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Americans on Their Way Home Brewers top Yanks: Cards shade Mets,1B The Register Vol. 107 No. 311 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER...SINCE 1878 MONDAY, JULY 1, 1985 ?5 CENTS INSIDE Hijacking ordeal ends SPORTS Americans on their way home If MENM WATSON The Associated Press FRANKFORT. West Germany <AP) - Freed from 17 days of captivity. 39 American hijack hostages landed at a U.S. air base at dawn today to the cheers of countrymen welcoming them back to free- dom Vice President George Bush stood with family and friends of the hostages, as well as about 200 other people, Including U.S. military personnel and their families. Many of them waved small American flags in the chilly weather as the plane arrived from Damascus, Syria The hostages has taken off shortly after midnight, hours after a Red Cross caravan under military escort carried them out of Beirut and over a rugged mountain roads to Syria The US Air Force C-141 transport plane Brewers down Yanks touched down at 5 24 am (11:24 p.m. Sunday EDT) at the Rhein-Main Air Force Yankee nghtfielder Dave Wmfleld has base, following the flight from Damascus, problems with a fly ball off the bat of Syria. Robin Yount of the Milwaukee The US government offered to take the Brewers in the fourth inning ol 39 hostages to the I! S military hospital in yesterday's game at the Stadiur*. Wiesbaden. 24 miles west of Frankfurt, for Winfield's error led to an unearned medical checkups A State Department run in the Brewers's 7-5 win. official said that most of them were expected to accept the offer IB The hostages had lived through the slaying of one passenger — US Navy Petty Officer Robert Dean Stethem. 23. of Waldorf. Md - on June 15. threats by the hijackers to LOCAL blow up the plane, complex diplomatic Top teacher See Hostages Page 2A The Long Branch Board of Education at its Regular Public Meeting on June 19. 1985 honored Carlether Ray as At a Glance EMOTION — One U.S. hostage is overwhelmed by emotion Damascus. They had come by road earlier from Beirut where its 1985-1986 "Teacher of the Year" and is being comforted by another unidentified companion, they had been freed from 17 days of captivity by Shiite Flight Into Terror at the start of the press conference the 39 hostages gave in Muslims. 3A • SWEET FREEDOM Champagne cork* popped M the families of me hijack hostages celebrated their Burned up loved one*' freedom. Pa«e TA The Middletown Township home • HO GUARANTEEf President TWA pilot's brother: belonging to a fire prevention expert Reagan Mid Sunday there were "no was heavily damaged by fire rewards and no guarantees" given yesterday to the hijackers of a TWA airliner 3A who triggered the 17-day crisis. "he was in control" 7A WORLD XI SEVEN OTHERS The fate temple, and the shot was plastered on the of the seven "forgotten hostages" covers of major news magazines and Search begins If STEPHANIE 6LUCKMAN newspapers. remains unknown while the Reagan The Register An Irish navy ship with a administration i& saying it will not As pilot. John Testrake had a lot of sophisticated deep-sea listening UPPER FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - The responsibility, according to his brother. "He rest until the seven follow the TWA device began searching tor flight brother of TWA Flight 847 pilot John had the entire responsibility for his passen- recorders ol an Air-India |umbo jet hostages to freedom. Page 7A Testrake said yesterday his family's "hope gers while they were on the plane." Roger According to a London newspaper, • A NEW CHAPTER The hijacking and faith" were rewarded when the pilot and Testrake said investigators have turned up no ol TWA Flight 847 started as 38 other Americans were released by their "They were hopscotching all over the evidence the plane had been something familiar but it wrote a new Lebanese captors. Middle East,' he said, commenting on his bombed chapter on international terrorism. H Roger Testrake said in a phone brother's marathon flights to Beirut and PaMlA interview yesterday evening that he was Algeria, to both locations a second time, and 5A • ISRAEL DECIDES Israeli of- watching his brother on TV as the major finally back to Beirut. networks covered the release of the But though the pilot faced a challenge ficials say that the Cabinet will NATION hostages first to Damaskus. Syria, then to unlike his fellow hostages, his position was decide today on arrangements to West Germany. probably more secure, according to his Contract rejected return 735 Lebanese prisoners to By 8 pm yesterday, the 39 former brother "He was probably the safest man The union representing 4,500 ship their home country. Page 7A hostages had boarded a plane from the on the plane They,needed him," Testrake builders at Bath Iron Works, Maine, • WANTS PLANE BACK Trans Syrian capital to Frankfurt and freedom. said voted overwhelmingly to reiect the World Airlines wants It plane re- John Testrake s 17 days as a hostage He noted that on TV appearances, his company's final contract offer calling turned after it was left behind at the earned him fame that will outlast his brother empathized with the Shiite Moslems tor a three year wage freeze and to go Beirut airport. Pag* 7A captivity The pilot was earlier filmed in a , who were holding him in Beirut. H. Roger Testrake Shiite hijacker's grip with a gun held by his out on strike See Pilot Page 2A 5A STATE ; Criticism Goode is a man born again' Casino Control Commissioner Joel R. Jacobson whose description of Frank see black males who can do something else Sinatra as an "obnoxious bully" led If STEPHANIE 61UCMUN besides shoot a basketball the singer to boycott the state, has The Register "Unless men can stand up and be men. then we joined a chorus of criticism against LONG BRANCH - Philadelphia Mayor W can't have the kinds of role models we need, "he the recent "Doonesbury" cartoon Wilson Goode said he spoke "as a man who's been said. strips satirizing Sinatra. born again" to a packed house at the Second "It's time for Christian man to stop binding Baptist Church in Long Branch yesterday behind the skirts of the woman, of their wives and 4A First Good spoke "as a Mayor," touching on mothers and children. We need strong men to LIFESTYLE the bombing of a MOVE radical group's house in stand up and be counted and assume their rightful Philadelphia, and several broatj. political sub- place as fathers in their households. New opening jects He mourned "the apparent end of the "It is not enough to know how to make the partnership between Washington and our local A career in law was not something babies. You have to learn how to take care of governments. Our local governments are struggl- them," Goode said. The statement, delivered Cecilia A. P. Silver had ever ing to find a way to meet the needs of those who with a half-smile, drew chupkles from the envisioned for herself. But Silver, 34, are hungry and ill-housed," he said. congregants. of Rumson, has recently opened her Then his focus changed. "But as a man who's Whether the world's problems will be solved own general law firm In the Mid- been bom again, a long time before I heard does not depend on a "masterful politician," Lantic National Bank/Merchants about a city called Philadelphia, I heard of a city Goode said, but on whether good men are willing Building, Red Bank. called heaven, " the North Carolina-born Mayor to stand up and assume their rightful roles in 10A said. churches and families and neighborhoods and Goode said his first remarks were-for the press, cities. but his remarks as a Christian were for the Men's "A Christian man will be the father in his house Brotherhood Club of the church, which sponsored and be the leader in his family," he said. yesterday's proceedings. Goode's first remarks, on the state of the Goode said, "I've come to challenge the men world, included a grim assessment. Referring to to do more, to become more involved. You hold the hostage crisis, the runaway national defecit, INDEX the key to whether we can solve the problems and the cutbacks in federal aid to cities, Goode facing our cities and neighborhoods." said, "what we see is a world that somehow The problem of urban youth seemed to be appears to be out of control." Goode's primary focus. He told his audience that Good referred to the disastrous bombing of the BRIDGE 71 black fathers are failing to be the role models MOVE home in Philadelphia in May that sparked CLASSIFIED 71 their children need. a fire destroying 61 homes. "What happened there COMICS M "Our young people are becoming hooked on all was the e happen." he said. CROSSWORD ... W other kinds of things. Our young people are going But he said he is taking responsibility for the ENTERTAINMENT. ... a* astray because too many men have failed to be outcome nonetheless. "I've learned that if you HOROSCOPE .. 10* the right kind of role model for our young take the credit when things go right, then be man people." enough to stand up and take the responsibility LIFESTYLE.. 1M "Especially our young black boys and girls when things go wrong." he said OBITUARIES.. need to have role models in 1985. They need to See Goode Page 3A OPINION ..
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