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Castro makes surprise visit to Jamaica PORT-AU-PRINCE (UPI)--The State get "hysterical" about Castro's Acknowledging that Castro's trip after U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young Department's top official for Latin visit, which was announced without was a surprise, Todman warned Amer- visited Jamaica for three days. He America and the Caribbean says Fidel warning Friday night by Jamaican not icans to overreact to it, as reportedly scored points for the Prime Minister Michael Manley. they Castro's visit to Jamaica Sunday was did earlier about Cuban in- diplomacy of the Carter administra- surprise but not a threat to norm- volvement a in Africa, tion in confrontations with Jamaica's alization of U.S.-Cuban relations. Todman is the State Department of- leftist leadership. Terence A. Todman, assistant sec- ficial most intimately involved in "They probably will get hysterical retary of state for inter-American the ongoing negotiations with the anyway," Todman said, "but there There was speculation in diplomatic affairs, made no secret of the fact Cubans, having visited Havana and is really no cause for it," circles that Jamaica, having that he had little advance notice worked out an agreement on fisher- just- The visit of the Cuban leader to purged its own leftists, wants of the Cuban Communists leaders ies and the opening of special in- to Jamaica comes at a time when Manley's show its independence in world af- visit to left-leaning Jamaica. terest sections of Cubans in the socialist government appeared to have fairs and its continued efforts Todman, on a brief trip to Puerto Czech Embassy in Washington and to purged leftists radicals within the walk a tightrope between east and Rico, Haiti and the Doninican Re- Americans in the Swiss Embassy in ruling People's National Party. west by inviting one of the worlds public, said Americans should not Havana. 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Vol. 32 No. 199 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Monday, October 17, 1977 Lufthansa jet hijacked, 87 held captive ADEN, SOUTH YEMEN (UPI)--Four blow up the jet with plastic ex- The hijackers, two men and two ister, said the German jet had hijackers who threatened to kill plosives they smuggled aboard. women who have been coordinating enough fuel to fly 2,500 miles. the 87 hostages aboard their cap- A Lufthansa spokesman in Frank- their air piracy with European ter- "Unfortunately, the tank is full," tive jet landed the plane Sunday furt said the twin-engine jet land- rorists who kidnaped German in- he said. night in Aden, South Yemen, Luft- ed at about 11 a.m. EDT in Aden, at dustrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer The 28-year-old minister, hoarse hansa Airlines reported from 6 p.m. local time. six weeks ago, ignored their own from a night of bargaining with the Frankfurt, West Germany. 8 a.m. EDT deadline for blowing up hijackers, described them as nervev An official said an American wo- The jet flew across the Arabian the jet, but they said the threat ous - more nervous than any hijack- man and her son were among the 82 desert for nearly four hours from remained in force. ers I have had contact with in the passengers and five crew members on Dubai, a Sheikhdom that is part of past," the plane, held captive for more the United Arab Emirates, on the The twin-engine plane left Dubai Mohammed said he did not believe than 72 hours. latest leg of its marathon journey. at 3:19 p.m. after the hijackers the hijackers would blow up the Neither West Germany nor Turkey The hijackers reportedly intended blackmailed officials of the United plane, but added: "I fear they may, made any move to meet the hijack- to stop in the Sultanate of Oman Arab Emirates into filling the fuel just to increase the pressure, be- ers' demands of freedom for 13 ter- after Dubai but they flew on to Aden tanks by threatening to kill the gin killing a few hostages." rorists imprisoned in those count- without asking permission to land. 82 passengers and five crew members "We have no more time," hijack com- ries plus a ransom of $15.5 million Officials in the Arab state adjoin- one by one. mander "Captain Mahmoud" shouted and the gunmen announced earlier at ing South Yemen had said they would Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rpshin Al over the jet's radio moments before Dubai that they still intended to turn the terrorists away, however. Makhtoum, the U.A.E. defense min- the plane left Dubai. Dies on golf course There will be no 'White Christmas' this year, Bing Crosby is dead at 73 MADRID (UPI/AP)--In the many hearts denly fell to the ground. most popular. He's remembered for Crosby met his first wife, Dixie he brightened for so many years, "We had just finished the last hundreds of other tunes, many from Lee, in LA and married her in 1930. Christmas will not be quite so white hole and were walking toward the movies, including "High Society," In 1932, he began a long association this year now that Bing Crosby is clubhouse when Bing had a seizure the "Road" series, "Going My Way" with Paramount Pictures. In 1939 he dead -- even if there is snow on the and fell. We first thought he had --for which he won an academy award made his inaugural "Road picture"-- ground. The man whose face and voice tripped," Barrios said. in 1944 -- and "White Christmas." the first in a series of seven. are, for many, more a part of Christ- "Bing was happy and singing as he He was born Harry Lillis Crosby Between 1931 and 1957, Crosby mas than Santa Claus. the quiet, went around the course. He was on May 2, 1904, in Tacoma, Washing- made more than 850 records -- and gentle legend of stage, screen and teamed up with Manuel Pinero and ton. He was one of .seven children at least 20 sold more than a mil- television. the man who provided they beat Cesar Zulueta and me by of a brewery bookkeeper. There are lion copies. the dictionary definition for the winning the 18th hole." many versions of how he got his nick- Crosby and Dixie Lee had four word crooner succumbed to a heart His remains were embalmed Sunday name "Bing," but they all agree that sons before she died of cancer in attack Friday at age 73. at the Forensic Institute in the he picked it up as a child. 1952. In 1957, Crosby married Crosby had just' finished a round Spanish capital. He began his musical career as a actress Kathryn Grant, who was then of golf on a course outside Madrid, To generations of Americans, "der drummer in a high school dance or- 32 years old. The two had a daugh- Spain when he suffered the fatal at- Bingle's" mellow baritone is as chestra. In 1927 he and Al Rinker-- ter and two sons. tack. He collapsed, was rushed to familiar a voice as their own. His a pianist--joined Paul Whiteman's Simple Roman Catholic funeral a Madrid hospital and pronounced recording of "White Christmas" is jazz orchestra, and Whiteman teamed services are scheduled for St. dead on arrival. one of the biggest selling records them with Harry Barries as Whiteman's Paul's Church in Los Angeles on Spanish champion Valentin Barrios of all time. And that record only Rhythm Boys. The Rhythm Boys later Tuesday. Burial will be at the said the singer showed no signs of recently edged out another Crosby left Whiteman and performed in Los Holy Cross Cemetery where his fatigue and was happy before he sud- recording, "Silent Night," as his Angeles. parents and first wife are buried. Yacht, 3 Americans held by Vietnamese BANGKOK (UPI)--An American dip- erman, in his late 20s - reported Western observers speculated Viet- of the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement. But one American lomat said Sunday they doubted any by radio Wednesday that unidenti- nam may use the three Americans for diplomat said he harm would come to three Americans fied craft fired on and rammed their propaganda purposes to further their felt "assured" that no harm would whose 39-foot yacht was fired on and yacht. goal of getting American aid, cur- come to the Brillig crew, other rammed in the South China Sea and Their last signal came Friday rently forbidden by U.S. law. than an inconvenient delay while taken under tow to Saigon by the evening when a voice identified as "They will be correct to their they consider negotiations. "To put Vietnamese Navy. that of Miss Dellenbaugh was heard captives, if indeed they are cap- it bluntly," the diplomat Vietnam has not responded to State by airline pilots saying, "We are tive," one observer said of the said, "they want American good will Department inquiries about the fate all ok," and said they were being Vietnamese. and American money. Doing harm to of the sailors, who were last heard towed by Vietnamese Navy ships to "But if they can use the group as the Brillig people would defeat from Friday when radio messages from Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Min leverage for American concessions, their purpose." the yacht Brillig said the three City.