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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1985
News Briefs
Searchers for MIAs dig up parts of bones
YEN THUONG, Vietnam — U.S. officials digging in a Vietnamese vegetable garden for remains of missing American servicemen yesterday found human bone fragments and what may be parts of a B-52 bomber that crashed near Hanoi in 1972.
Officers foil suicide
Twelve Americans and several Vietnamese took part in the unprecedented joint excavation effort, which was described by one Vietnamese official as a turning point in relations between the two countries.
NEW YORK — A detective posed as a television reporter yesterday to distract a man threatening to jump from atop an 18-story building. Other officers then dragged the man from the roof's edge.
The daring rescue came at about 9 a.m., after Frank DelHart, 35, had been perched on the ledge of the midtown Manhattan apartment building for more than two hours.
Apartheid protested
judge fines student
MUNICH, West Germany — A judge fined a 21-year-old student $460 Tuesday for faking his own kidnapping and demanding $134,000 ransom from his parents because he needed more money to support his mistress.
The student told the court he received a monthly allowance of $322 from his parents but he gave his mistress almost $2,700 in one week.
"My parents kept me too short of cash," the defendant said.
The judge in a Munich court finished the man and gave him a one-year suspended jail sentence after he admitted the blackmail.
From Kansan wire reports.
Italians charge Abbas in hijack
GENOA, Italy — International arrest warrants have been issued for PLO official Mohammed Abul Abbas and several of his top aides, charging them with murder and kidnapping in the Achille Lauro blacking, a prosecutor said yesterday.
From Kansan wires
The United States has accused Abbas, head of a faction of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, of masterminding the Oct. 7-9 Mediterranean ordeal in which an American passenger was killed and thrown overboard.
Abbas, whose present whereabouts are not known, previously denied he was involved in the hiacking.
Magistrates named Abbas, 37, and 15 others in a report formalizing charges in the case. The charges include murder, kidnapping, hijacking and membership in an armed band. Arrest warrants were issued.
At an impromptu news conference, Luigi Carli, deputy prosecutor, also told reporters that one of the four accused hijackers had admitted killing Leon Klinghoffer, New York.
Caril delivered the report to Gennaro Calabrese De Feo, Genoa chief public prosecutor. He will study the document before approving it and giving Caril the go-ahead to proceed with issuing indictments in the seizure of the Italian cruise ship off the coast of Egypt.
Carli had given indications previously that Abbas, who was born in Afrin, Syria, was among those charged. But the report was the first direct identification of Abbas as one of those charged in the hijacking.
Abbas was briefly in Italian custodial last month when an Egyptian airliner carrying the four hijackers from Egypt after their surrender was intercepted by U.S. jef fighters and forced to land at a NATO base in Sicily on Oct. 10.
The four Palestinian hijackers were taken into Italian custody, but Italy released Abbas, saying there was not enough evidence at the time to warrant his detention as the alleged mastermind of the hijacking which was maintained by the United States at that stage.
The release contributed to a great political upheaval in Italy and strained U.S.-Italian relations.
On Monday, a court convicted five Palestinians among the 16 accused in the case on arms charges. During the hearing, Carli said Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front, was the instigator of the two-day hijacking.
The Genoa criminal court sentenced the five, including the four hijackers, to prison terms ranging from four to nine years on charges of smuggling into Italy the arms and explosives used during the hijacking.
Mayor plans to reorganize police force
PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Wilson Goode unveiled a plan yesterday to reorganize the city's corruption-riddled Police Department, saying the problem "shames every honest police officer" on the force.
United Press International
"The pattern of corruption within the department has evolved over the years into a deep-seated problem," Goode said during a news conference. "Because of the nature of the problem, an institutional change is called for."
"Corruption shames every honest police officer, who constitutes the vast majority of our police force," he added.
Goode said his first goal was to hire a new police commissioner to replace Gregore Sambor, who resigned last week.
Sambor, a 36-year veteran of the force, was criticized for corruption in the department and for the department's handling of the a fiery May 13 conflict with the radical group MOVE, which left 11 members dead and destroyed 61 houses.
Kate kisses Cuba, eyes U.S.
Goode indicated he might find a new commissioner from outside the department, saying, "My goal in that search is to find the very best person available, whether inside or outside of the department."
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KEY WEST, Fla. — Hurricane Kate slashed across 250 miles of Cuba's north coast with 110-mph winds and 20-foot waves yesterday and rumbled into the Gulf of Mexico, sparing the Florida Keys from their first hurricane in 20 years.
Forecasters said Kate ended a 16-hour assault on Cuba late yesterday afternoon and entered the Gulf, where it could become the first November hurricane to reach the U.S. mainland in 50 years.
"The radar at Key West shows the center of Kate has now emerged back over the waters of the southeastern Gulf of Mexico and is moving toward the west-northwest 15 to 20 mph." hurricane forecasters said.
Neil Frank, director of the National Hurricane Center, said Kate was weakened by its rampage across Cuba, but was expected to strengthen gradually and turn to the northwest, possibly threatening Americans.
to the mainland when Kate threatened to become the first hurricane to hit the island chain since 1965.
In Key West, dozens of people awaited Kate's arrival in Duval Street bars, such as the Pigeon House Patio, where a "hurricane party" began Monday night and continued through the day yesterday.
Patrons of the bar concocted a new rum-based drink they called "Kiss Me Kate," but bartender Bob Sumner said the drink was misnamed.
About 10,000 residents and tourists fled from the Keys
"It should have been 'Miss Me Kate,' " Sumner said. At 6 p.m. Kate was packing 106-mph winds and was in the storm for about an hour.
While Florida Keys' residents breathed a sigh of relief, the Cuban government began to assess the damage from the storm that began about midnight Monday and ended about 5 p.m. yesterday.
The Cuban news agency, Prensa Latina, reported that the government had declared a state of alert and had ordered 138,000 people living around Havana to evacuate their homes as Kate howled up the coast.
Peres says U.S. may deal with PLO
United Press International
JERUSALEM — Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister, leears that the United States has changed its 10-year-old promise not to deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel news reports said yesterday, but U.S. officials deny that any such change exists.
organization first renounced terrorism and agreed to hold direct talks with Israel.
U. S. officials denied any change of policy and Israel's Foreign Ministry, headed by Peres' political rival, Yitzhak Shamir, said it would oppose any such altered U.S. stance.
The Israeli radio and newspaper reports said Peres told a parliamentary committee Monday that the United States had adopted a new policy permitting it to hold formal talks with the PLO as long as that
The reports, appearing in such publications as the Jerusalem Post and the Haaretz newspaper, were based on leaks from Peres' testimony to a closed session Monday of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
as saying that the United States had changed its policy a few weeks ago at the request of Jordan's King Hussein, who is seeking to involve the PLO in a Middle East peace conference with Israel.
Peres was quoted as saying that Israel does not care whether the PLO recognizes its right to exist and that the conditions were insulting, the reports said.
They quoted government officials
Israel Radio quoted Peres telling factory workers later that there would be no change in the Israeli attitude toward the PLO, even if the PLO did recognize Israel.
Diplomat continues aid efforts
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Church of England special envoy Terry Walter returned yesterday to resume efforts to win the release of four American and four French hostages, saying he had very important things to say to their Muslim kidnappers.
United Press International
Waite, 46, returned to Beirut after 48 hours of talks in London with Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, and unidentified U.S. and British officials. He also spoke with French officials in Paris.
"I have very important things to say to them (the kidnappers)," Waite told reporters upon his return to Beirut. He refused to elaborate.
"I believe that last time a good step forward was taken," he said of the contact he made last week with the Muslim fundamentalist kidnappers while he was in Beirut. "I believe that it is now possible to take another step forward."
Also in Lebanon, the wife of one of the captive French diplomats said yesterday that her husband had a heart condition and would not be surprised if he was the hostage reported by the Islamic Jihad to be "pitifully sick."
Marcel Carton, protocol officer for the French Embassy in Lebanon, was kidnapped March 22 in Beirut with Vice-Consul Marcel Fontaine. Two other Frenchmen and six Americans are also missing after being kidnapped in Lebanon.
A statement Monday by the Muslim fundamentalist group Islamic Jihad, or Holy War, said a French hostage, identified in news reports as Carton, was "in a pitifully sick condition that may expose his life to danger in spite of our great and thorough interest in the health of all the hostages and their safety."
Carton's wife, Denise, told Radio Monte Carlo she would not be surprised if the reports were true.
The kidnappers have demanded that, in return for the release of the hostages, the Reagan administration force Kuwait to free 17 of their comrades who were convicted and jailed for bombing U.S., French and Kuwaiti buildings in 1983.
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