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Thursday, October 15, 1992
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Yeltsin releases papers
Documents show Soviets downed Korean jetliner
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin swept away a vestige of the Cold War yesterday by giving the United States and South Korea documents and recordings showing how a Soviet warplane shot down a Korean jetliner in 1983.
The contents of the documents were not immediately made public, but they could help solve longstanding mysteries about the plane's downing — specifically, whether Soviet authorities knew they were shooting down a civilian airliner. The Soviets claimed at the time that they thought the Boeing 747 was a military spy plane.
The Korean Airlines jet was
destroyed Sept. 1, 1983, by a missile from a Soviet fighter jet off Salkhalin Island, killing all 269 people aboard. Sixty-three were Americans, including a U.S. congressman.
"Sharing our pain, we would like to express our sympathy and condolences with the families of all those who perished," Yeltsin told a group of Americans whose relatives died. "We regret we are not capable of undoing the wrong of the past."
He presented a sealed folder containing 12 documents to South Korean and U.S. delegations in two separate ceremonies in the ornate St. Catherine's Hall in the Kremlin. Yelisin expressed regret that former Soviet leaders had not cleared the record on the incident.
The papers released yesterday included information from the voice and flight data recorders from the downed Boeing, something the Soviets had long denied having.
Yellsin had been expected to hand over the black boxes themselves, but
Aviation experts wanted to study the recorders in hopes of discovering why KAL Flight 007 left its scheduled course from Alaska to Korea and crossed Soviet territory. Soviet leaders charged it was on a spy mission, an allegation denied by the United States and South Korea.
The statement said there still were important issues remaining to be resolved, including the status of the remains and personal effects of the victims that the Soviets might have recovered.
The five-member U.S. delegation was having the documents translated in Moscow before holding more talks with Russian officials on the bodies and personal effects.
Possible compensation also will be discussed, said Hans Ephraimson-Abt, head of the American Association for Families of KAL 007 Victims. His 23-year-old daughter, Alice, died in the crash.
Former U.S. hostages sue Iran
The Associated Press
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Former hostages Joseph Cicppio and David Jacobsen sued Iran for $600 million yesterday, saying it orchestrated their abductions in an effort to recover millions of dollars frozen in the United States.
Iran was guilty of "commercial terrorism for profit," said their lawyer James Oliver, and because the money was held in the United States, Iran could not claim sovereign immunity.
The two former hostages said no amount of money could compensate for their imprisonment. They said they would share any money gained with other former hostages and families of slain hostages.
by hitting them in the pocket."
"These people, including their families and their memories, scream for some form of justice," Jacobsen said.
"The people who harmed them, and other evil people who are thinking of harming, have to be told that if there is not a criminal or military response, there is going to be a civil response," he said.
Cicippo said, "This is to prevent it from happening again."
by many of the present students. Jacobsen, 61, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was director of the American University Hospital in Beirut when he was taken hostage May 28, 1985, and held for 532 days.
Cieppio, 62, was deputy comproller of American University in Beirut when he was abducted Sept. 12, 1986, and held for 1,008 days. His wife, Elham, a Lebanese national, is also a plaintiff. They live in Princeton, N.J.
The lawsuit says Iran directed the kidnapping in Beirut so it could help negotiate the release of Jacobsen and Cicipilo and gain leverage in efforts to free Iranian assets held in the United States. The assets were frozen after the U.S. embassy in Teheran was taken over in 1979 and its U.S. staff held captive.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., seeks damages for kidnapping, physical abuse, false imprisonment, inhumane medical treatment, loss of job opportunities, and pain and suffering.
Officials at the Iranian interest section at the Algerian embassy in Washington and at Iran's mission to the United Nations did not return calls seeking comment.
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