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...Mexico City will likely join four U.S. and four to six European cities in a twelve-game season leading to a summertime World Bowl. Towns tired of hoping for N.F.L. expansion franchises (Jacksonville, Memphis, Oakland and Baltimore) would seem the prime American candidates for the auxiliary league. London, Dublin, Frankfurt and Milan are among the European possibilities...
...runway in Beirut airport and 39 American passengers were held hostage for 17 days by gunslinging hijackers. Among the most horrifying images in the intense TV coverage: the body of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, 23, being dumped onto the tarmac. Last week, after a ten-month trial, a Frankfurt court sentenced Lebanese-born Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 24, to life in prison for his role in the hijacking and Stethem's murder. Unable to determine whether Stethem was shot by Hammadi or a second hijacker, still at large, the court ruled that Hammadi was accountable as an accomplice...
Hammadi, who is linked to the radical pro-Iranian group Hizballah, was arrested in January 1987 while trying to smuggle explosives through Frankfurt airport. West Germany denied a U.S. extradition request after Hammadi backers kidnaped two German businessmen in Lebanon, prompting criticism that Bonn was knuckling under to blackmail. Hammadi could have faced the death penalty in the U.S., not an option in Germany. Said Stethem's father Richard: Hammadi "deserves punishment more severe than allowable under German...
...sources say the investigation has narrowed down to between five and ten passengers. One of these is Khalid Jaafar, a Lebanese-American student en route from Frankfurt to Detroit to visit his parents. They say he could not be the unwitting bomber, as a photograph taken before his departure shows him carrying only a soft-sided bag. Still, Jaafar could have been given another suitcase, one containing the bomb, before boarding the doomed flight at Frankfurt...
...center-right coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Free Democratic Party, which has held national power for the past six years. The Christian Democrats now control the mayor's office in only one of West Germany's major cities, Stuttgart. And in both West Berlin and Frankfurt, the Free Democrats failed to receive the 5% of the vote needed to gain representation in the local councils, a disturbing omen for a small swing party that seldom polls more than 10% anywhere...