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Flight attendant hijacks airplane
The Associated Press
OVDA AIRFORCE BASE, Israel —A flight attendant hijacked an Iranian jetliner after it took.off from Tehran yesterday, forcing the pilot and more than 170 people on board to land at a remote Israeli air force base.
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder Tribune
The hijacker, a man in his 30s, reportedly sought political asylum in the United States. He surrendered less than an hour after the Kish Air Boeing 707 touched down at the Ovda Airforce Base in Israel's southern Negev Desert.
The flight attendant was sick of being in Iran, prepared a pistol, hijacked the plane and forced the crew to fly there, said Israel's armed forces chief of staff Lt. Gen. Amnon Shahak.
Kish Air said none of the passengers were injured.
Iran's official news agency claimed that there had been collusion between Israel and the hijacker and that Israel had always been the hijacker's final destination.
Authorities initially said two armed hijackers surrendered, but later said only one male flight attendant commandeered the plane. Israel TV said the hijacker wanted political asylum in the United States.
Shahak said that in addition to the flight attendant, "there were two other armed men aboard the plane, apparently guards." He said it was not clear yet what their role was.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the hijacking began when one of the flight attendants pulled out a pistol as the plane was en route from Tehran to the Persian Gulf resort island of Kish, 650 miles to the southeast.
The pilot initially sought permission to land in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, but was turned down.
for a possible Iranian suicide attack
He then headed for Israel, radioing: "We must land in Tel Aviv. We cannot proceed. Did you copy? We are low in fuel. We are a hijacked aircraft. We must make a crash landing."
Rabin denied permission for the plane to land at Tel Aviv's busy Ben Gurion International Airport, fearing the hijacking might be a cover
for a possible Israeli attack. Breaking Israel's longstanding policy against giving in to the demands of hostage-takers, Rabin permitted the plane to land at a remote desert air base after the pilot said there was little fuel left.
"I didn't want to be ... responsible for the crash of an airliner full of passengers." Rabin said.
Sayed Davoud Sahibolassab, a 37-year-old civil engineer from Tehran, said he and the other passengers never saw the hijacker, who spent the whole time out of sight, apparently in the cockpit.
However, the hijacker's conversation with the cabin crew was broadcast to the passengers, apparently without his knowledge.
Man dies during nurses' protest
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A gunshot victim died after he was diverted from County-USC Medical Center as emergency room nurses there were staging a sick-out to protest layoffs and budget cuts.
Doctors said the unidentified man might have lived had he been treated at the hospital's trauma center. He instead was taken Mon-
"Should this man have gone to a trauma center? Unequivocally yes," said Brian Johnston, chief of staff at White Memorial.
"This is a direct consequence not of the nurses walking out, but
at County-USC called in sick for the 7 a.m. shift, forcing ambulances with trauma patients to be routed to other hospitals for a three-hour period. Twelve of 13 nurses called in sick on the evening shift. Kern said.
Kern said it was impossible to tell whether the man would have died had he gone to County-USC. His ambulance was routed to White Memorial by a dispatcher; it
At the emergency room Monday,
14 of 18 emergency room nurses
The emergency room was back to normal staffing levels yesterday, but the nine nurses scheduled to work at County-USC's family planning clinic called in sick, and appointments with 136 patients had to be rescheduled, hospital representative Harvey Kern said.
of all the nurses being fired because of the cuts in the health care system," he said.
Brian Johnston Chief of staff
never went to County-USC.
" T he chances of a t r a u m a patient surviving are better at County-U S C , frankly, most hospitals, and that's no slap at White." he
said. "Whether this particular vidual's chances would have been better, no one can be certain."
The financially strapped Los Angeles County government, facing a $1.6 billion budget deficit, last week issued 6,700 layoff, demotion and transfer notices to county health workers.
Nurses said the sick-out at County USC — the nation's busiest hospital — was only a sample of what will happen when layoff notices take effect Oct. 1.
Search continues for storm survivors
Hurricane Ismael surprised fishermen The Associated Press
The toll from Hurricane Ismael was 91 dead.
TOPOLOBAMPO, Mexico — Residents of a shrimping community were counting their dead yesterday after a hurricane roared through Friday, surprising many boats at sea by arriving hours earlier than expected.
"We have found 43 just here and there are more up and down the coast," said Primitivo Lopez, a forensic pathologist. "There are about 25 boats missing, and we figure an average of eight crewmen per boat."
The hurricane slipped past the tip of the Baja California peninsula and roared into the southern Gulf of California Thursday night before hitting the mainland and fading Saturday.
Some of the worst damage was in Topolobambo, a village in the northern state of Sinaloa, 410 miles south of the Arizona border.
Fishermen said 30-foot waves overwhelmed small, poorly equipped fishing vessels. Winds from Ismael reached 80 mph with gusts of 100 mph.
About 150 fisherman have been found alive on islands, sandbars or
"There was no time to get back safely." Lozey said.
on disabled fishing boats.
The national Television Azteca network reported that 26,000 people were homeless. At least 4,000 houses had been damaged, and heavy rains over the weekend delayed search parties.
Although this region is popular among American boaters and fishermen, there were no reports of foreigners injured by Ismael.
"This was the worst ever for Sinaloa," said Jaime Perez, the news editor of the regional newspaper El Debate. "There have been worse storms, but not with so many tragedies."
He said there was confusion as the hurricane approached.
Hector Manuel Tordecillas Bagazuma, head of the fishing cooperative in Topolobambo, said fishermen had been told the hurricane would strike landfall at midday Friday, only to come hours earlier.
"Fishermen could hear the shouts of their comrades who could no longer control their rudders," Bagazuma said yesterday.
The Mexican navy flew over the area yesterday.
"We will keep looking as long as there might be survivors," said Adm. Ruben Gomez Galvan, the commander of the naval base.
Thirteen unidentified bodies were buried in a common grave Monday.
Dental records, fingerprints and photographs were taken yesterday of the quickly decomposing bodies.
Croats gain Serbian ground
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs faced a new threat from the north today after a cross-border incursion of the Croatian army toward the rebel stronghold of Bania Luka.
Croatia's army, which has played a key role in the fighting in western Bosnia, moved south across the border overnight, taking the towns of Bosanska Kostajnica and Bosanska Dubica, the Slobodna Dalmacia newspaper said.
At the same time, Bosnian army troops in the northwestern Bihac region moved east to retake Bosanski Novi, the newspaper said. They claimed to have taken Sanski Most, 25 miles west of Banja Luka, but Serbs appeared to be holding the town today.
U. N. spokesman Chris Gunness confirmed a cross-border Croatian attack, but said it was not clear how far the Croatian soldiers advanced. The United Nations has no presence on the ground in the region.
Hours later, State Department representative Nicholas Burns said in Washington that the Bosnian and Croatian presidents had indicated to a U.S. mediator that their forces will cease the offensive against Banja Luka.
Burns said he had no details on the talks between U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic. But he said there was a direct indication that the offensive would be halted and that there would be a general slowdown
in military action throughout Bosnia.
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder Tribune
Bosnian Serbs claim they foiled the Croatian army incursion, Yugoslavia's Tanjug news agency said. But in Zagreb, Croatia, U.N. representative Alexander Ivanko said they had reports of Bosnian government artillery within 10 miles of Bania Luka.
The newest advance from Croatia means another front has opened against the rebel Serbs, who have already lost thousands of square miles in the region.
Guinness speculated that Croatia might be trying to set up a buffer zone on its southern border.
Once that is accomplished, the
Croatian army would have little incentive in continuing its advances. After meeting today with Tudjman, Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind of Britain said he was told the Croats already had stopped taking part in military operations.
Croat and government forces claim they have captured 2,400 square miles — or 12 percent of Bosnia — in the past week. Slobodna Dalmacia reported that 35,000 government and Croat troops were participating in the Banja Luka campaign.
With the Serenbos determined to protect Banja Luka, 85 miles northeast of Sarajevo, the easy gains appeared to have been checked.
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