European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes tuesday april 10,1990 release of belgian hostages sought Beirut Lebanon apr a belgian government envoy said monday he was negotiating with palestinian guerrillas led by terrorist Mastermind Abu Nidal for the freeing of belgian captives. Jan Hollants Van Loocke director general for political affairs at Belgium a foreign ministry said he was meeting with Walid Khaled spokesman for Fatah revolutionary Council to discuss a a formula to release All belgian hostages in Van Loocke addressed a news conference in Khaledi a office inside the mar Elias palestinian refugee Camp in Beirut. Khaled has said that French hostage news briefs Jacqueline Valente 32 her belgian Boyfriend Fernand Hout Ekins in his 40s and their baby daughter Sophie will be released by the end of the current islamic month of Ramadan. The month is expected to end around april 26, depending on when the Crescent Moon is sighted. In addition to the three hostages the group holds belgians Emmanuel Hout Ekins in his 40s his wife Godelieve sets age unavailable and their son Laurent and daughter Valerie both teen agers. Khaled said earlier monday that the release of those four belgians was Contin gent on Freedom for Nasser Saeed who Van Loocke who arrived in Brin. Is imprisoned in Belgium after receiving sunday said he was going Toyt a ? a life sentence for a grenade attack june anon a was Long As necessary a cd 27, 1980, against jewish youths in Antwerp. One 15-year-old died in the attack and 20 other people were injured. However he added that , the Sec a just one More Ond in two weeks was. In an ongoing in an interview with mondays Bel Points we1 have been discuss of l e Gian daily de Morgen say eed was quoted release of Nasser say eed its the As saying a it is my release that is being Loocke said a Van demanded by the hostage takers. They a and a j made that Clear. My release can Only be a a Dart of a it a Al political y according to belgian Law say eed can Sophie and Fernand Hout Ekins win a ask for Early release after completing his belgian but also the other four is 10th year. Who Are also in ariane rocket launches get approval to resume evry France apr launches of Europe a ariane rocket grounded since an explosion during a liftoff in february can Start up again this summer officials announced monday. Frederic do tallest president of Arian space the european space Agency a commercial Arm said a Date might be set by Early May. Do tallest announcing the findings of an investigative panel said the failed launch was due to a decrease in thrust in one of four of the rockets first stage Viking a motors. This was caused by a nearly total obstruction of the circuit which feeds water to the motor probably because of the presence of a foreign body he said. Two japanese telecommunications satellites were destroyed with the failed feb. 22 Mission. Do tallest said the failure Cost Arian space an estimated $30 million to $45 million. It was the fifth failure of the unmanned rocket and the first since 1986. It would have been the 36th ariane flight. Cuba announces delay in Start of nuclear reactor Havana up a a senior cuban official said that operation of cubans first nuclear reactor being built by soviets at a site about 230 Miles South of Miami has been delayed by two to three years. A your nuclear program is 100 percent for peaceful Energy uses. We do not have nuclear arms a cuban Deputy foreign minister Ramon Sanchez Parodi said in an interview Over the weekend. A the operation of our first reactor is delayed by several years. I think that first reactor will Start functioning in two or three with the help of the soviet Union Cuba is building Juraga i and ii both 440-megawatt nuclear reactors near the port of Cienfuegos in Southern Cuba. The operation of the first nuclear reactor originally scheduled to go critical for testing by the end of the 1980s, was postponed until the end of 1990 and has been postponed again. Construction on the reactors began in 1982 and has caused serious concern in the United states especially after the soviet unions 1985 chernobyl Accident which sent radioactive fallout Over Europe. A raging fire aboard the scandinavian Star ferry was extinguished sunday night in the Lys Ekil Sweden Harbor. Ferry from Page 1 around 150, but said that did not count children who would not appear on any passenger list. The remains of 75 victims were removed from the blackened Shell of the 470-foot danish owned ferry before the fire was extinguished Skoglund said. Police listed 345 survivors but it was Uncertain How Many people had been aboard when the fire broke out. The Captain said 395 passengers and 97 crewmen were on Board leaving 147 people dead or missing and presumed dead. But that figure did not include children under age 7, said District police chief Roar onto. An accurate count of the victims was expected to take several Days. The ship caught fire before Dawn saturday on the North sea voyage from Oslo Norway to Frederiks Havn Denmark. The Captain of the ship denied improper behaviour monday As reports surfaced that he and his officers abandoned the burning vessel As Rescue efforts got under Way. Onto said a commission of officials from Sweden Norway and Denmark would investigate the disaster parallel to the police investigation focusing on suspicion of arson. A we Are working on the Assumption that the fire was arranged a said Magnar aukrust assistant police chief in Oslo. A in that Case it is a real disaster caused by i one or several onto said sunday that the investigation would probe All possibilities in the Case including any connection to three previous fires on North sea ferries but onto said it was difficult to see a link Between the i fires which occurred on different routes on ships from different companies. Another suspicious fire Early monday broke out onal ferry bound from Wales to Ireland killing one per soil and injuring 25, the vessels owners said. Passengers reported crawling through thick smoke to safety. The fire started in two sleeping Cabins in an Uno Cid pied Section of the ferry nor Rona which was carrying 2911 people said a statement by the Dublin Ireland based to and i shipping line. Company officials blamed arson. Capt. Hugo Larsen was on the Bridge of the ton scandinavian Star ferry As the soldering ship Wail towed into Harbor later saturday. Fire officials said he left the ship before All survivors were evacuated returned later. A i never failed the passengers a Larsen was As saying by Sweden a National to news Agency was Only when the flames were around the Bridge Andi we did no to have a Chance to go Down to look for Morel passengers on the deck that i gave the order to Leati the j passengers complained that the crewmen mos i filipinos and portuguese sailors were untrained Tori emergencies and could not communicate with them. I Rick Qualls an american member of a song awl dance troupe that worked on the ship Saidl be no never undergone a fire Drill in a week aboard the snip. Soviet hard liner blasts Gorbachev Yegor Migachev Moscow up a politburo hardliner Yegor Migachev mocked Mikhail Gorbachev a idea of a common european Home sunday and called a United Germany destabilizing for Europe in strident criticism of the soviet presidents foreign policy. Migachev once the no. 2 Man in the politburo to Gorbachev but demoted in 1988 to dealing with agriculture told the Farmers newspaper Yelskaya Zhzn that socialism was being abandoned in Eastern Europe. A i am for the development of peaceful coexistence and increasing cooperation Between various states with different system but not at the Cost of curtailment of socialism and the strengthening of capitalism a he said. A if things continue the Way they Are then perhaps Only the soviet Union will enter the a common european Home As a socialist state a Migachev said. Migachev marked Back to world War ii in which the soviet Union lost at least 20 million people to explain his fears about reuniting Germany. J a the creation of a United Germany Means of swallowing the German d i cratic Republic. Will Lead to a Dan ajl Ous infringement of i Irolean St j and a Complete negation of the res i the second world a car hell at the height of his Power Ligac 69, could have commanded any newsy per in the country to present his line a on sunday he had to Jeso a w 0f Hil newspaper Yelskaya Zhzn m vie i Post As the chief of agriculture. I
