Yevgeny Velik Hov vice president of the soviet Academy of sciences both men Are members of the foundation s Board. The International foundation for the survival and development of humanity of which Sakharov is a Board member was formed in january by soviet and american scientists and educators. Its Headquarters sin Moscow but it has offices in Stockholm Sweden and Washington the group s Board meeting will be held in washing ton on nov. 13-17,.  threatens a walkouts Over proposed shipyard closure Warsaw Poland a the National executive commission of the banned Solidarity Irac Union Sun Day threatened Broad protests including strikes if the government does not reverse its decision to close the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk. The government announced oct. 31 that it will close the Yard beginning 31, citing economic reasons. Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa meanwhile was quoted by an aide As threatening a National strike Alert beginning tuesday unless the shipyard is saved. The statements were the strongest yet by the Union which appears to be on a collision course with the government Over the closure of the Yard where Soli Darity was born. The Gdansk shipyard has to be defended,1 Solidar Ity said. In this situation we consider it necessary to conduct a Broad action in november for the legalization of Solidarity in defense of the Gdansk shipyard and the repressed participants in strikes even re sorting to strike action the statement said Solidarity National spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz said the Union s plans might be More Clear after the workers rally scheduled in Gdansk on tuesday. Bush fro Pagal series of California ballot initiatives had a Price tag of More than s100 million. A series of slate polls provided a picture of several close races. One poll gave Bush a 17-Point Lead in Texas Wilh its 29 electoral Voles but dukakis1 was reported gaining on Bush in the latest Survey in Colo Rado and holding an eight Point Lead in Iowa Abc news said ils nationwide Survey completed saturday night showed the vice president Wilh a Lead of 43 percent to 43 percent an improvement Over two weeks ago. The network said a very High 2 per. Cent of the voters Are undecided or May still change  Bush pollster Robert Tescier interviewed on the Abc to s meet the press rejected complaints that he vice president had run a Nasty Campaign and said private cop surveys showed Bush leading by a bigger margin than reported by inc network. Ceier said he believed the number of voters who were wavering was much lower somewhat under 10 percent.". For i ". Bush professed Lille doubt about . Things Are moving in our direction he said As he laced sunday from Colorado to California to Michigan. " Dukakis in a desperate race noted that Bolh Caridi Dales began inc Day in  months George Bush has been following me around on the issues. He discovered education a few months ago he even discovered the environment a few months ago he said. This week he started following me around on my message telling people he s on your Side. Now hcs following me around the country. I la Tell you one place he s not going to follow me. He s not following  and me to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Bentsen the vice presidential nominee flew from Illinois to Texas in a final bid to prevent Bush from taking his Home stale. In on Abc interview Bentsen conceded that no Mailer which candidate won he would t have much of a mandate after the election he also said that if he returned to the Senate in a Bush administration he would help. Bush when he thought it was deserved and try to Block him when rethought the president was wrong i Quayle who shows up As a drag on the Republican ticket in virtually All the polls declined invitations to appear on network television and campaigned sunday in Virginia one of the safest Republican Stales where a new poll showed Bush with a 56-2s Lead. Dukakis used his to Miille Campaign closing Commer Cial to show himself responding to questions from average americans and to trumpet the populist theme that he has  in the Mirror and ask yourself he says in a film clip taken from a  George Bush on your Side "