NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN δΈ€ Wednesday, November 18, 1992 U.S. sets bounty on terrorists Officials seeking those who took hostages in Iran The Associated Press WASHINGTON β€” The United States is mounting an international search, including wanted ads and $2 million rewards, for Iranian-backed suspects secretly indicted for kidnapping and murdering Americans, officials said yesterday. The Department of Justice has issued sealed indictments against several alleged terrorists identified by U.S. intelligence this year as responsible for killing U.S. hostages in Lebanon and blowing up at least one airliner, said a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Department of Justice declined to comment on the indictments, first reported Monday by CNN. In addition to Buckley, who died in captivity in Lebanon in 1985, and Higgins, killed by his Shite Muslim captors in 1988 or 1989, kidnapped American Peter Kilburn was killed in 1986. It was unclear whether his alleged killer was among those indicted. One of the sealed indictments is against the suspect killed of either the CLA's Beirut station chief, William Buckley, or Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins, said another source familiar with the indictment, who also requested anonymity. The Associated Press reported previously that some of the Lebanese kidnapping group, including its leader, Imad Mughniyeh, took refuge in Iran in the last year. "To bring these murderers to justice, the U.S. government offers rewards of up to $2 million," said one of the ads being placed in U.S. and international newspapers in the coming days. It shows pictures of all three murdered Americans and urges anyone with information to contact the FBI or the nearest U.S. embassy. Rewards can reach up to $4 million under an arrangement of matching funds from U.S. airlines for information that prevents terrorism against U.S. carriers or leads to the arrest and conviction of perpetrators of airline terrorism. Also among the terrorists identified by the United States in the last year are those responsible for placing a bomb that exploded aboard a TWA plane over Greece in 1986, sucking four passengers to their death, said the second source. One stark ad shows a pair of baby shoes under a caption that says: "$2 million won't bring baby Demetra back. But it may bring her murderers to justice." The ads also seek information about that attack. The infant and her mother were among the four killed in the TWA bombing. The reward program was instituted in 1984. Until now, its posters and ads have sought general information about terrorism. The new ads are the first to seek information on specific cases, reflecting what U.S. officials think are improved prospects for apprehending suspects. The enhanced opportunities are partly the result of stepped up cooperation with Russia, which has access to information about the Mideast guerrilla groups supported by the former Soviet Union. "There's a better chance now that people will be willing to come forward with information," said Anthony Quainton, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security. "We also want to get across the message that we haven't forgotten." he said. "I'm very pleased at the new life being breathed into the rewards program," said Robin Higgins, whose husband was kidnapped in February 1988 while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in south Lebanon. "I'm very hopeful the ads can bring fruitful results," she said. U.N. OKs shoot-to-stop blockade of Yugoslavia BRUSSELS, Belgium β€” Western European countries armed with new shoot-to-stop orders from the United Nations will set up a sea blockade against Yugoslavia to catch smugglers breaking a trade embargo, a source said yesterday. The Associated Press The United States also intends to commit a significant number of ships and planes to the blockade, said a senior U.S. official, but the Europeans are likely to provide the majority. The United States has two surveillance ships monitoring air traffic over Bosnia-Herzegovina and could come under the Fleet task force in the Mediterranean. The developments stem from the U.N. Security Council's vote Monday to use force to seal cracks in its 6-month-old ban on almost all international trade with Yugoslavia, now consisting only of Serbia and Montenegro. The council imposed the embargo to punish Yugoslavia for stirring up war in Bosnia-Herzegov. An official in Brussels said the nine-nation Western European Union would announce in Rome on Friday that its warships in the Adriatic will impose the blockade. ina, but it has been widely broken by trucks, and ships on the Danube River and in the Adriatic Sea. The 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization began consultations about participating in the blockade, an alliance official said. Each of the security groups has five frigates in the Adriatic but, until Monday's Security Council resolution, had been authorized only to monitor, not board, ships. Diplomats at the United Nations said that Western warships on the Adriatic could now intercept suspected smuggling ships, order them to stop for inspection, and, if necessary, fire a shot across the bow to warn them to halt. Alexander Watson, a U.S. diplomat at the United Nations, vowed that if measures for the embargo and on the Danube River did not work, they would be looking for a resolution to ban all transshipments. U.S. senators praise Vietnam for opening up for inspection HANOI, Vietnam β€” Three U.S. senators yesterday were given fading photographs, flight suits and other sad relics of U.S. military personnel missing from a war that ended two decades ago but left wounds on both sides. The Associated Press On what he termed "an extraordinary day," Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sens. Tom Daschle, D.S.D., and Hank Brown, R-Colo., became the first U.S. officials to tour the Citadel, Hanoi's equivalent of the Pentagon. lift a trade embargo and diplomatic freeze it has maintained towards Vietnam since the Communist Party of China in 1974, backed South Vietnam in 1975. "My hope is that the president will receive the information that we bring back, and that when we meet with him, he will listen carefully to the arguments for why there ought to be a U.S. response of some kind at this point in time," Kerry said. "You cannot make this a one-way street forever." U. S. policy has been that relations with Hanoi will not be normalized until Vietnam offers a full account of the 2,265 U.S. military personnel missing in the Vietnam War, including 1,657 in Vietnam. Vietnamese officials also gave the members of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs military logs of downed U.S. aircraft, a U.S. Army survival manual and a flight helmet said to have belonged to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a Navy flier who was shot down over Hanoi and taken prisoner in 1967. The visit comes amid rising optimism that the United States may PRE-HOLIDAY Vietnam's leaders, eager to mend ties, recently have handed over thousands of photographs of Americans taken during the war and are providing access to archives, prisons and military bases. 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