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College, Bryan Afghan jet carrying 30: hit by Moslem rebel fin United Press International NEW DELHI, India — An Afg han jumbo jet carrying 308 passen gers was hit by Moslem rebel fire and forced to make an emergency landing at the Kabul airport, Kabul radio and a Western diplomat re ported Tuesday. No casualties were reported. The state-run radio said the pilot safely landed the crippled Ariana Airlines DC-10 Friday at the end of a flight carrying pilgrims from the Moslem holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia via the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. According to the Western diplo mat in New Delhi, the attack was the third on Afghan airliners in a week. It came less than a month after a re bel bomb ripped through Kabul air port Aug. 30, killing 28 people and injuring as many as 350 others. The diplomat said the jumbo jet “was struck on the wing- or tail sec tion by machine gun fire or a rocket between Gazni and Kabul.” “The plane circled Kabul five times and was seen dropping its fuel before making an emergency land ing,” said the diplomat, who asked not to be identified. Gazni is 75 miles south of Kabul in southeastern Af ghanistan. Kabul radio said in a broadcast monitored in New Delhi,“The DC- 10 plane of Ariana Afghan Airlines coming from Kandahar with 308 passengers was attacked with an ex plosive bullet made in America. As a result, hydraulic systems numbers 1 and 3 were damaged and the en gines of the left side along with the wing were damaged as well. “Captain Wali had informed the ground personnel of the damage and attack but was able to land the plane safely. The damage to the plane runs into thousands of An can dollars.” The diplomat said rebelshave ( t ied out two other attacks at tht port during the past week. “On Sept. 19, two Yak-IOtm prop planes of Afghanistan's! mestic Bakhtar Airlines were J aged by rocket and gunfire," Western source said. “Three So; soliders were killed.” He gaveno tails of the second attack. Soviet occupation forces step.; up security around the Afghanci tal to counter some of the nercesi bel attacks in Kabul since the Deti her 1979 Soviet invasion, diplomat said. Guerrillas fired six rocketsdm a 20-miuute span on Sept. 17- hitting the grounds of Radio ghanistan and two othersdana houses of Afghan officials near back gate of the U.S. Embassy U.S., Nicaragua renew talks aimed at reducing tension United Press International MEXICO CITY — The United States and Nicaragua opened a new round of talks Tuesday in the Mexi can Pacific port of Manzanillo, Mexi can diplomatic sources said. The latest meeting between the two countries comes three days after Nicaragua announced that it had signed the Contadora peace plan for Central America. The peace plan was formulated by the Contadora Group — Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela —in consultation with the five Central American nations. U.S. Special Envoy Harry Shlau- deman and Nicaraguan Deputy For eign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco have represented their governments at the previous talks. Mexican diplomats said they could not confirm which United States and Nicaraguan officials were meeting in Manzanillo, some 330 miles west of Mexico City. Sources in El Salvador reported that Shlaudeman left San Salvador Tuesday morning en route to Mex ico. Relations between the two coun tries have been tense for several State George Shultz made a surp visit to Nicaragua June 1 rjjtfjfi with junta Coordinator Danidi tega. I he first direct talks betweenol cials of the two governments i the aim of reducing tensions sun June 25 at Manzanillo. The secs meeting was held in Atlanta other sessions between the two® tries have been held in Manzanl years. Nicaragua says the United States should stop backing rebels fighting to overthrow the government. Tuesday’s talks are the fifth meet ings held at Manzanillo aimed at re ducing tensions between the two na tions. The dialogue between the two na tions got started when Secretary of The talks have been shrouddi secrecy. Both U.S. and Nicai officials have consistently detlind comment, about the talks. Mexico has no official represea lion at the talks but had pressed United States in May of this yea initiate a dialogue with Nicaragt Soviets criticize Reagan speech United Press International MOSCOW — The Soviet Union sharply criticized President Reagan’s speech to the United Nations as an election ploy, and President Konstantin Chernenko said Tuesday the United States fails to grasp the need for normal relations with the Kremlin. Reagan, at Monday’s opening of the General Assembly, called for “constructive negotiations” with Moscow, a call dismissed by the offi cial news agency Tass as “a vessel with nothing inside of it.” Tass said “his speech contained no indication of any change in the es sence of the present U.S. policy” and was “only meant to camouflage Washington’s basic foreign policy guidelines and its interventionist policy in all regions of the world.” Reagan’s policy, according to Tass, continues to be directed at ag gravating international tension, achieving military superiority and interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. “The U.N. rostrum was actually used by Reagan for his political, elec tioneering aims,” the official news agency said. “That was the reason behind his attempt to present his old policy in a new, more attractive package without changing its es sence.” Chernenko, in a speech to the 50th anniversary plenum of the So viet Writers’s Union, said the Rea gan administration does not under stand the importance of normal relati< parent reference to Reagan'so the-cuff microphone test lastsm mer saying he had outlawed Rus and the bombing would begin in fi minutes. Chernenko made no tnemioii Reagan’s U.N. call for talks on wide range of issues.” B V S( SI Li M SI PI SI TI M H] N1 SC A( 01 Mi SC BE TA superpower relations. “The grim truth of the present in ternational situation is such that the nuclear threat is, regrettably, great,” Chernenko told the union. “One cannot hide from it, nor turn it into a joke,” he said in an ap- West Texas aridity studied United Press International AUSTIN — Israeli consultants will survey state-owned West Texas land to determine if their country’s much heralded irrigation methods can turn the arid acreage into pro ductive farmland, Land Commis sioner Garry Mauro said Tuesday. Mauro said his agency had agreed to pay an Israeli consulting firm — Consulting Engineers Ltd. of Tel Aviv — $>14,000 to study the West Texas land and determine if there were two or three large tracts suita ble for water management projects. The state owns nearly 800,000 acres of West Texas land, but much of it can only be leased for grazing because the high cost of irrigation makes farming unprofitable. “They (the Israelis) are probably the most experienced water engi neers in the world,” Mauro said. “But this is not an academic project. We want something we can put in place right away.” Mauro said the Israeli firm would try to locate land in the Trans-Pecos area that would be suitable for rais ing cotton, corn or other products using both fresh and brackish water. “We know the desert will bloom if you spend enough money,” Mauro said. “That’s not what we want to do. I’m going to be very pessimistic and skeptical about this project.” Police Beat Ur SA> rial Ti firing i womai The following incidents wen reported to the University Mil Department through Tuesday, MISDEMEANOR I HEFT: • A black Huffy Wind Spiii 12-speed bicycle was stolen fris outside the university Police 1 ' partment. • A silver Schwinn lO-spd bicycle was stolen from outsi the Oceanography and Meteord ogy Building. • A blue Premier 12-speedlt cycle was stolen from outsii Moore Hall. • A black Schwinn 10-sp*: bicycle was stolen from F.-Ranf at Walton Hail. • A white Kia 10-speed was stolen from the bike rad the east end of Dunn Hall • A blue Ross Grand Tour 10-speed bicycle w'as stolen the bike racks at Dorm 12. • A brown Schwinn Travels 12-speed bicycle was stolen frol the hike rack at the north end! Dorm 12. • A maroon Sears Free Spirt 10-speed bicycle was stolen lion tire southwest corner of the Lan| ford Architecture Center. job fo havtor euard; Rob supply of Dist she en riod. 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