| Show j Vol 233 No 97 t W German Nab Kidnappers As Possible Bait for Trade By Kenneth Jautz Associated Press Writer BONN West Germany — A West German businessman was kidnapped in Beirut the Foreign Ministry said Sunday Two newspapers said the kidnappers apparently hope to trade him for a Lebanese jailed as a terrorist in West Germany and wanted in the United States West German authorities said it was too early to say if Saturday’s abduction of Rudolf Cordes 53 was linked to the arrest Tuesday at Frankfurt airport of Mohammad Ali Hamadi Hamadi 22 who was carrying a fluid used to make explosives was later identified as a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner to Beirut In that hijacking the terror- Left Airport and Vanished ists killed a US Navy diver and held 39 other Americans hostage for 17 days The Foreign Ministry in Bonn said an anonymous telephone caller told its embassy in Beirut that Cordes had been taken hostage Cordes is Beirut manager for Hoechst Ag a major West German chemical company A company official commenting on condition of anonymity said Cordes does not live in Beirut but travels there frequently from his Frankfurt base West German newspapers said Cordes arrived in Beirut from Frankfurt Saturday evening went through passport control and has not been heard from since The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the telephone caller told the embassy Cordes and three Lebanese accompanying him were kidnapped The three Lebanese were later released the caller said The caller did not identify himself or make demands the ministry said Ministry sources insisting on anonymity said Bonn authorities last week warned West Germans living in Beirut or traveling there to take ex tra precautions arrest following Hamadi’s About 200 West Germans live in Lebanon Most are married to Leba- nese citizens Foreign Ministry spokesman Rein-har- d Bettzuege told The Associated Press: “We cannot assume the two Hamadi and Cordes are linked because the kidnappers have not identified themselves or placed any demands on us It could be a criminal act or someone looking for ransom” But Bild and Die Welt newspapers of Hamburg and Bonn respectively said senior government officials fear the kidnapping is aimed at blackmailing West Germany into releasing Hamadi The papers did not identify the officials The United States has asked for Hamadi’s extradition Justice Ministry officials predicted he would be quickly extradited to the United States to stand trial for murder and conspiracy to commit air U S Gives In Shiite Will Not Face Death - The WASHINGTON (UPI) Justice Department will not seek the death penalty against a Palestinian arrested in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner paving the way for West Germany’s extradition of the suspect officials said Sunday Mohammad Ali Hamadei 22 is one of four Lebanese Shiite Moslems charged by the United States in October 1985 with air piracy murder and other criminal offenses in the hijacking during which Navy seaman Robert Stethem was killed Hamadei was named in a crimi- nal indictment unsealed late Thursday by a federal judge in Washington “Because this is the only means by which the United States can obtain custody of this suspect we have agreed to waive requesting imposition of the death penalty in this case” said Justice Department spokesman Patrick Korten The US announcement ended an impasse between the two nations caused by the earlier refusal of the United States to rule out the Much of Nation To Close Down Philippine Troops on Alert Amid Rumors of Coup Plot - MANILA Philippines (UPI) For the second time in two months armed forces chief Gen Fidel Ramos moved to foil any attempt by civilian and military forces to over-- l throw President Corazon Aquino’s government a mil- itary source said Sunday The well-place- I d military source! re-said Ramos j mained at head-- ) quarters with hours ing “As early as two weeks back we got intelligence reports that there would be another effort to destabilize the government something along the lines of the ‘God Save the Queen’ plot" he said “We just got a better picture yesterday” The “God Save the Queen" plot was reported to have involved “surgical operations” to remove ministers from Aquino’s cabinet during her visit to Japan in early November left-leani- oth- er top generals into the ordered to halt any advances on the capital and soldiers took positions around the presidential palace But they were pulled out Sunday morn- pre-daw- Sunday gathering reports on forces allegedly involved in a “destabilization plot” Supporters of ousted President Ferdinand Marcos and disgruntled soldiers loyal to former defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile were placed under surveillance but no unauthorized troop movements were reported the source said After conferring with chiefs of the major service commands Aquino’s executive secretary and other top officials Ramos ordered troops in the capital and the regions immediately north and south of Manila placed on full alert the source said Troops to the north and south were Aquino meanwhile ignored the security risks and flew to a Moslem rebel stronghold Sunday for a surprise meeting with a rebel commander who led a blitz of attacks last week traveled to the battle-scarre- d island of Mindanao and met with Haji Murad chief of staff of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front or MILF for about 10 minutes Aquino invited the rebels for a Aquino Chuckle Today’s a are A lot of people working four-da- y week already It just takes them five or six days to do it In King’s Honor By The Associated Press states and the federal government close their offices Mon- day to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr with speeches g and other ceremonies festivities A crowd at a Boston church chanted “Now is the time” as Sen Edward Kennedy recalled the goals of the Rev Martin Luther King Jr on Sunday in one of several observances around the country leading up to the second federal holiday in King’s honor “It is a national tragedy and a na tional disgrace that after 200 years of progress the goal of racial justid? now seems to be receding not advancing” Kennedy told the crowd pi about 400 people The Massachusetts Democrat used the church’s celebration of King’s birthday to accuse the Reagan administration of creating an environment that spawns racial incidents like the beating of blacks in the Howard Beach section of New York City Monday is a holiday for federal workers around the country and for employees of the District of Columbia and most of the 37 states that have a public holiday for King Thirty-seve- “longer meeting” at her Malacanang Palace The meeting came one day after a government representative negotiated a provisional cease-fir- e with the rebel leader to end five days of fighting that killed 52 people The MILF blew up bridges sabotaged power lines strafed houses and staged grenade attacks to protest its exclusion from government peace talks with the larger Moro National Liberation Front or MNLF which has spearwar for Mosheaded the in the south of the Phillem self-rul- e ippines a predominantly Christian country In Manila Sunday hundreds of Marcos supporters burned an effigy of Aquino and copies of the proposed new constitution About 800 people drove through the capital then massed in a downtown square shouting “Down with Cory” and “Marcos still” coup In Manila backers of ousted Ferdinand Marcos are burning mad about President Corazon Aquino’s proposed constitution Wallace Hopes History Won’t Dwell on Racist Past By Phillip Rawls Associated Press Writer MONTGOMERY Ala George C Wallace who retires Monday after 16 years as Alabama’s governor worries that he will be remembered only for his stand in the schoolhouse door and his rallying cry of “segregation forever” Wallace who first gained national notice as a firebrand segregationist is now an ailing crippled man who has made his peace with black voters in Alabama He will help write a new chapter of Alabama history Monday as he relinquishes power to Guy Hunt who will be the first Republican governor in the state this century Wallace says history shouldn't remember him unonly as a defiant segregationist and finds it fair that people were willing to forgive the segregationist pasts of such people as President - Lyndon Johnson and Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black but not his “They’ve been rehabilitated” Wallace said in a recent interview “You don’t refer to them as building their careers on racial hatred but they all stood for it” e Golden Gloves state boxWallace a two-tim- ing champion first rose to prominence statewide as the “fightin’ little judge” who refused to turn over county grand jury records to a federal judge in a racial bias case That led him to his first of four terms as governor which began in 1963 with his inaugural promise of “segregation now segregation tomorrow segregation forever” and led later that year to his stand in the schoolhouse door to keep blacks out of the University of Alabama “I think the thing of ‘segregation forever’ should not have been said but I was aiming my vengeance toward the federal government” Wallace says now Similarly he argued his stand in the school-hous- e door was not a racial matter but a fight against an increasingly powerful national government and “omnipotent guideline writers” “It turned out all right I suppose because none of my critics have one of these” Wallace said as he pulled from his desk an honorary doctorate from predominantly black Tuskegee University black Birmingham AG Gaston a insurance magnate has gone from being an enemy of Wallace to an ally and he thinks history will be kind to the governor “The Wallace era has been good for Alabama” See A-- 2 Column high-rankin- Iranian troops fight from bunker on Buvrilin Island Ln southern i Afttociated Pres LtM'photo Iranians claim to Iraq control after weekends Ihttle which the ‘ “What we have now was a political compromise” Walton said “There were groups concerned that a holiday would hurt the business community if stores had to shut down" George C Wallace 1 Kennedy speaking at the Union United Methodist Church in Boston charged that under Reagan the US Civil Rights Commission has been “dismantled and destroyed” Inside The Tribune Iran Closes In on Key Iraqi City By United Press International said Iran Sunday its troops captured two islands in the strategic Shatt al Arab waterway and pushed into the suburbs of the key southern Iraqi city of Basra Iraqi jets bombed a dozen Iranian cities killing at least 176 people Also Sunday the West German news magazine Der Spiegel reported the United States is preparing to intervene in the Persian Gulf War with air and ground forces if Iranian troops overrun Basra Citing Egyptian sources Der Spiegel said the US aircraft carrier Kennedy and its destroyer escort already had orders to sail for the Straits of Hormuz where the Persian Gulf meets the Indian Ocean It said three Air Force squadrons were deployed to Turkey to support a possible US intervention US Navy The magazine said a staff officer discussed preparations for intervention last week with Egyptian officials The capture of Basra wopld leave Iran in control of southern Iraq and leave neighboring The day will be marked with the ringing of bells in state capitol buildings churches and schools across the nation as Housing and Urban Development Secretary Samuel Pierce Jr taps the Liberty Bell at ceremonies io Philadelphia But financial markets are open and even in states where schools banks and state offices are closed some town halls may be open along with many stores restaurants and bars Charles Walton a Rhode Island state senator from Providence said that when he introduced legislation t$ honor the slain civil rights leader he had a full holiday observance m mind But he said certain compro'-misehad to be made to get the bill passed so his state has a partial holi-da- y s US to Intervene? — n bell-ringin- 7000-memb- er Speakers called Aquino a “dictator” and denounced alleged corruption in her government and the activities of a commission seeking to recover assets of Marcos and his associates that were allegedly obtained illegally Enrile Sunday dismissed reports that he was involved in plotting a death penalty in the case of Mohammed Ali Hamadi West Germany which has no death penalty has said its laws would not allow extradition of the suspect if there was a chance he would face the death penalty in the United States The United States has requested the provisional arrest of Hamadei under terms of the extradition treaty and is preparing a formal request for extradition Korten said The request which was being prepared and translated Sunday in Washington will be presented to the West German government within the next week Korten said Stethem was brutally beaten and killed near the start of the y siege of TWA flight 847 US officials believe Hamadei was one of the two armed gunmen who boarded the flight and held up to 39 Americans hostage for up to 17 days in Moslem west Beirut If extradited Hamadei would be the first Middle Eastern terrorist returned to the United States for trial Justice Department officials have said Tribune Telephone Numbers on 4 A-- Kuwait vulnerable to attack In Washington the Defense Department had no comment on the report oil-ric- h Fierce fighting raged Sunday between Iranian invaders and Iraqi defenders near Basra Tehran radio quoted Iranian parliament as saying Speaker Akbar Hashemi-RafsanjaSunday that Iranian troops were 500 yards from Basra’s suburbs after advancing 7 4 miles Sunday news agency IRNA reIran’s ported Iranian troops were 400 yards from Abul Khasib a town 10 miles east of Basra and analysts said Rafsanjam was apparently referring to Abul Khasib as a "suburb" of Basra state-owne- d "There is an exodus going on from Basra" said Washington Post reporter Patrick Tyler “People’s houses and buildings were sandbagged up past the first story and some people are hiding inside But I'd say the majoi ity of the " population has left Pasra Today" Forwast Salt Lake City and vicinity Cloudy an cold with light snow Highs in 20 lows 5 to 10 Details B--2 1 J |
