European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world Friday. October 28.1994 triftstr.66, 67663 Kaisor Lautem Tel 0631-54051 fax 0631-91012 kick off the ski season 3 a $279 Call top Tours today for information on All our thanksgiving specials credit card bookings by phone Call 0631-54051 9 . -10 . Book from the Comfort of your own Home Hijacker kills self after last hostages flee russian jetliner Moscow a a Hijacker whose last hostages escaped after he fell asleep amid $800,000 in Ransom Money killed himself thursday when commandos stormed the plane. The last two hostages escaped shortly after Midnight thursday when the Hijacker went to sleep said Alexei Petrenko a Interior ministry spokesman. When the agents tried to persuade the Hijacker to surrender several hours later the Hijacker blew himself apart with a homemade bomb. The explosion ripped a Large Holbein the top of the Blue and White Aeroflot passenger Jet and scattered the . Cur Rency the Hijacker had  former hostages were All reported to be in Good condition. Petrenko said All of the Ransom Money was recovered. Special forces swarmed the Yak-40, parked at the end of a runway in Makhachkala about 960 Miles Southeast of Moscow. The blast came More than 30hours after the hijacking began. The Hijacker carried More than four pounds of explosives said Yevgeny Savos Yanov Deputy chief of Russia s Federal counterintelligence service. It was the fifth hostage taking in the past year in Southern Russia which has become a hotbed of crime and unrest since the soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The hijacking began tuesday night after the passenger Jet left Makhachkala with 22 passengers and five Crew members  Hijacker ordered the Pilot to return to the Southern City where he demanded $2 million and passage to Iran. All the passengers were release wednesday Many after authorities handed Over the $800,000. By Early thursday the Hijacker an ethnic azerbaijani was alone with two pilots. Authorities initially had believed there were two hijackers involved but later determined that the manacled alone Petrenko said. There was a second azerbaijani Man on Board and passengers believed incorrectly that hews working with the Hijacker. The Hijacker had threatened to blow up the plane unless he was allowed to Fly to Iran. Iran refused to Grant the plane per Mission to land. Makhachkala capital of the autonomous Republic of Dagestad is on the Shore of the Caspian sea. It is close Tomany caucasus areas torn by civil and ethnic conflicts such As chechen ing ush Georgia and Azerbaijan. A top lawmaker said thursday that Little can be done to combat hijacking until the government improves the Gener Al economic political and social Atmo sphere in Russia. Until we Start dealing with the Rea sons nothing will change for the better said Viktor Ilyukhin chairman of these purity committee in the state Duma. In july four female hostages and a kid Napper were killed when russian com Mandos stormed a hijacked helicopter i Mineral Nye Vody a resort in Southern Russia. Three chechen terrorists pleaded guilty in that Case. To hinders attempt v1. Oil Moscow a harsh weather has hampered efforts to investigate a huge Oil spill in Northern Russia while Russia officials continued to reject Western claims that the spill is an environmental disaster " reports on the size of the spill Var widely. . Energy department officials in Washington said it could Range from4.5 million Gallons to More than 80 Mil lion Gallons which would make it Amon the worst Oil disasters Ever. Yekaterina Surova a spokeswoman for Russia s ministry for emergency situations said it was nearly 9 million Gal Lons while different russian agencies put the size at from 3.6 million Gallons to 15.6 million Gallons. In comparison the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million Gallons of Oil after running aground in Alaska s Prince William sound in 1989. The ministry sent experts to investigate the spill wednesday but a snowstorm prevented them from reaching the re Mote Arctic Region 1,000 Miles Northeast in of Moscow Surova said. The spill first reported in tuesday s new York times is about 3 feet deep 40 feet wide and 6 to 7 Miles Long Deputy Energy Secretary Bill White said in Washington. Russian officials insist that Environ mental damage is minimal. This can in no Way be called an environmental disaster Surova said. No lives human or animal Are being threatened  the environmental group Greenpeace said that the spill occurred at Peak Salm on spawning time and that several thou Sand people live in area villages and rely largely on fishing. One russian newspaper suggested on thursday that a sinister motive was be Hind the Western reports on the Acci Dent. Komsomol Skaya pravda quoted a senior russian official As saying the up Roar seems to Benefit representatives from . Oil companies with their Eye on Oil in Russia s  Irish censor forbids showing of Stone movie on violence Dublin a the Oliver Stone film natural born i curs was banned in Ireland on wednesday apparently be cause of its portrayal of violence. Irish film censor Sheamus Smith did not. Publish his reasons for Banning the film which Stone says satirizes the Media for promoting violence. But Irish Media have heavily played up alleged links Between the film and recent killings in the United states specifically a three state crime spree last summer by two Ohio men. Eric Elliot 16, and Lewis Gilbert 22, were arrested sept. 6, the Fri however dismissed any connection Between that Case and the film which stars Woody Harrelson and Juli Ette Lewis As lovers who go on a killing spree in the Southwest and Are glorified by the Media