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rrorist denies Achille Lauro killing
iENOA, Italy (AP) — The Pales-
who had confessed to killing
jn Klinghoffer denied in court
sday that he did it and claimed
69-year-old invalid American/
not even aboard the hijacked
iner Achille Lauro.
foussef Magid al-Molqi, 23, de-
ned that the report of Klinghof-
^■eath “was a frame-up between
epif\.mericans and the Syrians.”
; .SB)fficials identified the body af-
''rMvashed up on the Syrian coast.
lice officer
slain during
investigation
■|N OS A, Mexico (AP) — A
dexiain police officer investigat-
,'tg I he slaying of a newspaper
publisher was gunned down
hursday when he tried to ques-
ion passengers in a car, autnori-
ies laid.
[^■esiliano Garcia, 33, a veteran
il the Tamaulipas State Judicial
’olile, died en route to the gov-
'niient hospital in Reynosa af-
He was shot with a .45-caliber
weapon, said Israel Pena Lucero,
omrnandant of the State Judicial
'oVice in Reynosa.
N Garcia and rookie officer Man-
lelpviedo, 24, were investigating
hernirder of Dr. Jorge Brennes,
16,1 the newspaper publisher
tinned down Tuesday, Pena Lu-
:erl said.
/ OC ■ vie do remained in tlie gov-
Kp'ninent hospital with multiple
vWoi|nds, authorities said.
: Also on 1 hursday, investiga-
:ors from the Hidalgo County
" iheriffs office released a com-
semii sketch () { the man who
k sai(l mumped four .38-caliber bullets
aai: utqbvenes.
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Judge Lino Monteverde, who is
conducting the trial of 15 people
charged in last October’s two-day hi
jacking, read from a confession
Molqi gave a prosecutor Nov. 8.
In it, Moltji said the four Palestin
ians who seized the ship off Port
Said, Egypt, decided to kill a hostage
because Syria refused to help press
their demands that Israel release 51
Palestinian prisoners. The liner was
off the Syrian port of Tartus at the
time but was denied permission to
enter.
Monteverde read from the con
fession: “I remember that it was 3:12
(p.m.). I went down where the hos
tages were and I forced a Portu
guese waiter to bring the American
to the stern of the ship. I shot twice,
once to the head and once to the
chest.
“I and Bassam agreed that the
First hostage to be killed had to be
American. I chose Klinghoffer, an
invalid, so that they w'ould know that
we had no pity for anyone, just as
the Americans, arming Israel, do not
take into consideration that Israel
kills without discrimination women
and children of our people.”
Bassam al-Ashker, accused of be
ing the fourth hijacker, is to be tried
separately in a juvenile court be
cause he was 17 w'hen the ship was
seized and the 383 people aboard
taken hostage.
When he had finished reading,
Judge Monteverde asked Molqi,
“How' do you defend yourself?”
“I did not kill him, this is not
true,” said the young Palestinian de
scribed as the leader of the pirates.
Klinghoffer “was not on the ship
and I did not see him.”
Molqi said in Arabic, through an
interpreter, “Not one of us killed an
American, not even I.”
Monteverde pointed out that an
Italian hairdresser and a Portuguese
waiter in the crew had said Molqi
forced them to dump Klinghoffer’s
body overboard.
Molqi testified for tw'o hours in
the heavily guarded chamber built
like a bunker under a Genoa court
house. He sat before the judge with
an armed policeman at either side.
Molqi insisted the pirates intended
to leave the Achille Lauro in Ash-
dod, Israel, the next stop after Port
Said, attack the customs office and
“take as many Israelis as possible”
hostage.
He said they seized the ship only
because a waiter became suspicious.
Monteverde replied that the waiter
told investigators Molqi’s story was
false.
Canyon crash
Plane's tire may have hit helicopter
GRAND CANYON VILLAGE,
Ariz. (AP) — Grand Canyon Airlines
suspended tour flights Thursday as
crews working in rugged terrain re
covered the bodies of all 25 people
killed when a helicopter and air
plane crashed in flames into the can
yon Wednesday.
Officials said there were indica
tions that the helicopter’s main rotor
had sheared off the plane’s tail, and
that one of the plane’s tires had
struck the helicopter’s engine cover.
John Guthrie, deputy superinten
dent of Grand Canyon National
Park, said the collision probably oc
curred below the rim of the canyon.
The National Park Service and
the Federal Aviation Administration
have said aircraf t are supposed to fly
no lower than 2,000 feet above the
mile-high rim, but opponents of the
flights say the advisory regulation is
rarely enforced.
Flight manifests showed that 18 of
the crash’s victims were foreign tour
ists, authorities said.
Grand Canyon Airlines of nearby
Tusayan, which owned the 20-occu
pant DeHavilland Twin Otter air
plane, said it was suspending air tour
operations pending results of the
crash investigation.
Coconino County detectives re
turned Thursday to the crash site at
Tuna Creek, a tributary of the Colo
rado River, to photograph, diagram
and measure the impact points.
National Guard helicopters were
used to remove the bodies, which
were taken to a Park Service mainte
nance building for storage in a re
frigerated trailer pending transfer
to Flagstaff, 130 miles to the south.
Authorities announced a memo
rial service for the victims Sunday at
the Grand Canyon lodge.
National Transportation Safety
Board investigators from Washing
ton arrived Thursday to begin sort
ing out the final seconds of the air
craft.
John Schulte, a dispatcher in the
Kaibab National Forest, said the air
plane’s emergency transmitter
emitted a signal within seconds of
the accident.
Sheriffs Sgt. Steven Luckesen,
who spent Wednesday night at the
crash site, said there was what ap
peared to be a tire skid mark on top
of a panel of the helicopter engine
housing. The airplane has fixed
landed gear. The marked panel was
some distance from the rest of the
helicopter, Luckesen said.
Excedrin capsules recalled nationwide
SEATTLE (AP) — Tests were
under w'ay Thursday to see if a
second person had died of cy
anide poisoning linked to Extra-
Strength Excedrin capsules.
The Food and Drug Adminis
tration late Wednesday issued a
warning, against use of the medi
cation after the discovery of a sec
ond bottle of poisoned capsules,
and manufacturer Bristol-Myers
recalled the capsules nationwide.
The FDA said more than
73,000 capsules were analyzed
and none but the two bottles were
found to contain cyanide.
Bristol-Myers urged stores to
pull the product after the death
of Katherine Sue Snow of Au
burn, Wash., was blamed on cy
anide found in the capsule.
Potassium cyanide also was
found in a capsule from a bottle
that may have been used by an
Auburn man w'ho died June 5,
said Sue Hutchcroft, an FDA
spokeswoman in Seattle.
Man gets AIDS from screened blood
ATLANTA (AP) — Health re
searchers reported Thursday the
first case of a patient becoming
infected with the AIDS virus
from a blood transfusion that had
been tested and showed no signs
of the deadly disease.
The case, which occurred last
■year in Colorado, involved a rare
set of circumstances — a donor
who gave blood so soon after a
homosexual encounter that he
had not yet developed the antibo
dies which trigger the AIDS
blood tests, officials with the fed
eral Centers for Disease Control
Federal health officials said.
The chance of a blood recipi
ent getting the virus which causes
acquired immune deficiency syn
drome remains less than one in
100,000, said Dr. Harold Jaffe,
an AIDS specialist with the CDC.
But the CDC noted that AIDS
antibodies take months to show
up in blood tests. For that reason,
men who have had sexual contact
with another man since 1977 (the
advent of AIDS) must not donate
blood.
In the Colorado case, a 31-
year-old blood donor who tested
negative for AIDS virus in April
1985 donated again in August
1985, about three months after
he had his first homosexual con
tact in 1 1 years.
The August donation, like the
April blood, tested negative. But
a 60-year-old surgery patient, ap
parently heterosexual and faith
fully married for 30 years, ac
quired the AIDS virus from a
transfusion with the August
blood, the CDC said.
Late selling causes Dow Jones drop
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock
market finished lower Thursday
as the blue chips sagged amid
some late selling.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials changed direction a
number of times. It stayed close
to Wednesday’s closing level until
the final few minutes when sell
ing sent the blue chip indicator to
its lowest level of the day and left
it with a 13.08-point loss at
1,855.86.
The market’s erratic behavior
was partly caused by apprehen
sion on the eve of a “triple witch
ing hour” which occurs on the last
trading day for a set of futures
contracts on stock indexes, op
tions on stock indexes, and op
tions on individual stocks.
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