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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, June 21, 1979

End of the line: Hijacker of U.S. plane turns himself over to Irish police

SHANNON, Ireland (AP) An American Airlines Boeing 707, commandeered by a man identified as a Serbian nationalist bombmaker, flew today from New York to Shannon airport, where the hijacker gave himself up to police, authorities said. It was more than 22 hours after the hijacking drama had begun on a New York-Chicago flight. The FBI said the hijacker, who arrived in Ireland with his lawyer, had been armed with dynamite. A crew of three were also

U.S. correspondent killed

MANAGUA. Nicaragua (AP) Nicaragua’s national guard says it arrested the corporal who shot and killed ABC correspondent Bill Stewart as he lay face down at a guard roadblock in Managua, a presidential press card in his hand. President Anastasio Somoza’s offensive to drive the Sandinista guerrillas from the slum barrios on the eastern side of the capital appeared to have bogged down as the drive went into its fourth day. Residents said guard patrols were taking heavy casualties, and reporters who visited the area saw several bullet-riddled military vehicles. Stewart was trying to get through a government road-

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aboard, authorities in New York said. A duty office spokesman at Shannon airport said the hijacker walked down the steps from the plane to waiting police in a remote part of the airfield, and there was no violence. Scores of Irish police including a special anti-terrorist unit, had surrounded the plane after it landed at 2:47 p.m. local time 9:47a.m.EDT. Two executives from American Airlines had also flown in from London. In New York at about 4 a.m.,

block to the fighting Wednesday when a soldier ordered him to lie on the ground, kicked him once in the ribs and then killed him with a rifle shot to the head. Stewart’s Nicaraguan interpreter, Juan Francisco Espinoza, also was killed, apparently by another soldier. Stewart’s camera crew, watching from a van parked near the roadblock, filmed the slaying, and the film was broadcast Wednesday night by all three U.S. networks. President Carter said the killing was “an act of barbarism that all civilized people condemn,” and Somoza, expressing his “deep and sad condolences,” said “the full weight of the law” would be brought to bear on those respon-

Credit card ring smashed by police

NEW YORK (AP) - Authorities say they have smashed a $1 million-a-year ring that resold airplane tickets purchased with airline credit cards lost or stolen from-business executives by high-priced call girls. Twenty-one men were indicted Wednesday in the scheme, which officials said involved some $3.5 million worth of plane tickets bought and resold since 1975. Officials said the case was the largest ever involving airline credit cards. The indictments capped a two-year investigation by the New York City police, detectives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,

the Serbian nationalist had switched from a smaller jetliner he had hijacked 16 hours earlier during a flight from New York to Chicago, the FBI said. The hijacker, identified by the FBI as convicted bombmaker Nikola Kavaja, 45, of Paterson, N.J., boarded the second plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport after a return flight to New York. Kavaja was carrying 15 sticks of dynamite in a sachel, the FBI said. Agents could not explain how the explosives passed airport security in New York’s

sible. The 37-year-old correspondent, who covered the revolution in Iran in February, had been in Nicaragua for 10 days, ABC said. He was the first foreign correspondent killed in the 24-day-old war between the Sandinista rebels fighting to overthrow the 42-year-old Somoza family dictatorship and Somoza’s 13,000-man national guard. Col. Aquiles Aranda Escobar, the guard’s public information officer, said Stewart’s killer would be brought before legal officers today. Officers and noncoms in the man’s unit also would be questioned, he said. He took a copy of the camera crew’s video tape for evidence.

and the U.S. Postal Service. Authorities said some of the cards used by the ring had been lost by owners. They said many were stolen by prostitutes instructed to take just the cards from out-of-town corporate executives staying at posh midtown hotels. The cards were the Universal Air Travel Plan Q cards. Officials said the prostitutes who stole the cards generally sold them to the ring for $125 each. Each card was used to purchase an average of $12,000 worth of tickets. Authorities said one was used for purchases totaling $74,000. The tickets, for domestic and

Economic meeting being transformed into energy summit

WASHINGTON (AP) - The economic summit conference President Carter will attend in Japan next week is being transformed by events into an “energy summit” where leaders of seven industrial nations will be under pressure to find solutions to the latest world oil crisis. Although energy problems have been on the agenda of four previous economic summit conferences, they will dominate the discussions at the June 28-29 Tokyo summit, officials say. Administration officials say Carter will try to devise a joint energy program with the other leaders that will give Americans some hope of relief from long gasoline lines, a threatened heating oil shortage and a potential energy-induced economic recession. “They are desperate to come up with something,” said one official, who did not want to be identified. “It would be awful for their image if they came away empty-handed and looked

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LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday. John Otto, the FBI agent in charge of negotiations in Chicago said bomb experts told him a device like the one Kavaja was believed to be carrying was sufficient to blow the plane to “smithereens.” An FBI sharpshooter armed with a high-powered rifle was hidden in the darkness beside the runway when Kavaja changed planes, but the marksman was unable to get off a shot, said FBI spokesman Quentin Ertel.

in Nicaragua

At least a score of the more than 90 foreign reporters in Nicaragua said they would leave the embattled Central American nation today to protest the shooting. ABC and NBC said it was withdrawing its crews, and CBS said it was leaving only one correspondent The U.S. Embassy said a U.S. Air Force plane would take Stewart’s body to Panama, and ABC was sending a plane there to return it to the United States. Stewart is survived by his wife, Myrna, and his parents, who live in Huntington, W.Va. The national guard announced Monday that it had launched a full-scale counterattack to drive the Sandinistas

overseas flights, were resold to clients at a 70 percent to 75 percent discount, the indictment charged. Mentioned in the indictment were some 36 nationally known corporations whose executives were robbed in the course of non-business activities. The firms represented included: Hewlett-Packard, Occidental Petroleum, Armco Steel, Wilkinson Sword, Kayser Roth, Standard Oil of Indiana, Citibank, 21 Brands, Hart Schaffner & Marx and Gerber Products Co. Authorities said their investigation was hampered by the reluctance of the executives to

powerless against OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries).” Besides Carter, others at the summit will be the leaders of Japan, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Canada, all of whom are as deeply concerned as Carter about the latest oil crisis. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal said for the first time Wednesday there is a danger of a world-wide recession if the upward spiral in oil prices continues. Prices are up 35 percent just since December. Significantly, the Tokyo summit will open only 48 hours after OPEC meets in Geneva, Switzerland, to decide whether to increase oil prices again. U.S. officials believe OPEC will vote yet another increase, possibly to S2O a barrel, up from the current official OPEC price of $14.75 barrel. In a related development, a new report by the Internationl Monetary Fund showed countries that export oil took in $36.7 billion more than they spent abroad in 1978, with $16.3 billion of the surplus coming from the United States and $11.4 billion from Japan.

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Authorities said it was likely the plane would refuel in Ireland then head for Johannesburg, South Africa. The 136 passengers aboard American’s New York-to-Chi-:ago Flight 293 had been freed jnharmed five hours after the Boeing 727 jetliner landed at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Wednesday. Authorities said Kavaja and lis attorney were aboard the 'light to Ireland. It was not mown how many crew mem)ers were on the plane when it est Kennedy shortly after 4

from their strongholds in Managua and predicted that the operation would be completed by Wednesday. But journalists who entered the eastern barrios on Wednesday said the guerrillas were still dug in and heavily armed. The rebels hold large parts of eastern Managua, plus extensive sectors in the southern city of Rivas, where they have said a column advancing from the Costa Rican border would establish a provisional government. They have also occupied all of Leon, the nation’s second largest city, and control most of Matagalpa, Esteli and other cities in the north and northwest.

disclose details of their loss. Fifteen of participants in the ring were arrested Wednesday, arraigned and released on $lO,000 personal recognizance bonds. Two others were in prison on other charges, two were expected to surrender today and two were being sought. • Authorities said the ring, which netted $1 million a year, was led by John Colagrande, 50, of Westbury, N.Y. The 31-count indictment, handed up in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, included a variety of charges ranging from conspiracy to the sale of airline tickets purchased with stolen credit cards.

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Seamen's ship found burning

A saga of piracy on the high seas

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) Five seamen who wandered the sandy stretches of southeast Texas for three days, eating cactus until they were discovered by ranch hands,

I.m.EDT. Kavaja was among six persons scheduled to be sentenced oday in Chicago for a 1975 bomoing at the home of a Yugoslavian consul. Only one participant in the bombing, in which no one was injured, was in custody. Kavaja had demanded the release of the jailed compatriot, but the Rev. Stojilko Kajevic refused to join the odyssey and convinced Kavaja to release the passengers, the FBI said. Otto said three or four persons talked with the hijacker

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Blockades spur panic purchases of gasoline

By CHARLOTTE PORTER Associated Press Writer Texas and Connecticut drivers vowed to halt trucking in their states and North Carolina operators voted to park their rigs today as dairy farmers dumped milk and produce growers worried about getting their products to market. President Carter was considering whether to lift an order assuring farmers all the diesel fuel they need to free additional supplies for protesting truck operators. National Guard troops escorted gasoline tank trucks in Minnesota to replenish supplies at fuel-hungry service stations. One shooting incident was reported there, and others were reported in Utah, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. A driver was shot and killed in Alabama on Wednesday the first fatality linked to the violence-riddled shutdown. The FBI joined the investigation,

have told authorities a harrowing saga of piracy and survival on the high seas. The men, all Americans, were members of the crew of the deserted, marijuana-laden Nooderkroon, which was found burning in the mouth of the Mississippi River last week, they told officials. Coast Guard officials said they believed the story, and sent the men to their homes Wednesday. The five asked not to be identified, saying their captors had threatened their families. As the captain told the tale: On May 27, crewmen on the unladen Nooderkroon spotted a

during negotiations. However, only Kavaja’s attorney, Deyan R. Brashich of New York, was allowed on the plane. The attorney confirmed that his client was carrying an explosive device, Otto said. In Chicago, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. Sullivan said the Rev. Kajevic, 43, a Serbian Orthodox priest, was being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Kajevic talked to the hijacker by telephone. The priest’s attorney, Michael D. Monico, said, however, that his client refused

and Gov. Fob James denounced the assailants as “outlaws and and cold-blooded murderers.” Some 100 Alabama truckers, dismayed at the death of 31-year-old Robert C. Tate of Birmingham, voted to remove blockades and let gasoline flow to drivers who have lined up at service stations. Strike leaders estimate 40 percent to 75 percent of the nation’s 100,000 owner-operators have joined the shutdown. William J. Hill of the Independent Truckers Unity Committee, a coalition of trucker and steelhaulers groups, urged more to join the protest today. Independents based in Dallas vowed an “out-and-out shutdown” of the region’s highways, and North Carolina’s Independent Double-0 Truckers Association agreed to stop work. In Connecticut, angry haulers vowed to “close the whole state of Connecticut down,” said

picked up by the tanker before their ship went down. Monday's collision took place 20 miles north of where the Liberian tanker Argo Merchant foundered in 1976 in America's worst oil spill. (AP Wirephoto).

shrimp boat’s distress signal after leaving Colon, Panama, on a bearing to Tampico for minor repairs. “We went to render assistance and they said they were sinking,” the captain said. “Sol invited them on board and all hell broke loose. “I didn’t feel like arguing with seven men with guns and I didn’t ask them any questions. I just did what they told me to do,” he said. The gunmen locked him in his quarters and his men in the officers’ mess. Several days

the hijacker’s request to ac company him out of the epuptry. FBI agents escorted Kavaja’s wife, Lena, to Kennedy early today in another unsuccessful effort to persuade him to surrender. Mary Rose Noel, an American spokeswoman, at one point said Capt. A M. Mitchell, the pilot of the original plane had refused to fly the hijacked Jetliner anywhere. >; “The captain had made. it clear that he is in Chicago and will fly nowhere else.” she said

spokesman Herb Johnson. • • Elsewhere, it appeared the latest call to shut down had little impact. Truck stops on the Ohio Turnpike generally reported business as usual. The truckers are protesting high fuel prices and other State and federal regulations. Many would receive greater operating flexibility under a Carter administration proposal to deregulate the trucking Industry being unveiled today .►; In other developments Wednesday: —Service stations in Omaha, Neb., were virtually out of fuel or closed to conserve their remaining supplies. Lines three to six blocks long were reported at the open stations betepe truckers and state senators agreed on a plan for shipments of gasoline. —Angry Michigan truckers vowed to hold picket lines, indefinitely at fuel depots around Michigan-

later, the five were blindfolded and transferred to the hold of asecond ship. "We couldn't see anything; even after we took the blind! folds off because they put us id the hold.” he said. "That hold was very dark, for us it was! always night down there.” . - ; Last Friday, the pirates put the crew on a rubber raft/ probably somewhere near the Yucatan, and cut them loosed leaving them to drift in the Qper> sea until they spotted land several days later. Using tjieir hands, the men paddled to shore and began walking northwest it? search of habitation.