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Castro speaks to thousands at Montego Bay Rally KINGSTON, JAMAICA (UPI)--Cuban Pres- North Coast in an army plane accom- The rally celebrated National Hero Meanwhile, the pro-Western opposi- ident Fidel Castro Monday headed for panied by his host, Prime Minister Day, a Jamaican holiday commemorating tion Jamaica Labour Party continued Montego Bay, the center of Jamaica's Michael Manley. seven Jamaican historical figures. to score Manley's ruling Socialist tourist industry, to speak at a mass Manley and Castro had their first Peoples National Party for the Cas- rally of thousands of curious and The mass rally in Montego Bay was substantive policy talk Sunday night tro visit. admiring Jamaicans. billed as the main event of the Cas- over a two-hour dinner at Manley's The party denounced Castro for The Cuban revolutionary, who ar- tro visit, which has been planned private residence. Jamaican govern- trying to establish a beachhead in rived Sunday for a five-day visit for two years but was postponed while ment spokesmen said they reviewed Jamaica for spreading communism amid the tightest security ever seen Jamaica went through a period of and analyzed the situation in south- throughout the Caribbean. The JLP on this Caribbean island, flew to political violence and a state of ern Africa and discussed the role of is boycotting all functions during Montegd Bay on Jamaica's jetset emergency. education in third world countries. the visit. Tide, Sun, Temp. Weather Forecast 8813 Partly cloudy to High tde-l:28pm cloudy with thun- Low tide--6:56pm derstorms; Winds SLun~'uLe --- 6:56am N 10-14 kts; SUM P-t ---- 6:35pm Bay conditions High-------- 90 zhote.-bade~ddaity 2-4 ft. Low -------- 73 The. Navy'zSonteg Tuesday, October 18, 1977 Vol. 32 No. 200 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba West German commandos make midnight raid on hijacked jet BONN (UPI/AP) -- The ordeal of 86 chance to carry out their threat to raeli broadcaster reported three rades plus more than $15 million in hostages, hijacked aboard a jetliner blow up the plane and those aboard German transports were flying to the cash, to Somalia by four terrorists, is it. site of the raid. But the story was They threatened to kill all their over. "The job is finished." The com- held elsewhere at the request of the hostages unless their demands were Crack West German commandos rescu- mandos radioed their jubilant mes- worried Bonn government, met by a deadline just one hour af- ed all of them in a daring midnight sage of success to Bonn at 12:38 ter the West Germans staged their attack reminiscent of the 1976 Is- a.m. European time, 7:38 EDT, The terrorists hijacked the Luf- lightning raid, raeli raid on Entebbe. The West German government has an- thansa 737 last Thursday on a flight The fate of industrialist Hanns The commandos, who flew into the nounced all 86 hostages who were from a Mediterranean island to Ger- Martin Schleyer is still unknown, Somali city of Mogadishu after dark, being held aboard the jetliner are many. Since then, the jetliner made and a government official says he blew open the jetliner's doors with safe, and they'll be flown to Frank- stops in Rome, Cyprus and several feels relief as a result of the sui- explosive charges. furt. Middle East and Persian Gulf air- cessful raid, but tempered relief. In seven minutes it was all over. The raid was carried out by a 60- ports before flying to Somalia, Schleyer's kidnapers apparently wor- None of the West German commandos man elite unit of the West German It was there that the hijackers ked in concert with the hijackers in was killed, although one was injured, Border Guard. The commandos flew to shot and killed the 37-year-old pi- demanding the release of jailed ter- in the brief shootout. But, at Crete earlier today and then on to lot of the jetliner and dumped his rorists. They threatened to kill least three of the four hijackers Somalia on the horn of Africa. body on the runway. him earlfr. Sunday morning if the are now reported dead. They were En route to Somalia, the mission's The terrorists had demanded the government failed to meet their de- shot to death before they had a secrecy was threatened when an Is- freedom of 13 of their jailed com- mands. British & French airways plan SST test flights into Kennedy Airport NEW YORK (UPI) -- Air France and begin full commercial service on serve the rule of laws and not to "There was no other possible action British Airways, acting on a Supreme Nov. 22. repeat earlier demonstrations that by the Court considering the way the Court decision clearing the way for In Washington earlier in the day, threatened to shut down the airport. Port Authority has bungled," Ber- Lhe Concorde supersonic jetliner to the Supreme Court set aside a tem- Questioned at an Albany news con- man said, land in New York, said yesterday porary stay on Concorde flights in- ference, Carey backed off somewhat Levinson said his organization they would begin test flights into to New York issued Oct. 7 by Justice from a statement he made last week will stage more demonstrations at Kennedy Airport tomorrow. Thurgood Marshall. Marshall's order in which he said he was sure the Kennedy by homeowners near the air- The airlines said they planned to was issued at the request of the Supreme Court would not overrule port. Port Authority of New York and New him if he determined the plane Jersey, which operate the airport. should be banned. The Authority wanted the Court to "I will respect the Court.I will maintain the ban until it could ap- respect and uphold the rule of law," Officials and buisnessmen peal a decision by the Second U.S. Carey said, Circuit Court of Appeals, which de- "We'll do whatever we can within Transplant patient dies clared the agency's resistance to the law to protect the community and Concorde landings illegal and dis- maintain operation of the airport," criminatory. Sagner said. "Our plan is to see if The Supreme Court ruling which there are any legal steps that can arrested in fire-for-hire removes all legal barriers to im- be taken, I don't have anything up after living three days mediate flights in and out of the my sleeve." airport, brought immediate denunci- The only likely deterrent to Con- ations from community groups and lo- corde operation into New York would case by Mass. state police cal politicians who have fought the be the adoption by the Port Autho- Concorde because of its noise levels. rity of new noise regulations exclu- with chimpanzee's heart BOSTON (UPI) -- Policemen, firemen, But both Gov. Hugh Carey and Alan ding the supersonic jetliner from lawyers and businessmen were rous- Sagner, chairman of the Port Autho- Kennedy. CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA (UPI) -- The ted from bed, booked and fingerprin- rity agreed there was nothing that Carol Berman, head of the Emergen- only man ever to live more than a ted yesterday as state police began could be done to prevent the test cy Coalition to Stop the SST, sin- few hours on an implanted chimpan- rounding up 88 persons allegedly flights, gled out the Port Authority as the zee's heart died Monday in Cape involved in the largest urban fire- "Only the weather" can stop the culprit, as did Brian Levinson, pre- Town, a Groote Schur Hospital spokes- for-hire scheme in the United States. flights now, Carey said, and urged sident of the anti-SST group Con- man said. "There have been three deaths lin- opponents of the Concorde to "ob- corde Alert. ked to this investigation," said Benjamin Fortes, 59, who underwent Thursday by Stephen Delinsky, an assistant state the transplant operation Christian Bar- attorney general. a team headed by Dr. on the an- Attorney General Francis Bellotti Austrailian scientist developes, nard, lived for 82 hours back" style said the arson arrests follow a imal's heart sewn "piggy lengthy investigation by a special next to his own. the unit of eight offices into 35 Bos- A hospital spokesman said tests sonic shark repellent cause of Forte's death had not yet ton area fires which rang up proper- ty damages of more than $6 million. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (UPI)-- A Sydney ing the repellent, which he said was been determined. issued by the hospital Bellotti termed it "The largest marine scientist has developed a so effective that sharks continued A statement circulation had deterior- arson ring ever uncovered in the sonic shark repellent which he says to avoid the test areas after the said his from unknown causes and all United States" and said the case could be protecting Australian bea- equipment was removed. ated attempts to improve it had failed. "disclosed corruption within the ches from sharks within a few years, Brown said the repellent consists was not immediately avail- state fire marshal's office attached local newspapers reported yesterday. of transducers (underwater loudspeak- Barnard to the Massachusetts State Police, ers) placed on the sea floor and. con- able for comment. has been used in the Boston Arson Squad and in the The scientist, Theo Brown, develop- nected to tape recorders on the A chimpanzee heart transplants -- Chelsea Fire Department. ed the repellent while working for shore. in two previous heart in 1964 and a- Charges range from murder to arson the French government in the Eastern The transducers emit a continuous in the United States but both and include burning to defraud, sub- Pacific, the newspaper said.