University Daily Kansan, December 10, 1984
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IRNA said the hijackers "are said to have been severely beaten up during the raid. But latest reports have not indicated if they were also suffering from gunshot wounds."
The unidentified air pirates terrorized the hostages with beatings and death threats at gunpoint, at one point threatening to put the Americans "on trial" for their lives.
'WE WERE JUST sitting there for seven days in a tube with bullets flying around, being threatened, and nobody was helping us, nobody.' British flight engineer Neil Beeston told the British Broadcasting Corp. after his release.
"Every five minutes there was a frightening incident," he said. "There was no letup at all. It was just frightening. The whole period, frightening."
German security men stormed the Kuwait Airways A300 airbus at 11:45 p.m. (3:45 p.m. EST), seven hours after the hijackers told the control tower they had packed the plane with explosives and are saying their plane was on fire, plunging up the plane with all absurd, IRA said.
"The hijackers had asked for servicemen to clean up the plane." IRNA said. "When they (security men) arrived in disguise, they grabbed one of the hijackers and pushed him down."
INRNA SAID THE operation was carried out 'swiftly enough to prevent any counteractions by the armed hijackers. Seconds
later, everyone inside came out while bursts of gunfire were being heard all around the plane." IRNA said.
the news agency said "the hijackers and the passengers were seen coming down the staircase with their hands raised above their heads."
Just hours before the plane was stormed, the hijackers treed seven crew members, including the British flight engineer, but then attacked the plane and repeated their threat to blow up the plane.
IOMA quoted freed crew members as saying the hijackers had planted explosives in the jettier and were prepared to fulfill the mission, but not meet their demands to free 17 prisoners.
FLIGHT ENGINEER BEESTON told the BBC he was "several times personally threatened" by the hijackers. "You get a gun in the back of your ear and a lot of screaming," Beeston said.
Asked before the jetliner was stormed whether he thought the hijackers would blow up the plane, Beeston said. "Yes. They were planning to blow the plane up. Yes. Whatever they say, they will do."
The hijackers seized the jetliner Tuesday shortly after takeoff from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with 166 people aboard a flight to Karachi, Pakistan. They forced the pilot to飞 to Teheran's Mehrabad Airport.
ONCE IN TEHERAN, the hijacker
ermanded that the Kuwait government free 17 people convicted of carrying out a wave of bombings of U.S. and French facilities in Kuwait last December.
The Kuwaiti government flatly and repeatedly rejected the demands.
Beginning what international aviation authorities called the worst case ever of cold-blooded hijack executions, the gunmen Tuesday shot and killed American Charles A. Hegna, of Sterling, Va., an auditor for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
On Thursday, an American was taken out onto airline staircase to plead for his life, IRNA said. After he was taken back into the jetliner, gunfire was heard and the bleeding body of an "American diplomat" was taken from the plane, the news agency said.
That victim was identified as William L. Stanford, an AID employee who lived in
Karacen.
WITH THE REMAINING Americans under a death threat, gunfire erupted aboard the jettliner the following day, shattering the windows of the plane and leaving it unfit to fly.
On Saturday, the hijackers took a hostage believed to be an American onto the staircase
In a statement, the hijackers said they had killed four people and threatened to put Americans "on trial" and to kill those found "guilty" of unspecified crimes.
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job. If you look at the data and examine the program on the basis of academic criteria, I can see nothing that justifies the discontinuance of our degree program."
WHEELER AND HIS four colleagues in the program spent more than two months preparing written material to refute Lineberry's "five principal problems" with radiation biophysics. They will present the material at Wednesday's hearing.
the program will be the first to be considered for elimination under the new University Senate policy on academic program discontinuance. The policy, approved last semester, would not be based strictly upon educational, not financial, considerations.
Based on its academic record, the program should remain intact, Wheeler said. He cited a number of program reviews that supported continuing radiation biophysics.
For instance, a committee established by Lineberry to review the program issued a report in May that said "the majority of the committee members felt that the radiation biophysics program had valid reasons for continuation in the College and they were opposed to program discontinuance."
IF THE PROGRAM were eliminated.
Wheeler said, the five faculty members — two tenured and three non-tenured — could
begin to teach and to carry out research in other College departments or programs.
But Wheeler said some faculty members might leave the University and take with them some of the nearly $640,000 in research funds currently allocated to the radiation biophysics program or to professors in the program.
This summer, two key faculty members — the chairman of the program and a medical radiation biophysicist — left the University. John Zimbrick, the former chairman, now works at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C. Louis Milavickas, the former biophysicist, took a job with a medical physics consulting firm in Ohio.
THE 10 GRADUATE and three undergraduate students now enrolled in the program would continue their studies at the University or transfer to other universities. Wheeler said. This semester the College and University students would about $12,500 to transfer three students to other universities because of uncertainty about the future of the KU program.
Although some students have expressed interest in enrolling in the program next semester, Wheeler said, the College has put a hold on enrollment.
Radiation biophysics began in 1953, and the University granted the first degree in 1954. The University reduced radiation biophysics from a department to a program in 1979.
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