European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday May 16,1990 Hezbollah tells kidnappers not to free More hostages Beirut Lebanon apr the main group overseeing moslem factions holding Western hostages told the kidnappers not to free any of their remaining captives until Israel releases Arab prisoners. He Bollash or party of god sponsored a women a sit in monday at a South Beirut House belonging to the . Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon. A we ask the hostage holders not to release any More of the foreign captives until All our loved ones Are released from the zionist jails a chanted umm Ahmed who refused to give her full name. About 50 other women echoed her chant Ahmed said she has heard nothing about her 21-\ ear old son Ahmed since he was captured during the 1982 israeli invasion of Lebanon. The women involved in the protest were relatives of shiites and palestinians held prisoner by Israel or its predominantly Christian militia ally in South Lebanon. The commander of the South Lebanon army militia Gen. Antoine Lahd said sunday he was ready to Swap some of his detainees for the remaining Western hostages three israeli servicemen and several of his men held by shiite moslem factions. He Bollash withheld Public comment on Lahd s offer. But the communist run voice of the people radio station in Beirut quoted an unnamed Hezbollah source As replying a Israel and its puppets must free All the prisoners  one of the unarmed Hezbollah activists sponsoring mondays sit in said the protest was a your initial reaction to the agent  in another development Irish ambassador Antoin Mac Una raid appealed tuesday to the kidnappers of Irish hostage Brian Keenan to release him for humanitarian reasons. Quot or. Keenan does not belong to an imperialist country. He comes from a poor and Small country that had its share of War Quot Mac Una raid said at a news conference at the Irish consulate in West Beirut. He said he had met with sheikh Hussein Fadlallah the spiritual guide of Hezbollah Keenan 39, of Northern Ireland was an English teacher at the american University of Beirut when he was kidnapped april la 1986. He holds British nationality As Well. No group has claimed responsibility for Keenan s abduction. Recently freed . Hostage Frank Reed has said he was held with Keenan and British journalist John Mccarthy during much of his Captivity and that both of them were in Good physical condition. Reed 57, was freed after 42 months in shiite hands april 30. Eight Days earlier Robert Polhill 55, of new York was released from a 39-month Captivity. Their release leaves 16 Western hostages including six americans in Lebanon. The hostage held longest is Terry Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press. He was seized March 16, 1985. Hezbollah has demanded a reciprocal gesture from the United states for Polhill a and Reeds releases saying the release of shiite prisoners by Israel and the South Lebanon army would help resolve the plight of the kidnapped westerners. Israel has said that any prisoner Swap must include the three israeli soldiers captured in Lebanon in 1986. Israel holds about 900 arabs in its jails. There Are also about 300 shiites held by the South Lebanon army in the Khiam detention Camp in israelis self designated a Security zone in South Lebanon. World today248 elephants killed to cull s. African herds Cape town South Africa up a game rangers in the sprawling Kruger National Park killed 248 elephants last year in their annual culling program. Minister of environment affairs Gert Kotze said monday. With an elephant population of just under 8.000 determined by Aerial census selected herds of elephants Are killed in a program to keep the population in Check and avoid a a population  the meat and other by products Are processed in the Park for Public Sale. Combined with the culling of 2,366 Buffalo the value of the by products totalled 4.32 million Rand $1.6 Millio Kotze told parliament in response to questions from opposition legislators. The . Convention on International Trade in endangered species banned International Ivory sales during its october 1989 meeting in Lausanne. Switzerland in a bid to halt Ivory Trade and poaching that threatens elephants in Many african nations with  that blocked View of Cathedral is removed London apr a railway Bridge that obscured a famous View of St. Paul a Cathedral in London for 125 years was removed Early monday. The Iron Bridge was constructed in 1865 across Lud Gate Hill. Its removal restored a splendid Vista of sir Christopher Wrens domed Cathedral Down Fleet i Street across Ludgate circus and up the Hill. The Bridge carried a railway Between Blac friars and Holborn viaduct that is being replaced by a new underground line. �?~24 returning from funeral die when ferry boat sinks Khartoum Sudan apr a boat ferry ing passengers Home from a funeral Sank in the Blue Nile i River and 24 people drowned the official Sudan news i Agency said monday. I reporting from wad Medani. 100 Miles Southeast of the capital Khartoum the Agency said a child body s and those of 18 of the adult victims were recovered after the sunday night Accident. It said a search was continuing for More bodies. The Agency said the boat went Down while its skipper was away at another funeral of a relative who died in a car crash. The cause of the sinking was unclear from the report. The Blue Nile which Springs from Lake Tana in Ethiopia winds through Sudan until joining the White Nile at Khartoum. The White Nile originates at Lake Victoria in uganda.2 americans conquer worlds 4th highest Peak Katmandu Nepal up a an 11 member f american expedition recorded a rare feat by sending two climbers to the top of the 27.940-foot Lhotse. The fourth tallest Peak in the world after successfully conquering adjacent mount Everest the ministry of tourism said. I Scott Fischer 35. A Mountain guide from Seattle and Wally Berg another Mountain guide from Copper 1 Mountain colo., reached the Summit sunday morning after a seven hour and 45 minute climb up the peaks West Ridge. The pair spent 20 minutes taking photographs before descending to a Camp. A a Sill w a at i. A emf m l a k x a stalking the Sparge ill v. So a. Is / a Quot s a a amps Scott a Miller Many okinawan say . Bases not needed Tokyo apr some 60 percent of the okinawan answering a recent poll said they believe . Bases on their japanese Island Are unnecessary or dangerous for Japan a Security the prime ministers office said tuesday. The figure of 60.7 percent represented an increase of 6.8 percentage Points from a similar poll in 1985, it said. The poll the sixth of its kind since 1975, aimed to cover 2,000 okinawan aged 20 years or older and 76.5 percent of them answered questions in interviews said the report. Of 64,000 . Troops stationed in Japan under a Mutual Security treaty about 35,000 Are in Okinawa which was a major world War ii Battlefield. In the latest Survey 29.1 percent said . Bases on Okinawa Are either necessary for Japan a own Security or inevitable the report said. As for Japan a self defense forces bases there 56.7 percent said their pres ence is either needed or inevitable. The prime ministers office reported that 74.7 percent said they were glad Okinawa was returned to japanese administration in 1972 following its postwar occupation by the United states. In the rest of Japan the occupation ended 20 years earlier. The poll did not give a margin of error. Japanese pollsters do not calculate such margins claiming that publication of a precise margin of error might mis Lead readers into thinking a poll is More accurate than it really is. Okinawan have bitter memories of world War ii and Many blame the National government for the heavy fighting on their Island. Japan surrendered before . Forces reached the four main japanese islands. More than 100,000 civilians died in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, which also claimed the lives of 110,000 japanese soldiers and 12,500 . Troops