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i' 1 niu J foreign Battalion/Page 11 February 23, 1983 Authorities resume talks Hijackers make demands dared ot bee maker, :1 its mliB : lg SUTOlii isumen Monopok :erested ict earn 1 United Press International VALLETTA, Malta —Three heavily armed Libyans deman ded food, medicine and enough fuel Tuesday to lly a hijacked jetliner to Morocco but warned they would retaliate against more than 160 hostages if their demands were not met. The Libyan Arab Airways jet sat Tuesday isolated in a corner of Luca airport, more than 24 hours after it landed on Malta, a small Mediterranean island na tion between Sicily and Libya. After an overnight lapse, Maltese authorities Tuesday re sumed negotiations with the hi jackers. Maltese government nego tiators were demanding that the hijackers free the more than 30 children on board the plane be fore considering the hijackers’ requests for fuel to allow them to fly to Morocco. The hijackers identified themselves as Libyans, said they were not terrorists, and added that they wanted to go to Moroc co to seek political asylum. The negotiations were being followed closely by six Libyan government representatives who flew to Malta during the night, of f icials said. Meanwhile, the Libyan news media was ignoring the hijack ing of one of its government air liners as if it was not happening. Neither the Libyan news agency Jana nor Libya’s government radio have mentioned the inci dent. A Maltese official said all the passengers were believed to be Libyan but a voice speaking Ita lian was heard over the radio. The official said the hijackers threatened unspecified violence if they did not receive food, medicine and fuel to fly to Morocco. “If you do not give us fuel . without any conditions, you will be held responsible in front of the whole world for what will happen to the plane and passen gers . which has never happened before,” the hijackers said in a message relayed Monday by the pilot. The pilot advised officials in the control tower, including Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, not to order a raid on the plane because the hijackers were heavily armed. Mintoff, aided by three Cabinet ministers, told the hi jackers through an Arabic inter preter that he would not consid er their demands for fuel to fly to Morocco until they freed the children on the plane. During the night, most of the airport lights were turned off and the white and red three- engined Libyan airliner was illu minated by powerful spotlights. The plane was surrounded by police and Maltese soldiers in ' riot gear. Isn’t he a knockout? staff photo by Bill Schulz Rick Gibson, a contestant in the Mr. Aggie contest, walks down the runway with the grace of a professional model. The contest, held Monday, was a spoof competition to promote the Miss Texas A&M Scholarship Pageant. said. 01 n struck V off, chased r Douglas teargasin' pparenietli I aspect sett | and uppers Gandhi urges end to violence drive ■news Office of Traffic Safety PASSPORT PHOTOS 3 Minute Service I Passports/Visas/Resumes kinko's copies 201 College Main 846-8721 N A A NEW CLASS IN STUDENT LIVING! • compact, efficient space • 3 minutes from campus • security/covered parking • washer/dryer in every unit • CHANCE FOR FREE TRIP TO EUROPE* (* subject to total occupancy) 846-8960 United Press International NEW DELHI, India — Prime iu effect §knis£ er Indira Gandhi appealed Tuesday f or an end to un ran ft r* ie uca imony and violence in the it the side northeastern state of Assam, I y where the death toll in 22 days of (jn anti-election rioting rose above tcedinthe. ctfficials said, mentalevi [I ° ur tountry is more mipor- >w Hosoiti tant than an y P art y’ an y move - ^ Rtent or any one of us here,” Gandhi said, interrupting a par- adtingand kimentary debate on the vio- [insteadi 0 ^! returned Monday ospital. : r ' d in thej® l ||S,li ’ IM slaughtered at least 800 people aS fiiidir c * ur ' n R die weekend. as Cod# eled TV >* Urging the restoration of an atmosphere of peace and brotherhood, she pleaded for an end to acrimony and violence to enable the government to carry out a relief program for tens of thousands of people affected by the unrest. During her visit to Assam Monday, Gandhi refused to accept moral responsibility for the violence sweeping the oil- rich state. » tk| f0-om a one-day tour of villages Assam where tribesmen Eighteen more people were butchered by marauding tribes men Monday including one per son found hacked to death in Assam's capital of Gauhati bringing the death toll to 1.304 in 22 straight days of violence, official sources said. Covering part of her face with her green sari and visibly shaken, Gandhi visited ravaged villages and toured hospitals where wounded arid weeping survivors told her horror stories of the carnage. The victims of the massacre Friday and Saturday in the vil lage of Nellie and 14 surround ing hamlets were mainly women and children, many of whom were found decapitated or muti lated by spears. 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