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Tuesday, January 20, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
West German officials caution not to trade hijacker for hostage
BONN, West Germany — Prominent politicians cautioned officials yesterday against swapping a Lebanese suspect in the 1925 TWA hijacking for a West German abducted in Beirut. They said a trade would inspire more terrorist attacks.
Government spokesmen in Bonn played down reports that the kidnapping in Beirut of businessman Rudolf Cordes was aimed at forcing the release of Mohammed Ali Hamadi, accused of being one of the terrorists who seized the jetliner in June 1985.
A U.S. Navy diver on the plane was shot to death at Birat airport after the jet was commandederied by a flight from Rome to Albers.
Hans Stercken, chairman of Parliament's foreign affairs committee, said in a radio interview, "Those who are aware of the
tendency toward terrorist acts in the Middle East know that the acceptance of blackmail increases the chances of new acts."
Hamadi, 22, was arrested Tuesday at the Frankfurt airport after arriving from Beirut. U.S. officials have asked that he be extradited to stand trial in a U.S. court.
The Justice Ministry said Hamadi's extradition to the United States would be accomplished quickly. It had been delayed pending a pledge from the U.S. not to apply the death penalty if Hamadi is convicted. West Germany does not have a death penalty.
Authorities said he was identified by fingerprints as one of those who seized the Trans World Airlines aircraft June 14, 1985, shot Navy diver Robert Stehm to death and held 39 U.S. passengers hostage for 17 days.
Attacks continue; Iran, Iraq dispute gains
Iran said its invasion forces overran Iraqi defensive positions along a river 7 miles west of the besieged city of Basra yesterday, but Baghdad maintained that its troops repelled three Iranian advances and were in control of the situation.
As the heavy fighting continued in southern Iraq, Teheran radio said Iraqi warplanes bombed four Iranian cities yesterday, including Bakhtaran, Saqaez, Islamabad Gharb and Tabriz, killing or wounding several civilians. The state-run Iraqi news agency, IA, said at least five Iranian cities were hit.
Iraiq air raids on a dozen Iranian cities Sunday killed more than 315 people, Iranian news reports said. Iran has said that almost 1,000 people have died in Iraqi air raids and missile attacks on Iranian cities since early January.
Iran launched its latest offensive Jan. 9 along the vital Shatt al Arab waterway, which provides Iraq's link to the strategic Persian Gulf.
Many analysts think that Iran is seeking to cut off Basra, which lies on the west bank of the Shatt al Arab, from Baghdad and northern Iraq.
Across the Country
Nation pauses to honor King's freedom fight
ATLANTA — Most of the nation paused yesterday to honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., whose fight for black freedom in America "resonates around the world" and brings hope to the oppressed everywhere.
In Memphis, Tenn., 250 people stood in snow flurries to see a wreath of red carnations hung from the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where King fell dead from a sniper's bullet April 4, 1968.
King's birthday was an official holiday for the federal government and 26 states. Maryland and Delaware celebrated it on the martyred civil rights leader's actual birthday — his 58th — Jan. 15.
The day was marked by
speeches, marches and dramatizations across the country, but none so elaborate as those in King's hometown of Atlanta. A wreathlaying ceremony at King's crypt there was followed by a ecumenical service in his Ebenezer Baptist Church next door.
The keynote speaker, Secretary of State George Shultz, said King made America "stronger as a precious source of hope for oppressed people everywhere.
"The black civil rights movement in America is an epic poem," he said. "It is a message that resonates around the world. Those who do enjoy the kind of freedom Dr. King fought for remain the minority of humanity."
Selection committee favors New Orleans
WASHINGTON - New Orleans is the overwhelming favorite of the Republican National Committee's site selection committee, which will meet today to pick a location for the party's 1988 presidential convention.
mendation later this week.
The Kansas City area and Atlanta remain possibilities, but New Orleans reportedly is the personal choice of Republican National Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, who is also a member of the site committee. The full Republican National Committee will ratify the site selection committee recom-
Evidence of New Orleans' prospects came when city fathers were asked yesterday to sign a contract saying that if it was picked it would not be host to other conventions next year. Democrats, who hold their convention before the Republicans, also favor New Orleans and will announce their decision next month.
"What the hell, nobody can compete with us," said a confident Gov. Edwin Edwards, D-La., about the prospect of winning either convention.
From Kansan wires.
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Today, skies will be partly sunny with 10-20 mph winds. The high will reach 26 degrees, but the wind chill will make it feel much colder. Tonight skies will become partly cloudy as the temperature drops
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