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Wednesday, July 8, 1987
Kansan Summer Weekly
Around the World
34 Hindus killed by Sikh terrorists on second night of massacring
CHANDIGARH, India — Sikh terrorists massacred 34 Hindus on two buses in Haryana state last night, the day after Sikh gunmen killed 38 Hindu passengers on a bus in neighboring Punjab, officials reported.
"The modus operandi of the killings is the same as the one we had inside Punjab," said Munish Chandra Gupta, interior minister of Haryana.
He said an unknown number of Sikhs halted a state-run Haryana Roadways bus on a bridge near Fatehabad, about 150 miles southwest of Chandigarh near the Punjab border. The terrorists then took four passengers and killed them with automatic weapons.
When a second bus drove from the opposite direction, the gunmen stopped it and killed 30 of its occupants, Gupta said.
Eighteen people in the two buses were wounded, he said. The wounded in the Monday attack totaled 32.
Gupta quoted police as saying that yesterday the Sikh attackers were in a car and a jeep and that one bus was carrying 60 people. One bus was headed for Sisra, a grain center, and the other for New Delhi, about 135 miles to the southwest.
Monday night in Punjab, Sikh gunmen hijacked a bus crowded with Hindu pilgrims. They killed 38, including five women and four children, and declared that more Indian civilians die in the fight for independence.
Army and police were put on full alert throughout northern India to prevent more terrorism and revenge attacks on Sikhs by Hindus, which have occurred in the past after Sikh terrorist actions.
Officials on trial for Chernobyl accident
CHERNOBYL, U.S.S.R. — Six former top officials and technicians at the Chernobyl power plant went on trial yesterday charged with "blatant violation" of security regulations that led to the worst nuclear accident in history.
All but one of the accused, Yuri A. Laushkin, senior engineer and atomic energy inspector, are charged under Article 220 of the Ukraina criminal code on violations of security measures in the construction industry. The result That charge carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
Other defendants are Nikolai M. Fomin, former chief engineer, Boris V. Rogozhi, reactor No. 4 shift director, and Alexander P. Kovalenko, chief of reactor No. 4.
Soviet officials said that the April 26,1986 accident was caused entirely by human error.
At least 31 people died after unauthorized experiments led to an explosion and fire at Chernobyl's No.4 reactor. More than 200 others suffered acute radiation sickness.
A small group of Moscow-based reporters were driven in by bus from Kiev under police escort for the trial's first day. All were checked by white-coated technicians at the courtroom entrance for traces of radiation.
A judicial investigatory commission report accused the six of "blatant violation of technical safety measures and regulations governing the use of nuclear reactors in the Soviet Union." The report said that the defendants generally accepted professional responsibility for the disaster but that they thought they were not guilty of the criminal charges.
More bodies recovered from sunken barge
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Rescue teams recovered 16 more bodies yesterday from the crocodile-infested Luapula River, where officials fear that 390 passengers died in the sinking of a barge.
One officer said the man at the tiller may have dozed off.
The barge Maria was carrying 470 people from Zaire to Zambia when it hit a sandbar and overturned during a crossing early Sunday.
A statement from the office of Zambia's President Kenneth Kauda in Lusaka, capital of Zambia, said 39 bodies had been recov
ered. Twenty-three bodies were recovered immediately after the sinking.
Eighty passengers on the upper deck swam to shore in pre-dawn darkness, but 351 of the 470 women and children crowded onto the barge remained missing, the statement said.
r once reinforcements and villagers were combing the river banks for survivors, said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
He said that the man at the tiller surrendered to police and was detained pending an investigation.
Around the Nation
PTL goes broke, seeks $2 million this week
FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) - PTL's operating funds have dried up, and the ministry needs $2 million by Monday and another $11.5 million before Oct. 1 to survive, the Rev. Jerry Failwell said yesterday.
"We must raise more than $4.5 million a month (through September) to prove to the court, our lawyer, that one looking in that we are viable."
"We are at zero balance in our checking account." Fairwell told viewers of the PTL Club television program, the principal fund-raising medium for the ministry.
PTL has three months to submit its reorganization plan to the court. PTL's 1,400 creditors are scheduled to meet with the ministry's leaders on July 22 in Columbia, S.C.
PTL generates about $1.5 million a month in revenue from its Heritage USA facilities and television network, but the remaining $3 million needed for daily operating expenses comes from viewer contributions, he said.
PTL officials have filed a petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to seek protection from its creditors while it reorganizes and looks for a way to pay off its $72 million debt.
Before the end of the year, PTL officials hope to arrange a loan to consolidate past debts. Falwell said.
Falwell said he had sent telegrams to 200,000 past contributors asking them to send $100 apiece by Friday so PTL can meet operating expenses by Monday.
Woman accused of killing baby waives extradition
Julie Killineen, 22, of San Francisco, was jailed here without bond Monday on a murder warrant issued by prosecutors in Platte County. Mo. She was arrested at her father's Miami apartment.
MIAMI — A woman accused of killing her newborn soon after the birth aboard an Eastern Airlines jet agreed yesterday to waive extradition to Missouri, where she faces felony murder charges, a prosecutor said.
"She signed a waiver of extradition. The state of Missouri must pick her up within 10 days," said Assistant State Attorney Gerardo Simms. "They said they wanted her, so I presume they will be here within the 10-day period."
Killeen, an assistant stockbroker who claims she has given up two other babies for adoption, was traveling to Florida with her brother when she gave birth to a daughter in the bathroom of an Eastern jet, authorities said.
Because the birth and death occurred during Eastern's flight 66 layover June 30 at the airport in Kansas City, Mo., charges were brought by authorities there.
Killeen said the child was born dead, but the Dade County Medical Examiner ruled that the child was born alive and asphyxiated.
The baby girl's bloodied body, wrapped in a disposable airline pillowcase, was found July 1 in a trash can in a women's bathroom at the Miami International Airport.
Nation and World U.S. hostage says he worked for CIA
He said an exact date for Kileen's transfer had not been set.
Government official says Glass could have made statement under torture
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — U.S. journalist Charles Glass, his face drawn and unshaven, said on a videotape released yesterday that he was working as a CIA agent when Muslim kidnappers took him hostage June 17.
State Department spokesman Charles Redman denied the claim and said statements by hostages were always made under duress.
36-year-old former ABC television correspondent from Los Angeles, who went to Lebanon to work on a book about the Middle East. He was shown from the waist up, wearing a dark blue track suit.
Glass choked up several times while reading on the five-minute videotape.
"I am Charles Glass," he said. "Many of you know me as a journalist, but few knew the truth.
"I'm actually the CIA agent in the region and the Middle East. I made many secret missions to this area. I used the press as a cover for my main job with the CIA."
Fourteen gunmen seized Glass and the son of Lebanon's defense minister together with their driver in the south Beirut slum of Ouzai, a stronghold of Hezbollah, a radical Shiite Muslim group supported by Iran.
It was not clear if his kidnappers prepared the statement for Glass, a
The tape was delivered to the west Beirut office of a Western news agency with a statement from the Organization for the Free People's Defense, a previously unknown group that claimed last week to hold Glass.
A source close to the Syrian military command in Lebanon said yesterday that it had established that the "political identity" of the kidnappers
and Hebbolish, which means Party of God, "is the only suspect."
In the nine-line statement released yesterday, typewritten in Arabic, the kidnappers said, "America was and still is trying to exploit us."
Voice quality on the videotape was poor, making it difficult to hear precisely what Glass was saying. In at least one sentence, his English was not grammatical.
He read from yellow sheets of paper, which he brought close to his face several times as if having trouble deciphering the words.
"I collect information for the benefit of the CIA," he said. "For that, I made secret missions. They ordered me to do that."
"I'm not the only one to use the press as a cover for those things. Many people who work for the agency used the same cover, and some of
"I came back to Lebanon on a secret mission from the office of the CIA in London. My plan was to get the last (latest) information in this area and how the last action affected Israeli-Christian relations."
them were arrested in some countries and I am one of them.
"I want to send all my love to my family. I love you," he said in conclusion.
What action he referred to was not clear.
In Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said: "The history of those kinds of videotapes suggests often that they are done under coercion or even torture." He denied Glass had worked for the CIA.
At least 30 dead from gas truck explosion
Truck crashes into ice cream parlor in West German town, ignites gas main
HERBORN, West Germany (AP)
— A tank truck loaded with gasoline crashed into an ice cream parlor last night, exploded and set off a ruptured gas main, killing at least 30 people and injuring 29, officials said. The truck driver survived.
The downtown section of Herborn looked as if it had been firebombed. It took hundreds of firemen about five hours to bring the flames under control after the 9 p.m. accident.
Police said three buildings in the town of 21,000 were destroyed, and five were heavily damaged in the series of explosions from the truck and the broken gas main. Dozens of cars were set ablaze.
Police spokesman Helmut Kremer said the explosions killed at least 30
people. He did not say how many bodies had been recovered.
'We don't know how many more bodies may be in the ruins. Rescuers are now starting to sift through the debris.'
Gerhard Boekel town spokesman
"We don't know how many more bodies may be in the ruins. Rescuers are now starting to sift through the debris," town spokesman Gerhard Boekel told reporters.
Ernst Achilles, a spokesman for the rescue teams, said up to 50 people were believed missing or dead. But
he said some of the missing may have failed to register with authorities.
A Red Cross official said he was told by a man who had left the ice cream parlor moments before the truck slammed into it that 35 to 40 people were inside at the time.
Achilles said at least 29 people were hospitalized. Four of them were flown by helicopters to the burn unit of a hospital in Cologne and were in critical condition.
Five firemen were among the injured. he said.
Boekel said more than 100 people were evacuated from the area of the blast and taken to a local school to spend the night.
Gerhard Heimman, another police spokesman, said the 48-year-old bus driver survived the accident "by a miracle" and was hospitalized.
A pizzeria on the floor above the ice cream parlor apparently was closed at the time of the accident, Heimann said.
Heimann said the driver told officers his brakes failed after he left a nearby thruway.
His truck's burned hulk rested on its side in the wreckage. Police spokesman Kremer said it was carrying more than 8,300 gallons of gasoline.
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