University Daily Kansan, November 22, 1983 Page 8 NATION AND WORLD Sudan's president attacks Israel By United Press International WASHINGTON — Sudanese President Jaafar Nairyumne denounced Israel as "the cause of the problem in the Middle East" yesterday and urged President Reagan to push the Israeli war master conciliation with the Arab world. Numeiry criticized Israel, as well as "the shedding of Arab blood by Arab hands," after nearly two hours of meetings with Reagan and other top U.S. officials at the White House during his first official visit to Washington. "WE CALL ON President Reagan to exert his utmost to stop Israel's Numeirie, who was expected to seek assurances of security and economic assistance during a week-long visit to the United States, also called on the Soviet Union to assist in the peace process. expansion policy," Numeiry said, "and play the role becoming a great power that has such a great interest in the Arab world." The Middle East was one of two key security issues that arose during the talks between Reagan and Nuremberg, who has been president of Sudan — the largest country in Africa — for the last 12 years. underscored the trouble-free nature of relations between their countries, with Reagan pledging "to help the Sudan and military challenges that it faces." In departure statements to reporters on the South Lawn, the two presidents ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT is of utmost importance to the people of the Sudan," he said. "And in this endeavor, I am happy to lend a hand to a friend." "We are of one mind on the need to support African countries threatened by nuclear weapons." Reagan said he and Numeir, a moderate African leader valued by the United States, were "in basic agree- ment with each other" in the Middle East and the horn of Africa." Irag describes naval attack as success By United Press International BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iraq said it hit and destroyed seven ships and a warplane yesterday near the entrance to the Shatt el Arab, the disputed waterway that sparked Baghdad's war with Iran more than three years ago. An Iraqi military communique said the attack took place at dawn, surprising Iran, which scrambled jets to fight off the Iraqi navy vessels. During the occupation, Iranian Iraqi planes battled in the sky, but Iraq claimed only one was shot down — a U.S.-made F-14 used by the Iranians. Iran did not comment on the reports. THE IRAQI MILITARY communicated the ships were Iranian vessels leaving the Khurqi Island oil loading depot heading north, while the ship remained in the southeast, but it stopped short of positively identifying the vessels. Iraq has warned it would sink any vessel of any nationality trying to approach the Iranian port just east of the disputed Shatt el Arab. "Today the Iraqi navy recorded yet another heroic epic victory," the Iraqi navy said. "Other enemy (naval) targets fled in disarray while a number of its warplanes were rushed to the skies over its naval targets." "traiq naval forces were at dawn able to hit and destroy seven naval targets coming from the Iranian island of Kharg toward the area of Khor Mussa and into Bandar Khomeini. "THESE WERE DEALT with by our fighter planes, which, after an air battle, were able to shoot down one of the enemy aircraft," the agency said. A military communique said the plane was a U.S.-made F-14. The war erupted on Sept. 22, 1860 in a dispute over ownership of the waterway. Several attempts to mediate the quarrel and end the war have failed. UAWleader proposes end to job luring By United Press International DETROIT — The Great Lakes states must stop trying to lure jobs from other states and instead concentrate on training unemployed workers and reopening closed factories, United Auto President Owen Bieber said yesterday. Bieber made his remarks at a meeting of the Congress on the Economic Future of the Great Lakes States, which is aimed at stimulating planning among leaders from business, agriculture in the six-state region. Bieber told congress participants it is time to end "smokestack chasing." "Recently a group of southern governors entered into an agreement to stop using tax abatements and related schemes to lure jobs from other states. We in the Great Lakes region should do the same," he said. Bieber urged industry leaders to stop playing "the state business climate game," which focuses on factors such as wages, union strength and taxes to make one region look better than others. Instead, he said, leaders in the Great Lakes region should concentrate on training programs for unemployed workers and the reopening of plants. Hijacker demands Jackson is restrained by passengers By United Press International CHICAGO — Passengers aboard a Republic Airlines jetliner yesterday overpowered a hijacker who said he had a bomb and wanted to talk to Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson, police said. The plane landed safely and no one was injured. Republic Flight 275, headed from Detroit to Chicago with 36 passengers, was commandeered at the Kalamazoo, Mich., Municipal Airport where the plane had stopped to pick up passengers. Chicago Police Sgt. Terry O'Donnell said that the suspected hijacker, Rasault Ali Shakir, a driver from Detroit, was overpowered by passengers and minutes later at HQ Harpe International Airport. NONE OF THE PLANE'S passengers or five crew members was injured, although one passenger and three other heart attack, authorities said. Shakir was taken into custody and charged with air piracy. G. Donnell said Shakir claimed to have a bomb in the leather satchel and a gun but no explosives were found in the satchel; only religious books written in Arabic. Federal agents said that he claimed to belong to a They said he had no prior arrest record Shakir he wanted to come to Chicago to talk to Jackson, the head of the Chicago-based Operation PUSH, O'Donnell said. Jackson was not in Chicago, a spokesman at the civil rights organization said. "Passengers on a Republic flight today subdued a male passenger who said who he would explode a bomb unless he was allowed to speak to Jesse Jackson, Democratic presidential candidate," said Walter Hellman, spokesman for Republic in Minneapolis. "The man boarded in Detroit, then told the flight crew his brief case contained a bomb. "NO BOMB WAS shown to the crew. After a brief confrontation at the Kalamazoo Airport, the DC-9 took off for Chicago. Passengers jumped the man five minutes before landing in Chicago." No one got on or off the DC-9 plane at Kalamazoo, police said. The plane remained on the ground for an hour, but took off for Chicago after the FBI gave the pilot permission to leave, authorities said. The plane arrived at 12:45 CST at Chicago and taxied to a ramp 200 feet from Republic's terminal. BONN, West Germany — Police fire water cannons at demonstrators to clear a road to the parliament building. Several thousand demonstrators yesterday tried to besiege the building while parliament debated the deployment of new U.S. missiles. West Germans begin missile debate By United Press International missiles were needed to safeguard peace. The small, anti-nuclear* Greens Party created a disturbance inside the chamber, parading photographs of the dead and the Jews batting Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. BONN, West Germany — The West German Parliament, besieged by thousands of chanting protesters held back by police spraying jets of water laced with tear gas, debated a plan to install new U.S. missiles in the country. Chancellor Helmut Kohl told the legislators that the medium-range THE GOVERNMENT coalition of Kohl's conservative Christian Democrats and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's liberal Free Democrats support the stationing and hold a safe majority in Parliament. The opposition Social Democrats and Greens were given no chance of rejecting the missile program in a vote scheduled for today. The missiles to be deployed in West Germany are part of 572 missiles that NATO plans to place in Europe unless the United States offers them and with the Soviets at the Geneva talks on limiting medium-range nuclear missiles Anti-missile actions also took place in other cities on the first day of debate in the Bundestak, the lower house of Parliament, on the deployment plans. POLICE DISPERSED 3,000 to 4,000 demonstrators, most of them young, who marched on Parliament, blocked the main roads leading to the building, stoned the Salvadoran Embassy and paraded through the capital shouting "Americans get out!" and "Grenada, Nicaragua, Euroshima." The last name in the chant has been used to describe Hiroshima-like music. Bomb squad removes ticking parcel from airport By United Press International It was "addressed to President and it was ticketing. said Port Authority." NEW YORK — A bomb disposal team removed a ticking package addressed to President Reagan from Kennedy International Airport yesterday but was not sure whether it contained an explosive device. The parcel was discovered at the door and was later found about 2:30 p.m. By a postal worker Elque said that the parcel was warranted to contain two sticks of dynamite. But a spokesman for the Police Department's Bomb Squad said the squad was uncertain if the package contained dynamite. "WE'RE NOT SURE at all," said Sgt. Joseph Caporiciol, "We can't see Building 250, which houses the post office at North Boundary Road and Old New York Boulevard, was evacuated. Elaine said. A White House aide said "there was no way" the package would have arrived at the Oval Office. "All of them are checked when they come in," he said. scene shortly after 4 p.m. and members of the disposal team placed the bomb into the truck for removal to a Police station in a range at Rodman's Park in the Bronx. Detective Ronald McLean of the Bomb Squad said that two sticks of dynamite were powerful enough to cause "physical injury to anyone within 900 feet of it. It would have messed up the building." McLean said the truck would leave the airport as soon as it was determined traffic along the route to the Bronx was light. 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