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WORLD & NATION
Wednesday, October 25,1989
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Islamic Jihad offers trade
Pro-Iranian kidnappers send photos of Anderson
with reiteration of proposal for hostage swap
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Pro-
Iranian kidnappers holding at least
two American hostages reiterated
their offer to trade their captives for
at least 15 Shiite Moslem comrades
jailed in Kuwait in a statement re
leased Tuesday.
“We renew our firm emphasis on
I the need to free our struggling
* I brethren from the jails of the collab-
I orating Kuwaiti regime, and declare
I that the Mujahedeen (holy warriors)
I shall not rest until they see their
| brethren free,” said Islamic Jihad, or
I Islamic Holy War.
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| abic was delivered anonymously to
Tuei j the offices of the independent news-
I paper An-Nahar and a Western
news agency in Moslem west Beirut.
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The text was accompanied by a
photograph of American Terry A.
Anderson, the longest held of the 18
western hostages in Lebanon.
Anderson, chief Middle East cor
respondent for the Associated Press,
was kidnapped March 16, 1985.
The picture showed a cleansha
ven, smiling Anderson. He was
wearing glasses and a yellow sweater.
Anderson, who turns 42 on Friday,
already has marked four birthdays
in captivity.
Islamic Jihad also holds Thomas
Sutherland, 57, of Fort Collins,
Colo. He was acting dean of agricul
ture at the American University of
Beirut when he was abducted June
9, 1985.
The Shiite Moslems are jailed in
Kuwait on terrorist charges stem
ming from the December 1983
bombings of the U.S. and French
embassies. Kuwait has refused pre
vious demands to release the prison
ers.
The copy of the statement deliv
ered to An-Nahar was accompanied
by two pictures of the U.S. Marine
base and the headquarters of the
French paratroopers that were
blasted by simultaneous truck-bomb
ings on Oct. 23, 1983.
Islamic Jihad said it issued the
statement to mark the anniversary of
the bombings in which 241 Ameri
can servicemen were killed.
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BERLIN (AP) — Egon Krenz warned East Germans
on Tuesday to stop street demonstrations, but 7,000
marched in East Berlin after dark to protest his election
as president. Police directed traffic out of their way.
The ritual election by the customarily docile parlia
ment was made dramatic when some members voted
“no” for the first time.
In a speech afterward, Krenz said continuing weeks
of pro-democracy protest could cause a “worsening of
the situation, or confrontation.”
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At nightfall, lines of East Berliners carrying candles
marched through the central district, chanting “Egon,
who asked us?” — a recurring phrase since Krenz be
came Communist Party chief last week — and “We are
the competition!”
Police not only did not interfere, but directed traffic
to keep the route clear.
ADN, the official news agency, reported the protest
without criticism. “Several thousand people, mostly
youths” carried banners and chanted slogans de
nouncing the election and “demanding changes in the
election laws, more democracy and an open press,” it
I said.
On Monday in Leipzig, more than 300,000 people
marched in the large£fe protest of the nation’s 40-year
history.
After his election, Krenz reaffirmed East Germany’s
allegiance to Communist orthodoxy, despite the reform
sweeping through the Soviet bloc. He also promised to
investigate charges of police brutality against pro-de
mocracy demonstrators earlier this month.
The new leader, who succeeded Erich Honecker as
Communist party chief and president, was in charge of
police at the time.
Officials admitted for the first time Tuesday that po
lice had attacked peaceful protesters. In a report car
ried by the official news agency, the government said:
“There were instances where security officials exceeded
their authority and illegal acts were committed against
some of those detained.”
ADN said officials decided police should use re
straint “unless there is violence or the threat of vio
lence,” and had prohibited the use of firearms.
It said police commanders had apologized to victims
of verifiable brutality. ADN said 83 complaints were
under review and prosecutors had taken up four cases,
according to the report prepared by the parliament
committees on national defense and justice affairs.
Krenz said in his speech that “proper steps will be
taken if the evidence warrants them. Anyone who was
treated unjustly has the right to take advantage of their
legal rights.”
Twenty-six members of the 500-seat People’s Cham
ber voted against Krenz for president, although he was
the only candidate, and 26 abstained, ADN reported.
It was the first time in East German history that
members of the Communist-controlled chamber had
voted against the sole candidate for president.
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NABLUS, Occupied West Bank
(AP) — PLO-allied gangs with fanci
ful names like “Black Panther Bri
gades” and “Red Eagles” are blamed
for most of the 20 murders here of
Arabs accused of collaborating with
Israel.
Israeli officials claim some gangs
operate under direct order of the
PLO. But Palestinians maintain that
at least some of the murders have
been carried out in defiance of PLO
Chairman Yasser Arafat.
There are fears that the execu
tions are getting out of hand. Pales
tinians complain that ordinary citi
zens are being intimidated by the
frequent murders.
In Nablus last week, the Red Ea
gles killed a 24-year-old upholstery
worker and wheeled his body
through the streets of the West
Bank’s largest city in a pushcart, pre
sumably as a warning to others.
In the occupied Gaza Strip, a
school guard was found burned to
death in his car Oct. 5 and graffiti
signed by the “Palestinian Revolu
tionary Eagles” showed responsibil
ity the slaying.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
Jack Brooks remained hospital
ized Tuesday and continued to
undergo tests to determine the
cause of abdominal pains that re
quired his treatment Sunday, his
office said.
An aide said the Beaumont
Democrat felt better Tuesday,
but that doctors had been unable
to determine what caused the
pains.
Brooks, the chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, was
admitted to Bethesda Naval Hos
pital after suffering abdominal
pains during a flight from Texas
to Washington, his office said.
The dean of the Texas con
gressional delegation, the 66-
year-old congressman was first
elected to the House in 1952.
A senior Israeli defense official on
Tuesday confirmed a report in the
New York Times that security forces
had discovered documents linking
the Revolutionary Eagles in Gaza to
Yasser Arafat’s mainstream PLO
faction Fatah.
One letter quoted by the Times
says slayings should be blamed on
the little-known Eagles group in or
der to deflect blame from the PLO.
The Times said, however, that the
documents could be forgeries. If
genuine, the papers could give cre
dence to Israel’s repeated arguments
that Arafat is sponsoring murder de
spite his claim to have renounced
terrorism in December.
Israeli officials have frequently
cited the slayings of Palestinians by
fellow Arabs as reason for the
United States to halt its dialogue
with the PLO, begun after Arafat’s
statement on terrorism.
Palestinian sources say the mur
ders of some supposed collaborators
claimed by such groups as the Abu
Jihad Phalangists are ordered by op
ponents of Arafat’s policies.
The Red Eagles in Nablus are be
lieved to be backed by the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
a radical Syrian-based PLO faction
that opposes Arafat’s efforts to ne
gotiate an agreement with Israel.
In Nablus, residents of the Yas-
mina quarter where the Black Panth
ers operate say the gang is mur
dering people despite appeals from
PLO-backed uprising leaders and
Arafat himself.
They say the gang’s members, be
lieved to be 10 men ages 19 to 25,
wander freely through the dark,
twisting alleys of Yasmina, often
armed with knives, hatchets or pis
tols.
“People are scared to death,” a 32-
year-old Yasmina shopkeeper said.
“They are afraid to leave their
houses.”
The shopkeeper, like others who
agreed to discuss the Black Panther
slayings, would not allow his name to
be used out of fear.
Nablus residents and local jour
nalists said the Black Panthers have
carried out 15 or 16 of the 20 slay
ings in the city, most of alleged col
laborators but also including prosti
tutes and drug dealers who some
activists consider enemies of the
uprising.
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flushes church
for restrooms
SALISBURY, England (AP) —
When the authorities at Salisbury
Cathedral began planning new
restrooms, they sought advice
from the Royal Fine Art Commis
sion. They got an earful.
What the bishop of Salisbury
calls “providing a few much-
needed loos” has been de
nounced as “a major act of van
dalism” by the commission’s
chairman, Lord St. John of
Fawsley.
Lord St. John even arose in the
House of Lords to lash the men
who run Britain’s cathedrals, de
claring: “Deans are dangerous.”
The Anglican cathedral has
found its restrooms inadequate to
cope with half a million visitors a
year who come to gaze at the 404-
foot spire, the wealth of sculpture
and an original copy of the
Magna Carta.
The new restrooms tentatively
were planned in a hidden nook at
the rear of the cathedral, with a
door opening off the medieval
cloister. Visitors couldn’t see it
from outside without trespassing
onto the grounds of the cathedral
school.
However, the restrooms would
be a new bump on the cathedral’s
ground plan, which has not
changed since the foundations
were laid in 1220.
“Any construction here would
compromise the clarity of the ca
thedral plan and was therefore
wrong in principle,” the Royal
Fine Art Commission said in its
annual report in July.
“Perhaps an aesthetically sensi
tive peregrine falcon flying over
head would be troubled at an al
teration, but otherwise no one
would see it,” Dickinson said last
month.
“There is nothing which we are
proposing to do, or would want to
do, to the building which could be
anything conceivably on the scale
or effect of anything Wyatt did,”
Dickinson said.
“The only proposals which we
have tentatively proposed were
things which we regarded as be
ing so discreet that had they been
done here 10 years ago, nobody
would have noticed at all.”
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