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Kidnappers free 77-vear-old British hostage
DAMASCUS, Syria — In another break
through in the hostage crisis, kidnappers freed
77-year-old Briton Jack Mann on Tuesday af
ter holding him for 865 days, and a Shiite
Muslim leader said a U.S. hostage might soon
follow.
Mann was led by officials into a packed
news conference at the Syrian Foreign Minis
try.
“This morning I started another dreadful
day... . I wondered how many more months
I’ve got to stay.. . . I wondered how much
longer, how much longer, how much longer.
Wondering how many more months I’ve got to
stay here, the white-haired, former World
War II pilot said.
Prime Minister John Major of Britain said
he had heard that Mann was “a little unwell,”
and a 10 Downing St. spokesman had said the
government was “disturbed” about reports of
Mann’s health.
U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de
Cuellar has sought a broad exchange involving
the Western hostages, an accounting of five
missing Israeli servicemen and the release of
hundreds of Arabs held by Israel.
“I hope it’s not the end of the release pro
gram,” President Bush said in New York. “There
are many more.... It’s so tragic.” He said the
United States could not have normal relations
with Iran as long as any hostages are held.
Hussein Musawi, a leader of Hezbollah, the
umbrella group for most of the factions holding
Westerners, told reporters in the Bekaa Valley
town of Sohmor: “If things continue to proceed
normally an American hostage will be released.
Maybe within a week or less than a month.”
He said Mann was set free “to facilitate
Perez de Cuellar’s mission. The other side is
required to facilitate his mission too.”
He apparently referred to the kidnappers’
demands that Israel release 20 more Arab pris
oners, or possibly Sheik Abdul-Karim Obeid,
the Hezbollah leader seized by Israeli com
mandos in 1989.
Yossi Olmert, an Israeli government spokes
man, said Mann’s release was a “a positive and
welcome development” He noted that Israel
still seeks word on five missing servicemen
and added: “If more information comes our
way, we will reciprocate.”
Mann was freed at 8:40 p.m. at West Beirut’s
Beau Rivage hotel and turned over to the
Syrian army, Iran’s official Islamic Republic
News Agency said. He was then taken to
Damascus.
At least nine Westerners are still missing in
Lebanon — five Americans, a Briton, two
Germans and an Italian. The longest-held hos
tage in Lebanon is American Terry Anderson,
chief Middle East correspondent for The Asso
ciated Press. He was kidnapped March 16,
1985.
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Gates’ Iran-contra role disputed
WASHINGTON — Two senior
intelligence officials testified Tues
day that in 1986 they clearly laid out
for CIA director-designate Robert
Gates evidence pointing to a White
House diversion of money to Nicara
guan rebels.
The testimony by acting CIA di
rector Richard Kerr and senior agency
analyst Charles Allen differed from
Gales’ assertions that he couldn’t recall
being told of a White House role in
the possible diversion.
The question of what Gates knew
aboutthe 1985-86diversionof money
to the contras from U.S. arms sales to
Iran has been at the heart of the debate
by the Senate Intelligence Commit
tee on whether to confirm Gates.
Officials say he
knew of diversion
Gates has told the committee in
sworn written responses to its ques
tions that “to the best of my recollec
tion, Mr. Allen never mentioned to
me or speculated that anyone in the
U.S. government, including the . . .
White House” was involved in the
diversion, which occurred despite a
legal ban on U.S. aid to the rebels.
Allen told the panel that he had
met with Gates Oct 1, 1986, and
again Oct. 7 to express his growing
concern at increasing signs that a
diversion was occurring.
“Mr. Gates appeared startled and
disturbed that the White House would
involve itself in such dubious activ
ity,” he said.
Gales specifically expressed con
cern at the role played by White House
aide Oliver North, Allen said. Allen
said Gates told him he had always
admired North but that “this was going
too far” if indcod a diversion was
under way.
Allen took his suspicions to Kerr,
who was then the CIA’s director of
analysis. Kerr testified that he passed
Allen’s suspicions to Gates, probably
in August, including the role North
was believed to be playing.
“I clearly mentioned this to Bob
Gates, as well,” Kerr said.
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Official says missiles, troops
are headed for Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON — The United
States will send nearly 100 Patriot
missiles and about 1,300 troops to
Saudi Arabia today, a senior Penta
gon official said Tuesday.
The missiles will depart this morn
ing from Germany, said the official
who spoke on condition of anonym
ity.
“They’re getting ready to go now,”
said the official.
President Bush said last week that
he would provide the missiles to the
Saudis for defensive purposes.
The Saudis requested the weapons
as tensions healed in the Persian Gulf
region in the wake of Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein’s refusal to cooper
ate with U.N. weapons inspectors.
While House spokesman Marlin
Fitz water said Iraq still possessed
several hundred bcud missiles of the
type used against Saudi Arabia dur
ing the Gulf War.”
Bush also made clear that he was
willing to send warplanes back into
the Persian Gulf area if necessary to
allow the U.N. inspectors to go about
their business.
The official said that the U.S.
contingent would be composed of two
Patriot missile battalions.
Each battalion will have 48 mis
siles and will be accompanied by 690
soldiers, the official said.
A formal announcement may be
made “once the deployment starts,”
the official said.
The Pentagon announced last week
that it intended to make the weapons
available from its stocks. The number
and the liming of the deployment
remained uncertain. KT
Crime
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dent of reported motor vehicle thefts
with 27.
“This is not unusual for Norman
compared to the ratio of cars on
campus,” Slone said.
UNL had one of the smallest
numbers of mojor vehicle thefts with
two reported. Cauble attributed the
low figure to parking lots “better
designed to patrol” and to the amount
of time officers spend patrolling these
lots.
Charles Beckom, Kansas State
University police chief, said officers
at KSU deserved credit for the low
number of crimes reported. Located
in Manhattan, Kan., a city with a
population of 37,712, KSU ranked
seventh in the FBI report.
KSU officers have “encouraged
and established a large number of
programs to educate (students) and
protect property,” Beckom said.
KU and KSU reported the most
burglaries because of the state defini
tion of burglary, Beckom and Welsh
said. In Kansas, a burglary is the
“entry into a building, vehicle, plane.
.. for purpose of taking property.” In
Nebraska, entrance into a car is con
sidered larceny.
Auto burglaries have decreased
from past years because of the instal
lation of closed-circuit television
cameras in each parking lot on the
KSU campus, with the main monitor
located in the police department,
Bcckom said.
This installation helped reduce auto
burglaries in 1990 by 50 percent, he
said. If someone docs burglarize a
car, the police department can prose
cute individuals using the videotapes.
Most crimes reported at each uni
versity for 1990 fell into the category
of larceny.
“It is not unusual for theft to be No.
1 — always has,” said John Kish, a
sergeant at the University of Colo
rado at Boulder.
CU’s location near Denver doesn’t
help its larceny crime rates, Kish said.
CU ranked third in crimes reported
with 868; Boulder has a city popula
tion of 83,312.
Cauble said one reason UNL has a
high incident of reported larcenies in
residence halls is because students
often leave their doors unlocked.
And, he said, buildings at UNL
have long hours of accessibility for
students, which contributes to larce
nies.
Jack Watring, an officer at the
University of Missouri at Columbia,
said statistics for all crimes have risen
in the past few years. That increase in
reports may be because students are
now more likely to report crimes, he
said.
MU ranked fifth in the FBI rating.
Columbia has a population of 69,101.
The Iowa State University direc
tor of public safety, Loras Jaeger,
said, “The chief of police shouldn’t
take the blame for the crime rate.
ISU in Ames, Iowa, ranked fifth in
reported crime incidents. Ames has a
population of 47,198.
Jaeger said police chiefs arc criti
cized for increases in crime statistics,
which he said were often simply
because of better education about
reporting crimes.
At ISU, a large number of students
live on campus, which could explain
the number of crimes, Jaeger said.
Ames also is the site of many con
certs, which affects the number ol
crimes committed in parking lots, he
said.
Steve Gahagans, a sergeant at
Oklahoma State University, said the
low number of crimes at OSU is a
result of education and enforcement.
OSU had the lowest number of re
ported crimes of all the Big Eight
schools, with a total of 312.
OSU, in Stillwater, Okla., is not
located near a large metropolitan area;
the population of the city is 36,676.
UNL’s goal would be “to have
zeros in all categories,” but that isn’t I
possible, Cauble said.
“We would like to do the best we I
can do as far as property crimes go,’ I
he said. “If we can stay low in violent I
crimes, then human protection is being 1
done.” 1
