European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes Friday april 10,1992extortionist with saw threatens trains by Ian Johnson the Baltimore son Berlin a Herbert the saw failed to Cut train service in Germany on wednesday but police say they Are still on their guard. Herbert the pen name of an extortionist who wants $2.5 million or threatens to derail trains by sawing out sections of track set wednesday As the deadline for the German Bun Desbah to agree to his terms. While the railway said it is ready to pay police refuse to accept Herbert a plan for handing Over the Money which would involve throwing a Money filled suitcase out of a train window. During an earlier attempt to give Herbert the Money the suitcase hit an oncoming train and sent More than $1 million in Mark Bills wafting through the North German Countryside. A your position remains the same. Well give him the Money but will not throw it out of speeding trains. He has to make the next move a said Hamburg police investigator Dankmar Lund who Heads a police task Force created to Deal with Herbert a threat. The railway and police reported no derailments or explosions. Lund said Herbert might not strike for Days or weeks. He started his Campaign in the fall of 1990 and every few months has derailed a freight train to prove his ability to Cut out sections of rail. Arafat leaves libyan Hospital after treatment for in uries Tripoli Libya apr Yasser Arafat left a Hospital thursday after treatment for injuries suffered in a crash Landing that killed three people and a key Plo Council delayed a meeting to allow him to recover offi Cial said. The palestinian embassy in Tripoli said the Plo Leader had left the Hospital in Misra Tah where he was taken wednesday after spending 15 hours in the desert of Southern Libya following the plane crash. Officials said they did not know his destination thursday. Sources at the Palestine liberation organizations Headquarters in Tunis said he might return to Tunisia on thursday night. A doctor described Arafat a health As a excellent a but there was no official report on his injuries. Embassy sources speaking on condition of anonymity said Arafat had an eyelid injury and other slight bruises but otherwise was in Good condition. However sources at the plots Headquarters in Tunis said Arafat could not walk on his own. They said he apparently broke a leg and possibly a hand when his plane slowed into a Dune during a sandstorm tuesday night while on a flight from Sudan to Tunisia. The head of the palestinian parliament Abdel Hamid As Sayer announced at the opening of the thursday session of the Plo Central Council in Tunis that the meeting was being recessed Plo officials told reporters. The officials said it would be put off until Arafat could attend. Suleiman Najjab a member of the plots executive committee reached by Telephone in Tunis said the policy making Council would Likely meet in two or three weeks. The 80-member Central Council is a Liaison Between the executive committee and the palestinian parliament. The meeting May be crucial for Arafat because it could introduce a Challenge to his leadership. He has come under growing criticism from his own Fatah group for backing Iraq in the persian Gulf War and refusing to listen to advisers. The Council also was to debate the Progress of Middle East peace talks which Are scheduled to resume on april 27 in Washington. Some members feel the palestinians have made too mafia compromises in the talks and that Israel has Given Little. Arafat lying in bed with a bandaged right Eye was seen on libyan television on wednesday night smiling and chatting with libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi at the Hospital in Misra Tah 120 Miles East of the capita Tripoli. Arafat 62, said the two pilots and an Engineer were killed and five others aboard the plane were seriously injured when his soviet made Antonov-26 was forced Down. Quot we have treated him fully and comprehensively a or. Muftah Al Shway Hidi said. A this health is  Arafat has been the plots undisputed Leader for 23 years. His loss would have been a grievous blow to the organization and could have seriously undermined the Arab israeli peace talks. Arafat a two most important aides have been assassinated Over the past four years and no one else has the stature to step in As successor of the divided  named to take Over v corps Washington a amps maj. Gen. Jerry r. Rutherford has been selected to be the next commander of v corps and has been nominated for promotion to lieutenant general by president Bush the Pentagon announced thursday. Rutherford 51, currently Deputy commander of the More than 50,000 soldiers comprising the remaining army corps in Europe was in Italy on thursday planning for a training exercise and could not be reached for comment. Although no Date has been set for the change of command ceremony or his probable promotion to lieutenant general Rutherford will replace it. Gen. David m. Maddox. Maddox will move to Washington to take Over duties As director of information systems for command control comm Rutherford a cations and computers. Rutherford a history with v corps dates to his first assignment As a platoon Leader with 1st in 36th inf 3rd brigade at Friedberg Germany in 1963. Later he commanded the 3rd brigade and became the last commander of the 3rd Arma div before it was inactivated in january. He became Deputy commanding general of v corps when the division cased its colors. His father in Law maj. Gen. Ret William r. Kraft jr., is a former 3rd army div commander. World germans confiscate 34 military trucks from wire reports Munich Germany a police confiscated 34 former East German military trucks believed headed for Croatia bavarian officials said wednesday. The state finance ministry which oversees customs police said 32 trucks were confiscated on wednesday and two on sunday. While Germany has recognized Croatia a Independence German Taw forbids the Transfer of Mili Tail equipment to regions of conflict. Sale of the trucks was traced to the Veberg company in Frankfurt a government owned firm charged with disposal of excess military equipment Germany inherited much military property from former East Germany in the october 1990 unification. Croatia declared Independence from Yugoslavia on june 25, a move that touched off nearly six months of fighting. Warfare subsided Early this year but sporadic violence  prize Winner Dies Rome a Daniel Bovet a Swiss born pharmacologist who discovered the first Antihistamine and won the Nobel prize for Medicine has died at 85. The Lincie scientific Academy said Bovet died of cancer wednesday at his Home in Rome where he lived for Many years. Bovet won the Nobel prize in 1957 for his discoveries of certain chemotherapeutic agents. In 1944, he discovered the first Antihistamine a drug effective against allergies. In searching for a substitute for a Poison used by South american indians on Arrow tips he was credited with the discovery of muscle relaxants in 1947. Bovet was bom in Neuchatel Switzerland but obtained italian citizenship in the 1940s. He is survived by his widow and a son. Military Scrapheap Quot numerous discarded military vehicles sit piled up Longs to the Commonwealth of Independent states behind a Wall in the Village of Winsdorf Germany and the vehicles belonged to the soviet army units South of Berlin on wednesday. The scrapyard be that were once stationed in former East Germany