NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, July 3, 1985
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Compiled from wire reports
Hostages arrive to cheers
The main group of Americans taken hostage aboard ill-fated TWA Flight 847 arrived home yesterday to a red carpet welcome from President Reagan and hundreds of cheering Americans in Washington.
The red-and-white TWA L-1011 carrying the former bostages and their families touched down at nearby Andrews Air Force Base Hundreds of cheering people gathered in a sea of signs and flowers or furiously waving American flags.
Each of the hostages walked down red carpeted stairs to applause and finally stepped on American soil for the first time since their ordeal began at the Athens, Greece, airport June 14.
A number of the 39 released Sunday after 17 days in captivity by Lebanese Shites chose to stay in Europe longer or to take other flights home.
Reagan met with the returning hostages for six minutes privately on the plane from West Germany. Just minutes earlier, he had laid a wreath at the grave of Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem at Arlington National Cemetery — a solemn reminder that not everyone made it home.
Stetham, 23, was beaten and murdered by the Muslim extremists who commanded the airliner
3 terrorist bombings hit Europe
Europe was rocked Monday by three terrorist bombings — including one triggered by the Beirut, Lebanon, hostage crisis — that killed one woman and injured 42 other persons, including a vacationing American teenager.
The apparently unrelated attacks occurred in a crowded airline office in Spain, a busy airport terminal in Italy and a deserted parking lot in Greece.
The worst violence was in Madrid, Spain, where witnesses said a man ran into a British Airways ticket office and threw a tape box onto the counter.
The box contained explosives, which ripped through the ground-floor office and showered glass on midday shoppers on the city's famed Gran Via. One woman died and 27 persons were injured, including Sydney Bridges, 17, of Ontario, Calif., who was vacationing with his two brothers.
Bridge bloodied, onlooker says
A man who gathered with other curious onlookers at the sight of a wreck under the Rocky Ford Bridge testified in the murder trial of a Lutheran minister in 1967, that he saw several blood stains on and under the bridge.
Dennis Arb testified in the second day of the trial of the Rev. Thomas Bird, who prosecutors contend threw his wife Sandra Bird, over the bridge into the Cottonmouth River on April 23, as if she died in the dwellers of her car on July 17, 1983.
Earlier in the day, David Cox, one of the emergency medical technicians who was called to the bridge the day the body was found, testified that he crawled inside
the woman's overturned car to check for possible safety hazards.
He said he checked the ignition, a routine procedure, and it was set in the 'off' position. He grabbed the car's steering wheel to balance himself and it did not move, indicating it also was in the locked position. he said.
Bird, 34, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church before he resigned last year, is serving a prison term for conspiring to kill the husband of Lorna Anderson, his former church secretary and, authorities allege, his lover.
Fourth fireworks injure many
More Americans are maimed by Independence Day fireworks each year than were wounded by British bayonets, muskets and cannonballs during the Revolution. The officials said this Fourth of July will be just as grisly.
Cherry bombs, firecrackers, bottle rockets, Roman candles and sparklers will injure about 10,000 people in Thursday's holiday celebration — about 1,500 more wounded in the eight-year war with the British.
Children are the most frequent victims of fireworks and a recent medical survey showed that a 16-year-old boy setting off bottle rockets is the most likely to be burned, blinded or disfured.
All but 14 states allow personal use of fireworks, and some experts say a national ban is needed to stop the bloodshed.
U. S. officials in Washington said yesterday that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's promotion to president of the Soviet Union cleared the way for Soviet
Gromyko appointed president
leader Mikhail Gorbachev to take over the country's foreign policy.
orbachie appointed Gromyko president yesterday and named as his replacement Edward A Shewardi and named as his replacement.
The White House and the State Department had no official comment on Gromykyo's appointment.
The move came about the same time as the announcement in Washington that President Reagan and Gorbachev will meet for the first time in a three-day session. Geneva, Switzerland, site of the nuclear arms talks.
But U.S. officials said Gorbachev was in a position to take over foreign policy, according to their reading.
Killer sentenced to 4 life terms
A judge in Colby on Monday sentenced confessed killer Daniel Remeta to four life terms in prison for his part in a bloody rampage through northwest Kansas last February.
District Judge Keith Willoughby sentenced Remeta to two life terms in prison for the execution-style slaying of Rick Schroeder, 20, of Levant and Glenn Moore, 55, of Colby, who were working at the Levant grain elevator when they were hostage by Remeta and three associates Feb. 13.
Willoughby also sentenced Remeta to two life terms in prison for the aggravated kidnapping of Schreeder and Moore. 15 years to life in prison for shooting Ben Albright, Thomas County undersheriff. 15 years to life on a charge of aggravated robbery and five to 20 years for the shooting of Maurice Christie, the manager of the Levant grain elevator. Albright and Christie survived the shooting.
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