Egypt says commando raid was necessary
By JOHN WINN MILLER
Associated Press Writer
VALLETTA, Malta Egypt said yester
day that it sent commandos storming into a
hijacked jetliner to avert a massacre. But 60
people died during the 24 hours of terror that
nded when the hijackers threw fire grenades
and turned the plane into a blazing coffin.
Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici of
Malta said he approved the raid because “we
wanted to show we would not give in.”
“The Egyptian forces assured us that this
would be a quick operation . . . and that the
assault would come to a good ending,” he
said.
At least three of the hijackers were among
the 57 people, including nine children, who
died in the commando assault and fire. The
hijackers had earlier shot to death an Ameri
can woman and dumped her body out of the
plane. An Egyptian security guard had also
been killed previously, in a gunfight with the
Hassan says
he is willing
to meet Peres
By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH
Associated Press Writer
RABAT, Morocco King Hassan
II said yesterday he is ready to meet
Prime Minister Shimon Peres for
direct talks on a Middle East peace
settlement, provided the Israeli lead
er has a “serious proposal” to put
forward.
An aide to Peres in Tel Aviv told
The Associated Press said that the
prime minister would be happy to
meet with Hassan.
In a 90-minute televised discussion
with seven French reporters, Hassan
( said Peres had asked to be invited to
'Morocco to talk with the king in
Hassan’s capacity as chairman of the 1
Arab League.
Peres “sent word tliai he would like
to come to see me,” Hassan said. “I
replied that I would receive him with
great pleasure.
"If he has some serious proposal to
make, he should come to see
me. . .but there must be a real basis
for discussion. The day Mr. Peres
says to me ‘I have a serious proposal
to put to you,’ then why not?”
Hassan said that if such a meeting
took place, and if Peres’ proposals
turned out to be “ridiculous or utopi
an,” he would apologize to the Israeli,
leader and break off the meeting.
1-Ie did not say what kind of propo
sal he would consider “serious.”
Peres’ aide, Baurch Askerov,
quoted the prime minister as saying,
"There have been exchanges of mes
sages between the king and myself
and .1 will be happy to meet with
him.”
The aide had been asked about
Hassan’s offer earlier in the day to
meet with Peres.
Hassan, a pro-Western monarch,
had acted as a intermediary in the
negotiations that led to the Israeli-
Egyptian peace pact in March 1979,
according to published reports at the
time.
Egypt was suspended from the 21-
nation Arab League later in 1979 for
signing the Camp David peace treaty
and Morocco and all other Arab na
tions except Sudan, Somalia and
Oman severed diplomatic relations
with Egypt. Jordan restored relations
earlier this year, becoming the first
Arab nation to defy the Arab League
boycott.
While Hassan did not elaborate on
the type of Israeli proposal he would
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Townspeople approve of alcohol policy
By HEATHER MALARKEY
Collegian Staff Writer
State College residents living near fraternity
houses say they agree with the University Presi
dent’s Task Force on Alcohol’s final recommenda
tions, which await final approval from President
Bryce Jordan.
The task force was formed to revise University
alcohol policies and find ways to reduce alcohol
abuse among students.
The recommendations dealing with fraternities
concentrate on limiting the number of guests
permitted at fraternity parties, establishing an
earlier party shut-down time, providing an alter
native beverage other than water and serving
snacks at parties to discourage excessive drink
ing
Arthur Bevvard of 333 E. Foster Ave. said he
agrees with many of the proposals. He said alter
native beverages should be available during par
ties and suggested that fraternities serve snacks,
such as sandwiches, instead of potato chips or
pretzels.
Beward, a State College resident for 25 years,
said he realizes that chips and pretzels are less
expensive than sandwiches, but the salty taste of
the foods often encourages more drinking.
He also said enforcement of the early keg shut-
the
daily
hijackers. Passengers said he had killed one
hijacker.
The fifth hijacker survived the assault on
the Egyptair jet and underwent surgery at a
hospital, said Paul Mifsud, the Maltese gov
ernment spokesman. ,
Mifsud Bonnici said he refused the hijack
ers’ request for fuel and told them that “other
forces” might intercept the jet if it left Malta.
The gunmen threatened to blow up the plane
in flight if it was “accosted,” he said, and
“we felt this was a very real possibility.”
Egypt blamed the hijacking on renegade
Palestinians working for an Arab country it
did not name. Government sources in Cairo
said the country was Libya, Egypt’s neighbor
and arch rival.
In Moscow', the official Soviet news agency,
Tass, said Libya denied involvement. It
quoted Ali Abdussalam Treiki, the Libyan
foreign minister, as saying his country “con
demns the latest seizure of hostages as all
seizures of hostages in general.”
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and his constant companion Goofy.
off time would be helpful. Parties that last beyond
1 a.m. tend to be noisy because more drunkenness
occurs as the evening progresses.
Although some residents said students will bene
fit from the task force recommendations, others
were not so optimistic.
A woman who has lived in State College since
1968 spoke about the alcohol problem, provided
that she not be identified.
In a smaller community the recommendations
might seem strict, but since alcohol abuse is a big
problem in State College, they may be needed, she
said.
The recommendations are “certainly desira
ble,” she said. “People need to be aware that it’s
not just water they’re drinking.”
Joseph Kopetsky, president of Theta Chi frater
nity, 523 S. Allen St., said his fraternity asks
nearby residents to call the fraternity before
taking further action if they have a complaint
about a party.
Jo-Ann Hunter Farr and her husband, James
Medeiros, 357 E. Prospect Ave., said the recom
mendations are not enough to end problems that
might arise from fraternity parties. '
Farr said the community’s alcohol problems
will not be solved unless underage drinking is
stopped.
“Party-goers are unable to monitor themselves
Collegian
The commandos stormed aboard the plane
Sunday night, 24 hours after the hijackers
■■commandeered the Boeing 737 on a flight
from Athens, Greece, to Cairo and forced it
down at Luqa Airport on this Mediterranean
island. The gunmen killed an American pas
senger and threw her body from the plane..
The Egyptian government said it sent the
commandos in to avert a massacre. It
claimed most of the hostages died as a result
of the phosphorous grenades thrown by the
gunmen, and that none were killed by the
assault troops
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Hani Galal, the pilot, said at a news confer
ence that the hijackers told him they would
kill a passenger every 15 minutes unless the
aircraft was refueled. They did not say where
they wanted to go from Malta.
Officials said the hijackers made no de
mands other than that the plane be refueled.
The prime minister said last night in a
speech to Parliament that he told the hijack
ers that if they left Malta, “steps would have
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and they have proven this by their conduct,”
Medeiros said.
Fraternity members and party-goers have dam
aged residents’ property, pulled out shrubbery and
openly urinated and vomited on their property,
Medeiros said.
But Kopetsky said his fraternity tries to keep
parties from bothering the neighbors.
“We are definitely aware of the alcohol prob
lem,” he said, adding that his fraternity tries to
contain the problem by using strict guest lists for
parties and by adhering to as many of the task
force proposals as possible.
Frank Deutsch of 317 E. Prospect Ave. said he
thinks fraternities can monitor themselves but do
not want to! Fraternities only react to residential
concerns when they are threatened economically,
he said.
Mike Brozino, president of Alpha Gamma Rho,
322 Fraternity Row, said that “at this point frater
nities are unable to monitor their own parties.”
However, Brozino said increased awareness of
frthe liability of fraternities, their members are
more conscious of the underage drinking that goes
on and the damage that often accompanies it.
1 The recommendations are necessary and useful,
Deutsch said, but it will take a responsible person
to initiate the changes they outline.
been taken by other forces to force the plane
to land in other territories.”
Government spokesman Paul Mifsud said
the Socialist Labor premier was “bluffing” in
hopes the gunmen would surrender, and
“there was definitely no plan or any indica
tion” of such intervention.
The same Boeing 737 was carrying Pales
tinian hijackers of the Italian cruise liner
Achille Lauro out of Egypt last month when
U.S. Navy jets forced it down in Sicily.
Murder committed on Maltese soil was
another reason for denying fuel, the prime
minister said.
“In no way should the impression of weak
ness be given on our part in the face of the
cruelty and the inhumanity of the hijackers,”
he told Parliament. “After the actions, which
show great cruelty and coldblooded indiffer
ence on their part, the hijackers were in
formed that in no way would they be granted
the fuel they wanted.”
Five of the wounded were passengers who
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Tuesday, Nov. 26,1985
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Bowl game
will be sold
lottery, not
By MARK ASHENFELTER
Collegian Sports Writer
Students will not have to stand in
line for Orange Bowl tickets, but they
will have to rely on the luck of the
draw, University Ticket Manager
Bud Meredith said yesterday.
Applications for the 2,500 student
tickets will be available at the Beaver
Stadium Ticket Office beginning at
8:30 tomorrow morning, and will be
accepted until Dec. 6 at 4:30 p.m.,
Meredith said.
If ticket requests exceed 2,500, all
applications will be entered in a lot
tery to choose those who receive
tickets, Meredith said.
The applications will be made
available to all University Students,
including Commonwealth campus
students, regardless of whether they
were season ticket holders, Meredith
said.
“All students should have the same
rights, whether they are at a branch
campus or the main campus,’’ Mere
dith said. “The University is one
Black family forced
from mostly white
Phila. neighborhood
By MIKE OWEN
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA Despite the
city’s offer of protection and words of
support from civic and church lead
ers, a black couple said yesterday
they had decided to leave their home
after hundreds of protesters de
manded that they “beat it” from a
predominantly white neighborhood.
“It’s just to be safer,” Charles
Williams, 23, told the Philadelphia
Inquirer. “There’s no way around it.
Even though this may die down, we’ll
never be sure. We’d still be watching
our backs every day.”
One black official said the decision
by Williams and his wife, Marietta
Bloxom, to vacate their home of less
than a month was “a loss for the
entire community.”
Last Wednesday, about 400 white
demonstrators chanting “We want
them out” and “Beat it” gathered
outside the southwest Philadelphia
row house where the couple and their
7-year-old daughter moved in early
November.
Bloxom, 24, said her daughter, Lei
keisha, 7, was frightened.
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had been shot execution-style, officials said.
Another, an Egyptian security guard, was
shot during a gunfight with the hijackers
before the commandos boarded the plane,
officials said. Another security guard was
killed in that shootout, and passengers said
they thought he shot to death one of the
hijackers
Rescue workers removed 58 bodies from
the aircraft. Mifsud said a Filipino passenger
died in a hospital later of wounds suffered in
the battle between the commandos and the
hijackers.
He said the government was “deeply sor
rowed” by the deaths of innocent people, but
“when we realized they would go on shooting
(people), there was no choice but to go
ahead” with the assault.
Officials said 98 people, including six crew
members, were on the plane when it was
hijacked Saturday night.
By late afternoon yesterday, 26 people
remained in hospitals, Mifsud said.
tickets
by
line
entity and one family, and everybody
should be treated the same.”
Each student will be allowed to
apply for up to two tickets at $25 per
ticket, Meredith said. Students must
return their applications to the Bea
ver Stadium Ticket Office with their
student IDs in order to apply for
tickets.
The University received 12,500 tick
ets for the game, Meredith said.
Those not used for students will got
the the University’s offical party,
which will use “only a small
amount,” he said, while the rest will
be made available to the 55,000 non
student season ticket holders.
Applications for non-student season
ticket holders will be mailed today,
Meredith said, and they will also be
due by Dec. 6. ‘These applications will
be placed in a separate lottery, he
said.
Those not chosen in the lottery will
have several options available to
them.
Meredith said that students could
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“I like the house, but I can’t live in
any neighborhood where my child is
afraid,” she said.
The couple dropped by the house
yesterday to check its condition.
“In the long run, we have to look at
our safety here,” Williams said.
“Even with the cops, civil affairs,
there aren’t any guarantees.”
Williams said the family had re
ceived support from some neighbors
and said he did not want to make it
appear the demonstrators had forced
them out, “but I see no other alterna
tive.”
Bloxom admitted it “could be
called a defeat.”
Karen Warrington, a spokeswoman
for Mayor W. Wilson Goode, said
yesterday that the mayor and Manag
ing Director James White, after
learning of Williams’ plans to leave,
had tried to assure Williams “that his
safety would be ensured if he
stayed.”
Meanwhile, an interracial couple
whose house was the scene of a dem
onstration Thursday night by about
200 angry whites vowed to remain in
their home.