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■ 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
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Iwaukee l l to obtain his release.”
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'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.
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at televised hearings
of Iran-Contra affair
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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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