Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 30, 1989
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2 teen-agers hijack plane to enter U.S.
The Associated Press
FRANKFURT, West Germany — Two Czechoslovak teen-agers shot their way onto a jetliner yesterday in Prague and ordered it to the United States but the crew convinced them that it was not a far-fetched, far and they gave up in Frankfurt.
They surrendered when U.S. military would not let them enter the U.S. Air Force base adjacent to Frankfort's commercial airport.
Police said that no one was hurt and that the incident ended peacefully less than three hours after its violent start in the Czechoslovak capital, where nearly all passengers were freed.
Witnesses at Ruzney Airport in Prague said the teen-agers took a woman hostage, crashed through a glass wall of the VIP lounge, fired several shots and threatened a flight attendant.
About 100 people were reported to be on Tupelo-154 of the Hungarian airline Maley when the hijackers, aged 15 and 16, seized it at 10 a.m.
Oswald Neumann, a Frankfort police spokesman, said passengers reported that one youth fired a warring car at the door of the plane before takeoff.
Official Hungarian and Czechoslovak news agencies said the hijackers
initially demanded to be flown to the United States.
The Hungarian agency MTI said Lajos Tosh, Hungarian consul general in Prague, boarded the aircraft and negotiated the release of 82 passengers, including all women and children, trading himself for them.
Taba was among the 11 passengers when the plane landed in Frankfurt.
MTI said Hungarian authorities were in touch with West German security officials and were considering an extradition request.
Hans Neitzel, chief spokesman for the Frankfurt police, said he did not know the hackers' motives.
"They said they wanted to go to America, but why they wanted to go, whether they have relatives there or what, we don't know," he said. "Maybe it was just youthful adventure."
He said they were being held for biacking, but "where they will be extradited will be decided through diplomatic channels."
Reagan objects to role as witness
Neitzel the passengers still aboard the plane when it landed in Frankfurt were three Hungarians, four Czechoslovakis, a Dutch citizen, two Canadians and a Romanian, as well as the crew of four.
WASHINGTON — the prosecution's case against Oliver North came to a close yesterday, former President Ronald Reagan objected to testifying for the defense, insisting that North's lawyers say precisely why they want him as a witness and what questions they will ask.
The Associated Press
Reagan attorney Theodore B. Olson said he wanted to know from North "the specific evidence sought by the judge, and whether it was information
essential for his defense and not available from other "less intrusive means."
sry an order issued by U.S. District Judge Gerrhain A. Gessell, North submitted to the judge a sealed statement of what testimony he wants from Reagan. But, Olson said in a filing with the court, he hadn't been allowed to see it and therefore couldn't respond.
Meanwhile, former Attorney General Edwin Meese III finished his testimony yesterday, his second day
on the stand. He was the 25th prosecution witness in the trial, now in its ninth week.
Meese testified that in a critical Nov. 23, 1986, meeting — after he twice told North to tell the truth—the national security aide withheld critical details about the diversion of Iran arms-sale money to the contras.
Meese summoned North to the meeting after aided found a document describing the scheme for using profits from the arms sales to help the contras.
North is charged with falsely telling Meese that the National Security Council had no involvement with the diversion and that Israel, a conduit for the arms, actually determined the amount of money funneled to the contras. In fact, North and other U.S. officials were directing the secret operation, investigators later determined.
Meese testified that North did not mention the involvement of co-defendants Richard Second or Albert Hakim in the affair.
News Briefs
CONTRAS MAY GO BACK: The State Department acknowledged yesterday that it was encouraging leaders of the contras to return to their homeland and do battle with the leftist Sandinista government in the political rather than the military arena.
SUICIDE GUIDELINES: Doctors can ethically help terminally ill patients commit suicide by prescribing sleeping pills or other drugs and administering lethal doses, a panel of prominent doctors has concluded.
A five-nation regional peace agreement calls for political reforms inside Nicaragua leading to a free and open campaign and national elections in February 1990, and one of the seven contra political directors said he and three colleagues were likely to accept that challenge.
The suicide guidelines were part of a report outlining doctors' responsibilities toward their dying patients. Among other things, the paper urged doctors to give such patients as much pain medicine as they need to relieve their suffering, even if it hastens their deaths.
Alfredo Cesar, a member of the Nicaraguan Resistance political directorate, said he would return to Nicaragua in May if promised changes in election and communications law were accomplished and if the presidents of the five Central American countries came up with a suitable plan for eventual repatriation of contra fighters.
LOUVER REOPENS: After years of bitter debate, French President Francois Mitterrand
The report, published in Boston in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, is the second from the 12-member committee. Dr. Daniel D. Federman of Harvard Medical School, former president of the American College of Physicians, is committee chairman.
yesterday reopened the Louvre as a gleaming, high-tech museum capped by a controversial glass pyramid at the main entrance to the medieval palace.
Vistors poured in for their first look at the six-year, $85 million overhead build by U.S. architect I.M. Pei. When renovations are financed, the building will be the world's largest museum.
The main exposure would be on the ground at space launches, which the Soviets have indicated they want to open increasingly to Western TV crews. The footage could be shown on TV as part of international news coverage or used later for public purposes.
SBOVIET SPACE ADS: The Swiss advertising agency Punto S.A. has signed a deal with the Soviets to find Western firms who want to plug their products via the Soviet space program.
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