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tries to make a jump shot while a group of his
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
friends try to block it. The players were taking ad
vantage of the sunny afternoon Wednesday.
Hijackers release 32,
stay firm on demands
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The
hijackers of a Kuwait Airlines jet re
leased 32 more passengers in Iran
early Thursday, but warned that
those remaining would be in danger
if authorities failed to meet the hi
jackers’ demands, Iran’s official
news agency reported.
The release left about 50 passen
gers and crew members aboard the
plane. >
The hijackers warned in a
statement that three members of the
Kuwaiti royal family who are still
aboard the aircraft would pay a dear
price if the demands were not ful
filled, the agency reported.
The gunmen are demanding the
release of 17 Shiite Moslems con
victed and imprisoned in Kuwait for
bombing the U.S. and French em
bassies in 1983.
Iran’s Islamic Republic News
Agency, or IRNA, said the 32 people
released Thursday included two
flight crew members, a Sudanese
and a Yemenite. All those freed
were brought to the transit lounge of
Mashad airport and were under
medical care, it added.
The hijackers earlier insisted that
the Boeing 747 be refueled. Tehran
radio quoted airport authorities at
Mashad in northeastern Iran as say
ing they would refuel the plane “to
prevent any calamity or incident.”
IRNA, monitored in Nicosia,
quoted the kidnappers’ statement as
saying that the Kuwait government
understands only the language of
force.
Earlier, food was brought
Wednesday to the 87 people then
still aboard the jumbo jet.
Deputy Prime Minister Ali Reza
Moayyeri told Iranian television
Wednesday that talks on the emer
gency were under way between Ku
waiti Foreign Ministry officials who
flew to Iran and officials of the Teh
ran government.
“These talks continue and we are
hopeful that as soon as possible we
will be able to resolve this issue with
out any difficulty, incident or loss,”
Moayyeri said.
The airliner landed at Mashhad
early Tuesday after being seized
during a flight from Bangkok, Thai
land to Kuwait.
IRNA quoted a freed Jordanian
passenger as saying there were five
or six hijackers, who wore masks and
were armed with pistols and hand
grenades.
The captive members of Kuwait’s
ruling Al-Sabah family, two of whom
are women, face “imminent danger”
if demands are not met, the hijack
ers said Wednesday.
Crown Prince Sheik Saad al-Ab-
dullah al-Sabah presided at an emer
gency meeting of the Kuwaiti Cab
inet during the night and said the
government would not submit to
“blackmail.”
In Washington, State Department
officials praised the sheikdom for re
fusing to yield, declaring, “Kuwait
has taken an exemplary position in
the struggle against international
terrorism, and we applaud them for
it.”
Twelve Britons are on the plane.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
said she would not ask. Kuwait to ne
gotiate, and told reporters, “We do
not give in to blackmail because it
only leads to further tragedies.”
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Michael Dukakis basked in the
glow of his unexpectedly strong Wis
consin primary victory on Wednes
day as he and his Democratic presi
dential rivals pointed toward New
York.
From campaign rival Jesse Jack-
son to party chairman Paul Kirk,
Dukakis won accolade's on his Wis
consin landslide. “It puts Dukakis in
the catbird seat,” former party chair
man John White, a Jackson sup
porter, said.
Dukakis shunned any such talk,
likening the race to a i5-round box-
CS police
ticket special
ends Friday
Attention College Station speed
ers! This week’s “Blue Light Special
Warrant Week” will end Friday at 5
I p.m.
Individuals with outstanding traf
fic warrants, parking tickets and li
brary book violations have until the
Friday deadline to pay the original
cost of any outstanding tickets and
have the warrant cost and failure-to-
appear fines dismissed.
Cathy Choate, municipal court
clerk, said the amnesty program is
open to any individual who has a
i ticket that was issued in College Sta-
| tion that has gone into warrant sta-
I tus.
Choate said the city will drop the
$80 normally charged for the fail-
ure-to-appear fine and warrant cost.
The special began Monday and
was designed to encourage individu
als with outstanding Class C misde
meanors to pay the tickets, she said.
However, by Wednesday afternoon
only 25 of 1,300 outstanding tickets
had been paid, she said.
About 90 percent of the warrants
are for traffic tickets, she said. Stu
dents account for about 76 percent
of these warrants, she said.
Individuals who do not pay their
tickets this week could find the po
lice at their doors soon. Choate said
the police department will be serving
warrants “hot and heavy” next week.
ing match that will be decided by a
decision, rather than a knockout.
“My job is to go out now and do the
very best I can in New York and
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and those
other very important primaries. . .”
he said as he campaigned in New
York City.
There were political aftershocks
on the Republican side of the race.
Vice President George Bush, the
certain nominee, met privately with
Sen. Bob Dole, once his strongest ri
val.
Bush said he envisioned a role for
Dole in the general election in which
the Kansan would work “as much as
he possibly has time to give.” Dole
said they talked about “getting
George elected in November.”
Dole also met with former tele
vision evangelist Pat Robertson, who
remains in the GOP race, and said,
“We talked about . . . how Pat might
be helpful in Senate and House
races and state legislative races.”
Wisconsin’s Democratic runner-
up, Jackson, campaigned in Arizona
and pronounced himself more than
satisfied with his showing thus far.
“Forty contests have been run now,”
he said. “I’ve come in No. 1 or No. 2
in 30 of them.”
Jackson claimed credit for chang
ing the terms of the campaign de
bate, noting that other candidates
have begun to address issues such as
the fight against drugs and securing
jobs for workers.
Sen. Albert Gore Jr., who finished
a distant third in Wisconsin and now
faces a make-or-break test in New
York, pronounced himself the un
derdog. “New York state has always
been friendly to underdogs,” he
said.
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) —
Police fired tear gas and birdshot to
break up an opposition demonstra
tion in Panama City Wednesday, as
the United States completed deploy
ment of 1,300 extra troops to Pan
ama.
Hundreds of onlookers shouted
insults at police who dispersed about
50 people marching to protest the
economic crisis and the strongman
rule of Gen. Manuel Antonio No
riega. Residents and shopkeepers
hurled garbage into the streets and
set fire to piles of refuse.
A state-owned television station
reported that two U.S. soldiers in an
Army jeep were stopped and de
tained by Panamanian troops near
the demonstration. Major Ann
Crum of the U.S. Southern Com
mand said the soldiers were released
an hour later.
In other developments Wednes
day:
• Panama’s civilian chief exec
utive, Manuel Solis Palma, an
nounced the government had
agreed to talks with opposition
groups “without preconditions or ir
reconcilable demands."
• The Reagan administration
said that 800 Marines would start ar
riving in Panama on Friday for what
it described as routine jungle train
ing. “They will be there for three
weeks and then they will come out,”
said Marlin Fitzwater, the presi
dent’s chief spokesman. He said the
move was not related to the dispatch
of troops to protect the U.S. South
ern Command.
Panama’s opposition, which has
been seeking Noriega’s ouster for
more than 10 months, sponsored a
“march against hunger” Wednesday
afternoon, but police Hooded the
park where it was to take place.
Nonetheless, about 50 protesters
met at a nearby church and began a
march to the central business dis
trict.
They had gone nearly a mile
when police stopped them with a
barrage of tear gas and birdshot.
Hundreds of people jeered at the
police from sidewalks and balconies
despite the swirls of tear gas that en
veloped blocks of Central Avenue,
the main shopping thoroughfare.
Troops kill
Israeli girl,
two Arabs
BEITA, Occupied West Bank (AP)
— A holiday hike by Israeli teen-ag
ers ended Wednesday in a melee of
shooting and stone-throwing in an
Arab town. A 14-year-old Israeli girl
and two Palestinians were killed.
Hours after the clash, Jewish set
tlers raided the nearby Arab village
of Hawwara, smashing car wind
shields, beating villagers and break
ing into homes, said Jihad Howari,
the Israeli-appointed head of the vil
lage council.
The youngsters, children of Jew
ish settlers on the occupied West
Bank, were on a Passover outing and
had stopped for a picnic lunch when
the trouble began with stone-throw
ing. Members of the group said Ar
abs offering to help then led them to
Beita.
Arabs wrestled two automatic ri
fles from the group’s guards.
Texas officials may have violated campaign laws
AUSTIN (AP) — Several top state
officials, including Gov. Bill Clem
ents and Attorney General Jim Mat
tox, may have violated campaign dis
closure laws by making thousands of
dollars in political payments to credit
card companies that do not delineate
expenditures.
Secretary of State Jack Rains says
he will review the Texas Election
Code to determine whether the offi
cials violated campaign finance laws
by failing to properly document
their political expenses, the Dallas
Morning News reported Wednes
day.
A member of the State Ethics Ad
visory Commission, the Senate spon
sor of 1981 revisions to the report
ing law and the director of a citizens
watchdog group told the newspaper
the law requires a detailed account
ing of all contributions and expendi
tures over $50.
State Rep. Steve Wolens, D-Dallas,
a member of the State Ethics Advi
sory Commission, which the 1987
Legislature declined to fund, said it’s
not enough for an office-holder to
list a credit card company as the
payee when in fact the money went
to someone else.
“The purpose of political report
ing is to write down who is the recipi
ent of campaign contributions. It is
not enough to write down simply the
name of the collection agency,” he
said.
Mattox last year spent more than
$60,000 from his political account
for purposes listed only as “miscella
neous expenses” in reports filed with
the state, the newspaper reported.
Some $24,000 of that was paid di
rectly to credit card companies.
Mattox maintains that Texas law
makers never intended office-hold
ers or candidates to disclose their ex
penses in detail.
“It was not meant so that the press
or your opponent could determine
exactly how you were spending your
money,” Mattox said. “What the
Legislature was trying to do was get
away from contributions and expen
ditures being just in cash.”
Clements, state Comptroller Bob
Bullock, Treasurer Ann Richards
and Land Commissioner Garry
Mauro have also lumped together
expenses for “travel.”
They sometimes paid with a credit
card and occasionally drew cash
travel advances from their political
funds without providing details of
how the money was spent, the Morn
ing News reported.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby often uses the
cards, but generally provides some
details of what the money is being
spent for. State Agriculture Com
missioner Jim Hightow'er did not list
payments to credit card companies,
but did repay himself $409 for travel
expenses.
Official: Missile treaty unlikely at next summit
By Tracy Staton
Senior Staff Writer
The vast differences between U.S. and So
viet opinions about a strategic arms reduction
treaty make a full agreement unlikely during
the Reagan-Gorbachev summit scheduled to
begin Apr. 29 in Moscow, a State Department
official said Wednesday in Rudder Tower.
Michael F. Stafford, special assistant to an
ambassador for arms control, discussed the
START negotiations and the INF treaty with
an audience of about 40 people at the first
lecture in the MSC Wiley Lecture Series.
“A START treaty is a goal for the summit
— not a requirement,” Stafford said. “We will
certainly concentrate on reaching an
agreement, but the chances of coming up
with the kind of treaty we want are about one
in a million.”
The U.S. w'ants to limit the number of war
heads to 6,000, he said. This category would
be further stratified, allowing 4,900 warheads
on ballistic missiles. Of those 4,900 warheads,
only 3,300 would be allowed on ICBMs, and
of those 3,300, 1,540 on heavyweight ICBMs.
The two nations have agreed on the gen
eral limit figure and the limit on heavyweight
missiles.
When President Ronald Reagan and Soviet
Premier Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Moscow
to attempt to hammer out a treaty, they will
be hampered by the failure of lower-level ne
gotiators to reach agreements about mobile
intercontinental ballistic missiles and sea-
launched ballistic missiles, Stafford said.
“ICBMs have previously been in silos, but
now both of us are developing missiles of this
type that you can move around, which makes
them hard to target,” he said. “That’s good
because the other side is unlikely to attack you
if they can’t find your systems to attack. The
K roblem is, because they’re hard to find, it’s
ard to verify any limits on them too.”
The Soviets have already deployed two
types of mobile ICBMs — the SS-24, which is
comparable to our currently undeployed MX
missile, and the SS-25, which is similar to the
undeployed U.S. Midgetman missile. Since
the missiles are already deployed, the Soviets
are reluctant to abandon these types of
ICBMs, he said.
The U.S. probably will allow the Soviets to
keep these missiles if a verification scheme
can be formulated, Stafford said. An
agreement on limits for sea-launched Cruise
missiles depends on verification as well.
Verification was an important concern
when the INF treaty was being negotiated,
and the verification for that treaty set a prece
dent for further arms control negotiations, he
said.
“It took us months to get most of the INF
verification procedures, and a couple of them
took two years,” Stafford said. “In Washing
ton, in 10 minutes, we got Soviet agreement
to some of the verification for START lie-
cause it was right out of the INF treaty.”
The START treaty’s verification proce
dures will go beyond the surprise inspections
and supervised missile-destroying present in
the INF treaty, he said. In INF, the inspec
tions are allowed only at missile facilities that
the Soviets say house intermediate missiles.
For START, the U.S. hopes to be able to in
spect sites it suspects of containing missiles.