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Monday. November 3, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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U.S. hostage David Jocobsen freed by kidnappers in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Shiite Muslim kidnappers freed U.S. hospital administrator David Jacobsen yesterday after holding him for 17 months and said recent U.S. moves might lead to release of other U.S. captives in Lebanon.
capers in the school.
Jacobsen, 55, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was turned over to U.S. officials on a street in Muslim west Beirut. A U.S. Embassy official who insisted on anonymity said Jacobsen was in good health and was at the embassy compound in Christian east Beirut.
Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite flew in from Cyprus, met with Jacobsen and then said in a telephone interview, "David is well. He and I had a conversation together for some hours. He is looking forward to seeing his family and friends."
Waite, an emissary of Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, reportedly has been shutting among Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus since Thursday in an effort to free foreign hostages in Lebanon. It was not clear what role, if any, he had in Jacebsen's release.
Waite was seen yesterday boarding a U.S. military helicopter in Larnaca, Cyprus, in his first public appearance since Friday.
pearlace Islamic Jihad, the underground extremist group that held Jacobsen, still holds journalist Terry A. Anderson and educator Thomas Sutherland, both U.S. citizens. It said last year that it killed U.S. diplomat William Buckley, but no body was found.
Hasenfus clarifies confession
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Eugene Hasenstifter testified yesterday that he was running guns to U.S.-backed rebels when his plane was shot down but said his claim that the operation was run by the CIA
was based on hearsay
"It is my document." Hasenus told the court through an interpreter. "It is my signature."
Appearing for the third straight day in court, the former U.S. Marine from Marinette, Wis., confirmed that he had signed a four-page handwritten confession during his interrogation.
In the confession, Hasenus, who was captured Oct. 6 after his supply plane was shot down by Sandinista troops, said he was hired to help ferry guns, ammunition, food and other supplies to the U.S.-supported contra rebels.
His confession said he made four flights out of the U.S.-built air base at Aguacate, Honduras, and six out of the Iloango air base in EI Salvador.
of the roping man. Hasfenfus was asked to clarify part of the confession that said two men who ran the supply operation — identified as Max Gomez and Ramon Medina — worked for the CIA and that Gomez was a friend of Vice President George Bush.
Husenfus said he had heard that information from pilot William Cooper and other members of the supply operation but had no "direct personal knowledge" that Gomez and Medina worked for the CIA.
Goltez and McCarthy Cooper, another U.S. citizen named Wallace Sawyer and a Nicaraguan radio operator were killed when the C-123 transport plane was shot down by Sandinista troops Oct. 5. Only Hasenus, who parachuted from the plane, survived.
Filipino official denies charges
MANILA — Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile said yesterday that a reported U.S. investigation into his financial dealings was part of an apparent veiled blackmail scheme to silence his criticism of President Corazon Aquino.
Entrie, one of the wealthiest members of the Aquino Cabinet, responded with anger to reports that the Justice Department is conducting an investigation of alleged diversion of U.S. aid funds to his personal use.
"At the outset, I categorically deny such allegations and I welcome any investigation into the matter in
order to clear the name of my family and my office, which have been clearly slurred by the reports." Enrile said in a Defense Ministry statement.
"Providence is my witness. I have done nothing wrong against our country."
Cause of plane crash narrowed
JOHANNESBURG — A Mozambican aviation expert said yesterday the plane crash that killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique was not caused by obsolete equipment or pilot error as suggested by South Africa.
The state-run Mozambique news agency AIM said the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-134A that carried Machel to his death in the mountains of eastern South Africa was built in 1980 and designed for Machel's presidential use.
A Mozambican aviation expert told the agency that the aircraft "carried electronic equipment of the current generation using integrated circuits and with a design improved and updated for this technology."
Mozambique was responding to allegations by South African Foreign Minister Roofol "Pik" Both that the navigation equipment aboard the plane was obsolete and that two Soviet crewmen had alcohol in their bloodstreams at the time of the crash.
The Mozambican news agency did not mention Botha's allegation that traces of alcohol were found. "Some of the statements made by Mr. Botha are based on technical data regarding the crash." IMA said.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University may sell $19.4 million in stock in companies doing business in South Africa that have not signed the Sullivan Principles, a university spokesman said.
Yale may sell some of its stock
Yale spokesman Walter Littell said Saturday the move did not represent a shift in the school's position of holding onto about $385 million in stock in companies doing business in South Africa that had supported the Sullivan Principles.
we sighed the button in Mphilas.
We thought we didn't have the ability to adequately
monitor the companies that were not signatory." Litt-
tell said.
Arthur D. Little Co., an independent company, monitors compliance of signers of the Sullivan Principles, which are designed to improve the condition of blacks in South Africa.
As of June 30, Yale held $19.4 million in stock in the following companies that have not signed Sullivan Principles: Allied-Sign Incl., Clark Equipment Co., Diamond Shamrock Corp., Emerson Electric Co., Libbey-Vowens Ford Corp. and McDonnell-Douglas Corp.
The Ivy League school has come under increasing attack by students, faculty and alumni to divest all its endowment funds from companies doing business in South Africa.
Dole confident about election
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said yesterday that he would serve as minority leader if Republicans lost control of the Senate to Democrats in Tuesday's elections.
"I'm going to be the Republican leader whatever happens." Dole said on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation"
The Kansas senator, who is gearing up for a run for president in 1988, was confident Republicans would prevail and he would keep his job as major leader.
"We are going to be in the majority when the polls close on Tuesday," he said. But, he quickly added, "there are a lot of dice races out there."
Republicans hold a 53-47 majority now in the Senate but must defend 22 of the 34 seats on the ballot.
Dole, who is up for re-election himself Tuesday and is expected to easily defeat little-known challenger Guy MacDonald of Wichita, has campaigned for 27 of the 34 Republican senators seeking re-election.
Dole says that, if Republicans lose control of the Senate, the minority leader's post would not be an obstacle to his presidential aspirations.
From Kansan wires.
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