European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                British hostage freed in Beirut major delighted helping a buddy a croatian militiaman carries a fellow Soldier who was wounded tuesday during fighting for control of the town of mrdak Yugoslavia. Sec Story on Page 2. Beirut Lebanon apr pro iranian kidnappers tuesday freed Jack Mann a 77-Ycar-old briton who was the oldest Western hostage in Lebanon after More than two years in Captivity. Prime minister John major of Britain said he was a a delighted by Mann a release. However major also told reporters outside 10 Downing Street that he had heard Mann was a a Little  he did not elaborate. Mann was the fourth Westerner to be freed since August. His release appeared to be another step Forward in . Efforts to arrange a hostages for prisoners Swap and came even though Israel has not yield manned to the kidnappers demand to set free More detainees. A shiite Muslim Leader Hussein Muslawi said that an american hostage could be released soon. Mann was later flown to the syrian capital of Damascus a traditional transit Point for freed hostages a and handed Over to British authorities. Mann a release was first reported by a syrian official who spoke on condition of anonymity to reporters in the syrian capital. Mann a wife sunni left Cyprus for Damascus to meet her husband. A a in a very very Happy a she said. President Bush said a i Hope its not the end of the release program. A there Are Many More. Its so  he said the United states could not have Normal relations with Iran As Long As any hostages Are held. Yossi Olmert director of the israeli government press office said of Mann a release a it is of course a positive and Welcome development. We arc Happy for the family and for or. Mann  asked about possible future releases of arabs held by Israel Olmert said a if More information comes our Way we will  at least nine westerners Are still missing in see hostage on Page 2don t push us Bush warns Saddam new York a president Bush angrily denounced iraqis interference with . Nuclear inspectors As unacceptable behaviour tuesday and warned that Saddam Hussein a bought not miscalculated How the United states will respond. Bush said he was not ready to set a deadline for Saddam to comply with . Demands for unfettered inspection and destruction of iraqis nuclear weapons capability. The United states has offered american warplanes and combat helicopters to protect flights of . Inspectors in Iraq if Saddam remains defiant. A you done to make decisions of this magnitude that affect a could have an effect on human life without having All the information a Bush said hinting that Saddam was risking bloodshed if he continued to resist. The president said . Officials were holding urgent consultations with allies on How to proceed. The tense showdown with Iraq held Center stage As Bush winding up a second Day of diplomacy Here held his first meeting with the new soviet foreign minister Boris Pankin. Pankin called for a massive cooperation from the West to Salvage his country a collapsing Economy. Bush said the soviets need to move ahead on reforms. The president has promised to provide food and Medicine to help the soviets Jjck Ruimy. I tuck a tits Una i Titu Luiis Wiki Ciuci in Siuw in Jiu Titu. Tuuu Anu Maui Kuiv to former spymaster Wolf arrested offer returning to Germany n or d i Vad Kyle Rene vex Vlf a it not in ii front  a Liim through the Winter but so far has ruled out direct . Financial help. From Iraq meanwhile came new evidence that Saddam was continuing to impede efforts of . Inspectors searching for evidence of iraqis nuclear weapons program. Iraqi troops detained 44 . Nuclear weapons inspectors in Baghdad and demanded they turn Over a videotape they see Bush on Page 2 Berlin a Markus Wolf helped topple a West German government and directed one of the cold wars most successful espionage networks. On tuesday the former East German spymaster came in from the cold. Wolt surrendered to German authorities in Bayer Iseh Gmain a Rural Border crossing with Austria. He was taken before a magistrate later for a decision on a bail request. Prosecutors want to put the 68-year-old Wolf on trial for espionage treason and bribery. As head of the spy apparatus in communist East Berlin Wolt directed 4,000 agents. Half of them Wolf were planted inside West Germany. Most of the rest were sprinkled throughout other nato countries. Wolf was known As Quot the Man without a face Quot a reference to his Western counterparts frustrated attempt. To get a current picture of him. It was Only in 1078 that Wolf was finally photographed in Sweden a Blunder that the spymaster said he bitterly regretted. He reportedly provided inspiration for thriller writers including British novelist John be c Arre. Wolfs most spectacular coup was the planting of an agent inside the office of then West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. When the agents cover was blown Brandts government fell in 1074. As East Germany and West Germany raced toward unification last oct. 3, Wolf fled to Moscow and out of the reach of German prosecutors. He flew to Vienna on aug. 30. Austrian officials turned Down his request for political Asylum and austrian police reportedly escorted Wolf to the Border tuesday morning. Nicknamed Mischa he headed  Germany s spy apparatus from 1058 to 1087. Quot not today no questions Quot Wolt said is he strode into the chief Federal proc cutoff office in Karlsruhe. Eight people enter on Rimon Lal tomorrow. Seepage 14-16