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HWerlijackcrs Tuesday forced a Kuwait
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runfi up and demanded that Kuwait re-
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direct later released 24 of the 112 passen-
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rterofllws Agency said without elabora-
Bi that the 24 women were re
leased early Wednesday after nego-
•ions with Iran’s deputy prime
S ijljiriister, Ali Reza Moayyeri.
B\mong the other passengers were
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ily and a passenger with a U.S.
sport, on a flight from Bangkok,
iland, to Kuwait. The gunmen
ned the Kuwaiti royals would be
imminent danger” if Kuwait re-
|M to free the prisoners, IRNA
reported.
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The hijackers, brandishing pistols
and hand grenades, identified them
selves only as Arabs. But their de
mands echoed those of Iranian-
backed Shiite Moslems holding
American hostages in Lebanon.
The Kuwaiti government rejected
the hijackers’ demand to release 17
prisoners, calling it “blackmail,” but
said it would listen to other de
mands, the Kuwait News Agency re
ported.
After an emergency session, Ku
wait’s government said it will send a
three-man delegation on Wednes
day morning “to help Iranian au
thorities” secure the passengers’ re
lease.
Iran asked Kuwait to send a high-
ranking delegation to Mashhad in
northeastern Iran for direct talks
with the hijackers.
The hijackers earlier demanded
fuel for the aircraft and threatened
to blow it up if the Iranians ap
proached. IRNA initially said the
Iranians refueled the plane, but
then said the gunmen were still re
questing fuel.
Iranian security forces sur
rounded the plane at Mashhad air
port to keep it from taking off,
IRNA and Tehran Radio said.
Kuwait urged Iran to handle the
incident “wisely” and requested that
the aircraft not be allowed to leave.
Iran said it would try to resolve the
crisis peacefully but said the plane
would have to leave if it was not re
solved quickly.
The plane was commandeered
three hours after it took off from
Bangkok with 97 passengers and 15
crew members.
IRNA reported that the hijackers
said in a statement radioed to the
control tower at Mashhad airport:
“We ask you Iranian officials to me
diate between us and the Kuwaiti
government if you want.
“Our rights have been usurped . .
. We have 17 prisoners in Kuwaiti
jails who are under the worst kind of
torture. . .
“If you do not want to mediate, we
ask for fuel and other needs and
then we will take off,” the statement
said, according to IRNA.
IRNA, monitored in Nicosia, said
a Jordanian passenger with a heart
condition was freed several hours af
ter the plane landed at Mashhad at
7:30 a.m. (midnight EDT).
The passenger list included 30
Kuwaitis, 22 Britons, eight Thais, va
rious other nationalities and one
person with a U.S. and an Egyptian
passport identified only as R. At-
tiaallaali.
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ney General Edwin Meese III an
nounced replacements Tuesday for
the No. 2 and No. 3 positions in the
Justice Department, but was unable
to fill the post vacated by last week’s
protest resignation of Assistant At
torney General William Weld.
Meese said he would recommend
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Shepherd would replace Deputy
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tice Department’s work in combating
illegal drugs, Meese said. Trott is
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Keating is a former U.S. attorney
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Meese called Keating and Shepherd
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Asked whether he had had second
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Meese made the announcements
after Philadelphia lawyer Arlin Ad
ams and a Labor Department official
declined to be nominated earlier in
the day.
Adams said a heavy caseload at his
Philadelphia law firm prevented him
from taking the job that Shepherd
agreed to take.
Meese said he probably will an
nounce a recommended replace
ment for Weld after the attorney
general returns from a week-long
trip to South America to discuss the
war on drugs with officials in several
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Michael Dukakis and
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■j the 1988 Democratic presidential nomi-
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py. A slow ballot count in Colorado showed
kakis won a narrow victory over his rival in the
:’s caucuses.
Sen. Albert Gore ]r. spent heavily in Wisconsin
j sought an elusive breakthrough outside his
(live South. Sen. Paul Simon struggled for sur-
with several big industrial states still to
come, beginning with New York on April 19.
Returns from 73 percent of Colorado’s 2,784
precincts showed Dukakis leading with 3,974 del
egates, or 45.4 percent, to Jackson’s 3,453 dele
gates or 39.5 percent. The uncommitted dele
gates totaled 1,069, or 12.2 percent, and Gore
received 236 delegates, or 2.7 percent.
The Democratic caucuses were held across
Colorado on Monday night, but significant re
turns were not reported until Tuesday by the
state Democratic Party.
The slow delegate counting brought sharp
criticism from Jackson, who accused state Demo
cratic chairman Buie Seawell of being “biased
and politically unethical” and “deliberately con
trolling the process” by remaining as party chair
man after publicly supporting Dukakis.
Vice President George Bush won Colorado
handily and faced only nominal opposition in
Wisconsin as he continued his grand march to
ward nomination at the Republican National
Convention this summer.
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