Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 22, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 September 1979 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, September 28,1979
Warning issued to flyers DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - The Irish air force warned it will shoot down any unauthorized planes that fly into air corridors reserved for Pope John Paul H’s flights around Ireland during his three-day visit starting Saturday. “We’re prepared to fire on any planes that do not move out when we make warning signals,” Commandant John O’Brien, fighter wing commander at Casement air base near Dublin, said Thursday: Lt. Col. Barney McMahon, his aide, told reporters: “Armed Marchetti fighters will check the routes taken by the pope’s aircraft to make sure no lunatics are flying around. “We’d have very little option to open fire if, for instance, a plane was hijacked and being flown toward the pope’s plane.” McMahon said airlines, flying clubs and other aviation organizations have been advised of the flight restrictions during the papal visit. He stressed that warning shots should be enough to scare off any pilot who flies into the corridors. He noted that the air force’s main task in the massive Irish security operation will be to “prevent any unauthorized aircraft interfering with the pope’s flights.” The tiny Irish Air Corps has never been involved in a dogfight or shot down a plane but it has 16 combat aircraft highly capable of protecting the pope, he said. The pontiff is scheduled to fly in to Dublin airport from Rome Saturday morning in the Boeing 747 flagship of Aer Lingus, the Irish Republic’s flag carrier. Four Irish Air Corps Fouga Magister fighters will escort the jumbo jet, St. Patrict, when it enters Irish air space off the County Wicklow coast south of Dublin. The Polish pope will travel around Ireland by helicopter amid fears that Protestant terrorists from British-ruled Northern Ireland plan to attack him to avenge the assassination of Earl Mountbatten in Donegal Bay Aug. 27 by guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. The killing was part of the mainly Catholic IRA’s campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and unite it with the Catholic Irish Republic. Despite the massive security precautions and fears overshadowing the papal visit, religious excitement mounted as the pope’s arrival neared. Dublin authorities put the finishing touches to a massive and unprecedented cleanup of the capital.
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Cannibalism Discovery of mutilated bodies spurs inquiry on deposed dictator
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) President David Dacko has ordered a judicial inquiry into cannibalism charges against deposed dictator Jean Badel Bokassa following discover of mutilated human bodies in the refrigerator of the self-proclaimed emperor’s villa on the banks of the Oubangui River. Bokassa also has been accused of ordering widespread executions during his 14-year reign, including the massacre of 100 schoolchildren in April, and these charges and allegations of other atrocities will also be covered by Dacko’s investigation. Dacko staged a bloodless coup last Thursday while Bokassa, 58, was in Libya seeking financial aid. Bokassa, a former sergeant in the French colonial army who holds dual French and Central African citizenship, was denied political asylum by France and given sanctuary Monday by the Ivory Coast. In a radio broadcast Thursday, Dacko, said all those guilty of “crimes against the nation” atrocities or abuses of power would receive just punishment. However, Ivory Coast President Felix HouphouetBoigny has denied Dacko’s request to extradite Bokassa. The 49-year-old Dacko, the Central African Republic’s first elected president who was ousted and jailed by Bokassa in
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Recession outlook cloudy
WASHINGTON (AP) - A government index designed to forecast economic trends showed no change in August, giving cloudy signals on whether a recession is under way, the government said today. The lack of movement in the Commerce Department’s Composite Index of Leading Indicators followed slight declines of 0.2 percent in July and 0.3 percent in June. Three consecutive monthly declines in the index traditionally have signaled the start of a recession. The index, however, has been mixed since it hit a peak of 143.7 in October. It fell a sharp 2.3 percent in April, in part reflecting the truckers’ strike, and in August it stood at 139.1. The August figure means the 10 components of the index were 39.1 percent ahead of their 1967 base. In another development, Citibank of New York, the nation’s second largest bank, raised its prime lending rate to a record 13 Vi percent. Other major banks were expected to follow Citibank’s lead in posting the new rate, which banks charge their most creditworthy corporate customers. The Commerce Department said four of tte components in the leading indicators index
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1965, also announced a new Cabinet retaining mostnof the former dictator’s ministers. Meanwhile, the 200,000 residents of Bangui, the capital, appeared to be doing their best to erase all visible signs of Bokassa’s dictatorship. Virtually every car owner has painted
Prime lending rate reaches 13 Vi percent NEW YORK (AP) Citibank raised its prime lending rate today to a record percent. The increase by the nation’s second largest bank was promptly matched by Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. of New York, and other banks were expected to join in the increase. The increase was the seventh boost for the rate in the last two months. The rate, charged by banks to their most creditworthy corporate customers, was at 11% percent in August and has risen rapidly since then. The Federal Reserve has been pushing up short-term interest rates in recent weeks in an effort to slow inflation, which has been galloping along at an annual rate of more than 13 percent, as measured by the consumer price index.
were down in August liquid assets, sensitive prices, stock prices and building permits. But the declines were offset by increases in six categories: average work week, lower layoff rate, sales performance, contracts and orders for plant and equipment, money supply and new orders. Many economists say the nation’s seventh postwar recession began in the second quarter this year and that the downturn will persist into 1980, even if third quarter output figures show improvement. Although a recession could
Catch 22 ■ Extradition case puts U.S. in danger of becoming terrorists'haven
CHICAGO (AP) Ziyad Abu Eain, a young Palestinian wanted for murder in Israel, may have the U.S. government caught in an extradition Catch 22 that federal officials say they can’t afford to lose. Abu Eain, charged with setting off a bomb in a crowded Israeli marketplace that killed two civilians, stands a fair chance of staying in this country even if the U.S. government can show there’s reason to believe he is guilty. And if he does, say prosecutors in the case and such Jewish groups as the American Jewish Committee and Anti-De-famation League, the United States is opening its door as “a haven for terrorists.” Furthermore, the case of 19-year-old Abu Eain comes less than six months after the U.S. government lost a similar extradition attempt in California involving Peter McMullen, a member of the Irish Republican Army. McMullen, sought for extradition by England for bombing a British army barracks, convinced a federal magistrate the bombing was commited in the name of a political cause. He is now living in the United States. Government officials from the State Department to the Justice Department admit that after the McMullen ruling, pressure now is on government attorneys to convince a federal
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over the letter “E” that stood for Empire on license plates issued after 1976, when Bokassa redesignated the Central African Republic an Empire. Dacko restored the name Republic immediately after the coup, and promised elections in the near future. University students, who actively protested Bokassa’s rule, busied themselves obliterating the word Empire from public signs. Workmen were removing crowns, eagles and other imperial symbols. Crowds of joyous Central Africans pulled down statues of Bokassa and hacked them to pieces soon after the coup, but triumphal arches erected by the former dictator are still standing. One former Bokassa aide not retained in Dacko’s new government was former Interior Minister Maurice Albert Zana, who was taken to the notorious Ngara Prison, where the 100 schoolchildren were said to have been slaughtered. Bokassa denied any role in the slaying, but a team of African jurists concluded the dictator ordered the execution and probably took part himself. Witnesses said the children were killed after they protested a government order requiring them to buy expensive school uniforms from one of Bokassa’s relatives.
help dampen inflation, currently running at an annual rate of more than 13 percent, it also would throw many people out of work. The department also released its so-called Composite Index of Coincident Indicators, which is supposed to gauge the economy’s current performance. This index fell 0.9 percent in August, the largest drop since a 1 percent decline in May. The coincident index hit its peak in March before beginning a tumble. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported that a
surge in imports, including a record-setting cost for foreign oil, helped push the U.S. trade deficit to $2.36 billion in August. The deficit was more than double the sl.l billion by which imports exceeded exports in July, the report said. And it was the largest since a $2.48 billion deficit in May. The trade figures were announced as the price of gold shot toward S4OO per ounce on world markets and the value of the dollar sagged against major European currencies. The trade figures could put more pressure on the dollar because the higher deficit means that more dollars flowed out of the United States last month. This, in theory, increases the supply overseas, which tends to depress the dollar’s value on foreign markets. Imports in August rose to a record $lB.lB billion, the report said. This was a 8.3 percent increase from July and the largest such increase since an 8.8 percent rise in February 1978, Commerce figure show. Exports also hit a record level, $15.82 billion. But the 1 percent increase from July was not enough to keep pace with the import surge.
magistrate in Chicago that Abu Eain should be extradited. “It’s a very important case,” a State Department official who asked that his name not be used said, referring to the Abu Eain hearing that began Wednesday. “I don’t think there’s very much disagreement that the McMullen ruling was an unfortunate one from the government’s standpoint.” Recent court decisions, notably the one involving McMullen, have held that terrorist acts may be classified as “political” under the political offense exemption of U.S. extradition treaties with foreign countries, including Israel. Extradition, the U.S.-Israeli treaty says, shall not be granted “when the offense is regarded...as one of a political character or if the person sought proves that the request for his extradition has.. .been made with a view to trying or punishing him for an offense of a political character. ” , But these two cases raise a thorny question. How can an act of apparent terrorism, abhorred by the U.S. government, be excluded from the category of “political” activities long sheltered by the U.S. Constitution? If politics weren’t involved, Magistrate Olga Jurco would only have to decide if criminal evidence warranted extradition. The proceeding—similar to a preliminary hearing—is not designed to determine innocence or guilt, just criminality.
27 die in early morning Austrian fire
VIENNA, Austria (AP) An intense, choking fire roared through a Vienna hotel before dawn today, killing 27 persons and injuring 13, officials said. Police said American, Yugoslav and probably West German tourists were feared among the victims but had no numbers.
U.S. attempts to keep negotiations with the Soviet Union going
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter convened his National Security Council for the second time in less than 24 hours today as the United States tried to keep alive negotiations with the Soviet Union over a Russian combat brigade in Cuba. The breakfast meeting at the White House followed Thursday night’s hour-long NSC briefing by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on his negotiations with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, which apparently failed to resolve the dispute, at least for the time being. American officials did not rule out the possibility of further U.S.-Soviet talks, although none were planned for the first time in three weeks. Carter’s press secretary, Jody Powell, meeting reporters after Vance’s NSC briefing, said, “We would not characterize this as a crisis. It was a discussion.” Another official, requesting anonymity, said that, while there was no crisis atmosphere, “there is a problem.” Members of the NSC called to the White House included Vice President Walter F. Mondale, CIA Director Stansfield Tugner, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown andnpresidential national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Powell refused to divulge specifics of what Vance told the NSC in a one-hour briefing that followed a private 30-minute meeting with the president in the White House living quarters. Carter said Tuesday that he would report to the nation, probably within a week, on the negotiations. In a speech Thursday, Vance assured Latin American diplomats the administration, “at an appropriate time,” would release a full report to buttress its stand on the troops. But, at this point, he added, “the best thing
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Dayan spells out terms for meeting with PLO
JERUSALEM (AP) - Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan has dropped the clearest hint yet that Israel may one day talk to the Palestine Liberation Organization, but he admitted the PLO is almost certain to reject the conditions he demanded. Dayan spelled out his terms in an interview with Israel Television in New York that was broadcast here Thursday. Asked what would happen if the PLO recognized Israel’s right to exist, Dayan replied: “I don’t want to answer your question only in a negative way,” then said Israel might be willing to enter talks with Yasser Arafat’s PLO guerrilla al-
Police said because all the guest lists were lost in the blaze at the four-story Am Augarten Hotel, in Vienna’s second district, it was impossible at the moment to identify the guests or give their hometowns. The U.S. Embassy also said it had not yet been able to establish who the Americans were.
that can be done is to keep the negotiations private.” Neither Vance nor Gromyko, meeting the press after their 3-hour session, would go beyond describing the talks as “serious.” The mood was clearly gloomy, however, as the men descended from Vance’s 37th floor hotel suite overlooking the United Nations. Gromyko planned to return to Moscow today, precluding what had been seen as a possible meeting with Carter this weekend if progress resulted from the New York talks. Officials had said a decision by Carter on whether to take part in the talks hinged on the outcome of the last Vance-Gromyko meeting. Administration sources said there remained a possibility Vance would hold further talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Such a meeting, however, was said to depend on some indication from Moscow that it is prepared to accept and do something about the U.S. position on the detachment. Yet State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said he would not rule out some unspecified U.S. effort to keep the delicate discussions alive. “I’m really trying not to rule out any possibility,” he told reporters in New York. In the talks, the United States has sought to impress on the Russians the Carter administration’s feeling that, without a prompt settlement of the dispute, there is little prospect the Senate will ratify the strategic arms limitation treaty by the end of the year. The United States maintains the detachment of approximately 2,500 Soviet troops inn Cuba is a combat brigade. President Carter has said that is an unacceptable state of affairs and said the troops’ combat capability must be ended.
liance if it “ceased to be a military organization and became a political framework” with new objectives. The PLO must “be ready to go into general discussions, let’s say, on how to solve the refugee problem, or for example, be ready for the million refugees that have been in Jordan since 1948 to see Jordan as their permanent place,” he said. But Dayan said, “This is such a revolution that I don’t expect it to happen tomorrow.” He said if the PLO accepted Israel’s conditions “it would not be the PLO, it would be a political movement that wants to solve
Thus it is difficult to say how soon a decision can be expected. The McMullen case took nearly a year. Abu Eain, a citizen of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, came to Chicago in June on a visitor’s visa before he was charged with the May 14 bombing in Tiberias, Israel. He was arrested by the FBI in August on the extradition request and is now in a federal prison after having been denied bail. William Goodman, a San Francisco lawyer who defended McMullen, explained in a telephone interview his view of the political offense exemption and why government attorneys here may have a tough fight. Court decisions, including McMullen, have held that a defendant is exempt from extradition if his crimes are part of an insurrectional movement to undermine an existing government, Goodman said. In addition, the individual must be a bona fide member of that movement, such as the PLO or IRA. While denying that Abu Eain set off the bomb an act for which the PLO claimed responsibility Abdeen Jabara, a lawyer for Abu Eain, nonetheless acknowledges that the young Palestinian supports the PLO and argues the act was political. Sullivan has not given an interpretation of the political offense exemption, but he contends attacking innocent civilians in a marketplace is a “criminal act of terrorism.”
The fire started around sa.m. near the reception desk and roared to the upper floors of the building through elevator shafts. The night receptionist was missing and police were looking for him. The cause of the fire was not immediately deter-
problems on a political and real basis.” He was vague about the spe* cific objectives he would like to to see the PLO change, but he indicated he was seeking more than reassurances that the PLO did not seek the destruction -of the Jewish state. The substance of Dayan’s remarks showed little change in his government’s staunch opposition to the PLO. but political, observers said Dayan appeared to state his position in deliberately positive terms and they saw a subtle shift in his remarks, possibly signaling some softening of Israeli policy.
mined. Witnesses said 14 of the guests were wakened by the wail of approaching fire engines and tried to jump from windows but firemen delivered them to safety using high-rise ladders. ’ Most of the victims were overcome by the poisonous fumes in their sleep.