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Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Thursday, January 22, 1937 .New Digest - - - "Lj.- By The Associated Press ID) 1LW esLg&in to appear before mves tigaiSive' panel. WASHINGTON A commission in vestigating U.S. arms sales to Iran iiml National Security Council operations on Wednesday nailed down an appoint ment with President Koagan and won three more weeks to finish its work. adviser I'rcnt Seowcroft. Reagan is expected to answer pane lists' questions about his recollections of how t he program of clandestine arms sales program transpired, Speakessaid. The three member board was named nearly 40 officials and former officials and plans to interview 15 or 20 more, he said. The panel plans meetings later this week with former presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, said its While the panel headed by former by the president on Dec. 1 less than spokesman, Herbert E. Hctu Sen. John Tower interviewed former President Jimmy Carter in Plains, Ga., White House spokesman Larry Speak es revealed that Reagan will meet with the commission next Monday. Speakes said Reagan is expected to review White House files with counsel Peter J. Wallison before the session with Tower and two other panel mem bers, former Secretary of State Kdmrnd S. Muskie and former national secunt ; a week after Attorney General Edwin Meese III revealed that some proceeds from the arms sales had been diverted toNicaraguan rebels. Speakes said the deadline was exten ded to Feb. 19 at the board's request "due to the large amount of . . . docu ments that the White House and others have provided them" and the need to interview more witnesses. The board so far has interviewed Reagan held his second meeting Wednesday with David Abshire, the retiring U.S. ambassador to NATO, whom he called home to serve as his special counselor on the arms sales issue. Abshire was scheduled later Wednes day to meet privately with Sens. Daniel K. Inouye, D-IIawaii, and Warren Rud man, R-N.H., the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate select commit tee probing the Iran-Contra affair. In other developments . . . Speakes said top White House officials have discussed "what might be done" in the event CIA Director William J. Casey is not well enough to return to work. But the spokesman said no search is under way for a successor for Casey, 73, who had a tumor removed from his brain on Dec. 18. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., following a two-hour private meeting with Deputy CIA Director Robert Gates, told reporters he believes the agency's advice and intelligence on Iran had been ignored by administration policymakers. Speakes said no decision had been made on whether the president would have a lawyer or other aides with him in the meeting. He said it would be up to the board whether to include a transcript of the meeting in its report. Hetu said the board does not plan to include transcripts of its interviews. News agency: 2nd West German kidnapped in Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite has been meeting in a secret place with kidnappers who hold two Americans hos tage, one of bis escorts said Wednesday night, more t han 24 hours aft er Waite dropped out of sight. A second West German disappeared, appar ently abducted. "Mr. Waite is having a meeting with the hostage-holders," said Jihad Zohairi, spokesman for Walid Jumblatt's Druse militia, which is responsible for Waite's security. Another Druse official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Waite would be allowed to "see and converse" with American hostages Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland during his talks with the captors. The pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem group says it holds Anderson, chief Middle East correspond ent of The Associated Press, "and Sutherland, acting dean of agriculture at the American Uni versity of Beirut. An anonymous telephone caller to a Western news agency in Beirut said Wednesday that a second West German was kidnapped overnight in Moslem west Beirut. "We kidnapped last night German national Alfred Schmidt in the vicinity of the Summer land Hotel," the caller said in Lebanese-accented Arabic, then hung up. Abductions of West Germans are believed to be linked with the arrest of a Lebanese man in West Germany and the U.S. request that he be extradited for trial in the 1985 hyacking of a TWA jetliner. UllLJ! J!)U JO'dLi uJ3 !J H t 3 i IF' " j f v. big game is just about to start. It's the one you've been waiting for. You're pumped. You're fired up. You're hungry. You're going to have to make a run for it. So call in your order to Pizza Hutr Grab your coupon (no penalty for clipping). 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Officials of the United Democratic Front anti-apartheid coalition accused the Zulu movement Inkatha of attack ing the home of Willie Ntuli, father of a prominent UDF member, in revenge for recent killings of Inkatha followers. Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of In katha and chief minister of the Kwa Zulu homeland, said in a statement the deaths. were "probably a continuation of the internecine clashes" between rival black groups in Natal province. Much of that fighting has been between Inkatha and the UDF. Durban police spokesman Charl du Toit said Ntuli, 50, was among the vic tims and five of the children killed by the unidentified gunmen were aged 7 or younger. ' r: -j ilaj. du Toit said two people were wounded by the spray of fire from AK-47 assault rifles. A 10-year-old boy escaped injury by hiding in a closet, but four of his brothers and sisters were killed, du Toit said. He said police were using tracker dogs to hunt the killers in the Kwa Makhuta black township near Aman zimtoti, 15 miles south of Durban. It was one of the worst reported instances of violence in months. More than 2,200 people have been killed in political and racial unrest since September 1984. Joseph Gumbi, an official of the anti apartheid coalition in Durban, said Ntuli's son Vincent is a leading member of the Kwa-Makhuta Youth League, which is - affiliated ' with the United Democratic Front. He said Vincent probably was the main target, but he went into hiding last week and was not in the house. ' : .... In Brief India's erotic temples develop cracks NEW DELHI, India India's ancient erotic sculptures at the famous Khajuraho temples are developing cracks because of poor maintenance and vibrations caused by aircraft, an Indian news agency said Monday. Villagers also have occupied lands near the Hindu shrines in Madhya radesh state, crowding and polluting the 10th century temples, the United News of India reported. S.N. Dubey, the state conservation officer, told the news agency that the cracks in the temples would be filled after March under a new conservation program. Khajuraho, a village of about 3,000 people, is a popular tourist spot, and planes fly in daily from New Delhi. More than 200,000 tourists, including 42,748 foreigners, visited Khaju raho last year. Air, rail industries may have drug tests WASHINGTON The Transportation Department will impose a broad random drug-testing program for the aviation industry, propose similar testing for railroad employees and test 26,500 of its own workers as well, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said Wednesday. Dole said in an interview that random testing for railroad workers would have to be approved by Congress. 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