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Show IT 9 r-T-r-r 2A Tb T Salt Lake Tribune, 1" -P Sunday, January T 'H 7'V e rri ro- - "rr we w rr1 19, 19n6 Spotlight: While House Debates Abducting Terrorists, Bringing Them Before American Courts Continued Shultz ha F rom A-- l been an advocate of militarily, while Defense Sw rf 'ary Caspar W Weinberger bus be n more reluctant to take military oft. on rash of terrorist three years, the Reagan administration has pushed to apply u gal sanctions to terrorists. Administration officials have supported laws that would apply Ameri-acriminal statutes to assaults on Americans abroad and they have federal grand juries to investi-ga'- e uH-the major terrorist attacks. In the wake of a in the last .nc.dt-nt- n The effort to apply law to modern terrorism is really in its infancy," 'A e have said Sofaer just opened a law off.ce so to speak We have just opened files and put a work force in place People are out learning the tricks of the trade and they're beginning to start getting indictments. We re looking for our fugitives and we haven't yet figured out how to get them " Last July, after t:.e kill ng of Rrb-er- t Dean Stethem, a U S. Navy diver, by the hijackers of a Trans World plane, President Reagan sa'd "We will act to apprehend and es prosecute those who commit the kind of atrocities the world has witnessed in recent weeks " In fact, terrorists have so far been largely successful in avoiding punishment by courts anywhere. On an operational level, the investigations of terrorist acts against Americans abroad are handled by federal grand juries in Washington under the direction of the U S Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia The cases under investigation I re include what are believed to be tne abductions of six Americans missing in Beirut in the last two years, the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro last October; the shootings at the Rome and Vienna airports last Dec. 27, the bombings in 1983 of the United States Embassies in Bei- rut and Kuwait and the US. Marine garrison in Beirut, and the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 last June. The only publicly announced action has been the 'ssuance of arre'. warrants 'or e men Dtheved t a Dethe (.nginal TWA hijackers, although there ma, bt other charges or warrants that are being kept under court seal, officials said. th-e- America s major success in apprehending figures accused of terrorism involved the Achille Lauro incident, whu. a plane carrying those accused of the hijacking was intercepted by American fighters and forced down in Italy. Three men are awaiting trial in Italian courts. The man w ho the United States has said was the mastermind of the plot. Mohammed Abbas, was released by the Italians, however, bringing a sharp disappointment to American officials They had worked through the night to provide the Italians with a provisional arrest warrant and evidence on which to hold Abbas. Italy has since issued a warrant for his arrest "We had these guys identified, we had the request for provisional arrest and the complaint out of the judge like that," said Stephen S. Trott, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. "The guy was just sitting there, and they flinched "You can just see somebody sitting over there and saying, My God. we give this guy to the Americans and they'll come over here and blow up Rome, " he said. Most of the other terrorists impli- - cated in attacks on Americans are in hiding and are rarely spotted But the three men charged in the , A A case have been seen openly moving about Beirut, witnesses say." The plans that have been discussed by the administration would involved bringing terrorists to the United States for trial here. Sofaer of the State Department said the abduction of the person believed to have shot Stethem aboard the TWA plane would be one instance in which he might favor an abduction Recalling the kidnapping by Israel in 1960 of Adolf Eichmann, the former S.S. officer who had a key role in the mass killing of Jews by Nazi Germany, Sofaer said. "There might be situations where I would tell my clients. Yes, you may be violating a norm of international law in this instance, but the individual involved is akin to an Eichmann or a Hitler or the man who shot Stethem in cold blood. " E. Lawrence Barcella Jr., the assistant U S. attorney for the District of Columbia who is handling the terrorist inquiries, said, "In terrorism prosecutions the issue is not gathering evidence, like in other criminal cases, but in getting the defendants and doing something about it." Luther Vandross. injured in a Hollywood Hills. Calif . car crash that killed one man and injured four people, is expected to be released Medical Center this weekend, a hospital spokesman from Cedars-S.na- i said He's in good condition.'' hospital spokesman Ron Wise said Friday in Los Angeles The singer sustained broken ribs and facial cuts in the on winding Laurel Canyon BouleJan. 12 crash of his Mercedes-Ben- z vard near Mulholland Drive, 12 miles northwest of downtown. ' Investigators said last week they were uncertain whether charges would be filed against Vandross, who police said was driving at 48 mph in a 35 mph zone Richard Nixon recently read his first fictional work in 10 years and compared it favor"The Mind Palace" by Steve R Pieczmk Peace." "War and to ably The former president went so la: is o send Pieczmk, a Chevy Chase, Md . psychiatrist, a handwritten not in November to say how much he liked it. The book is aoout a mistre s to a Soviet leader who is hustled off to a psychiatric ward af,er his murder. "When I read Tolstoy's War and Peace' 50 years ago I felt I was living in 19th century Russia." Nixon wrote. You were able to create the same feeling with regard to Russia today though admittedly in considerably less space!" The booK also inspired Secretary oi .state George P. Shultz to write Pieczmk. saying the "portrayal of the Soviet psychiatric system and the psyche of the Soviet leadership is striking " Refugees Get lst-Cla- ss Evacuation Sean Penn and his bodyguard were questioned by police Saturday about an alleged assault on a Macao journalist who took a picture of Penn's wife, rock singer Madonna. Police said the two men were questioned by Superintendent Telmo da Conceicao Sequeira in connection with a complaint made by Leonel Borralho, 61, a stringer for the Hong Kong Standard. Police declined to say if the two men would be charged with any offense or whether they would have to undergo further questioning. Penn and his wife are in the Portuguese colony shooting a movie called "Shanghai Surprise, in which Madonna plays a missionary and Penn plays a street-smar- t entrepreneur. Reuter News Agency Queen Elizabeth said she was "delighted" to be able to help with the evacuation of 400 refugees Saturday from Aden who had been taken aboard the royal yacht Britannia. LONDON The Britannia cut short its rescue mission, however, in the face of heavy fighting Saturday and sailed across the Gulf of Aden, taking the evacuees to safety in Djibouti, the government said. It arrived in Djibouti Saturday night, where the refugees disembarked, and will return to South Yemen as soon as she can, probably on Sunday, said a Defense Ministry spokesman. "If the Britannia hadnt been there just shudder to think, Arthur Marshall, the British ambassador to South Yemen, told British television by telephone from the royal yacht. "It would have been a bloodbath of unthinkable proportions. Launched in 1953, the yacht was designed to double as a hospital ship in a crisis and was almost pressed into service in the 1982 Falklands War. But the government did not send the ship after concluding it would need its own fuel tanker for the voyage. The yacht, often dubbed a floating palace, is used as a base for the queen and members of her family during foreign tours and for sailing in home waters. Its captain, Adm. John Gamier, and his crew of 276 officers and men are less used to war work than glittering receptions and banquets for foreign dignitaries. Gamier was sailing Britannia through the Red Sea bound for New Zealand, where the queen is to make a state visit, when the yacht was diverted to Aden to rescue Britons and other stranded foreigners. "We saw tanks and rebel milita coming down the beach about a mile and half away from the embarkation," Gamier, told British television viewers. "There were lumps in everybody's throat, Marshall said, describing the Britannia's arrival. "Everybody was embracing and hugging. There were tears of emotion." Sean Penn Richard Nixon Tribune Wire Services Breaks for Business Questioned Utahns Favor Putting Limits on Tax Load I Associated Press Loserphoto Stewards check place settings on royal yacht Britannia, often described as a floating palace, before 1983 voyage. Queen uses ship for base during foreign tours. Heavy Fighting Stops Evacuation Of Foreigners From S. Yemen Continued From l resumed dialogue to settle differences between South Yemen's rival Marxist factions. and Foreign Prime Minister Haidar Abubaker were in New Delhi when the Minister Abdul-Azi- z battle erupted and flew to Moscow on Thursday. The appeal was addressed to the politburo and central committee of the ruling Yemeni Socialist Party, all fighters in the party, the masses, armed forces, security forces and people's militia, Tass said. The first rescue ship to arrive in Djibouti after the seven-houcrossing from Aden, was the container ship Vinnitsa with 253 evacuees, mostly Soviet women and children. A second, the Pavel Antokolsky, carried 480 mostly Soviet evacuees and the body of a Soviet citizen killed in the fighting, while another 360 came on the Yakov A-- li r, 150-mi- Diplomats and representatives of humanitarian organizations at the port to assist the evacuees said they included at least 36 Palestinians, 25 Libyans and Syrians, Lebanese, Filipinos, Somalis and Cubans. Soviet officials said a fourth Soviet vessel, the Bamak with 191 passengers, was expected in Djibouti later The Soviet Union later began an airlift to Moscow of nearly 1,000 of its citizens who arrived in Djibouti by sea. d Five Ilyushin 86 and 62 aircraft of the Soviet airline Aeroflot arrived to pick up hundreds of Soviet and other East bloc citizens, most of them women and children. British Honorary Consul Christopher Reddington said Britannia was expected with over 400 foreign evacuees, mostly Westerners, plucked from beaches around Aden during lulls in the fighting. French diplomats said there were 50 to 60 of their nationals aboard the royal yacht, and they would probably be transferred to two French naval vessels, the escort De Grasse and supply ship Jules Verne, which were in the area. wide-bodie- Reddington said the British destroyer Newcastle, the frigate Jupiter and the support ship Brambleleaf were also in the area to assist in the evacuation. Journalists allowed aboard the Soviet vessels said evacuees had reported fighting all over Aden Friday nightand that embassies, hotels and hospitals had been hit. There were no electricity or water supplies. The evacuees said the Soviet Embassy in Aden coordinated the rescue mission, with women and children given priority. A-- dent Reagan's warm reaction, the administration is not making a judgment on Mikhail Gorbachevs disarmament plan until U.S. negotiators see the "fine print on two key issues: reducing strategic nuclear e research. weapons and p Nens Anal) Mi anti-missil- Reagan and others in the were encouraged t vi- - posed a e percent reduction in weapons on both sides, but without revising the "unacceptable 50 long-er-rang- stand Moscow had taken last fall at the negotiating table in Geneva, an administration official said Friday. The Soviet leader would halve all U.S. weapons that could reach Soviet territory but exclude some comparable missiles in his own arsenal. When Gorbachev's disarmament plan is spelled out at the bargaining table, U.S. objections might be overcome. But based on the announcement in Moscow last Wednesday, the 50 per- - Reagan Polyps Arent Cancer, Tests Show Continued From l checkup would be forthcoming. Reagan was expected to remain secluded at Camp David until Monday, a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. On Friday, the White House had issued a brief statement saying that initial tests had shown that three "very small polyps were removed and had been evaluated as "clinically " benign cancerous iumor After a two-inct and a section of Reagan's colon were removed in July. Reagans physicians recommended that he undergo regular tests to be sure that there is no recurrence of the cancer A-- h two-foo- The three new growths were taken from Reagan's colon in a procedure known as a colonosand copy. The blood tests. CAf scan which provides highly detailed and accurate pictures of the brain, lungs, pancreas, kidneys and are used to detect other organs whether any new tumors are forming. In its statement on Friday, the White House said that all other test results and examinations were normal and revealed no evidence of any disease, A colonoscopy is a procedure in which a long, flexibile tube is inserted in the rectum and guided through the shrinks to only 13 percentage points among Republicans. Interestingly, business owners and other professionals are only slightly less inclined to believe business tax cuts benefit all citizens (61) than are blue-collworkers (68). The operating manager of a wholesale jewelry outlet in Salt Lake County objected to isolating business for tax cuts, noting that "we should just cut taxes, period! However, reform perceived as simply juggling the tax burden is greeted with less enthusiasm. For example, another poll question found opinion divided toward a "revenue between the sales neutral trade-of- f and property tax: "It has been suggested that property taxes should be cut back. One example, suggested by legislators, is that a fifth of the property tax load could be reduced by replacing it with a 1.5 percent increase in the sales tax. Would you favor or oppose this change?" Stringent tax limitation is especially popular with young people. Tax limitation also is endorsed at all income levels and by members of both major political parties. It is unlikely that such a proposal would be considered in the Legislature this year, where the mood tends to favor maintaining all available revenue sources. Such a move, if it occurs, is more likely to result from the initiative process. On the other hand, the public, by a e margin, tends to reject the idea that business tax cuts benefit everybody by stimulating the economy: "Some people say all Utahns gain in the long run when taxes are cut for business, since business invests the extra money in ways that promote economic growth and jobs. Other people say most Utahns do not gain when taxes are cut for businesses. Which of these views is closer to your two-to-on- Juggle Tox Load Favor Oppose Undecided Total own.?" This proposal, which is designed to shift the burden of school funding away from property owners, finds its greates support among women, re-l- e tirees less educated, and resi- dents of Salt Lake City. Business Tax Cuts T CLIP & SAVE United States Awaits Fine Print on Arms Plan et leader's proposal to eliminate medium-range missiles in Europe and frameby his offer of a three-stework for negotiations to eliminate nuclear weapons by the 21st century. On the other hand, Gorbachev pro- - litical persuasions, the margin Tax Limitation Soviet Package Spurs Questions on 2 Key Issues. By Barry Schweid AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON Despite Presi- Although the value of business tax cuts tend to be depreciated by all po- Continued From l that could be collected by the state, as proposed by the Utah Libertarian Party? organ by remote control. tiny wire snare is located at the end of the device to lasso growths and clip them off. The wound is sealed with a coagulating electrical current that runs through the wire. The three growths discovered in Reagan's colon were polyps, one to two millimeters in size. The vast mawhich are fleshy jority of polyps are benign, but some begrowths come cancerous. A They rarely cause discomfort or doctors illness, but some polyps cannot predict which ones develop into colon cancer, which is among the most common and the most deadly forms of the disease cent cutback does not appear to take into account Reagan's own call in November for cutting U.S. and Soviet strategic warheads by half. In weighing the Gorbachev package, the administration probably is most interested in what he had to say about space-basedefenses. While the Soviet leader made no mention of research, which Reagan wants to pursue, the omission is not being interpreted as a change in Gorbachev's drive to stop the Star Wars program. Depending on the details that Soviet negotiator Victor Karpov may provide in Geneva this week, the U.S. search for a shield against missiles may remain the principal roadblock to progress on curbing the nuclear-arm- s race. In the past, Gorbachev and other Soviet officials have hinted they would acquiesce in U.S. research. Reagan has offered to open American laboratories to Soviet monitors. And the Soviet leader appears to be accepting the offer. "But they have never confirmed that at the negotiating table," said the official, who agreed to be interviewed on condition he would not be identified. "They have said we want to ban everything. 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