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Friday, August 29, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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Captors say U.S. rescue attempt would end in hostages' deaths
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Pro-Iranian Muslim extremists holding U.S. and French hostages in Lebanon warned yesterday that they would kill their captives if the United States tried a rescue mission.
"Let it be known by everybody that we have no mercy ... and the punishment will be hard." warned a statement accompanied by a black-and-white photograph of U.S. hostage David Jacobsen.
In the communiqué sent to a Western news agency in Muslim west Beirut, the Islamic Jihad group, or Holy War, said U.S. schemes to discover the whereabouts of the hostages would fail.
"We warn whoever is tempted to undertake a military or security foolishness to free the hostages that his fate and that of the hostages will be much worse than the fate of the Marines on the outskirts of Islamic Beirut," the statement said.
The remark was a reference to a suicide car bomb attack against the U.S. Marine headquarters near Beirut on Oct 23, 1983, which killed 241 U.S. servicemen. A group calling itself the "Free Islamic Revolutionary Movement," said it was responsible for the suicide mission. It had been opposed to the U.S. intervention in Lebanon after Israel's 1982 invasion.
In California, where President Reagan was vacationing, White House spokesman Larry Speaks said, "We continue to hold the captors fully responsible for the safety of all hostages and call on them again to release the American and other hostages held in Lebanon forthwith."
When asked whether U.S. officials had determined the identities of the captors, Speakes replied, "We certainly have some ideas, yes."
DENVER — People Express filed for reorganization of its subsidiary Frontier Airlines under federal bankruptcy laws yesterday, saying the airline never will resume flights unless a buyer is found.
Frontier files for bankruptcy
A petition for reorganization of Frontier under Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws was filed just before U.S. Bankruptcy Court closed for the day.
"Unless some other entity is willing to acquire Frontier's business, Frontier has no plans to resume service." People Express said in a statement after filing the petition.
People Express grounded Frontier flights Sunday, cutting off its revenue and mounting losses of $1 million a day. A filing for bankruptcy was delayed while efforts to find a buyer continued. On Wednesday night, United Airlines withdrew its July 10 offer to buy Frontier for $146 million and rejected a request from the pilots union to reopen negotiations.
An investment broker worked yesterday to put together a $150 million deal to buy Frontier on behalf of a West Coast trust. But People Express Chairman Donald C. Burr said last night that his company could not find an acceptable buyer.
NASA calls off shuttle search
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA called off the search for shuttle wreckage yesterday, ending the largest ocean search and salvage project in history.
in Port Canaveral, the final three vessels in the search operation tied up at a Navy pier in what amounted to a symbolic conclusion to the aftermath of history's worst space disaster.
Rear Adm. Richard Truly, chief of the shuttle program, said in a statement that the Navy salvage office at the Cape Canavaler Air Force Station would be closed as would a Defense Department support office. At the height of the salvage effort in February, 22 ships were involved.
But Air Force Col. Edward O'Connor, who directed
the massive salvage operation for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said that some minimal recovery efforts probably would continue indefinitely. He said all key components of Challenger, destroyed Jan. 28, had been recovered.
The salvage operation was thought to have cost about $20 million.
Navy spy sentenced to 365 years
SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Whitworth was sentenced to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000 yesterday by a judge who said his role in selling Navy communications secrets to the Soviet Union made him "one of the most spectacular spies of this century."
Convicted on seven counts of espionage as part of the Walker family spy ring. Whitworth must serve at least 60 years before he will be eligible for parole.
U. S. District Judge John Vukasin had the option of sentencing Whitworth to the maximum term of life in prison or following a prosecution recommendation of imposing a lengthy period of years that would delay his parole eligibility.
Whitworth, Davis, Calif., was convicted July 24 of selling to the Walkers the secrets of Navy decoding equipment, code keys and communications systems which he gathered and photographed for nearly a decade as a trusted radio operator at ship and shore stations.
He also was convicted of tax evasion on the $332,000 that he was paid by John Walker Jr., former fellow radio instructor and confessed leader of the spy ring.
Dead cattle threaten epidemic
YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Relief workers yesterday completed burying more than 1,500 victims of a volcanic poison cloud in Cameron and concentrated on the disposal of thousands of dead cattle to avert the threat of an epidemic.
A U.S. scientific team began investigating what caused the cloud of toxic gas to bubble out of Lake Nios in northwestern Cameron the night of Aug. 21 and
More international airlifts arrived as part of a $1 million relief effort to aid the 20,000 people displaced by the disaster.
what type of gases came out of the lake.
State-run Radio Cameroon said relief workers completed burying the bodies of the 1,534 victims, having placed many of them in mass graves. The bodies were found in the four villages closest to the lake — Nios, Cha, Sobum and Fang.
But the radio said the threat of an epidemic persisted from the thousands of unburied cattle killed in their grazing fields and littering the countryside. The U.N. relief agency said it planned to appeal for a special chemical to burn them.
Hormel strikers to get jobs back
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Union meatpackers and Geo A. Hormel & Co., agreed to a tentative contract that union leaders said yesterday would lead to the rehiring of most workers fired from the company's flagship plant in a bitter, yearlong dispute.
The tentative master contract would raise wages by 70 cents an hour over three years for up to 4,000 Hormel workers at eight plants, including the Austin, Minn., flagship plant, union officials told a news conference in Bloomington.
meanwhile, an arbitrator ordered Hormel to rehire 500 union meatpackers fired in January for refusing to cross packet lines at its Ottumwa, Iowa, plant in support of striking colleagues in Minnesota.
The ruling came less than 12 hours after the United Food and Commercial Workers union and Hormel agreed in Des Moines, Iowa, on the tentative master contract.
Joe Hansen, trustee of Local P-9 and vice president of United Food and Commercial Workers, predicted that all eight locals would approve the agreement, which did not include Ottumwa, and said that he expected most of the 800 Austin, Minn., Local P-9 workers, who have been on strike since Aug. 17, 1985, to return to work.
From Kansan wires.
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