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Former Prime Minister Gandhi arrested on corruption charge NEW DELHI (UPI)--Former Prime two and a half hours of consulting keep her in our custody pending a paigns Minister Indira Gandhi was arrested last March in national elec- with her Congress Party leaders and magisterial order," police spokes- tions Monday on a charge of official cor- for herself and her Congress attorneys, she came out escorted by man Laksmi Narayan said. Party." ruption. She refused to be re- senior officials and was driven in She was arrested without a war- In a statement, Mrs. leased on bail and called the arrest Gandhi said: an ambassador's car to a police rant, Narayan said. "A magisterial "I have tried to serve "political." our people guest house where she was to stay warrant is not necessary for ar- and our country to the best "Where are your handcuffs?" Mrs. of my before appearing before a magistrate resting a person charged with a ability. No matter what the charge Gandhi asked police when they came this morning. bailable, cognizable offense," he or charges now against me, for her at home. this ar- "Mrs. Gandhi has been arrested explained. rest is a political one." She was told handcuffs were not for an offense that is cognizable He said Mrs. Gandhi was arrested "It is to prevent me from going necessary for the corruption charges and bailable, but if she does not for using her prime minister's to the people. It is an attempt on which she was arrested. to ask for release on bail, which she position "For securing Jeeps from discredit me in their eyes and the After returning to her room for has not, we will be compelled to private firms for use in poll cam- eyes of the world." Tide, Sun, Temp. Weather Forecast 8813 1 Hig9h .&de- O8pm Awiderly catter- Low t<de -7:4Opmwieysatr Swutise--- 6:52am*f ed showers; Sw~e~t-- 6:47pm Winds N 4-8 kts; High --- 90 0' Bay conditions 73---- " The.Ncwy'.6onayzhub dai 1-3ft. Vol. 32 No. 191 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cubs Tuesday. October 4, 1977 Six-day hijacking of JAL jetliner ends in Algeria ALGIERS (UPI)--Japanese Red Army the Red Army Commando, authors of Syria, where the hijackers freed 10 stops at Kuwait and Damascus. terrorists aboard a hijacked Japan the hijacking of the DC-8 of the JAL other hostages, including two A- Algeria has accepted hijackers Air Lines DC-8 jetliner released Company, have agreed to liberate the mericans and eight Japanese. before, most recently when terror- their hostages Monday and agreed to hostages and to evacuate the plane The plane landed in mid-afternoon ists seized Finance Ministers of leave the plane themselves, the according to the terms of negotia- at Algiers's Dar El Beida airport. oil-producing countries who had Algerian Press Service announced, tions with Algerian authorities." Aboard were at least five Japanese been meeting in Vienna in December, The release was announced two - APS did not specify whether the Red Army terrorists, the six con- 1975. hours after the plane had landed in hijackers had agreed to surrender to federates whose release from prison The Americans released in Damascus Algiers on a flight from Damascus, police or whether they would be they forced during the hijacking-and were identified by Syrian authori - Syria, with 19 remaining hostages given political asylum or would be their last 19 hostages -- 13 pas- ties as William D. McLean and Eric on the sixth day of a marathon hi- free to leave Algeria. sengers and six crew members. Weiss. Another American man, iden- jack that began last Wednesday over But the 6,000-mile sage now in its Also aboard was $6 million in U.S. tified only as T. Phelan, was re- India. sixth day appeared to be nearing is $100 bills the hijackers had de- ported still aboard. end. (In Tokyo, the Japanese Foreign manded in ransom from the Japanese Immediately on landing in Algiers Ministry said Algerian authorities government. Both Syria and Kuwait have de- the airliner was surrounded by po- took the five Red Army hijackers There had been 155 persons aboard clared policies of refusing to let lice and newsmen were ordered out of and the six terrorist comrades whose when the hijacking began last Wed- hijackers land. the airport. release from prison they had ob- nesday after a Bombay stopover on a But Syrian officials said they re- "The hostages of the DC-8 have tained to an undisclosed location.) Paris--Tokyo flight. lented "for humanitarian reasons" been released," the Algerian Press The Algerian government said it The hijackers first forced the and let the plane land after ini- Service said. allowed the plane to land at the flight to land at Dacca, Bangladesh. tially denying permission. Kuwait APS followed its announcement of express request of the Japanese At Dacca, they traded' 115 hostages officials said they granted per- the release with an urgent dispatch government and for humanitarian for six freed comrades flown in from mission after receiving "a last that apparently had been written reasons. Tokyo and $6 million cash. They message" in which the pilot warned before. It said, "The members of The jetliner flew in from Damascus, let out other groups of hostages in he was low on fuel. WASHINGTON (UPI)--The Supreme dence in a suit against former At- ly likely" the tapes include discus- torney Court refused Monday to overturn an General John Mitchell. It sions between Nixon and Mitchell order that Richard Nixon's White charges Mitchell took part in a top- about the week-long protests in House tapes be screened for evidence level conspiracy to violate the which more than 7,000 persons were Supreme Court upholds in a civil damage suit filed on be- rights of antiwar demonstrators here picked up by police. half of 1,200 illegally arrested by illegal mass arrests in 1971. "May Day" demonstrators. After the tapes are reviewed, most A damage suit against police of- likely by a government archivist, ficials involved in the arrests al- order to screen tapes The justices rejected Nixon's District Judge William Bryant may ready has been tried. The jury a- argument that Presidential privilege examine transcripts of relevant con- warded $12 million to 1,200 demon- bars the tapes from being used in versations in his chambers and Nixon' asstrators to compensate for false ar- civil suits. lawyers once again may object to rest and imprisonment and violations for evidence in civil suit They let stand an appeals court their admission. of their free speech rights, but an ruling that tapes from April 16 to Lawyer who sued on behalf of "May appeals court since has ordered the May 16, 1971, be screened for evi- Day" demonstrators said it is "high- amount reduced. FBI joins New York police in search for missing gems NEW YORK (UPI)--The Federal Bureau ting New York detectives in the him when he left on a trip to Puerto Meanwhile, homicide detectives of Investigation has joined New York search for some $1 million in gems Rico last July 28. were awaiting the results of blood police in the search for more than missing since the September 20 The 31-year-old Shafizadeh has tests done on Shlomo Tal, a material a million dollars worth of gems death of diamond broker Pinches not been seen since. witness in the slaying of Jaroslawicz. missing since the deaths of two Jaroslawicz, 25. According to the spokesman, the The blood test, detectives said, Manhattan diamond dealers and the FBI is required to investigate any could determine the validity of Tal's disappearance of a third, officials In addition, the spokesman said theft of property valued at more assertion that he was kidnaped, rob- said Sunday. the bureau is searching for $300,000 than $50,000 when it is likely that bed and drugged by the same two men A spokesman for the FBI office in worth of stones gem dealer Abraham the stolen goods will be sold across who killed Jaroslawicz in front of New York said the agency is assis- Shafizadeh, 31, was carrying with state lines. him in his office on September 20. Preliminary determination finds Japanese dumping steel in U.S. WASHINGTON (UPI)--In a potential As a result, the Department said, steel producers have been seeking The Japanese companies involved in major victory for the nation's steel the five companies will be required curbs on foreign imports for years. the tentative decision are five of industry, the Treasury Department to post bonds to cover "dumping the six firms included in a U.S. tentatively ruled Monday that five duties" amounting to 32 per cent of Pressure for such curbs has been Steel Corp. complaint filed Sept. 20. their imports. increased in recent months because Treasury Department general counsel Japanese steel companies are selling Japanese firms sold $147 million domestic production and profita- Robert Mundheim told a news con- carbon steel plate in the United worth of carbon steel plate in the bility have lagged and imports have ference a final ruling in the case States at a substantial loss. United States last year and U.S. surged. will come within 90 days. Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Tuesday, October 4, 197) L- 10(1 v~s niectingsr IT Tomorrow's meetings GITMO BAY BRIDGE CLUB meets at ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets at 7 p.m. at the COMO Club. Call Jim 7:30 p.m. at the East Bargo Point Cossey at 8873 AWH.