The World - News from May 25, 1987

West Germany has sent Hans-Juergen Wischnewski, a member of the Social Democratic parliamentary opposition, to Tehran to seek the freedom of two West German hostages being held by a pro-Iranian group in Lebanon. Rudolf Cordes and Alfred Schmidt were seized by the Shia Muslim Hezbollah (Party of God) last January in Beirut, apparently in an attempt to force the release from West German jails of two Arab brothers, one of whom--Mohammed Ali Hamadi--is wanted by the United States in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and the murder of Robert D. Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver aboard the plane.