ijackers surrender Libyan jet, free 35 hostages BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Moslem zealots who commandeered a Libyan jetliner freed their 35 hostages and surrendered early yesterday after a 7,500-mile hijack ordeal that had taken the plane to: Beirut for the third time in as many days, airport officials said. Officials said some of the passengers left the plane after the hijackers got off. Lebanon's state radro reported that the Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 would fly to Larnaca, Cyprus, with the rest of the former hostages, who included 27 passengers and eight crew rx►embers. The surrender came after more than five hours of negotiations punctuated by bursts of machine gun fire from the airplane as the hijack team fired warning shots to keep back security forces sur rounding the airplane. Officials said there were five.heavily armed hijackers on the plane, and state/nation/world Mine disaster: By JOHN NOLAN Associated Press Writer WHITWELL, Tenn. (AP) An explo sion that killed 13 Tennessee coal min ers probably was caused by methane gas, officials said yesterday. In Ken tucky, meanwhile, the union president said slipshod handling of explosives contributed to a blast that killed eight a day earlier. And Kentucky's medical examiner said at least three of the victims were carrying cigarette lighters when they died. United Mine Workers President Sam Church went to the disaster site near Topmost, Ky., as state and federal inspectors entered the Adkins Coal Co. No. 18 mine to look for the cause of Monday's explosion. "There was loose powder all over that place . . . and there were (blast ing) caps all over the face" of the coal seam, Church said. He said he was told that the victim's took 25 cases of explosives into the mine minutes before the accident, but only 15 cases were found by rescue workers. Church said his comments were unof ficial, but based on information he received from officials at the scene and Sakharov's daughter-in-law may be allowed to emigrate By STEVEN R. BURST Associated Press Writer .MOSCOW (AP) The daughter-in-laW of Andrei Sakharov said yesterday the KGB secret police told her the Nobel laureate had ended his 17-day hunger -strike in exile, and she would be allowed to go to the United States to join her husband. laza Alexeyeva, 26, said she was sum moned to KGB headquarters yesterday afternoon and told Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, halted their hunger strike after being informed permission had been granted for her .to emigrate. The Sakharovs began the hunger strike Nov. 22 in Gorky to protest Soviet refusal to allow Alexeyeva to leave the country. The Soviets announced Friday that the Sakharovs had been hospitalized to safe ;guard their health. The Soviet govern ment apparently decided to allow 'Alexeyeva to leave and to resolve the confrontation with Sakharov . , which had generated a public outcry in the West. Alexeyeva said, however, the KGB 'warned that her departure date could be 'altered if she didn't limit her contacts with foreigners, especially Western cor respondents, whose reports could "pro voke anti-Soviet sentiment." Alexeyeva said that after leaving the KGB she telephoned OVIR, the Soviet agency that issues foreign travel visas, and asked if a visa was ready. She said officials said they knew nothing about a visa for her. She was married by proxy last June to 35lear-old Alexei Semyonov, Bonner's ;on by a previous marriage. He is a graduate student at Brandeis University 'ear Boston. In Paris, Tantanya Yankelevich, Sak- Consumers may be By Vti!...._AM KRONHOLM tssociat .d Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) ''he House approved legislation ,esterday that would allow industry to bill consumers in advance to help build the $43 billion Alaska natural gas ,ipeline. But a parliamentary snag is going . to force the House o -epeat its vote, prompting opponents to say the package still might be defeated The House passed the legislation 233-177 to grant pricing •oncessions to companies building the pipeline, which would be he largest private construction project in world history. But the measure, already passed by the Senate, immediately aced a parliamentary obstacle that stopped the measure from • ,oing to the White House. : 1 And in a night session later yesterday, the House Rules ;i!ommittee said the vote would have to be repeated before I ,assage became final. Rep, Tom Corcoran, R-111., who led ';pposition to the package, said he hoped to defeat the package n the second attempt, expected to take place today. "We have to pick up 30 votes, roughly," he said. "I think the hances of doing that are good " The obstacle arose because the House and Senate passed Methane probable cause in Tennessee, official says A miner waits, as the search continues for 13 missing miners, who were all later found dead. company personnel. The company has said it will not comment on any matters under investigation. In-Whitwell, a tiny town in southeast ern Tennessee, relatives identified the bodies of the 13 men who died Tuesday harov's step-daughter, and her husband, Frem, issued a statement pointing out that no public announcement had been made about the end of the hunger strike and Alexeyeva did not have the visa yet. They said the news was "an encourag ing sign," but added, ". . . the KGB does not always keep its promises." Speaking with reporters in Sakharov's Moscow apartment, Alexeyeva quoted KGB agent Alexander Baranov as say ing, "As a member of the KGB, I can tell you permission was granted yesterday (Tuesday) for you to leave." She said she had no information on the Sakharovs' exact whereabouts or health other than what she learned in a letter Tuesday, which said they were in "poor condition." "The first thing in my mind is their health," she said, adding that Baranov told' her she might be able to visit them in Gorky, "but when would be up to the doctors treating them." Sakharov, who helped develop the So viet hydrogen bomb, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 for his efforts on behalf of human ,rights. In Washington, White House Secretary Larry Speakes said President Reagan was "gratified" Alexeyeva was granted permission to leave and "pleased" that the hunger strike had ended. The State Department hailed the Soviet decision. "For all of us who have been involved in this drama this is a most welcome and happy outcome," said Alan Romberg, the department's deputy spokesman. "We would hope that this would mean that the Sakharovs, once they fully re cover from the effects of ther hunger strike, will be allowed to return to a normal life," he said. they surrendered at 5:30 p.m. EST yesterday. The officials said the hijackers gave themselves up to troops of Syria's peacekeeping force, which had ringed the aircraft along with units of the Lebanese,armly since it touched down and taxied to the end of the runway. The peacekeeping force was sent to Lebanon to enforce a truce made after the country's 1975-76 civil war. The radio said two buses were sent to the plane for the passengers who decided to remain in Beirut. The radio said Nabih Berri, head of the Shiite Moslem Amal militia, negotiated with the hijack ers on final arrangements for the surrender, as they had demanded. The hijackers seized the aircraft to back their demand for an investigation into the disappear ance of their Shiite Moslem leader at the end of a AP Lasorphoto separate versions of an identical bill the House acting on a House bill, the Senate on a Senate bill. Legally, they were separate pieces of legislation. And a special federal law on the pipeline forbids either house from considering the subject twice within 60 days a technicality sponsors apparently had missed Because of Corcoran's objections, the House therefore could not go through the technicality of putting its bill under a Senate number, the final step before sending a bill to the White House. That would have been considering two bills. And in the Senate, Sen. Howard MetzenbaUm, D-Ohio, notifed the Senate leadership he would filibuster any attempt to put the Senate bill under a House number. Faced with the legal dilemma, the House Rules Committee voted 13-1 last night to authorize the House to take a vote again this time on the Senate bill. The legislative package, under either number, Waives exist ing antitrust and pricing laws to allow consumers to be billed for the pipeline before it is completed, a step which industry says it critical to attracting the massive capital needed for construction. The line, not likely to be completed before at least 1987, would trip to Libya three years ago. Reporters at the airport said a Shiite Moslem clergyman, wearing a white turban and a black robe, boarded the plane shortly before the release of the hostages, and soon afterward a number of. men left the plane. It was not clear whether they were the hijackers. Shortly after the plane landed in Beirut, a spokesman for the hijackers also asserted he and his comrades had decided to end the hijacking, which had involved stops in four countries, and free the hostages unharmed. The hijacker spokesman, identified only as Hamza, fired two pistol shots into the air from the front hatch of the plane as security forces moved closer, then said he would blow up the jet unless troops pulled back, radio stations reported. "Passengers were heard weeping and pleading three miles inside a mountain "They've been mining coal in this area for 100 years and this is the first fatal explosion they've ever had;" said Harry Joe Hooper, father of a miner and owner of a funeral parlor used as a makeshift morgue for the bodies. "What makes it tough is that I knew all of them. "I've got one back there I used to play guitar with. There's one I went to school with . . . I got home at 4:30 this morning and lay down, but I couldn't go to sleep. It's tough." Tuesday's blast was the third fatal mine accident in Appalachia in five days and the worst in Tennessee since 184 miners were killed in the collapse of a mine at Coal Creek, Tenn., in 1911. • Eight miners were killed in an explo sion in a mine .at Topmost, Ky., on Monday. And on Thursday, three min ers were killed in a rock and slate fall in a mine in Bergoo, W.Va. Before that, the last major coal mine accident was last April, when 15 men died near Redstone, Colo. The latest explosion ripped through a section of the No. 21 mine owned by 'Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co., and Resolution sought to Greek, Turkish dispute By DAVID MASON Associated Press Writer BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) NATO defense min isters struggled yesterday to resolve a dispute between Greece and Turkey, which form the strategic southeast ern anchor of the Western defense alliance. A special three-hour session produced no results, and a new round of talks was set for later in the evening, officials said. Greece's new socialist prime minister and defense - minister, Andreas Papandreou, was reported by seve ral NATO officials to be insisting on an alliance assur ance of Greek security against perceived threats from Turkey. The sources said Papandreou was insisting \ on phra seology in the defense ministers' communique which would at least imply that NATO would come to Greece's rescue against any attack from Turkey. Turkey denies any such intention and was said to be refusing any allusion to Greek concern in the NATO military strategy statement traditionally issued at the Price of crude to stay same, sheik says billed for unbuilt pipeline • - rr, •,,? ^ " 4 !.:11i . • . " State, federal and lo.c;al mining officials board a shuttle car yesterday to investigate the cause of an explosion that occured Monday in a mine located near Topmost, Ky. operated by its subsidiary, Grundy Mining Co. Investigators• suspect meth ane gas, a common problem in deep coal mines, but federal mine officials said it may be several months before the cause is determined. "I think there's strong evidence that's (methane) what it was," said John Parish, Gov. Lamar Alexander's press secretary. "But I don't think anybody is saying that officially." Before inspectors can enter the mine, Greece and Turkey occupy the strategic southeastern wing of the 15-nation NATO alliance, formed in 1949 to balance the Soviet postwar military buildup. But centu ries- old hostility between the Greeks and the Turks have brought strains to the key region of the alliance defense area. Greece left the military wing of the alliance in 1974, after Turkey occupied part of Cyprus, an island nation whose population is predominantly of Greek back ground. Greece returned to full alliance membership in 1980 under a formula which aimed to smooth over the Greek-Turkish dispute. But Papandreou, who led his Socialists to victory in October elections on an anti-NATO platform, on Tues day reiterated his reservations about NATO and said he was considering a "a process 'of disengagement" because of Turkey. Papandreou told a news conference, "I documented the fact that Turkey, while an ally in NATO, does indeed pose a threat to (Greek) territorial integrity." He added "this was also a matter for NATO . . . The countries that belong to NATO presumably count on (Greece) to By ALY MAHMOUD Associated Press Writer ABU DHABI, United Arab Emi rates (AP) Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamni of Saudi Arabia said yesterday that the basic price of crude oil will be frozen until the end of 1982. However, sources said that some oil ministers of the 13-nation Organi zation of Petroleum Exporting Coun tries meeting here are calling for a cut in the price of top-quality crude to combat a worldwide oil glut and sluggish•sales. Indonesian Oil Minister Subroto said the biannual ministers confer ence will examine the price issue today, the final day of the session. dwarf the existing trans-Alaska oil pipeline. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader charged after the vote that the Democratic Party had "sold its soul" to the oil companies The package is intended to attract loans from world finan ciers, who up to now have,been unwilling to risk the billions of dollars involved. It would effectively shift much of the risk from investors to natural gas customers, who could end up paying for the pipeline even if it is never completed. The early billing authority will not affect consumers for several years, probably beginning about 1987. But then, say critics, consumers could end up paying surcharges for the 20- year life of the loans. Corcoran said that when the billing section of the legislation takes effect residential consumers in 42 states could end up paying $72 to $l5O a year for gas they are not receiving. Pipeline backers, however, said the potential cost was closer to $ll to $lB a year, and even that was unlikely. The legislation splits the pipeline into three segments the Alaska portion, the Canadian portion and a conditioning plant in Alaska designed to prepare the gas for transport. It also requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to set a target date for completion, expected to be in 1987. with him not to do it," said a well-placed airport source who listened to a radio monitor. ' Crowds of Shiites supporting the hijackers gathered by the runway chanting "Allah akbar!" (God is great). They kept shouting despite stray bullets from the hijackers' warning bursts that kicked up nearby weeds. • Rimza made his threat in a message to the Beirut control tower in which he also asserted the hijackers would end the action and release the hostages without "hurting anyone." The message was broadcast by Lebanon's state radio. Other militants hijacked three Venezuelan air liners over Venezuela on Monday and forced them to Cuba, where the air pirates surrendered Tues day. The planes and more than 100 freed hostages arrived in Venezuela yesterday under a 1973 its ventilation must be repaired to dis perse any explosive gas, said John McGrath, public information specialist for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. Also, he said, inspectors would check carbon monoxide levels and look for coal dust, another potential source of explosion. The mine is closed pending comple tion of the investigation. Officials said about 30 miners were in Talking to reporters before the session opened yesterday, Yamani said, "I have no doubt" that oil prices will not change until the end of next year He also said Saudi Arabia, OPEC's largest oil producer, would have a "nice Christmas gift" for the indus trialized world that would be an nounced by the end of the conference. He did not say what the,gift would be, but sources said Yamani might be referring to a reduction in the price of Saudi Arabia's medium-and heavy grade crude oil. Subroto, president of the cartel, opened the conference with an appeal for OPEC solidarity after "two years of hectic and difficult challenges." treaty, Cuban authorities said The identities of the hijackers who took over the Venezuelan airliners still had not been deter mined, but passengers freed during various stops before the planes were taken to Cuba said there were 10. However, the Cuban news agency said 11 hijackers were aboard when the planes arrived Tuesday. The Cuban Interior Ministry said the hijackers "will be placed at the disposal of competent courts." The Libyan plane landed in Beirut after a stop in Tehran where the hijackers freed a married couple and their child, apparently because the woman became sick. That left 35 hostages and seven hijackers aboard the plane by official Libyan airline counts. The Daily 'Collegian the Whitwell Mountain mine at the time of the explosion, with 13 in the blast area. The others got out safely. Parish said the blast killed all 13 instantly. Woody Duncan, director of the state Division of Mines, said a fire apparently had broken out in the area where the bodies were found clumped together. Tennessee Consolidated operates 14 mines in the area. protect their frontiers, but in our case, our frontiers are threatened by an ally from the east, namely Turkey." Papandreou did not explain what he meant by "disen gagement," but clearly was seeking to get a NATO commitment yesterday. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger left the de fense ministers' meeting at midday to keep an appoint ment in London with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Defense Ministers John Nott of Britain and Hans Apek of West Germany also left. Meanwhile, European governments rejected a U.S. request that the alliance spend $5OO million more than originally planned for major defense projects, such as roads, airfields •and military bases. A West German official, who reported this, said the United States wanted the alliance to spend $1 billion in 1982. Officials from several delegations said Weinberger was told the Europeans were having difficulty meeting defense spending commitments already made. The defense ministers' two-day meeting is to be followed today and tomorrow by a session of NATO foreign ministers. He said that OPEC has survived pricing disunity and was tackling a market glut of some 2.5 million bar rels a day. United Arab Emirates' Oil Minister Mana Saeed Oteiba, elected to suc ceed Subroto in 1982, also spoke to the conference about the necessity of a price freeze through the end of 1982. He said that would give OPEC enough time to examine a long-term strategy op pricing and production. 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