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ess. SEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Cooler Sunny and cooler today. Clear and quite cool tonight. THE FINAL Sunny and cool tomorrow. Bed Bank, Freehold , Loaf Branch (be DeUlU, Pi» ft EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOt. 93, NO. 54 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1970 24 PAGES TEN CENTS Hijacking Captives GENEVA (AP) — Palestinian guerrillas appear to have unacceptable from the humanitarian point of view," it said. agreed to transfer all passengers and crew of the three hi- Meanwhile, the Popular Front called together the 147 jacked" jetliners from the Jordanian desert to Amman, the wqmen and children it had brought to Amman earlier in the International Bed Cross committee reported today. week from the hijacked planes and told them they all Committee President Marcel Navffle said he is "not 100 could leave Amman if they wanted to. per cent sure" of the news, but a message just received from ARAB. STATES JOIN its delegation on the spot indicates that agreement has been readied with the Palestinians. Earlier today the leftists Arab governments of Iraq and Syria joined the West in the campaign to secure the release SET UP DETONATOItS of the approximately 280 airline passengers and crew mem- A few minutes earlier a committee spokesman said bers. Four Western governments and Israel meanwhile re- tile'guerrillas had set up detonators to set off dynamite jected the Palestinians' plans to trade the Israelis among charges attached to the planes, with all the passengers and the hostages for Arab commandos held in Israel. The five crew still aboard. governments demanded that the guerrillas free all the pas- The spokesman said its delegates and medical teams sengers and crew members. were ordered to leave the planes and the air strip after the Baghdad Radio said the Iraqi government had called for guerrillas heard radio reports indicating imminent "inter- the release of the hostages on "humanitarian1' grounds" and venflon by foreign military forces." , was using its good offices, with the leadership of the Pales- He said a. Bed Gross supply convoy en route for the air 'tinian guerrillas, to secure the release. strip was stopped by guerrilla troops and turned back. WOULD BAR INTERVENTION The committee ordered its delegates to protest "the ab- The broadcast said the Iraqi government wanted to solutely inhuman conditions opposed to the rights of man and "eliminate grounds of possible military intervention by the Geneva and Hague conventions" in which the, hostages foreign countries." are being held. Syria, the other ultraleftist Arab country, condemned ; Its statements referred to "the physical and' moral tor- the hijackings as "irresponsible and unrevolutionary acts" ture" suffered by the victims. It Steo condemned the hi- in an editorial in the Beirut newspaper AJ-Raya, which speaks jackers for refusing to let a, pregnant American- woman for Syria's ruling Baath Socialist party. Reliable sources PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS AND JORDANIAN SOLDIERS POSE — Jordanian loldieri and Palajflirian gutrnl- leave the TWA aircraft as she "was ready to have her baby. said the .Syrians also were urging release of the hostages, The child was bom on the plane "in conditions as good working through their allies on the central committee of the Us poie together in front of tris hijacked BOAC jetliner in the Jordanian desert near Amman', Jordan, yester- as could be expected under the circumstances, out absolutely Palestinian guerrillas., . , .. day. Upwards of 100 passengers and crew are hostages aboard the aircraft. IAP Wirephotol IffllliliBIBIWllllliBlllllllIllllilllBlflllllBlllHIIilllHIIHIIIll on WASHINGTON (AP) - are undergoing training and cate and everyone is anxious pilots declared. "We dont altitude at which everyone tical problems involved In "I am not proposing armed Armed federal agents will will board flights Saturday, not to upset any arrange- like shoot-outs at 50,000 feet." could breathe normally with- placing guards on planes. guards, but we will cooperate ride shotgun on overseas the source added. Pan Am ments that are con- Danger Slight out the use Of emergency oxy- "It will be expensive," one fully .if the government so de- flights of two U.S. airlines in and TWA are the only sched- templated," one official said, Another aviation veteran gen masks carried aboard all industry observer said. One cides," Halaby told newsmen. uled American carriers flying official estimated that a an attempt to foil .hijacking v A Pentagon spokesman said said there would be little dan- commercial jets. Halaby said guards on each a c r o s s the Atlantic and round-the-clock security force attempts, an informed source yesterday the Defense De- ger from rapid decompression Discomfort Minor plane must be under the com- throughout Europe. and related units, might re- disclosed today. partment' is prepared to pro- of a jetliner if a bullet pierced - Some passengers with colds mand of the captain.: They qulreup'to4,000 persons. Oth- Treasury agents and Feder- The airlines and govern- vide military guards or train the fuselage or shattered a might suffer a ruptured.ear- must;be provided, by the gov«? ers said this estimate was far al Aviation Administration ment agencies declined to personnel for' sky marshal window. dram as a result of the rapid eminent, and be highly, too high. marshals will be assigned to confirm or deny the report. duty if requested by the air- "Most pilots would not Wor- decompression, he said, "but trained so as to avoid endan- transatlantic and European All reportedly have agreed to lines. ry about rapid decompres- that would be relatively mi- Virtually the only person of gering passengers, he said. flights of Trans World Air- remain silent until the White Pilots in the past have op- sion," the source said. • nor discomfort as compared prominence willing to speak lines and Pan American House announces'measures posed sky marshals. If the aircraft was cruising to dying." for the record was Najeeb He added the use of armed World Airways the source designed to, thwart hijackings "We haven't much desire to at 35,000 feet, he explained, it Airline and government of- Halaby, Pan American chair- guards is not a perfect solu- said. and aircraft sabotage. see armed guards on our would take less than four min- ficials declined to comment man and former FAA admin- tion, but knowledge of their The sky marshals currently "The situation is very deli- planes," a spokesman for the . utes to drop to 10,000 feet, an on the cost and other, prac- . istrator. use could, be a deterrent; iiM^^^ By TOM CANNON wide political power, testified emerged from the grand jury John V. Kenny, appeared be- the other witnesses took only TRENTON (AP) — The yesterday for less than an room into a corridor filled fore the grand jury. half an hour except the last State Grand Jury has heard hour before the panel, which with newsmen. Ninth Witness witness, Miss Mary Murtha, from John V. Kenny, the long- also, heard from nine of his One of the subjects report- John V. Kenny, 77, the for- who testified for only about 15 time Democratic boss of Hud- political subordinates. edly under discussion • was mer mayor of Jersey City, minutes. Spend Five Hours son County. But only he and courthouse renovation con- was the ninth witness before Miss Murtha is county per- state Investigators know The 10 spent a total of five tracts for more than $300,000 the panel, which is in- sonnel officer and a former whether he shed any light on hours before the panel, but which were approved by the vestigating organized crime secretary to John J. Kenny, a probe of organized crime would say only that they an- 1966 Hudson County Board of and official corruption in the. former Democratic coun- and official corruption in his swered its questions. Freeholders. All the members Hudson County. ty chairman who was ousted . county. "I always answer ques- of that board except John J. He spent about 45 minutes last year when he bucked Kenny, who is also a state- tions," Kenny said, as he Kenny, a political rival. of on the witness stand. Most of John V. Kenny in the guber- natorial primary. Kept In Room After their testimony, the . Msgr. Emmett A. Monahan Rev. James R. Steele Rabbi Jack M. Rnoff Nixon Says Congress' Inaction witnesses were kept in an ante-room adjacent to the grand jury room and were not permitted to leave or con- verse with witnesses who had Area Clergymen Urge On His Legislation Is Political not testified, or with their own lawyers. "Too many promises of the By FRANK CORMIER arduous campaign swing of Nixon sought to place re- Miss Murtha, as the last WASHINGTON (AP) - the sort Nixon, as vice presi- sponsibility for present na- 1960's have not been kept. The dent, often carried out while tional ills on the Democrats nation is now paying the price witness, was the only one not Prayer for Hostages President Nixon, in a docu- for this. sent into the anteroom. As she,, ment widely viewed as his In- the late President Dwight D. who inhabited the White entered into the hallway she Eisenhower was Said to be House from 1961 until he took "In the name of the 'urban RED BANK - Local "We are very concerned for Msgr. Emmett A. Monahan, direct entry into the 1972 elec- taking the nonpolitical "high was surrounded by waiting clergymen united last night in the safety and well-being of pastor of St. James Parish, tion campaign, suggested to- office on January 20, 1960. He crisis' for example, the 1960's newsmen and- asked, "Where road." ' said: saw the federal government expressing their concern for the passengers and we shall Red Bank, added his concern: day the Democratic-con- are all my friends?" the pllght.of hostages held by pray this Sabbath in our syna- "The plight of the passengers trolled Congress has pigeon- increasingly caught in issues of municipal housekeeping She would not answer any Arab guerrillas in Jordanian gogues that God Almighty and crew; of the hijacked holed vital legislation for po- questions about her testimony- desert.