European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside strikes q Pope issues Appeal for Lebanon cease fire Page 2 d satellite retrieval May come Early Page 5 d drug use among women increases Page 7 d lend beats Mcenroe in Canada sports Page 23 the Sims and tripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Wol. 48. No. 127 tuesday. August 22, 1989 d 8693 a i captors threaten hostages unless France recalls ships Beirut Lebanon not a pro iranian group sunday threatened to harm american hostages it is holding if the United states docs not bring pressure on France to Call Back warships it is sending to Lebanon. The threat was contained in a statement from the revolutionary jus Tice organization delivered to an inter National news Agency in West Beirut. The was accompanied by a copy of an old photograph of Edward Austin Tracy. The group says it is holding Tracy 58, a writer and Book Salesman and Joseph j. Cicippio 59, acting comptroller at the american University of Beirut. America must know that any foolish Ness which the French Fleet May commit will expose the hostages to danger a mat Ter which should be taken into consideration the statement said. It warned France that the group s fighters would also strike deep into French territory itself.". The French aircraft Carrier Foch and supporting vessels Are expected to reach lebanese Waters on tuesday. In Washington a state department spokesman said he could not respond to any reported threats other than to repeat the . Position that the captors would be held responsible for the safety of All american hostages they hold. The group had earlier threatened to kill Cicippio but later said it had changed its mind and offered to free him if Israel would release a shiite  Abdel Karim Obid. And 450 palestinian and lebanese prisoners. Obid was captured in his Village in Southern Lebanon on july 28 by helicopter born israeli commando s. Muslim leaders accusing France of siding with the christians said they would not allow their blockade of Chris Tian districts to be broken by the French Navy. The blockade is intended to pre vent new arms supplies reaching the christians. Or. Slim Al Hoss prime minister of a mainly Muslim administration competing for control with a Christian military Cabinet under Gen. Michel Aoun Tele phoned French ambassador Rene Ala sunday and demanded an explanation of see France on Back Page thames death toll Uncertain May reach 60 Rescue workers watch As a Section of the marchioness is raised to the surface of the thames River. From wire reports London the death loll in the sinking Early sunday of a pleasure Cruiser on the thames River remained Uncertain Early monday but authorities feared it might be As High As 60. The confusion Over How Many had died stemmed from the fact there was no record of How Many people were aboard the marchioness when it Sank after being rammed by a Large Sand Dredger. The Cruiser was licensed to carry 149 passengers and estimates of the number of people aboard varied widely. Police said As Many As 150 people could have been on the marchioness but the ship s owners. Tidal cruises ltd., said there might have been As few As 110. The Cruiser with party goers aboard celebrating a birthday Sank within minutes after being struck an Many of the passengers were trapped below decks. The party was for a Young London banker Antonio Vasconcellas who was one of those believed to have drowned. Eighty nine people survived most of them sustain ing minor injuries and Shock. Only four were still hospitalized sunday night. Given the Speed at which the vessel Sank the Lime of night and its location in the thames it s quite remarkable that 89 people survived said cmdr. Tony Speed of the London metropolitan police. The Hull of the marchioness was raised late sunday near Southwark Bridge. The bodies of 25 people were found inside. Efforts to recover the upper dance dec were resumed Early monday. The Captain and second mate of the Sand Dredger were arrested and reportedly have been Given blood tests for alcohol Content. We arc looking into what see death toll on Back Page Mazowiecki Solidarity plan Poland s direction Gdansk Poland a More than 10,000 people cheered Premier designate Tadusz Mazowiecki when he came to Solidarity s Birthplace sunday to meet with Lech Walesa and other Union Lead ers and plan Poland s first non communist government in 45 years. Mazowiecki was applauded by the crowd at St. Brygida Church near the Lenin shipyard where the Independent Union began in 1980 As he drove him self and an associate from Warsaw to the meeting. After attending a mass in the packed overheated Church one Man fainted virtually at the nominated Premier s feet Mazowiecki and Walesa addressed the throng from the Steps of the St. Bry Gida rectory site of Many rallies when Solidarity was still illegal. Today when we open this historic chapter we must reject a feel ing of hopelessness and helplessness Mazowiecki said. We can do it. 1 believe that we can Doit. Poland is alive he proclaimed Al luding to the National Anthem which be gins. Poland has not yet perished so Long As we re  Walesa told the crowd this is our greatest achievement since Yalta the world War ii agreement Between soviet Leader Josef Stalin and the Western allies that led to the division of Europe into the communist East and the capitalist West. With the nomination of Mazowiecki that division no longer seems Clear Cut. A Small contingent of militant anti Walesa demonstrators in the crowd chanted we need bread not a pre  "1 know we need bread More than a Premier Mazowiecki answered. Walesa then asked for a show of hands from sup porters and the response was Over whelming. Mazowiecki Walesa and the leaders of both the Solidarity Union and Solidar Ity s caucus in parliament met to deter mine what direction to take. Mazowiecki was nominated saturday by president Wojcicch Jaruzelski to form a coalition government the first in East Ern Europe in More than four decades without the communist party at the  must still be elected by the scam or lower House of parliament but seems virtually assured of winning approval