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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.
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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. The average refund is up $60,
to $780.
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