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Thursday, June 25, 1987TThe Battalion/Page 7 World and Nation an Kidnappers free 2 Lebanese, ^eep American journalist Glass I Brumfid; ports Eik, P to be an II season, in 't evenb y ■ BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Kidnappers released the son of Ijibanon’s defense minister and his driver Wednesday but kept American journalist Charles IP‘ ISS ' who was seized with them a week earlier. ^Defense Minister Adel Ossei- AnataPp told reporters after his son was freed, “Charles (Mass is ^^■11 alive. Efforts are continuing Iwaukee l l to obtain his release.” e ?0 PadmHFourteen gunmen abducted Jig Redijjthi three men June 17 while they Andre Di nt Chbs et the raj | and mi; ited at tit t of diets rk Mets, :al teams, bad nevi drove through Ouzai, a strong- lold of the radical Iranian- ■cked Shiite Moslem Hezbollah, | Party of God, in south Beirut’s 'Shiite slums. ■Ali Osseiran appeared briefly Wednesday on the balcony of the family home in the seaside town Rmeizeh, 20 miles south of the captal. His 82-year-old father heads a prominent conservative clan of Shiite Moslems. The 40-year-old engineer was asked where Glass was. He paused, then replied in a sad voice: “I don’t know.” No group has claimed respon sibility for the abductions. Hez bollah, the most militant Shiite faction in Lebanon, broke silence Tuesday night and declared it had nothing to do with them. An Osseiran family bodyguard said Ali Osseiran had dinner Tuesday night with Glass, who was in Lebanon working on a book, but would not give further details. Glass, 36, is a former ABC tele vision correspondent from Los Angeles. He was the first for eigner kidnapped in Lebanon since 7,500 Syrian troops entered Beirut’s Moslem sector Feb. 22 to quell fighting between rival mili tias. His seizure embarrassed Syria, which is the nation’s main power broker and keeps 25,000 soldiers in northern and eastern Leb anon, and it has pressed for his release. Among the 25 foreigners miss ing and believed kidnapped since March 1985 are nine Americans, six Frenchmen, two Britons, two West Germans, an Italian, an Irishman, a South Korean, an In dian and two foreigners who have not been identified. Glass was the first journalist kidnapped in Beirut since Terry A. Anderson, 39, chief Middle East correspondent of the Asso ciated Press, was abducted March 16, 1985. Anderson has been held longer than any other hos- tage. Also missing is Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite, who vanished Jan. 20 after leaving a west Beirut hotel to meet with hostage holders. Ali Osseiran and his driver Su leiman Salman, who doubled as a bodyguard, were freed early Wednesday morning. A Syrian official said privately they were blindfolded and turned loose on the coastal highway near the southern port city of Sidon, 25 miles south of Beirut. They arrived at the nearby family villa in the same white Volvo from which they were ab ducted. North to offer answers at televised hearings of Iran-Contra affair terasecor^T , the Teal o their miil s. Thais, ?else however ixth plate: ind they’re Jt of fiisil left. i are a Washington jap) hrysler Corp., 2 executives indicted n charges of mail, odometer fraud incredi remed oiii 1 rantee thtij seems to Li Dgether, I Zi games four of tkl Chrysler jbtors Corp. and two senior exec- Jes were indicted Wednesday on ges they sold the public as new fe than 60,000 vehicles that had driven by company managers the odometers disconnected. "fddents, with the r™^ ■ pme of the cars were involved in e repaired and the Btlpany sold therii as new vehicles, Tft |Hthe 16-count federal indictment conspiracy to commit mail n e j 51 irajd, wire fraud anti odometer Reds ’" n|d. ;y reonli w ^jjk^jBhe indictment covers an 18- rCn P er ‘ oc l beginning in July ^ *•* iB’ b ut ’ l sa ‘ f * “ le P rac ti ce goes ain 8J'‘ Sack to 1949 and that millions of . H were sold to consumers under ut . t , tnelame circumstances, resr Hu: * (Q py 0 j- indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in St. Louis, was released in Washington by the Justice Department. If convicted on all counts, Chrys ler Motors, the carmaking division of the Chrysler Corp., could face a maximum fine of $120 million on the felony charges. Two company executives, Frank J. O’Reilly and Allen F. Scudder, were charged with a single misde meanor count of conspiracy to com mit odometer fraud and could face a maximum penalty of one year in prison and fines. In Detroit, a statement said Chrys ler Motors “flatly denied that the company or any of its employees had done anything illegal or improper.” It called the proposed fine “an outrage,” said it bears ‘‘no relationship to the alleged problem,” and will be vigorously contested. The statement added that “the U.S. attorney’s office is attacking a legitimate quality assurance pro gram, beneficial to consumers, by at tempting to apply to the quality test ing of new vehicles a federal statute designed to preclude the rolling back of odometers on used cars.” “The law has never previously been applied in such a circumstance, or to an automobile manufacturer,” the statement said. The company said that as part of its quality assurance program, a small number of cars or trucks were picked at random each day at each assembly plant and were test-driven by a “qualified and authorized fac tory representative” and that the av erage number of miles put on the test vehicles was 40. The indictment said that in one instance a 1987 Turismo driven by a Chrysler executive hit a pocket of water on a highway, hydroplaned, rolled over on its side, slid into a ditch and rolled over on its roof. According to the indictment, the car was repaired, its odometer re connected and then shipped to a dealer as a new vehicle. According to the government, the investigation began after Missouri state highway patrolmen reported that after they stopped Chrysler ex ecutives for speeding, the drivers frequently explained that they hadn’t realized they were exceeding the speed limit because their odome ters had just been disconnected. WASHINGTON (AP) — Oliver L. North, the central figure in the Iran-Contra affair, will tell his story at the nationally televised hearings beginning July 7 after being ques tioned privately next week, the con gressional panels said Wednesday. They said they had not made conces sions North had demanded as a con dition for his appearance. North had earlier refused to tes tify privately, and his lawyers had set conditions limiting the length and scope of his public testimony. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate investigating panel, said at the end of Wednes day’s hearing that North attorney Brendan Sullivan had been in formed “we would make no commit ment on limiting Col. North’s testi mony or promise not to recall him as a witness.” However, he added, the letter also made clear that “we do not intend his testimony to last more than a week or anticipate that he will be re called.” Sullivan declined to say whether he had agreed to the terms disclosed by the committees. “I just can’t talk about it,” he said when contacted by telephone. Inouye’s announcement came at the end of a long day in which for mer CIA general counsel Stanley Sporkin was the only witness. Sporkin defended President Rea gan’s decision against notifying Con gress about the secret arms sales to Iran, which began in 1985, but sug gested it was wrong of the adminis tration to keep the secret as long as it did. North, in his only previous ap pearance on the Iran-Contra matter before a congressional committee, claimed his constitutional right against testifying on grounds he might incriminate himself. The for mer National Security Council aide is the subject of a criminal investiga tion by independent counsel Law rence Walsh. He will be testifying before Con gress under a grant of limited immu nity from prosecution, which means his testimony cannot be used against him later. Leaders of the congressional pan els, while negotiating for the past week with Sullivan about conditions for North’s testimony, have taken pains to make clear they were guar anteeing nothing. “I would simply point out that in this agreement we certainly did not make any concessions,” said Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., chairman of the House committee. “We set the terms, we set the timing of the testi mony, we set the length of the testi mony and we have only given Mr. Sullivan, counsel of Col. North, a statement of our intentions.” The closed-door questioning on July 1 will be limited to President Reagan’s knowledge of using the arms-sale proceeds for aid to the re bels. The understanding did not meet with universal approval among members of the committees who felt that making concessions set a trou blesome precedent. Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, said, “I would not say there is great euphoria in the cloakroom.” For half the day, the interrogation focused on language in the presi dential document that Sporkin drafted directing the director of cen tral intelligence “to refrain from re porting this finding to the Con gress.” Asked by Rep. Louis Stokes, D- Ohio, whether a delay of several months could be justified, the for mer CIA general counsel said, “I think it would be wrong to do so but I’m not going to say it would be ille gal.” As one member after another of the committees pressed the point, Sporkin murmured: “This is about the toughest bar exam I’ve ever had.” He said that “unless I’m all wet,” the president has the prerogative of delaying congressional notification. 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