Show Ogden Tuesday February 9A 3 1987 World Israeli panel studies Iran link JERUSALEM (AP) — A committee began r hearings today on whether Israel promoted US aims sales to Iran or had a role in diverting profits to rebels in Nicaragua The subcommittee on intelligence services opened the session by questioning Nir Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s adviser on and David Kimche former of the Foreign Ministry according to the committee secretariat The sessions are closed to reporters A US Senate report published Friday listed Nir and Kimche as initiators of some of the US arms sales to Iran and said Nir and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin suggested diverting funds from the sales to rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government Nir has made no public comment since the arms scandal broke last November Kimche denied he proposed arms dealings with Iran and Rabin rejected allegations that he authorized shipments of arms to the rebels 13 from US flee Lebanon by boat called Contras “Not only did I not propose neither I nor any authorized Israeli proposed that Israel help the Contras directly in any way" Rabin said Sunday on Israel army radio "On the contrary I rejected a request by an American member of the National Security Council who proposed this to Israel" he said Committee member Simcha Dinitz said Monday the allegations in the Senate report required further response He said the parliamentary panel wanted to give Israeli officials “an opportunity to respond to our satisfaction to these allegations" Senior Israeli officials say Israel also has agreed to provide the Senate Intelligence Committee with written testimony from Nir Kimche and two Israeli arms dealers involved in the weapons jmit sales Dinitz said the committee’s chairman Sen Daniel K Inouye asked Israel for the information last week and the Israeli Cabinet agreed LARNACA Cyprus (AP) — Thirteen Americans arrived by ’boat from Lebanon today as Westerners continued to flee that country declared off limits to US citizens by Washington after a recent wave of kidnappings Among the latest evacuees were Leonard Swenson and his wife Lois Ann who directed an orphanage in Lebanon for 31 years “We were worried and it was a good idea to get out" the Swenson said The Oscabel Wis couple said they left behind many friends in Lebanon peo“They were very sad ple were coming and crying and embracing us wanting us to write letters wanting us to stay" said Mrs Swenson 63 “But we are subject to our government so we are leaving" she said The US State Department has ordered the estimated 1500 US citizens still in Lebanon to leave by the end of February Eleven foreigners have been 5'- X Press Associated Leonard and Lois Ann Swensen arrive in Cyprus kidnapped in Lebanon since Jan 12 when Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite arrived in Beirut to seek the freedom of previously abducted foreigners Waite has not been seen publicly since Jan 20 and there have been reports he too was kidnapped George Chtaih of Eddison NJ a retired businessman of Lebanese descent was among the lastest evacuees and alsa said he left west Beirut “due to the circumstances " “Everyone is concerned to be safer it is a shame what is happening” he said His wife Linda said the situation in west Beirut was not “as bad is it is thought to be we have old friends there” She said she hoped to go back to Beirut “when the situation calms down I really liked it there” Their son George 17 said the situation was “not as bad as it seemed but I think it’s going to get worse” He said he wants to go to school in Lebanon and hopes to return “by Easter if the situation gets better” Constables held after four killed Six others bludgeoned JOHANNESBURG South Africa (AP) — Three black constables who killed four blacks after being fired on were suspended from duty and placed in custody today police headquarters said Meanwhile the South African Press Association said attackers hacked and bludgeoned to death six people in the Ciskei tribal homeland Sunday night then piled up the bodies and set them alight A police statement cid not identify the three “special constables” — quickly trained policemen serving in black townships — and did not provide details ( n the clash Monday night in Tantje townshi i at Grahamstown in the eastern Cape Provirce “Reports said they rihe constables) were shot at from a certain lirection whereupon they answered the fire and four people were killed and four wounded" the statement said set afire at Ciskei in South African violence “Police are urgently investigating the justifiability of the actions of the special constables All three members were suspended from duty and are in custody” it said A police spokesman said it was not yet known whether the three constables might face charges over the shootings The government’s decision last year to hire hundreds of the constables and put them to work in townships after a few weeks’ training drew criticism from opposition politicians and liberal newspapers The government said at the time that the constables would be used to support regular police in the townships and would not operate without supervision In the Ciskei incident SAPA said the six people were killed Sunday night apparently to avenge the fatal stabbing the previous night of Mkhuseli Jaambi 22 outside a bar in the Mdantsane township near the Indian Ocean town of East London The report said one of the intended victims escaped and informed police who found the pyre of charred bodies at a scrap yard Ciskei is one of four tribal homelands declared independent by South Africa and incidents of violence are not covered in the daily South African government “unrest reports” Six other homelands have not yet accepted independence No foreign government recognizes the independence of Ciskei or the other homelands The man who escaped Mbulelo Tutu was admitted to a hospital with serious bums and injuries SAPA said The dispatch quoted residents as saying a group of armed men with a variety of weapsearch for ons conducted k Jaambi’s killers REDUCED 1 SALVADOR El Salvador (AP) — An army colonel freed by leftist rebels in exchange for 57 political prisoners kissed a son he saw for the first tii ie and appealed for a lasting peace in this nation Col Omar Napoleon Avalos 47 was freed Monday night in a northeastern village after 15 months of captivity At the same time the government released 51 men and six women from two prisons Most of the freed prisoners were believed to be leftist sympathizers and included student labor and minor political party leaders Rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front turned Avalos over to Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas in Perquin about 125 miles northeast of the capital A government helicopter brought Avalos to the Military School in San Salvador to be reunited with his family “I hope that this doesn’t occur to anyone anymore” Avalos said in a soft voice “Fifteen months of being closed up is not anyone’s desire and I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy” Rivera Damas who helped mediate in talks that led to the said it “can be a step to exchange a peaceful solution to the large conflict that afflicts us” The rebels kidnapped Avalos frnm his farm in central Cusca-tla- n province on Oct 26 1985 They accused him of having connections to the CIA and participating in air raids on civilian targets as a pilot and instructor They offered no proof of their charges Avalos bearded and quite thin smiled and kissed his wife and five children including a son bom while he was in captivity Adventure author MacLean dies at 64 West Germany MUNICH — Alistair MacLean author war thriller of the “The Guns of Navarone" and one of postwar Britain’s most popular novelists died while on a visit to West Germany He was the missile crashed in a residential sector of the city destroying several houses and shops It said civilians were killed and wounded but gave no number says Duvaiier stole $120 million Official Haiti Duvaiier 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