University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 7, 1988
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Arab hijackers free 24 demand plane be refueled
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Food was brought yesterday to the 87 people aboard a hijacked Kuwaiti jumbo jet in Iran and a top Iranian official expressed hope that the piracy would end "without any difficulty, incident or loss."
The Arab hijackers freed 24 hostages earlier yesterday, but kept more than 80 others, including three members of the Kuwait's royal family.
They insisted that the Kuwait Airways Boeing 747 be refused. Tehran radio quoted airport authorities at Mashhad in northeastern Iran as saying they would fly the plane
"to prevent any calamity or incident."
There was no word on whether the plane would leave or where it would be.
The airliner landed at Mashhad early Tuesday.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted a freed Jordanian passenger as saying there were five or six hijackers, who wore masks and were armed with pistols and hand grenades.
3 youths killed in Arab-Israeli clash
They have demanded the release of 17 Shiite Moslems convicted and imprisoned in Kuwait for bombing the U.S. and French embassies in 1983.
U.S. lands extra troops in Panama
ing into homes, said Jihad Howari, the Israeli-appointed head of the village council.
The youngsters, children of Jewish settlers on the occupied West Bank, were on a Passover outing and had stopped for a picnic lunch when the trouble began with stone-throwing. Members of the group said Arabs offering to help then led them to Beita.
PANAMA CITY, Panama — Giant cargo planes loaded with soldiers, arms and helicopters landed almost hourly yesterday as the United States completed deployment of 1,300 extra troops to Panama.
The Associated Press
The country's Defense Forces chief, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, appeared to be seesawing on whether to accept mediation in Panama's political crisis.
The Associated Press
BEITA, Occupied West Bank — A holiday hike by Israeli teen-agers ended yesterday in a mulee of shooting and stone-throwing in an Arab town in which a 14-year-old Israel girl and two Palestinians were killed. Hours after the clash, Jewish settlers raided the nearby Arab village of Hawwwa, smashing car windshields, beating villagers and break
Late Tuesday, the government sent a communique to news organizations conditionally accepting a mediation offer by Monsignor Marcos G.
But the statement linked any talks to a national dialogue begun Monday by Norigeia's supporters. The dia-
logue was held at the church and Norigeia's opponents.
McGrath, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Panama.
Within hours, the government's
works off, and the communi-
tive explanation.
The church said yesterday that McGrath's offer to mediate between the government and its opposition may be linked to the "national dialogue."
The church said it was still await
ing a reply from the general, who is under indictment in the United States on drug trafficking charges. Noriega, the chief of the 15,000-member Defense Forces, is the power behind Panama's civilian government.
The opposition, which has been seeking Noriega's ouster for more than 10 months, planned a march against hunger, yesterday, but it fizzled out in the face of heavy police turnout.
The church is feeding about 10,000 families a day in the Panama City area and says conditions are worse in other parts of the country.
The march was designed to protest a deteriorating economic situation that has left thousands of Panamanians penniless.
In ordering the buildup last week, the Pentagon said the new troops were needed to provide security for U.S. citizens and installations because of Noriega's "heavy-handed tactics."
Panama has called the deployment a prelude to invasion. It claims civilian volunteers have flocked to army barracks, demanding military training to "defend the fatherland."
News Roundup
SUMMIT PLANS PROCEED: President Reagan will go ahead with a meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev even if Red Army troops have not started pulling out of Afghanistan, White House officials said yesterday. Reagan plans to visit Moscow from May 29 to June 2 for his fourth summit with Gorbachev.
IRAQ BOMBS IRAN] Iraq fired four missiles into Teheran yesterday, and its warplanes bombed eight other Iranian cities. Iranian officials said that 40 civilians were killed, including three children who died when a hospital nursery was hit.
CONTRAS, SANDINISTAS NEGOTIATE: Contra and Sandinista military representatives agreed yesterday on seven zones where rebels will gather during their 60-day cease-fire, state radio reported. But the two sides remained in disagreement about key issues to bring about a permanent peace.
ALLEGED COCINA TRAFFICKER JAILED: a month-long U.S. Honduran operation culminated in a pre-dawn police raid in Honduras and put an alleged international cocaine trafficker in an Illinois federal prison yesterday. The prisoner will be questioned in the slaying of a U.S. drug agent, officials said. Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros was lodged at the maximum-
security federal prison in Marion, III., after Honduran officials on Tuesday hustled him onto a plane to the Dominican Republic without a passport. U.S. law enforcement sources said. Dominican Republic officials put Matta on a New York-bound flight, and he was arrested aboard the jetline by U.S. marshals, the sources said.
GREEK PRISONERS RIOT: Police used tear gas to drive 121 rotting inmates back to their cells yesterday at a maximum-security prison outside Athens, Greece, officials said. The prisoners, ages 18 to 21, burned mattresses and broke furniture on the roof of the Korydallos jail after learning of another inmate's suicide.
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