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I CAMERA COMMITTEE ★ USE OF COLOR AND BLACK & WHITE DARKROOMS, AND STUDIO ★ DARKROOM CLASSES AND INFORMATIVE SEMINARS ★ CAMERA RENTAL ★ PHOTO CONTESTS ★FIRST GENERAL MEETINGS MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 7:00 PM IN RUDDER 301 217 hijacking survivors arrive in West Germany FBI agents meet plane to question victims Texas A&M EMERGENCY CARE TEAM & Now Accepting Applications No Experience Needed We will train you. Come to our introductory Meeting Monday, Sept. 8 7:00 PM A.P. Beutel Health Center Cafeteria (in Basement) Or Call 845-4321 for more information FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) — A special Pan Am jumbo jet landed in Frankfurt Sunday with 217 survivors of a hijacking in Kara chi, Pakistan, which killed at least 15 people, including three Americans. FBI agents investigating the day long Friday hijacking were at the air port to meet the plane and talk to the 44 Americans aboard “if they have evidence to present,” said State Department spokesman Michael Austrian. The plane landed at 7:10 p.m. An Indian man was the first to come into the airport lounge, where soft drinks, coffee and cheesecake awaited survivors. “It was a harrowing experience,” said the man, who refused to iden tify himself. “We had a horrible time.” After a brief stopover, the plane was to fly to London and New York. Pan Am officials said 72 passengers would leave the plane in Frankfurt, 18 in London and 127 would go on to New York. Four hijackers, believed to be Pal estinians, seized a Pan Am jetliner with nearly 400 people aboard at Ka rachi airport early Friday and de manded to be flown to Cyprus, where they wanted to free jailed Pal estinian terrorists. The hijacking ended 17 hours later when the lights went out aboard the plane and the hijackers fired at the passengers. Pakistani security forces were in control of the plane half an hour; ter the shooting began. The J ustice Department on Sain; day issued arrest warrants for thef jacket s, charging them with murder hostage-taking, attempted air piran and aircraft sabotage. ISTANBU lier Turgut tW o terrorists Is and woui lain synagc linked to Leb; || Conflicting |ty were madi Hi, Shiite M Boups, but ■at the attacl ■ After loci pain door an ■ngregation Bine guns, d Blves with ha pOzal told :ms this ati White House officials said i!* warrants were issued as a precair tionary measure and emphasnet that the Pakistani government is charge of the case. Austrian said Federal Bureau Investigation agents also wanted talk to passengers to learn how; prevent similar hijackings in the fir ture. Families anxious for hijack victims’ U.S. homecoming ALPHA KAPPA PSI Largest National Professional Business Fraternity Announces FALL RUSH 1986 All Business and Economics Majors Welcome Sept. 9 8:30pm Informational Meeting 301 Rudder Sept. 14 3:30pm Weiner Roast Rush meet@MSC Sept. 16 7:00pm Casual Rush 301 Rudder (casual attire) (AP) As survivors of the Pan Am flight seized by Arab terrorists in Pa kistan dispersed around the globe Sunday, relatives in the United States waited impatiently. Some families in Texas and across the nation had to endure agonies of suspense before learning the fate of their loved ones in the 17-hour or deal that ended in gunfire with at least 15 people dead, including three Americans, and 127 wounded. Asha Reddy, mother of 12-year- old Siddhartha Reddy, in Sugar Land said, “It’s hard for me to wait. I slept a few hours last night, and I feel really sick and tired.” Her son was among 400 hostages taken Friday on the Boeing 747 at the airport in Karachi, Pakistan, but was unhurt after the plane’s lights went out and the terrorists opened fire with grenades and automatic weapons. Reddy said she had booked a flight to New York to meet her son, but that he might be flown to Hous ton. “Tell (my mother) I love her and I’m coming home soon,” the youth said in a telephone interview Saturday night from Karachi. Dave Allison, 37, was among those passengers who fled from the plane’s escape hatch Friday after the terrorists opened fire and Pakistani commandos stormed the plane. His fiancee, Charlotte Moore, in Houston, said, “He jumped from the wing to the ground and when he landed he twisted his ankle. Then he couldn’t stand up, so he had to roll from under the plane.” She said, “He told me not to worry if I saw pictures of him on TV with blood on him — that he had not been hit, but that it was a real mess." She said she would fly to West Germany to join Allison, who was flown to the U.S. Rhein Main Air Base in Wiesbaden. Deev Bhandari of Houston said he plans to fly to New York to meet his brother, Dr. Y.S. Bhandari, a New Jersey neurosurgeon who sprained his back fleeing the plane after the shootout. In Newark, N.J., Dharmesh Patel said he learned Sunday that his younger brother, Mrugesh, had sur vived the shooting and was hospital ized in Bombay, India, with a leg in jury. The younger Patel, who was re turning to the United States for his senior year of high school, had spent the summer with his parents in In dia. Dharmesh said calls to Pan Am and the State Department yielded no information on Mrugesh’s wherea bouts, but his parents learned where their son was and called Newark. Pan American World Airways of ficials said 44 Americans, most of In dian or Pakistani ancestry, were aboard but that the list was not de finitive. John Paul II: Terrorism must end COURMAYEUR. Italv (AP)- From an alpine peak beskk Mount Blanc, Pope John Paul II on Sunday said bloody terroris attacks on a jetliner in Pakistar and a synagogue in Turkey Id turned hopes for peace into an guish. “It is necessary, without deb to do everything possible to pm an end to the incessant escalation of hatred and terrorism," dit pontif f said during his noonbb sing from the / ,687-foot-hipi rocky peak of Mount Chetif. From his pulpit facing th nearby cloud-covered snow) peat of Mount Blanc, Europe's highest mountain at 15,711 feet, John Paul said he was praying for the souls of the more than three dozen people killed in the two terrorist episodes. The pope said the terrorists took the “blood of travelin? brothers, the blcxvd of brothers gathered in a place of prayer." “In the face of these horren dous and almost unbelievable events, the yearning for peace turns into anguish," the pope said during his blessing. Earlier Sunday, he flew by heir copter to the Brenva Glacier oil Mount Blanc’s southern face. * Wearing a white ski jacketgvet his cassock, a cap witli ear flaps and white snow boots, the pope strolled alone on the glaciet tor about 20 minutes. Pres corr forZ LOS ANi dent Reaga fight to reta of the Sena Democratic him to "a six In remarl million fun Rep. Ed Zsc g Demo Cranston, scribed the make or bre. “Control mean two it forward, or te,” he addet “I did not ;o be a six went on. “I ton just to )ur first tern Stop Smc Contact: by\ 846-836 Pizza as Simple as 1-2-3. 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