NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, March 28, 1984
Page 12
Three men hijack plane to Havana
By United Press International
MIAMI — Three men hijacked a Newark-to-Miami Mieddow Airlines jet with 57 people aboard yesterday, threatened to blow up the plane, demanded a $500,000 ransom and forced the pilot to fly to Cuba.
The plane, Piedmont flight 451, landed safely at Jose Marti Airport in Havana at 3:24 p.m. EST, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Less than two hours later it took off again on a flight to Miami.
A State Department spokesman in Washington reported that the hijackers were taken into custody by Cuban authorities as soon as the plane landed. They were not aboard the plane on the return flight.
A Piedmont spokesman said the plane, which carried 52 passengers and a crew of five before the hijacking, left Havana at 5:20 p.m. EST.
Jack Barker, an FAA spokesman,
said the plane, which originated in
Newark with stops in Charlotte, N.C.,
and Charleston, S.C. was about five
weeks from Miami International
Airport when it was ordered to fly
to Cuba.
Yesterday's hijacking was the second involving a U.S. airliner this year. The first occurred Feb. 11 when a Haitian soldier armed with a machine gun and hand greases a gun to a British convoy. 727 en route from Haiti to New York and demanded political asylum. He was charged with air piracy.
He said that the flight was hijacked about 2:30 p.m. EST by three males who asked for a $500,000 ransom.
It was the first hijacking in 1894 to Cuba. There were 11 hijackings in 1883, plus two attempts foiled by angry passengers and crew members.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Guinean President Ahmed Koure Toulou, known as "The Elephant" for his 28 years of strongman rule, died during heart surgery at a Cleveland clinic, officials announced yesterday. His death left a power vacuum in his West African nation.
By United Press International
Guinean president dies in surgery
Under Sekou Toure, 62, Guinea in 1988 became the first African nation to win independence from France, but his tough, one-man leadership was his most successful in its later years for human rights abuses that reportedly drove a million citizens into exile.
Louis Lansana Beavogui, prime minister since 1972, took over as acting president following a 2 a.m. council meeting of the Democratic Party of Guinea, but there was no obvious successor.
A spokesman at the Cleveland Clinic said Sekou Toure died Monday afternoon at the clinic after doctors replaced his aorta.
The announcement was delayed until yesterday to give the Guinean government time to break the news to the West African nation's 5 million people. A 40-day mourning period went into effect immediately.
Guinean government officials and family members made arrangements
to return the president's body yesterday via a specially equipped plane provided by King Fahd of Saudia Arabia, the same aircraft that flew Sekou Toure to the United States Monday for heart surgery.
In Washington, the State Department described Sekou Toure as "an inter-mental leader."
In the past, Amnesty International had accused his government of widespread human rights violations that spurred the flight on foot of an estimated八十 million字符 to neighbouring countries. He was jailed and executed hundreds of countrymen suspected of threatening his personal hold on the country.
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