NATION/WORLD November 25..1991 5 NATION/WORLD BRIEFs London Former hostage Sutherland to return home soon Freed hostage Terry Waite expressed hopes yesterday that remaining captives in Lebanon would be released soon, and documents from the wounded Joseph Thomas Sutherland would be enough to go home for Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, former White House aide Olive North denied that Waite had been working with the CTA to stop the bus. The time of his capture five years ago. Sutherland, freed Nov. 18 along with Waite by their Shiite Muslim captains, has been recuperated at the U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden. His planned return home last week was delayed by a stomach ulcer. An Air Force official, Capt. Ray Cornelius, said Sutherland would leave Germany this morning and travel to California for Thanksgiving Day dinner. Sutherland, 60, of Estes Park, Colo., was dean of agriculture at the American University in Beirut when he was kidnapped on June 9, 1985. Since Waite's release, questions have been rekindled about his relationship with North, a central figure in the Iran-contra affair, and about Waite's role in the earlier releases of U.S. hostages. Jerusalem When Sutherland and Waite were freed, they said their kidnappers told them the three remaining U.S. Lebanon would be released soon. Israel protests U.S. plans for talks in Washington Israel's Cabinet yesterday blasted the United States for ignoring Israeli wishes and setting Washington as the site of the next round of peace talks. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said he did not expect the peace process to be derailed by the dispute. Israel has not said whether it will accept the U.S. invitation to attend talks starting Dec. 4 in Washington, although the Bush administration has opposed it. The Jewish state has lobbed to have the talks in the Middle East. "cannot pull this rope with us any tighter." Police Minister Roni Milo was quoted by Israeli radio as urging that Israel hold off on giving its response to Washington it Israel, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinians were invited last week to the Washington talks, which are a follow-up to the Madrid peace conference that began at the October. Only Jordan has accepted. The Palestinians have not formally agreed to attend the next round, but have indicated they are inclined to. The head of the Palestinian delegation, Haidar Abdair Shafi, expressed concern yesterday that the United States might seek to exclude delegation advisers with PLO ties. Pro-Aristide group won't leave without protection A group of university students who have occupied the Canadian embassy since last week requested yesterday to be put under the protection of the International Red Cross. A member of the group called out to journalists from a second-story window that the group wanted to access, said it gave a safe passage out of the country. The students, 16 men and three women, swarmed into the embassy Wednesday, some of them carrying luggage, took over the waiting room and demanded that Canada grant them shelter. Port-au-Prince, Haiti The Canadian government refused. On Friday, the group appealed for political asylum in Venezuela. The students, members of an activist group that supports ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, said they feared persecution by the military. Aristide, speaking from Cartagena, Colombia, yesterday, told his colleagues to comply with Canada's request to leave the embassy. The students said they were among about 90 students arrested by police when they staged a pro-ristide demonstration Nov. 12. From The Associated Press Kansas City man kills one, injures six during rampage The Associated Press Woman's son stabbed to death while trying to save her KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A man went on a rampage at his ex-girlfriend's apartment, stabbing her son to death and dropping three people from a second-floor window before he was killed by police, an official said yesterday. Six people were wounded in the attack late Saturday, Mark Harkin, 32, of Kansas City Kan. was shot as he walked home. Sgt. Bill Edell, a police official, Harkin dropped one of the former girlfriend's children, her mother and another child from a window, Edwards said. The identities of the Police said they were alerted that a man was barricaded in a house. Other officers arrived. window, where he dropped the woman out. He left the room and returned to the office about 48 hours of about 9. "He cut the child and then threw the child to the ground," Edwards said. "He said he'd kill everyone in the house." When officers arrived, "they were catching people this man was dropping," Edwards said. Police entered the building and forced their way into a locked bedroom, where Harkin was holding a knife to another child. Officers killed Harkin before the child was seriously injured, Edwards said. Harkin then stabbed his former girlfriend, Edwards said. Her 14-year-old son tried to pull Harkin off his mother, but Harkin stabbed the boy in the back and legs, Edwards said. is 28, pulled a butcher knife and stabbed a guest, a 24-year-old man, Edwards said. The boy died later at Bethany Hospital. Police were not sure what prompted Harkin's spree. "They said one of the reasons for the break-up was that he had hurt her before." Edwards said. Harkin may have been drinking before the incident, but police said only a moderate amount of alcohol was found in the apartment. NASA launches shuttle with rare night takeoff An oxygen fuel leak on the launch platform forced a 13-minute delay. Three workers rushed to the pad and successfully tightened the leaky valve, but the job put crews behind in their work to replease the fuel supply. The astronauts were eager to get going. "Atlantis is ready. We're ready to burn paint," said Air Force Col. Rick Gregory, the shuttle commander. The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Atlantis pierced the night sky and roared into space yesterday with six astronauts and a military satellite that will scout for missile launches from a perch thousands of miles high. CONTINUOUS CLASSES Call and reserve your space now!!!! The 100-ton spacepship rumbled off its seaside pad at 5:44 p.m. CST. The shuttle lift up the sky for hundreds of miles as it headed eastward over the Atlantic Ocean and was swallowed up by the night. Earlier in the day, the launch team It was a spectacular and rare after-afternoon show. The last shuttle departure of the day. Two minutes into the flight, Atlantis' twin solid-rocket boosters dropped empty into the ocean as planned. The shuttle continued upward on the thrust of three main engines. NASA's first countdown for the 10-day military mission ended abruptly Tuesday, just before fueling, when the steering system of the satellite booster malfunctioned. All that was put behind yesterday with final testing of the newly installed guidance unit. The system passed a calibration and was cleared for flight. The spacecraft's long journey 224 miles above Earth is NASA's sixth and final shuttle flight of the year. It would be only the seventh time in 44 launches that a shuttle has blasted off in darkness. Engineers still had not identified the problem in the navigational unit that was removed last week from the satellite's attached rocket. But program managers were confident the trouble was isolated to that component. "We were extremely lucky," said Air Force Lt. Col. 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