8- M MANCHESTER ‘Smokeless’ U.S. Ten tips provide Bosworth is out is called unlikely weekend of fun of Orange Bowl page 3 ... page 11 ... page 15 iiaitrlipstpr Hrralh Manchester — A City ol Village Charm Friday, Dec. 26,1986 30 Cents Iran denies Stores are still Sh NA1 involvement ^ 5 mobbed Nori By John F. Kirch Herald Reporter in hijacking If you’re wondering what people do the day after Christmas, they shop. The lines forming behind the cash At least 62 people killed registers at retail stores in the Manchester Parkade this morning as plane burns in desert were longer than those at the return tables. Customers walked up and suffered in the fight between the down store aisles, thumbing RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (A P) - through sweaters, shirts, Christ­ Iran today denied involvement in hijackers and security officers. In Washington, a State Depart­ mas cards and gift wrapping — the hijacking of an Iraqi jet that mostly at reduced proces. crashed at a remote airstrip and ment spokesman said there were no Americans iaboard the plane. The Christmas has come and gone, burned, kiiling at ieast 62 people. but its passing is not evident in the One passenger said he heard nationalities of most of the pas­ sengers were not known. average Manchester store. Each explosions and gunfire in the has its own sale and prices on Aarar told Ted Koppel on ABC’s cockpit before the crash. holiday ornaments and other holi­ Anonymous callers to news me­ ’’Nightline” that he saw only the day products are being slashed in hijacker who ran through the first dia in Beirut, Lebanon, made half. conficting claims of responsibility class cabin, but that the noise from At Card Gallery, there was on behalf of four terroist groups. the tourist section led him to believe actually a line of people outside the One caller said he spoke for Islamic there were "from two to three or door, waiting for the store to open. Jihad, which is believed loyal to four” assailants. “ Sometimes you wonder where Iran. Aarar said the hijacker looked to the business is going to come from Iraqi officials blamed agents of be about 20 or 21 years old and did next year,” said Jay Reed, the Iran, its enemy in a 6-year-old not speak. manager at Reed’s, which sells border war, for the hijacking and In Lebanon, an anonymous caller cards, gift wrapping, office supp­ crash Thursday. But Iran's official claiming to speak for Islamic lies and books. Islamic News Agency today issued Jihad, the terrorist group that holds “ We’ re buying,” said Charles a statement denying any involve­ American and French hostages, Ekstrom of Glastonbury. “ My wife ment in the hijacking. told a Western news agency in is coming to see if some of the "W e condemn any moves which Beirut that his group was responsi­ Christmas things are for sale. She’s may threaten the lives of innocent ble. Islamic Jihad is believed made not iflo happy-With out artiilriaL - - passengers,” the agency quoted an up of Shiite Moslems loyal to the tree and she wants to see if anything Shiite leaders of Iran. unidentified Foreign Ministry offi­ AP photo is half price. I ’m sure some other cial as saying. The IRNA dispatch He said the air pirates acted in paraphernalia will walk out, too.” was monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus. cooperation with the Dawa party, Although the day after Christmas which is made up of Iraqi Shiite Sulieman Aarar, a former Jordanian Saudi Arabia while on a flight from Saudi Arabia said 62 people were Baghdad, Iraq, to Amman. Aarar said has the reputation for being the day killed in the crash at Arar, a small Moslems who support Iran. The deputy prime minister and interior of returns, local retailers inter­ desert airstrip about 700 miles caller demanded the release of two minister, is met by his son Mohammad in would-be hijackers detonated at least viewed this morning said other­ Sin northwest of Riyadh and 250 miles hijackers he said were arrested Amman, Joradan, Thursday evening. two hand grenades as the aircraft was wise. They estimated that between after the crash. southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. It also Aarar was a passenger on the Iraqi trying to make a forced landing. At least 10 to 15 percent of all business will Fri said nothing alMut the hijacking, Other anonymous calls to news be returns or exchanges, while Chris saying merely that the plane tried organizations in Beimt claimed Airways jetliner that exploded and 62 people were killed. most of the transactions are sales. for tl to land and crashed. responsibility on behalf of three burned at a remote desert airstrip in “ It’s usually a good sales day,” El< Jordan put the number kilted at previously unknown groups. said Charles E. Underwood, operat­ falo. One caller said the Revolutionary 65. ing manager at the Manchester yea r Action Organization was responsi­ The two governments also gave Parkade Sears store. " I t ’s not celvc conflicting figures on the number of ble and would stage further attacks comparable to the holiday season. on "Iraqi embassies and interests" 1t happened like lightning’ stem people aboard Iraqi Airways Flight But it’s a much higher volume day unless three members of the group point 163 from Baghdad to Amman, than a normal shopping day. People with Jordan. were released from Iraqi jails. get money for Christmas, gift They The Saudi Defense Ministry said Another said the Revolutionary Survivor heard shots, screams from cockpit certificates.” card there were 107 people on the Boeing Shiite Organization was responsi­ Reed said Dec. 26 is traditionally Sh( 737 — 91 passengers, 15 crew ble but gave no further information. his company’s biggest day in AMMAN, Jordan (A P) — A 62 of the 107 people aboard were have been at war since September members and a security man — 44 Yet another caller said the, transactions. Since most items are Sinat Islamic Revolutionary Movement former interior minister who sur­ killed. However, the Jordanian 1980. “ I ’m of whom survived. It did not “ The back of the plane was on fire half price, the store doesn’t make was responsible. vived the Christmas Day hijacking government said 65 people were her i account for the 107th person. and the cabin was filled with as much money, but cashiers The Jordanian government said The Gulf News Agency quoted an of an Iraqi jetliner said he heard an killed. color explosion and gunfire from the “ It all happened like lightning smoke,” Aarar continued. “ Oxy­ handle more people, he said. 95 people were on the plane, 30 of Iraqi official Thursday^ as saying Albert Jean, the manager of deca( cockpit before the Boeing 737 about an hour after we took off from gen masks dropped from the ceiling whom survived. One survivor, the hijackers were “ two agents of Hobbytyme Stores at the Parkade, Sh( crashed in Saudi Arabia, killing at Baghdad,” said Aarar, who was in and we put them on our faces. Then former Jordanian Interior Minister the Iranian regim e." He said both said many people purchase extras also least 62 people. the first class section. the plane started swaying and Sulieman Aarar, said the plane was were killed, one by a security for gifts they received Thursday, other “ The captain had just announced He said the man with the grenade began a sharp descent, a nosedive. commandeered about an hour after official and one in the crash. such as additional tracks for a train “ I s The state-run Iraqi News Agency that we’d entered Saudi airspace did not identify himself or say why leaving Baghdad and had just “ It hit the ground very hard and set. doesi quoted an unidentified government when one passenger from the he was trying to hijack the plane. the seat cushions came off and we entered Saudi airspace when a man “ It’s usually a good day for us,” abou official as saying two hijackers who economy class jumped up with a “ The door was slammed shut. were all on the floor,” he said. “ The stood up with a grenade. Then there was loud noises and he said. “ We do expect some He’s "Three security men jumped up traveled on Lebanese passports hand grenade and ran towards the fuselage split into two, with the two screaming from the cockpit and returns.” comi and tried to stop him and wrestled had arrived in Baghdad on a flight cockpit,” the former Cabinet minis­ pieces on the ground about 200 or behind in the economy section. A Ko him to the floor, but he slipped out of from Yugoslavia. ter, Sulieman Aarar, told reporters 300 yards apart. few moments later, there was an Please turn to page 10 pictu their grasp and crawled into the In Paris, Iraqi Ambassador Mo­ upon arriving in the Jordanian explosion inside the cockpit,” “ An attendant in the first class table cockpit,” Aarar told reporters in hammed Sadiq el-Maschat called capital 10 hours after Thursday’s Aarar said. section pulled me and my brother the Jordanian capital of Amman. the disaster "a crime of the Iranian crash. once, “ Then right after that there was Khaled from under the seats and all He said he heard an explosion regime.” "Three security men jumped up 1977 another explosion in the economy three of us threw ourselves out of from the co^pit, followed by an Saudi Arabia said nothing about and tried to stop him and wrestled Gifts helped class compartment and pistol shots the plane as it continued to bum,” explosion in the rear of the plane the hijacking.