inter/national news
Reagan weapons
decisions due Friday
WASHINGTON
Pres Reagan will conduct a
news conference Thursday and
probably will announce Friday
his decisions on deployment of
the MX missile and the design of
America s next long-range
bomber, a White House spokes
man said Tuesday
The news conference — at 2
p m EDT in the White House
East Room — will be Reagan’s
fourth in eight months and his
first since June 16 All three
networks said Tuesday they
would carry the news confer
ence live
Spokesman David Gergen
said he anticipated Reagan
would make an announcement
Friday about modernizing stra
tegic weapon systems, but that
the decision might be delayed
until next week
Postal rates may
rise two cents
WASHINGTON
The Postal Service board dis
cussed raising postal rates
Tuesday, but delayed announc
ing a decision until today
Some postal observers ex
pect the board to increase the
first-class rate from 18 to 20
cents per letter
However, it also is possible
the board could choose a dif
ferent legal procedure that likely
would result in rates remaining
stable until next summer In that
event, the price might jump to
more than 20 cents for a first
class letter
Oregonian sues
Portland police
PORTLAND
The Oregonian Publishing
Co and reporter Alan Ota of
The Oregonian newspaper filed
a lawsuit Tuesday to force the
Portland Police Bureau to
provide reports and a personnel
roster
The suit was filed in Mult
nomah County Circuit Court
under Oregon's public records
law
The suit says the police bur
eau denied Ota's request made
in June for a copy of the bureau
personnel roster and four police
reports on incidents involving
28-year-old officer Richard Bar
ton
The suit says District Attorney
Michael Schrunk, at Ota's
request, ordered the bureau
Aug 13 to provide the informa
tion, but it had not been provid
ed by Monday State law says an
agency with records being
sought must within seven days
of receiving such an order
either turn over the records or
file a notice of appeal.
Sikh extremists
hijack airplane
LAHORE, Pakistan
Five Sikh extremists armed
with daggers and a hand gren
ade hijacked an Indian jetliner
with 117 people aboard and
forced it to land in Lahore on
Tuesday where they freed 67 of
the hostages, diplomatic
sources reported
They said the hijackers were
demanding the release of a Sikh
leader jailed in India, freedom
for other imprisoned Sikhs and
a ransom payment of $500,000
An Indian official, who
requested anonymity, said the
hijackers set a deadline of 10
a m Wednesday — 1 a m today
EDT — for India to meet their
demands
Negotiations with the
hijackers broke up at 1 a m
Wednesday local time, but were
to resume at 8 a m
Indian and Western diploma
tic sources said the 67 people
allowed to leave the airplane
included all the non-Indian pas
sengers Among those freed
was one American, William
Seco of Seattle, Wash The
release left 45 hostages aboard
the plane with the five hijackers
The hijack began shortly after
takeoff from New Delhi's Palam
Airport when the Sikhs suddenly
sprinted from the rear of the
plane and overpowered the
cabin crew, Seco told reporters
After a 15-minute struggle,
the hijackers had control of the
plane, Seco said
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Weinberger unveils
new military booklet
WASHINGTON
Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger unveiled a slick
government booklet on Soviet
military might Tuesday, saying
he hopes it will convince Eu
ropeans and Americans of a
“real and growing” Soviet
threat
Despite its profusion of facts,
charts and pictures, however,
the 99-page booklet titled
“Soviet Military Power”
provides little in terms of
numbers that was not already
available in previous assess
ments
Weinberger said the new
booklet’s value is in presenting
“more information on the
USSR's armed forces than had
been previously available under
one cover.”
Clergyman killed
in northern Iran
BEIRUT, Lebanon
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
condemned the murder of an
other ranking clergyman Tues
day as a futile act by American
"lackeys” to scare Iranians
away from the polls in Friday’s
presidential elections
Revolutionary firing squads,
meanwhile, executed 43 more
Mujahedeen Khalq leftists ac
cused of participating in Sun
day's violent anti-Khomeini
demonstrations in Tehran,
Iran's state radio said
The 81-year-old patriarch of
Iran's Islamic revolution spoke a
few hours after learning of the
assassination of Hojatoleslam
Abdulkarim Hashemi-Nejad,
secretary-general of the ruling
Islamic Republican Party at the
northeastern city of Mashhad
Hashemi-Nejad had just con
cluded a lecture outside the
local IRP headquarters when a
"Mujahedeen Khalq assassin”
approached him and detonated
a hand grenade, the official
Iranian news agency Pars
reported It said the blast killed
the clergyman, blew off a hand
of the attacker and injured two
others
The executions Tuesday
brought the officially an
nounced total to 1,071 since
Pres Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
was ousted on June 22
Robber found dead
in drainage ditch
SEATTLE
A man arrested for allegedly
pistol-whipping a Seattle phar
macist during a February hold
up, then released accidentally,
has been found murdered in
northern California, authorities
say
James Underwood, 34, who
was booked in Seattle under the
name James Sweden 3rd, was
also wanted for armed robbery,
kidnapping and other serious
crimes committed in California
since his release in Seattle, said
the Stanislaus County sheriff's
office.
He was found at 10 a m. Sun
day in a drainage ditch near
Modesto, about 30 miles south
of Sacramento, which police
think was Underwood’s home
base.
Underwood, dead less than
24 hours, had been shot several
times in the chest, said Capt.
Rodney Wells, who commands
the Stanislaus County sheriff’s
investigative division
No motive for the slaying is
known.
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