European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday november 22, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 defense urges leniency for Hamadi byed Reavis Stal writer Frankfurt West Germany de sense lawyers for confessed Hijacker Mohammed a Hamadi told the court monday their client was mentally impaired during the 1985 takeover of a Twa jetliner and should be judged leniently because of the conditions in which he grew up. Gabriel sick Bromme and her Hus band Hans Burghardt Stock court appointed counsel Tor Hamadi. Asked that he court hear expert medical testimony on Hamadi s medical history. Stock told the court Hamadi suffered brain damage As a baby As a result of being dropped on his head by his older brother and from excess firing of bazookas from closed rooms during fighting in Lebanon. Hamadi a lebanese Shi Ilc moslem is charged with murder air piracy and Rob Bery in the seizure of Twa flight 847 from Athens Greece to Rome. A diver. Petty officer 2nd class Rob Ert Dean set him was kitted and 39americans were held hostage for it Days during the ordeal. St them was murdered to Force Beirut Lebanon Airport authorities to refuel the air plane. Hamadi has told the court his accomplice identified by authorities As Hassan Izeddine killed sell hem. Sleek urged the court to consider lenient sentence for his client because of the social environment in which Hamad iwas bom. United in the persons of the local religious teachers in the Middle East is asocial dynamic that made it impossible for Hamadi to make a decision As an individual. We should not judge Hamadi solely by our Christian ethics and values sleek said. To have refused a political order by a religious Leader would be tantamount to breaking a religious Rule. Hamadi seems to be a worldly person with adult experiences but in reality he is a child whose growth has been Hin dered by an authoritarian society and the constant state of War being waged in the court will decide on the defense feedings by telling How she was robbed. ,.motion after hearing arguments from Ilic Hamudis faces a possible life sentence prosecutor and counsel for the co plan that under West German Law Means up to 25 years confinement. Sleek said the combination of religious military and political authority tiits chief judge Heiner said. Mauri Schwartz 36, a passenger on the hijacked plane opened the Day s pro Hamadi has denied several times that he Ever robbed any of the passengers. Schwartz said she fell particularly endangered because she is jewish. Shortly after taking control of the plane the hijackers searched passports for jewish sounding names several passengers have testified real estate Developer Vinc Cylc Gana 57, also said he was robbed by Hamadi i gave him everything and then he slapped me in the face As hard As he could. I asked him Why he did trial i had Given him everything. He told me 10go Back to my Seal a said. Neither Schwartz nor Garza saw stat him murdered nor passengers being beaten but said they heard shots and trial was to continue tuesday with testimony by More passengers. Sis pm Cril a staff sgt. Morris d. Dupree ,. Thinks he cried s4s do a Hwy Irene Devlin. It was devastating Pant Bell did t ring Bis dim duo Jenny Alverson was stunned Many vividly recall Day Juk was assassinated frompaga.1_ the soap opera Willson was watching gave him a jump on the news with his classmates now with accent support group transportation at Brun sum Netherlands he remembers returning to school after lunch and telling his fourth Grade teacher in. Kuhlman what he had heard. She got very furious and said Don t say anything like that. That is a terrible thing to say " Nelson 8 family member living in fat Rah West Ger Many was waiting for the Bell to ring at the High. School in Lewis own. Its sound would Send her to rehearsal of the class play. We were All ready for a dress rehearsal. We were so excited she says. But the Bell did t ring. Rethought that there must be something wrong the principal announced that there had been a trag Edy and advised teachers to turn on the radios in class rooms. The dress rehearsal soon seemed a Small thing. The common reaction at the time was disbelief. Assassinations were for history textbooks not the daily news. I was stunned says Jenny Alverson a family member in a Schaffenburg West Germany but a sixth grader in Norfolk va., in 196j. I could t believe that a president during my lifetime had been we thought it was a joke at first says sgt. 1st class Robert f. Kan of Baum older West Germany who was a Junior at Patterson cooperative High school in Dayton Ohio. No one really expected something like that to Hap pen in this Day and staff sgt. Moms d. Dupree of the 2nd army Cav regt in Numberg West Germany was 9, attending school in Orlando Fla. I was in the fourth Grade in one of those divided class rooms he says. It was an old Church. One of the teachers came Over from next door and told us the president had Bce was pretty upset 1 was real sad. I think 1 Rosa Buntz now a Reading and drama teacher at Augsburg High school in West Germany was a Young teacher in Kara Mursel Turkey when Kennedy was killed. It was evening there she recalls. We had just had dinner and were having a Good Lime. The commander of the Navy got up and said our commander in chief had been assassinated in Dallas. Everybody was the grief was worry Bemz says. The russian Bor Der was nearby. Americans in Kara Mursel feared. Their proximity to America s cold War opponent. You kept thinking this would be a perfect Lime for them to attack that was the worry that night bin la recalls. \. Irene Devlin was 2 and travelling with her family from Ohio to Chicago to celeb rate 50th wedding anniversary. Father was not an avid radio listener when he was in. Pursuit of the Highway says the Aschaffenbur family member. We d seen All the flags at half Mast but we did t know what was happening until we reached our final destination. It was an Anonymous German woman on a Berlin bus broke the news to chief master sgt. James r. Hall manager for the 39th Security police flight at in Ciurlik a president 1st Tot the woman told him. Further conversation with others on the bus lot Hal who was in Berlin on temporary duly that the woman was talking about Kennedy a Man much admired in Berlin for his 1962 speech in the divided City. The bus riders sobbed and berliners burned candles in their windows to mourn the american president. Staff sgt. Mahone Davis of Lanir air station Turkey. Remembers a neighbor gave birth to a boy on that Day an named him John Fitzgerald Cotton. Chief Petty officer Mark d. Walker of the naval communications area master station Mediterranean in Naples Italy was 11 when the president s death was announced at his school in Pittsfield mass. "1 remember that All the teachers and Girts were crying he says i really did t understand what was going on until went Home and my Mother told us what happened. That Nihl we watched the news to it on to. . Moriarty who was in Junior High at fort Binning ga., atthe time. Now staff judge advocate at Iraklion air station Crete he recalls the from the . Teacher s brother was a Dallas policeman and partner of police officer . Sippil who was killed Bylee Harvey Oswald after the assassination. Janet St Tel now a librarian at Hahn High school incest Germany had the task in 1963 of telling her class about the death of a Man she admired and had met a few years earlier. She was a physical education teacher at Lasalle per High school in Illinois Krigel at the end of class i told them what 1 knew she says. We Only knew that he had been shot. Every body got real Slid had met the future president a few years earlier on a visit to Washington Mother look a picture of us she says i be got this Dorky looking picture of me with Kennedy Spiel says her world slopped the weekend after the murder. She tried to watch the events on television but "1 could t take it i turned it to Scott lightly a psychology and history teacher at Wiesbaden High school the assassination set the tone for the rest of the decade. The news reached him when he was a student in Greenville . It was fifth period history class. We were discussing the period leading up to the civil War he recalls. We were discussing the Lin Coln Douglas debates. I remember Kennedy so Well because whenever 1 would him on television i was transfixed. " before the decade ended Lightle would endure com Bat in Vietnam and see two More major political assassinations those of Martin Luther King or. And Rob Ert Kennedy the late president s brother. It s something that i be thought a lot about he have a tendency 10 look Back nostalgically at times when we were younger. Kids now the 60s As a magical Lime flow children hippies the magical mystery tour. 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