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Thursday, June 21, 1979
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
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Weather
Mostly cloudy, warm, and humid
with a high in the mid 90’s and a
low of 73. Winds will be South-
Easterly at 10-15 m.p.h.
ijacker identified; sought to
ree jailed comrade in Chicago
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HICAGO — At least one man he
el to be a Serbian nationalist seeking
■ree a jailed compatriot hijacked an
American Airlines jet Wednesday and
leld the 137 persons aboard hostage in the
)lane at Chicago’s O’Hare International
\iftort.
[ftj Hhe hijacker, identified as Nikola
^fjavaja, 45, living in Patterson,, N.J., said
as carrying explosives, U.S. Attorney
Imas Sullivan said.
li ■ie plane, flight 293 en route from New
ork’s LaGuardia Airport to O Hare, was
about 11:20 a.m CDT. The
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craft had a crew of eight and 129
passengers.
The plane was sitting on a runway at
O’Hare while officials negotiated with the
hijackers over the radio from the control
tower.
Kavaja was one of four Serbian na
tionalists who were convicted in U.S. Dis
trict Court in Chicago May 24 of conspir
ing to kill Yugoslavian diplomats in
Chicago.
Father Stojilko Kajevic, a Serbian or
thodox priest, was convicted of the charges
along with Kavaja but Kajevic was the only
one who was not released on bond.
Kajevic is being held in the Federal Met
ropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.
Kavaja apparently was demanding the
release of Kajevic, Chicago police said.
An American Airlines spokesman said at
first there were two men in the cockpit of
the Boeing 727 who said they have ex
plosives on them. The spokesman later
said he was not sure there were two men.
“There is a language problem,” he said.
The Boeing 727 “took off from LaGuar
dia” at 11:16 a.m. EDT, FAA spokesman
Irwin Goldstein said.
“At 12:29, it was about 50 miles east of
Flint, Mich., when it (the hijacking) oc-
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Texas gasoline dealers, their suppliers and state and
local officials hope motorists voluntarily comply with
the state’s first mandatory peacetime gasoline distribu
tion plan because few want to get involved with enforc
ing it.
The managing director of the Texas Service Station
Association planned Wednesday night to instruct Dal
las gasoline dealers not to get involved with enforcing
Gov. Bill Clements’ odd-even gasoline plan, which
takes effect Monday in Dallas, Tarrant and Harris
counties.
“We’re going to tell our people to keep their noses
out of it,” said Bill Ligon of Austin. “If they (state offi
cials) want to have this law, then they’ll have to enforce
it."
The gas plan also requires a $6 minimum purchase to
prevent motorists from topping off their tanks and a
maximum 20-gallon limit on fillups. Motorcycles are
exempted as energy efficient vehicles and can fill up at
any time.
During months with 31 days, which would give
odd-numbered plates a two-day monopoly on gas buy
ing, the 31st will be a free-for-all day when anyone can
purchase.
At Shell Oil Co. headquarters in Houston, spokes
woman Kitty Borah said the company could not make
the independent dealer add personnel to make the gas
plan work.
“We can’t turn our dealers into policeman,” she said.
“You make a big assumption that people are honorable.
It’s going to be difficult for them (dealers) to look inside
and see if the gauge is half-full. If I were a dealer I
wouldn’t want to stick my head inside a car the way
people feel about the gasoline situation now.”
Despite gasoline dealers’ unwillingness to enforce
the allocation plan, Clements’ press secretary Jon Ford
made it clear the stations would be considered liable if
the plan were not followed.
Ford said in Austin that both the authority to allocate
on an odd-even basis and enforcement penalties were
included in a presidential order May 29 under the 1973
Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act.
Ford could not supply a full list of possible penalties,
but said, “All I know about that penalty provision is
that the fines (for dealers) can range up to $10,000 per
day for violations.”
An employee of Anderson Mobil Station in Dallas
said the station planned to refuse to pump gas for
motorists seeking it on the wrong day.
“Well tell them to come back the next day,” she
said. “If they won’t leave, well it depends on if they’re
bigger than we are. I would think the other people in
line would get them out of there. If nothing else works
we might threaten them with calling the cops.”
In Dallas, police promised a request for assistance
would be met.
Police spokesman Bob Shaw said if police are called
to a gasoline station and a motorist refuses the police
man’s request to leave, the motorist would be arrested
on charges of criminal trespass.
But Fort Worth police said they had no plans at
present to enforce the gas plan.
“We’ve got no special crackdown planned, ” said
deputy chief Bill Kennedy. “We’re hoping for volun
tary compliance.”
Col. Wilson E. Speir, director of the Department of
Public Safety, endorsed Clements’ conservation pro
gram but made no mention of enforcing odd-even allo
cation.
Speir said the DPS would give “continued high
priority” to enforcing the 55 mph speed limit.
A spokeswoman for Southland Corp., many of whose
7-Eleven stores sell gasoline, said the firm had no
major plans to enforce Clements’ program.
“The customers themselves will enforce the pro
gram,” said Alisa Martin. “We’ve been through this
before in California. We didn’t have any problems in
California and we’re hoping we don’t here.”
For beleaguered gasoline dealers, the allocation plan
is just another headache.
“People don’t care what they have to do or pay to get
gasoline,” said James Glover, who owns a Houston ,
Exxon station.
House to pass Canal treaty
United Press International
^WASHINGTON — In a major victory
fQr President Carter, legislation to put into
pffect the treaty ceding the Panama Canal
to Panama by the year 2000 has passed its
last major hurdle and today was set for
House passage.
RThe treaty was produced by years of
negotiations, and survived weeks of Se-
nate'debate before its ratification last year.
But conservative House members who
: thought the full Congress should have had
ajpart in the treaty process made one last
effort to sidetrack the treaty by blocking
the legislation needed to finance and im
plement it.
p In a late Wednesday session, which ear
lier had included the first secret House
session in 149 years, they lost their key
amendment.
The key conservative defeat came when
the House voted down, 220-200, an
amendment by Rep. George Hansen,
RIdaho, which would have gutted the
legislation by requiring that Panama pay
all costs including the expenses of Ameri
cans who will remain in the Canal Zone
until 2000.
The vote technically was to substitute a
Murphy amendment which merely re
quired Panama to pay all its outstanding
debts to the U.S. government before any
property could be transferred to Panama-
curred,” Goldstein said. “He’s on the
ground now at Chicago. He landed there
at 1:03.”
Wednesday’s hijacking followed by nine
days the June 11 hijacking of a Delta Air
Lines jet to Cuba by a man later identified
as the pilot who flew a Cuban MIG-17 to
Florida in 1969 and then settled in New
York.
The June 11 incident was the first
American jetliner hijacked to Cuba in
nearly seven years.
The bearded man who hijacked the
Delta flight was identified as Eduardo
Guerra Jimenez, who made a daring es
cape from Cuba on Oct. 5, 1969, flying the
Russian-built fighter, which went unde
tected by United States radar until it
landed at Homestead Air Force Base in
Florida.
Newsman
killed in
Managua
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — ABC news
correspondent Bill Stewart and his driver
were shot to death Wednesday by Nicara
guan national guardsmen in an eastern
neighborhood of Managua, sources said.
Stewart, 37, and his Nicaraguan driver-
interpreter were stopped by a contingent
of guardsmen at a roadblock and ordered
to get out with their hands up. When they
complied, the guardsmen opened fire with
submachine guns, killing them both, the
sources said.
The two bodies were taken to the Inter
continental Hotel.
Stewart, who was based in New York,
had been in Nicaragua about three weeks,
an ABC spokesman said. He recently cov
ered the turmoil in Iran.
The spokesman said Stewart joined
ABC in 1976. Previously he worked as an
investigative reporter with WCCO-TV in
Minneapolis and as a news analyst and
commentator for WCAU-TV in Philadel
phia. In 1969 and 1970, he was a freelance
reporter in New York for WNBC TV.
Stewart, who leaves a widow, Myrna,
held a BA from Ohio State University and
completed his Master’s at Columbia Uni
versity in New York.
‘Skate-gliding
Paul McNamara, 15, takes to the air after running his
skateboard off the steps leading up to Rudder Tower. Upon
landing, McNamara dipped low on his board to maintain
balance, rolled a few more feet, then twisted it around to a
Stop. Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill
Ugandan president resigns from power
nian control. (The first transfer of property
takes place Oct. 1, although the canal itself
will not be turned over until 2000).
This amounts to an estimated $9.3 mil
lion in charges such as electric bills and
dock fees — a drop in the bucket com
pared with the $2.3 billion Panama would
have owed had the Hansen amendment
passed.
It is estimated transfer of the canal will
cost $4.5 billion over the next 20 years,
including American salaries and costs.
Some $2.2 billion of this will be paid
through new canal tolls, leaving $2.3 bil
lion to be paid by the U.S. government.
United Press International
KAMPALA, Uganda — President
Yusufu Lule, the shy academic chosen to
lead Uganda from the ruins left by Idi
Amin, resigned Wednesday after two
weeks of charges that he was ruling the
infant republic like the man he succeeded.
Lule, 68, announced his decision to quit
in a lengthy statement read on the national
radio. In the confusion, the statement was
not attributed to Lule, but clearly came
from his office.
“We now hand over to our colleagues,”
Lule said, “the task of rebuilding the coun
try after eight hectic years under Amin
which left the nation a disaster area.
Lule’s successor was named as Godfrey
Binaisa, a British-trained lawyer and at
torney general of Uganda during the re
gime of former president Milton Obote
who was ousted by Amin in 1971.
When Amin came to power, Binaisa
went into exile in the United States.
A government statement said Binaisa
would be sworn in on the steps of Parlia
ment, where Lule was given- the oath of
office as president on April 13, just two
days after Tanzanian soldiers liberated the
capital from Amin’s forces.
A government spokesman said Binaisa
was elected to succeed Lule by the 30-
member National Consultative council,
the infant parliament which Lule had
feuded with over the past two weeks, and
the executive council of the Ugandan Na
tional Liberation Front, the coalition of
exiles chosen in March to replace the
Amin government.
Lule, 68, became provisional President
of Uganda April 13 when he was sworn in
on the steps of the parliament building in
Kampala just two days after Tanzanian
forces liberated the city from forces loyal
to Amin.
The government has been torn by con
stant bickering among the various political
factions represented and Lule has carried
out two government shake-ups within 12
days. The latest occured Tuesday.
A major crisis developed when Lule re
fused to clear his government appoint
ments with the consultative council. He
Engineering shops
will he renovated
long-
The mechanical engineering shops at Texas A&M are going through
deserved remodeling job and getting new equipment.
Dr. E.R. Glazener, professor of engineering technology and former department
head, said the renovations were requested about three years ago, and have been
needed badly for several years.
“The different departments using the shops had made a ratmaze out of the build
ing,” Glazener said. “They would close off a room here, or build a wall there, until
you couldn’t find your way around.
The renovations will include tearing out walls and replacing them with open labs.
“They are also opening up the building,” said Glazener. “They are making more
efficient office space by tearing out walls and making more offices in the same amount
of space.”
The new equipment to be put in the shops will replace equipment that is World
War II surplus, and some that dates back to before the 1940s, Glazener said.
The renovations to the buildings will cost about $2.2 million, Glazener said, and
the new equipment will cost about $800,000.
The shops are used by the departments of engineering technology, mechanical
engineering, industrial engineering and industrial education.
The job is scheduled for completion before classes begin in the fall of 1980.
In the meantime, Glazener said the departments that use the labs are meeting
1^. wherever they can find the space.
“Engineering technology is using the agricultural engineering labs,” Glazener
said, “and temporary labs have been set up in the bottom of the water tower and also
in the basement of the Harrington complex."
Tray Taylor and Lupe Mendez took turns at removing
with a sledge hammer Tuesday afternoon. They
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are working on a much-needed remodeling of the
mechanical engineering shops at Texas A&M.
was denounced as a “dictator” by some of
his own ministers and members of the
council. v
In the statement, Lule made reference
to the fact that the Uganda National Liber
ation Front — the movement of Ugandan
exiles formed in March to overthrow Amin
— had faced several problems.
“One of the difficulties has centered
around the appointments to ministerial
posts. These appointments have not
pleased everybody,” the statement said.
“The time ultimately came when some
members of the consultative council felt
there must be a change in the leadership
of the front.
“This I accepted as I did not wish to see
any conflict developing around my per
sonality. Uganda has had enough of this,”
Lule said.
Lule then went on to list the tasks facing
the government in the field of reconstruc
tion and rehabilitation of the country fol
lowing the overthrow of the Amin dic
tatorship.
Austin installs
its first unisex
restrooms
United Press International
AUSTIN — Opponents of the Equal
Rights Amendment warned all a long it
would happen, and now it has — the city
has installed unisex restrooms in city
parks.
The Parks and Recreations Department
already has built two of the unisex re
strooms — one in a neighborhood park
and the other near Town Lake, a popular
hike and bike location.
David Reed, planning supervisor for the
Parks and Recreation Department, said
the unisex restrooms are much cheaper to
build than dual facilities for men and wo
men.
“We can do a lot more with that money
rather than just using it for creature com
forts,” Reed said.
‘We haven’t found anybody that’s been
hesitant to use them. I suspect since we
haven’t received any complaints and since
they are cost-efficient we will continue the
practice.”
He said the department plans to install
about a dozen more of the unisex re
strooms in the next two years.