Friday, October 11,1 985
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Egyptian plane lands in Italy;
Palestinian Mi ackers on board
ROME An Egyptian military air
plane carrying the four Palestinians
who hijacked an Italian luxury liner
and said they killed an American
arrived in Sicily early today, Italian
officials said.
A spokesman for the office of Pre
mier Bettino Craxl, speaking on condi
tion of anonymity, said the aircraft had
touched down at Sicily's Sigonella air
port, a NATO base near Catania, at
12:30 a.m. (6:30 p.m. Thursday CDT).
"Yes, all the terrorists are on board,"
he said, adding that it appeared the
plane would not soon be leaving.
He said the Egyptian plane was
escorted by U.S. military aircraft, but
he did not know how many. A NATO
spokesman contacted by telephone said
he had no details on the landing.
An Italian government statement
said President Reagan had asked Craxi
to let the plane land, and Craxi agreed,
the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
Craxi's spokesman confirmed that
he received a call from the White
House, but did not know what was said.
Italian news agencies quoted For
eign Ministry sources as saying there
had been several communications
between Foreign Minister Giulio
Andreotti and Egyptian and American
officials.
Earlier Thursday, Italian news agen
cies quoted unidentified sources as
saying Italy had demanded the pirates
be handed over for prosecution. They
are reported to have killed an Ameri
can Jew during the two days they held
control of the Italian liner, Achille
Lauro, with 500 people aboard.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
had told reporters in Cairo earlier that
he had allowed the hijackers to leave
Egypt on Wednesday night and they
were the responsibility of the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
Craxi on Thursday said Italy would
seek the extradition of the hyackers
after a preliminary investigation. Ital
ian news agencies, quoting unidenti
fied sources, said kaly had asked the
PLO to turn over the four men because
the murder had occurred on an Italian
ship.
In other news, an Austrian woman
emerged Thursday morning from the
hiding place where she spent the dura
tion of the hyacking of an Italian cruise
ship, her ambassador said. Anna
Hoerangner, who is in her 50s and
walks with the help of a cane, did not
know the four Palestinian sea pirates
had surrendered late Wednesday after
noon when she emerged from a toilet
aboard the Achille Lauro. She had been
reported missing.
Rebels kill dozens in attack
LA UNION, El Salvador - Up to 400
leftist guerrillas attacked the army's
main training center Thursday, killing
dozens of soldiers and wounding 68,
the army said. It was the rebels' biggest
operation in more than a year.
But the insurgents failed in their
apparent objective of blasting the rows
of barracks where about 2,000 trainees
slept. Soldiers recovered several home
made bombs, which they placed in a
large pile near the bodies of 10 rebels
in a make-shift morgue at this sprawling
base 113 miles east of the capital.
Lt. Col. Joaquin Cerna Flores, com
mander of the Military Training Center
of the Armed Forces, said 40 soldiers
died in the attack. An employee at
nearby La Union hospital said it had
received the bodies of 58 soldiers. The
guerrillas' clandestine Radio
Venceremos claimed government cas
ualties were near 200, but did not give a
breakdown of dead and wounded.
Cerna Flores said American military
advisers at the base did not join in the
fighting and were not injured. The
colonel said there were 10 to 12 Ameri
cans on the base, but the U.S. Embassy
in San Salvador put the number at five.
Cerna Flores said the rebels began
firing rockets and mortars at the base
at about 1:30 am. and continued a
steady barrage for about two hours.
"Considering the number of troops
here it is fortunate the toll was not
higher," he said, noting that about
three-fourths of the soldiers at the base
have had very little training.
The others, he said, were there for
advanced training. They did most of the
fighting, and Cerna Flores said casual
ties were kept low because of their
response, and the arrival within 20
minutes of helicopters from nearby San
Miguel.
He estimated the number of attackers
at between 350 and 400, and said soldi
ers were scouring the presumed escape
routes for the guerrillas.
The rebels have not attacked in such
strength in more than a year.
Better surveillance techniques and
training for the army has caused the
rebels to take their campaign back to
the jungles and countryside, and con
centrate on urban terrorist acts such as
the kidnapping of the president's
daughter last month.
It was the worse blow to the army
since last Dec. 3 when rebels killed 43
soldiers, wounded 20 and captured 40
in an ambush at El Salto, 35 miles
southwest of the capital.
MIA 'breakthrough'
Hanoi agrees to excavation proposal
UNITED NATIONS - In what could
be a major breakthrough in the search
for Americans missing in action, a top
ranking Vietnamese Cabinet minister
says his government agrees in principle
to allowing U.S. excavation teams into
the Hanoi area for the first time.
Other official American and Vietna
mese sources said Vietnam has agreed
to a U.S. proposal that the countries
carry out a joint survey and excavation
of a crash site near Hanoi as an
experiment.
The sources said the date and other
details of the excavation have yet to be
worked out.
Vo Dong Giang, a Cabinet minister
without portfolio and the second-ranking
official in the Foreign Ministry said
Wednesday that with regard to joint
excavations: "In principle we are
agreeable except in the crash sites
where our security cannot permit for
eigners to have access."
A U.S. State Department official in
Washington, D.C;, confirmed that Ameri
can officials have discussed the joint
excavation of sites with a Vietnamese
delegation led by Giang.
The State Department official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity, said
the Vietnamese had expressed their
agreement in principle to the proposal
at meetings in Hanoi Aug. 28 and 29
and in New York Sept. 27 with Richard
Childress, the National Security Coun
cils' political and military affairs
director.
The State Department official said
that since both sides had agreed to
speed up the search, the United States
passed on to the Vietnamese "many
more cases" at the meeting in Hanoi in
August.
The first official U.S. excavation in
Communist territory was carried out
last February in southern Laos at the
site where a C-130 transport was shot
down in December 1972.
American excavation teams have
never ventured into North Vietnam
although recovery operations were car
ried out in U.S.-backed South Vietnam
before the fall of its capital, Saigon, in
April 1975.
Hanoi previously has limited Ameri
can teams to rare visits of crash sites.
In an interview, Giang disclosed for
the first time details of Vietnam's
three-part plan designed to settle the
MIA issue in two years:
O The Vietnamese will do the major
part of the searches.
O In cases where it is extremely
difficult to reach crash sites such as
those in deep water or in an abyss
where cranes and other heavy. equip
ment would be needed, Hanoi would
ask the United States for help.
O Giang said his government was
agreeable to joint excavations. A Pen
tagon official said that he thought the
first such excavation would be at the
site of a B52 bomber crash, but said he
understood the project still was in the
discussion stage.
Giang said he agreed with the U.S.
State Department that the talks were
the most positive step in more than
four years of trying to account for the
2,455 American servicemen and civili
ans still listed as missing or unac
counted for in Southeast Asia, includ
ing 1,811 in Vietnam.
Thus far, Vietnam has turned over
the remains of 108 Americans, accord
ing to Pentagon reports.
WS ITI B llQ rS A rounduP of the day's happenings
President Reagan, splitting the difference between
the monetarist and supply-side schools of economics,
picked Wayne D. Angell and Manuel H. Johnson to fill two
seats on the powerfiil Federal Reserve Board. Johnson,
assistant treasury secretary for economic policy, is a fol
lower of the supply-side school that believes in the need
for sharp cuts in tax rates and an easy monetary policy to
stimulate economic growth. Angel, a banker, farmer and
economics professor is less clearly identified in his philo
sophy, but is regarded as more of a monetarist who advo
cated steady money growth as a way of guarding against
inflation.
The Atlanta Braves have hired Chuck Tanner to
manage the club for the next five years. Team owner Ted
Turner made the announcement after an hourlong meet
ing with Tanner and team president Bill Bartholomay.
Terms of the contract were not disclosed. Tanner, who was
fired Monday after eight seasons with the Pittsburgh
Pirates, replaces Bobby Wine, who took over as Braves
manager in August.
Two phony explosive devices were found in a
McDonald's restaurant in Kearney after a telephone bomb
threat and were sent to Lincoln for analysis by the
Nebraska State Patrol. Police Chief Robert Jatczak said
someone called the McDonald's late Wednesday night
claiming there was an explosive device in the building.
The building was evacuated. Police and a Nebraska State
Patrol investigator who searched the building found two
small plastic objects, each about 4 inches in diameter,
wrapped with electrical tape and with a digital clock
attached.
Debt limit raised above $2 trillion
WASHINGTON After ending eight days ofwrangHrg over a balanced
tu;! ' .t plan, the Senate agreed to raise the r.athr.al debt limit to more
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than 52 truaon -jmirsasy iugi.i.
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i $2 trillion Thur: night.-
he Senate voted 51-37 to Increase the governor s fcn cf credit from
current $1,821 trillion to $2,078 trillion, enough to meet the govern-
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The Ectisa came after the Senate completed s:v:::l revisions to the
balanced budget plan that was attached to the i2btlLT.it legislation on
The House, in effect, agreed to the debt hr.it increase when it passed a
budget blueprint on Aug. 1, but the addition or the tuagzt plan in the
Senate will require further action.
Actors Yul Brynner, Orson Welles die
h New York, Yul Brynncr, the man who was khg for a record 4,625
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"Citizen Kcr.s," toaci cn the life of publisher William Randolph Hearst""
':zV'3 cirsr.cd, w:;te and starred in the film, wiiKij-ai'Oscar for ;:
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Hli ether credits included the classic "Othello," 'the Magnificent';.
:n::rsor.3," "The Third Man," "A Touch cf Evil," 'The Lady from
Lhrhoi" and dozens cf others in a career that spanned more than 40
Arms sale to Jordan called 'necessity.
WASHINGTON Secretary of State George Ehultz told skeptical
ecr.aiC73 Thursday that approval of the Reagan 'administration's $1.9
billion arms sale to Jordan is an "absolute necessity" for ultimate success
ia the search for peace ia the Kiddle East '.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Shultz said
Jordan's King Hussein has taken "courageous moves" toward opening
Regotiitkr with Israel, an i aided that from the king's point of view,
"You like to feel that peace has friends, and the friends of peace will stand
Bat several members cf the committee challenged Shultz's description
cf events ia the Kiiite east. "I disagree that the king cf Jerdan has made
ir.caair.sr.il moves," said Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Kina. "...He puts a
number cf obstacles ia the way cf peace,"
Shultz' 80-minute appearance before the committee represented the
beginning of what is expected to be a hard sell for the administration to
win approval for its proposed sale of sophisticated aircraft and air defense
missiles to Jordan.
Kerrey preparing revenue proposal
LINCOLN Gov. Bob Kerrey said Thursday he is conferring with
senators about a proposal he has worked out for a special legislative
session he will call as soon as possible but not before next Wednesday.
Kerrey declined to discuss details of the plan to deal with declining
state revenues, other than to say he will not propose a 1 percentage point
increase in the state income tax rate.
The governor said he will suggest both budget cuts and revenue-raising
measures to lawmakers.
Kerrey is to have a news conference this afternoon to announce a date
and topics for the session. Kerrey has said the special session would last
at least two weeks and as long as a month.
Town may become common grave
PONCE, Puerto Rico The National Guard ordered everyone out of
Mameyes shantytown Thursday after Puerto Rico said it was considering
making a common grave of the mudslide that was believed to have buried
up to 500 people this week.
Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon said a decision will be made soon whether
to seal off the disaster site outside Ponce to avoid en cuttreal of disease.
The governor's office said the action could be taken by this weekend.
Dr. Giodano San Antonio, the Ponce region's health department direc
tor, said decomposing bodies, covered by mud, rocks and splintered
homes, were creating a threat of water contamination, typhoid fever,
mosquito-borne diseases, tetanus and diphtheria.
New cigarette warning labels used
WASHINGTON New and specific health warnings are appearing on
cigarette packages and advertising, a change medical experts hope will
heippersuade Americans to quit or never start smoking.
'The public needs to know the danger, since th:s is the single most
preventable source of heart disease, cancer and lung disease. 1 think that
freedom of choicc.demands that this be an informed choice," said Dr.
John A. Oates. chairman ftf tha f? i-r-!v!Av f t n -' - a VflTllfirbilt
uiuversny.
ihe new system of rotating khl Hal Saturday,
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ine old warning on every pack and in every cigarette advertisement that
v.6u,wTO JUlWm8 1 aangerous to health, the new labels state specie
uoup-ia, uiuuu ng cancer, heart and lung disease and hazards to preg
nant women and their babies.