Monday, November 3, 1986
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Kidnappers hint more releases possible
...BE! KIT, Lebanon , Shiite Mos
lem kidnappers freed American hos
pital administrator David Jacobsen
on Sunday after holding him for 17
months and said recent U.S. moves
might lead to release of other Amer
ican captives in Lebanon.
Jacobsen, 35, of Huntington Beach.
Calif., was turned over to U.S. offi
cials on a street in Moslem west
Beirut. A U.S. Embassy official, who
insisted on anonymity, said Jacobsen
Church envoy re-emerges from hiding
Negotiator meets free ttostage
LARNACA, Cyprus Anglican
Church envoy Terry Waite, resuming
a shuttle to free foreigners kid
napped in Lebanon, re-emerged Sun
day after dropping out of sight for
two days.
Waite, 47, boarded a U.S. Black
hawk helicopter at the Larnaca air
port Sunday and flew to Beirut, the
capital of Lebanon, where he met
with freed American hostage David
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Islamic Jihad, the underground
extremist group that held Jacobsen,
still holds two other Americans,
ui-urnalist Terry A. Anderson and
educator Thomas Sutherland. It said
last year that it killed U.S. diplomat
William Buckley, but no body was
found.
Three other Americans were kid
Jacobsen.
He told The Associated Press in a
telephone interview that he and
Jacobsen talked "for some hours,"
but did not disclose details of their
conversation or where they met.
A U.S. Embassy official in Beirut,
speaking on condition of anonymity,
said Jacobsen was in the embassy
compound. "Our main hope now is
to secure the rapid release of U.S.
New radar
off detecting
WASHINGTON The super-secret Stealth bomber, for
all its vaunted ability to evade radar detection, can be
spotted by at least one type of sophisticated radar now
entering the U.S. arsenal, officials say.
The Pentagon has for years advertised the capabilities of
the new radar the Over-The-Horizon-Backscatter or OTH
B in the course of winning congressional approval to ring
the U.S. coast with an OTH-B network to detect airplanes
and cruise missiles.
Indeed, the Air Force disclosed with some fanfare last
month that it had used its first OTH-B radar unit to track
President Reagan's Air Force One all the way to Iceland for
his recent summit meeting.
The ability of an OTH-B system to detect Stealth aircraft,
however, is one capability about which the Pentagon and
Air Force have remained quiet. '
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said
they were willing to discuss the matter because while an
OTH-B system can detect Stealth aircraft, such detection
poses no threat because of the way the bombers would be
used.
Since the Pentagon does not envision using its bombers
for surprise first-strike raids, it is not concerned about
OTH-B detection.
"What Stealth is intended to do is to fix it so that an
aircraft can deliver its ordnance to a target within the
enemy territory. Now, it's not designedf to keep the other
guy from knowing that the war has started. What you want to
do is counter the things that are going to shoot at you and
kill you," said one ranking defense official.
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napped Frank Herbert Reed,
Joseph James Cicippio and Edward
Austin Tracy and other groups
claimed to be holding them. Chris
tian radio stations and television
reported over the previous two days
that six kidnapped Americans and
two of eight French hostages would
Jacobsen was director of the Amer
ican University Hospital in west Bei
rut when he was kidnapped off the
street by six men on May 18, 1985.
and other hostages," Waite said,
without elaboration.
Waite, a church layman who has
worked for more than a year to free
Americans and others held captive
in Lebanon, flew to Larnaca Friday
night, but then dropped out of sight
until Sunday. Conflicting accounts
of his whereabouts emerged in the
interim, including that he had been
in Damascus, Syria.
system capable
Stealth bomber
Experts: European weapons cuts
would give Soviets edge over NATO
WASHINGTON Eliminating all
nuclear weapons without building up
NATO forces would give the Soviet
Union an overwhelming edge in Europe
and the ability to conquer that conti
nent quickly, say congressional, Pen
tagon and West European experts.
"We will need a massive build-up in
conventional weapons if we have no
nuclear deterrent," said the author of a
congressional study on the impact of
arms control proposals advanced at the
stalemated Iceland summit.
The report, which has not been
released, concludes that within two
weeks of mobilization, Soviet-led War
saw Pact forces would have a 2-to-l
edge in firepower over the North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization, counting troops,
planes, tanks and personnel carriers.
NATO could defend Europe even if
the Warsaw Pact held a 1-to-l edge, the
report says, but West European coun
tries over the years have balked at U.S.
calls to increase the size of their forces.
Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev
says President Reagan agreed to the
total elimination of all nuclear wea
pons at the Iceland meeting, and initial
statements by administration spokes
men concurred, r
In Brief
Survey: Nebraskans oppose LB662
LINCOLN Forty-five percent of the Nebraskans questioned in a
newspaper poll last week said they were opposed to a mandatory school
consolidation and finance law.
Thirty-five percent of those surveyed in the Sunday Journal-Star poll
said they supported WM'l which will be on the ballot Tuesday as
Referendum 400. Twenty percent in the poll said they were undecided.
The survey of 449 registered voters was conducted last Sunday through
Wednesday by Research Associates of Lincoln.
LBM2 was" passed in 1983. but opponents collected enough petition
signatures to suspend its operation pending the outcome of the referen
dum vote. If a majority votes against the bill on Tuesday, the legislation
would be repealed.
The bill would require elementary-only districts to consolidate with
districts that have high schools. It would also raise the state sales tax rate
by one cent.
Pesticide use greatest in Nebraska
LINCOLN Nebraska farmers use four times more pesticides than
farmers in other states, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln official said.
Nebraska farmers apply more than 30 million pounds of pesticides per
year, said Roger Gold, head of UNL's entomology department.
One reason for the large amount of pesticide use is that the state has so
much cropland, Gold said. Nebraska has about 17 million acres in major
crops and another 17 million acres in rangeland and pasture, he said.
Gold was one of three UNL professors who addressed the Nebraska
Groundwater Foundation's 1986 symposium on Friday.
Gold said the university is involved in a five-year study of the impact of
chemigation on Nebraska's groundwater. The study is being funded by a
$1 million grant from the Burlington Northern Foundation.
One of the limitations of the OTH-B system is that it
cannot provide any radar coverage within 500 nautical miles
of the transmitter. A Stealth bomber, then, would disappear
off the scope as it approached a coastline, allowing a
change in course or other evasive tactics.
"Nonetheless, it's true a functioning OTH-B system could
detect these planes at range and at least attempt to scram
ble fighters to find them," added one official .... "We think
Stealth could get through to perform its mission."
Stealth is a variety of technologies, combined toward the
goal of reducing an airplane's "visibility" to radar. A Stealth
plane avoids sharp angles; uses special radio-energy absorb
ing materials, and attempts to blend engines into the
fuselage.
But the White House now says that
Reagan had in mind a deal that would
have maintained the nuclear deterrent
in Europe, and that appears to be the
only formulation acceptable to U.S. and
NATO military officials.
Pentagon spokesmen, asked to des
cribe how eliminating all nuclear wea
pons would affect the balance of power
in Europe, said they were on White
House orders not to comment.
They are on record, however, as say
ing that the Soviet Union enjoys a sig
nificant edge in non-nuclear forces in
Europe and that without the nuclear
thret, the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty
Organization probably could not with
stand Soviet attack.
European leaders have voiced con
cern over some of the proposals that
the White House says Reagan agreed to
in Iceland, particularly elimination of
intermediate-range nuclear missiles
from Europe.
Reagan and Gorbachev hammered
out a deal whereby all intermediate
missiles would be taken from Europe,
the Soviet Union could keep 100 war
heads aboard medium-range missiles
in Asia and the United States could
retain the same number in America.
Hasenfus
denies link
to CIA
MANAGUA, Nicaragua Cap
tured American mercenary Eugene
Hasenfus told a revolutionary
tribunal Sunday he had no direct
knowledge of CIA links to an air
operation dropping weapons and
other supplies to U.S.-backed
rebels.
Hasenfus acknowledged he
had written and signed a four
page document that the prose
cution has described as a con
fession to charges that he was a
part of the operation.
However, he took exception to
a section of the document deal
ing with alleged Central Intelli
gence Agency involvement in his
activities.
"I do not have the direct
knowledge to definitely, person
ally know that," he said through
an interpreter to the three-member
People's Tribunal trying him
on a charge of terrorism.
Hasenfus, 45, of Marinette,
Wis., was the only survivor of a
C-l 23 cargo plane shot down over
southern Nicaragua on Oct. 5
while on what he has publicly
described as a rebel resupply
mission.
Hasenfus' remarks on Sunday
conflicted with earlier statements
to reporters.
He told reporters after his
capture that two nationalized
Cuban Americans, Max Gomez
and Ramon Medina, worked for
the CIA and assisted about two
dozen other people in the opera
tion out of Ilopango air base in
San Salvador.
He told reporters at the time
that Gomez, also known as Felix
Rodriguez, spoke of ties to Vice
President George Bush. Bush's
office has confirmed he did know
Rodriguez, but said the vice pres
ident had no connection with
operations to supply the Contra
rebels.
The United States maintains
that Nicaragua has thousands of
Cuban military advisers and so
phisticated radar and radio
tracking systems supplied by the
Soviet Union and other commu
nist countries.
Nicaragua does not deny re
ceiving Soviet bloc aid. Most of
the Cuban advisers, it says, do
medical, educational and other
civilian work.