European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes sunday october 7,1990hostages May be freed this week report says Beirut Lebanon apr anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and other Western hostages in Lebanon might be released this week the nations leading newspaper said saturday. The an Nahar attributed the front Page report to unidentified sources. It did not say How Many hostages May be freed and mentioned Only Waite by name. The report said iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velamati is to visit the syrian capital of Damascus a in the next two Days for consultations with the syrian command of president Hafez Assad. Velamati the sources said also a might travel to Beirut for talks with president Elias Herawi and other lebanese  Syria with 40,000 peacekeeping troops deployed in predominantly moslem lebanese regions since 1976, is the main Power broker in Lebanon. Iran is the main Backer of Hezbollah or party of god the shiite moslem umbrella organization for underground factions holding most of the 13 Western captives missing in Lebanon. An Nahar has proved reliable in the past in its reports on the hostages. Hussein Muslawi the shiite Mentor of some hostage holding factions said on sept. 29 that the four britons being held captive would Benefit from the recently restored diplomatic relations Between Britain and Iran. However Muslawi said the six american captives were not expected to be released soon because of the american military deployment in the Gulf Region following iraqi president Saddam Hussein a aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait. The other Western captives Are two West germans and an italian. Waite 51, a personal emissary of archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie disappeared Jan. 20,1987, after leaving his hotel in moslem West Beirut for a meeting with islamic jihad or islamic holy War. The group is believed to hold american hostages Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland. No group has claimed responsibility for waiters abduction but former Irish hostage Brian Keenan released in August said he was held with the anglican envoy for a while in the same House. Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press is the longest held among the 13 Western captives in Lebanon. Anderson 42, was kidnapped March 16,1985. In addition to Waite the British captives Are journalist John Mccarthy world War ii flier Jack Mann and writer Alec Collett. Rings of mystery japanese arc baffled by the discovery of five More mysterious circles on Kyushu the southernmost of the country a four main islands. The strange Phenomena were found in Rice Fields in Yoshino Gari Saga prefecture. Two other puzzling circles were discovered in neighbouring Fukuoka prefecture last month. Military Roundup tis the season to arrange for students to Fly Home Schwet Zingen Germany a soldiers who want Uncle Sam to pay for their College student children to Fly Home for Christmas should make arrangements now personnel officials say. A Christmas is the busiest time so those who plan to take advantage of the student travel entitlement should apply now a said staff sgt. Susanne March 1st personnel come spokeswoman. Each fiscal year eligible students Are allowed one round trip from their school to their sponsors duty station. Students must be single under 23 years old and enrolled full time at an accredited two or four year institution in the United states. Their sponsors must be serving an accompanied tour overseas. To apply soldiers should have a letter from the school verifying the students full time enrolment and mail it with a request for dependent travel form a 325-1 to commander 1st personnel coma attn Teupe psst pm Apo 09081. For additional information Call ets 379-7833 or civilian 06202-80-7833.usafe contest names top journalists papers Ramstein a Germany a air Force sgt. Cheryl Toner was named Safe journalist of the year and sgt. Tracy Farr was named  of the year in the 1990 Safe Media contest. Farr assigned to Raf Alconbury England Public affairs also won first place in the feature and editorial writing categories. Toner is assigned to the Public affairs office at Pitburg a. The sky Blazer bit urge a base newspaper was awarded first place in the Large funded newspaper category and Comiso columns from Comiso air station Sicily won first place in the Small funded newspaper category. The Hawk from Hahn a took second place among Small funded newspapers. The Kaiserslautern american from Ramstein a was awarded first place in the commercial Enterprise newspaper category. The Tiger talk from Sembach a was awarded first place in the Magazine format newspaper category. The Grapevine from san Vito Dei Normanna air station Italy won second place in the Magazine format category and the Sentinel from we Brucken a was awarded third place. Other individual first place awards went to staff sgt. Paula Rogers of Spanga Ahlem a news writing staff sgt. Patrick Mckenna of Raf Ben Waters England sports writing staff sgt. Roger Wooten of Comiso Best single photo sgt. Efrain Gonzales of we Brucken Best picture Story and civilian Cindy Sheffield of Lindsey air station Best photo in support of a Story. These winners will be judged at the 1990 air Force Media contest from nov. 5 to 9 at Kelly fab Texas. World today rainstorms cause flooding landslides in italian City leghorn Italy apr a severe overnight rainstorm flooded Large areas of this italian port City which last summer was plagued by a dry spell water shortage and fires. The storm has not affected the transportation of operation desert shield equipment through an army Supply depot at Livorno Camp Darby spokesman staff sgt. Jeff Fry told the stars and stripes fighting Sparks foreign exodus in Rwanda Nairobi Kenya apr foreigners fled Rwanda a capital by the hundreds saturday As government troops and invaders from Uganda battled in the Countryside. However no further fighting was reported in the capital Kigali. French foreign legionnaires and belgian paratroopers have secured their embassies and reportedly helped rwandan troops consolidate control in parts of the City the Airport and its Access Highway. An air France Boeing 747 returned 232 people including 96 frenchmen to Paris Early saturday. Another air France plane and a chartered Lufthansa Jet were expected to pick up about 500 More people later in the Day. The German embassy in Nairobi said the Lufthansa plane would take mostly spouses and children of German development Aid workers out of Kigali. In Brussels the belgian government a Rwanda a former colonial Power a said it was withdrawing its offer to place four c-130 transport planes at the disposal of its allies in the persian Gulf because of the fighting in Rwanda. Belgium has sent 500 paratroopers to the tiny East Central african nation saying it wants to protect the 1,630 belgian citizens there. Although Kigali appeared Calm the British broadcasting  african service broadcast a message from the foreign office urging British citizens to stay indoors. Rwandan authorities have imposed a night curfew. France has about 670 citizens in Rwanda Germany has some 400 and the United states has around 250. Most Are attached to embassies or engaged in foreign Aid projects. The . Embassy in Kigali said about 200 americans were withdrawn to the capital from Northern areas Early in the week but it had no evacuation plans. The exodus of foreigners was touched off by fighting in and around the capital Early Friday and fears of escalation. Rwanda a president Juvenal Hagyari Mana said in a nationwide radio broadcast Friday afternoon that government forces were a in full control of the situation. But he acknowledged that fighting was still continuing. The rebels who Call themselves the Randese patriotic front invaded sept. 30 from Rwanda a Northern Border with Uganda where they had been living in exile. Many Are deserters from the ugandan army. The majority Are members of Rwanda a Tutsi ethnic minority which was removed from Power by the majority Hutu tribe in fighting in the late 1950s and Early 1960s that left tens of thousands dead