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Monday, February 2. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Terry Waite still missing after 12 days
Syria, Iran and Lebanese militia leaders join forces to find lost emissary
From Kansan wires
BEIIRUT, Lebanon - Intense negotiations involving Syria, Iran and Lebanese militia leaders have started in order to determine the fate of missing hostage negotiation Terry Waite, a senior militia official said yesterday.
"These talks are in high gear," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The parties concerned are burning up the (telephone) wires trying to ensure Mr. Wai'e's safety. Plenty of Syrian and Iranian emissaries are shutting back and forth."
A newspaper reported yesterday that Waite, who has been missing for 12 days, is secretly negotiating with two American hostages holding two American hostages.
The unconfirmed report in Al Ittahi, a semi-official United Arab Emirates newspaper, came as Israel rejected a terrorist demand that it be killed. It was for three other captive Americans and an Indian-born U.S. resident.
Al Iittihad quoted unidentified sources as saying that Waite was not kidnapped and was continuing with negotiations somewhere in west Beirut in an attempt to release the release of U.S. hostages Terry Anderson and
Thomas Sutherland
The newspaper offered no other details.
Waite, personal emissary of Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, To be Beirat Jan. 12 on his return to win freedom for Jordan hostages.
The Anglican Church envoy has not been seen publicly since he left the Riviera Hotel in west Beurat Jan. 20, presumably to negotiate with Islamic Jihad. Islamic Jihad is a pro- Iranian Shiite faction that is holding Anderson and Sutherland. Both men were abducted in 1985
Various reports have said Waite may have been taken prisoner.
Kuwaiti media reported last week that Waite had been kidnapped, and Lebanese newspapers and radio stations said he had been seen riding in a convoy in eastern Lebanon's Syriac-controlled Beka'a valley.
The militia source said, "The lack of direct word from Mr. Waite since his disappearance two weeks ago has alarmed all sides concerned, and every effort is being made to find out about him."
Iran is believed to wield influence with some of the groups in Lebanon that have claimed responsibility for abducting Western hostages. Syria is
the main power-broker in Lebanon and has about 25,000 soldiers in north and east Lebanon under a 1976 Arab League peacekeeping mandate.
Druze Muslim leader Walid Jumail扎波, whose militia was in charge of his security's action at a bikie in Macedonia to replace Watie if reports of his abduction were true.
The Church of England, however,
said that Waite left strict instructions
forbidding any rescue mission, ran-
away to New York and attended of hostages if he was kidnapped.
A church statement about Waite's message was issued after London's Sunday Express reported that Beirut attacked a police officer with $4 million for Waite's release of
Runcie said also yesterday that he had no news about Waite. "I have had some contact (Saturday), indica- tion of some anxious about where he is," he said.
Eleven foreigners, including three Americans, two West Germans, an Indian and a Frenchman, have been seized by the police in west Beirut since Waite's arrival.
An underground group threatened late Saturday night to kill the three Americans and the Indian unless Israel freed 400 Arab prisoners and fleed them to Syria on a Red Cross
plane within one week
In Tel Aviv, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin yesterday rejected the group's demand, saying Israel will not act as an international bank for terrorists.
The threat to kill hostages came in a handwritten note signed Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine. It was delivered to a Western news agency and a Beirut newspaper and two American captives among four educators kidded at Beirut University College on Jan. 24.
The pictures showed Jesse Turner, 39, of Boise, Idaho, a visiting professor of mathematics and computer science; and Alann Steen, 47, of Boston, a communications instructor.
They were kidnapped along with Robert Pollhill, 33, of New York City, a lecturer in accounting; and Mithileshwar Singh, 60, a visiting professor of finance, an Indian native resident alien of the United States.
Twenty-six foreigners are reported missing and presumed kidnapped in Lebanon, including eight Americans.
Reagan's daily notes exempt from release spokesman reports
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan makes notes on what he does during the day, but releasing such records to Iran-contra scandal investigators could infringe on the privacy of the president, a White House spokesman said yesterday.
White House chief of staff Donald Regan revealed the existence of the notes to the Senate Intelligence Committee during its hearings into the secret U.S. arms sales to Iran and reported diversion of profits from those deals to the Nicaraguan rebels, the Washington Post reported.
Congressional investigators have expressed interest in obtaining the notes, the Post said, to help them flesh out the puzzle of how the clandestine Iran initiative evolved into an enterprise for hostages, and for contras-
White House spokesman Don Mathes confirmed yesterday that Reagan keeps a personal record of some of the daily doings at the White House. Regan told the Senate panel the notes were intended for use in the president's memoirs, the Post said, citing administration and congressional sources, and the chief of staff was offended when panel members indicated they were interested in adding the notes to their files.
Mathes said, "The president does,
from time to time, in the evening and
in the residence, make private notes on what he does during the day. So remember to do it with your friends.
Mathes said the notes had not been asked for and therefore was reluctant to say how the White House would respond to a request for them. However, he made clear any such move would run into stiff resistance.
"There is a feeling here that to release these notes would be to infringe on the privacy of the president and others," he said. "They are not transcripts. They are not detailed chronicles."
Later, in an apparent bid to dispel the impression that the White House and Congress could be headed toward a confrontation over access to the notes, Mathes said, "The White House is confident that by the end of these investigations, there will be no unanswered questions that would warrant the use of the president's private papers."
Mathes described the notes as incomplete and said Reagan did not take notes on a daily basis and repeated, "They are not a chronicle or a diary, by any means."
White House officials confirmed that Reagan referred to the personal notes in preparation for a 75-minute session Jan. 26 with the so-called Tower Commission he named to review operations of the National Security Council staff.
Christian militiamen force Lebanon airline to stop Beirut flights
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's national airline grounded its planes yesterday and halted all flights from Beirut International Airport after a threat from Christian militants caused insurers to suspend their coverage.
United Press International
The militiamen warned that they would shell the airport if Middle Eastern Airlines did not suspend operations. Hours later, a lone shell fell near the airport. There were no casualties but there was a small fire.
"There was a threat regarding the airport and definitely the insurance people heard about it and that is why they reacted in suspending their insurance policy"; MEA Chairman Gulam said after a board meeting.
Airline officials said they ordered an immediate suspension of flights because foreign insurance companies told the company they could no longer insure its fleet and passengers.
The Lebanese Forces, a powerful Christian militia group, ordered the airline to suspend all flights from midnight Saturday until pro-Syrian Muslim leaders agree to open a new border and deserted highway north of Beirut.
An MEA official said the militia telephoned a MEA director four days ago and warned, "If all flights to and from Beirut airport were not suspended as of Feb.1, the airport would be bombarded."
The official, who requested anonymity, said the militia repeated the threat several times.
"I insurance companies must have found out about it and decided to
suspend their insurance of the crew and passengers." he speculated.
Christian leaders maintain they need the Halat airport so residents of east Beirut can travel safely, but Muslim officials contend it would only deepen factional divisions.
"MEA calls on all responsible authorities and parties to enable us to resume operations as soon as possible," a company statement said. "Meanwhile, MEA is in constant contact with the insurance companies urging them to reconsider."
Beirut International, on the southern outskirts of Muslim west Beirut, has been a favored target of militia gunners who can cut off Lebanon's air link to the rest of the world with a well-used artillery shells.
The airline's move effectively shut down Lebanon's only functioning airport and all MEA planes were grounded wherever they were in the world, the airline said.
The lone artillery shell fired at Beirut International hit trees near the airport installations used by Trans Mediterranean Airways, the state-owned cargo carrier. The shell started a fire but hurt no one was hurt, airport officials said.
Beirut International, which with some exceptions has managed to operate through most of Lebanon's 11-year-old civil war, is within artillery range of Lebanon's Christian, Palestinian, Shiite and Druze Muslim forces.
It could not be immediately deter mined who fired the shell.
Gunners shelled the airport twice last month and damaged an MEA Boeing 707.
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