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Exploding ammo dump kills 60 in India
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A
huge ammunition dump exploded
Sunday, sending flames 500 feet into
the air and grenades and anti-aircraft
missiles screaming in all directions.
Officials said more than 60 people
were killed and almost 800
wounded.
The Pakistani capital looked like a
city at war after the exploding dump
showered it and adjacent Rawalpindi
with weapons of all shapes and
sizes.
“It’s the worst disaster we’ve ever
had in Islamabad, said an emergency
room doctor at the National Medical
Institute as he directed ambulances
with a bullhorn.
Prime Minister Mohammad Khan
Junejo ordered a high-level investiga
tion into the blast, which officials said
was apparently caused by a fire.
Casualty counts were still unoffi
cial Sunday night in the twin cities,
which have a combined population of
more than 4.5 million.
“Our hearts are broken and our
eyes are welled up,” said President
Monammaaz,ia ui-naa in a statement
from Kuwait, where he was to attend
an Islamic summit
He announced he would return
immediately to Islamabad.
The initial explosion occurred at
9:55 a.m. shortly after the start of the
Moslem work week.
Within minutes, hundreds of gre
nades and missiles took off, some
landing and exploding more than six
miles away. For the next 35 minutes,
projectiles whizzed overhead, slam
ming into building and roads.
Hijackers hurt captive atter massacre threat
LARNACA, Cyprus — The hi
jackers of a Kuwaiti jumbo jet started
to hurt passengers Sunday after au
thorities refused to refuel the plane
and release pro-Iranian bombers
imprisoned in Kuwait, the flight engi
neer said.
In Lebanon, a pro-Iranian group
threatened to kill American and
French hostages if any attempt was
made to storm the plane.
The statement from the Islamic
Jihad was delivered to the Reuters
news agency in West Beirut, along
with photographs of journalists Terry
Anderson, an American, and Jean*
Paul Kauffmann, of France.
“To the families of the hostages,
we declare that,we shall execute the
Western captives in Lebanon if the
plane and holy warrior (hijackers)
aboard is subjected to any military
foolhardiness,” the statement said.
In Cyprus, the Arab hijackers, who
have killed one passenger since seiz
ing the plane Tuesday, threatened to
kill their captives in a “slow and quiet
massacre.”
The hijackers also threatened to
force the pilot to take off and crash
into the royal palace.
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More than 1,000 arrested in Los Angeies
LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 people were arrested in a
weekend police blitz against drug dealers and street gangs responsible
for waves of violence mat have been claiming hundreds of lives a year
in the City of Angels. _ ..
A1,000-officer task force flooded streets in gang areas Fhday night,
and Police Chief Daryl Gates ordered he officers out again Saturday ;
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It was the department’s biggest attack ever on gangs, which special
ize in the cocaine trade and were blamed for 205 killing in the city of
Los Angeles last year. Gang killings in all of Los Angeles County
reached 387 last year. . _
About half of the special force, formed by putting officers on
overtime at a cost of $150,000 a day, went to augment regular patrols j
in the south-central area, where gangs are the most active. The rest of 1
the officers spread out citywide.
Reagan sees Soviet withdrawal as aid to relations
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — President Reagan said Sunday the expected
withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan was “a major contribu- I
lion” to improving East-West relations and pledged continued U.S.
military aid to the Afghan rebels.
Differences over U.S. and Soviet aid to nval faction in Afghanistan 1
had been a major obstacle to negotiations in Geneva on a settlement of
tire eight-year war and the withdrawal of an estimated 115,000 Soviet
troops.
However, the two sides appear tohaveagreedonacompromisfeunder
which the Soviets will continueprovidingaid to the Marxist government
while the United States gives assistance to the anti-communist insur
gents.
Reagan, in a speech to the annual convention of the National
Association'of Broadcasters at a downtown hotel, said he anticipated an
agreement would be signed in Geneva “in the very near future” for a
Soviet withdrawal.
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