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Friday, April 4, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9 te DW react to a ould gov- es on the t do the ;d by six te confer- ecent call in state with less only sure s to order te appro- ich said, e in a spe- re.” lal session 55 GOP )f the cur es. World and Nation 'alestinian's attacks span 3 continents Abu Nidal blamed for jet explosion I BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Pales tinians who know the dark world of prab terrorism say the TWA aircraft bombing is the latest work of Abu |lidal, the elusive mastermind whose followers have spread blood across three continents. I The Israelis have blamed Abu Ni- ial, a code name that means “father of struggle,” for 103 terrorist attacks ince he split with Yasser Arafat’s mainstream Fatah Palestinian guer- [rillasin 1974. ■ The U.S. State Department says his group is “among the most dan- ftrous Middle East terrorist organi zations.” It holds him responsible for B attacks over the past eight years in which hundreds of people have been slaughtered, many of them in nocent bystanders. Abu Nidal has used many names for his group. Officials of Syrian- backed Palestinian organizations that also oppose Arafat say the Arab Revolutionary Cells, which claimed responsibility for planting the bomb of the TWA jet, is the latest one. The bomb blew a hole in the Boe ing 727 as it was approaching the airport Wednesday at Athens, Greece, hurtling four Americans to their deaths. Terrorists doing Abu Nidal’s bid ding have bombed and murdered from Amman to Islamabad, Vienna to London. He first gained notoriety in 1974 when his men attacked a Pan Am jet in Rome with incendiary bombs, kill ing 30 passengers. Abu Nidal seldom appears in pub lic or gives interviews. Most photo graphs of him were taken before his split in 1974 with Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization, which has sentenced him to death in absentia. He has offices in Damascus and training camps in Syrian-controlled east Lebanon. He travels to Libya of ten for meetings with Moammar Khadafy and is said to have good ties with Iran. Abu Nidal was blamed for the hi jacking of an Egyptian airliner Iasi November in which 60 people were killed, most of them when Egyptian commandos stormed aboard while the jet was parked at the Malta air port. Just after Christmas, terrorists be lieved to be Abu Nidal’s followers at tacked passengers at the Rome and Vienna airports. Twenty people, were killed, including five Ameri cans and four terrorists, and more than 110 people were wounded. Gatlin and n Bragg is ohn Mob- on school 1 and 5 art .ins unop- tosition, as ice 4. Rou en will bat- l. ip for elec- card race. E. Nelson : vying for ton will re- ,ren Sarkis- in the nee . Crum will tward Car- Id urge tbt irously sup to supple- ting witho abroad. \ n Rome, i Rome was but airpoit tailed Flask- rTWA. 1 the Flash- dd not iden- that a seal- conducted w back to tthens said: 1 a search er cities and ace this per- ough Inter- rld's and and l. 03 ) tax plus spe- sat- era- to South African province reviews integrating its government JOHANNESBURG, South Af rica AP) — White and black lead ers in Natal Province on Thurs day began debating a proposal to create the nation’s first racially in tegrated regional government. Meanwhile, police headquar ters said four blacks died in racial attacks around the country, in cluding two black youths killed in street battles with police patrols in the black township of Vosloorus, southeast of Johannesburg. A court had imposed harsh re strictions on a funeral in Vosloo rus for a suspected black nation alist guerrilla shot by police last week. Roving security vehicles fired repeated barrages of tear gas and birdshot to break up groups of blacks who gathered for the serv ice in defiance of the restrictions, and militant youths enforced a one-day protest strike by workers nthe township, witnesses said. An evening police summary of a dozen unrest incidents around the country during the day said the charred body of a black woman was found at Kwano- buhle, near Uitenhage in the east ern Cape Province. In the black township of So weto outside Johannesburg, a rowd stabbed a black man, placed a tire around his neck, ig nited it and danced around him s he burned to death, the South African Press Association said. The man was slain for alleg edly pushing a man out of a mov ing train over the weekend, the eport said. Nearly 1,300 people have been illed, almost all of them black, ince September 1984. Most were killed by security forces, but about a third died at he hands of fellow blacks. In Durban, a conference of 20 delegates began talks on a roposal to combine the white atal Province government with hat of the Kwa-Zulu black home land, made up of 25 sections of land scattered across Natal. Thirty-one organizations, in- jjcluding Natal’s main business roups, attended the opening ses- ion of the talks, expected to last :ix months. Militant anti-apartheid groups [boycotted the gathering, saying he plan implied recognition of he white-led government’s policy of granting political rights to lacks only in 10 tribal home lands. 91 demonstrators arrested in campus apartheid clash BERKELEY, Galif. (AP) — Anti apartheid demonstrators hurled bot tles, rocks and eggs at baton-wield ing police officers Thursday in a clash which led to 91 arrests, 29 inju ries and destruction of a shantytown on the University of California cam pus. Two men were arrested for alleg edly possessing firebombs after po lice received a threat that California Hall would be burned down, and charred paper was found stuffed in the gas tanks of three university cars, authorities reported. The conflict began before dawn when police placed dozens of dem onstrators into buses to be taken to Alameda County’s Santa Rita jail, said university spokesman Ray Col- vig. Hundreds of other protesters surrounded the buses, preventing them from moving. At about 7:30 a.m., police in riot gear cleared a path through the crowd. Fighting broke out as dem onstrators hurled bottles, rocks and eggs and blocked the buses by hurl ing trash cans, setting up makeshift barricades and sitting in the way. Eleven protesters and 18 police officers suffered minor injuries that included cuts and bruises, said uni versity spokesman Tom Debley. Col- vig said one of the injured people claimed to be a news photographer. “I saw a photographer get clubbed and the blood sprayed all over his camera and clothes,” said a student affliated with a group called the Campaign Against Apartheid. He would only identify himself as Greg. Police “threw and clubbed people out of the way,” he said. Alameda County Sheriff s Sgt. William Gonzales said 89 protesters were taken by bus to Santa Rita to be booked. Colvig said about 50 others were photographed and would be subject to arrest later. Demonstrators demand that the university pull out about $2.4 billion it has/invested in companies doing business in South Africa. Last memth, university regents voted to sqtl $12.3 million in Eaton Corp. bonds on the recommendation of an investment review committee ap pointed last year to determine how companies in which the university invests handle their South African operations. 135 of 166 in Mexican crash identified MEXICO CITY (AP) — Relatives and technicians have identified the bodies of 135 of the 166 victims of Mexico’s worst air disaster, but some bodies are so muti lated they may never be identified, a spokesman for the coroner’s office said Thursday. A Mexicana Airlines spokesman said soldiers. Red Cross workers and others were still searching for re mains and passengers’ personal belongings at the site where the Mexicana Boeing 727 crashed Monday. All 166 people aboard died when the plane, Mexica- na’s Flight 940, went down about 15 minutes after take off from Mexico City. The plane was bound for Los An geles with scheduled stops in the Pacific resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan. The plane crashed into a 7,792-foot mountain, El Carbon, in Michoacan state, about 90 miles northwest of Mexico City. Of 160 bodies delivered to the federal Forensic Med ical Service, 130 had been claimed by relatives by Thursday afternoon and five others were identified but not yet claimed, spokesman Lazaro Hernandez said. Hernandez declined to estimate when the identifica tions might be complete. “It takes a lot of work at this point,” Hernandez said. “It’s difficult to know how many will be identified be cause many are parts of remains.” The U.S. Embassy has confirmed that nine Ameri cans were among the victims. Embassy spokesman Vince Hovanec on Wednesday confirmed the identity of one victim with U.S.-Mexican citizenship) — Peter Rivaud, 5, whose brother and parents were also listed on the passenger manifest. Hovanec declined to release the names of the parents and brother because their bodies have not been identi fied. He said the father was a U.S. citizen, the mother was Mexican and the family lived in Mexico City. No other Americans had been identified by Thurs day afternoon, Hovanec said. IRS readies for onslaught of returns WASHINGTON (AP) — The In ternal Revenue Service is geared up for more than 45 million individual tax returns that are expected to be filed during the next 12 days. But if you’ve waited this late to file, you’ll have to wait longer than usual for a refund. Even so, Commissioner Roscoe L. Egger Jr. promised Thursday, the IRS is not worried that the last-min ute crush will create the kind of de lays and backlogs that embarrassed the agency last year. “We are not having any real com plaints of refunds not coming back at a reasonable time,” Egger told a news conference. “There is nothing that has come up in the system at all this year that gives us any real con- tern about the possibility of some thing (bad) happening.” On the average, Egger said, re funds have been going out within five weeks after the return is filed. As the April 15 filing deadline ap proaches, that will be stretched to six to seven weeks. The IRS expects 104 million cou ples and individuals to file returns this year. About 54 million had been received by March 27, the latest fig ures available, leaving perhaps 48 fnillion to be filed between that date ^nd April 15. “In this last crunch,” Egger said, “we get such large volumes that even with our high-speed equipment it takes us up to 10 days just to open the mail.” Even with the IRS working at full speed, some taxpayers will be paid interest because their refund was not processed within 45 days after the April 15 deadline. Egger estimated the interest pay ments will total about $37 million, compared with $49.5 million last year and $33 million in 1984. The IRS has processed 76 percent of the 54 million returns it has re ceived this year. At this time in 1985, because of computer and personnel problems, only 54 percent had been processed, forcing millions of people to wait months for their refunds. More than 30.5 million refund checks totaling $21.55 billion have been mailed this year, up almost 42 percent from the same period last year. 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