European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday april 3,1989 news updates rites for slain cleric j1ddah, saudi Arabia a Abdullah Mahdal the moslem preacher who was slain in Brussels. Belgium after distancing himself from death threats against author Salman Rushdie was buried sat urday in Mecca islam s holiest the body of the 36-year-Ctd cleric was flown to saudi Arabia by a special Jet sent by King fahd. Abdullah Omar Nash of the Secre tary general of the moslem world league led the funeral service. Mahdal whose parents live in Mecca was killed wednesday at a Brussels mosque thai u financed by the moslem world league. He was considered head of the mos ice pm manily in Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Mahdal and the mosque s Tuni Sian librarian Salim Beer were shot and killed by  assailants. The aide s body was flown to Tunisia. Belgian authorities arc invest baling the slayings. There had been threats against Mahdal Tor his mod Erate views especially on the controversial Issue of Rushdie s novel the satanic verses.". On Friday soldiers of Justice a moslem fundamentalist group thai is holding a a Ilgian doctor hostage in Lebanon claimed it killed a Dat and his aide Tor carrying out  and anti islamic activities through maintaining contacts with the Mossad Israel s intelligence service bankruptcy petition Topeka Kan a slate attorney general Robert Stephan has tiled for bankruptcy in Federal court saying he could t pay a 12011,000 judgment awarded to a former i employ dec who sued him for Schual harassment. He said that garnishment of one fourth of his $63,000 slate Sal Ary combined with interest pay ments due on the award would t leave him enough to live on White he appeals the Case a lawsuit filed in 1982 by mar Cia Tomson Sling Lcy was settled out of court but she later tiled an other lawsuit for breach of con tract alleging that so Chan had broken an agreement not to reveal the terms of the settlement. A Federal court jury ruled in her favor last november and awarded her s200,000. Garnishment of Ste phen s paycheck to begin paying off the judgment was to have begun this month. Navy frigate fixed Portland Maine a the guided missile frigate Samuel b. Roberts severely damaged by a mine while on patrol in the per Sian Culf nearly a year ago re turned to the Harbor in Portland on saturday. The Navy ship had been dry Doc cd at the Bash Iron Worts overhaul Yard in Portland since december while Crews repaired the vessel s mid Shelton and in stalled a new main engine room. The 3.600-Ion frigate which was built by big struck a mine on april 14. L�88, after completing a Convoy operation for a re Flag cd Kuwait Tanker. Company spokesman Jim Mcgregor said repairs were completed ahead of schedule about a week. The Roberts is scheduled 10 rejoin the Fleet late la 5 year. Of retiring by quest Booster a Vij Steve Gunyon with full honors Dayton Ohio a air Force col Steve Canyon a comic strip charac Ter who perhaps has done As much for the morale of his service As anyone is retiring after a career full of military honors. A ceremony was planned Tor monday on the Ohio state University Campus in Columbus to Honor the comics Page hero created by Payton native and Ohio state graduate Milton Caniff. Miff died april 3, i98s, at is. The last Steve Canyon strip appeared in Sun Day newspapers june 5 of the same year. Air Force personnel prepared a biography and list of Canyon s exploits and were to present it to the University. An exhibit was to be set up in the journalism school s Library recently dedicated to Caniff memory. Through Sieve Canyon. Mill Canoff did a lot to keep up the spirits of fliers and the air Force said 1st it Lynn Ellen Bryant. He really became a part of air Force lore and people  Ohio stale spokesman Leon Rubin said the presentation was the air Force s idea. Canyon is said to have attended Ohio state before joining the army air corps the predecessor of the air Force in world War ii. Bryant said the air Force went. Through All the old Canyon comic strips compiling a personnel record for the character through his 1988 ret inc mint. People at Mcguire air Force base in new Jersey and in new York live dedicated a lot of Lime Conci a and imagination to the project she said. We Are very Happy and honoured to do something thai will be seen by others and is going to  Canyon s service record includes dec orations citations movement orders for each base family data All sons of Good stuff she said. The air Force decided that since his record was so varied the character should be assigned to the of fice of special investigations. Thai also allowed us to say certain things were classified and we Cound l discuss them Bryant said. The air Forte will present a modern uniform with Canyon s insignia rank and name lag. Along with a retirement certificate for Canyon acid his wife. Sum Mer Smith. A display will hold his med als and ribbons. Rockets blast . Envoy s residence As lebanese forces Trade gunfire Beirut Lebanon univ Rock cos slammed into the residence of the . Ambassador to Lebanon sunday when Christian army troops and syrian backed moslem militiamen engaged in renewed heavy fighting police said. Police said the three Story residence of the . Ambassador John Mccarthy in the Christian suburb of Yare was i v acc try hit in renewed heavy rocket and artillery exchanges sunday. The building was hit with Rock is a Short while ago n Secretary at the Resi Dence told United press International in a Telephone Contact. Asked How Many missiles struck the House she replied  the woman who spoke with a break ing voice said Mccarthy in his 40s, was not in the building when it was hit. I m Here hiding Wilh workers in an underground room. Nobody was Hurt the woman said the rockets damaged the buildings and crushed furniture and there arc big tires a round the  there was no immediate comment by . Officials on the attack. Police said the . Ambassador s Resi Dence was Hil in renewed gunfire exchanges Ihal engulfed Yare and the nearby District of Baarda. Where the presidential Palace is located. It was the second time that the House of the ambassador was hit since the fight ing broke oui. The embassy had said that the residence was Hil with a syrian Rockel March 28. Navy a withdraws tank Landing ship 3 mine sweepers from Gulf area by United press International the United states pulled three mine sweepers and a support vessel from the persian Gulf saturday in the Navy s big Gest withdrawal from he volatile water Way since the Iran Iraq cease fire nearly eight months ago a Navy spoke Sman said sunday. The spokesman said the Lank Landing ship Peoria sailed through the Strait of Hormuz the strategic Mouth of the Gulf. As escort for the mine sweepers illusive fearless and inflict Britain s Royal Navy was the last after Italy Belgium and Holland to pull its mine sweeping Force out the Gulf. The latest american withdrawal from the Gulf leaves the Navy with 10 warships in the waterway including three mine sweepers. At the height of the conflict Between . And iranian naval forces last year 27 vessels patrolled the Gulf. The Central Conid which oversees american military activity in the Middle East from Mae Dill fab fla., has or dered a nine ship  group to remain in the neighbouring North arabian sea in Case they Are needed this brings the size of the Navy s pres ence in the Region to less than 20 vessels for the first Lime since Washington end its allies began a massive buildup in the. Wake of iranian attacks on merchant tankers two years ago. Reward offered for bombers of Jet London a a pan am Pilot whose wife was killed in the explosion of pan am flight 103 called fora $2.5 Mil lion Reward to catch the bombers and pledged the first $ 100,000, a newspaper reported sunday. The sunday Telegraph quoted Pilot Bruce Smithy whose British wife Ingrid. Was aboard flight 103, As saying that if Iran s Ayatollah re Hough Khomeini ran property sales Wiesbaden West Germany the defense  and marketing of fice will hold several auctions and retail1 sales in military communities in Vleit Germany during the next iwo weeks. Auctions Are scheduled for tuesday near Lite Aulo strip Yard in Kaisch Rajau icon thursday at Johnson Barracks in Nairn Borg and april 14 at the Mainz Kastel storage station. Bidder registration begins Ai 8 ., and the auction . Raise a multimillion Dollar Reward for the assassination of British author Salman Rushdie then we can do the same for the monsters who murdered Bur families Many moslem consider Rushdie s latest novel the satanic verses insulting to islam and iranian clerics offered a Bounty of up to $5.2 million after Khomeini called for Rushdie s death. Families of britons killed in the bombing say they will pressure the government 10 conduct a Public inquiry Mlo Airport Security before the disaster. Us families flight 103 which formed saturday said it objected to the Way trans port minister Paul Channon and his department handled events after the Boeing 747 blew up Over Scotland on a London to new York flight dec. 21, killing All 259 people on Board and 11 on the ground. Retail sales will be held Friday at Gross Auh Cim Cavern in Hanau and april 14 at the Fried Richfeld service Center near scene Nchim and near the commissary in Ludwig Surg. The sales in  and ludwigs Burg begin at 9  And conclude at noon. The Sale in Hanau starts at 11  And ends at i .  also will continue hold ing its weekly retail Sale each Friday near the Aulo Tnp Yard. The Sale begins at 8 30  And ends at 10 30a.m. A variety of Ilams including House hold goods military clothing electronic equipment and sporting goods will be sold at each location All sales arc final and Only . Dollars will be accepted. All events Are open to the Public except for the weekly Kaiserslautern Sale which is restricted to . Identification card holders. _ for additional information Contact the Drmota the various locations