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Weather: Slightly cooler temperatures can beexpected this
week. Partly cloudy today and breezy with a high of 74 (23C).
Tonight will be mostly clear with a low near 45 (7C). The
extended forecast through Thursday calls for partly cloudy
skies, little if any precipitation with lows in the 50s (13C) and
highs in the low 80s (28C).
Barb BrandaThe Nebraskan
U.S. forces near Lebanon coast
Hostages report
By the
Renter News Service
BEIRUT, Lebanon Some 30 remai
ning passengers were reported taken
from a hyacked TWA jet to one or more
secret locations in Beirut before dawn
Monday but the United States said it
would make no concessions for their
release.
Shi'ite Moslem leader Nabih Bern
said the hostages were removed from
the Trans World Airlines Boeing 727 for
their own safety in case a military
rescue operation was launched.
He said he was guaranteeing that
they would not be harmed, but also
said they would not be released until
demands of the hyackers were met.
"lam responsible for
them (hostages). "
Nabih Berri
"I gave guarantees to the hijackers
that I will not release the hostages or
the passengers without the release of
the Atleet prisoners," he said at a news
conference.
Israel holds over 700 Shi'ite prison
ers, captured during its three-year
occupation of Lebanon, at a camp in
the town of Atleet.
Berri said the hostages, most of them
Americans held since the hyacking
Friday, were taken off the plane after
at least one unidentified ship and a
helicopter appeared off the coast dur
ing the night.
Israeli gunboats were seen in the
area Sunday.
Fighters of Berri's Amal militia,
which he ordered onto maximum alert
during the night, opened fire with anti
UNL professor dies
David W. Olive, a UNL electrical
engineering professor, died Saturday.
Funeral services will be held at 10
a.m. Wednesday at Vine Congregational
Church, 1800 Twin Ridge Road. Grave
side services will be at 4 p.m. in Hun-
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Olive
Olive worked for the Eastman Kodak
Co. in Rochester N.Y., General Electric
aircraft guns fearing a seaborne Israeli
or U.S. commando attack was under
way to free the hostages.
"I took all the passengers from the
plane outside the airport because I was
afraid that something might happen to
them and I am responsible for them,"
Berri, who is also Lebanon's justice
minister, told a group of three journal
ists. One hostage was killed by the hyack
ers Friday. He was identified Monday as
U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, 23 of
Waldorf, Md., who was returning to the
United States after an assignment in
Greece.
An Amal offcial at the airport said
the three remaining crew members
were still being held hostage on the
plane.
President Reagan, who immediately
after the American hostages were freed
from Iran in 1981 promised swift and
sure retribution against any who
attempted such actions against Ameri
cans in the future, again repeated his
message Sunday, warning the TWA
hijackers "for their own safety" to
release their American prisoners.
"For their own safety they had better
turn these people loose," Reagan said
of the hyackers.
Israel made clear Monday it would
consider releasing the Shi'ite fighters
if the United States asked it to do so,
but the likelihood of such a request
was dismissed by the White House.
"We do not make concessions and
we do not encourage others to make
concessions," White House spokesman
Larry Speakes said in Washington after
national security adviser Robert
McFarlane spoke to Berri on the telephone.
in Philadelphia and UNL between receiv
ing his master's and doctoral degrees.
He received his bachelor's degree from
NU in 1950 and his master's in 1954
from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
In 1955 he returned to UNL as an
electrical engineering professor.
After receiving his Ph.D. at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in 1960, he returned
to UNL for teaching assignments until
1963 when he accepted an engineering
position with Westinghouse Electric
utility in East Pittsburgh, Pa.
In 1969 he accepted the title of
Lloyd Freeman Hunt professor of elec
trical engineering at the University of
Southern California.
Olive returned to UNL as the Lott
professor of electrical engineering,
where he worked with Nebraska's pub
lic power districts on a consulting
basis, stimulating research and devel
opment in addition to providing advance
training and study for their staffs.
Olive was a member of the Lincoln
Elks Lodge and Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers.
He is survived by his daughter, Mar
cia of Lincoln; his son, 1st Lt. Mark of
Rapid City, S.D., and brothers, Ben of
Dayton, Ohio, and George of Temple,
NJ.
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"We do not ask others to do what we
would not do," he said.
"TJiey had better turn
those people loose. "
President Reagan
Secretary of State George Shultz
said: "We will not make deals with
terrorists and will not encourage oth
ers to do so."
However, U.S. officials expressed
guarded optimism that the involve
ment of Berri could lead to the early
release of the hostages.
"There are pluses and minuses in
this. You might say they are safer at the
moment, but it doesn't necessarily
mean their release is more imminent,"
said a senior State Department official
on condition he not be identified.
"Berri is a responsible member of
the Shi'ite community and his accep
tance of responsibility for the well
being of the hostages we see as positive
and could lead to their early release,"
he said.
Berri said at the news conference
the hostages had been moved from the
TWA plane for their own safety, but he
said: "We don't want anyone to know
where they are placed now."
They were now being guarded jointly
by the hyackers and Amal militiamen,
added Berri.
McFarlane telephoned Berri Monday
in Washington's first direct contact
with him since he began negotiating on
the hijacking yesterday.
The White House said McFarlane's
call was not made "to negotiate with
Berri or the hyackers but to point out
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that Berri and the hyackers do have the
power to release those held there and
that they are the key to ending this
tragedy."
Since the plane was seized on a
flight from Athens to Rome last Friday,
U.S. officials had reiterated Washing
ton's policy of not negotiating with ter
rorists, but had left the door open to
indirect bargaining.
The exact number of hostages re
mained unclear. More than 80 of the
original 153 passengers and crew mem
bers have been freed.
Robert Oakley, director of the State
Department's office of counter-terrorism,
said the United States believed there
were 43 hostages, all but one American.
This included some 30 hostages
reportedly taken from the plane today
and a group of passengers with "Jewish
sounding names" who were spirited off
the plane on Saturday to an unknown
destination, he said.
Since being seized, the hyackers
have moved the plane back and forth
between Algiers and Beirut, landing in
the Lebanon capital for the third time
Sunday morning.
The hyackers are also demanding
the release of two Arabs awaiting trial
in Spain for an assassination attempt
on a Libyan diplomat last September.
Spain said it would not release the
men.
The atmosphere at the airport was
calm Monday following overnight ten
sion caused by the alert.
Unconfirmed reports say that the
American elite Delta commando group
has been moved to the Mediterranean
and unusual Israeli and U.S. naval
operations have taken place in recent
days.
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In addition to the Israeli gunships
patrolling off Beirut Airport, several
U.S. Navy vessels have pulled into the
Mediterranean ahead of schedule, naval
sources said.
The United States has assembled a
strong military presence in the Medi
terranean off Lebanon, including the
aircraft carrier Nimitz and special anti
terrorist troops, Reagan administration
sources said Monday.
"All the passengers are outside the
plane ... All in one place in Bei
rut . . .Amal men and the hyackers are
with them," Berri said-
Asked later at the press conference
to confirm that all the hostages were
held together, he said: "I think that. I
think ... I am not sure. They are out
side (the airport). They are outside."
Berri said the hyackers were not
from his militia but were Shi'ite fun
damentalists "in the same line" as the
We do not make con-
cessions.
Larry Speakes
pro-Iranian Hizbollah (Party of God),
which follows the teachings of Iranian
leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
He explained his limited role in the
situation by saying: "If I arrive (at a
solution), that's okay. If they don't
accept me I will say okay, goodbye. I
will lift my hands. That's all."
He attacked the U.S. position that it
would not negotiate with "terrorists"
to free the hijack hostages saying it was
a "one-eyed" policy.
"More than 700 people are in Atleet
by hyacking. No difference at all,"
Berri said. "They (the Israelis) did it
like hyacking. No difference if you do
that on the ground or in the air."
Mark DavisThe Nebraskan
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