European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 news updates the stars and stripes sunday february 5,1989 Bush discusses a is Washington a presi Dent Bush and top advisers conferred for More than 3 a hours on the savings and loan crisis sat urday but the president made no decisions the White House said. The advisers including Treasury Secretary Nicholas f. Brady Bud get director Richard Darman and chief of staff John Sununu trav eled to the president s Retreat at Camp David md., for a working session from 11 . To 1 . Federal Reserve Board chair Man Alan Greenspan joined the group for lunch which broke up shortly after 2 30 . White House aides speaking on condition of anonymity said Fri Day that a proposed fee paid by Bank and depositors was unlikely to be part of the package. Bush met with Industry officials thursday and congressional Lead ers Friday. He said he would Lay out his plan Early this week. He plans to include the subject in a nationally broadcast speech to Congress on thursday. Captors plan Goodwill release of some hostages report says temperatures Beirut Lebanon a a weekly Magazine said saturday that two Ameri can hostages will be freed soon and other publications reported the Immi nent release of some of the 15 foreign hostages held by pro iranian extremists. The Magazine an Nahar Arab and International said Hezbollah or party of god has decided to release two Ameri can captives As a Goodwill the group composed of shiite mos Lem fundamentalists Loyal to Iran is believed to be an umbrella organization for underground factions that have claimed the abduction of most of the westerners missing since 1985. The Magazine based in Christian East Beirut quoted an unidentified Hezbollah official As saying the scenario is being set for the the Short re port gave no other details. The weekly Al Shiraz reported last week that the Case of the foreign hostages has been put on a hot while the Magazine gained International Fame in november 1987 when it broke the Story of secret . Arms sales to Iran subsequent reports on the hostages have not proved to be accurate. February 3 Hilo Hilo albany.n.y.,s Anchorage Atlantic Baltimore s Billings. C Boston. S Brownsville. C Charleston. S.c.,Charleston.w.va.,s c., Chicago. S Cincinnati s Cleveland. S Columbia. Concord,n.h.,s Dallas it Worth. Denver a Des moines.detroit s duluth.evansville.fairbanks.fargo.flagstaff s grand rapids. S great falls.greensboro n. Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis s Jackson miss. 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Terry Anderson 41, chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press who was abducted March 16, 1985, has been held the longest. The Independent daily an Nahar and the conservative and Dinar reported sat urday that the release of foreign captives in Lebanon was part of an agreement mediated by Syria and Iran last week to end a bloody Intra shiite Power struggle Between Hezbollah and the syrian backed mainstream amal militia. Informed sources believe that the Basic of the amal Hezbollah. Accord is to work on the release of foreign Cap Tives held in Lebanon an Nahar s terse report said. And Dinar in an equally Brief report quoted an unnamed official As saying the amal Hezbollah Accord could result in the handing Over of some foreign hos tages to the Syria is the main Power broker in Leb anon. It has about 40,000 troops control Ling moslem areas including Northern and Eastern provinces As Well As West and South Beirut. The leftist daily As Safir which is close Al to the syrian army command in Lebanon said diplomatic information Speaks of the possible release of some foreign hos tages in the next two amal Leader Nabih Berri said in the Syri an capital of Damascus that after the agreement with Hezbollah was signed monday the peace pact did not refer i restly to the hostages but i am sure that this agreement would help secure the re lease of hostages As quickly As iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velamati who negotiated on Iran s behalf during the Damascus talks said no body will be satisfied with the holding of the hostages so we do Hope that All the hostages. Will be Irish ambassador Patrick Mccabe flew in from Baghdad Iraq two weeks ago to investigate reports that an Irish hostage would be freed. Mccabe who is the envoy to Lebanon and Iraq said wednesday that he hoped the statements by Berri and Velamati would result in the release of some for j eign captives before too the 15 captives also include three Bri tons an italian an irishman and a belgian. Japanese convicted of hauling bombs had naval target . Prosecutors say Newark . A a japanese Man convicted of transporting explosives planned to blow up a Navy recruiting station in new York City prosecutors say. Government attorneys charged that you Kikumra suspected of being a Japa Nese red army terrorist has ties to a libyan directed terrorist conspiracy and they asked a judge Friday to sentence him to a lengthy prison term. Defense attorneys said however that the government s pre sentence report makes Only tenuous links Between their client and other terrorist incidents worldwide. Kikumra 36, could receive up to 100 years in prison when he is sentenced monday. In papers filed in . District court the government revealed that Kikumra planned to blow up the Navy recruiting station in new York City in conjunction with the bombing of a Uso club on april 14, 1988, in Naples Italy. . Attorney Samuel a. Alito asked judge Alfred j. Lechner to help deter terrorism by sending Kikumra to prison at least until he is so old that he is no longer physically capable of building and planting bombs or assisting with terrorist the Naples blast came on the second anniversary of the . Air strike against Libya and two Days after Kikumra was arrested on the new Jersey Turnpike with three 18-Inch pipe bombs in his car. Each bomb manufactured from a fire extinguisher Gunpowder and Lead shot could destroy an average sized building authorities Kikumra was arrested last april 12 and convicted nov. 29 on charges of illegally transporting explosives possessing fire arms by an alien possessing unregistered firearms and carrying false travel documents. Sources have said the government believed other potential targets May have been the United nations building or Manhattan s garment District. The pre sentence report does not men Tion either site. . Attorney Alito also said a map of new York City found in Kikumra s car had indicated Only the recruitment Center As the target. The Washington Post reported Friday that the government had evidence proving All three Sites were Kikumra s targets. Defense attorneys Ronald Kuby and William Kunstler said in their pre sen tence report that the linkages it the prosecution attempts to make Between Kikumra and others Are As tenuous As they Are Tough brakes can be applied to life in the slow Lane cult figure finds forecast for sunday the Benelux and Northern Germany will be Cloudy with scattered rain and Rains Powers. During the afternoon the rain will become isolated with skies becoming occasionally partly Cloudy. Central and Southern Germany will be Cloudy. Isolated freezing drizzle and Patchy dense fog and freezing fog in the South. Scattered rain and rain showers will occur in Central areas during midday with isolated rain and freezing rain beginning in the South during the afternoon and evening. Isolated Snow at higher elevations of Alpine areas by mid afternoon. Gusty winds in the North spreading to Central areas by midday. High temperatures 38-44 in the North 30-37 elsewhere lows 32-36 in the North 28-31 elsewhere. Sunset sunday 5 26 Sunrise monday 7 52. Outlook for monday Cloudy with scattered rain and drizzle. Patchy morning fog in Central and Southern areas. Winds will become Gusty in Central and Northern areas. Highs 36-45, lows 29-36. 4am 4pm 39 39 28 27 52 52 32 30 52 High Low 48 10 36 41 16 18 supplied by the associated press. A Cloudy. A partly Cloudy Mair a Rains Snow to tog. Los Angeles a the fast track at Hughes aircraft was too much for de Greer but life in the slow Lane did not hold the Appeal fantasized by his for Mer colleagues after the Young executive vanished in 1981. The Man who had become a cult figure to corporate Daydreamer was tracked Down by Fri agents last october in hous ton masquerading under the name of Ken Neth Roy Hearn and working quietly at a Small Oil exploration firm. I Hurt a lot of people my parents my sex wife and my kids Greer 40, told the los Angeles times last week. I really regret doing this. If i had to do it Over again i would do it he vanished on sept. 10, 1981, Leav ing behind his engineering Job his parents his wife and two children. He took a flight to fort Lauderdale Fla. Before he left he told a Friend never become too Good at something you hate. They la make you do it the rest of your after he left his former colleagues some of whom said they wished they had the courage to do the same began throwing annual parties often showing up at them wearing de Greer masks. No one from his past saw or heard from him again until Fri agents trying to learn Why someone in Texas was using the name of Kenneth Roy Hearn of Ala Bama tracked him to his office at input output inc. Of Houston. Greer first lived in Florida for a time fixing boat engines and hanging out atthe Beach. There Are a lot of pretty girls on the each he explained. But he eventually decided to go Backoo a regular Job. After a while i got tired of never having enough Money and never having an id he said. As for the pretty girls unfortunately about the time you get to know them they be gone Back to Mun Cie ind Greer said. He got Hearn s name and social Security number by placing a newspaper and for an engineering Job that the Man answered. He said the Fri agents who caught him lost interest in the Case after discovering he was not a drug dealer or Money launderer. The Federal charge that he was investigated on was Possession of a false so Cial Security card number said assist ant . Attorney Don de Gabrielle who handled the Case in Houston. Under an agreement with the govern ment Greer must stay out of trouble for a year or face charges in the Case. He also faces $78,000 in Back taxes. And he must face the past. Anyone with any attachment to the human race could t do what he did said his sex wife kit Clark who divorced him after he disappeared. I will never forgive him for what he did to the she said she told him that he could Contact his sons now 9 and 16, if he wanted however. As for Why he left Greer said i Felt trapped. I really hated management. I did t like my Greer plans to remain at his Job i Houston
