Cumberland Sunday Times (Newspaper) - December 29, 1985, Cumberland, Maryland Cumberland dentist pushed for and got a pilot for Maryland that will help identify missing children and A Look Back At National And International News On 35 to 40 Sunday with light Low about 5 above at mostly Press Service UPl AP Dec. 29,1985 Monday through Friday by A Md. clau paid al Airport Death Toll Say Strike Had Revenge - The attackers who killed 12 holiday travelers and wounded scores at Rome's main airport were apparently out to avenge Israel's air strike against PLO headquarters in police said of the gunmen died in Friday's assault on Israel's El Al airline and on TWA and Pan American police The attack wounded 74 wounded Americans died raising the overall Rome airport death toll to 15, including five U.S. note found on the lone surviving terrorist tears we have shed will be exchanged for The war has started from this additional three including one were killed and 47 people were wounded in a attack Friday at Schwechat Airport in a police lieutenant colonel and head of Schwechat Airport told The Associated Press that is clear that the two attacks were but there was no firm evidence of a link on Rome's deputy police told the AP the four terrorists who attacked Leonardo da Vinci Airport were but their countries of origin were not call themselves the martyrs of Palestine and it appears that it is in reprisal for the bombing in where also several women and were he Oct. 1. Israeli jet fighters raided the base of the Palestine Liberation Organization in killing at least 60 state police official Saturday identified the Schwechat attackers as Abdel Aziz 25. Ben Ahmed 25 and Mongi Ben Abdollah 26, who was killed in a shootout with Their nationalities have not been police and Interior Ministry officials Radio broadcast what it said was an interview with one of the men held as if he was a member of the the man interviewed where he got his he Al Fatah is the mainstream PLO group led by Yasser asked why the attack was the suspect Israel we kill did not identify which terrorist was two survivors were under heavy guard Vienna hospital with stomach and chest A Vienna police spokesman said no one our had talked to the a man who said he belonged to a PLO faction headed by Abu Nidal claimed the faction was responsible for the Vienna and Rome There was no way to confirm the Italian news on Saturday quoted unidentified judicial sources as saying the lone surviving terrorist in Rome told officials he and his accomplices belonged to Abu The report could not be confirmed Nidal is the assumed name of Sabry who broke with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's main guerrilla a decade men have claimed responsibility for attacks on Israeli and Western PLO issued a statement Friday from denying any involvement with the identified the surviving terrorist as Mohammad 19, and said he was carrying a note in his pocket in which investigators translated into It you have violated our our our we in exchange will violate Bomb Blast Test Explosion Heart Doctors Nev. - A hydrogen bomb buried in a canister was detonated in the Nevada desert Saturday in a test of officials with a payload the equivalent of 150,000 tons of was detonated 1,800 feet beneath a desert mesa at 11 a.m. said Chris West of the Department of it had an explosive punch 10 times the force of the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima during World War had no West was cut and test was designed to see if Strategic Defense Initiative laser known as could thwart a nuclear blast at 100 miles northwest of Las registered 5.6 on the Richter according to John Minsch of the National Earthquake Information Center in Colo. It measured 5.3 at California Institute of Technology in Vegas Metropolitan Police said there was no ground movement in Las were three delays past 10 prompting speculation from Moscow that public pressure was stalling the first scheduled test was Dec. 19, then it was delayed three times before being postponed until after the Christmas refused to confirm whether the test was related to the Strategic Defense Initiative but Pentagon sources confirmed earlier this month the detonation was previous delays were forced by wind blowing toward and populated areas of Although the tests are conducted wind could spread any dust or released sources said the test was the fifth in a series dating back to 1980 designed to see if X-ray lasers powered by a hydrogen weapon explosion could be harnessed and focused to knock out enemy last previous test was held on March 23 and John associate director for space policy at the Federation of American has said the first nuclear test involving laser technology was in 1980. Captain An army officer killed in the crash of a chartered jet in Newfoundland was buried Saturday in a snow-covered cemetery near his New Hampshire home Very Lake area is being particularly hard hit by snow and wind this Many western airports are still Area uniformed members of the 101st Airborne Division carried the coffin of Capt. Michael Eastman into Trinity Cemetery in the foothills of the White 34, was killed Dec. 12 when a jet carrying soldiers home from six months of duty in the Sinai Peninsula crashed shortly after takeoff from Gander Airport in killing au 248 soldiers and crew Eastman was one of the first of the victims to be you just won't be a footnote on the page of said Linda Eastman's who gave the during a funeral said Eastman's wife and their three young present at the service and were than 100 friends and soldiers packed into tiny St. Agnes Church in where Eastman grew He was buried in the same cemetery where his and great grandfather were military honor fired three volleys the frigid air as Eastman's coffin was lowered into the A bugler played taps and family members wept quietly at the grave was remembered by Capt. Mark as like a in the armed forces for 14 served with the Marine Corps and eventually joined the He was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1974 upon graduation from Plymouth State where educators remembered him as outstanding are planned Monday for at least two other crash Pvt. 2 Ernest of Commerce will be buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery in and a memorial service is planned for Pvt. 2 Thomas Tucker of Doctors treating the first female artificial heart recipient said Saturday they were pleased with her neurological improvements but would do further tests to determine the cause of her 40, remained in critical but stable condition 10 days after receiving a mini she is still in a light her neurological state has improved said Dr. Fredarick spokesman for the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern several occasions she responded to voices by opening her She appears to be more Thought CITY - Adequate security has been considered impossible for thousands of archaeological sites scattered throughout where looters long have the richest collection of the nation's the world famous National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico was believed safe until discovery on Christmas morning that thieves had entered the museum unimpeded and taken 144 invaluable pre-Columbian jade and stone objects stunned a nation where the ancient history of the Aztec and other Indian cultures is a source of tremendous Turns YORK Melees at a music concert spilled into the streets as hundreds of young people jostled and robbed leaving eight people two inside and on the police can't blame the rap police Inspector Robert Burke said at a news conference you consider that there were 22,000 people inside there was a minimal number of said they anticipated violence and stationed about 140 officers outside Madison Square Garden during Friday night's Krush Groove Christmas Weather Calif. - A camera aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft has photographed the first hints of a weather pattern on and scientists say they might be seeing an icy fog over the planet's south is the first time we have seen any detail in atmosphere from our Voyager said Ellis deputy project scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion SON Associated Press News Editor Victor Simpson offers words of encouragement to his son 9, shortly after both were injured in a terrorist attack Friday at Rome's Simpson's 11-year-old died in the even your children to make you feel the sadness of our The tears we have shed will be exchanged for The war has started from this The martyrs of was being held in the Celio military Asks For Restraint In Middle ANGELES President muting his distress over terrorist attacks in Rome and Vienna that killed five Israel and Arab governments Saturday to show restraint at time of extreme in the Middle his spokesman White House press secretary in Los Angeles with the vacationing said Reagan reviewed intelligence reports on the shootings against El Al passenger counters in the Rome and Vienna airports that left 18 people dead and 121 do not have a clear-cut picture of any for the Speakes said Reagan sent messages a number of governments in the region urging restraint and underscoring that it's absolutely essential that we continue the peace now more than refused to say which governments received the But a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Reagan had written Peres condemning the at the airports and counseling acts must be condemned and perpetrators brought to the Reagan letter we must not allow terrorists to deter us from pursuing our larger goal of a lasting if the United States still supports and effective against Speakes government has certainly always favored finding those responsible and taking appropriate refused to say what U.S. steps might be taken in the latest terrorist assaults and stressed that the United States does not know who masterminded U.S. who spoke only on condition that he not be said Reagan deliberately avoided characterizing the strikes as attacks against the United so as to avoid inflaming Mideast tensions any official said it was unlikely at this that the United States would to especially in view of the uncertainty over who was responsible for the source close to the who also spoke only under terms of said the United States hopes to discourage the government from taking any retaliatory action that could lead to a widened conflict in the Middle message is Speakes told is the time to renew our efforts to keep the peace process in
