Thursday, January 19, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
Over readmission of Egypt
1 Islamic Conference divided
United Press International
CASABLANCA, Morocco
— Islamic Conference leaders
were badly divided Wednes
day on key issues ranging
from the readmission of
Egypt to the dispatch of a
team to Tehran to win over
the absent Iranians.
Participants in the fourth
Islamic summit — 25 heads of
state, 16 lesser representatives
and Palestine Liberation
Organization Chief Yasser
Arafat — worked late into the
night in search of accord.
Talks at the 45-member
Islamic Conference Organiza
tion were scheduled to end
Wednesday, but conference
sources said it could be ex
tended to reach an agree
ment.
Egypt’s re-entry was
brought up at a closed session
Tuesday by Guinea and Pakis
tan. King Fahd of Saudi Ara
bia promoted the idea, but
only behind the scenes, leav
ing the presentation to the
Asian and African members.
At Wednesday’s session,
Sudan and Somalia joined the
others in support of Egypt, in
a departure from other Arab
members — Syria, Libya,
Algeria, South Yemen and
Tunisia, who all opposed
Egypt’s readmission.
Conference sources said
the moderates were pressing
for Egypt’s inclusion in the
hope it would reinforce their
confrontation with the hard
liners led by Syria and Libya.
Egypt was excluded from
the group in response to then-
President Anwar Sadat’s 1977
trip to Jerusalem and Cairo’s
1979 peace treaty with Israel.
Fahd’s efforts to bring
together Arafat, Syrian Depu
ty Prime Minister Abdel
Halim Khaddam and Leba
non’s Prime Minister Chefik
Wazzan were deadlocked.
Arab delegates said they felt
pessimistic about any break
through on Lebanon.
Talks on a common
approach to seeking an end of
the 40-month-old Gulf war
between Iran and Iraq also
were stalemated because
Pakistan insisted Iran, which
refused to attend the Islamic
summit, should join the dis
cussion.
A Pakistani-Malaysian
move to send a “goodwill mis
sion” to Iran was being de
bated without any outcome.
“The problem seems to be
that Iran’s stand is unpredict
able. There is no telling if they
will receive the delegation at
all,” said an Asian delegate,
who asked not to be identified.
The ministers did manage
to pass resolutions on less con-
troversial issues, such as
Afghanistan, but a conference
source said a “meaningfully
strong stand” was being
thwarted by the left-leaning
Arab states’ insistence that the
language be softened.
The summit, which opened
Monday, followed four days
of apparently fruitless work
on draft resolutions, ranging
from Egypt’s readmission, to
Lebanon and the Palestinian
ties with hard-line radical and
conservative countries.
It is the first gathering of
the Islamic group in more
than two years.
Downed chopper survivors
soy they weren't spying
Jury selected in Jones trial
United Press International
GEORGETOWN, Texas —
I seven-woman, five-man jury
l-all but one of them parents -—
■as chosen Wednesday to hear
the murder trial of pediatric
lutse Genene Jones, and a pro-
cutor predicted the “bizarre”
ileof a baby’s death soon would
gin to unfold.
It took three full days to seat
thejury, which includes a medic-
J microbiologist, a minister’s
Bfe, two grandmothers and two
■andfathers. Most of the jurors
■cover 40 and all are white.
1 District Judge John Carter
iranted defense motions
■ednesday requiring hearings
lutside the presence of thejury
lefore prosecutors can intro-
luce certain evidence during
the trial.
I The evidence included a
guicide note allegedly written by
Bones after Chelsea’s death and
■Oiiija board — an occult-type
levice some people believe can
Be used to receive messages
Rom spirits — reportedly used
jythe nurse while she still work
ed at the Kerrville clinic.
| Defense attorney Jim Brook-
lire spent most of the day ques-
loning prospective jurors, who
could spend as long as five weeks
hearing evidence in the drug in
jection death of 15-month-old
Chelsea Ann McClellan, who
was a patient at the Kerrville
pediatric clinic where Jones
worked in 1982.
Kerr County District Attor
ney Ron Sutton said he hoped to
call eight witnesses after giving
“an unusual” opening argument
early Thursday that would re
veal few details of the case
against Jones, a 33-year-old
mother of two.
“I want the jury to see this
drama unfold like they were
reading a book or seeing it on
television,” Sutton told repor
ters. “If I lay it out cold all at
once, it’s going to produce disbe
lief. It’s bizarre.”
The slate expects to prove
Chelsea died after being in
jected with a deadly muscle re
laxant. Traces of the drug were
found in the child’s exhumed re
mains last year using a recently
devised test developed in
Sweden. The defense is ex
pected to challenge the accuracy
of that test.
In making his initial remarks
to potential jurors, Brookshire
urged them to set aside the labels
of “defendant” and “accused”
placed on Jones and to think of
her as a fellow human being.
“It occurs to me that as she sits
here today she is innocent just
like you or just like I,” Brook
shire said. “Simply because
someone says she did something
does not take away her human
ity. She is human just like the
rest of us.”
In addition to the murder
charge in Chelsea’s death, which
carries a maximum penalty of
life or 99 years in prison on con
viction, Ms. Jones faces eight
counts of injury to a child in
Kerrville and San Antonio.
Those children survived.
United Press International
PALMEROLA, Honduras —
Two U.S. Army survivors from
the Nicaraguan gunfire that kil
led an American pilot denied
Nicaraguan charges Wednesday
they were on a spy mission but
conceded they may have strayed
over Nicaraguan territory.
Capt. Robert Green, 39, and
Capt. Christopher B. Maitin, 27,
both Army engineers, gave their
first public account of the attack
last Wednesday that killed Chief
Warrant Officer Jeffery
Schwab, who was piloting the
helicopter.
The three were “on a routine
administrative flight, we had no
knowledge we were lost and the
pilot gave no indication,” said
Maitin at a news conference at
the U.S. military base at Palmer-
ola, 60 miles north of Teguci
galpa.
The base is U.S. headquarters
for the Big Pine II maneuvers, in
which Schwab was participating
when killed.
They said they were 4,000
feet above an open valley when
the firing first started, coming
from light automatic weapons
and a small machine gun, and
the first shot hit the helicopter at
3,000 feet.
“We saw the tracers and
heard rounds popping. When it
hit, it felt like it stopped us in
air,” Maitin, of Enos, Mont.,
said. _____
“The pilot (Schwab) executed
a superb, basically miraculous,
landing without power on a road
we later discovered to be in Hon
duras,” Maitin said.
Asked if they could have strayed
over Nicaragua, Green, of
Dothan, Ala., replied, “It^s pos
sible.”
Questioned on reports that
the three had flown deliberately
to the border to inspect the new
road project being built by Hon
duras, Green said, “We had no
mission to do road construction
or anything of that nature.”
In response to a charge from
Nicaragua that the three were
deliberately flying low over
Nicaragua to survey the Nicara
guan base at La Limonera,
Green said, “That’s not true.”
“We didn’t see anything on
the ground,” Green said. Both
officers denied they had ever
been involved in intelligence
work.
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