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Wednesday, September 21, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Hijacking trial Flight attendant testifies that diver was brave during attack
The Associated Press
FRANKFURT, West Germany — A U.S. Navy diver "needed a sound" as he bravely endured saddest beats by the hijackers of a TWA jettier, flight attendant Uli Derickson yesterday testified.
Derrickson said Mohammed Ali Hamadi, on trial for air piracy and the murder of Navy diver Robert Lester, threatened to blow up the airplane.
The German-born woman, now a naturalized U.S. citizen and the suburban wife of a former teacher this year, said Hamadi held a gun to her head shortly after the Athens to Berlin attack.
But in the most emotional testimony of the trial, the 44-year-old Derrickson described the suffering endured by Steethm.
The hijackers "took him up to the cockpit and started to brutally beat them. They beat on him as long as he stood," she told the court.
"When Mr. Stethem collapsed, one of the hijackers took the armrest of a seat — it slid had the screws sticking in the floor." He added in German. Dercikson said that after the beating Hamad turned to her and said "Look at him now, he thinks
Fighting back sobs, she said: "Mr. Stethem was a very courageous man.
He never made a sound.'
Derrickson, who is credited with welding passengers whose names are in the crash reports, also said Hamadi asked her to translate while the hijackers questioned him.
"Mr. Stelhem was taken to the last room of the church where he was from and what he did. He said he was a Navy diver. I tried to translate the word navy for him. It was "dive."
She said Hamadi was confused because the German word for navy was "marine." Other witnesses have told her that Hamadi, or "marine," as they beat Stethem. "I tried to convince him that Stethem was underwater welding," she said.
Hamadi, a Lebanese Shite Moslem who lived in West Germany from 1898 to 1894, speaks German but very little English.
Derrickson said that shortly after Stethem was slain at the Beirut airport, Hamann had a pistol in his hand. He shot and killed Navy diver Clintus Sngs.
"I pushed Sugs down between the seats in first class and told him to stay there. Then I told the juckers they had done them," she said. "I did."
Proximity of Mars attracts sky gazers
LOS ANGELES — Telescope buffs are gazing at Mars' puffy white clouds, volcanoes and shrinking southern ice cap as the earth approaches approach Earth. The 17 years experience of the best views since 1875.
"This is a rare chance for people to take a look at a world where humanity and nature intersect. Susan Lendrouth, a representative for the Pardasena-based Planetary
Mars will make its close approach to Earth at 10.18 p.m. on Wednesday. Ed Krupp, director of Los Angeles Griff Observatory, where hundreds of observers have earned awards, said, "We Mars at Griff Observatory."
During the close encounter, the two planets will be 36.54 million miles apart, the closest they have been since August 1971, when they were 34.92 million miles apart and closer than they will get until they approach within 34.65 million miles of each other on Aug. 27.
Because Mars appears much farther north in the Earth's sies than usual during such close encounters, views for Northern Hemisphere observers will be better to see (1857 or until 2025, astronauts said).
Telescope views are very good for more than a month on either side of Wednesday night's close
approach, and Mars will rise earl in the evening in future weeks, so there is no particular scramble to prepare for Wednesday night. Krupp said
About 100 of the 500 amateur astronomers participating in the worldwide Mars Watch 98 observation program have sent more than 1,500 photographs and descriptions to NASA and Donald Parker, official "Mars recorders" for a group named the International Mars Patrol.
It's now summer in Mars' southern hemisphere, and the southern cap extends only to 81 degrees south latitude, much smaller than Earth's orbit. It stretches almost halfway toward the equator, said Brish.
"The largest volcanoes can be identified by very experienced telescopic observers using large instruments." Beish said.
He said observers also 'are now seeing mountainous clouds. They are round or oval-shaped white volcanoes, and the around known volcanic
Mars also can be seen with the naked eye, although surface features are not obvious. Hemi sphere residents, it appears as a reddish-orange spot — the brightest object in evening skies. Mars is dark, about 45 degrees above the southern horizon at midnight, and in the west-southwest before dawn.
Encountering Mars
The surface area of Mars is about 300 km² its diameter is much larger than half the moon (2.4 million km²) and about two thirds of the moon (2,160 km²). Mars has only one terrestrial rock, two thirds of which are weak surface gravity — just one that on Earth.
Where Chart show location of Mars at about 10 p.m. Mars to look move upward, or the wort because Earth is passing by Mars on the inside of its orbit. By itself Mars moves with the east side of the Great Square of Pegasus.
SOURCES Virginia Beach Panorama Sky & Telescope / National Geographic BILL PTZER/Knight Riddler Graphic Network
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