European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stapes sunday february 21,1993 at a glance Secretary of state. Warren m. Christopher is faced with a major Roadblock As he Tours the Mideast trying to get stalled peace talks re sum cd. Sec Story on Page 10. Ford to pay sex jockey Bill Shoemaker and his family will receive $1 million from Ford motor co. As the result of a 1991 Accident that paralysed the former jockey according to settlement papers. Page 5 Tel Edyne settlement Tel Edyne inc. Will pay $2.15 million to Settle allegations that it failed to test cockpit controls properly for Navy and air Force Jet fighters and an army helicopter. Paga 6 sessions trip probed Fri director William s. Sessions and his wife Are again the Center of controversy after a trip to new York City. Page 7 California deluge raging storms and a rare Tornado unleashed their fury across califor Nia virtually assuring an end to the state s 6-year-old drought. Page 9 Wall Street shaken president Clinton spooked Wall Street this past week by proposing substantial tax increases and mod est spending cuts. Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 16 faces a places. 16 Horoscope 23 classifieds. 20-23 commentary 15 letters. 4 Money matters 17 sports 26-32 i clarification a Story in yesterday s stars and stripes on the comic Book featuring the death of Superman mistakenly said that there would be no limit on the number of books a Cus Tomer May buy. Tony Nihra acting director of stars and stripes Bookstore operations in Darmstadt Germany said because of the limited number of books available customers will be limited to one copy. For one Lufthansa passenger hijacking was just a diversion i by Joseph  Bureau Heidelberg Germany Given. The fact his Parachute refused to open when he went sky diving last summer Peter a Learmonth is no stranger to aeronautical emergencies. So perhaps he was better prepared for a hijacking than most passengers who were threatened and flown to new Yor against their will feb. 11 on Lufthansa might 592. Learmonth 25, a Canadian from Victo Ria British Columbia works in Heidelberg As a computer systems analyst for Uniss a . Defense department contractor. He was planning to Fly to Cairo Egypt that Day to visit his Girlfriend who was there on business. He had boarded the Airbus 310 Airliner with one of her employees. Later the plane was to continue on to Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia. It took off but did t arrive at either destination. An ethiopian Man held a starter s pistol to Pilot Gerhard Goebel s head and demanded that he Fly to new York. Gocbel complied Landing first at Hannover Ger Many for refuelling. Once in new York the Hijacker surrendered peacefully. The atmosphere in the plane was remarkably tranquil during the 11-hour diversion Learmonth said. It was almost like a Normal flight. Passengers watched two movies. The flight Crew served meals. People used the restrooms. A few Pas sengers were visibly upset but nobody became hysterical. The worst part of the ordeal occurred after the ethiopian left the plane in new York and a special police squad boarded the plane shouting orders and pointing sub machine guns at passengers car month said. He added that was the Only incident that rattled him. They did t need to be pointing weapons at passengers he said. There were enough people covering us As it was. We is Joseph of Peter r. Learmonth. Passenger aboard hijacked Jet All had our hands on the scat in front ofus anyway when the 94 passengers and 10 Crew members entered a terminal at John f. Kennedy International Airport Many of them took part in an Impromptu news conference. Major television network news programs and several other news shows invited Learmonth to take part i their morning broadcasts but he declined so he could Fly Home to British Columbia knowing his family would be worried about him. Praise for Goebel giving him credit for keeping people Calm with the related tone of his in flight announcement about the hijacking. After the press conference was Over he came Back to the Lufthansa lounge and i got about 20 seconds with  Learmonth s travelling compan Ion gave him a kiss and said you de serve a medal he said that is my medal Learmonth recalled. He was less impressed with news accounts of the hijacking. One report identified the Hijacker incorrectly As a bosnian he said. Others said Only two americans and one Canadian were on Board he knew of at least three americans and eight canadians including himself. Learmonth grew up As the son of a Ca Nadian forces member and attended the Royal military College in Kingston on Tario a background he said helps him Deal Well with stress. A flight he took in1985 from Toronto to Vancouver British Columbia put his nerve to the  a female passenger stopped breathing the plane Dove for a  Landing at Regina Saskatchewan so she could get immediate medical at Tention. Then last summer Learmonth was sky diving in Lahr Germany and As he pulled the pin to open his main Chute Itla med. He pulled again and the pin broke off. He then pulled the emergency Chute pin and it also jammed. But a second tug brought Sweet reliefs the circular Chute snapped into the sky above him. Despite All these mishaps Learmont said he won t hesitate to Board a plane like others Learmonth had High me. Again although there will be one Diller once. Ill be More Alert the next time i Fly he said. Ill watch the people around Hijacker from Page 1 new York together or we will die Ogeth  Man relented and freed 12 More people in Stockholm. Estonian defense minister Hain Rebas who led a team of negotiators in Tallinn said the Hijacker was believed to be an ethnic azerbaijani. After hours of talks the plane was re fuelled and allowed to take off for swe Den said Valentin Privalova the Deputy head of Russia s civil aviation air traffic control Center in Moscow. Stanley Olchovik of Fayetteville n.c.,said the Hijacker freed him in Estonia be cause he was an american. Olchovik de scribed the Hijacker As extremely nervous and said he smoked heavily and walked Upland Down the aisle with the grenades in hand. The Man and his wife were believed to be in their 20s their son was about a year old. Olchovik said the Man s wife told higher husband had had trouble finding work in  Jet originally took off from Tyumen in Siberia. Nearly three hours into the flight the Hijacker handed a note to the Crew containing his demands and a pin from one of the hand grenades Privalova said. Two other americans were release with Olchovik authorities said. Clinton from Page 1 that Ives would do for families. He cited proposals for increased funding for child Hood vaccinations maternal and infant nutrition movement of welfare recipients into jobs and toughened child support collection procedures. In the Republican response to the president s address House minority whip Newt Gingrich a a criticized the economic prescription contained in Clinton s state of the Union address wednesday night. President Clinton s budget speech was a Good speech but president Clin ton budget plan is a bad plan he said. Also saturday president Clinton welcomed 40 youths to the White House for a live to talk session. He fielded fun and serious questions on everything from what it s like to live in the White House to Why no woman has been president. He told 16-year-old Michael cruz., who worries about gangs in his Chicago neigh boyhood when i was your age it was a lot easier to be a Young Man. We worried about liquor and cigarettes nobody Wor ried about guns and  the Abc to show president Clinton answering children s questions was hosted by news Anchorman Peter Jennings. The children peppered Clinton wit questions that reflected deep personal concerns and natural inquisitiveness about life in the White  do you do for fun around Here asked 11 year old Jared Myers of Berli Center Ohio. Clinton said he likes to Golf play pinochle with his daughter and play trivial Pursuit. On Friday the president wound up Atwo Day trip to Ohio and new York by As Suring townspeople in Hyde Park n.y.,that i will not i will not support any tax increase without spending  bosnian from Page 1 wildly enthusiastic about enforcing the flight ban the administration now believes that everyone will go along with a Security Council Resolution permitting enforcement. Bosnian Muslim leaders have Long implored the Western allies to drop food and Winter supplies into towns Cut off by serbian militia and the suspension of . Relief efforts last week added urgency to that request. Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher in announcing . Diplomatic initiative last week to help negotiate peace among Bosnia starring serbs muslims and croats said the administration had not ruled out quite determined measures to ensure that  would not starve. Contributing to the report Start end str pm tart Fri Tern Vul us Reno in  Gemmy