University Daily Kansan, December 5, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 11
Kuwaiti jet hijacked; one passenger killed
By United Press International
KUWAIT — Arabic-speaking gunmen yesterday hijacked a Kuwait jetliner carrying 161 people, including some Americans, and forced the pilot to land in Iran with the jetliner of an aircraft off the sky. One passenger was reported killed and a second injured in a fight on the plane.
In London, The Standard newspaper said the slain passenger was a U.S. diplomat, but there was no immediate official confirmation of the report. The newspaper did not identify the passenger.
The body of the slain passenger was thrown out on the airport tarmac upon landing. The hijackers refused to release the second man. One freed passenger said a doctor on board was treating the passenger.
Forty-three women and children were freed in two separate groups from the Kuwait Airlines Airbus at Tehran's Mnehabad Airport during negotiations between Iranian officials and the hijackers, IRNA, the
official Iranian news agency, reported.
One freed passenger told Iranian officials the Americans on board were separated from the other hostages by five or six Arabic-speaking sky pirates who kept repeating the word “Palestine.”
In Washington, the State Department said at least three and perhaps more U.S. citizens were board the aircraft, and that other passengers were citizens of four other nations: Pakistan, Afghanistan, last test group, Air Force officials said most of the people boarded were Pakistani.
The aircraft, bound for Pakistan from Kuwait, was seized shortly after a stop in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
One of the women released by the hijackers told IRNA the men were heavily armed with "bombs, machine guns and pistols."
"The hijackers they were Palestinians and they spoke Arabic all the time," said Sajada BanOhmian,40 who was traveling to Pakistan from Chicago. It was not known if she was a U.S. citizen.
By United Press International
Israeli forces move north in Lebanon
lines at the Awali River and entered the disputed Kihar Khara region with 13 armored jeeps, four tanks and a bulldozer
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An Israeli armored column advanced up the Lebanese coast yesterday as heavy fighting engulfed hills cast of Beirut in a fifth day of violence apparently aimed at derailing government plans to extend security southward from the capital.
Lebanese military sources said Israeli forces crossed their front
The Israeli thrust north came despite promises of "non-intervention" above the Awali.
Israeli officials called it a routine patrol to prevent guerrillas from infiltrating Israel-occupied territory in the Gaza Strip, a source with Lebanese government
ties said the patrol moved back to the Awali a few hours later.
ARTILLERY AND ROCKET fire raged for hours in the fighting between Druse militiamen and army units loyal to Christian President Amin Gemayel, security sources said.
A fourth cease-fire call finally brought the heavy exchanges to a halt around nightfall, Lebanese radio stations said.
A policeman was reported
wounded in the shelling around Souk el Gharb, a key army post overlooking the presidential palace from the Shouf mountains southeast of Beirut. No casualties were listed
In the Shofu and the Kikim, two regions scarred by factional violence for more than a year, Christian and Drusse forces have clashed since Friday in an apparent bid to derail the latest plan aimed at improving security.
Grenada's leader wants U.S. military to stay
By United Press International
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Herbert Blainz, leader of the New National Party supported by the United States, was sworn in yesterday as Grenada's new prime minister and announced that he asked President Reagan for a continued American military presence on the island.
seats in Monday's elections, said he put the request in a letter to Reagan, who ordered the U.S. invasion of the island in October 1983 that ousted a
Blaize, whose moderate NNP won 14 of the island's 15 parliamentary
"Since it will take some time for my colleagues and I to fully determine the requirements of security on the island, I would be extremely grateful if you could agree to permit your security personnel to remain in Grenada until such time as we could have a fully equipped and trained
Grenada force," Blaze said, reading from the letter.
Although there was no immediate response from the U.S. administration, in a written statement earlier in the day Reagan had called the election "an achievement of historic importance" and said "we look forward to working closely with the new government."
Blaize, who served twice as Grenada's chief minister before independence from Britain in 1974, put no timetable on the U.S. presence but
said the situation "would be reviewed from time to time."
The United States has maintained about 250 military support troops on the island since the invasion ended four years of leftist fight. Another 450 peacekeeping forces from neighboring Caribbean states were asked to stay on until the end of March, Blaize said.
The announcement came as the NNP's main competition in the elections, the right-wing Grenada Islanders and the left-wing fraud in the NNP's landslide win.
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