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Show Page 2 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, December 24. 1987 People ijij f i fl I if i i. I t-- s- -i J ft N was runaway youth who fas mad at grandparents: i " j Hijackc j 1 - stasia (Sfofo kjyU' ROME (AP) The boy who hijacked a KLM jetliner to Rome was angry that his grandparents in Holland had sent him back to Italy where he had recently run away from home, authori- -' ties said. The four-hohijacking ordeal ended peacefully Wednesday night when police captured the unarmed boy after tricking him into leaving the airliner on the pretext of putting him on a flight to the United States. The boy, thinking the armored police car at the foot of the 737 would lead to him a d New aircraft, was ur '4 ;.t :' - .'' iam "'k '' ig ))(? If- rhiml - y York-boun- grabbed and handcuffed without a struggle by the head of Rome's police Jim Bakker stands behind ths gates of a Palm Springs home where he and his famil are staying for holidays. anti-terrori- He said that after the Stone was taken into Bakkers are home for the holidays last custody LOS ANGELES (AP) -Former television evangelist Jim Bakker is celebrating Christmas in a rent-fre- e Palm Springs home where wife Tammy Faye hopes to find a $32 bottle of perfume and costume jewelry under the tree. "I need Estee Lauder perfume, so I hope he (Jim) got me some of that, the spray stuff, the $32 bottle. And girls can always use clothes, and costume jewelry is always lots of fun," Mrs. Bakker said Wednesday from Palm Springs. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, a cheerful Mrs. Bakker told of her optimism and hopes for a brighter new year. Her husband was sitting next to her in the home, as she described it, but. he wouldn't come to the phone. two-bedroo- m Sly out of jail after paying child support - LOS ANGELES (AP) Rock singer Sly Stone was freed from jail after he admit- ted violating probation and made nearly $3,000 in past-du- e child support payments with money raised by friends and supporters, officials said. Stone, whose real name is Sylvester Stewa$, represented himself in court Wednesday when he presented a cashier s check for the $2,856 he owed, said Deputy District Attorney Vincent Carberry. month and charged with violating probation by failing to make child support payments, his manager and girlfriend asked how much was owed, then collected the money. team Husband-wif- e hosts for Olympics ABC is NEW YORK (AP) husband-wif- e team a fielding d of Frank and Kathie Lee Gif-for- as of co-hos- ts late-nig- ht telecasts from the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. The Giffords will be seen nightly during the Games Feb. the network announced Wednesday. Gifford, a pro football has had six prior 13-2- 8, Olympics assignments. His wife is a with Regis Philbin of "The Morning co-ho- st in New Show" on WABC-TYork and appears in television commercials for a cruise ship company. V Opinionated man vows to hold tongue - Donald NEW YORK (AP) Trump, the opinionated developer and casino owner who has repeatedly accused Mayor Edward I. Koch of driving businesses out of New York City, says he has made a New Year's resolution to hold his tongue. "I won't be criticizing Ed Koch unless provoked," Trump said in an interview Wednesday on WNBC-T- Af- :roops An estimated 115,000 Soviet soldiers are in the mountain-)u- s neighboring country helpcommunist government the ing fight Moslem insurgents. Gerasimov brushed aside questions about Soviet and Afghan losses in the battle. He also refused to say how many Soviet soldiers have been killed or wounded since the intervention began Dec. 27, 1979. Commuter trains collide, one dead - A train taki;PARIS (AP) commuters to ng- rush-hour work collided this morning with an empty train near Paris', knocking three cars off the tracks, killing one passenger and injuring 38, authorities said. ;The accident occurred at e about 8:45 a.m. in the of the RER station commuter rail system, on the southwest outskirts of Paris. Roger Gerin, transport director for SNCF, the French national railroad, said the empty train was beginning to shift off the main line to a side track leading to a garage when the commuter train heading toward Paris sheared into it, striking it almost head-on. Issv-Plain- Previous reports said the trains actually collided head-o- n. Officials nab man trying to escape - : BERLIN (AP) A man who tried to escape over the Berlin Wall was beaten and ayrested by Communist East german border troops, West Berlin police said. The police said witnesses told them the man was apprehended on Wednesday as he tried to flee over the wall to the Frohnau district of West Qerlin. ; Police quoted witnesses as spying the man was beaten by Police said the boy had claimed to have a bomb and threatened to blow up the plane if he didn't receive $1 million and passage to another An unidentified Italian passenger discusses the hijacking ordeal with reporters. his name was Adalgiso Scioni. The discrepancy could not immediately be resolved. De Soet said the boy was destination. KLM Chairman Johan de Soet identified the youth as Zino Scioni, but the Italian state-ru- n RAI television said "mentally unbalanced" and had a history of mental problems. He would not elaborate. border guards before being led away. The East German guards did not shoot in the incident, and police said no other details were available. The Berlin Wall, constructed East Germany in 1961, separates East Berlin from West Berlin and rings West Berlin's border with East Germany. West Berlin is located 110 miles inside East German by Dreaming of yule 1986 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil A year ago, Brazilians (AP) rejoicing over a government price freeze and low inflation went on a Christmas buying spree, racked up record sales and gave store owners a very happy holiday. Police said the hijacker had run away from home in the Italian island of Sardinia on Dec. 16 to join his grandparents in Holland. He was being sent back to his parents when he hijacked the Boeing 737 diverted it to ,. Rome's Leonardo da Vinci air- - (; port. "The boy was just harm- " less," said a KLM employee at the Rome airport who spoke -on condition of anonymity. Un rest slows celebration BETHLEHEM Is- (AP) raeli forces rounded up hundreds more Palestinian activists in the occupied territories today and quickly brought some of them to trial. Some Christmas festivities in Bethlehem were scaled down because of the unrest. . Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir warned that two weeks But today, with inflation it at triple-dig. of unprecedented Arab rioting again roaring must be controlled before levels, shoppers are looking peace efforts can be consid but not buying. Shopkeepers offer unheard of sales and discounts but still ered. In the occupied West Bank, unusually tight Israeli security ringed Bethlehem as the town of Christ's birth prepared for a tense Christmas. The town's mayor, Elias Freij, canceled his annual reception and scaled down a procession held every year at this time because of ihe violence. "The people are not in a mood to celebrate Christmas," he said. In Manger Square, a police band played Handel's Messiah. Only about 300 tourists were seen in the area today. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said 500 U.S. sailors from the 6th Fleet had been advised to avoid Bethlehem because of recent unrest. "We advised them that under the circumstances it would be better not to travel to Bethlehem," said the spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. pre-Cnrist- Nicaragua begins holiday truce can't attract customers. In the elegant Rio-Sshopping mall, which caters to d customers from Rio's fashionable south side, stores were offering discounts of up to 30 percent the week ul Scientist a defector? NEW DELHI, India (AP) -Soviet officials questioned a young Soviet scientist who has spent the last week in the Australian Embassy after leaving a tour group in New Delhi, an Australian diplomat said today. The diplomat refused to say if the scientist, identified as Alexander Babiy, is seeking political asylum but said the New Delhi office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was informed of the matter. "Soviet authorities had consular access to Alexander Ba- biy late Wednesday," said Brett Martin, a first secretary at the Australian High Com- mission or embassy. Babiy vanished from a busy shopping center in New Delhi on Dec. 17. Martin said the scientist came straight to the Australian High Commission but the secretary refused to give details. According to information from Indian authorities, Babiy was a research scholar in biology, a senior Indian police officer said Wednesday. rebels agreed on Wednesday to honor the two-da-y truce, which began at midnight. The truce was proposed by This week, the Contras launched what appeared to be their largest offensive cf the war. In separate raids, they civil war begins today, but both sides remained bitter over the failure of peace talks and a Nicaragua's before Christmas. The Ponto Frio Chain of home appliance stores took out e a ad in major newspapers Sunday announcing special discounts at "The Christmas sale. Before Christmas." Restaurants in downtown Rio, usually packed in December with year-en- d office celebrations, are half empty and report reservations have plummeted. Contra Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Managua and mediator in peace talks aimed at achieving a perman-an- t cease-fir- e called for in a regional peace plan. The Christmas truce came at a tumultuous time in the war. Nicaragua (AP) The first Christmas truce of MANAGUA, well-heele- huge Contra offensive mounted earlier in the week. The Defense Ministry and full-pag- $oviets claim high Afghanistan totollMOSCOW were committed Soviet - squad. The plane, which had 91 passengers and six crew members, landed at the airport at 7 p.m. The boy released 60 passengers about two hours later. The remaining passengers and the crew members were freed when he was captured. No one aboard KLM flight 343 was harmed. The plane was flying from Amsterdam to Milan when it was diverted to Rome. hall-of-fam- World briefs I and (AP) government troops have killed or wounded more than 1,500 Afghan guerrillas in the first two days of a drive to lift the siege of Khost, a major garrison city southeast of Kabul, the Kremlin said Wednesday. iGennady I. Gerasimov, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, gave a report on the offensive that began Monday. It was thought to be the first official briefing on war operations in the eight years since Soviet st the ' U.S.-support- ed attacked a gold mining area in the northeast and a road linking Managua to a port where Soviet arms are unloaded. The Contras declared the raids a success. The leftist Sandinistas said the offensive failed. Both sides released casualty reports favoring their side. At the same time, the U.S. Congress approved a stopgap ; measure that will keep arms! and food flowing to the rebels. Apprentice was steering ship Philippines (AP) The captain and two top mates of th2 Dona Paz turned the ferry over to an apprentice the night it collided with an oil tanker so they could watch a video or drink beer, the coast guard said today. The coast guard said its investigation would try to determine whether the officers' acMANILA, tions to contributed the accident in which more than 1,600 people are missing and presumed dead in the century's worst disaster at sea. "We have received some disturbing news from our initial investigation, which shows that some of the ship's officers were not in their places of duty when the incident happened," said Commodore Car-lit- o Cunanan. Cunanan, the coast guard's commandant, made the comment at a news conference in which he released a statement Ten drown in mishap in China reservoir - BEIJING (AP) Ten people drowned when an overloaded wooden boat sank in a reservoir in central China, the official Xinhua News Agency said today. The report said the small boat was carrying 20 people and a load of bamboo across the Da'ao Reservoir in Hubei province when it sank. RLEXflflDGR'S Published Sunday through Friday by Scripps League Newspapers, Inc P.O. Box 717, 84603 1555 North 200 West Provo, Utah KIRK PARKINSON, Publisher N. LaVERL CHRISTENSEN, Editor Emeritus Entered as second class matter at the post office in Provo, Utah P.O. ID 143060 MEMBER Audit Bureau of Circulation NEA Service Month, carrier MAIL Months One Year HERALD TELEPHONE NUMBERS ADVERTISING DEPT EDITORIAL DEPT BUSINESS OFFICE CLASSIFIED CIRCULATION 224-866- 6 Merry 'm win laiuida from Sherry and Mike! 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