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Shiites seize West German
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Seven
gunmen seized a West German in
Syrian-policed west Beirut on
Wednesday. 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
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Cordes and Alfred Schmidt in Beil
rut less than a week after hisbrotkl
er’sjan. 13, 1987 arrest at Frankfiml
airport.
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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
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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
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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
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