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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, April 6, 1988
Police beatj Hijackers warn deadline
on demands nearing end
Baytown police investigated
three vehicle thefts Tuesday.
It was between 5 p.m. Monday
and 6:40 a.m. Tuesday, that so-
meone broke into Clark’s Wheel
and Brake, 2400 Market, and
stole a 1969 Land-Rover and
some $5,000 worth of tools.
Police later located the vehi-
cle. Upon request of the owner, it
had been picked up by a local
wrecker service in the 2500 block
of Clyde. ■
+A 1983 Chevrolet Camaro
was stolen late Monday or early
Tuesday from the parking lot of
an apartment complex in the
4200 block of West Baker.
+A 1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass
was stolen Tuesday from the 500
block of North Circle.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -
Arab hijackers holding 87 people
aboard a Kuwaiti jet in Iran
Wednesday warned a deadline
for their demands to be met was
nearing an end and called for a
physician, saying some
passengers were “unwell.”
The hijackers, armed with
pistols and hand grenades, said
Tuesday three members of
Kuwait’s royal Al-Sabah family
on the plane would be in “immi-
nent danger” unless Kuwait
released 17 jailed pro-Iranian
extremists in 12 hours.
The deadline, as reported by
Tehran radio, ended at 10 a.m.
(2:30 a.m. EDT). But after that
reported deadline, the Islamic
Republic News Agency said the
hijackers contacted Mashhad
Airport tower “to remind that
the respite is nearing the end.”
That added to the confusion over
the deadline which was not spell-
ed out clearly by the hijackers in
any of their radio contacts.
IRNA, monitored in Nicosia,
said the hijackers asked for
breakfast, a physician, oxygen
and a charger to keep the air
conditioning working.
It quoted them as telling
Mashhad Airport tower “some
of the passengers are feeling
unwell,” but did not say what
Rainfall
in March
twice average
Rainfall in Baytown during
March 1988 more than doubled
the normal March average, but
the city’s average for the year
remains more than two inches
below normal.
According to figures provided
by Baytown Emergency
Management, the city averaged
5.11 inches of rain last month.
The city normally averages 2.32
inches of rain during March.
For the first three months of
1988, the city has averaged 8.00 _ _ # # #
SE'SM-IS new criminal division chiei
during January, February and
March.
was wrong with them. Earlier
Wednesday, the hijackers
released 24 women passengers.
The Kuwaiti Cabinet met in
emergency session under Crown
Prince Sheik Saad Al-Abdullah
Al-Sabah during the night. It
sent a team to Iran Wednesday
to negotiate with the kidnappers
after saying it would not bow to
“blackmail.”
The U.S. State Department
said it believed there were no
Americans aboard the Kuwait
Airways Bpeing 747, which was
hijacked by five or six Arabic-
speaking men on Tuesday while
en route to Kuwait from
Bangkok and forced to land in
northeast Iran. The hijackers
have threatened to blow the
plane up.
One man still aboard the plane
has a U.S. and an Egyptian
passport.
The hijackers also said they
did not believe “negotiations
between them and Iranian
negotiators at the airport would
prove useful,” IRNA said. They
renewed a threat to force the
plane to take off to an
unspecified destination.
There have been conflicting
reports in the Iranian media
over whether the Boeing 747 has
been refueled since it landed
Meese continues search for
The West District Sewage
Treatment Plant, on Interstate
10 at the Spur 330 (Decker
Drive) exit, measured 6.21 in-
ches of rain last month. That
amount was the greatest record-
ed at the city’s 10 measuring
locations during the month.
The least amounts of rain fell
at City Hall and Exxon’s
Baytown Refinery, which got
4.34 and 4.38 inches of rain,
respectively. But even those
least amounts of rain are more
than two inches above what the
city normally averages during
March.
For the first three months of
1988, the West District plant has
received the most rain — 9.89 in-
ches.
The second largest amount of
rain — 8.81 inches — has fallen
this year at the East District
Sewage Treatment Plant, along
Cedar Bayou near Cedar Bayou
Road.
The least amount of rain dur-
ing the first three months of 1988
has fallen at City Hall and the
Baytown Refinery, which have
gotten 6.87 and 6.96 inches of
rain, respectively.
WASHINGTON (AP) - At-
torney General Edwin Meese III
is trying to fill a key Justice
Department post left vacant by a
protest resignation, after settl-
ing for his second choice for the
department’s No. 2 post.
Meese announced Tuesday
that he is recommending former
American Bar Association presi-
dent John C. Shepherd for the
No. 2 job. He also said he has
chosen Treasury Department
enforcement chief Francis A.
Keating for the department’s
No. 3 position, which had opened
before six protest resignations
rocked the department last
Still unfilled is the job of head
of the department’s criminal
division.
The cKoices announced Tues-
day drew support from the rank-
ing Republican on the Senate
Judiciary Committee. Sen.
Strom Thurmond of < South
Carolina last week had conveyed
congressional concern to Meese
over problems at the Justice
Department in the wake of the
protest resignations by Deputy
Attorney General Arnold Burns,
Assistant Attorney General
William Weld of the criminal
division, and four of their aides.
Burns and Weld resigned out
of concern that the nearly 11-
month criminal investigation of
Meese by independent counsel
James C. McKay was hurting
the Justice Department’s opera-
tions and image.
Shepherd was Meese’s second
choice to replace Burns, after
former federal appeals judge
Arlin Adams of Philadelphia
turned it down, citing a heavy
private caseload.
Keating, a former FBI agent,
would fill the post vacated by
Associate Attorney General
Stephen Trott, who is leaving the
department to become a federal
appeals court judge.
Thurmond said of Shepherd
and Keating, “From what I now
know about these two fine in-
dividuals I look forward to sup-
porting their confirmation.”
Meese said he probably will
announce a recommended
replacement for Weld after
returning from a week-long trip
to South America to discuss
drugs with officials in several
countries there.
A Justice Department source
said Salvatore R. Martoche, now
an assistant secretary in the
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -
Country music singer Eddie
Rabbitt, whose 2-year-old son
died of liver disease, will act as
honorary chairman of the
American Council on Transplan-
tation.
Timmy Rabbitt died in July
1985 after a transplant at the
University of Minnesota and
four other operations.
The council is a non-profit
federation of individuals and
organizations concerned with
improving the donation and
delivery of organ and tissue
transplants.
A grease fire caused about
$1,000 damage to cabinets in an
apartment in the 1800 block of
James Bowie Drive around 1:30
p.m. Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the
Baytown Fire Department said
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the fire started on the stove and
spread to the cabinets.
No one was reported injured in
the mishap. Firefighters from
Stations 4 and 6 responded to the
call, as well as volunteers from
Districts 4 and 6, she said.
PARIS (AP) — American
soprano Barbara Hendricks, an
ambassador of good will for the
United Nations High Commis-
sion for Refugees, says the spirit
of Vietnamese refugees at a
filthy camp inspired her to sing
black spirituals to them.
“I discovered the richness of
the human spirit,” she said of
the camp in Malaysia. “We need
to find these people a land of
welcome, where they can live
with dignity.”
Hendricks, appointed to the
honorary U.N. post in
December, says she will per-
form in a UNESCO-sponsored
concert here April 20 to benefit
refugees.
Tuesday. Kuwait has asked the
Iranians not to allow the jetliner
to take off.
The masked hijackers freed 24
women early Wednesday after
negotiations with Iran’s Deputy
Prime Minister, Ali Reza
Moayyeri, Iran’s official media
said. Another passenger, a Jor-
danian with a heart condition,
was freed on Tuesday.
The nationalities of the hi-
jackers were not disclosed, but
their demand echoed that of
Iranian-backed Shiite Moslems
holding American hostages in
Lebanon — that Kuwait release
17 militants imprisoned for the
December 1983 bombings of the
French and U.S. embassies and
other targets in Kuwait.
Among the 97 passengers and
15 crew aboard the plane when it
was seized three hours after
leaving Bangkok were 30
Kuwaitis, 22 Britons, eight Thais
and a person with a U.S. and an
Egyptian passport identified on-
ly as R. Attiaallaali, according
to the passenger list.
Kuwait has been a target of
Iranian-backed Shiite Moslem
terrorists for years and has jail-
ed scores for sabotage and bom-
bings since 1983. Iran claims
Kuwait aids Iraq in the 7%-year-
old Persian Gulf war.
Labor Department, had rejected
a request from Meese to take
Weld’s job, assistant attorney
general in charge of the criminal
division.
Martoche decided not to take
the job “because of the taint fac-
tor” relating to the continuing
criminal investigation of Meese,
said the source, speaking on con-
dition of anonymity.
Meese declined to say whether
he had offered Martoche the job,
but said he had spoken to a
number of people about it.
Keating was asked whether he
had had second thoughts about
accepting his appointment.
“Certainly the events of last
week made me, as a profes-
sional, pause,” he said. “But I
have every confidence in the
leadership of the department
and the attorney general. I think
with our new team here the
operation of the department will
continue.”
Shepherd said he had no reser-
vations about taking the job in
the wake of Burns’ protest
resignation. But Shepherd did
acknowledge Meese’s continuing
legal problems, saying “we all
see that.”
Cubley services
ARRANGEMENTS ARE pen-
ding at Earthman Funeral
Home for Thomas W. Cubley, 72,
of Crosby. He died April 5 at a
Houston hospital.
SOS activities
BREAKFAST AT 6:30 a.m.
April 7 Is planned by SOS Singles
Outreach Service at Interna-
tional House of Pancakes,
Highway 146 at 1-10 in Mont
Belvieu. Dancing, a happy hour
and a buffet dinner at Dallas,
4637 Garth, are planned for 6
p.m. April 7. Call 428-1968 for
more information.
Readers’ views
DEADLINE FOR letters about
the April 12 primary runoff elec-
tions is at noon'April 8. Letters
must be signed and include ad-
dresses. Also, letters must be
from readers within The Sun’s
circulation area.
Church concert
DANA SIGMONS, founder of the
Songwriters Ministry in
Nashville, Tenn., will present a
free concert at 7:14 p.m. April 6
at the Church on the Rock, 7123
Decker Drive.
Allenbrook meeting
NORRIS CRAVEY, hor-
ticulturist at Lee College, will
speak when Allenbrook Civic
Association meets at 7 p.m.
April 7 at the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, ldlO
Birdsong.
Overeaters anonymous
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS
will meet at 7 p.m. April 7 at St.
Paul’s United Methodist Church,
7915 Bayway.
Class of’48
A REUNION Planning Meeting
of Robert E. Lee class of 1948
will be held at 7:30 p.m. April 7
at 1405 Strickland. Those unable
to attend, with information
about class members, should
call Margaret Oliver Dickens at
427-4517, Patsy Stoerner Sharp
at 422-9965, or Sylvia Guillote
Dreyer at 427-2664.
Cancer support group
DIALOG SUPPORT Group, for
cancer' patients, their families
and caregivers, will meet at 7
p.m. April 7 in the Plaza
Classroom of San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital. John Foster
will show a film about the new
hospital to celebrate the group’s
one-year anniversary.
Kiwanis meeting
PAM IVEY of KIKK radio will
speak and Easter art contest
winners will be named when the
Kiwanis Club of Baytown meets
at noon April 7 at Holiday Inn,
300 S. Highway 146. Members
should bring canned foods and
other nonperishable items for
the food bank to this meeting.
FFA and 4-H boosters
BARBERS HILL Future
Farmers of America and 4-H
boosters will meet at 7:30 p.m.
April 7 at the Old RiVer-Winfree
Community Building to plan a
fish fry. For information, call
Linda Dutton at 383-3116.
Mothers of multiples
ALL MOTHERS of multiples or
women expecting more than one
child are invited to attend a
clothing exchange at 7 p.m.
April 7 at Walden Oak School,
3100 W. Baker Rd.
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+NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iraqi
gunners Wednesday fired four
rockets into Tehran during the
morning rush hour after its
warplanes attacked a super-
tanker off an important Iranian
offshore oil complex in the cen-
tral Persian Gulf.
+BATON ROUGE, La. -
Three cable television networks
may dump Jimmy Swaggart’s
program if the evangelist defies
the national Assemblies of God
church and begins preaching
again next month.
+AUSTIN — Secretary of
State Jack Rains says he will
review Texas election laws to
determine whether some top
state officials violated campaign
disclosure laws by making
payments to credit card com-
panies that fail to explain expen-
ditures.
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