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Wednesday, April 25, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
7 U.S. hostages remain in Beirut Experts able to pinpoint their exact location, official says
The Associated Press
WIESBADEN, West Germany—Robert Pollifl is likely kept in the same building as other Western hostages in Lebanon, and intelligence experts can pinpoint where he is hiding. U.S. officials said yesterday.
Earlier yesterday, Col. Kenneth R. Koskinen, medical director at the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, said Polhill's anger at his captors and strong sense of humor helped keep him sane.
Pohill, 55, was reunited yesterday with his two sons for the first time in more than three years. They shared a lunch of spare ribs in Pohill's hospital suite, serenaded by a German accordionist.
In Beirut, the newspaper An-Nahar said pro-Iranian kidnappers would not free any of the remaining seven U.S. hostages unless Israel released Arab prisoner Sapri Yusuf, who there were reports from Lebanon that a second hostage release was in the offing.
But it was made clear that kidnappers wanted a show of reciprocity from Washington. The U.S. administration said it made no sense to do so, and would not exchange anything for the hostages.
In Jerusalem, officials said the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia, in what they said was a routine measure, was expected to release about 10 Arabs it held in a prison near the southern town of Khiam in southern Lebanon. Officials said there was no connection with Polhill or the remaining hostages.
The Beirut newspaper said militants wanted the release of 15 people imprisoned in Kuwait. Kuwait repeatedly has refused to release the prisoners, jailed for bombing the U.S. and French embassies in December 1983 in Kuwait.
Two days after Polhill was released from nearly 39 months of captivity, U.S. officials allowed glimpses of efforts to track the 17 Westerners still held hostage in Lebanon.
The officials spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity after Pollin met with a special team of investigators. A number of information about other hostages.
The officials confirmed earlier reports that during captivity Polhill was held in the same room with fellow U.S. educators Jesse Turner, 42, of Boise, Idaho, and Alain Steen, 51, of Boston. They were scheduled to be on the University College campus on Jan. 24, 1987.
One official said it was likely other Western hostages were kept in the same building as the educators.
"There's a possibility he was held in the same building with other hostages," he said. "We're fairly certain of that."
He said that within the Shite fundamentalist group, Hebbollah, or Party of God, clans or family groups were holding different hostages and making different demands.
The official also said intelligence experts knew where Western hostages have been held in Beirut. Asked whether intelligence
experts were able to determine exact sites, the official said, "It can be figured out."
But he said trying to keep track of the kidnappers' periodic movements of the hostages to keep their secrets secret was "an ongoing thing."
The hostages have been "moved within an area of Beirut that is strongly Shite," the official said, and the gunman was in Beirut's southern suburbs.
The official refused to say how hostages have been moved, but said it was not done "in plain sight."
Asked whether there were signs of another hostage release soon, one official said, "Not just now, not concretely."
"I think an Iranian minister has said by the end of the year all hostages will be out," he said.
Bush on Monday thanked Iran and Syria for their help in negotiating the hostages release. Both countries are apparently eager to rebuild stronger ties with the West.
Koskinen, the hospital medical director, said Polhill suffered muscle atrophy in captivity.
Along with questioning, Polhill underwent medical tests at the Wiesbaden hospital.
Koekkinen said doctors estimated Polhill lost about 25 pounds in captivity. Polhill also was found to be suffering from diabetic retinopathy, an eye condition common among long-term sufferers of diabetes.
considering his ordeal has a reasonably positive mental status," Keskinen said.
Though physically fatigued, Polhill "is intellectually very sharp, has a great sense of humor, and
Polhill remains angry at his captors, the doctor said, but he survived by channeling his anger into a strong sense of humor.
Koskinen said Polhill was very concerned about the other Western hostages.
"He said several times, 'What ever I can do or say to get them out I will do that.'" "the doctor said.
In Lebanon, a pro-Syrian militia leader said he was working for the release of two kidnapped Swiss Red Cross workers.
Mustafa Saad, leader of the popular Nasserite Organization said: "We are in contact with several companies that release the 'release of the Swiss captives.'"
The two are Emmanuel Christen, 33, and Elio Erriquez, 24. They ran an orthopedic center for the international Committee of the Red Cross in Sidon before being kidnapped on the city's outskirts Oct. 6.
In a related development, the Sunni Moslem newspaper Al-Liwa said a deal has been worked out between the Belgian government and the Fatah-Revolutionary Council led by Abu Nidal for the release of the four hostages next week.
In return, a Palestinian terrorist, Said Nasser, would be released from a Belgian jail, the unattributed report said. The Libyan-backed Fatah-RC, which has its headquarters near Libya, released three other hostages April 10.
U.N. voting records,aid not linked to U.S. policy
Arab envoys expect U.S. pressure on issues
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS - U.S. foreign policy is gaining support at the United Nations and there is less emphasis on linking foreign aid to how a recipient country votes, the U.S. ambassador said recently.
Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, the U.S. permanent representative, met with reporters to release the findings of twowing practices at the United Nations.
Some Arab envoys, however,
expect the Bush administration and
Congress to put pressure on recipients
of U.S. aid to rescind a General
Assembly resolution adopted in 1975
equating Zionism and racism.
Pickering told reporters the idea of linking U.S. foreign aid to supportive U.N. votes had never risen to massive proportions and that there is less focus now on scorecarding in aid than there was before.
"I don't think at this stage one can say this is completely a dead letter, but I don't see it rising to high prominence," he said. "I don't believe there is such overwhelming interest in it.
"I think we, in fact, should give assistance where we believe it is in our broad foreign policy interests to do so, all factors considered."
The ambassador said nothing of the Zionism-racism resolution and Arab statements, made later, that some members of Congress wanted to penalize nations that did not follow the U.S. line.
In December, Vice President Dan Quayle said the United States sought to overturn the resolution in the foreign aid case. Western diplomats predict the Western diplomats predict the
administration will not pursue the matter unless victory is assured.
Congress ordered the reports at a time of great East-West confrontation in the General Assembly. They were intended to help legislators assess support for U.S. positions and allocate aid but are not known to have been a major factor in aid decision.
The latest report covers 16 votes and includes consensus decisions on Afghanistan and other issues considered vital to the United States.
Clovis Maksoud, the Arab League envoy, told a press conference that some influential members of Congress appeared ready to use aid as a lever to force nations to vote for unifying the Zionism-rism resolution.
He said nations that opposed the United States or abstained could become targets for harassment and diplomatic and financial pressure.
Nearly 70 percent of political resolutions received unanimous support in the 44th General Assembly last year, according to the latest voting report. That compares to 64 percent in 1987 and 38 percent in 1988.
It said other U.N. members voted with the United States 23.3 percent of the time on the 16 issues, which ranged from the invasion of Panama to the annual question of accepting Israel's credentials.
Some U.N. diplomats say voting the same way does not guarantee an identical point of view. They also suggest that, if more countries are voting with the United States, changes in U.S. policy may be the reason.
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