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Wednesday, January 21. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World U.S. officials act as intermediaries to request release of West German
BONN, West Germany — In an effort to gain the release of an Arab arrested in Frankfurt and wanted by the United States, U.S. government officials contacted Syria and Iran yesterday to request the release of a West German taken hostage in Beirut.
Rudolf Cordes, 53, business manager for the Frankfurt-based Hoechst chemical and pharmaceutical company, was abducted in Muslim West Beirut on Saturday, minutes after arriving in Lebanon.
The West German government acknowledged yesterday that the Cords kidnapping was linked directly to the arrest last week of
Ali Mohammed Hamadee at the Frankfurt airport when he arrived from Beirut carrying a bag of bottled explosives.
Hamadei is one of four Arabs charged by the United States with air piracy, murder and other offenses for the June 14, 1985 biacking of TWA Flight 847. A U.S. Navy diver was killed and 99 American passengers were held hostage in West Beirut for up to 17 days before the ordeal ended.
The United States formally requested that West Germany extradite Hamadei to face trial in the United States and has agreed to a Bonn demand that prosecutors waive the death penalty if he is convicted.
350 blood-anointed rebels killed in Uganda
KILAK, Uganda — Troops killed 350 rebels urged into fighting by a voodoo priestess who anointed the bare-chested fighters with animal blood before the battle, soldiers and a captured warrior said yesterday.
The National Resistance Army of President Yoweri Museveni reported 38 dead and 116 wounded in the battle Sunday at Corner Kilak crossroads, 120 miles north of Kampala.
At Kilak, piles of bodies, bloated after several days in the hot sun, were heaped on the perimeter of the former rebel camp overrun by 3,500 troops in Sunday's battle. It was the heaviest single engagement since fighting began in August.
Army commander Stanley Muhangi's three-battalion-strong
forces pushed howitzers, anti-aircraft guns and heavy mortars into the fight. Muhangi said it was clear that rebel leaders used witchcraft to prepare their men for battle.
Near the battle site was a ring of stones in which a voodoo priestess was said to have anointed rebel soldiers with animal blood, oil and herbs. All the evidence was trampled in the dust along with "magic" juju sticks. The priestess was believed to have died in the battle.
Muhangi said many of the rebels fought bare chested as if convinced that the rituals in which they had participated would protect them from harm. Voodoo, a primitive religion that originated in Africa, is based on a belief in sorcery and the power of charms and fetishes.
Across the Country
North possibly linked to contra drug deals
WASHINGTON — Americans who were running guns to the Nicaraguan contras and allegedly smuggling drugs to the United States told U.S. agents last fall that their operation was protected by the White House, it was reported yesterday.
One of the accused smugglers, who ferried arms to the rebels and flew planeloads of cocaine and marijuana back to the United States, also invoked the name of Lt. Col. Oliver North in warning drug agents to back off, the New Yorker said. White House aide named as the link between arms sales to Iran and the contra aid effort.
Other Drug Enforcement Agency officials said they were aware that North was involved in private aid efforts for the rebels.
The Times said one reason for top-level concern about North's possible role in the drug deals was that North had told the FBI in October to stop a probe of Southern Air Transport, a Miami-based operation once run by the CIA that was involved in shipping supplies to the contrains and in handling U.S. weapons being sold to Iran to buy freedom for U.S. hostages in Lebanon.
The FBI was investigating the contra link, but North warned that investigation might expose the secret Iran arms deal and thus jeopardize the captives' lives.
Republicans pass up KC as convention site
WASHINGTON — Missouri and Kansas Republican leaders expressed disappointment yesterday that the GOP will bypass Kansas City as the site of the party's national convention. They said they would not fight the selection of New Orleans.
Missouri GOP Chairman Hillard Selck predicted that the Republican National Committee would follow the recommendation of the site selection committee, of which he was a member, when it
meets Friday to ratify the choice of the southern city. Selck said he probably would vote for New Orleans.
New Orleans emerged as the preference of the committee on a 6-3 vote.
In announcing the decision, GOP National Committee Chairman Frank J. Fahrenkopf said New Orleans won mainly because its convention center, the Superdome, was much larger and more hotels were nearby.
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