Show The Salt Lake Tribune A5 Saturday July 30 1988 : Is Irish óme But Still treaming of US ack Warship's Stowaway r By John Ryan United Press International DUBLIN Ireland A girl who stowed away aboard a US warship in search of a new life in America was brought back to Ireland Friday after telling officials she hoped to return to the United States some day Suzanne Twomey who authorities said had lived a traumatic life resembling a Charles Dickens novel was put aboard a flight from New York to Ireland Thursday night accompanied by a US naval investigator On her arrival at Shannon airport Friday morning she was immediate officials ly driven off by health-car- e with a court order committing her to their care Suzanne made no comment on her return home Suzanne was found by US naval authorities 10 days after the warship Conyngham left Ireland She had hidden in a locker 3 feet wide and 15 feet long Officials said the girl who apparently had wanted to seek a new life and work in the United States was taken to the city of Cork where the Southern Health Board would look after her Judge John Mangan ordered that Suzanne who will turn 16 in two months be "detained in safe confinement until the court decides oth- erwise" Her parents John and Christine Twomey said they were shocked at the news of their daughter's trip to America and were considering legal action against US authorities They said she may have been encouraged to board the destroyer "There is a cover-u- p somewhere along the line" her father said "They cannot be allowed to get away with this" Five American sailors were suspected of having helped her hide aboard the ship and of giving her food and water and a naval magistrate Friday conditionally released three of them from the brig in Nor- folk Va Navy spokesman Archie Galloway said the men will be allowed to return to the USS Conyngham under the custody of the ship's commanding officer But the men will not be allowed to leave the ship which is anchored offshore in Norfolk The two other men remain in the Norfolk Naval Station brig The Navy is not specifying the reasons the three were released pro-Irania- 0 reporters The secretary-genera- l has raised the issue of the 18 hostages during talks this week with Iranian Foreign Minister All Akbar Velayati The UN chief has appealefl to Iran to use its influence with the Islamic fundamentalist captors loyal to Iran to gain their release An Iranian diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity later told a reporter that there had been no response from Tehran to the secretary-general- 's plea for Higgins' release "I want to express my concern to you" Perez de Cuellar told Maj 111g gins when she met him in his office Higgins of Danville Ky was chief of a UN military observer group when he was abducted The Vietnam veteran also served as an aide to for mer Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Perez de Cuellar has met with relatives of other hostages as well The council's brief resolution said the council already has "condemned unequivocally all acts of hostage taking and abduction" and called for the release of all hostages "wherever and by whomever they are being held" Iran said Thursday that it was concentrating on ending its war with Iraq and had no plans to meet with former Democratic presidential can didate Jesse Jackson about freeing the American hostages Foreign Briefs Cry Freedom' Film Cut Short JOHANNESBURG South Africa (AP) — The movie "Cry Freedom" opened in more than 30 South African theaters Friday with the censor's approval but police said it threatened public safety and seized the copies seven hours later They cited two bombs anonymous phone threats and violent scenes in the movie as proof that it was dangerous Movie-goer- s at the Northcliff Theater in a rich white Johannesburg suburb arrived to find posters being taken down and police ready to confiscate the film "Cry Freedom" was replaced by "I Was A Teen-Ag- e Vampire" The Publication Appeals Board ruled Friday morning for the second time that the film could be shown It said the movie which depicts the death in detention in 1977 of young black consciousness leader Steve Biko was biased against police but did not endanger race relations or state security Somalia Ethiopia Agree to POW Swap NAIROBI Kenya (AP) — Somalia and Ethiopia have agreed to ex change thousands of prisoners of war the official Somali radio reported Friday Somalia will release 3507 Ethiopi an and one Cuban POW and Ethiopia will free 229 Somali POWs the radio said The agreement was reached Thursday by top officials meeting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu said Radio Mogadishu The report monitored in Nairobi said a joint committee will supervise the POW exchange Most of the prisoners were captured during the East African neighbor's war 11 years ago over an arid region known as the Ogaden Ethiopia and Somalia signed a peace accord April 6 in which they agreed to withdraw troops from their borders a move that was comy pleted in mid-Ma- Winds Leave 1 Dead in Soviet Regatta MOSCOW (AP) — Strong winds scattered yachts racing in a regatta in the Gulf of Riga killing at least one sailor the Tass news agency reported Friday Four yachts were reported missing news agency said the The state-ruyachts were racing from the Estonian port of Parnu on the Baltic Sea to Riga the Latvian capital when the storm broke out Thursday night The yachts did not have radios and n therefore could not be warned a storm was on the way Tass said Three yachts returned to the Esto nian port immediately and 28 con tinued the race By midday Friday Tass said four yachts were missing and the body of a crewman of the "Delfin" washed ashore along with wreckage from a yacht Helicopters and ships were searching for the missing yachts Toss said Former Israeli Prime Minister Turns 75 JERUSALEM (UPI) — Former Prime Minister Menaehem Begin who led Israel to peace with Egypt nearly 10 years ago celebrated his 75Ih birthday Friday receiving a vis- n from Prime Minister Yitzhak Slut- 'nit and a symbolic gift of 75 trees from Mayor Teddy Kollek The reclusive Begin who has avoided the public eye since he re- signed abruptly as prime minister Sept 15 1983 over Israel's invasion of Lebanon 15 months earlier observed his birthday according to the Hebrew calendar — the 15th day of the month of Av Shamir visited Begin at his suborban home on the edge of the Jerusalem Forest Shamir later told Israel Radio that the two men discussed the November elections and the politics of the Likud coalition the right-win- g voting bloc that brought both men to power Frankfurt Cabbies Learn to Tell Tales FRANKFURT West Germany (AP) — Many people complain that taxi drivers talk too much but in Frankfurt some are getting paid to he chatterboxes Taxi driver Michael Linke knew he was onto something when he no 'iced how many Frankfurt visitors asked cabbies to show them the sights "We decided to bone up on culture and history and offer quality tours" Linke told The Associated Press After 10 weeks of classes on city history and culture Linke and 20 other cabbies had to pass a four-hou- r exam by the city transportation of flee "We had to write down all we knew about Goethe's life and works and give the names of Kaisers and their significance for Frankfurt" Linke said 2 Diseases Claim 191 in July in New Delhi NEW DELHI India (AP) — At least nine people died of cholera or gastroenteritis in New Delhi on Friday raising July's death toll from the two diseases to 191 a city health official said The official who spoke on condition of anonymity also said 1027 disnew cases of the two water-born- e eases were reported in the city on Priday Meanwhile in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh 157 people have died in the gastroenteritis and cholera epidemic that has broken out in at least 30 of the state's 57 districts newspapers said Friday The deaths raised the number of victims nationwide to 618 since monsoon rains started in late June Officials blame the epidemic on the contamination of the water supply by rainfall flowing through sewage and uncollected garbage it3 Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Ja'afar Mahallati said that Velayati "doesn't have a mandate to embark on anything other than implementa tion of the Security Council Resolu- tion 598" which calls for a cease-fir- e war in the Iran-Ira- q Velayati and Iraq's foreign minis ter are in New York to discuss with Perez de Cuellar efforts to bring about a cease-fir- e Mahallati said Velayati would "in deed not" see Jackson who said he wanted such a meeting to seek the release of the US hostages This week's peace talks raised hopes for gaining the release of Western hostages in Lebanon In Beirut Friday the weekly maza reported that negogine tiations are under way to free the hostages It quoted an unidentified informed security source as saying contacts were under that high-levway between officials of the hostages' nations and a state with "direct influence on the hostages" The magazine gained international fame when it broke the story of secret US arms sales to Iran in return for the release of hostages in 1986 But most of its recent reports on the hostages have not proved accurate years ago to Ireland and London Suzanne got sick on the first leg ol her journey home from America this week and was hospitalized in North ered "a risk not to appear at trial" Carolina Wake County Assistant The men have not been charged and District Attorney Frank Jackson said the Navy refused comment on when the girl "seemed cheerful but she or if formal charges will be filed said she didn't really want to go In Ireland police sources said that home but wanted to come back to only 10 days before slipping aboard the United States some day We said the US ship in Cobh Ireland Su fine as long as she did so legally" zanne had returned home after run Irish newspapers Friday carried front page pictures of the girl who ning away to Spain Suzanne of Hot lyville in County Cork Ireland has short dark hair and sported a reportedly had tried to escape her white sweatshirt with blue slacks and home before running away a few white sneakers for the flight home Offensive Over? UN Security Council Demands Release of Marine in Lebanon By Victoria Graham Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council on Friday unanimously condemned the kidnapping of US Marine Lt Col William R Higgins a UN military observer in Lebanon n but did not mention his abductors The resolution adopted by a 15-vote also demanded Higgins' imme(hale release and called upon UN members "to use their influence in any way possible to promote implementation" of its appeal for free dom Higgins was abducted Feb 17 by a previously unknown group calling it- self the Islamic Revolutionary Brigades He is one of nine Americans and nine other foreigners held Capn tive by extremists in Leuanon Earlier Friday Higgins' wife Ma rifle Maj Robin Higgins met with Secretary-Genera- l Javier Perez de am making a constant efCuellar fort to obtain his release" he told her Maj Higgins did not speak to Galloway said to remain confined among other reasons sailors must be considered to be a "threat to the safety of the command" or consid Iranian Rebels Retreat to Border Bases '' ' At - 14' " k 1' Ash-Shir- Red Adair's Crews Douse Last Fire On N Sea Oil Rig ABERDEEN Scotland (UPI) — Texan Paul "Red" Adair and his firefighting team have extinguished the last blazes aboard a gutted North Sea oil rig that exploded after a gas leak July 6 claiming 167 lives Occidental Petroleum reported Friday "Red Adair's men boarded the platform yesterday at 10:25 am" said Occidental spokesman Alex Blake-Milto- "Seawater was n pumped into the well the last one still burning At 7:15 well P1 was killed No fires are visible on the platform today" Adair's team lowered a special cement plug into the well Once the platform has been rendered secure he said divers would go down to search for the bodies of the men who died in the world's worst offshore oil accident 120 miles northeast of Aberdeen Officials at Lloyd's of London said about 200 underwriters who face insurance claims as a result of the di saster held a meeting Thursday to lay greund rules for a settlement six-we- ll Ousted Soviet Leaves Africa Today NAIROBI Kenya (UPI) — Annenian nationalist Parury Airikyan expelled from the Soviet Union last " week far activity will leave Ethiopia Saturday en route to political exile in the United States a US Entassy spokesman in Ethiopia said Friday "anti-Soviet- The spokesman said Airikyan would' leave the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa bound for Rome on his the United States and he added 'Everything is set for his departure Saturday to Italy" In a telephone interview with United Press International in Nairobi Airikyan 39 said he hoped his Yelena his two small girls and a baby son who are still in the Soviet Union would be allowed to join him in exile "I still have to wait for permission to leave Ethiopia" he said "I would want to leave tomorrow I don't like to wait I will wait for my wife and children in Europe" Airikyan arrived Saturday in Addis Ababa where he met US Embassy officials to ask for political asylum Officials had said the request would be granted and that he would leave Ethiopia when formalities were completed A spokesman for the US Embassy in the Ethiopian capital said Airikyan would stay for some time in an "immigration processing" center in Europe before flying to the United States Airikyan an influential Armenian nationalist leader who sought the transfer of control of the Armenian dominated enclave of Nagorno Kara bakh to the Armenian Republic was stripped of his Soviet citizenship last week and expelled from the Soviet " activities Union for His expulsion followed a series of strikes and demonstrations in the past few months by Armenians unsuccessfully seeking secession from the mostly Moslem republic of Azerbatjan which administers Nagorno Karabakh Moscow refused to transfer the disputed region to the neigh boring mostly Christian republic of Armenia Iraq-base- 4 ' ' —Associated A e Press Laseiphoto Tory on Tour British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher flowers in hand heads for a London airport and the start of a world tour that will include stops in Oman Bahrain Australia and Thailand N Korea Asks for US Help In Rermfication of Korea TOKYO (UPI) — North Korean appealed to the United States to help reunite the divided peninsula and North Korean legislators proposed direct talks with Congress the North Korean news agency said Friday The initiatives carried in dispatches on the official North Korean Central News Agency monitored in Tokyo — came less than two weeks after North Korea rejected a reunification proposal by South Korean President Roh Tae-wo- o Korea has been divided since the end of World War II and neither country signed the peace treaty that ended the 1950-5- 3 Korean War North Korea launched its latest peace offensive last week when its parliament the Supreme People's Assembly proposed talks with South Korea's National Assembly to discuss a treaty Leaders of South Korea's major political parties accepted the overture in princirle the following day President Kim Dennis the Menace On Tuesday North Korea proposed a meeting with South Korea to of the Summer discuss the Olympic Games to begin in Seoul Sept 17 even though South Korea has already rejected the demand Two days later Kim the reclusive leader of the communist nation since its founding in 1947 made another proposal at a banquet 1n the North Korean capital of Pyongyang "The United States must not only try to improve its relations with the major powers but also come to settle the disputes with small countries by peaceful means" said Kim Kim also called on the United States and South Korea to accept a North Korean proposal for dialogue on reunification of Korea The news agency also said Friday the Supreme People's Assembly pro posed direct talks with Congress in Pyongyang New York or a third country to discuss a peace treaty be tween the two countries by Hank Ketcham hi 1 I I gs ir k 'I r s : 17 i It frSq14 1 way to "anti-Soviet- MANAMA Bahrain (UPI) — Ira nian rebel forces seeking to topple spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini retreated from battlefields inside Iran Friday after three days of heavy clashes that coincided with cease-fir- e talks at the United Nations Iran's powerful Parliament speak er Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who is also acting military commander said Iranian soldiers and the elite Revolutionary Guards "smashed" the rebel incursion about 20 miles before it reached the provincial capital of Bakhtaran National LiberBut the ation Army of Iran said in a statement sent to Bahrain that the rebels "gradually began to return to their border afbases" along the Iran-Ira- q ter withdrawing from the battlefield i "I wasn't GIVING you that look I was just showing it to you!" d overnight The statement did not explain why the Iranian rebels pulled out after unleashing attacks deep inside western Iran late Monday saying only that the insurgents began "to return to their bases to prepare themselves for yet more extensive and more de cisive battles to overthrow the Khomeini regime" Tehran Radio quoted Rafsanjani's remarks at Friday prayers in Tehran Iraq that if it "did mischief again the same will befall as befell the Monafiven" a term used by Iran's clerics for the rebel army The entry of the Iranian rebels in the fighting has introduced a new war as UN twist to the General Javier Perez de Cuellar d Secretary-- began negotiating a cease-fir- e Regional analysts said the latest offensive may have been an attempt to gain bases inside Iran because a truce would restrict its movements across the border a— Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said Iranian troops "liberated" Islamabad Gharb and Karand along with "tens" of nearby villages and were advancing on the towns of Sarepol Zahab and Gi lan Gharb in the same area The rebels — estimated to have a fighting strength at between 6000 and 25000 men and women — said their forces pulled back from Karand and nearby Islamabad Gharb some 350 miles southwest of Tehran after being in "complete control" of the two towns for 72 hours Burmese Dissidents Newsman Arrested BANGKOK Thailand (Al') — Burmese authorities seized more than 10 critics of the government and the Burmese correspondent of The Associated Press on Friday and Saturday said Western diplomats contacted in Rangoon the Burmese capital The diplomats said it appeared that the regime's most vocal and prominent critic — retired brigadier Aung Gyi — was among those rounded up in the nighttime sweep Aung Gyi a onetime supporter of strongman Ne Win has been writing a series of letters critical of economic and political conditions in Burma The diplomats could not say whether those taken in had been formally arrested or merely brought in for questioning by the authorities or how long they would be detained The goVernment made no official announcement about the seizures which follow the retirement of Ne Win who held power since 1982 and the election of hard-line- r Sein Lwin as Burma's president and chairman of its ruling political party The diplomats contacted by telephone from Bangkok said Associated Press correspondent Sein Win was taken from his home in the northern suburbs of Ran goon by authorities at around midnight Friday Rebel Rocka Attacks Chase Diplomats Away From Embattled Mahan Capital By Kathy Gannon Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD Pakistan — Several countries have begun calling their diplomats home from Kabul after a barrage of guerrilla rocket attacks on the Afghan capital Western diplomats said Friday Within one week in midJuly as many as 200 rockets blasted Kabul A rocket smashed into a wing of the French Embassy on Saturday damaging the ambassador's residence but causing no injuries Another rocket landed near the US Embassy compound blowing out windows in a nearby apartment building and the Radio Afghanistan complex the diplomats said Earlier this month a rocket hit a club that is a gathering spot for diplomats and one person was injured Western diplomats said most for eign missions have already sent dependents home while others are planning to leave soon They spoke on condition of anonymity In Washington Charles E Red man the State Department spokesman said he did not know of any damage to the US Embassy in recent days He declined to say how many US officials were assigned to Kabul "I don't know of any plans to change our presence" he said The thinning out of foreign personnel in Kabul has been a exercise said diplomatic sources with the Eastern European missions making the first move Most senior personnel at these mssions left the Afghan capital under the pretext of "vacations" said diplomats "Very junior personnel" now head most East European missions they said The diplomats continued to emphasize the increased role of Soviet two-phas- forces in the defense of Kabul After a year's absence Soviet armor has been redeployed to the west of the city in the Lake Kargha and Paghman area Western diplomats said the government's control of the key district town of Paghman nine miles west of the capital is in jeopardy Earlier reports claimed 4000 Af- ghan guerrillas massed around Paghman and diplomats said Soviet and Afghan army troops as well as officers with the Afghan secret service) Khad and army commando units moved into the Paghman plain to reinforce embattled government troops An April 14 accord negotiated by the United Nations provided for the phased withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan Half of the esti- mated 100000 troops are to be out by Aug 15 os |