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Police trace flight 103
bomb to tape recorder
LOCKERBIE, Scotland - A
radio-cassette player held the
bomb that brought down Pan Am
Flight 103, but the identity of the
bomber still is not known, the top
investigator of the bombing said
Thursday.
Investigators believe the explo
sive that shattered the Boeing 747
on Dec. 21 was placed aboard the
aircraft in Frankfurt, West Ger
many, where the flight began, said
detective Chief Superintendent
John Orr. It apparently had been
pul on the aircraft as checked bag
gage.
“New positive lines of inquiry
are unfolding,” he told a news
conference in this southwestern
Scottish town where the jumbo jet
crashed, killing all 259 people
aboard and 11 on the ground.
“While there is insufficient
evidence at this stage to establish
the identity of the person or group
responsible for this dreadful crime,
the progress made and the evi
dence obtained has been substan
tial,” Orr said.
Asked whether the investiga
tion would point to a specific coun
try, Oit said: “It may.”
On Feb. 8, the Jerusalem Post
reported the bomb that destroyed
the jet was hidden in a radio-cas
sette recorder and was traced to
Frankfurt.
That report quoted unidentified
investigators as saying the device
was similar, but not identical, to
one found earlier in the possession
of members of Ahmed Jibril’s ex
tremist Popular Front for the Lib
oration of Palestine-General Com
mand. The group has denied in
volvement
Anti-terrorist experts have said
the explosive most likely used was
Semtex, an odorless, highly malle
able substance made in Czechoslo
vakia and known to be used by
terrorist organizations.
The discovery of the bomb's
hiding place followed painstaking
reconstruction of a baggage con
tainer from pieces - some no
larger than a table knife — strewn
over 40 miles of Scottish country
side.
“The reconstruction of the
baggage container suggests that
the explosive device may have
been among the baggage from the
Frankfurt flight,” Orr said.
“The particular bag which
contained the device has not been
identified at this siage, but there is
the most detailed work under way
w ith forensic assistance to achieve
this identification. I believe this
can be done.” he said.
Orr said the belief that Frank
furt was the origin of the bomb was
based on “a balance of probabili
ties. ’ ’ Most of the 1,500 pounds of
baggage in the container in which
the bomb was located was checked
in at Frankfurt, and the rest was
“interline” baggage from other
points.
Flight 103 originated in Frank
furt on a Boeing 727, At London’s
Heathrow Airport, the New York
bound flight was changed to a
Boeing 747.
Leaders rebuke Winnie Mandela
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
- Anti-apartheid leaders gave an
unprecedented rebuke to Winnie
Mandela on Thursday, saying she has
betrayed the trust of the black com
munity and kept bodyguards who
waged a 4 ‘reign of terror’ ’ in Soweto.
The influential activists accused
Mrs. Mandela, wife of jailed African
National Congress leader Nelson
Mandela and once called the
“Mother of the Nation,’’ of “violat
ing human rights ... in the name of
the struggle against apartheid."
The strongly worded statement
was the first public repudiation of
Mrs. Mandela by the senior leader
ship of the anti-apartheid movement
They accused her of complicity in th<
abduction and assault of a 14-year
old black activist, Slompie Seipei
whose decomposed body was founc
dumped in Soweto last month.
Mrs. Mandela, in the few public
statements she has made, denied she
was at home when the teen-ager anc
four men were abducted to her house
on Dec. 29 by members of Mandels
United who act as her unofficia
bodyguards. But she has defended
the abduction, saying the four wen
taken to protect them from sexua
abuse at a Methodist church resi
dence where they were staying ii
Soweto.
North lawyer blasts trial rules
WASHINGTON - The Supreme
Court lifted its stay delaying the start
of Oliver North’s trial Thursday, but
North's lawyers complained he can
not get a fair trial under a deal struck
by his prosecutor and the attorney
general for handling testimony in
volving national secrets.
“Defendant North still faces two
governments, rather than a single
prosecutor with full power to make
all trial decisions,” said Brendan
Sullivan, the head of North’s defense
team, in papers filed with U.S. Dis
trict Judge Gerhard A. Gesell.
The Supreme Court, meanwhile,
lifted a stay that had been requested
by Attorney General Dick Thorn
burgh while he was still arguing with
independent counsel Lawrence
Walsh over whether rules on disclos
ing classified information were light
enough.
There was no word from Gesell
when he would summon jurors, who
are already selected, to his court to
begin the trial of the former Marine
lieutenant colonel and White House
aide.
The newest Thornburgh-Walsh
arrangement “would impose intoler
able burdens on the court, the wit
nesses, and the jurors,” Sullivan said.
He asked Gesell to tell the attorney
general he can take action to dismiss
the entire case or any of the 12 crimi
nal charges but that he will not “have
the right or the opportunity to inter
vene in the trial.”
Sullivan recalled that Gesell had
said earlier in the week that Thorn
burgh would have no right to inter
vene “by bits and pieces’ ’ to object to
the introduction of classified mate
rial. But Sullivan said the new ar
rangement does give Thornburgh that
ability.
Under the arrangement an
nounced Wednesday, Walsh agreed
to ask Thornburgh for an affidavit
whenever Walsh believed undis
ciosable secrets were about to be
spilled in the trial. The attorney gen
eral would stay out of the courtroom
while the independent counsel car
ried the battle.
“Under the independent coun
sel’s proposed plan, said Sullivan,
the attorney general will have the
right to step in “whenever the going
gets tough, precisely what the court
has forbidden him from doing.”
In response, Walsh said North's
lawyer is under a misconception of
how the prosecutorial plan will work.
“The day-to-day conduct of this
case will be by the independent coun
sel and only the independent coun
sel,” he said. He likened his relation
ship with the Justice Department to
that of a lawyer who checks with his
client “to find out whether some
supervening policy requires a termi
nation of the litigation.”
Sullivan said the new arrangement
would guarantee frequent interrup
tions, as challenges arc made and
resolved.
“This procedure will recur con
stantly during the trial - possibly
even question- by-question for a criti
cal witness,” he said, 'Defendant
North cannot receive a fair trial if the
attorney general is permitted to inter
vene in the trial through bits and
pieces of affidavit as the independent
counsel's plan contemplates.”
Gescll called a closed hearing lor
mid-afternoon to discuss what the
jury can be told about secret Reagan
administration efforts to get help
from other countries for the Contras
fighting the leftist Nicaraguan gov
ernment.
Sullivan says the “quid pro quo”
arrangements -- literally, somcthing
for-someihing -- arc at the heart of the
case. The government is willing to
make limited disclosures about the
matter, but North’s lawyers want to
explore the schemes in greater detail
at his trial.
In nearly three weeks, the North
trial has not progressed beyond pick
ing a jury of nine women and three
men. The jurors, who have not yet
been sworn, have been excused while
a high-stakes legal drama over na
tional security matters has been
played out in Gcsell’s courtroom, the
U.S. Court of Appeals and the Su
preme Court.
North is accused of shredding evi
dence and lying to Congress to cover
up the Reagan administration’s at
tempts to help the rebels during a
period in which Congress had banned
direct U.S. aid.
He faces 12 criminal charges.
Guerillas bomb sieged Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan - Moslem
guerrillas fired a barrage of rockets
into the capital today, one day after
the Soviets completed their troop
withdrawal, and seven people were
l reported killed and six wounded.
Also today, the foreign minister
said the government has asked the
United Nations to set up outposts
alona the border with Pakistan to
check the flow of arms to Moslem
guerrillas.
In the attack on Kabul by U.S.
backed guerrillas, one rocket landed
outside a house in western Kabul,
killing three children playing in the
street, a Foreign Ministry spokesman
1 said. Another young girl was killed
and her mother’s legs were blown off
! but she survived, the spokesman said.
I Less than a half mile away, a
• rocket struck near a power transmis
i sion station, killing a bus driver and
two men, the official said. Five
people were injured in the rocket at
tack, said the spokesman, who de
manded anonymity.
In his comments today, Foreign
Minister Abdul Wakil also accused
Britain, France and other Western
nations opposed to Afghanistan's
Marxist government of blocking
emergency airlifts of food into
Kabul, which is facing severe short
ages. An official with the United
Nations, which is coordinating the
airlift, declined to comment on
Wakil’s statement.
Some Western officials have pre
dicted that the Afghan army will be
unable to prevent Kabul and other
major Afghan cities from being taken
by Pakistani-based Moslem guerrilla
forces now that the Soviet forces are
gone.
At a news conference, Wakil reit
erated allegations President Najib
made over the weekend that Pakistan
is planning to invade the eastern city
of Jalalabad.
He said Afghanistan has asked the
U.N. Good Office Mission to Af
ghanistan and Pakistan to set up out
posts near six towns along the border.
The agency, UNGOMAP, monitors
compliance with the Geneva accord
signed in April that paved the way for
the withdrawal of an estimated
115,000 Red Army troops and called
on Afghanistan and Pakistan to stop
interfering in each other’s internal
affairs.
“We have requested that UNGO
MAP establish outposts along the
border to prevent the open transport
of arms, ammunition and other
deadly weapons into Afghanistan
from Pakistan," he said.
Wakil also blamed Western coun
tries for blocking an emergency air
lift of food, medicine and blankets
into Kabul.
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Rushdie bounty doubled
Britain protested to Iran on
Thursday over Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini’s orders to kill Salman
Rushdie, the author of “The Sa
tanic Verses,” and religious stu
dents in Iran threatened suicide
attacks on him.
The bounty for killing the In
dian-bom writer was doubled to
$5.2 million, and Britain’s airlines
- including British Airways -
tightened security following bomb
threats against some flights.
The death threats against
Rushdie, whose book has been
denounced across the Moslem
world as blasphemous, were called
’’appalling” by the U.S. State
Department. A leading Islamic
theologian who opposes the book
said in Egypt that Khomeini erred
by not giving Rushdie a chance to
repent.
Rushdie, a naturalized Briton
whose novel has sparked violent
protests from Islamic fundamen
talists, has canceled a promotional
tour for the book in the United
Stales and remains in hiding with
his American wife, Marianne
Wiggins. Published reports said
they were under police guard in
Britain.
Moslems say the allegorical
novel offends their faith by satiriz
ing the prophet Mohammed as fal
lible; implying that Islam is not the
only true religion; portraying
Mohammed's wives as prostitutes;
and suggesting he wrote the Koran,
rather than receiving it from God.
The British Foreign Office
summoned Iran's lone diplomat in
Britain, told him Khomeini's
threat was "totally unaccept
able," demanded spkial protec
tion for its Tehran Embassy, and
froze plans to expand diplomatic
relations with the Islamic state.
"We recognize that Moslems
and others may have strong views
about the contents of Mr.
Rushdie's book," British Foreign
Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said
after his office summoned Iranian
Charge d’Affaires Mohammed
Basti.
"However, nobody has the
right to incite people to violence
on British soil or against British
citizens. Ayatollah Khomeini's
statement is totally unaccept
able."
Howe stopped short of threaten
ing to break diplomatic relations.
But in an address to a Foreign Press
Association luncheon he said "a
stable and serious relationship...
will not be possible while Iran fails
to respect international standards
of behavior,"
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