Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, June 22, 1985 Pilot held for 3 days in Moscow MOSCOW (UPI) - A 59-year-old port. departure, he said. American man flew a six-seater plane "From my time of arrival I've been Soviet authorities refused to issue a into Moscow without a visa and spent, under lock and key," he said in a duplicate visa despite pressure from three-days locked up in a hotel roon telephone interview yesterday before U.S. diplomats. by Soviet authorities before they his departure. "It's kind of disappoin- Harman, however, decided to make allowed him yesterday to leave the ting." the 561-mile trip anyway and achieve country. Harman, a retired academic turned his dream of becoming the first per- The authorities permitted Millard amateur pilot, said he spent two years son to fly a plane in the CIC class Harman, of Albany, N.Y., to fly out of and $100,000 arranging the goodwill (weighing less than 3,865 pounds) Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport trip and getting permission from from Helsinki, to Moscow, he said. yesterday in his six-seat, single- Soviet authorities, but one thing did The six-seater plane was loaded engine Beechcraft 36. He was bound not arrive in time - his visa. with goodwill gifts to Soviet officials for Helsinki, Finland. HIS VISA, though approved, was and flying clubs that included a HARMAN, 59, claiming to have caughtup in bureaucraticred tape. plaque from the mayor of Baden, broken a world speed record, said he He was hoping up to the last minute Ohio, to the mayor of Moscow and flew into the Sheremtyevo airport it would arrive and a friend in presents from relatives of the Wright Tuesday from Helsinki in his tiny Helsinki was even waiting to catch a brothers. plane, but spent the next three days commercial flight to Moscow to take U.S. officials said the gifts will be locked up ina hotel room near the air- it to him if it arrived after Harman's delivered. Athens airport takes no precautions ATHENS, Greece (UPI) - No ad- aboard the aircraft in Cairo," the air- weapons, even if wrapped in ditional security measures have been port of origin of the flight. fiberglass, could elude the airport taken at Athens airport despite the He said he had warned airport staff security system. They said they hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and an to be more "alert" for possible believed the weapons were aboard American warning against travelling hijackers. when the plane arrived from Cairo. through the facility, officials said An accomplice in last Friday's The Boston Globe reported Friday yesterday. hijacking of the Boeing 727, Ali Atweh, that the weapons may have been plan- "Security here is equal to that of told police the weapons used in the ted in the plane lavatories. any West European airport," airport skyjacking eacaped the detection of The Globe said Tina Migos, 20, of commander Giogos airport electronics equipment Revere, said she was told by her Papadimitropoulos told foreign because they were wrapped in father, former hostage Minas Thanos, correspondents after giving them a iberglass. Atweh was swapped to the 45, of Athens, the two hijackers' hands tour of security facilities at hijackers for several Greek hostages. were empty when they ran down the Hellenikon International airport. Greek officials dismissed his aisle and entered the lavatories shor- HE ALSO said he believed the 9mm claims, saying they had proved no tly after takeoff. pistol and two hand grenads used in the hijacking "had been placed IN BRIEF From United Press International connection with the attacks. Exper'ts conirm body Former Prime Minister Surya of Nazi war criminal Bahadur Thapa said his brother and an aide were among those SAO PAULO, Brazil -; Inter- arrested and blamed the violence national forensic experts Friday on the stifling of political op- identified a 1979 drowning victim position by the Nepalese gover- as Nazi war criminal Josef nment. Mengele, the concentration camp Man hijacks "Angel of Death" who sent 400,000 plane people to their deaths and eluded but later surrenders capture for 34 years. "There is no way this is not OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian him," said Dr. Lowell Levine, a ex-convict seized a domestic New York University dentistry airliner carrying 121 people professor sent to Brazil by the yesterday in the country's first Justice Department hijacking, but the drunken man "WtieDarstmsedth.surrendered four hours later after "We are satisfied with the in- releasing all the passengers vestigation," said Horst Gemmer, unharmed. chief of the West German gover- h - nment's Nazi-hunting unit. It .olice said the 23-year-old man, looks good. It looks like the case whose identity was not im- could be closed." mediately released, pointed a pellet gun at a stewardes and Anti-missile laser comandeered the Brathe Safe test is successful airline Boing 737 en route from CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Trondheim to Oslo shortly after brilliant bluish-green laser beam takeoff. hit the speeding space shuttle Soviet spy satellite Discovery and flashed back to falls over Midwest Hawaii Thursday in a successful A ov elles repatofthe"SarWars" anti- A Soviet spy satellite, sparkling repeat of the "Star Wads"onte like "a little nation of lights," missile test ground controllers broke up into more than 5,000 bungled two days earlier. pieces and fell on the Midweta The ship's interanational crew early yesterday in a specacular recorded the dazzling light show light show seen by hundreds of for more than two minutes on people in Ohio, Indiana and television, playing it back later to Michigan. the booming accompaniment of "I thought there were about six Tchiakovsky's "1812 Overture." objects, but it could have been Another "Star Wars" test was more," said Walter Bank of Salem, set for today after the astronauts Ohio, in the northeast part of the retrievean X-raysatellite. state. "I've seen comets before but Blast kills 1 in Nepal thiswasallclustered. KATMANDU, Nepal - Three Kay Cormier, a public affairs of- bomb explosions rocked NepalfAeropaceD N o mman yesterday, leaving at least one CooadSpri"fnsCom.mai"dt person dead and bringing to eight Cosmrao Sprvigllacesadtewa the number of people killed from Cosmos surveillance satellite was an unprecedented outbreak of launched by the Soviets on Jan. 11, political violence in the small it was a decaying, manmade mountain kindgom.I a eaig amd No one has claimed respon- space object that the NORAD sioiinerha s claimedt e ponb- space surveillance center had been siblity for a spate of bombings tracking and watching very that erupted Wednesday and con- carefully since it was indicated tinued Thursday, but Home that it was going to decay," Cor- Minister Jog Mehar Shrestha said mier saidiadding the satellite authorities had begun an in- broke up into about 5,300 pieces as vestigation and made 65 arrests in it fell to earth. - Vol. XCV - No. 25-S The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the fall and winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the spring and summer terms by students at The University of Michigan. 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Problems are making themselves felt at almost everything from being harrassed in every level," Toysaid.the dorm to getting homophobic ry e, y s . professors who make jokes about gay ONE OF THE recent steps the people or say that gay people are University has taken in favor of gay sick," she said. rights was the presidential policy "Some people, just through their statement issued by Harold Shapiro in own ignorance, think they can harass March 1984. Although activists had a person who's gay," said David hoped for a change in University Jackson, another student member of bylaws prohibiting discrimination on the task force. the basis of sexual orientation, they JACKSON said students also face say the policy statement and the six- subtler forms of discrimination, such month-old Task Force on Sexual as social events which are geared to Orientation have the potential to heterosexuals only. make some changes. Jackson also sees some potential The task force, which was formed changes resulting from the policy last December to aid in enforcing, statement. "Faculty, staff, and implementing, and publicizing the students may become more sensitive policy statement, consists of students to problems on the basis of sexual and faculty members from the orientation," he said. University. Jackson also said he hopes the Toy also said the consciousness of policy statement will be a stepping the public is being raised by suppor- stone to getting the University to tive media attention, movies, and change its bylaws to prohibit current events, such as the newly- discrimination on the basis of sexual formed gay high school in New York City. orientation. FOR THE GAY community and its DIANA DE Vries, a student mem- supporters, Pride Week is a time to ber of the tak force, said that remember the past and gain strength although the policy statement has from it to achieve such goals in the produced no sweeping changes at the future.