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Plane hijacked over North Carolina flown to Havana ATLANTA (AP) One or more hijackers believed armed with a gun or bomb commandeered a Delta Air Lines jet carrying more than 60 persons from Atlanta to New York early today. They forced the plane to fly to Havana where they demanded another plane to take them to Iran State Department spokesman David Passage said in Washington that the hijacker or hijackers asked Cuban authorities to provide them with a plane to Tehran, but the Cubans refused. Delta said the hijacked plane, a wide-bodied L-1011, was not equipped to cross the ocean. More than four hours after Flight 1116 landed in Havana at 4:03 a m EST. its doors remained shut and Passage said the only person allowed off was one unidentified diabetic passenger who was taken to a Havana hospital. There were no reports of injuries The flight was hijacked over Greensboro. N.C., at about 1:51 EST. said Delta spokesman Jim Ewing. Dennis Feldman, a spokesman for the FAA in Washington, said earlier that the plane apparently was being refueled in Havana and was to return to Miami. Aviation officials in Miami said they had not received a flight plan from Havana The FAA said the jet carried 52 passengers and 12 crew members. but Delta spokesman Dick Jones said in Atlanta there were 62 persons aboard —sl passengers and 11 crew. Feldman also said before the plane landed in Havana “our information is that there is a man in the cockpit with a gun.” However, a State Department spokesman who declined to be named said the hijacker told the crew he had a bomb The flight began Thursday in Los Angeles and stopped in Dallas before arriving in Atlanta, taking off from there at 1 a m. for Kennedy International Airport in New York The last hijacking of a U S. airliner to Cuba occurred June 11, 1979, when a lone man took over a Delta jet en route from New York to Fort Lauderdale. Fla. The passengers and crew were allowed to return to the United States. U.S. airplane hijackings began in 1961 when Antulio Ramirez Ortiz forced a National Airlines plane to fly him from Florida to Cuba. Skyjacking reached a peak of 33 in 1969, then began to taper off through the 1970 s as security measures were implemented. Between 1961 and 1973. when the U.S. and Cuba signed a treaty for the extradition and prosecution of hijackers, 87 U.S. planes were diverted to Cuba.
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Radioactive water leaks from tank following earthquake
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - Water laced with radioactive tritium trickled from a storage tank at a nuclear weapons lab today, following an earthquake in Northern California that cracked buildings and roads and injured dozens of persons. The leak at the Lawrence Livermore lab began Thursday at the rate of a quart a minute and dwindled today to several gallons per hour, according to spokesman Michael Ross. The tank, on a base of impermeable asphalt, was cordoned off as officials monitored the leak. Ross said the leak might continue for several days
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Question of female draft remains unanswered
WASHINGTON (AP) - Car ter administration officials say they don’t anticipate any serious resistance from young people who will be ordered to register for the draft a few months from now. But for the time being, they are remaining noncommital on the question most directly affecting half of those young people: Whether the 16 million women between age 18 and 26 will be subject to registration like their 16 million male contemporaries. Without referring to either gender, one high official, who asked to remain nameless, said: “They’re not being conscripted for some highly unpopular war They’re not being conscripted at all, and I don’t think we should assume young people are any less patriotic than their parents.” Nonetheless, officials of the U.S. National Student Association and a coalition of 42 peace, civil rights, religious and student groups pledged Thursday to picket, protest, demon-
The seepage was apparently caused by Thursday morning’s quake, which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and was described by one person as a “gentle, rolling motion, not the usual jolts.” Ross said the radioactive tritium content of the water was about half the concentration permitted to be discharged into sewers under federal regulations, and that it posed no health hazard. Earlier, most of the lab’s 7,200 employees were evacuated when officials discovered leaking gas. Ross said the 640-acre facil-
RSVP Volunteers of the Meet and Eat group assist the Putnam County chapter of the American Cancer Society by stuffing envelopes
Similar Senate action thwarted
House gives nod to Olympic boycott
e. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - In a rare display of bi-partisan harmony, the House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to support President Carter’s request that the United States boycott the Olympic Games this summer in Moscow. However, administration hopes for similar action by the Senate before a meeting this weekend of the U S. Olympics Committee were thwarted by Sen Frank Church D. Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Ignoring White House pleas for speedy action, Church scheduled hearings on the Olympics matter by his committee for next Monday morning. There were no indications
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strate and hold campus teachins to register their opposition to President Carter’s call to readiness. As if on cue, students at Stanford University in California burned a facsimile of a draft card Thurday at a rally. “If registration becomes a reality, we will call for a massive national protest on the day registration is resumed,” said Barry Lynn, a spokesman for the Committee Against Registration and the Draft, a lobbying group that claims to represent various activist organizations. Frank Jackalone, chairman of'the National Student Association, said, “We don’t believe the youth of this country will tolerate such an invasion of their civil rights.” But the White House clearly thinks they will. One official acknowledged that the registration requirement would add a measure of uncertainty to the lives and planning of the nation’s young people but insisted: “It doesn’t
ity, one of two nuclear weapons labs in the nation, suffered only minor structural damage. He said there w-as no radiation leakage from the plant’s nuclear reactor. About 30 persons at the complex were treated for minor injuries. In Livermore, at least two dozen persons were treated for minor injuries and released, and Margy Odell, spokeswoman for a local hospital, said six persons were admitted for additional treatment. Dr. Bruce Bolt of the Berkeley Seismographic Station said the temblor’s epicenter was lo-
how long the hearings might last. A spokesman for Church said that the Idaho Democrat endorses a boycott and believes that the Senate will eventually approve the move, but that he felt it essential for his committee to conduct its own hearings. While the Senate has not yet spoken on the matter, administration officials believe that the House action Thursday will have an impact on the U S. Olympic Committee’s executive board when it meets this weekend in Colorado Springs. The resolution, approved by the House by a vote of 386 to 12, urged the Olympic Committee to press for transfer or cancellation of the summer games
intrude on their jobs or their activities as students. The notion of simply being ready seems eminently sensible and one they can accept.” The official noted that Carter has the authority to resume registration of males between the ages of 18 and 26 and only needs to ask Congress for the estimated $lO million the process would require and for some “clean up legislation” to streamline the registration procedures abandoned in 1975 by then-President Gerald R. Ford. To institute an actual draft that would order people into the armed forces, however, would require special legislation that the official conceded would be “highly controversial.” What one White House official called the “open question” of whether to require women to register can be expected to cause some controversy regardless of what Carter decides.
cated 12 miles northwest of Livermore. It was followed almost immediately by two severe aftershocks measuring 5.2 and 4.8. Two more strong aftershocks occurred Thursday night, registering 4.6 and 4.4 on the Richter scale. “Wow! It moved my refrigerator 3' 2 feet, and threw all my antique bottles off the fireplace,” said Lynne Phillips, a Livermore resident. Among the hardest hit areas was the Springtown Mobile Home Park where residents were evacuated after 133 units were shaken from their foundations.
for the annual spring crusade. RSVP members are: Fern Pitts, Betty Alexander, Florence Lady, Mary Boswell, Emily Owens and Addie
in Moscow unless the Soviet Union withdraws its troops from Afghanistan within a month. The resolution further asked the Olympic Committee to boycott U S. participation in the games if they are not transferred or cancelled. The House action has no force of law hut is merely an expression of House feelings on the matter. Only rarely in recent years has there been such unanimity on either foreign or domestic legislation in the House. During the debate, only two members Democrat Ronald Dellums of California and Republican William F. Good ling of Pennsylvania spoke against the resolution. Goodling, describing himself
1979 increase in inflation worst jump in 33 years
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumer prices climbed 1.2 percent in December, pushing inflation for all of last year to 13.3 percent, the worst annual increase in 33 years, the Labor Department reported today. What cost consumers $1 in the 1967 base year cost them nearly $2.30 as 1979 ended. Over the year, workers’ real spendable earnings were down 5.3 percent as a result of higher taxes and other rising costs. While average wages before taxes rose 8 percent, they were offset by a slight decrease in hours worked and a very high inflation rate. The acceleration last year was caused primarily by housing and energy-fueled transportation costs, which rose relentlessly and accounted for about three-fourths of the entire increase in the Consumer Price Index in 1979 Through the inflationravaged year, the price of a gallon of gasoline rose an average of 35.7 cents, while home heating oil jumped an average of 33.8 cents a gallon, the department said All energy costs rose 34.7 percent. Last year also saw: —Home financing costs skyrocket 34 7percent; —House prices shoot up 15.8 percent; —Food and beverages rise 10 percent; —All transportation costs, including automobile prices,
Classes were held outside for some 12,000 students at’ 14 schools while officials checked for structural damage. About 16,000 electrical customers were without power. Mel Leach, a liquor store owner in nearby Dublin, was working in the vodka section of his warehouse when the quake hit. Moments later, gasping from the fumes of wine and liquor, he picked his way through the 16,000 square feet of shattered glass. More than 1,000 containers had crashed to the floor. Next door, a K-Mart store suffered SIOO,OOO damage, as
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as “a voice crying in the wilderness,” cautioned his colleagues against allowing their emotions to rule their heads. Dellums, dubbing himself “the Lone Ranger,” suggested that the House was responding hysterically with a “symbolic and empty” action. But others in the chamber, including leaders of both parties, insisted the time had come to stand up to the Soviet Union. “We should not only slap the Russians on the wrist but we should take more positive action," said Rep. James H. Quillen,R. Tenn. Rep. Bill Alexander, D. Ark., said it would be better “to have our athletes sit on the bench than to send our young people to stop aggression in other parts of the world.”
jump 18.2 percent; —Medical care climb 10.1 percent. December’s 1.2 percent rise offered little prospect of relief to inflation-weary Americans, for it was somewhat higher than the average monthly increase through November The final CPI for 1979 is especially important because it affects the wages and benefits of more than 90 million Americans and the spending of billions of federal dollars. That’s because the index is used to calculate cost of living raises for more than 9 million union and non-union workers; benefit increases for more than 34 million Social Security recipients, and adjustments for 16 million food stamp recipients, 28 million children and elderly persons receiving meal subsidies and millions of other welfare recipients. Economists estimate the government spends $1 billion to $2 billion for each percentage point rise in the CPI. The index is a survey of the average changes in retail prices for a fixed list of goods and services ranging from food, housing and energy to shoes, tobacco and vacation travel. As a result of rising consumer prices throughout the year, the average gross weekly earnings of Americans fell 5.3 percent, the Labor Department reported. An 8 percent increase in average hourly earnings
ceiling lights and braces smashed to the floor and merchandise pitched into the aisles. No one was injured In San Francisco, skyscrapers swayed and the city’s telephone system was jammed with calls. The quake hit as city officials considered the cost of a communications system to be used in case an emergency. The $1.38 billion Bay Area Rapid Transit system halted operations for about 45 minutes, but resumed service when no damage was found. The quake also caused highrise buildings to sway in Sacra-
Rep. Donald L. Ritter. R. Pa., said that he had come to know the Russian people well during his year as a scientific exchange fellow in Moscow in 1967-68. The tw-o things that a Russian most cherishes, he said, "is his vodka, and the other is his or her sports. Voting against the resolution, in addition to Dellums, were six Democrats: Richard Nolan, Minn.; Phil Gramm. Texas; William Clay. Mo.; John Conyers Jr., Mich.; Louis Stokes. Ohio: and Robert W Kastenmeie, Wis. Voting against were five Republicans: Silvio Con te.Mass.; Barry Goldwater Jr., of Cal.; Edwin B. Forsythe, N.J.; Arlen Erdahl. Minn., and Philip M Crane. 11l .
slightly above the figure prescribed by President Carter’s voluntary wage guidelines was offset by a slight decrease in hours worked and the high inflation rate. The CPl’s rise has been relentless, increasing at least 1 percent a month since last January. And President Carter’s chief inflation fighter said Thursday that no relief is in sight. In fact, Alfred Kahn, chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, said increased defense spending to counter Soviet actions could “aggravate” inflation. President Carter has proposed a 3 percent increase in fiscal 1981 defense spending, after discounting for inflation. And several members of Congress indicate they will push to increase that amount in light of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Kahn also said recent rises in mortgage interest rates and oil prices “will continue to give us a high rate of increase in the CPI for months to come.” Housing and energy costs were the primary propellants of inflation throughout 1979. That’s particularly troublesome because along with food they comprise the bulk of an average family’s budget. In the 12 months ending last November, housing costs rose 14.3 percent, the Labor Department reported.
mento and Oakland and sidewalks to crack in Modesto. It was felt as far south as Monterey, 150 miles away, in Santa Rosa. 50 miles to the north, and in Reno. Nev , some 260 miles to the east. The quake occurred along the southern edge of the Antioch Fault, a minor fault line not linked to the area’s ma jor faults the San Andreas and the Calaveras. The last quake on the Antioch Fault was registered 4.9, in 1965. The earthquake which destroyed San Francisco in 1906 was estimated at 7.9.
'Chrysler Guarantee' announced NEW YORK (AP) Chrysler Corp. says it will offer a moneyback guarantee, free service and SSO payments nationwide in an effort to sell more cars. Chrysler President J. Paul Bergmoser announced the marketing package Thursday dubbed “The Chrysler Guarantees.” It will begin Jan. 31. The program, which has been partially tested in Salt Lake City and five other cities, includes a 30-dav or 1.000-mile money-back guarantee, a SSO test drive offer and free scheduled service for two years or 24,000 miles on domestic vehicles. For imports, the free service will be for one year or 12,000 miles. Persons buying Chrysler Corp. vehicles from participating dealerships also will be given a two-year membership in the Amoco Motor Club. Bergmoser, standing in for Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca who was with his critically ill wife in Florida, said the program will continue for an unspecified limited time "to help us increase our share of the market.” Chrysler has been testing a 30-dav money-back guarantee in the Salt Lake City area and a SSO test-drive offer in five cities Company marketing officials said earlier the offers increased showroom traffic and sales The financially troubled N 0.3 automaker’s share of the depressed U S. car market, counting imports, slipped to 9.6 percent last year from 10.5 percent in 1978 Chrysler contends its revival depends on selling one in to new cars market share