Daily Journal (Newspaper) - October 3, 1977, Fergus Falls, Minnesota Gandhi is arrested NEW DELHI India AP Indira prime minister for 11 years until her election defeat last March was arrested today on charges misusing her position Eyewitnesses said a large squad of agents from India's central bureau investigation took Mrs Gandhi 59 into tody at her New Delhi home Mrs Gandhi was charged with acquiring vehicles through misuse of her official position India's national news agency reported A large crowd a out- side Mrs Gandhi's home as soon as supporters learned of the raid and while she was still inside They chanted Long live Indira Gandhi Shortly after the arrived supporters of Mrs Gandhi issued a statement in her name charging that the arrest is a political one It is to prevent me from going to the people It is an attempt to discredit me in their eyes and the eyes of the world Sources close to her hold said Mrs Gandhi de- manded that the bureau agents lake her away in handcuffs but they explained this was not tomary in such cases In her statement Mrs Gandhi said even though she lost her individual liberty for a time her supporters must be prepared to fight the very real threat to the country's self-reliance She was taken into custody under Section 6 of India's Pre- vention of Corruption Act First reports said the specific charge was misusing her position as the prime minister to acquire jeeps from two firms for electioneering The arrest came as Mrs Gandhi appeared to be making what political sources said was he first tentative move toward a comeback after her election defeat in parliamentary voting last March In recent weeks Mrs Gandhi has paid a visit lo one of India's aged spiritual leaders stepped up her travels to rural areas and made a few statements critical of the new Janata party government But while she was on the move investigators were lowing the time-tested Gandhi Continued on Page 20 YEAR NO 232 FERGUS FALLS MINNESOTA MONDAY OCT 3 1977 SINGLE COPY Freed hostage condemns deal DACCA Bangladesh AP An American missionary among the hostages freed from the hijacked Japanese airliner condemned the Japanese capitulation to the demands of the five terrorists Jenabe Caldwell 51 of An- Alaska said the day ordeal aboard the plane was pretty horrendous ly terribly brutal but I wouldn't have let those guys go ITie minute we give in lo criminals we're finished and dial's just what we're said Caldwell in a telephone in- from Holy Family Hospital While I was on the plane I This is war and even if we're casualties we shouldn't give into it Somewhere we've got to have enough guts to stand up for what we believe in Caldwell a missionary for the Bahai sect said the five jackers were mostly but anyone who thinks these Commies were playing games they should have been on that plane These guys called it war and I he continued But they want lo die they wouldn't have blown up the plane with themselves on it They were too cocky for that Caldwell said the ordeal aboard the plane was pretty horrendous You were living in your own hell the lack of air the stench the complete un- justified brutality I 1 had lived under lough but this was the toughest living I've ever had And for others it was much worse I saw a Saudi man whipped twice Other gers were clubbed on the head It was unjustified We were all cooperating There was no rhyme or reason to it Caldwell said he was for acute constipation and a painful back ailment He said he was leaving the hospital today and planned to fly to Bangkok Bahaism is a modern religion developed in that stresses principles of universal and social equality CAMPER SHOW Dennis Leah and Lemke Sabin were on hand Sunday afternoon to show Lemke Motor Homes at the second annual DECA- sponsored Camper Show in Armory parking lot Eight different dealers from Detroit Lakes Moorhead West Fargo Sabin Fergus Falls and Alexandria participated in the show Attendance was about according lo Burdette DECA advisor About 17 DECA seniors were involved in organizing and promoting the show Journal by Netty H fillister Dayan censures By The Associated Press Israeli Foreign Minister Dayan said the viel of principles for an peace agreement was another can attempt to push the tine Organization into the Geneva peace talks through the front door Israeli leaders Sen Henry Jackson and George Meany sharply criticized joint dec- while the PLO and er Arabs called it a positive step toward peace The declaration issued Saturday get peace negotiations in Geneva started before the end of the year and indirectly with Arabs old the newspaper a meeting he is ing with President Carter Wednesday would be decisive urged Israel to recognize the After thai we shall know wilh legitimate rights of the virtual certainty whether there Palestinian people and give them a role in the Geneva conference Dayan in the United States to negotiate with the Americans is any chance for a Geneva conference There is an American dency to introduce the PLO through the front door into the Geneva peace Dayan said In American propositions for the makeup of the conference there is a clear tendency loward this He added that the American proved the erosion of the American position on this issue The also called for Israel to withdraw from tories occupied during the 1967 war the creation of zones manned bv United Nations troops or ob- servers to protect Israel's curity and possible tion of the United States and the Soviet Union in international guarantees of Israel's borders Israeli leaders asserted that I Mideast Continued on Page 20 Corn losses rising ST Minnesota Agriculture De- says an expanded survey of 36 counties shows farmers could lose 25 per cent of their unharvested corn to European corn borers A week ago the department estimated loss potential of 14 per cent in 24 counties The in- was described as the worst in Minnesota in 18 years Actual measured losses in 180 surveyed fields averaged 3 per cent the department said The worst infestations were ed in and central counties Faribault Blue Earth and Washington counties were singled out by plant s and entomologists as those with greatest losses and potential loss In five Faribault county fields the department said in- found 13.6 per cent of the corn ears already on the ground and shank infestation potential for an additional 39 per cent ear loss in unharvested Blue Earth County fields checked had 11.2 per cent of the corn ears down and shank in- potential for an 46 per cent loss In LeSueur County fields checked had 8 per cent of the corn down with a potential for 31 per cent added loss Washington County had 8.8 per cent on the ground with a 42 per cent added loss potential Although infestation was re- ported the na corn was down in northwestern counties and loss potential was minimal there the Agriculture Department said Here is a list of Minnesota counties which produced more than 10 million bushels of corn Corn Continued on Page 20 Hijackers surrender after freeing hostages ALGIERS Algeria AP Five hijackers who took a Japanese jetliner on a six-day journey of terror over two con- released their last 19 hostages and surrendered to Algerian authorities today airline officials said They came out with their hands said a Japan Air Lines spokeswoman in York As far as we know the hostages are okay but we don't know for sure The conditions or the der were not immediately known It was believed the ul- terrorists had hoped to obtain political asylum from Algeria's leftist government The Japanese Foreign try said all the terrorists in- six comrades freed from Japanese jails to meet the hijackers had left the Japan Air Lines at 4 p.m local time noon less than two hours after it landed here There was no immediate word on where they were taken Weather roundup Mostly clear tonight Variable cloudiness with slight chance of few showers day tonight upper 30s to around 40 Highs Tuesday upper 50s Winds south mph tonight Probability of measurable rain 20 percent Tuesday High Sunday 59 law 32 At At Noon 58 Precipitation 21 hours ending 8 today none Sunrise Tuesday Sunset Temperatures One High 88 Low The plane which also carried a million ransom paid to the hijackers landed in Algiers after an overnight flight from Bangladesh where the terrorists held it for five days after hijacking il over India An official communique said landing permission was given here at Die express demand of the Japanese government and for humanitarian reasons One American was among the final group of hostages aboard the plane The hijackers believed ing for asylum in a sympathetic country had commandeered over India last forced it to land in at Dacca in neighboring ladesh where they released most of their hostages After a 4 siege they look off from Dacca Sunday stopping in Kuwait and Damascus ia refueling and freeing more hostages on the way There was speculation that if Algeria refused to give the refuge they would turn to Libya or South Yemen two Arab countries with radical governments which have hijackers and other in past The ers are members of the ultra- leftist Japanese Red Army which works closely with the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine The take off from the Syrian capital had been delayed while Japanese and Syrian officials tried lo get more hostages re- leased but Die hijackers re- fused and ordered the pilot to take off There had been 156 persons aboard when the terrorists seized control of the Tokyo plane early Wednesday after it look from Bombay The hijackers freed 115 of their hostages in Dacca seven more in Kuwait and 10 in ascus This left 12 captive sengers and the crew of seven aboard along with the five jackers and six terrorists freed from Japanese prisons in re- sponse to the hijackers de- mands The Japanese ment also paid a ransom of 6 million Twelve Americans were aboard the plane when it was hijacked the airline said Nine were freed in Dacca and two in Damascus leaving one still aboard today The airline him as Thomas Phelan 29 of San Francisco a Stale Department employe Two other Californians liam D McLean 46 of Alamo and Eric Weiss 30 of San Francisco were freed along with eight Japanese passengers in Damascus McLean is tive vice president of a tugboat and barge company The airline sent a plane from Tokyo to Dacca lo fly the freed hostages to Bangkok en route lo Tokyo The hijackers were believed to have boarded the plane in Bombay and were armed with automatic weapons and plastic explosives Farmers look for help in fighting power line LOWRY Minn AP Strains of their theme song Pope County and talk of raising money for a federal court case were heard Sunday night when some 200 fanners and landowners filled Lowry Town Hall to gather support for their fight against a kilovolt power line from North Dakota to Minnesota No formal action was taken at the meeting But there was general discussion of effects of last week's slale Supreme Court ruling lhal United Power Association of Elk River Minn and Cooperative Power of Edina Minn have the legal right to build line The power line going lo be built because we're nol going lo stand for said Mall Woida a Sauk farmer We're going lo federal court and if they can't stop it we'll stop it ourselves Asked how they would stop it themselves he replied any way it takes The Supreme Court has given the utilities a blank check on said Jim Nelson Elbow Lake Nelson called on Gov Rudy Perpich to establish a science court a group of scientific investigators to study possible health hazards of the line Perpich had said Friday he would make phone calls and perhaps visit farmers and landowners to keep peace in the power line dispute But Virgil Fuchs a Belgrade farmer expressed aboul the nor's He ain't going to call Fuchs said He would have done it by now He's saying that lo boost his public image The group also was urged to enlist help from townspeople and to attend resistance workshops to learn how to organize their fight Verlyn Marth a farmer from Herman called the power line one of the mosl vicious ever foisted off on the and said farmers have been sold down the river by politicians and the courts Leaders of the group would not say much money hope lo raise for a federal court fight Proceeds from the sale of the Pope County Blues recording are to help in the fund-raising effort The group also watched a recording of a television documentary on a power line struggle in New York aired on CBS 60 Minutes Liberals say natural gas victory near WASHINGTON liberal senators filibustering lo keep natural gas under federal control say they arc within two votes of victory as the Senate deadlock enters its third week Although two tests hav e that supporters of natural gas deregulation have the votes to win Democratic Sens James Abourezk of South Dakota and Howard baum of Ohio are vowing to continue their filibuster in the name of lower home heating costs We are good for another 10 days or two Abourezk said after a rare weekend ate session Abourezk and Metzenbaum are pinning their hopes on a tie floor vote Vice President Walter F Mondale would then have to break the deadlock by voting for the Carter administration's plan to continue controls In an important vote last week supporters of tion won 50 to 44 But for a potential mentary advantage Abourezk voted with his opponents meaning the true vote was 49 to 45 With Sen Pete Domenici H- willing to switch and vote for federal controls if his vote would make the differ- ence that leaves a margin to reach a tie Predicting that some minds would be changed over the weekend Abourezk said he thinks the momentum is in our direction Majority Leader Robert C Byrd said he expected the issue to be decided by Wednesday But as long as the filibustering senators refuse to agree to a time for a vote there is little Bud can do to force the issue The Carter had originally proposed raising price ceiling on natural gas per thousand cubic feet but the President has since agreed to a compromise of Gas t page 12 White House countering treaty opposition On the inside Area happenings Page 12 On the local scene Page 11 Since you asked Page WASHINGTON AP President Carter's aides buffeted in a fight against the new Panama Canal trealy say they can't swing back with Die kind of punches their opponents are throwing But they are confident they can save Die treaty from a beating We can't buy media tising out of the White muttered Landon Buller a uly presidential assistant You can't do that as an agency of the government Joe Aragon a special ant to the president said We want to make sure it doesn't look like we're carrying off some kind of a propaganda campaign That shoe Aragon said is on the other foot The Iwo White House aides both on top assistant Hamilton Jordan's task force lo win ate ratification of the treaty spoke in a recent interview What are doing they were asked to counter the mostly by conservatives against the The opposition both agreed is formidable Conservative groups are bombarding key members of the Senate with mass media advertising aimed at con- back home The conservative arsenal in- cludes an avalanche of anti- treaty mail a television mentary fact sheets on the Panama Canal against the treaty and truth squads of prominent treaty opponents traveling around the country to mobilize opinion against Senate ratification The biggest guns include for- mer California Gov Ronald Reagan and Sen Barry water opposing the treaty at every opportunity aided by groups like Reagan's Rough proposed as an expeditionary force of to keep the canal un- der American control In all the conservatives say their effort probably will cost more than Jl million Landon and Aragon say their counter effort centers on a series of briefings for opinion leaders in swing states sent o the White House by senators whose votes will be crucial to ratification of the treaty They'll go back and mil h ave h card our s ide of th e story in great detail so that it won't be that fertile a ground for the opposition out there You'll have people who'll be saying I know what that's about that's not the whole truth In addition to the briefings which are the centerpiece of the administration's effort to educate the public Butler and Aragon are collecting treaty endorsements from a host of George Meany John Wayne Alf Undon William Buckley Henry Kissinger Dean Rusk Gerald and more than two dozen one-time U.S lo latin America While Butler and Aragon are educating the chief lobbyist Frank Moore is senators directly and Stale ment is sending speakers to wherever brush fires need to be extinguished House Press Office is arming editors with press kils about the canal Vice President Walter F Mondale briefed the Jaycees And the President himself has talked about having a side chat on treaty While no date has been set Butler and Aragon say the session is sUll on
