Salt Lake Tribune | 1974-11-24 | Page 1

V&TtmimrmV9 ! jS8t!y y id Vo!. 210, No. : f' '4 !$ ' m is ''''X.' H 4 sr J !H 1$ 3 Terrorists Release 13 Hostages o 27 Si ill Caplho 01 Jel Hijackers By Michael Goldsmith Associated Press Writer TUNIS. Tunisia Three Palestinian gunmen who earlier had executed a German hostage released hi of their captives Saturday night, but continued to hold 27 others m a commandeered British jetliner. Six women came down a ladder placed against the door of the British Airways jet's cockpit and walked to the terminal building Three hours earlier live women, a clukl and a man were treed the same way and subsequently were whisked off to a Tunis hotel. None of the treed hostages have been allowed to talk to newsmen at the Carthage airport near Tunis. .Viter the first release. Tunisian Interior Minister Taher Balkhodju told newsmen negotiations with the hijackers were "proceeding actively" and the drama might soon be resolved. Look Out at - guMc-lmt-C- r early-mornin- U.S.-Sovi- f V November s i 4l . ,arr a ia TJ5-- ii ii ;s ;g 5 'IM$" Price 24, 1974 $ Thirtv-liv- isr My Cents e approved by Ford, that sp !,c of a determination to make all necessary eth rts" to give recent improvements in CS. Soviet relations "an irreversible character and I, inner President Hu hard M. Nixon tailed to make substantial progivs-- , on a SALT pact, but agreed to work tow aril a pact. a variety of reasons things last were not right lor an agreement duly Kissinger said in an obvious relei once to Watergate. The "For kis-ing- "Don't go oveiLiard on progress, Kissll, gor cautioned newsmen. "1 can trving to give you a cense of movement." Maintain Momentum Ford ami Brezhnev were meeting again Sunday and were expected to turn to the Middle Fast and other topics shelved along with dinner Saturday nigh! to maintain the momentum ot their discussion on the complex nuclear weapons issue. To v talks wore "in a diilerent atmosphere," he said. "I have the impression the two men get along excellently ." The Kussians issuid a statement. lie said tlie two leade rs Were aiming lor "comprehensive limitations," including an overall ceiling on the number ol nuelcai' missile systems as vcell as curbs on missiles with multiple warheads." , (V Heady to .Sign in June t . v 1. V The two lenders lalkisl Saturday night until 40 minutes past midnight. Vladivostok time is 13 hours ahead ot j:;.c Eastern A: t ' ft tv VV Vg!..g. ; so e 4 i .1.0 g :S r ' , f iv.',e.e, u . , ,.. v.;h. i Ford was assisted by Kissinger;. William G. Hyland, the State Department intelligence c hief ; Helmut Son-- , neuteldt, an arms expert: Ambassador Walter V, Stoosscl and others. Backing Brezhnev were Gromy ko. Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and other Soviet is w : 'dv-- ' 4 j ?rl,i rn o fcj - - f 4 Jt;-- 5v v r , a 7 rt; v p officials. Sty: Stiack mi Cheese, Cold Cuts scheduled dinner was passed over, and alter the talks Ford and several aides snacked on cheese, cold cuts, a sausage and cabbage stew' salyanka and ice cream at the stucco house where the President is quartered. A ol.-hi- ah Brezhnev was waiting for Ford when the President's silver and blue jet, the. Spirit of '7ii, landed at u military airport The V - organization opposes giving in to the hijackers' demands. Egypt at first refused to negotiate with the hijackers, hul the Egyptian Forogn Ministry i.vMied a statement Saturday saying President Anwar Sadat agreed to the release alter appeals from the leaders ol Tunisia. Algeria and Lebanon and the Western European countries the hos-- ' lages came from. "It was agreed that the five who went to Tunis will he handed over to the PLO on condition that all hostages on the plane he treed, the statement said. I 'oilavV (Juicklt The average householders problem that he is in the middle-incomupper-outggroup. is . f1- - A f&jL' ' --- v' s,.- .S' .... .V f ; V - v'. .iV '.i '.U. C g - f , ' ident Ford at the Vozdviz.henka Airport. The two leaders traveled by train to the Pes stay, Okeansky Sanitorium, a trade union recreation area, for their first summit talks. During the hh minute ride, they saC across from each other in a wood, paneied car deeoiated with red A bowl of fruit and a smaU meat ol tray pastries were on the table lietvveen them, and along the1 way theyl were served cav iar, smoked salmon and a delicate black fish. velvet-curtains- Junta Ousts U.S. Intervenes in Coal Dispute, Calls Both Sides to Bargain Ethiopia Strongman Ethiopia i.P Ethiopia's reformist military government Saturday ousted Lt. Gen. Aman Michael Andom as chairman of the ruling council and accused him of "dictatorial tendencies," the government radio announced. Sporadic bursts of muthir.egun fire were heard for about 10 minutes in the southern outskirts of Addis Ababa where Aman lived as the provisional military councils announcement was being broadcast. The broadcast gave no indication of Aman's fate nor the reasons for the gunfire." There was no indication whether Aman had also been fired from his positions as chairman of the civilian council of ministers and defense minister. ADDIS ABABA, Sources reaching NairoLi. Kenya, from. Addis Ababa reported that Aman was removed from his home by soldiers and taken to the Grand Palace to join deposed Emperor Haile Selassie and noarlv 2oo aristocrats, landlords and former government officials awaiting triai on charges of corruption. Aman's resilience had been surrounded by heavily armed troops since Friday. The popular 5! year-old war hero, nicknamed "Aman. the Desert Lion" lor his combat exploits, emerged as Ethiopia's leader after military niers capped a anticorruption campaign and ousted Haile Selassie on of Sept. 12. ending his feudal rule. y By Ben A. Franklin New York Times Writer WASHINGTON The government intervened in the deadlocked national coal minors .trike Saturday night by ordering both sides to renew intensive bargaining with the help of federal mediators. The fuil negotiating teams ot both sides were summoned by telegram to appear at HI a. in. Sunday at the Labor Department hero, in the otlice ol W. J. Usery Jr., the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The telegrams noltxl that "Imth parties have worked diligently and in good fail h to consummate an acceptable agreement." But m the 12th day ol the miners' strike. Usery said. "The mounting toll this dispute is indicting on the nation now makes it imperative that a resolution he reached promptly." But Farmer was also known to lie leehng pressure from his s'de ol the bargaining table not to accede to the new demands. Asks for More The unmn council, which has the authority to accept or reject any agreement that Miller reaches with the mine owners, voted ;'.7 to Friday alter a week's deliberations to ask for more in By William L. Kyan Associated Press M riter records in Already holding disTP.al deinuny oilier respects, 1J74 seems stined to enter the books as the year of the great terror epidemic. All year long bombs have swed liN MiUiIuit uv'iui tUYiuii tages have iiecn seized and threatened murder. Quixotic wifi: rebels of all manner of political Icrson-.--ioi- i have warred on establishments. i right ciung asect of the contagis the evident tendency ol those to imitate espousing extreme caos-eour another, thus making it dolefully ( ion list likely that what has the begiimuig. hapiied is only Joke Ahmil Snowfalls The two leaders joked about snow-lull- s in Washington and Moscow. "MV don't get much,' Ford said, "but it's a problem when it comes. It really handicaps the city. Me don't have tine equipment and we don't have the people: who know how to drive m the city in than flu 13 (icrceiit increase accepted by Miller in his tentative settlement with tlie industry on .Nov. l.'i. The exact amount wanted was apparently not mentioned in the council's instructions to Miller. But renortedly there was talk among some council members of demanding a 20 percent raise in the first year of a three-yea- r contract and of rejecting anything less. Copy right wages snow." Brezhnev, waving his cigarette in the air. offered airily: "That will be our first deal. We will send you Soviet snow! : plows." " At a good price, Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko chimed in. Privately, their discussions aboard the tram were serious. Kissinger said they ranged over the world situation" and relations, lie called it a. session" for the President and Brezhnev, who had never met Workaholic? Not John! were "workaholics." WASHINGTON ;UBL Not all I s presidents according to a new review ol Washington's work habits. John Adams, lor example, liked to skinny-dtm the Potomac. "Workaholism is Washington's most widespread, socially acceptable tinaneially rewarding and pat notie disease." says author Phyllie Therous in the December issue ol the Washingtonian magazine. "Big success is predicated upon it" Calls Both Sides sides to assemble their ratifying or advisory committees In Washington and to hold them in readiness. As the revived talks continued Saturday , however, there were no signs that the industry was willing to make enough new concession., to satisfy the miners demands. At a lunch break in his meetings with Arnold K. Miller, the president ol the United Mine Workers, Guy Farmer, the chief negotiator Lr the Bitumihous Coal Operators Assn., told newsmen, "Everybody knows that a very serious strike is going on in a major industry, and loci that pressure." T article describes he "workaholism" as consuming dedication to work at the expense of family Ide, and says presidents such as Richard M. Nixon have traditionally seemed the most dedicated workaholics of all. But the article asserts this hardworking presidential image probably U.S.-Sovi- only from the days of Grover Cleveland, who started the practice ol working past midnight. d dates Ire fore. Belore the evening talks, Ford took an energetic swim in an indoor pool at the contorenee site. George Washington, it says, spent time luiidiiig for a dining room mirror he fancied. Thomas Jelferson did some cf his own grocery shopping. Ulysses S Grant beachd for the riding stables at 2.40 pin. and Abraham Lincoln found Washington Arriving tor the evening talks. Furd was wearing a hooded wolukm parka presented to him during a refuelling stop in Anchorage, Alaska. lull ol loalel s. in wolf's clothing. "I'm a shi-ePresident quipped. He promised to Brezhnev a similar deal, and draped own over the first secretary to "see And Adams'1 John Adams, it says, "was fond of stargazing through a telescope on the White House roof and he reguiariv skinny-dippein the Potomac when the weather was warm." hisfdu 'Flu TriBuue Adams stopped that for good, (lie article say s, "when a brassy woman reporter sat on his clothes while she conducted an interview." Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page A-- 1 Last week brought shockmg but far from untypical performances. Scores, were killed including many or maimed in bombings in Birmingham. England Hijackers seized an airliner in Tunis to spur the release ot arrested Aral) terrorists. In Argentina, police battling extremists in an antiterror drive left lour smiiccfed terrorists dead. Latin American Terror For Argentina it was more ol the same in a year that had hardly a day vi it hunt its political killing.v Elsewhere teen-ager- Ncms AualviTs ini a rgiedaeular seizure of tlx1 Ven- ezuelan consulate where seven bus tages, including a U.S. woman diplomat wore held lor hi harrow mg days and nights. In the Orient, young Japan! e have running riot. One August day. just, a. tin example, an extremist group calling Us !l "Kui Army" killed eight - v iolopee w it h counter-violenc- Midcast In the Midi He East, there is no letup m the deadly cycle of random and oiten bloody Arab terror against Israel, answered by eiiieient military countcr-terro- r against the Arabs, Middle East terror spilled over into incidents in Mesteru Eurcpe. which already had plenty of Its own brands. No Iztup In and Northern Ireland's ancient tratrici-da- l feud grew m fury this year and m. my innocents died, caught between hatreds. Once again last week, that v ioieucc spilled over into Britain, where Britons were noting that the "Irish war' had come to their shores with a vengeance and feeling ran high against the Irish. The United States was once reiatwe-lfree of such phenomena, hid lately it has experienced frequent, i! sporadic, terror, in the form ot bombings, kulnap- Sec Page Arts Business Classified Columnists Editorials Foreign Foreign Lifestyle National A-- J. from various anarchists, iascists oilier Limb tossing extremists. Column get his it it 7 Page persons and injured JtW umie with a bomb, and it threatened more of the same. Last week, terrorists stormed into the American consulate in Fukuoka and scattered firebombs. In South Korea, an unpopular government fought the fas." 1 Latin America, other terrorists were active, particularly in Mexico, vvlueh exiei loneed a rash ot oliiiiil kidnap-mgs- . The Dominican Republic witnes- - . ; - He asked both in . ni - AskX'&cc Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev shaJies his finger to make a point after greeting Pres -I r The two leaders took a train C! miles to the conference compound. Colled 3 Okeansky samlorium. it is a recreation; area for trade unionists and the defense-mi- 1974 Making History as Year of the Terror Epidemic . Time. Alter tlie hist St atrial d two hours ot the talks, tlie President and Kissinger went ouUide and strolled through the chilly night air. The negotiations took place by radio nun the airport lower as spectators looked out at the floodlit plane. Larlier in the day, hundreds of horrified spectators looked on from the airport's terminal building as one ot the gunmen marched German banker Werner Gustav Kehl to the open door o the airplane and shot him in the hack. Kehl. the 41! year-olfather of three, dropped 12 feet to the tarmac and 10 minutes later was taken to a hospital win re he was pronounced dead on The hijackers apparently were mom-inn'- s ol a splinter group bitterly opposed t Arafat's readiness to accept a political solution to the Middle East coni lid. The PLO has accused Iraq ol being behind the attack. ll.O sike.sinan in Cairo said ins .1 "Whatever is agreed to here will, have to lie spelled out in very (ietaliod in Genova, negotiations Kissinger said. Tlie objective is to have a treaty prepared in tune lor Ford and Brezhnev to sign at tiie summit in Washington next June. dt V' Plane murder came alter tlie three hijackers apparently felt they wre tricked by a Tunisian radio annoimce-- : lent which had said the 14 Palestinian guerrillas held in Cairo had been brought to Tunis. The guerrillas hud. in tact, not been brought here. itemain in Building The terrorists had said they would kill their hostages one at a time it the 14 were not released from confinement in Cairo. Five ol the imprisoned guerrillas were Mown here earlier from Cairo, but they remained in a building near the control towel'. There was no word on whether the hijackers were still demanding the release of the other light. Tunisian sources said they were awaiting the urmal ol two Palestinians imprisoned in the Netherlands since April for hijacking a British airliner to Amsterdam where they set it oil tire. Tunisian authorities have said the Dutch government told them it would be prepared to release the pair, but there lias ljoon no continuation of tills from The Hague. Members of Splinter Group The hijacking, which began mi Thursday when the gunmen coniun-deeretile airliner in Dubai on a t light li'om Lmdon to Singaixire. has been decried by the Arabs as an attempt to ; embarrass Palestine Lilierution Organisation leader a.sir Aral at. said Fords departure may er be extended several hours but tint toe President planned to head back tor Washington by nightfall. 'V'. Vv , s. p - ? !1 , g.. I arm "Enough was done to give impetus to the negotiations in Geneva. We have come closer to ojr goal." Kissinger said the summit was ' certain to prm ide "seme IV, r American and Soviet negotiators in Geneva seeking a treaty limitand means bomliers other missiles. ing of w aging nuclear w arlure. Pact Expires in 11)77 The C.S. Soviet pact restricting certain weaX)iis sy stems exjnies in W7T. At summit. Brezhnev the last. Barry Schweul Associated Press Writer PresiVLADIVOSTOK. U.SS.K. dent Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev moved toward agreement Sunday on guidelines for a new treaty limiting offensive nuclear weapons. "We are in the same general ballpark, Secretary of State Henry A. news Kissinger told an conference after more than six hours of talks between Ford and Brezhnev. By iJ8 iiiev II U LlJ cl? av.? nzr. Sunday Morning nth ir ri h4 isw 3rx If Salt Lake City. Utah 41 4 '.n iirr 1 1 Page Natl 7 A 10 National Obituaries Sports Star Gazer Telex isiott 2 Theaters Vnlrufim p-;- c-- 3 D-l-- Il-- S 1 -7 B-- l Mash. AND MONK Rages of Color Comics; Home and Parade Magazines; Christmas Gift Guide. Local and Wire News: lawai and News; P .section Mire News; ZCM1 S and Gill Sections. i: -- Sumlavs I ot t et,l Utah Fair, high clouds, slig'.d v anning. Idaho and M'yomtug Soiite clouds, tew showers, slight wanmn; Weather map is on Page