European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 the stars and stripes Friday november 11,19bb Upas of War on drug Washington a the Pentagon said Tuc iday it would Transfer 26 surplus helicopters to inc stale department for use in the International Waylon drug trafficking. Ithe defense department said in a Brief statement Ibe 26 us in Huey choppers included six that were deployed to Bolivia a month ago. I sit additional aircraft arc being refurbished by by depart ment of stale this year More willbe put into service As finds allow the Pentagon added. The state department s Bureau of International narcotics matters will use the helicopters to support on going narcotics operations ton dulled by the governments of Sev eral latin american nations the statement said. Strikers Bow to Walesa end protests at shipyards  identifies Soldier killed in 1-car crash Waiblinger West Germany  officials have released the name ofic Soldier who died sunday in a one car crash near a Stuttgart suburb. Spec. Raymond j. Kandy 23, served with cob 51st signal in at Wilkins Barracks in ludwigsburg.1 maintaining and repairing automatic switchboards Raadt died when the 1979 Ford he was driving struck a Guardrail and a Metal pole about 2 30 . On a state Highway near wait Hagen. Military Community officials said Raade s Lone Pas Senger was spec. Paul Walker another co b repairman. Walker 26, was treated for his injuries at the  Hospital in nearby bad Cannstatt and was released the same Day. Road is survived by his Mother a Dinc Raade and sister Kathy a. Raade of Manteca Calif. And his father John r. Raadt of Stockton Calif. Soldier on leave in United states Dies top Pingen West Germany a Soldier assigned to cob 299lh support. In at Panzer Cavern in a Solingen died recently while on emergency leave in the United states the 1st inf div fwd said wednesday., a division official said pal. 2 Fred a Weems 39, was found dead on the morning of oct. 30 in a car with a Flat lire on a Road in Henderson county , Weems died from Carbon monoxide poisoning the official said i Weems a decorated Vietnam War vet eran had been crying As a wheeled vehicle  include his wife Judith Weems of North Carolina son William e. Weems Stepson James h. Eggers and grandson m Ichael b. Eggers. Sergeant 39, Dies at Home in England Raf Fairford England a 39-year-old technical sergeant assigned to the,7020th air base group clinic was found dead in her Home at 2 45 . Tuesday. Tech. Sgt. Victoria l. Rood non commissioned officer in charge of staff development died of natural causes a base spokeswoman said wednesday. The Alabama native is survived by her husband master sgt. Anthony k. Rood and two daughters. Airman 1st class Anna Smith and Kelly l. Rood. A memorial service was to be Heid thursday. Gdansk. Poland a employees at two Small shipyards in Gdansk called off their strikes wednesday at the urging of Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. Hundreds of workers gave up their protest at the Wisla shipyard after receiving a Promise that the strikers would not be tired a walkout Leader said. At the repair shipyard 200 workers held a morning rally then ended their walkout strikers said. They also said they acted after management threatened to fire them and police Tore Down their signs at the Yard gales. We decided to leave because it made no sense to fight said striker or Rysztof Kamiak. The strikes began tuesday at the Yards in this Baltic port to protest the govern ment s plan to close the nearby train shipyard Birthplace of Solidarity the outlawed Rad Union movement. Last week communist authorities said they would close inc shipyard on dec. I because it is losing Money. Solidarity leaders said the plan was an attempt to cripple Solidarity at a time the govern ment says it wants to negotiate. Walesa after meeting with the Leni shipyard management tuesday indicated he would not insist on an immedi ate reversal of inc closure plan before he opens talks with the government. He said he was told that in could take two years or More to close inc Yard. At first we had one month. Now we have two years said Walesa an electrician at the Yard and Winner of the 1983 Nobel peace prize. We will fight for it the Lenin ship Yard and we will save  strike leaders said tuesday that they also were protesting the delay of the government opposition talks on Solidarity s future. Leaders of the movement Are de manding its Legal reinstatement. This is a warning to the authorities that we want the government to begin talks right away said Jan a Lanczki a protest Leader at the Wisla Yard which has about 1,000 workers who Matte yachts and River Craft. He said 400 to 500 Wisla workers sup ported inc strike. About 150 strikers at the 4.500-worker repair shipyard which renovate ships also vowed tuesday night to stay off the Job to the end a worker said. Through emissaries Walesa urged them to end the strikes. He Aid there was time to solve the Lenin dispute and strikes could hinder Resolution of the Issue of talks with the government. Solidarity the Only free Trade Union movement Ever allowed in the soviet bloc was chartered by the government in 1980, ii was crushed in a december i9s1 military crackdown and later outlawed. Hijackers often changed clothes to Coue confusion witness oys byed Reavis staff writer Frankfurt West Germany an american testified wednesday that the iwo men who commandeered Twa flight 847 in june i9ss often changed clothes to Inake passengers believe there were More hijackers on Board the jetliner. Jimmy Dell Palmer is an air conditioning technician told the court that he was travelling with his wife and son when the plane carrying 150 passengers and Crew was taken Over in route front Athens. Greece to Rome and for Ceimo land in Beirut Lebanon. Mohammed Ali Hamadi a tuba nose shiite moslem is Bein a find for air piracy and for the murder of a . Navy diver. Petty a tracer 2nd class Robert Dean sell hem Hamadi has confessed to taking part in the hijacking but claims his partner identified by authorities As Hassan Ezzeddine killed Stethem. Almer said he did not witness Munch but did see the  the 17-Day Hiji Swib or Deal. A describing Al Jimjack is Elridi with the clothing Palmert Wilhe court "1 won saw what the  up to when noticed her Alsadi wearing two pairs of ring the hijacking the a nth flew Between Beirut and Algiers twice. Sell hem was murdered thrown onto the runway during the end Landing at Beirut to Force Airport officials to refuel the plane. Women children and elderly Passen Gers were released before the final land ing in Beirut. After the murder of Sec them Hamadi and Ezzeddine were reinforced by members of the amal Mili Tia. Thoth miming 39 american male a Gers were held hostage in under. In of prisons in Beirut. Palmer Laid be feared death several limes during his Captivity. At the outset of the hijacking passengers believed the would be killed because the hijackers sex. Peeled an israeli or u a. Attack he said. Another time was when they took to into a Pilch Black garage under an apart ment House in Beirut. They suddenly turned on the lights and there were six men with machine guns facing us. I thought we were going to be executed said Amadi s parents who testified tuck Hal in the press Section of the court Roony wednesday. Hamadi sat in the Dock facing them throughout the session. On thursday the court was scheduled to hear testimony by other american passengers. Gunman holds he stages in Mississippi Columbia miss. A thirteen people were released or escaped unharmed from a Mississippi farm Bureau office where an armed Man took hos tages and held police at Bay for More than eight hours demanding his Back pay. V authorities said a former employee of he Marion county farm Bureau . Shaw walked into the Board of directors meeting tuesday night brandishing a pistol and two rifles and demanding seven years Back pay although i knew the Man when somebody has a gun and. Two cans of gasoline you Don t know him said mayor Steve Pitman. Shaw 63, released. Eight hostages about 2 30 . Wednesday Pittman said. One Man escaped out a Back door Coon after Shaw walked into the meeting and four others were released shortly afterwards because of age or health prob lems Pittman  by 3 ., police chief Joe Sanders and the revs. Russell Bush and Jroy Mccomb persuaded Shaw to give up his guns and the two five gallon cans of Gas Oline. -. A Shaw had demanded to talk with Mississippi farm Bureau executive Hugh Aram of Ruleville who flew to Colum Bia Early wednesday. A about 3 30 . Officers sur rounded and arrested Shaw As he walked to a car outside the yellow Brick building and left to meet Arant at a secret Loca Tion. Set. Chuck Pierpont said. Sheriff Wobbie Mckenzie Aid Shaw would be taken later to the stale Hospi. Tala Whitfield. Pittman said when the incident began about so people were playing Bingo in a Hall two doors Down from the farm Bureau office in downtown Columbia. The were evacuated safely he said. Target with homicide in train crash to of Csc " /-.-. ,. Ai Railroad reims France. _ workers were charged with homicide wednesday in connection a train crash that killed nine people an injured 13 authorities said. Prosecutor Joseph Schmit said in a statement that the two employees who were not identified by name  i catastrophe was the result of least two Thynan errors sch dirt said. One of Iho Titan was a District supervisor who g5vk a which leased pending trial after being charged. Hejat obtained no Autho monday morning s express train from pro Decuior said. Luxembourg to Paris was switched if the other was a controller stationed i service track As it entered the Vil jars Sta the nearby town of Epe Najr who asked lion at a in northeastern France 15 the reims rail Center to switch the train  Miles West of reims. It struck a rna Inte to a  not its Normal Nance car derailing the locomotive and one Haj Tler. Line of 11 passenger cars. I Alt inc people killed were railway " " a workers. The injured were passengers. Besides involuntary homicide the two Railroad employees were also charged with causing involuntary injuries. Reports in French newspapers have said a. Rarely used switch was thrown without incr authorization to allow Saintc work. The switch shunted the Paru. I onto the service Trade where the Mainett Nuich Wagon was sitting