European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday August 19,1989 syrians Shell Cyprus Jounier ferry Beirut Lebanon a the Only passenger vessel that serves the Christian heartland came under syrian fire at the Christian port of to Union on Friday and lied Back to its Home port in Cyprus police said. Police said three people were killed and 21 wounded in artillery ducts be tween  commander Gen. Michel Aoun s 20,000 predominantly Christian troops and the More than 40,000 syrian and Allied forces. The incidents came during a fragile Lull in the fighting after a tuesday Appeal for a cease fire by the . Security Council. In Baghdad the iraqi capital iraqi president Saddam Hussein King Hus Sein of Jordan and Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat planned to meet to discuss renewing Arab efforts to bring peace to Lebanon. A police spokesman who cannot be identified in line with standing Rygula news Brief Lions said syrian gunners fired about 120 rockets from  launch ers at the hydrofoil Santa Maria in Jou Nieh 12ft Miles North of Beirut. Police said seven passengers waiting to Board the ship were wounded during the shelling. In the cypriot port of Warnaca a spokesman Lor the ship s agents said the vessel s Crew was unable to unload the baggage of the 120 passengers who went to Lebanon. The heavy shelling meant the boat had to leave immediately said spokes Man Tony Mansour. For the past three months the Santa Maria has been the Only passenger vessel connecting the 310-Squarc-Milc beleaguered Christian enclave Northeast of Beirut with the outside world. In May slower passenger ferry operators decided it was too dangerous to continue sailing to Jounier. By police count the a month old confrontation Between Christian and mos Lem forces has killed 778 people and wounded 2,092. All but 150.000 of Bei rut s 1.5 million residents have fled the bomb ravaged City. Iraqi officials said the meeting in Baghdad was called to revive faltering Arab mediation to end the fighting and find a settlement to Lebanon s 14-year-old civil War. The current round of fighting broke put on March 8 after Aoun blockaded illegal ports set up South of Beirut by Syna s militia allies in an abortive bid to restore state authority. Syria and its allies retaliated by besieging the Christian enclave where about i million people had lived. Iraq Syria s main Arab rival has been arming Aoun s forces to thwart syrian ambitions in Lebanon. The syrians say Lebanon is vital to their Security and have Long considered it a part of greater  Iraq has supported Aoun s demand that the syrians withdraw the 40,000 troops they have in Lebanon under a 1976 Arab league peacekeeping Man Date. Aoun says the syrians have betrayed that mandate by fighting along Side the moslem. Arafat has been feuding with syrian president Hafez Assad since 1983 Over control of the palestinian cause. Jordan which reconciled with Syria two years ago after a lengthy rift is Allied with Iraq in the Arab cooperation Council. Meanwhile French envoy Alain do Caux held talks with Aoun in the Gener Al s Bunker under the in ill Bau Rcd presidential Palace in suburban Baarda East of Beirut. Decaux who arrived in Lebanon thursday refused to talk to reporters about his Mission. France which ruled Lebanon until1943 and has Long been seen by the christians As their main protector has begun a new diplomatic initiative to secure a cease fire. Locked out Black workers fired on by s. Africa police Johannesburg South Africa a police opened fire Friday on Black employees out Side a Pic factory where they had been locked out by management. At least 15 workers were injured police and Union officials said. Police also arrested an anti apartheid activist and banned a Cape town rally called for sunday by outlawed rights organizations. Meanwhile Trevor Tutu son of Nobel prize winning archbishop Desmond Tutu was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for Alleg edly making a false bomb threat at Johannes Burg s International Airport. Trevor Tutu 32, was convicted of violating the aviation act by falsely telling police that there was a bomb in his Luggage. He had pleaded innocent and said he would Appeal the conviction. Shortly after the dec. 31 incident at Jan Smuts Airport Trevor Tutu convened a news conference and told reporters he deliberately courted arrest As part of a publicity stunt for his advertising Agency. In another development Mohammed Valli Moosa an official of the banned United demo cratic front and a Leader of a new Campaign to defy apartheid restrictions was arrested at his Johannesburg office Friday and held there As Security police searched his files. Poland from Page 1 Solidarity s parliamentary Leader. The once inconceivable idea of a government with out a communist party member at the Helm became possible after Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa persuaded two Small parties that hold the balance of Power in the Sejm to join Solidarity in a coalition. That resulted in the communist party Alliance s los ing its majority in the Sejm. On thursday the communist prime minister  Kiszczak resigned after trying two weeks to form a government. The same Day. Jaruzelski met with Walesa report edly agreed to the coalition idea and agreed to pick a member of the Trade Union he once outlawed to Lead it. Even in a government led by Solidarity Jaruzelski will remain president controlling the  and foreign affairs local governments will still be in the hands of the communist party and party members will control the courts. In addition tens of thousands of Poland s bureaucrats owe their jobs to the party and 75 percent of management jobs ranging from shop managers to factory Heads Are held by party members. The Bush administration hailed the history Mak ing decision Clearing the Way for the new government but state department spokesman Richard Boucher is sued a statement clearly designed to warn the Kremlin not to interfere. We emphasize that this continues to be a matter for the polish people to decide he said. Copter flies inmates to Freedom Ordway Colo. A a hijacked helicopter swooped into the Yard of a medium Security state Pris on Friday morning and spirited two inmates to free Dom officials said. Two women and a Pilot were on Board the copter when it set Down at the Arkansas Valley correctional facility in Crowley county about 9 15 a.m., authorities said. The helicopter and the bound and gagged Pilot were found later on the ground 35 Miles North of the prison. The women and the escapees had apparently transferred to a rented Van. Walter Kautzky director of the Colorado department of corrections said Pilot Tim Graves told authorities that the two women rented the helicopter under the pretext of taking photos of some properly cast of Ordway. One of the women then pulled a gun on Graves As they got near the prison and forced him to land. The inmates were identified As Freddie Gonzales 21, who was serving a four year sentence for robbery and Ralph Brown 21, who was sentenced for sexual assault theft and criminal impersonation. The prison is about 50 Miles cast of Pueblo in the Plains of Southeastern Colorado. Roadblocks were set up on two highways in the area. Liz Mcdonough spokesman for the Colorado department of corrections said guards were unable to fire at the helicopter As it came into the prison Yard because the line of sight to the helicopter was very awkward. There was not a clean line of  the guards also feared for the safety of the Pilot she said. Kautzky said Graves was found tied up and gagged but apparently unhurt in an old farmhouse near where the helicopter was found. Kautzky had no further details on what he was Able to Tell authorities about the escape. The helicopter was a Jet powered Bell 206-a Heli copter bearing the registration number n1442w. It was registered to Connelly exploration an Oil exploration company in Denver the Federal aviation administration reported. The two women had contracted with a private Pilot service helicopter airways which is linked to Connelly exploration and shares equipment with it. Graves is an employee of helicopter airways. Taking part in the Hunt for the escapees were personnel from the department of corrections the state patrol and the Colorado National guard. The guard assigned helicopters to Aid in the search. Authorities said gon Zats weighs 127 pounds and has Black hair and Brown eyes. He would have Bee eligible for parole in september 1991. Brown weights 170 pounds and has Brown hair and Green eyes. He would have been eligible for parole in october 1996. Refugee from Page 1 Are being sheltered at West Germany s embassies in Budapest Hungary East Berlin Prague Czechoslovakia and Warsaw Poland. The foreign ministry closed its embassy in Buda pest on monday because the refugees had overwhelmed the facility. Another 300 or More East germans have arrived since the Gates were locked and have taken shelter with International Aid groups at churches and temporary encampments. East germans frustrated with the Lack of Reform in their communist governed country have been pouring out by the hundreds this summer through neighbouring Hungary which began dismantling its barbed wire Border with Austria in May. Most of those holed up at West Germany s embassies in Eastern Europe Are East germans who were caught trying to escape to Austria from Hungary. Hungarian Border guards have noted the failed escape attempts in the passports of Many of those caught and East germans fearing punishment if the return Home have appealed to West Germany for help. Alabama executes pipe bomb killer Atmore Ala. A an inmate who was mar ried last week in a prison ceremony was executed Early Friday in Alabama s electric chair for the 1977 pipe bomb killing of an 11-year-old girl. Herbert Lee Richardson 43, was pronounced dead at 12 14 a.m., said state department of corrections spokeswoman Debbie Herbert. He was convicted in the death of Rena Mae Callins of Dothan whose body was blown apart on the porch of her Home when she picked up a pipe bomb and it detonated. The execution was carried out after the . Supreme court agreed with the Lith . Circuit court of appeals in Atlanta and . District judge Robert Vamer in Montgomery in refusing Richardson s re quest for a stay on thursday. Richardson was the sixth person executed in Ala Bama and the 116th in the nation since the supreme court allowed states to restore the death penalty in 1976. Richardson blindfolded was strapped in the elec tric chair As Holman prison Warden Charlie Jones read the death warrant. I have no ill feeling and hold nothing against any one Richardson said in a final statement. Soon after his body received a surge of 1,800 volts . In a news conference after the execution state prison commissioner Morris Thigpen said Richardson had re Quested that officials Blindfold him before leaving the holding cell adjacent to the execution room at 11 57 . He never saw the execution chamber Thigpen said. Richardson was described by his defenders As an All around american boy who was left emotionally Dis Turbed by his Vietnam War experience. He claimed the pipe bomb was not meant to explode Only to scare the girl s family. The girl s aunt had broken off a relationship with him shortly before the device was planted. Richardson s wife Katie some of her family Mem Bers and a Montgomery minister visited the condemned Man until about 10 30 . On thursday