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CJ Wednesday, April 13,1988
Captives swelter in jumbo prison I
LARNACA, Cyprus — For the
dozens of passengers who began their
second week as captives inside a
sweltering jetliner, Flight 422 has
become a journey of terror with
mounting physical and psychological
tensions.
The blue-and-white Boeing 747
was hijacked over India on a flight
from Bangkok to Kuwait eight days
ago, but some of the hostages have
lost track of time.
“It’s been 10 days,” complained
passenger Ahmed al-Gabandi, who
was put on the radio Tuesday by the
hijackers to beg for the release of 17
pro-Iranian bombers imprisoned in
Kuwait, the terrorists’ main demand.
“This is what we’re all waiting
for,” he said plaintively. “We all want
to go home.”
The Boeing landed at Lamaca
Friday after a harrowing flight from
Mashhad in northeast Iran. The vet
eran Iraqi pilot, Capt. Youssef Suphi,
53, frantically radioed he was running
out of fuel after he was refused per
mission to touch down at Beirut and
Damascus.
Since then, the Shiite hijackers,
armed with guns and grenades, have
repeatedly demanded that the jumbo
jet be refueled.
Two captives, their hands tied
behind their backs, have been shot in
the head and their bodies pushed out
of the jet onto the tarmac of the beach
side runway.
“The hostages inside the jet must
be terrified, wondering who will be
next,” said a Cypriot air traffic con
troller, one of a team assigned to
maintain contact with the hijackers.
He asked that his name not be used.
“Every time the hijackers set a new
deadline, each passenger must fear
that maybe he’ II be the one the hijack
ers pick on when it’s not met.”
Passenger Fadel Khaled al-Sabah,
a businessman and cousin of
Kuwait’s emir. Shieik Jaber al
Almed al-Sabah, could barely talk
when the hijackers put him on the
radio to plead for fuel.
“We depend on God for our fate,”
he said in a strained voice after recit
ing a verse from the Koran, Islam’s
holy book.
When he suddenly broke off, the
tower asked what was wrong. One of
the hijackers snapped back in broken
English: “He is sick. He cannot hold
his food. He is vomiting.”
Dukakis, Gore clash in N.Y. debate
Michael Dukakis and Albert Gore
Jr. traded barbs in a New York debate
Tuesday on the Middle East, welfare
cuts and timidity in dealing with fel
low Democrat Jesse Jackson. Repub
lican George Bush said he “can’t wait
to take on” one of them in the fall
campaign.
A week before the pivotal New
York primary, the Democratic battle
was turning into “a bloodletting,”
Bush said, as he moved sedately
toward the GOP nomination that is all
but his.
“We’re warming up for the fall
race,” the vice president said before
tossing out the first ball for a New
York Mets-Montreal Expos game at
Shea Stadium.
“I still intend to campaign right
through the end of the primary sea
son,” Bush said in Schenectady. “I
can ’ t wait to take on whichever one of
those three Democrats wins the
Democratic nomination.”
The balloting in New York next
Tuesday is a foregone conclusion for
the Republicans. But for the Demo
crats, the primary offers rich prizes
and harsh judgments.
For Jackson, it offers another
chance to prove he can attract white
votes and continue the growth of a
mainstream campaign.
“I was an underdog for 45 years
and 11 months, and now I’m one of
the top dogs, and I just love it,”
Jackson said in the New York Daily
News debate. “New York loves a
winner, and I’m a winner_Vote for
a winner. Vote for Jackson action.”
Dukakis, the front-runner in the
polls, is hoping to make it three pri
mary victories in a row and stretch out
his delegate lead with the lion’s share
of the 255 New York delegates at
stake.
On Tuesday in the AP delegate
count, Dukakis has 750.15 votes;
Jackson, 713.1; Gore, 396.8 and un
committed, 506.7.
In search of the 2,082 votes needed
to win the nomination at the Demo
cratic National Convention in July,
Dukakis said he was seeking dele
gates who supported candidates who
have dropped out and even “maybe
for A1 Gore’s delegates.”
“Don’t lick your chops too soon,
Gov. Dukakis,” Gore fired back in the
debate. “New York’s going to have a
bigger say about that than you will.” j
Gore, trailing badly in the polls,
must do well in the April 19 primary
just to keep his campaign alive. L
PTL tries to auction Bakkers9 house
TEGA CAY, S.C. — The troubled PTL ministry tried Tuesday to
auction the home used by former leaders Jim and Tammy Bakker, but
there were no bidders for the plush, million-dollar mansion.
The auction of that home and eight other properties, chiefly homes
used by other ministry officials, raised only a fraction of the $4 million
that ministry officials had hoped for.
The ministry accepted bids on five of the nine properties, raising
about $596,500. The Bakker home attracted no bids, bids on two other
properties were deemed insufficient, and a $425,000 bid on formerPTL
President Richard Dorton’s home is still being considered, said PTL
Trustee David Clark.
Clark said the setback means the ministry based in nearby Fort Mill
will have to re-examine its options for raising $5.3 million by a May 2 I
bankruptcy court deadline.
FAA announces investigation of Boeing
SEATTLE—Federal Aviation Administration officials announced |
an investigation and issued a safety directive following complaints by i
four airlines about alleged defects in Boeing 747 and767 widebody jets.
FAA officials revealed Monday that an “airworthiness directive” on
the 747-200 w as issued Friday because of reports that fuel leaked into
cargo compartments.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes officials refused Monday to respond
to the airline complaints or comment on the FAA action, but said they •
would hold a news conference later.
Airlines, Boeing and FAA officials have noted that none of the I
defects cited to date has been linked to a crash or other major damage, J
but the directive warned, "Fuel in this (cargo) compartment could result
in a fire and substantial damage/*
The directive said the leaks were caused by loose or broken bolts that :
attach fuel tanks to the wings and called for immediate repairs.
Catholic priest sentenced in Offutt protest
OMAHA — A Roman Catholic priest from Iowa and an Omaha |
woman were sentenced to six months in jail Tuesday for their part in an
anti-nuclear weapons demonstration at Offutt Air Face Base.
The Rev. Frank Cordaro of Logan, Iowa, and Joyce Glenn, 37, were j
issued the maximum penalty by U.S. Magistrate Richard Kopf for
trespassing on the military base.
Cordaro, who bid farewell to about 150 parishioners at his St. Anne j
Catholic Church on Monday night, made a statement to Kopf after j
answering a series of questions about previous convictions and sen
tences for re-entering the military base.
“Judge, you are on the wrong side of history. Folks are going to keep
coming back at you/* Cordaro said.
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White House angry
over Speakes quotes
given to reporters
WASHINGTON —The While House said Tuesday
that President Reagan was upset and it was an “out
rage” that former presidential spokesman Larry
Speakes had made up quotes and given them to report
ers as Reagan’s words.
“Everyone is appalled that he made up quotes,” said
spokesman Marlin Fitz water, who replaced Speakes 14
months ago.
In a kiss-and-tell book that has roiled While House
officials, Speakes disclosed that he made up a widely
reported statement that was attributed to Reagan dur
ing his first summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gor
bachev in 1985.
In another instance, when a Korean Air Lines
passenger jet was shot down by the Soviets in 1983, the
president had almost nothing to say” during meetings
with the Cabinet and congressional leaders, Speakes
said. So, he said, he took statements made by Secretary
of State George P. Shultz and attributed them to
Reagan.
I iuwd«.i, ai a news orienng dominated by ques
tions about Speakes’ revelation, blasted his predeces
sor, who in his six years as White House spokesman had
boasted that he never lied to the press.
‘‘It's a damned outrage, that’s what it is,”Fitzwater
said. I resent it somuch. It casts asperions on the presi
dency and on my position . . . It’s wrong. . T. he
shouldn’t have done itand... 1 won’t do it,” Fitzwatcr
said.
He said he had not talked to the president, “but I’m
sure he would be upset about it. I’m sure he is.”
Conservative leaders who met with Reagan on
1 uesday also were angry.
I think Larry Spcakcs has done a disservice to the
president,” said Peter Flancrty, chairman of Citizens
for Reagan.
Paul Weyrich, head of the Free Congress Founda
tion, said, “The president is ill-served by all of these
people who are in public service and then write books
theminute they get out and reveal things that ought not
to dc revealed.
“All they ’re in it for is making a buck... and frankly
said °Ughl l° ** ashamcd of themselves,” Weyrich
Spcakcs had no reaction to the White House state
ments. I d be better off not to comment,” he said in a
telephone interview from New York, where he is vice
president for communications at Merrill Lynch Corp.
...
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chancellor Martin Massengale was
misquoted in a story about the UNL
Air Force ROTC program (DN, April
12). Massengale was quoted as saying
UNL was the only Nebraska college
with an Air Force ROTC program.
Massengale said UNL offers other
academic programs that Air Force
ROTC cadets can enroll in that other
Nebraska colleges do not offer.
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