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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1981
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Salvadoran government remains ‘on a war footing’
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador
— President Jose Napoleon
Duarte, bolstered by 54 U. S milit
ary' advisers and $50 million in
U S. financial aid, warned his gov-
mment will remain “on a war
boting” as long as the Soviet Un
ion, Cuba and Nicaragua are
arming leftist guerrillas.
In a move criticized by House
Democrats as “uncannily like
Vietnam,” the Reagan administra
tion said Monday 25 more military
advisers from the Army, Navy, Air
Force and Marines soon will be
lent to the tiny Central American
ation.
The State Department said as
part of the sharp step-up in help,
another $25 million in economic
and military aid has been granted
to El Salvador’s military-Christian
Democratic junta, doubling total
aid to $50 million. It said the 25
military advisers are in addition to
those already in the Central
American nation, raising the total
to 54.
Duarte in a nationwide radio
address Monday said he was will
ing to hold peace talks with lef
tists, but warned El Salvador “is
on a war footing and will stay that
way as long as Russia and Nicar
agua continue sending arms to the
guerrillas.”
He said the government would
need U.S. military aid “so long as
the Cubans, Russians and other
nations continue sending arms to
the guerrillas.”
Salvadoran military officers
claimed government troops killed
300 guerrillas — with some plung
ing to their death in 900-foot
gorges — during a four-day assault
on rebel strongholds on the slopes
of the Conchagua volcano over
looking Fonseca Bay in southeast
ern El Salvador.
Government forces suffered
only seven wounded and captured
“all types of war materiel,”
another army officer said.
The military’s body counts
could not be independently veri
fied. Last week the Defense
Ministry said 1,500 guerrillas
were holding the volcano.
The Defense Ministry said heli
copter gunships attacked guerril
las near San Sebastian and San
Esteban Catarina, 30 miles east of
San Salvador, and 40 rebels were
killed in fierce fighting.
They said two soldiers died and
seven were wounded in the gun
battles, 2 miles on either side of
San Lorenzo, scene of bloody
fighting last week.
One military spokesmen said
“individuals with foreign features,
among them some of the black
race” were among the rebels kil
led Monday, but the report could
akistanis negotiate with hijacker
United Press International
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani offi-
| rials arrived in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan
; Tuesday to negotiate the release of an airliner
which hijackers threatened to blow up with
[141 people aboard.
At least two men — perhaps as many as 11
[— opposed to the military government of
| Pakistan seized a Pakistan International Air
lines Boeing 720 jet en route from Karachi to
Peshawar Monday and ordered it to Kabul, an
[ official said by telephone from Kabul.
| “All the passengers are safe,” he said. “They
lareon board. The negotiators have arrived and
they are talking to the hijackers.”
Officials in Pakistan told reporters earlier
there was a single hijacker who called himself
Alamgir and said he was a supporter of the late
Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and
opposes the military dictatorship of President
Mohammad Zia ul-Haq.
“There are more than two hijackers,” the
airline official said in Kabul. He said their de
mands were unclear.
But officials in Pakistan said the hijackers
demanded freedom for 80 political prisoners in
Karachi.
According to reliable sources in Islamabad,
the hijack leader had 10 accomplices on the
plane. Pakistan officials also said one hijacker
was demanding the release of his father and
brother from jail in Karachi.
They threatened to blow up the aircraft if
demands were not met and were prevented
from flying out of Kabul. The hijackers were
reported armed with hand grenades and light
arms and the leader identified himself only as
Alamgir. Authorities say the name must be an
alias since no such name appeared on the pas
senger list.
The negotiating team that arrived in Kabul
consists of director general of civil aviation
Vazir Zada, a PI A airlines director who was not
identified and the Pakistani charge d’affairs in
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NAGASHIMA, Japan — The
uge “Double Eagle V” balloon
as a heap of polyethylene Tues
day and plans by its crew to make
the first trans-Pacific flight were
ailed off for at least a year.
Before dawn today, on the third
and final attempt to pump
thousands of pounds of helium
into the vessel, a cable snapped
loose, thrusting the balloon into
the air and dragging the unman
ned gondola 30 yards along the
ground.
“ft’s over,” crew member Ron
Clarke said of the bid by three
Americans and one Japanese resi
dent of New York to make the un
precedented 6,000 mile drift.
“We just don’t have any helium.”
Captain and flight leader Ben
Abruzzo was fatalistic. “I guess
this wasn’t meant to be,” the
veteran balloonist said. “I don’t
know why. I guess this just wasn’t
our time.
Abruzzo, 50, said they didn’t
have enough helium to make
another try at sending the limp
balloon aloft, adding, “We don’t
have a balloon we can trust.”
Another crewman. Rocky Aoki,
who owns a chain of restaurants,
said, “It was a total failure. But we,
will try again around this time next
year. ”
The team’s first balloon was
damaged Sunday night and the
backup was ruined in today’s fai
lure, the second attempt to get the
balloon filled and the gondola off
the ground.
The crew members began
pumping helium into the balloon
shortly after midnight. It was tied
to a trailer truck along with some
15 tons of weight to prevent it from
rising prematurely.
But a second cable holding the
onion-shaped balloon snapped
loose and broke, forcing the crew
— Aoki and Abruzzo, Clarke and
co-captain Larry Newman —to
cancel the historic million-dollar
journey in Nagashima, 200 miles
southwest of Tokyo.
Clarke, Abruzzo and Newman
come from Albuquerque, N.M.
Abruzzo, Newman and Maxie
Anderson made a 3,150-mile
voyage across the Atlantic in 1978,
the first manned balloon flight
across the smaller ocean.
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PHILADELPHIA — Several hundred admiring spectators whis-
ainst Staa tied and cheered at the hundreds of tatoos covering the 79-year-old
grandmother’s body.
Elizabeth Weinzal gingerly lifted the skirt of her cotton dress so the
crowd could see her legs. The white-haired woman from Portland,
Ore., appeared in the Sixth World Tattoo Convention’s beauty con-
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The bodies of 14 people were
found dumped in the southwest
ern village of Atiquizaya, author
ities said. They were among 20
killings reported Monday in poli
tical violence that has claimed
over 13,000 lives since Jan. 1,
1979.
In Washington, 44 House
Democrats opposed the increase
in U.S. military advisers to El Sal
vador in a telegram to President
Reagan, urging talks between the
junta and the opposition instead of
a “military solution” to the vio
lence.
Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass.
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creasingly brutalizing its own peo
ple. As it’s own support weakens,
our support widens, and now
we’re looking for outside bogey
men. I think it’s just uncannily like
Vietnam.”
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Kabul, Rao Ali Bahadur.
While the team was en route to Kabul, di
plomatic efforts to resolve the crisis got under
way.
The Soviet ambassador to Pakistan, Vitaly
Smirnov, met with Pakistani officials in re
sponse to an earlier Pakistani call on the Soviet
Union, the United States and other countries
to use their diplomatic missions in Kabul to
ensure the safe return of the passengers, crew
and aircraft.
A government press release said diplomatic
envoys of some of the countries promised
“positive assistance in solving the hijacking
problem.”
Officials said 130 passengers and 11 crew
members were aboard the four-engine jetliner
when it was hijacked. Four unidentified fore
igners were on board, airline officials said.
The Soviet controlled Radio Kabul reported
the passengers were given food, warm clothing
and other unspecified facilites.
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