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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, April 11, 1986
Pilots association to boycott countries keeping terrorists
United Press International
LONDON - The American delegation of an international pilots association will seek a worldwide airlines boycott of countries found to be harboring or sponsoring terrorists, the head of the U.S. group said yesterday.
The call to stop flying to certain countries follows a string of terrorist attacks involving airports and airlines, including last week's bombing of a TWA airliner over Greece and the suspected bombing of a Mexicanana Airlines jet March 31.
Capt. Hank Duff of Delta Airlines, president of the 34,000-strong U.S. Air Pilots Association, said the U.S. delegation would seek a boycott resolution at the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations, which began its annual meeting yesterday.
In opening the convention, Princess Michael of Kent accused the media of giving publicity to terrorists.
"The media was there to ensure that every gruesome detail was recorded for us. And backjacks
and terrorists therefore achieved their aims and got the publicity that they wanted for their minority groups and their spurious causes," she said.
In a radio interview, Duffy said that U.S. pilots thought it would be easy to get a boycott resolution adopted at the 66-nation convention.
apposed to the boycott resolution is a facilitating resolution," Duffy said. "The principal officers of the international federation will decide who are the offending nations. The definition of an offending nation is one that either harbors terrorists or sponsors terrorism."
"It would be incumbent upon a member nation to present to the principal officers with evidence that there is an offending nation and then the principal officers would instigate the boycott.
"protecting the security of our flights is just like protecting the maintenance of our flights and the basic airworthiness of the airplane."
Duffy did not name any countries but said it was essential to match security to the new level of terrorism.
Officials think Khadafy helped Libya tied to fatal bombing
United Press International
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BONN, West Germany — Authorities are convinced that Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy ordered a Berlin nightclub bombing that killed a U.S. soldier and a Turkish woman, the West German news service DPA reported yesterday.
Citing information from informed security sources, DPA said the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin early Saturday was carried out by a Palestinian faction on Khadafy's orders.
Bild newspaper also reported that West German security officials also suspected Khadafy of being behind the attack, which wounded 230 people, including 64 Americans.
The special West Berlin police task force investigating the bombing said it had no concrete leads.
But DPA cited coded messages intercepted by the CIA and used by U.S. authorities in linking Libya to the bombing.
One message, sent before the attack from Tripoli to the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin, supposedly indicated an attack in West Berlin was planned. In another cable, sent after the attack, the embassy is alleged to have reported
to a report that its misuse led to AIPoil and its subsidiaries. As soon as Libya learned its code had been broken, the code was changed, DPA quoted the West German sources as saying.
"It will be a long time before the code can be decoded again," an unidentified security official was quoted as saying.
West Germany on Wednesday ordered two middle-level Libyan diplomats out of Bonn. However, officials said that the move was unrelated to the bombing and that Bonn would not join the United States in imposing economic sanctions on Libya.
At his news conference Wednesday night, President Reagan said U.S. officials still were gathering evidence and could not yet definitively point to Khadafy as planning the attack on the nightclub, which was popular with U.S. soldiers in West Berlin.
But Reagan and other administration officials have made it clear they think the Libyan leader is the prime suspect in the case.
DPA said its sources in the government think Khadafy used Palestinians instead of Libyans to stage the attack so he could later deny Libyan involvement.
Authorities query suspect in bombing
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Senior military justice officials yesterday questioned May Elias Mansur, the Lebanese woman suspected of involvement in last week's bomb explosion aboard TWA Flight 840 that killed four U.S. citizens.
Military Prosecutor-General Fawzi Dagher and Military Investigator Judge Asaad Diyab questioned Mansur for two hours at police headquarters in the northern city of Tripoli. 42 miles north of Beirut.
Under the Lebanese legal system, the investigation of terrorist acts is the focus.
Mansur — named by Italian and Greek police as a suspect in the bomb ablaze the Boeing 727 that killed four Americans and wounded nine other passengers April 2 — denied any involvement in the attack.
After the two-hour session, Diab said no arrest warrant had been issued for Mansur by Lebanese authorities, but said the investigation was continuing. Mansur had refused to travel to Athens but invited Greek police to Tripoli.
"It is a prerogative of the Lebanese judiciary to follow up any case against any civilian suspected of a specific crime in order to find the truth," said Diyab.
"The investigation will go on until we clear up all points, and when we do our task, we will announce a judicial decision of the results reached."
When asked if he received any specific information about Mansur from such international organizations as Interpol, Diyab said, "These are secret judicial matters that we cannot declare right now."
Mansur, 31, was on the airliner from Cairo to Athens where she disembarked and later traveled on a Lebanese flight to Beirut. The plane continued to Rome and then turned back to go to Athens when the bomb, thought to be hidden in the seat Mansur earlier occupied, exploded.
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