The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, June 19, 1985 - Page 11
Reagan demands safe
release of hostages
WASHINGTON (UPI) - President current situation with the seizing of
Reagan said yesterday that he will not hostages in the U.S. embassy in Iran
make any concessions to terrorists in 1980, an event that he used con-
holding Americans hostage in tinuously against President Carter in
Lebanon and called on the Shiite the presidential election.
Moslems to release them without con-
dition and "end this crime now." REAGAN said in 1980 there was a
' "America will never make con- "direct source of evil" - the gover-
cessions to terrorists," Reagan said. nment of Iran - but in the current
"Once we start down that path .. . crisis "the problem is: Who are their
there will be no end." accomplices? Where are they
x REAGAN, holding a nationally located?"
televised news conference on the fifth In the news conference, almost
full day since the terrorists hihjacked totally dominated by the hostage
a TWA airliner, said: "The United situation, Reagan rejected retaliatory
States is tonight a nation being at- action by the UnitedStates.
tacked by international terrorists." He said that any kind of a strike,
The president's admitting there was without knowing exactly where to hit,
little action the United States could "would be a terrorist blow .. .would
- ~take without endangering the lives of kill innocent people."
the hostages, announced several steps REAGAN said he could get "mad
aimed at preventing a similar in- enough right now" to order a
Associated Press cident- retaliatory strike but added, "How
Demis Roussos, a Greek singer, and his American fiancee Pamela Smith, walk out of Nebih Berri's house yesterday. He disclosed that he has asked the could you possibly try anything
Roussos and two other American passport holders were released yesterday from the U.S. TWA jet hijacked by Shiite secretaries of state and tranpor- without knowing whether those guns
Moslem sky pirates on an Athens-Rome flight last Friday. tation to determine whether the prac- would be trained on the hostages."
tice of having air marshals aboard At the same time, Reagan said,
domestic airliners could be extended "You can't give into the terrorists
Fam ly o f Be riliv s n fietr itto international flights. Heordered without knowing you are then setn
F a m ilythe State epartent to issue a cing someone else to these same
travelers' advisory warning of agonies." He said some solution must
DETROIT (UPI) - The Lebanese Detroit. the le of the United States t dangers in going through the airport be found "in a manner that does not
Iiite leader who has emerged as the Friends and relatives said Berri relax He is the only one who can do in Athens Greece, where the plane reward the terrorists," or the "same
central figure in the Beirut hijacking himself holds a "green card," which something, and he has ordered the gas h AIIONj acke sundrehd gang" would be out again in another
crisis has hundreds of relatives in permits him in live permanently in safety of the andt hes oree h NADTO, Regan adh a taking of hostages.
southeast Michigan, including an ex- the United States if he chooses and "In osb g es - asked all American carriers to review Asked why he was not "leaning" on
wife andsix children. eventually could enable him to man Ard Nabim means a wise the wisdom of flying into Athens and Israel to free some 700-800 Shiite
wif madn. And he is exactly that. He isnoureAmicstotaotofn
Nabih Berri's ties to the Detroit become a U.S. citizen. a terroristat urged Americans to stay out of any Moslems it is holding, a demand by
area date back to the 1920s when the The French-educated lawyer, 46, is erris fe Layla works for Middle East nation that has failed to the terrorists in return for the freeing
Berri, or Berry, family began im- head of the Amal movement and the the Dearborn plice dea rtment and condemn the terrorist kidnapping. the hostages, Reagan said it had
migrating to the United States from leading spokesman for Lebanon's 1 their six childen were aised in the neReagan, in his first prime time become impossible.
the village of Tibbnen in South million Shiites. Local friends and Dearborn area. Berri himself was last numerous questions dealing with the
Lebanon. family members describe him as a in the Detroit area in November 1983. hostage situation but told reporters
HIS FAMILY was in the vanguard fair and intelligent bargainer. Detroit businessman Nasib Fawaz,' that he could not answer those that Course Syliabus
of a wave of immigration from the "THE hijackers took the plane and a longtime friend who went to school are hypothetical or speculative in this PAD -101
Mviddle East that ultimately gave the thrust the problem into his lap," Ab- with Berri, described Berri as an in- "dangerous and volatile situation"
Detroit area the largest Arab dul Berry, a cousin who operates ath Ben, deribe B asian in- Ingros an val sutions Course Topic:
population in North America. Many Dearborn meat market, told the te'lieleader with a practical low- In response to several questioin How to live comfortably and
settled in Dearborn, a suburb west of Detroit News Monday. "But tell all key style. Reagan refused to compare the affordably on a college
budget.
Body of hijack victim sent home for burial Full season ith a
(Continued from Pageir) openings for our
President George Bush declared Part of a military family, Robert the victim's mother, Patricia, and she summer session.
survivor, Ziad Sidani, 24. "But two during a solemn ceremony: "Robert Stethem enlisted for a five-year stint embraced her husband Richard, a
shells exploded in five seconds and the Dean Stethem was an innocent victim in the Navy six months after retired Navy man, as uniformed Instructor:
irst one hit people who were run- of a cruelty that knows no bounds and graduating from high school and en- chaplains offered prayers for the slain Randy Pickut
ning." a barbarism that selects the joyed his work, family and friends diver. 665-2194
Authorities said three people were blameless for punishment." said. Secretary of State George Shultz, Office Hours:
killed and 17 were wounded on the Speaking on the tarmac of Andrews THE PENTAGON said Stethen was three United States senators, and 10:30-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
beach. Air Force Base, located outside the in Athens, Greece, where he boarded several top Navy officers watched the (Mr. Pickut is available for
Police sources said two shells nation's capital and just miles from TWA's overbooked flight to Rome, on ceremony without expression. tutoring by appt.)
smashed near pedestrians and Stethem's home town, Bush added: "official Navy business." A diver and underwater Course Material:
motorists at a busy intersection in "We cannot and will not tolerate this Ruth Henderson, 16, a passenger on steelworker in the Navy Seabees, The Tiffany: 736 Packard,
downtown west Beirut, killing three evil." the hijacked flight who sat next to Stethem held the rank of petty officer The Colony: 731 Packard,
civilians and wounding 18 others. The setting sun broke through a thin Stethem, told reporters in London the second class. He was assigned to The Madison:
FIVE PEOPLE were wounded by blanket of grey clouds as the body of hijackers kicked him in the face, Navy Underwater Construction Team 316 E. Madison
shrapnel in Christian east Beirut, the 23-year-old victim arrived in an broke his ribs, bludgeoned him with One at Norfolk, Va.
authorities said. Christian Voice of olive and grey camouflaged C-141 the butt of a pistol - and shot him. Stethem will be buried at Arlington Course Objectives:
Webanon radio said two of the woun- Navy transport, flying from an National Cemetery tomorrow. You will learn in this course
ded in east Beirut were children. American base near Madrid, Spain. Eight white-and-blue clad Navy Earlier in the day, President through your extensive and
The mortars were fired by rival THE YOUNG man was savagely guards carried the casket bearing the Reagan consoled the Stethem family comprehensive first hand
Christian and Moslem gunmen beaten and then shot Friday at Beirut body to a waiting hearse . in a telephone call to their home in lab work just how easy it
fighting on the Green Line, a no-man's airport by Moslem extremists who The silence of the procession was suburban Waldorf, Md., where is to live close to campus
strip of bombed-out buildings dividing commandeered TWA flight 847. Of the broken by solemn strains from a Navy Stethem visited just two weeks ago. in comfortable and
west Beirut from the Christian east. original 145 passengers and crew band. The president told Stethem's affordable surroundings.
At the Andrews Air Force Base in members, Stethem is the only During the 15-minute ceremony at mother: The offered material will
Missouri, the body of Robert Dean casualty to date in the continuing the base, Bush also said, "Robert "All Americans were shocked and demonstrate to the student
Stethem was returned to American standoff. At least 40 Americans are Dean Stethem was killed by criminals deeply saddened by the death of your the convenience of its
soil last night, four days after the being held in secret locations around who singled him out for death because son. His courage and pride are an in- efficiency, 1 and 2 bedroom
Navy diver was pistol-whipped and Beirut. he carried with pride among his spiring example for us all. We have apartments.
slain by Shiite hijackers in Beirut. "He was very proud of being in the papers the information that he was a been deeply impressed by your Fees:
STETHEM'S family wept just yar- service," his father, Richard member of the armed services of the family's strength, and Nancy and I Less than you'd expect.
ds from the white casket, draped in Stethem, said. "We probably need United States of America." are keeping all of you in our thoughts
the American flag. while Vice more fighters like him." TEARS streamed down the face of andprayers."