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Show See Sports , D- - U.. Debates Abducting Terrorists follOAtng article is based on reporting b Stephen b ngeiberg ond Jett Gerth ond os written b Engeiberg The New York Times Service The Recgjn WASHINGTON has been debating several proposals to abduct suspects in terrorist attacks on Americans abroad and bring them before American courts, according to administration officials. So far. senior officials have de clined to approve the plans, but the admininstration is continuing to consider the idea, officials said For example. they said, the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Marshals Service are now preparing a contingency plan for seizing several people in the Middle East who have been implicated by American authorities in two recent terrorist actions The discussions illustrate the quandaries inherent in the Reagan administration's recent efforts to apply the tools of the American legal svstem to international terrorism. Abraham D Sofaer. the State Department's legal adviser, would not comment on the government's internal debates But he said he was prepared to support the "seizure" of fugitives in other countries if the chances for success were reasonable. He acknowledged that such a move would violate international law. but said there were legitimate arguments in favor of "bending' the rules in extraordinary circumstances Reagans Polyps Arent Cancer, "It may well be we would have an opportunity to do something where innocent people weren't threatened, where our own forces, whoever was sent in to do the job. had a reasonable chance of success." Sofaer said "If such a situation arose. I'm sure there would be a lot of feeling we ought to consider it. We don't like the idea of people being able to murder Americans and simply laugh about it and go on living their lives as if nothing hap" pened A committee of the National Secu Leader 71 -- Year-Old Is in Fine Shape - ; post-canc- On Saturday. Reagan kept to his normal schedule and delivered his weekly radio address from the presidential retreat. The president, his wife Nancy, and their dog Rex flew to the Catoctin Mountain retreat Friday evening afvisit to ter the presidents the Bethesda Naval Hospital. The president underwent the first examination of his colon since his successful cancer surand gery in July. Blood tests, a CAT scan were also done. The White House issued a terse, statement Saturday on the results of the president's medical tests. "Final laboratory evaluation on the three intestinal polyps and facial tissue removed from the president yesterday has been completed and all are benign. The president was informed of the results by his physician at Camp David this morning." the statement said. Brashear, asked for more detail, refused comment. "I can not and will not elaborate on the statement." he said. Asked for Reagan's reaction to the apparent clean bill of health, the spokesman said. "He's fine. We expected nothing less." The spokesman said no further details on the president's health or Column 1 See Associated After saving 400 Britons from Aden, South Yemen Saturday, Britannia, the royal A-- Press Laser ptioto yacht of Queen Elizabeth, was forced to halt the operation due to renewed fighting. Heavy Fighting Stops Evacuation Of Foreigners From S. Yemen six-ho- rebel forces. Newspapers in Kuwait and Abu Dhabi reported he had been captured and executed, or killed in the By Philip Shehadi Reuter News Agency Renewed heavy fighting halted a multiDJIBOUTI national operation to evacuate foreigners from South Yemen Saturday as more than 1.000 refugees arrived from Aden aboard three Soviet cargo ships. In London, the Foreign Office said Britannia, the royal yacht of Queen Elizabeth, which took part in the rescue operation, was forced to withdraw from Aden as fighting between rival Marxist factions erupted for the sixth day. Diplomats in Djibouti said three British and two French warships were also involved in the evacuation, which began Friday night. A Foreign Office spokesman said Britain had no details of the latest fighting. It's getting pretty hairy out there. he told Reuters. "There is pretty heavy fighting. Persian Gulf news agencies earlier said President Ali Nasser Mohammed had regained control of Aden, after Marxist rebels five days of fighting against hard-lin- e since a reported coup attempt and bid to kill him last fighting. The prime minister and foreign minister of South Yemen Saturday appealed from Moscow for an end to the conflict, the official Soviet news agency Tass said. The message, which Western monitors said was also broadcast on itadio Moscow's Arabic service, called for a See A-- Column 1 Monday. The Kuwait News Agency said Friday troops were advancing on a rebel stronghold at Lahej. 20 miles north of the capital, but firsthand news of the fighting remained scant, with telephone and telex links to Aden still cut. Evacuees arriving in this former French colony told without journalists that Aden television, broadcasting of the of four two had that ringleaders reported pictures, last executed been had Monday. attempted coup Ismail and former DeFormer President Abdul-Fattafense Minister Ali Ahmed Nasser Antar were still alive, the television reports said. There was no news of the current defense minister, Saleh Mosleh Qassem. said by diplomats to be leading h Chuckle Todays when still that's Inflation: money talks, but it apologizes. Utahns Favor Limits On Tax Load By J. Roy Bardslev Tax limitation is an appealing idea for many Utah taxpayers, but they cast a jaundiced eye at tax cuts specifically for businesses. A recent Utah Poll, sponsored by The Tribune and fielded by Burds-le- y & Haslacher Inc., discovered a majority would approve of a law limiting the amount of taxes that could be collected by the state. Paradoxically, 62 percent respond with skepticism to the idea that most Utahns benefit in the long run when .axes arc cut for business. The findings offer a glimpse of the public opinion climate facing the state Legislature as it considers a number of revenue measures. Here are reactions to the proposal for a lid on state taxes that emerged from the Libertarian Party convention last July: "Uuld you approve or disapprove ol a law limiting the amount of taxes Column 5 See By Lucy Hood United Press International A GuateGUATEMALA CITY malan airliner circling a landing strip crashed into a jungle Saturday and exploded 155 miles north of Guatemala City, killing all 91 people aboard, including six Americans and a former Venezuelan foreign minister. The Aerovias de Guatemala jetliner took off from Guatemala City at 7 a m. local time and slammed into one of the hills surrounding Lake Pe-te- n Itza. Its destination was a landing strip at Sant i Elena, which hugs the lake's south side and is a popular embarkation point for tourists heading to the famed Mayan ruins of Tikal. Officials said no one survived the crash, Guatemala's worst air disaster in at least 40 years. - ft pol-yp- i between friendly nations. An action defined by one nation as terrorism is sometimes seen elsewhere as political expression protected by the law. American courts, for example, have balked at Britain's efforts to extradite some members of the Irish Republican Army. The debate over capturing fugitives is part of a larger dispute within the administration over the appropriate response to international terrorism Secretary of State George P. See Column 1 A-- 91 Killed as Jetliner Crashes Into Guatemalan Jungle 'v Doctors Decide By Susanne M. Schafer Associated Press Writer s WASHINGTON Three small removed from President Reasurgan's colon during a gery checkup were found to be benign along with a sample of skin taken from a bump on his face, the White House said Saturday. The president, resting over the weekend at his Camp David. Md.. retreat. was given the results of the tests by his personal physician. Dr. T. Burton Smith, according to White House spokesman Albert Brashear rity Council has debated the issue several times and each time has rejected proposals for arresting terrorists abroad, officials said The objections to the operations included fears about the precedent that would be set. uncertainty over the effect on the count! ics involved and the reaction of the European allies In addition. officials acknowledged that there was a high risk of something going wrong The extradition of fugitives has long been a matter of dispute, even Presidential spokesman Jorge Cansino said rescue teams pulled the severely burned bodies from the French-buil- t Caravelle jetliner near the town of San Andreas, on the north shore of Lake Peten Itza and 5 miles from the end of the landing strip. Aerovias de Guatemala President Eduardo Gonzalez said 91 people died, including four stewards and two pilots. The government had reported earlier in the day that 96 bodies were found, but the airline then released a list showing 91 crash victims. Gonzalez said the planes passengers included six Americans, two Britons, two Canadians, two Dutch, one German, one Greek, two Costa Ricans, two people from Curacao, five Colombians, one Frenchman, four Venezuelans and one person whose nationality was indentified. He identified the U.S. citizens killed as Ruth Gonzalez. John Buffett. Teresa or Theresa Rodriguez. Peter Chize and a Mr. and Mrs. Sweney. Their hometowns were not immediately available. In Washington. State Department spokesman Pete Martinez said an official from the lT S. Embassy in Guatemala City had been sent to the crash scene. We have no hard information on identifications or numbers of Americans. he said. The four Venezuelans killed were the nation's former foreign minister, Aristides Calvani, as well as his wife and two daughters. An Aerovias spokeswoman said Calvani had been in Guatemala to attend Tuesday's inauguration ceremony for new Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo, a close friend of Calvani. Cansino said Cerezo was profoundly dismayed" by the crash. The government's of Guatemala and Ven- ezuela both declared three-da- y mourning periods. Guatemalan military forces stationed at the Santa Elena airport and local paramedic teams and volunteers were taking the bodies to a nearby soccer field in Flores. Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers on 2 A-- Today's Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Patchy fog, scattered showers. Highs 40s. Lows upper 20s, 30s. Details, B-- Senators MIA Mission Ends With Return of Viet Children to Mother By Tad Bartimus Associated Press Writer Sen. Frank HANOI, Vietnam vlurkowski went to Vietnam to ind out about American MIAs rom the Vietnam War, but left Saturday with two sobbing children who were separated from their mother seven Yiet-lame- ears ago. Murkowski. led the congressional delegation to Hanoi to urge the Vietnamese to help resolve the cases of Americans who remain listed as missing in action from the Indochina war. But the delegation left Saturday after Vietnam's foreign minister told them no Americans were being held against their will in the communist country. had anInstead, Murkowski swered a mothers plea. The lawU.S. maker's left with Nguyen Vu Chinh and Tran Thanh Quynh. The two children are to rejoin their mother Tuesday in Alaska. Their mother. Xuan Thi Nguyen, had fled to the United States seven years ago and now lives in Fairbanks. She had asked the senator's office to help get her children out. Murkowski first saw the children with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach at his side. The tired village children sobbed loudly. "I'm just very emotionally moved at the sight of those two kids here with us on the wgy to a new life," said Murkowski, who led the lawmakers to Vietnam in his role as chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs committee. I'm so pleased and so humbled that we can bring them to their mother, that they will have the opportunity that we enjoy living m America, he said. The liftoff from Hanoi capped an emotionally wrenching day. not only for the children but for the Americans as well. The chidlrcn had been accompanied from Ho Chi Minh city by their aunt. Nguyen Thi Sau, who raised them in their hometown of Tay Ninh city after their mother left. When Miss Sau parted from the children, she burst into sobs. So did the children. Murkowski choked up. Susan DcConcini. wife . of Sen. Dennis DcConcini. stepped into the crisis. "Susan was absolutely fabulous." Murkowski said later. "She picked up that little boy in her he was almost as big as arms and she is. because she's srru'l got into the van taking us to" the airport. Everybody followed Murkowski said last minute red extape threatened to stall the officials change when question whether the children's paperwork was complete. Murkowski said at that point Thach leaned over to him and said, g Just go." The delegation did. Murkowski said he saw the children's release as his personal crusade. and was determined to do "absolutely everything I could to pull this off." He carried with him a handwrit- ten 'etter from the childrens mother which she gave to him only five days before he left on his mission. The letter pleaded with the aunt to help the senator convince the Vietnamese government to let her children go. "This is very seldom an opportunity," she wrote in broken English. Murkowski said the woman toll him she works for the Yukon Office Supply Co. in Fairbanks, and that she 'and her husband, an American aircraft mechanic, who have no children of their own. "have a home and good financial standing" 7 Anoaa'fd Press laserphoto Frank Murkowski helps youth Into plane bound for United States. Viet government let children join mother. Sen. i ) ,000 0 t if I 3 |
