Daily News Record (Newspaper) - April 8, 1988, Harrisonburg, Virginia New Life Bears released 21 Messy Masters Wrenn lead 25 Todays Weather Partly Cloudy 161 40 Pages April 4332702 25 Cents Hijackers Plan To Leave Iran With Hostages By MARTIN MARRIS Associated Press Writer Cyprus Airport workers in northeast Iran refueled a Kuwaiti jetliner and its Arab hijackers said they would take off today with about 50 hostages held for three Irans news agency The plane was refueled after the hijackers fired at security guards at the Masshad air port and threatened to force the pilot to fly with the little fuel left in the jets said the official Islamic Republic News It first quoted the hijackers as saying the plane would leave at midnight in a dispatch filed only two minutes before that and said later the depar ture had been delayed until 6 The second departure time passed with no new word from No destination was According to Iranian officials ask ed the hijackers for the extension to provide time for the Turkish and Pakistani prime Turgut and Mohammed Khan to talk to Kuwaiti officials in an effort to convince them to accept the hi The said to number five to want Kuwait to free 17 ex convicted and imprisoned in the Persian Gulf sheikdom for bombings at the and French embassies there in monitored in said Ozal spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Hussein Musavi of Iran on It said Musavi told Ozal his government wanted to end the incident without any unhappy but added Of course you should know that our possibilities are limited and therefore we hope the Kuwaiti government will understand the restrictions in the holy city of Mashhad and fulfill its humanitarian in trying to bring the problem to a peaceful Thirtytwo people were released from the plane early Thursday along with 25 freed left Mashhad for the agency The British Foreign Office said early Friday that the passengers had arrived in The hijacking occurred early as the plane with 112 people aboard was flying from Bangkok to When IRNA reported the original depar ture it said there are still obstacles on the placed there earlier by air port officials to keep the jet from taking On the third day of the the hi jackers said they placed explosives throughout the Kuwait Airways Boeing which still had 55 passengers and crew IRNA Among the hostages are three members of Kuwaits royal One appealed to Ira nian authorities to provide jet IRNA Were very tired and our brothers the hijackers are very serious in their threat to blow up the Fadel Khaled alSabah told the control tower by IRNA See Page 2 Sharing Sorrow Associated Press A young woman soldier is com by another Thursday at the Karnei Shamron cemetery in the occupied West Bank during a funeral for Tirza a 15 yearold Jewish settler slain dur ing a clash with Palestinians on Story on Page Afghans Say Accord Near On Ending War Times News Service MOSCOW The Soviet Union and Afghanistan said on Thursday that they believed the last barriers to a negotiated settlement of the war in Afghanistan had been The two governments but did not explicitly that they had ac an American formula breaking the last remaining deadlock at the Geneva talks 1 aimed at ending the The compromise would permit Washington to continue providing military aid to the Afghan guerrillas during a withdrawal of Soviet forces at a level com mensurate with the aid Moscow gives to the Afghan Western diplomats here said the an appeared to clear the way for quick completion of the Geneva with the signing of an agreement likely before the end of next In a joint statement issued after a meeting Mikhail Gorbachev and the Afghan said the Soviet Union would begin withdrawing its troops on May 15 if the Geneva accords were com within the next few The departure originally set by Moscow for early February but postponed as the negotiations bogged suggested that Gorbachev wanted to start bringing Soviet soldiers home before President Reagans visit to Moscow in late Gorbachev and Najibullah met in the Soviet Central Asian city of 190 miles north of the Afghan Resolution of the Afghan which Soviet forces entered in December would remove a major source of tension in EastWest relations and mark a potentially significant shift in Soviet national security The joint statement said that Gorbachev and Najibullah believe that the last obstacles to concluding the agreements have now been removed thanks to the con cooperation of all who are in the and favor their immediate The statement came after several days of intense diplomatic maneuvering in and Although the statement did not go into detail about the it sug gested that the two nations had agreed on a See Page 2 Grand Jury Indicts State 15 Others AP A grand jury handed up a new round of corruption indictments against Mingo County political figures charging 16 in five present or former state the county prosecutor and Williamsons One indictment charged a state senator who was a former county commissioner with bribery in the alleged sale of the Mingo County sheriffs job in 1982 for and another indictment accused 15 others of vio lations of state election laws and conspira The 15 are accused of conspiring with Johnie the former sheriff and former county Democratic Party and others to influence elections in 1984 and 1986 and law enforcement in the A federal grand jury indicted several cur rent and former county officials over the past including current Sheriff Charles Eddie in connection with his ap pointment as who has pleaded said he accepted a down payment on the Robb Launches Senate Campaign By JOE TAYLOR Associated Press Writer RICHMOND Former Charles kicking off a statewide tour for his Senate said Thursday he will wage a campaign against speaking to about 300 sup porters in the Rotunda of the state said America is facing a time of rapid change and needs to make some tough choices be prepared to defend the The former Democratic flanked by his and by Gerald Douglas Wilder and Attorney General Mary Sue said his decision to run for the Senate was driven as much by my frustration with the present as it is by the conviction that I can make a difference in the Robb said he has become increasingly impa tient with our We have become so bogged down in debate over whats wrong with America that we seem unable to Weve come to accept tentative Weve become hardened to Washingtons fa to pound the table for fiscal discipline and then sanction billion deficits year after he Weve almost convinced citizens in this country that these are problems without Robb said America will not regain world leadership until we stop making excuses and start making some real He said the country cannot move forward un til we lift the terrible anchor that is our Weve got to accept the hard truth that gov will never have enough money to solve all our If you send me to the I cant guaran tee that youll agree with me on every vote or that Ill always end up on the popular side of every Robb You know me well enough to know that Ill vote my The crowd at the Capitol was entertained by a band before Robb After Rich the tour Thursday included stops in northern Virginia and Win Robb is scheduled to appear at a breakfast at this morning at the Sheraton in Harrison He also planned to meet today with sup porters in Tazewell and On Satur he will be in Danville and then travel to the Tidewater the only Democrat seeking the Senate has raised 1 million in contributions and pledges and is heavily favored to win the seat held by Republican Paul Trible who an several months ago he would not seek Three Republicans have announced bids for the GOP nomination McLean attorney Gil Faulk Andrew a former aide to John Warner and Wallace Jack a Hanover County insurance Associated Press Charles Robb Simon Suspends Campaign bribe from then persuaded the three county commissioners to accept his resignation and appoint Hilbert in ex change for half of the Former Commissioner Rastie Runyon also has pleaded guilty and will be ed with Owens on April the same day Hilbert is scheduled to enter a plea in a drug case as part of an agreement with pro In the drug authorities say a drug ring openly run by a smalltown fire police chief and their families was protected by a web of bribes to Commissioner Steve the only member of the 1982 County Commission still in was indicted earlier on one count of He has denied the charge but is not running for The third state Truman was indicted Thursday with one count of Arraignment for all defendants is sched uled Wednesday in Mingo County Circuit See Page 2 Study Links New Respiratory Ills By LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press Writer CHICAGO Working indoors may be hazardous to your health after suggests a study which says energy efficient build ings may significantly increase the risk of communicable respiratory in The study examined the incidence of influenza and other respiratory il among about trainees at four Army training centers in the southeast and southcentral United States from October 1982 to September But the researchers said the findings may apply to office buildings and other structures designed for maximum energy effi See Page 2 Associated Press Simon announces suspension of his Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Illinois Paul Simon suspended his stalled presidential campaign Thursday but held onto his 170 delegates in hopes of influencing the choice of a nominee at the Democratic national convention in Jesse Jackson immediately blasted Simon for keep ing the saying most of them were rightfully In a year that has already seen many no one knows what twists and turns may develop be tween now and Simon told a news There will be many encounters with fate before the contest is ultimately decided in a In a Simon said he would no longer actively cam for the nomination but said he technically would remain a can even though he conceded he has no illusions that the nomination will come my I want to have an impact on who the party Simon I want to have an impact on the whole process there at the Atlanta and on where we said Simons move was a and that he ought to release his del If one is not in the race one ought to indicate a form of honorable withdrawal at which time whoever got second place in that state will get those Thats what Gephardt II was the honorable and the fair thing to Jackson said in New Richard Gephardt dropped out of the Democratic race last I would hope that in time Simon likewise now that he has made the decision to leave the race will leave so and hide behind no technicalities to block those as my delegates which in fact belong to Jackson Simon showed early strength in the Democratic finishing a close second in Iowas nation But he dropped to third in New Hampshire and failed to rebound as the primary season wore except for a lone win in his home His bid bottomed out Tuesday in where he finished last with just 5 percent of See Page 2 Todays Index Bob Classified Dear Jeane Local Obituaries Charles Everette Baker of 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