November 26,1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 2
The University Daily KANSAN
Attack on U.S. Embassy claimed by leftist group
LISBON, Portugal — Assailants fired four mortar shells at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon yesterday, damaging three parked cars inside the walled complex but causing no injuries, said Steven Chapin, embassy spokesman.
The leftist April 25 Peoples Forces guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the predawn attack, saying it was in the midst of a capitalistic U.S. interference in Portugal.
The barrage, timed to mark the ninth anniversary of an aborted rebellion by leftist military officers, came a month after a loaded double-barreled grenade launcher was found 100 yards away from the embassy. The guerrilla group claimed responsibility for that unsuccessful attempt.
Pipeline explosion kills two
JACKSON, La — At least two and possibly five people were killed yesterday afternoon in a huge explosion of a natural gas plant in the southwest corner of Baton Rouge, authorities said.
Deputies from East Feliciana Parish said firefighters fought flames shooting above treetops for several hours before the blaze was brought under control.
About 16 people, some believed to be employees working at the natural gas transmission station, were taken to hospitals, authorities said.
a sheriff's dispatcher said officers believed five people were killed but that only two bodies were found.
Explosion in Paris injures six
PARIS — a powerful bomb exploded yesterday outside the Sailes Pleyel auditorium and injured six passers-by an hour before the opening of an annual Armenian folklore celebration sponsored by Communist and pro-Soviet Armenian groups.
Police said the casualty toll would have been higher if the bomb had exploded an hour later when 2,000 people, including 80 civilians, were inside. They have been entering the ball for the concert.
Hinckley proposes exchange
WASHINGTON — John Hinkley Jr., who shot President Reagan in 1981, proposed in comments published yesterday that he be exchanged for Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet dissident who is in internal exile in Gorky.
nreckley, who is a patient at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, wrote to Newsweek magazine, calling the exchange "a fair trade." He wrote that he "would think President Reagan would be happy to expel me from the country in any way possible."
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Pravda sees no near end to arms race
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union published yesterday its first commentary on new arms talks with the United States and said Washington still showed "no sign" of a constructive approach to ending the arms race.
The article in the Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, said, "It's high time Washington gave up illusions" of gaining control over the United Nation and negotiated an end to the arms race.
The article, sprinkled with quotes from American newspapers that meshed with Soviet views, was the first comment since the two sentence announcement Thursday that the foreign ministers of the two superpowers would meet in Geneva Jan. 7-8.
PRAVDA SAID U.S. news reports showed "discussions, recommendations, contradictory opinions, but where is something constructive, concrete — there is as yet no sign of this in Washington."
The article said the variety of statements on the talks between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko "reflects the struggle being waged inside the Washington administration" on the negotiations.
But the article's tone was milder than most Soviet comments on the United States, noting that even arguments were desirable if they were made in a positive light during the situation for ending the arms race."
The meeting in Geneva will end a year-long break in the negotiating process.
THE SOVIET UNION walked out of Geneva talks in 1983 because of the deployment of intermediate-range American missiles in Western Europe. NATO said the new missiles were necessary to counter 20-30 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
Pravda emphasized that the January talks were "precisely new" — a face-saving description that sidestepped Moscow's refusal to resume the former Geneva talks until the U.S. cruise and Pershing-2 missiles are removed.
Shultz and Gromyko will discuss weapons included in both nuclear missile talks halted by the Soviet walkout and also President Reagan's plan for building space weapons.
"In the opinion of the majority of American observers, the main obstacle to agreement between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. on disarmament questions is Washington's statement about its Star Wars program," Pravda said. "Washington does not intend to give up its program."
MONTREAL — Police investigators sift through the remains of a ninth floor apartment in a downtown Montreal highrise where a bomb exploded early yesterday. The blast
killed four men, injured at least eight others and destroyed several apartments. Police said one of the dead was a man being sought in the shooting of Patrick Ryan.
United Press International
Somali hijackers set third deadline
By United Press International
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Three army officers who hijacked a Somali jelinner to Ethiopia set a third deadline yesterday and vowed to "end it all" by blowing up the plane and all 108 people aboard if the Somali government failed to free 21 political
The Somali hijackers let a midnight deadline pass without carrying out the threat, but set a new deadline for midday today (4 a.m. EST.)
demands of the hijackers, three Somali army officers led by a captain.
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Goshe Wolle said negotiators told the hijackers that the Somali government of President Sid Barre had rejected their demands, which included freedom for seven high school students who were sentenced to be executed yesterday. Somalia denied a date had been set for the executions.
The 108 passengers aboard the plane included an unidentified American.
IN A STATEMENT broadcast over state-
run Radio Mogadishu, the Somali govern-
erate is offering a free t-shirt.
Witnesses said the hijackers, who described themselves as sympathetic to the anti-government Somali National Movement, were armed with submachineguns and grenades.
The officers seized the jetliner Saturday after it took off from Mogadishu, the Somali capital in east Africa. They beat up the pilot and shot a security officer in the chest before landing at Addis Ababa's Bole airport.
THE PLANE WAS ON a flight to Cairo vii Berbera, Somalia and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
the plot, co-pilot, and the wounded security officer were among the 22 people released by the hijackers within hours of their arrival in Addis Ababa. The security officer was listed in stable condition.
the hijackers yesterday and were given arms.
"Several other passengers have asked to be granted political asylum in a third country."
The foreign minister said two civilians aboard the Somali Airlines Boeing 707 joined
He said that negotiations were continued, and that Italian diplomats had offered to represent the Somalians in the negotiations, but he sharply criticized the Somalian government for its inflexible position.
Somalia has no formal diplomatic relations with Ethiopia, which allows Somali rebels to operate from bases inside Ethiopia. Egyptian diplomats were representing the Soma
Wolde identified the leader of the hijackers as Somali army captain Anwil Adan Bourhan. The two other military men involved in the hijack were identified as Bashe Nuse Mohamed and Ahmed Hadi Mohamed Adan.
He said an Ethiopian medical team was permitted aboard the airliner and reported the passengers as being "well under the circumstances."
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