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Parkway M-F 10 a.m.-8 p.m. (across from Kroger Center) Sat. 9 a.m.-l p.m. Page 67The Battalion/Wednesday, July 8, 1987 World and Nation Statements by hostage denied by Washington BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Hos tage American journalist Charles Glass, his face drawn and unshaven, said on a videotape released Tues day that he was working as a CIA agent when Moslem kidnappers seized him June 17. The United States denied it and said statements by hostages “are al ways made under duress. Glass choked up several times while reading on the five-minute vi deotape. “I am Charles Glass,” he said. “Many of you know me as a journal ist, but few know the truth. “I’m actually the CIA agent in the region and the Middle East. I made many secret missions to this area. I used the press as a cover for my main job with the CIA.” It was not clear if his kidnappers prepared the statement for the 36- year-old former ABC television cor respondent from Los Angeles, who went to Lebanon to work on a book about the Middle East. Fourteen gunmen seized Glass and the son of Lebanon’s defense minister together with their driver in the south Beirut slum of Ouzai, a stronghold of Hezbollah, a radical Shiite Moslem group supported by Iran. Hezbollah denied involvement in the kidnapping but is thought to be the umbrella organization for groups holding most of the 25 for eigners who are missing in Lebanon and believed kidnapped. They in clude nine Americans. Glass was the first foreigner ab ducted since Syria sent 7,500 sol diers into Moslem west Beirut on Feb. 22 to stop factional warfare and lawlessness. His abduction embar rassed Syrian President Hafez As sad, who keeps 25,000 troops in north and east Lebanon and is the country’s main power broker. A source close to the Syrian mili tary command in Lebanon said Tuesday it had established the “po litical identity” of the kidnappers and Hezbollah, which means Party of God, “is the only suspect.” In the nine-line statement re leased Tuesday, typewritten in Ar abic, the kidnappers said “America was and still is trying to exploit us” and they were revealing “somefe from the outcome of the prelimir; interrogation of American Charles Glass.” Voice quality on the videotape very poor, making it difficult to precisely what Glass was saying, least one sentence, his English not arrammatical. Vol. it grammatical. . He read from yellow sheetsofj ' so j 1 per, which he brought close to; face several times as if havingtd! ble deciphering the words. I coUect information fortheli; ^ 1( j ai Cong efit of the CIA,” he said. “Forthi made secret missions. Theyordt: me to do that. “I’m not the only one to use; press as a cover for those tin Many people who work for; agency used the same cover j some of them were arrested in sod countries and I am one of them' In Washington, White spokesman Marlin Fitzwater i “T he history of those kinds ofv;; tapes suggests often that they! done under coercion or event ture.” He denied Glass had worli for the CIA. Sikhs kill 34 Hindus on base bringing total to 72 in 2 day, CHANDIGARH, India (AP) — Sikh terrorists mas sacred 34 Hindus on two buses in Haryana state Tues day night, the day after Sikh gunmen killed 38 Hindu passengers on a bus in neighboring Punjab, officials re ported. “The modus operand! of the killings is the same as the one we had inside Punjab,” Munish Chandra Gupta, interior minister of Haryana, said. He said an unknown number of Sikhs halted a state- run Haryana Roadways bus at about 8:30 p.m. on a bridge near Fatehabad, about 150 miles southwest of Chandigarh near the Punjab border, dragged four pas sengers out and killed them with automatic weapons fire. When a second bus happened along from the oppo site direction, the gunmen stopped it and killed 30 of its occupants, Gupta said. Eighteen people in the two buses were wounded, he said. The wounded in the Monday attack totaled 32. Gupta quoted police as saying the Sikh attackers Tuesday were in a car and a jeep and that one bus was carrying 60 people. One bus was headed for Sisra, a grain center, and the other for New Delhi, about 135 miles to the southwest. “There is no doubt that Sikh terrorists are bent upon creating as much trouble as possible in Haryana,” the minister said. Haryana, predominantly Hindu, lies betweenM Delhi and Punjab, a rich northern agricultural s| where Sikhs form a slight majority. Militant memberfc the sect, which constitutes a small minority inalloff dia, are fighting for a separate Sikh nation in Punjabi Gupta said the gang responsible for the Tue;: massacre used “the same modus operand! of killi that used inside Punjab.” Monday night in Punjab, Sikh gunmen hijadi bus crowded with Hindu pilgrims. They killed eluding five women and four children, and decki that more Hindus would die in the fight for indej&j ^ ' dence. « .lllBlB- q It was the third bus attack in Punjab in a yearand: |‘ n S " >l worst yet in the state, where terrorists have killedalr orce 500 people in 1987. Army and police were put on full alert through northern India to prevent Doth more terrorism anc venge attacks on Sikhs by Hindus, which haveoccr in the past after Sikh terrorist actions. , i J ° l President Zail Singh, a Sikh, called the slaughter 'j least human and ghastly. ’ He canceled a trip to Punjab: ; police had scheduled for Wednesday. j being Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said: “The inhut ialso ii butchery of bus passengers should redouble our rev < to fight the extremists and perpetrators.” Air traffic control system failures blamed for crash over Californio WASHINGTON (AP) — A fed eral panel on Tuesday blamed fail ures in the air traffic control system for the collision last August of an Aeromexico DC-9 airliner and a pri vate plane near Los Angeles that killed 82 people. The National Transportation Safety Board also cited as key factors in the accident the unauthorized en try of the smaller plane into re stricted airspace and the “limita tions” of putting too much reliance on pilots scanning the skies for other aircraft. The safety board, adopting its fi nal report on the Aug. 31, 1986 acci dent over Cerritos, Calif., sought to not specifically blame either the con troller handling the plane or the pi lots involved. Instead, it sharply criticized the air traffic control system, which the board said has “limitations” that make it unable to “provide collision protection” for aircraft under its control. In addition, the NTSB said, the longstanding philosophy that “see and avoid” is the pilot’s primary pro tection against other aircraft may be outdated in today’s airspace in which fast-moving jetliners routinely mix with slower, smaller planes. The board criticized standard Federal Aviation Administration policy that does not specifically re quire a controller to advise planes under air traffic control about planes flying under visual flight rules and not under controller direc tion. Under FAA rules, a controller is required to make advisories about planes not under direct control only as the workload permits. The NTSB investigatores suggested that at times, a “mindset” may keep a con troller from doing so even when he is not busy. The FAA had no immediate com ment on the safety board’s findings. NTSB Chairman Jim Burnett told reporters the board wants philosophy” that would require the air traffic control system to provide system broader protection for aircraft against aerial collisions. He and board member John Lauber cited the “inherent weak nesses” of the see-and-avoid con cept, arguing that it provides little protection in an airspace such as the Los Angeles basin where large num bers of small private planes snare the skies with commercial jets. The NTSB suggested that the controller who was handling the Mexican jetliner should haves the impending collision becausf electronic signal of the privatep| — a single-engine Piper PA-28(| rokee — was on his radar screen The controller, Walter White insisted that he never sawthesl plane on his screen and has: gested that a shortcoming in the dar might have been at fault. Lauber called White “one of 1 most tragic characters” connec with the accident because he 1 shown to be a competent and •' scientous controller who map have never actually seen thesi| plane even though its signals the screen. While Burnett joined otherb* members in criticizing the see: avoid concept, he argued unsutc fully that more emphasis be ph on the failure of the Cherokee} to detect the Aeromexico plat' time to avoid a collision. “He did have the o see and avoid the ot Burnett later told reporters. Other board members sugge: however, that the pilot, Mil Kramer, might have been preot pied in trying to find markersor| ground that would keep him of the restricted airspace T1 whicl throi ers s recei riot r Tf milit; brani work hittir them and mportunf tlier aircri Nissan will recall more than 180,000 cai in effort to repair unintended accelera DETROIT (AP) — Nissan Motor Corp. will ask owners to return more than 180,000 vehicles for addition of a device that is designed to prevent unintended acceleration, a company official says. The voluntary recall involves 1979-87 280ZX and 300ZX cars with automatic transmissions, said Rich ard T. Hartzell,. vice president for service at Nissan’s U.S. marketing arm in Carson, Calif. on Monday. The recall involves 180,531 vehicles, he said. Nissan has received reports of 180 incidents of unintended acceleration in the vehicles, company spokesman Bill Pauli said. He said he did not have figures on injuries. The company will install an inter lock free at Nissan dealerships so the car cannot be put into gear without depressing the brake, Hartzell said Pauli acknowledged National Highway Traffic Safety Administra tion reports that the incidents in volved five deaths, but said Nissan investigated the deaths and “we haven’t been able to attribute them to unintended acceleration.” Ron DeFore, an NHTSA spokes man in Washington, D.C., said in an agency probe involving auto# transmission 280ZX and 300ZX manufactured between 1980-85 vestigators reported complaini: 205 instances of unintended a(f ration, 152 of them involvingvtl damage, 65 involving injuries five involving deaths. Sam Cole, a spokesman foi Center for Auto Safety, a Wash ton-based citizens’ organist called the recall “a Band-Aid proach. They’re going to pul shift lock on it and treat it I driver error . . . (when) they s be taking cars apart, trying to red duce it.”