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Extremists Vow More Executions A Manchester Legion clinches Zone Eight title... page 11 A HlanrhpHtpr Mrralft u Tuesday, Aug. 1, 1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents Leaders Extremists vow express horror more executions By Farouk Nassar prisoners for three Israeli soldi­ group has claimed responsibility. NICOSIA, Cyprus (A P) — The Associated Press ers and other foreigners held In Jerusalem, Prime Minister Nations expressed horror, revul­ hostage in Lebanon. Yitzhak Shamir today suggested sion and skepticism after a BEIRUT, Lebanon — Pro- The group claiming to hold Israel was conducting negotia­ pro-Iranian group in Lebanon Iranian extremists said they Cicippio, the Revolutionary Jus­ tions with Shiite groups to obtain claimed it hanged Lt. Col. Wil­ would follow the purported hang­ tice Organization, issued its the release of Israeli prisoners liam R. Higgins because Israel ing of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins threat to kill him in a note, and Western hostages. refused to free a captured Shiite with the “ execution” today of handwritten in Arabic and deli­ Asked whether Israeli was Moslem cleric. another U.S. hostage unless Is­ vered to the newspa/per An-Nahar Some leaders questioned engaged in contacts with Shiite rael frees a Shiite Moslem cleric with a photograph of Cicippio groups in Lebanon, Shamir told whether Higgins was killed it abducted smiling. reporters “ there are permanent months ago and others criticized Also today, a caller claiming to Cicippio, 58, of Norristown, Pa., contacts with various factors Israel for its abduction Friday of represent the group that kid­ was acting comptroller at the about the release of the Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid. napped Higgins said a British American University of Beirut hostages” Higgins' captors, who call hostage would be killed today when he was kidnapped on the themselves the Organization of unless the cleric was freed. The campus on Sept. 12, 1986. The cleric is a spiritual leader the Oppressed on Earth, claimed deadline for an earlier telephoned “ The organization announces of Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian they hanged Higgins Monday threat against him passed this its quick resolve to execute the organization believed to be an because Israel refused to release afternoon with no immediate death sentence against the umbrella group for the kid­ Obeid. word from the kidnappers. American-Israeli spy Joseph Cic­ nappers of Higgins and the 16 “ It’s an absolutely barbaric Israeli fighter jets swooped ippio if the struggling sheik is not other Westerners missing in act, consistent with the worst over strongholds of the Shiite released by 6 p.m. Tuesday," the Lebanon. Eight of the 16 are dimensions of terrorism," said The Associated Press fundamentalists in Lebanon at statement said. Americans. Prim e Minister Brian Mulroney HANGING MAN — This photograph was made from a daybreak, drawing gunfire from Revolutionary Justice did not Higgins’ reported hanging was of Canada, speaking with repor­ video released Monday by a terrorist group that purports Hezbollah militiamen in the an­ mention Edward Austin Tracy, clouded by doubt because of ters outside his office in Ottawa. cient town of Baalbek, police to show American Col. William R. Higgins hanged by the 58, of Burlington, Vt., another previous reports he may have “ If it has taken place as said. American hostage it claims to been killed months ago, and reported, it should give all of us neck. A police spokesman said no hits hold. Tracy disappeared in Oc­ Lebanese police said they could all the more reason to fight very, were scored and the planes did tober 1986. not confirm the claimed Higgins very vigorously all the aspects of not attempt to bomb east Leban­ This morning, an anonymous killing on Monday. Nevertheless, terrorism that are around the on’s Bekaa Valley, where more caller claiming to speak for the claim and the grisly videotape world." Bush is weighing than 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Oppressed on Earth said in a call that accompanied it met with Guards attached to Hezbollah are to a Beirut radio station that revulsion worldwide. The U.N. Security Council based. unanimously adopted a resolu­ Anglican Church envoy Terry President Bush, who in re­ “ But the flights heightened tion that “ condemns unequivo­ Waite would be killed by midnight sponse cut short a two-day response options fears of a large-scale military (5 p.m. EDT) unless Israel frees cally all acts of hostage-taking Western trip and met with top operation that Israel might and abduction.” Obeid. advisers in Washington, con­ mount to avenge the reported There was no way to determine demned the reported killingofthe Secretary-Generai Javier WASHINGTON (AP) - An helpful to the Middle East peace hanging of American hostage the authenticity of the threat, U.S. Marine and called on “ all Perez de Cuellar expressed “ out­ outraged President Bush is process. The brutal and tragic William Higgins, ” the spokes­ made to the Moslem-controlled parties" holding hostages in the rage and revulsion ... that an weighing U.S. options for re­ events of today have underscored man said. Voice of the Nation. Middle East to release hem. innocent man, serving the United sponding to the “ brutal and the validity of that statement," On Monday, the pro-Iranian In Nicosia. Cyprus, an anonym­ In Jerusalem, the Israeli army Nations in the cause of peace, tragic" murder of Marine Lt. Col. Bush said Monday night. Shiite group that abducted Hig­ William Higgins while ruling out ous caller claiming to speak for said Obeid had confessed per­ should be murdered in this With Shiite groups in Lebanon gins released a videotape of a fashion." negotiations with Lebanese ter­ threatening to kill more hostages the group told The Associated sonal involvement in “ planning man they said was Higgins Press on Monday that the group rorists threatening to kill more unless the cleric. Sheik Abdul and guiding and aiding” the Higgins, of Danville, Ky., led a dangling from a gallows. would kill Waite at 3 p.m. (8 a.m. hostages. Karim Obeid, is released, Bush abduction of Higgins and had 75-man observer team attached EDT) today, but the deadline The reported execution of Hig­ called on "all parties who hold Higgins commanded a group of revealed the names of his to the U.N. peacekeeping force in passed with no immediate word gins by Shiite Moslem kidnappers hostages in the Middle East to U.N. truce observers in south captors. south Lebanon when he was Lebanon when he was seized Feb. from the captors. abducted near Tyre on Feb. 17, Monday touched off the first release them forthwith” Israeli sources, however, said 17, 1988. It could not be immediately 1988. foreign policy crisis of the Bush Bush was starting the day the decision to abduct Obeid had administration. It also led the today with an intelligence brief­ A second group of kidnappers verified if that caller was from triggered deep divisions in the Timur Goksel, spokesman for president to pointedly criticize ing from his national security later said American hostage the organization, which had not government. Shamir defended U.N. peacekeeping forces in Israel, whose abduction of a adviser. Joseph James Cicippio would be made previous calls to the AP the abduction, saying it was made Lebanon, said “ If it's true it’s one Shiite Moslem cleric from Le­ Bush cut short a two-day killed if the Moslem cleric. Sheik office in Cyprus. to help free Israeli and Western of the saddest days for all banon on Friday was cited by Western trip on Monday and Abdul Karim Obeid, was not hostages in Lebanon. peacekeepers in the world.” Waite, 50, disappeared Jan. 20. Higgins’ kidnappers in announc­ returned to Washington after freed by 6 p.m. today (11 a.m. 1987, while seeking the release of EDT). In Iran, Foreign Minister All British Foreign Secretary John ing the American’s execution by learning that Higgins’ captors foreign hostages after leaving his Akbar Velayati said before the Major said in London that, if the hanging. had released a videotape they Israel has refused to release west Beirut hotel to negotiate reported hanging that his country “ On Friday, I said that the Obeid but has said it would swap with Islamic Jihad. He is believed condemns “ any kind of kidnap­ Please see LEADERS, page 10 taking of any hostage was not Please see BUSH, page 10 him and other Shiite Moslem held by Islamic Jihad, though no ping or death threat.” Cleanup at weapons plants Mayors advocate leadership expected to cost $17 billion as best attribute for position WASHINGTON (AP) — The The department has said the and as much as $3.7 billion Energy Department proposes to overall cleanup bill for the 17 annually in each of the subse­ Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part But DiRo.sa said the people who framed the spend as much as $17.2 billion in plants in a dozen states likely will quent four years. The sources series on how government works in Manchester. town charter in 1947 could not have envisioned the first five years of a major exceed $90 billion, but it is not spoke on the condition of how demanding and time-consuming the role of nuclear weapons plans cleanup, predicting how long the cleanup anonymity. By Alex Glrelll the directors would become with the growth and under a plan being announced by might take. Manchester Herald increasing complexity of the town. Energy Secretary James A series of disclosures this year The department is preparing Watkins. has revealed widespread neglect From now on. he said, all directors, including cleanup plans in five-year Former Democratic Mayor Matthew Moriarty Watkins, who says the govern­ of safety and environmental minority directors, will be very busy.
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