The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 23, 1983, Image 11

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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.
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NEW DELHI, India — Prime
iu effect §knis£ er Indira Gandhi
appealed Tuesday f or an end to
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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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