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MORONI, Comoros Islands (AP)
—Rescue workers pulled bodies from
the partially submerged wreckage of a
hijacked Ethiopian jetliner Sunday,
covered the dead with white sheets and
ferried them to shore in small boats.
The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767
with 175 people aboard ran out of fuel
and crashed in the Indian Ocean on Sat
urday after three hijackers, battling the
pilot for control of the plane, refused
to let him land at a neartjy airport.
Officials said 52 people survived
tjie crash and 123 others were-feared
dead. T\vo hijackers were arrested and
the third was presumed to have died in
Ihecrash."
Island residents'and tourists risked
the rough waters to search for victims
and to rescue injured passengers from
the sea about 500 yards from shore.
Co-pilot Yonas Mekuria said the hi
jackers refused to allow the pilot to
land at the airport in Moroni, about five
miles from the crash site, even though
he was insisting the plane was running
out of fuel.
“He wanted to go there, but they
wouldn’t let him,” Mekuria said. “It
was pretty bizarre. I didn’t know what
they were doing. They were interfer
ing with procedures, grabbing at the in
struments. They snatched the radio
from the jack.”
In his fast message to the passen
gers, Capt. Leuf Abate said he had lost
one engine, the plane was out of fucl
and he was going to ditch in the ocean.
“People were screaming, some
were praying,” said Bisrat Alemu, an
Ethiopian passenger who was going to
Nairobi.
The hijackers commandeered
Flight 961 shortly after it took off from
the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on
a flight to Abidjan, Ivory Coast with
stops in Nairobi, Kenya; Brazzaville,
Congo; and Lagos, Nigeria.' .
Bisrat said the hijackers began to
yell inside the aircraft, then stormed
onto th$ flight deck. Shortly after they
took control, the hijackers made an
announcement in Ambaric.the Ethio
pian language. .-'I-*
“They said, 'We escaped from
prison. We are against the government.
We are hijacking the plane. We have
an explosive. If anybody moves, we’ll
explode it,’” Bisrat said.
The three hijackers were armed
with something they said was a bomb,
an ax and a fire extinguisher.
Mekuria, the co-pilot, said one ap
peared drunk and carried a bottle of
whiskey that he apparently looted from
the duty-free cart on the plane. He said
the hijackers’ only demand was that
they be flown to Australia.
The Boeing 767 crashed around
midday near the Galawa Beach Hotel,
a tropical resort 25 miles north of the
capital, Moroni, on the main island of
Grande Comore.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy
in Nairobi, Kenya, said Sunday that
four Americans were aboard the air
craft, three of whom survived.
The U.S. consul-general in
Bombay, India, Frank-Huddle, and his
wife, Shania, were among the survi
vors, said Carrie Newton, the duty of
ficer at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi,
India.
Further information on the condi
tion of the survivors or identities were
unavailable.
Jacques Fai vre, French head of civil
defense on the Indian Ocean island of
La Reunion, said a team of 17 divers
assisted in the search effort Sunday.
“I’m not on site, but I think there’s
not much hope” of finding more survi
vors, he said.
Other survivors also were expected
to arrive in Nairobi on Sunday.
Presidents to have summits
Clinton, Chinese leader agree meeting was positive
I j %MANILA, Philippines (AP)+—
I -Trying to gate* a, stormy relationship,
President Clihtdn and Chinese Presi
dent Jiang Zemin agreed Sunday to
exchange presidential visits over the
next two years.
Clinton raised U.S. concerns over
human rights, but did not press Jiang
about specific cases. According to
spokesman Mike McCurry, Clinton
told Jiang: “It’s important that we work
to remove irritants in our relationship,
but we need to be as honest and can
did in dealing with our differences as
we can with respect to human rights.”
In a reversal, the administration
said it would not set any conditions for
1 the summits* as progress pin dis
putes over hftfrian rights; trade m
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group expressed dismay.
“In the rush to engagement, concern
about human rights is being left be
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hind ” said Human Rights Watch-Agia
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human rights in China but it wasn’t
unexpected” He called it telling that
Clinton did ootfnention any dissidents
byname.
The timing and sequence of die
presidential summits will be deter
mined later. McCuny said the two lead
ers agreed the sensitive relationship
between the two nations “needs regu
lar high-level visits.”
One state visit will be during 1997.
The second will be in 1998. Vice Presi
dent A1 Gore will lead off the good
will visits by going to Beijing in the
1 “vijjj
Wetfclf Was a'gObdmeeting and I think
-that the next steps are appropriate.” He
said he was “very much” looking for
ward to visiting China.
Chinese^Foreign Ministry spokes
as “friendly, positive and constructive”
— the most-glowing terms used, by
Beijing to describe contacts with
Washington in at least 18 months.
The last president tovisit China was
George Bush in February 1989.
Jiang had been seeking reciprocal
visits to bolster his standing in the
struggle over the successor to Deng
Xiaoping as China’s supreme leader.
White House officials described the
meeting’s mood as serious and busi
nesslike, sprinkled with light moments.
Jiang, for instance, commented on
Cjinton’^lha^se voice and suggested
On a major trade issue, a senior
U.S. official said there was no concrete
progress on China’s push to join the
World Trade Organization, the
Geneva-based group that sets the rules
for global trade. The United States has
blocked the effort, arguing that China
has not done enough to dismantle trade
barriers.
Mother Teresa hospitalized
CALCUTTA, India (AP) —
Mother Teresa was in stable condition
at a Calcutta hospital Saturday and re
sponding well to medication for heart
{rouble, her heart doctor said.
{ The 86-year-old Nobel laureate
slept most of the day, said Dr. ASim
Bardhan, cardiologist at the Wood
lands Nursing Rone where Mother
Teresa hras taken Friday.
Doctors have been allowing her
fruit juice and stew, and administering
antibiotics and drugs to stabilize her
heartbeat, Bardhan said.
It was the fourth time this year that
the Roman Catholic nun has been ad
mitted to the hospital. The latest hos
pitalization came after she complained
of chest pains early Friday.
Mother Teresa has been diagnosed
with acute left ventricular heart failure
— a failure of one of the four cham
bers of the heart to properly pump
blood, causing an irregular heartbeat
and weak blood pressure.
On Friday, about 150 nuns and vol
unteers from her order, the Missionar
ies of Charity, assembled at her home
and prayed for her quick recovery.
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