Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 202, Ed. 1 Monday, December 30, 1985 Page: 1 of 8
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Judge continues questioning of terrorist suspect
ROME (AP) - A judge today
resumes his interrogation of the lone
terrorist suspect to survive the
suicide raid on Rome’s airport that
killed 15 people, and family and
friends bury the youngest victim, an
11-year-old American girl.
Three of the Palestinian comman-
dos who stag«! the Friday massacre
at Leonardo da Vinci airport died in a
shootout with authorities. Italian
police said Sunday the gunmen pro-
bably received support from ac-
complices still at large who were
responsible for other attacks in
Rome.
La Repubblica, a left-leaning
Rome daily, quoted Adm. Fulvio
Martini, head of the Italian military
secret service agenop£lSMI, as say-
ing the terrorists had been trained in
Iran and had stopped off in Syria
before coming to Italy.
Nearly 80 people were injured
when the four opened fire with
automatic weapons and hurled hand
grenades inside the Rome airport
terminal, while a near-simultaneous
assault near the El Al check-in
counter at Vienna’s Schwechat air-
port left three dead, including one
suspected terrorist, and wounded 47.
Austrian officials said the two sur-
viving suspects will be charged with
murder. The only suspect to survive
the Rome attack, identified as
Mohammed Sarham, was questioned
by investigating judge Domenico
Sica, an anti-terrorist expert, on Sun-
Judicial sources said Sarham told
Sica he and the three slain gunmen
belonged to a radical Palestinian fac-
tion headed by Abu Nida), and that
the group planned more terrorist ac-
tions in Italy and elsewhere in
Europe.
Italy’s ANSA news agency
reported that Sica questioned
Sarham for five hours, and told him'
he had been charged zvyth par-
ticipating in the airport kilhrigs.with
Illegal arms transport and other
related charges The interrogation
will resume today.
Roman Catholic funeral services
are also scheduled today in Rome for
11-year-old Natasha Simpson, one of
five Americans killed in the blood-
bath at the Leonardo da Vinci ter-
minal
The daughter of Associated Press
Rome news editor Victor Simpson
was slain as her family prepared to
fly to the United States for the
holidays. Simpson and his 9-year-old
son. Michael, were among the
wounded.
The surviving suspects in the Vien-
na airport attack also claim to be led
by Abu Nidal, the assumed name of
Sabry Al Banna. a leading opponent
of Palestine Liberation Organization
leader Yasser Arafat.
Authorities say the attackers were
apparently seeking revenge for
Israel's Oct. 1 air raid on PLO head-
quarters in Tunisia, although
Arafat's organization has denied any
involvement. Police said Sarham
carried a note that vowed the tears
Palestinians have shed "will be ex-
changed for blood."
, A Rome police official told
reporters Sunday that investigators
are trying to pin down "the support
the terrorists certainly had in
Rome " Speaking on condition of
anonymity, he termed it "extremely
probable" that accomplices in the
Italian capital supplied the comman-
dos with guns.
timet, but would not elaborate
their homes In the Nock where the
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small stores
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of Rose Parade
The two friends were passengers
on a corporate jet that collided with
an ultralight plane on Sept. 21. The
pilot of the ultralight and co-pilot of
the jet were killed. Yvonne and Mary
Ashley both suffered broken or
cracked vertebrae; Yvonne in the
neck, and Mary Ashley in the back
Ron Paul. Mary Ashley's father
RIVER PLANTATION. Texas
(AP) — Mary Ashley Paul and
Yvonne Haynes, both 15, are headed
for the Rose Parade in California
Neither intends to let a little thing
like a plane crash or back surgery
stop them
and a Louisiana-Pacific executive,
had flown to Auburn, Ala., on a
business trip. The girls and his wife
accompanied him to visit Kim Paul,
Mary Ashley's sister who Is a student
at Auburn. Kim, 30, was watching the
plane Hand when the ultralight hit a
tank on ths jet's wing and both air-
craft crashed.
Joyce Paul said she doesn't
remember the accident itself. A
police officer found her wandering
the airstrip, in shock. Apparently.
Ron Paul shoved her out of the jet in
his struggle to get his family out in
case the plane exploded. "He's a
very strong man," Joyce said. Try-
ing to break through the window may
have been how he broke his collar-
bone.
But Paul, whose pelvis was crack-
ed, wouldn't move his legs to reach
the teen-agers and couldn't get out
himself. Joyce Paul said she was told
the rescue took an hour and 45
minutes She came to herself when
someone asked her if the coroner had
been called.
By some miracle, Joyce Paul had
only a black eye and a hurt shoulder.
Mary Ashley had the most serious In-
juries. one vertebra broken and two
more cracked. Her spinal cord had
been compressed by 50 percent, but
when surgery removed the pressure,
It returned to its normal position. The
vertebrae now are fused, and steel
rods in Mary Ashley's back must
stay in place until that surgical cor-
rection heals, probably by next
August
After that, she should be K percent
recovered, although the surgeon
recommended against world-class
gymnastics. Mary Ashley didn't
mind passing on the Olympics, but
she had no intention of giving up the
Rose Parade
Conroe High School Tiger .Band
spent much of the last year ra&ihg
money so the bend can march in the-
Rose Bowl Parade in California this
week Both freshmen had worked on
the project, and Mary Ashley had
sold 850) worth of bumper suckers
and 8400 in pins
Joyce Paul remembered that her
daughter's first worry, after she
realised she would walk again, was
whether she could march. That goal
may have been a factor in her
recovery "The band has boon like a
lifeline to her.'*
Incidentally...
Man holds teens hostage in home
Terrorism
voted top story
during 1985
The world's headlines in 1985
echoed hope and horror, each event,
it seemed, so gripping as to erase
what went before.
The top story of the year, as voted
by member editors and broadcasters
of The Associated Press, was the
wave of terrorism that swept the
Middle East from the air hijackings
to the commandeering of the Italian
liner Achille Lauro
Second in the poll was the summit
meeting and the change in leadership
of the Soviet Union, and the promise
therein
But these top stories were pressed
by natural disasters A Colombian
volcano erupted and left 25,000 dead
in the muddy wake of melted snows
cascading from the Andes into the
valleys below —- — **
No. 4 was the Mexico City earth
quake that crushed or trapped at
least 7,000 people in masonry tombs
The fifth top story of the year had
been with the world for a while, but it
gained momentum in 1985 The AIDS
epidemic has claimed 14,000 victime,
but its most famous, movie star Rock
Hudson, illuminated the insidious
powers of the disease that frightened
ordinary Americano and electrified
ths mescal community
Americans-Soviets
(Index Photo)
Nick, but the jolly old elf hurried off on his Vuletide run before tW
photographer arrived.
‘Ordinary’ people talk via satellite
” Donahue asked
the
was criticised by
itvian.
were barred from the U J. audience
teeters, called
into KING-TV I
U.S. TV studio audience. There was
an equal number in the Soviet au-
dience.
A Soviet man answered with a call
for a moratorium on nuclear testing,
a reduction of nuclear arms and then
cuts in all weaponry.
About 90 percent of the Soviet
Union will see a 90-minute version of
the program, probably on prime-
time television, Donahue said he was
told. The show is being aired at
various times in most major UJ.
cities in the next weeks, sa
Rotheiser, who works for Do
we'd all go to the psychiatric ward?"
said a Soviet teacher who argued that
Soviets were allowed to speak their
SEATTLE (AP) - U.S. protesters
pleaded with participants in a three-
hour U.S.-Soviet sateilite-TV
dialogue to "ask the tough questions"
and accused producers of the televi-
sion special of "editing" the audience
to avoid controversy.
Simultaneous translation was pro-
vided for taping of the "citizens sum-
mit” Sunday, moderated by talk
show host Phil Donohue here and
Soviet commentator Vladimir
Pozner in Leningrad.
"What can your government do to
ease the threat of nuclear war?" a
Seattle questioner asked, drawing
applause from the 300 people in the
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Andrei
Sakharov a '‘traitor” who
“slandered the Sovief^Union."
Sakharov has been exiled to the clos-
ed city of Gorky.
A Seattle woman who said she had
demonstrated against nuclear arms
asked whether any of the Soviet
citizens ever protested their govern-
ment's policies
"Of course we haven't protested,
because our government is trying to
do what our people want," a Soviet
man replied.
That attitude gives "a blank check
for a small group of men in the Soviet
Union to do what they wish and an en-
tire nation acquiesces in their deci-
sions,” Donohue said. "I don’t know
whether you fully appreciate the pas-
sion with which millions of
Americans view the restricted lives
of the Soviet people ”
Greenberg complained there had
been an "editing out (of the au-
dience) of anybody who was part of
an organization ”
Marilyn O’Reilly, a. free-la nee pro
ducer who selected the audiences for
Donahue's Multimedia Entertain
ment, said she tried to avoid
ideologues and to balance both sides
with people in similar occupations
She said she was free to choose
whomever she wanted in Leningrad
These children who attend Joe and Jackie's Play School gather for a
Christmas portrait. Earlier in the day. they had a chance to visit with old St.
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