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Arab hijackers kill second captive
LARNACA, Cyprus — Arab hi
jackers on Monday killed a second
hostage, tossed his bloody body from
a Kuwaiti jet and threatened tokill the
rest of the nearly 50 captives if the
plane wasn’t refueled.
The gunmen said the dead man
was a “Kuwaiti officer.” He was the
second of three Kuwaiti military men
aboard Kuwait Airways jet that the
hijackers have slain during the
wecklong ordeal.
The hijackers have demanded that
Kuwait release 17 pro-Iranian terror
ists convicted in 1984 for bombing
the U.S. and French embassies in
December 1983.
Sources close to the negotiations
said, however, that the hijackers on
Monday demanded freedom only for
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the three men among the 17 who have
been sentenced to death. Kuwait
apparently rejected the modified
demand.
In Kuwait, Foreign Minister Sheik
Sabah al-Ahmcd al-Sabah said his
country is prepared to lose more hos
tages rather than give in to terrorism.
“We will try our utmost to protect
our dear ones aboard the plane, but we
will not surrender to any blackmail,
even if we lose more of them,” he told
a news conference.
There arc 52 people aboard the
Boeing 747, including three members
of the Kuwaiti royal family, as well as
the hijackers, who arc masked by blue
hoods fashioned from airline pillow
cases and armed with grenades and
handguns.
Sabah said there are at least eight
hijackers, all of them Arabs, carrying
forged passports.
He sidestepped a question about
whether the jet would be stormed,
saying that was a matter for the Cyp
riot authorities since the plane was on
their territory.
The man killed Monday was
pushed from the blue-and-white
plane at 3:07 p.m. (8:07 a.m. EDT)
after Cypriot officials ignored two
deadlines to refuel the jet. An ambu
lance picked up the body 30 minutes
later.
Doctors at Lamaca morgue said he
had suffered injuries to the side of his
face, apparently from a beating. They
said he had been shot twice in the head
at close range.
Democrats tackle policy
Michael Dukakis said Monday
that Arab leaders are “responsible for
the turmoil and the violence” in
Israel’s occupied territories as Demo
cratic presidential candidates
wrestled with Middle East policy,
looking for the right moves for vic
tory in New York.
Jesse Jackson, often attacked for
what critics call pro-Arab stands,
continued to distance himself from
the Palestine Liberation Organization
by saying that allowing extremists at
the bargaining table would be a “for
mula for catastrophe.”
Albert Gore Jr., who earlier ex
changed sharp words with fellow
Democrats on the Middle East, look a
conciliatory line. He also admitted he
has to do well in the April 19 New
York primary to continue in the race.
Republican nominee-apparent
George Bush got back on the trail
Monday, visiting an IBM research
facility in New York and proclaiming
his strong support for Israel as a rea
son for Jews to back his candidacy.
‘‘I think everyone should vote for
me. Besides that, I’m a good friend of
Israel,” Bush said.
The vice president brushed off
concerns that the all-but-concluded
GOP contest could drop him out of the
voters’ eyes as the Democrats con
tinue to fight. ‘‘We don’t have all the
excitement that exists on the Demo
cratic side of the aisle, but we have a
lot more unity and fewer problems,”
he said.
For Pat Robertson, Bush’s only
remaining challenger, there were new
problems. The Internal Revenue
Service asked for a court hearing
Tuesday on whether Robertson’s
campaign had complied with IRS
demands for documents in a compli
cated investigation of the former tele
vision evangelist’s organizations.
The campaign said it has complied.
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