Friday, February 6, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
Officials say U.S. journalist
free from Iran, on way home
U.S. cancels
7-nation talk
on terrorism
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
United States, rebuffed by France
and two other close allies, was
forced Thursday to abandon
plans for a seven-nation meeting
in Rome on countering the rising
tide of terrorism.
Although State Department of
ficials said military steps were not
on the agenda, the reluctant allies
did not wish to participate in a
conference held in the shadows
of a U.S. military buildup in the
eastern Mediterranean.
With eight Americans held
hostage in Lebanon, there was
apprehension that the United
States might strike out in retalia
tion, as it did last April against Li
bya.
France, which initiated the
boycott, and Britain and West
Germany, which also declined in
vitations to attend, all have hos
tages in Lebanon.
“The question of military ac
tion was not on the agenda,”
spokesman Charles E. Redman
said in announcing the abrupt
cancellation.
He said Italy had agreed to a
U.S. request to host the meeting
of the seven largest industrialized
democracies but that “some of the
summit group did not feel it
would be propitious at this time.”
Redman said the United States
had hoped for an exchange of in
formation on the "recent spate of
hostage-takings.”
The spokesman refused to say
which countries objected to the
Rome meeting or to give their
reasons.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Air
port officials in Tehran said early to
day that American journalist Gerald
F. Seib had left the Iranian capital en
route to West Germany.
Seib, a 30-year-old Cairo-based
correspondent for the Wall Street
Journal, was arrested during a gov
ernment-sponsored press tour and
had been accused of spying.
Officials at the Tehran airport
told the Associated Press in a tele
phone interview that Seib was
aboard Lufthansa airline Flight 601
that left the airport at about 6 a.m.
(9:30 p.m. EST Thursday).
In Ottawa, Canada’s Foreign of
fice said it had been advised that
Philip Engs, a Canadian engineer ar
rested Dec. 2 on espionage changes,
also would be “released soon.” An
American telecommunications spe
cialist and a British businessman also
are imprisoned in Iran on similar
charges.
Seib was in a group of 57 foreign
journalists invited to visit the south
ern front in the e'/a-year-old war
with Iraq.
An official of Iran’s Information
Ministry had said of Seib: “He has
still not left, but will leave within the
next 24 hours.” The official spoke
on condition of anonymity and
would not elaborate, except to say:
“No one can give you more infor
mation, so don’t show any more cu
riosity. When it happens (Seib’s de
parture), you will definitely find out
about it.”
The Swiss Embassy in Tehran,
which handles U.S. interests, had re
fused comment on Seib’s wherea
bouts. Iran’s ambassador to the
United Nations, Said Rajai-Khoras-
sani, said in New York late Wednes
day that Seib had been turned over
to the embassy.
An announcement Wednesday by
the Information Ministry said au
thorities decided to expel Seib the
next day after “a judicial probe into
his case ended.”
The official Islamic Republic
News Agency, which reported the
announcement, gave no details of
the investigation, but Seib appar
ently was cleared of the allegations.
He had been in Iran 10 days when
he was detained Saturday and ac
cused of spying for Israel. The Ira
nian news agency said a “spy of the
Zionist regime” was arrested after
entering the country with a false
passport, disguised as a journalist.
Wednesday’s announcement by
the Information Ministry said Seib
was “permanently banned from re
turning to Iran.”
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Official: Intelligence agencies
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee said Thursday the Iran-
Contra uproar shows the need to re
store trust between Congress and
the spy agencies, while Reagan ad
ministration officials appealed to
Congress to continue the flow of
U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan rebels.
Sen. David Boren, D-Olda., pre
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to tighten procedures for informing
Congress of undercover activities.
He said that while he would endorse
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The senator said he expected rela
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Earlier, Assistant Secretary of
State Elliott Abrams told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee that
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leftist Sandinista government in Ma
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