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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Twelve
hijackers armed with sub
machine guns stormed a
Kuwaiti airliner on a Beirut Air-
^zesfdtf, port runway Wednesday and
^'lontusj took 105 passengers and crew
lehtan postage, officials said.
man Htiiij , The hijackers are demanding
"mputtii, th e release of a Moslem religious
achtjt, leader from Libya.
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enta[ j drove up to the plane in a black
j n |m| Mercedes. Four ran to the plane
* and boarded it, firing automatic
weapons, while the other eight
took up positions around the
plane.
l| Initial reports said some of
the passengers escaped during
the takeover.
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707 was on a scheduled flight
from the Libyan capital of Tri
poli to Kuwait, with a refueling
ikat/pii stop in Beirut, when it was
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Three of the hostages were
reportedly wounded in the
takeover and the passengers
were believed to include George
Hawi, the head of the Lebanese
Communist Party, and a num
ber of Algerian diplomats.
An official said the hijackers
ordered the plane to be re
fueled, but they did not say
where they wanted to have it
flown.
Officials said the gunmen
identified themselves as “the
Sons of Imam Musa Sadr.” Sadr
was the leader of Lebanon’s
Shiite Moslems before he dis
appeared on a visit to Libya in
August 1978.
Sadr launched “the Move
ment of the Underprivileged” to
help Lebanon’s Shiites — a ma
jority in the country but tradi
tionally the poorest.
Libya maintains that Sadr left
the country at the end of an offi
cial visit and flew to Rome. Ita
lian authorities earlier this
month closed an investigation
into his disappearance by ruling
that he never arrived in Italy.
Since he disappeared, seven
planes, including the Kuwaiti
plane, have been comman
deered by hijackers demanding
his release.
Negotiating with the hijack
ers were Khalil Hafez, the com-
mander-in-chief of the airport,
and Marwan Hamadi, Lebanese
tourism minister.
Two and a half hours after
the plane landed, the hijackers
fired one shot at the control tow
er and threatened to shoot
“something bigger” unless the
cars drove off.
The pilot of the plane,
parked little more than 500
yards from the main terminal
building, told the control tower:
“I hope they cooperate pretty
darn quickly, or else we’re
finished.”
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Saudis resisting
OPEC pressure
to cut production
United Press International
LONDON — Saudi Arabia
apparently is resisting calls for
an emergency weekend meeting
of OPEC despite predictions of
further drops in oil prices, West
ern oil executives say.
Western and Japanese oil ex
ecutives in London said prices
would remain under pressure as
long as leading oil producers in
the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries are di
vided on whether production
should be cut.
Saudi Arabia, the largest ex
porter, reportedly is opposed to
any production cut. Libya is
most outspoken in demanding
that output be curtailed to check
the current drop in prices.
“There is so much oil andjust
so much demand for it, these
prices cannot stay whether
OPEC meets or not,” /said a
Western oil industry source who
asked not to be named.
The next scheduled talks are
May 20 in Quito, Ecuador, but
oil executives said the glut could
worsen by then and further de
press world prices.
Meanwhile, Iran, hard press
ed for cash, to finance its war
with Iraq, cut its crude oil prices
for the third time in a month.
Western and Japanese sources
said. A spokesman for the Ira
nian Oil ministry in Tehran de
nied the latest $2 price reduc
tion.
But the sources said Iranian
oil was being offered at $30.20
for light crude and $28.30 for
heavy crude, and the move
would lower prices on the mar
ket even though Iran now ex
ports only about 500,000 barrels
a day.
“As it is, this cut just goes to
show what strain the market is
under right now,” one executive
said.
MSC Arts, Basement, Camera & Outdoor Recreation
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I SAW THE WIND is an exciting concert combining
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and North American Rockies.
WITHOUT using any pre-recorded music, Bob
adapts precisely arranged slides to Mark’s songs as if
creating the choreography for a dance, challenging us
to see the world through a new set of lenses.
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