Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 112, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 January 1980 — Page 2
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Arabian hijacker surrenders PALERMO, Sicily (AP) - An \rab who hijacked an Alitalia DC-9 jetliner Monday as it was flying from Rome to Tunis with persons aboard freed all the passengers Tuesday and surrendered, airport police reported. The hijacker, who said he was seeking the release of 25 political prisoners in Tunisia, surrendered at 5:30 a m. (11:30 p.m. EST) to an official of the Italian Foreign Ministry who went aboard the plane to negotiate with him. Police reported earlier that there were two hijackers but after the surrender corrected this and said only one man was involved. Airport sources said 13 women and seven children were allowed to leave the plane hours after it landed at the airport here. Thinking at the time that there were two hijackers aboard, they said they intended to hold the men until the political prisoners were freed but later freed one male passenger who was ill. The hijacker spoke in French to an Italian reporter in the control tower. The reporter, Franco Fontana of Italian Radio, said the hijacker told him he had explosives and demanded that the plane fly either to Tunis or to Benghazi, Libya. A truck delivered food and water to the plane as it was being refueled and a fresh Alitalia crew flew in from Rome. Fontana said the hijacker told him: “We are neither terrorists nor outlaws but a reformminded political group fighting for jusice and equality.” The hijacker demanded at first that the jet go to Tripoli, Libya, but permitted it to land at Palermo after the pilot said Tripoli airport was closed because of a sandstorm, an Alitalia spokesman said. He said most of the passengers were Tunisians and Italians.
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All American reporters ordered out of Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Iranian government has ordered all American reporters out of the country, accusing them of biased reporting, but says French, British and West German journalists can stay for the time being. "The foreign (American) journalists have been misusing our kind cooperation and freedom we have given them,” Iran’s ruling Revolutionary Council said in a statement issued after a three-hour meeting Monday night. “They have used this against our revolution and we are going to expel all American correspondents effective immediately.” There were reports that the estimated 100 Americans would be given a few days to leave, but the director of the Ministry of
Unanswered questions? Article challenges Kennedy's description of fatal accident j
By LINDA CHARLTON c. 1980 N.V. Times News Service NEW YORK - The Reader’s Digest, in its February issue, concludes on the basis of what it calls “an elaborate scientific study” that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s account of the fatal automobile accident on Chappaquiddick in 1969 is false “in significant respects.” But Stephen E. Smith, the Massachusetts Democrat’s brother-in-law and the manager of his presidential campaign, said Monday at a news conference to which he brought his own expert witnesses that the article was “seriously in error.” The article, “Chappaquiddick, the Still Unanswered Questions,” challenges on the basis of the magazine’s “independent scientific
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National Guidance, which accredits reporters, said he could say nothing until he studied the expulsion order further. The Revolutionary Council’s spokesman, Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar, said French, British and West German reporters were being allowed to remain for the time being but he added: “We give them a strong warning that if they send anything but the truth about the news they will be expelled as well.” The expulsion order follows a long series of public accusations that American reporters were senning out biased and incorrect reports and the eviction previously of 23 Western reporters whose reporting or reports appearing in their publications angered the revolutionary regime.
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TED KENNEDY A serious error studies” two aspects in particular of the senator’s account. One of them is his statement that he was driving at about 20 miles an hour when his car went
Today was the hostages’ 73rd day of captivity. In Washington, White House press secretary Jody Powell said the expulsion “would seem to be a comment upon the desire of the authorities in Iran to prevent not only the rest of the world but indeed their own people from knowing the disastrous impact upon Iran of the taking and continued holding of the American citizens." Meanwhile, Los Angeles radio reporter Alex Paen reported the students at the Embassy told him spy trials for the hostages will begin as soon as Khomeini gives the word. Paen said they told him the ayatollah agreed to the trials in principle “since the Iranian people want them tried.”
off Dyke Bridge, carrying Mary Jo Kopechne, his passenger, to her death. The second is the senator’s dramatic description of his swim back to Edgartown from Chappaquiddick later that night, in which he said he feared drowning because of the fierce current sweeping him northward. These, along with other details of Kennedy’s account of the accident on the island.of Chappaquiddick off .Cape Cod have been challenged previously. The Digest, however, commissioned a computer analysis by a research engineer described as an expert in automobile-accident analysis, and also a tidal study by an oceanographer. The writer of the article, John Barron, a senior editor of The Digest, said that the senator
Senate invocation 'hits nail on head' The Rev. Judith Bennett demonstrated a firm grasp of the situation when in Albany, N.Y., Monday she became what’s believed to be the first woman to deliver the invocation opening a session of the State Senate. “Lord God, this is a place of many words,” said the pastor of Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church in Inwood, N.Y. “Some of our words will be productive,” she said, “some will have consequence for good or ill in the lives of your children. Some will be brave and wise and some might better be left unspoken.” And “some will be spoken simply because we are pleased with the sound of our own voices,” she told the Senate, as it prepared to begin legislative debate.
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Soviet action denounced ■ by General Assembly
By The Associated Press The U.N. General Assembly called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan by a vote of 104-18 but the Soviet occupation of the Central Asian country was expected to continue indefinitely, until the Moslem rebellion there is under control and the communist government is safe. The resolution adopted Monday after four days of debate did not name the Soviet Union specifically. But it said the assembly “strongly deplores” military intervention in Afghanistan, urged the “immediate, unconditional and total” withdrawal of all foreign troops and called on the Security Council "to consider ways and means to implement” that withdrawal. U.N. observers said it was unlikely the issue would be raised in the council again because the Soviets vetoed a similar resolution there Jan. 7. There is no veto in the assembly, but it can take no punitive action to enforce its resolutions. However, most Moslem and Third World nations voted for the resolution, and this constituted a stunning rebuke to the Soviet Union. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim declared: “The real value of such a decision is the moral value, because it is an appeal to the international community.” “This is the strongest action in the United Nations in 25 years against the Soviet Union,” said Deputy U.S. Am-
would not agree to an interview. At the news conference Monday afternoon, Smith produced his own witnesses to talk about tides and automobile crashes. Thomas Southwick, the senator’s press spokesman, also appeared at the conference, asserting that The Digest had not been given an interview because of Kennedy’s crowded schedule and because the article’s author would not say precisely what the interview would cover. The topography of Edgartown harbor, the article points out, has so changed in the years since the July 1969 accident that the precise velocity of the current at that time cannot be determined. But Bernard Le Mehaute, an oceanographic engineer, has calculated that the current was weak and flowing southward.
bassador William Vanden Heuvel. “It is an overwhelming vote, unexpectedly strong, from all quarters, and I think it reflected the almost practical unanimity of the Third World countries, first of all in recognizing the Soviet aggression for what it is and secondly in condemning it.” Speaker after speaker condemned the Soviet intervention as “naked aggression.” Only the Soviet Union’s close friends voted against the resolution. Eighteen members of the 152-nation assembly abstained, and 12 either were not present or did not participate. Although Cuba, the nominal head of the non-aligned movement, supported the Russians, only eight of the other 91 members of the non-aligned movement went along with this, while 57 voted for the resolution, 17 abstained and nine did not participate. An estimated 100,000 Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan to insure the success of a coup Dec. 27 that eliminated President Hafizullah Amin and put Babrak Karmal, a man more to the Kremlin’s liking, in power and to reinforce the Afghan army in putting down the Moslem revolt that broke out after the communists first took over the country in April 1978. Western diplomats in Kabul, the Afghan capital, reported that the Soviets have been largely successful in putting the lid on the rebellion, and one said that fighting
In addition, the article says that the senator’s friends who watched him swim at least halfway across the channel testified that the senator appeared to be having no difficulty at all, although he has said that he feared he was “going to drown.” Smith called on Jerome H. Milgram, an ocean engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lawrence J. Hoch and Timothy R. McHugh, admiralty lawyers from Boston, to support the senator’s assertions. Hoch and McHugh said that they had studied many maps and aerial photos of the Edgartown area made at the time of the accident and had concluded that the topography of the shoreline and channel bottom was “more than sufficient” to create a tidal flow of the strength Kennedy repor-
Arc of instability Geopolitical interests of the world's superpowers
By OTTO DOELLING Associated Press Writer Soviet expansion into Afghanistan has triggered a geopolitical showdown between the world’s superpowers along Southwest Asia’s so-called “arc of instability.” The ultimate stakes in what is expected to be a drawn-out global drama are extremely high since Afghanistan forms the backdoor to the fabulous oil wealth of Iran and the Arabian peninsula and to the Indian subcontinent. Even if the Soviet Union, as it avows, is pursuing only shortrange goals in the bloody suppression of Islamic insurgents in Afghanistan, the longrange effect is that the Russians will be more strategically placed to destabilize the autocratic Moslem regimes in Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, whenever the Kremlin’s interests dictate. “Geopolitics” the interrelationship of politics and geography is the game being played now. Here is a geopolitical overview of the interests of each of the Big Three in the “arc of instability” as viewed by diplomatic and other analysts in the East and West: SOVIET UNION From the Moscow perspective, analysts view the current crisis as part of a Soviet maneuver to finally carve out concrete spheres of influence in the region following years of superpower jockeying that brought few clear results. The most obvious and pressing concern behind the Russian move was that the unpopular Marxist regime of Hafizullah
had stopped “almost everywhere.” Other sources said the Soviets were continuing to encounter rebel resistance in Badakhshan province, in northeast Afghanistan, and in Paktia, southeast of Kabul near the Pakistani border. But on Monday, hundreds of Soviet army trucks rolled northward through Badakhshan after delivering supplies, and the convoy was guarded by only one armored troop carrier for every two or three dozen trucks. The diplomatic sources said the Soviets also were in control of the highway fronj Herat, the principal city of western Afgha l nistan 60 miles from the Iranian border, to the southwest province of Kandahar. They said about 12,000 Russian troops were stationed in Herat. Meanwhile, the U.S. government kept up its campaign to get its allies to join it in retaliatory action against the Russians. Deputy Secretary' of State Warren Christopher, after meeting with officials in London and Rome, was meeting in Brussels today with the North Atlantic Council, and Common Market ministers were also discussing collective action at a meeting in Brussels. Christopher told reporters in London that sentiment in favor of boycotting the summer Olympics in Moscow is “spreading around the world.”
ted he had encountered during his swim. “He was swept the way he said he was swept,” Hoch continued. Milgram agreed with the two lawyers and added that charts and timetables published by the federal government supported the senator’s contentions. To ascertain how fast the senator was driving when his car swerved off the Dyke Bridge, The Digest commissioned Raymond R. McHenry to make a scientific study. McHenry, according to the magazine, concluded that the senator was driving approximately 34 m.p.h., with an error factor of plus or minus 4 m.p.h., when he approached the bridge. Smith asserted that the McHenry study ran counter to the findings of other accident
Amin would be overturned by tribal insurgents and expose the heavily Moslem populated southern regions of the Soviet Union to the infectious Islamic revolution. The Soviets, therefore, chose to quell the Afghan insurrection and, according to experts, liquidate Amin, replacing him with a more responsive Satrap. The Russians also appeared to be worried about the possible loss of credibility with the Kremlin’s East European allies. eager to discourage their own dissident movements by raising the specter of Soviet intervention on the order of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Then, too. there was the half-century-old Soviet sensitivity about encirclement by unfriendly states. By effectively annexing Afghanistan, the Russians have come close to severing the first chain of anti-Marxist or anti-So-viet states surrounding them. Key links in this chain are Japan, South Korea, China, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and Western Europe. A military thrust of less than 300 miles from Afghanistan through western Pakistan or southeastern Iran would cut the chain and bring the Soviet Union to the Arabian Sea. near the entrance to the oil-rich Persian Gulf U.S. observers believe Russia’s old thirst for warm waters may have been aroused anew by the prospect that the Soviet Union may face an energy shortage of its own beginning in the mid or late 1980 s. THE UNITED STATES The Soviets may have their
experts. “An investigator for the (Massachusetts) Motor Vehicle Registry determined the speed to be 20 to 22 miles per hour,” he said. “An Arthur D. Little study concluded that the accident would have occurred exactly as described by Senator Kennedy if the vehicle was traveling at 20 miles per hour. ” The article says that there are eight “basic questions” that appear to raise doubts about what happened, including those about the senator’s driving 1 ’ speed and his swim across the channel. The article concludes by asserting that its two scientific studies show the senator’s sworn account to be false in two respects, and that analysis of the inquest testimony shows the senator’s repeated statement of cooperation with the investigation to be false as well.
eye on the last half of this decade, but Arabian oil is immediately important to the United States and its Western allies. About 20 percent of 8-million-plus barrels of oil the United States imports each day comes from wells on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf alone from Saudi Arabia. While Washington does not appear to perceive an imminent threat to the Arabian oil fields or the tanker routes. President Carter has told members of Congress that the Soviet move in Afghanistan directly threatened U.S. security because, if the Soviets suffered no adverse consequences from their action, there would be the temptation “to move again and again until they reached warm water ports” or gained control of world oil supplies. The Russian action also has brought the United States and China closer to a community of interests. CHINA China’s senior vice premier Deng Xiaoping regards intervention in Afghanistan as >‘a grave step taken by the Soviet Union to make a southward thrust to the Indian Ocean, control the sea lanes, seize oil-rich areas and outflank Europe so as to gain world hegemony." Of more pressing concern to China is the security of its old friend and ally. Pakistan. In addition to coordinating military aid to Pakistan with the United States. China can be expected to gain propaganda points in the Third World by pointing to Afghanistan as an example of the dangers faced by developing countries that get too friendly with Russia.