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A radio report said a Shiite Moslem militia leader ordered the abduction to pressure West Ger many into freeing his two jailed brothers. The kidnapping occurred as Mo hammed Hamadi, accused in a TWA hijacking, took the stand in the Duesseldorf trial of brother Ab bas Hamadi, who allegedly abducted two West Germans in Beirut last year in a bid to free him. The third brother, Abdul-Hadi Hamadi, heads the security appara tus of Hezbollah, the most militant pro-Iranian faction in Lebanon. Ralph Rudolf Schray, 30, was grabbed as he walked across a side- street off the Hamra commercial thoroughfare at 11:05 a.m., said a police spokesman, who by regulation cannot be identified. Schray works for an engineering company and has lived in Lebanon for most of his life. “The kidnappers did not state any demands,” the police spokesman said, adding that it was not clear who they were. However, a high-ranking official with Abdul-Hadi Hamadi’s militia informed a relative of Schray that Abdul-Hadi ordered the abduction “to put pressure on Bonn so that it would release his two jailed broth ers,” the Christian-run Voice of Leb anon quoted the relative as saying. Schray was the first foreigner ab ducted in Moslem west Beirut since June. His kidnapping brings to 22 the number of foreigners held hos tage in Lebanon. Her eyes brimming with tears, Schray’s Lebanese wife, Rana Mounla, told reporters, “I hope he’ll be released soon. “Ralph never considered himself a German. He hardly speaks a few words of German. He always consid ered himself Lebanese. He didn’t panic when various waves of for eigners’ abductions hit west Beirut. Others fled, but he insisted on stav- Schray was born in Beirut in 195| to a West German father and a Pall estinian mother, said a relative wkl spoke on condition of anonyraitil Bonn officials said he lias a Wes:| German passport. In West Germany, Mohammccl H amadi, 23, refused to testify attlit| trial of his 29-year-old brother, Al has. Abbas Hamadi is charged will kuln.ippiny; W est (.ri mans Rudoij Cordes and Alfred Schmidt in Beil rut less than a week after hisbrotkl er’sjan. 13, 1987 arrest at Frankfiml airport. mg. Schmidt was released in Septeml her. Cordes remains a captive. Senate committee OKs Supreme Court nominee WASHINGTON (AP) — An thony M. Kennedy’s Supreme Court nomination sailed unanimously through the Senate Judiciary Com mittee on Wednesday and went to the Senate floor for an expected swift confirmation. Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D- W.Va., a committee member, said he would be willing to waive procedural requirements to allow a Senate vote Lriday or Monday on President Rea gan’s selection of the federal appel- latejudge from Sacramento, Calif. The committee’s action was praised by Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese III, with the president saying it “gives us consid erable confidence that the nation will soon have a full court.” “I look forward to a positive vote soon by the Senate that will bring this distinguished and scholarly legal mind to the court,” Reagan said. Before the 14-0 vote, senators praised the 51-year-old Kennedy as an open-minded advocate of the constitutional right of privacy, one who respected Supreme Court prec edent and a judge with an expansive view of constitutionally protected liberties. But liberal senators also said Ken nedy’s former memberships in clubs with few women members and some of his more than 400 decisions showed an insensitivity to women and minorities. These lawmakers ex pressed hope, however, that Ken nedy would change his views on the job. “We learned that Judge Kennedy is a case-by-case judge,” said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., whose com ments summed up the liberal posi tion. “Nor, it appears, does he nave an agenda to reverse scores of im portant Supreme Court decisions. Rather, Judge Kennedy has respect for many of the major rulings that the court has handed down m the last thf^’dtTadeV."?^^ . jfc Despite the unanimous vote, there were moments of acrimonious de bate at the committee meeting — not about Kennedy, but over the defeat of Reagan’s first nominee for the high court vacancy, Robert H. Bork. The most vivid statement came from Sen. Gordon Humphrey, R N.H., who said he was looking for a reason that Kennedy was cautious during his confirmation hearings, in riKht of setting boundaries on the rig privacy Humphrey said he concluded Kennedy “was being ultra-careful . with the entrails of Robert Bork still on the floor” and “still dangling from the chandeliers.” “Judge Kennedy didn’t want his guts ripped out by the senators on this committee — senators, some of whom in the debate over the Bork nomination, wittingly or unwittingly, functioned as front men for power ful lobbying groups opposed to Rob ert Bork,” Humphrey said. Report says soldiers beating Arabs were following orders ►'spa sda' pers published reports Wednesday of soldiers beating Palestinians and one quoted a trooper as saying he was ordered to club Arabs at ran dom, not just rioters as Defense Min ister Yitzhak Rabin has declared. Soldiers in the occupied Gaza Strip hit and kicked members of a CBS-TV crew who filmed other troopers arresting and striking a Pal estinian. The army aipologized. In an Arab neighborhood of Jeru salem, police armed with assault ri fles and clubs fired tear gas arid rub ber bullets at about 75 young Arab protesters. which Israel captured from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East War. Israeli gunfire has killed 38 Ar abs, according to U.N. figures, and Rabin said the policy of beating rather than shooting took effect Jan. 5. “Somebody there will get his head smashed,” Associated Press reporter Sergei Shargorodsky heard a po liceman say. “We’ll break their bones.” The officers entered only the edge of the neighborhood and the pror ■ ! ender! without casualties. Palestinians began rioting Dec. 8 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, The daily tabloid Haclashot pub lished an interview with a soldier in Gaza whose description of his orders contradicted Rabin’s statement that beatings were not used as punish ment, but only to quell riots. “In order to make people in the camps aware of the army’s presence during curfews, we were given or ders to knock on doors, enter inside and take the men out,” reporter Menachem Shizaf quoted the soldier as saying. “We entered almost every other house. We stood the men out side with their faces against a wall, and while questioning them, the sol diers heat them with clubs. The men screamed in pain. “This whole business caused se rious arguments among soldiers. Over time, the number who opposed the beatings grew, but no one re fused an order.” An army spokesman said a re sponse was difficult because neither the soldier nor his unit was identi fied. “It’s not true that there are such orders,” the spokesman said, but added: “Here and there, we know there are exceptions,” meaning ran dom beatings contrary to orders. Haaretz quoted military sources in Gaza it did not identify as saying sol diers vied for the “privilege” of lead ing detainees into a detention camp. The liberal daily said the opportu nity was used to beat Arabs despite orders that forbid heatings after a protest has ended or an arrest made. Rabin announced the beating pol icy last week, saying blows were more humane than bullets in stop ping riots. Officials also have said Is rael must toughen its image to deter further violence. Tank spill fouls water in 4 states JELFERSON, Pa. (AP) - A rare steel fracture that could have been prevented caused a 40-foo:- high fuel tank to rip open in less than a second, unleashing a wave of oil that fouled water in four states, a federal official saidTues- day- “Good design in tanks is thai they should leak before thes break,” said Richard N. Wright, director for the Genter For Build ing Technology of the National Bureau of Standards. “A crack opened the tank,” he said. "It probably split the whole height of the tank in something like one-ten-thousandth of a sec ond. It was hardly a leak.” Wright testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism and Hazardous Materials in a hall about 3 miles north of the Ash land Oil Inc. tank that collapsed Jan. 2. It spilled about 3.7 million gallons of fuel. Wright said it will take months to determine what led to the steel fracture, which he described asa brittle fracture that occurs whena metal structure is flawed and un der stress. A small flaw in steel can initiate a brittle fracture in cold weather, Wright said. The 40-vear-old tank collapsed during freezing temperatures as it was being filled with oil to the top for the first time since it had been dismantled in Cleveland and reconstructed at Floreffe. Good design, materials, inspec tion and testing prevent such fractures, Wright said. He saidin one testing method, the tank is filled to the lop with water before being filled with oil. Ashland has acknowledged that it failed to conduct such a test. When the tank, 27 miles up stream of Pittsburgh, collapsed,it sent an estimated 750,000 gallons fuel into the Monongahela River, a tributary of the Ohio. The pollution temporarily cut off drinking water for 23,000 suburban Pittsburgh residents and forced hundreds of thou sands in Pennsylvania to conserve water until the oil passed river in takes. you’re invited to a PARTY AT THE PIKE HOUSE!! SPRING RUSH 88 Thurs. Jan 28 Swamp Party IV Sat. 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