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Polish referendum
asks views on reform
By JOHN DANISZEWSKI
Associated Press Writer
WARSAW, Poland Millions of
people voted yesterday in Poland’s
first referendum in 41 years, which
asked them to endorse economic
reforms including steep price in
creases and to back government
style democratization.
Police broke up anti-referendum
marches by hundreds of people in
Gdansk and Warsaw, which were
the largest of several protests
around the country, and many peo
ple boycotted the balloting that
critics called a charade.
Large numbers of Poles, howev
er, clearly were intrigued by the
opportunity to voice their views
and expressed hope the election
would improve life in this country
beset by shortages of goods and
worker apathy.
Unlike past rubber-stamp elec-
S. Korean
plane pulls
vanishing act
By BARRY RENFREW
Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea A Korean
Air jetliner carrying 115 people on a
flight from the Middle East vanished
yesterday somewhere near Burma
and apparently crashed into the sea
or thick jungle, officials said.
An air operations official at Seoul’s
Kimpo International Airport said
KAL Flight 858 from Baghdad, the
capital of Iraq, to Seoul went missing
without a trace and officials were
trying to find out what happened.
“It just disappeared," said one
official, who spoke on condition of not
being identified.
KAL officials said it appeared the
three-engine Boeing 707 crashed, al
though they would not rule out the
possibility of hijacking. Airline offi
-cials also said a bomb may have
the jet.
I “There is the possibility that a
.crash may have been caused by ex
plosives,” a KAL airline statement
-said.
' The jet was carrying 95 passengers
-and a flight crew of 20, the airline
. said. All but two of the people, an
‘lndian and a Lebanese living in Abu
Dhabi, were South Korean, officials
Isaid.
The Burmese Civil Aviation Admin
istration in Rangoon said the plane
, was over the Andaman Sea, about 150
miles west of the Burmese coastal
«town of Tavoy, when contact was lost.
The Andaman Sea lies between the
, Indian subcontinent and Southeast
Asia.
Burmese officials in Rangoon said
the plane was making routine contact
with air traffic controllers at Rang
oon Airport before proceeding into
Burmese air space when it disap
peared.
The officials said the plane’s last
radio contact did not indicate any
problems and the plane was due to
make another routine contact with
the tower 21 minutes later.
It never did.
Burmese officials informed the
South Korean government that a
search operation for the plane was
launched, but initial sweeps found
nothing, officials in Seoul said.
Thai provincial police said the
plane may have crashed near the
; Thai-Burmese border, but the time
they gave for the incident did not
. agree with flight details released by
Bangkok flight control.
' KAL officials said Thai authorities
would conduct an air search for signs
of the missing plane.
A 21-man team of KAL and South
Korean officials was to leave for
Bangkok today to aid efforts to find
the missing plane, officials said.
Airline officials said the plane may
have crashed in thick jungle or in the
sea where it would be difficult to find.
They said the plane was flying at an
altitude of 37,000 feet the last time it
was heard from.
About 300 relatives and friends
waited at Kimpo Airport for word of
the plane. They sobbed, held each
other, stared at the flight arrival
announcement board.
Yoon Jae-hee, whose husband was
on the plane, wept as she said, “If he
died, I don’t know how I will be able to
live.”
KAL officials held out hope the
plane may have tried to make an
emergency landing in Cambodia.
Laos or Vietnam.
But a KAL official told a news
conference the airline could not rule
out the possibility of terrorism or
hijacking. He said the plane could
have been forced to land in a commu
nist nation in Southeast Asia, possibly
Vietnam.
tions in Communist Poland, people
had to actively mark the ballots in
order to vote and were encouraged
to make their choices in secret.
“Calm prevails . . . and no one is
disturbing the serious rite of the
referendum,” government spokes
man Jerzy Urban told reporters.
State television said 63.8 percent
of the 26.8 million eligible voters
had cast ballots.
There was no way to indepen
dently verify the figure.
The government claimed 80 per
cent turnout in the 1985 general
elections, a figure opposition activ
ists disputed as high.
Polls closed at 10 p.m. and the
government was not expected to
announce results until today.
Approval of the first of the refer
endum’s two questions would mean
price rises averaging 40 percent
next year, with increases of 110
percent for basic foods and 140-200
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Freed hostage's report:
Waite held in next room
By JEFFREY ULBRICH
Associated Press Writer
PARIS A French hostage just
freed in Lebanon said yesterday that
Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Can
terbury s special envoy, was in the
room next to him during his captivity
and that American hostages were
suffering greatly.
Roger Auque, 31, a free-lance jour
nalist, was released Friday in Beirut
by his Shiite Moslem kidnappers
along with Jean-Louis Normandin,
36, a lighting engineer for the An
tenne 2 television network.
In an interview on French tele
vision, Auque said Waite also was
being held by the Revolutionary Jus
tice Organization.
“I knew that Terry Waite was held
by the same people as me, the same
kidnappers, and was in the room next
to mine in the apartment where I was
held,” he said.
Auque was optimistic about more
releases soon.
“I think the French government
has now found the key to hostage
releases and that there will be more
in the future," he said.
Waite dropped from sight in Beirut
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski
percent for heat and rents. The
government says that if the ques
tion fails, increases would be less
extreme.
A strong “yes” vote for the sec
ond question would strengthen pro
gressive elements within the
Communist government who argue
for greater democracy and open
ness in line with Soviet leader Mik
hail S. Gorbachev’s reform
campaign.
on Jan. 20 while on a mission from the
Anglican Church to negotiate with
Islamic Jihad for the release of for
eign hostages in Lebanon. His where
abouts were unknown, though it was
widely assumed he had been kidnap
ped.
Auque also said he learned that two
Americans being held by the Shiite
organization were suffering.
Auque said he received information
from a South Korean diplomat. Do
Chae-Sung, kidnapped Jan. 31, 1986
and freed Oct. 29. with whom he
shared a cell for two weeks.
“He was able to see other hostages,
and I know that this group that was
holding me held other hostages, nota
bly British, American and also
French, and above all the American
hostages suffered very much.” Au
que said.
Do has declined to publicly discuss
circumstances surrounding his kid
napping and captivity.
The Revolutionary Justice Organi
zation claims to be holding two Amer
icans Joseph James Cicippio. 57.
acting comptroller of the American
University of Beirut, abducted
Sept. 12. 1986. and Edward Austin
Five bodies found after crash
By LAURINDA KEYS
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Search teams
pulled five bodies yesterday from the Indian Ocean,
where a South African Airways Boeing jumbo jet crashed
with 159 people aboard and with no known survivors.
Authorities then suspended the search because of rough
seas but said it would resume today.
The plane, apparently on fire, crashed early Saturday
as it approached Mauritius for a refueling stop en route
from Taiwan to Johannesburg.
The five bodies recovered yesterday were not identi
fied. Two were men, two were women and the other too
mutilated for the search crew to determine gender,
airport officials on the island of Mauritius said.
Passengers on Flight 5A295 came from 11 countries.
There were no Americans.
It was the world’s worst air tragedy this year and the
worst in South African aviation history.
Officials would not speculate on the cause of the crash
of the 747-2008 “Combi,” a jumbo jet designed to carry
both passengers and cargo.
Contact with the plane was lost 10 minutes before the
scheduled landing, after the pilot, Capt. Dawie Uys, 49,
radioed to the control tower: “There is smoke coming into
the cabin. I think we have a fire.”
South African Airways spokesman Nico Venter denied
a report that the plane was delayed in Taiwan because of
a bomb threat. It was delayed one hour because of
Jean-Louis Normandin
Tracy. 57, an author, kidnapped
Oct. 21. 1986.
Twenty foreigners, including eight
Americans, are missing after being
kidnapped in Lebanon. If Auque's
report proved true. Waite would be
the 21st hostage.
Terry Anderson. 40, the chief Mid
east correspondent of The Associated
Press, kidnapped on March 16, 1985.
has been held the longest.
A spokeswoman for the Archbishop
of Canterbury said Sunday it was
believed Waite was still alive.
Normandin and Auque returned
home Saturday to a tumultuous wel
come at Orly Airport
Shultz: No problem
with arms treaty
By DONNA CASSATA
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Secretary
of State George P. Shultz said yester
day he foresees no last-minute prob
lems to the signing of a U.S.-Soviet
treaty eliminating medium-range nu
clear weapons.
President Reagan and Soviet lead
er Mikhail Gorbachev are scheduled
to sign the pact outlawing all U.S. and
Soviet missiles with ranges of 315 to
3,000 miles during the summit on
Dec. 8-10.
"It is all agreed, and everybody
wants to see it go forward, and there
really is not a problem,” Shultz said
on CBS-TV’s Face the Nation. "It's
just a question of doing things
continuing to do things carefully and
patiently, and that’s what were
doing.”
Shultz said recent work on the
treaty language has been “going on in
a good way, and there isn’t any par
ticular problem about that, that I
know of."
Conservatives have criticized the
treaty, questioning the pact’s verifi
cation provisions and accusing the
Soviets of violating every previous
arms control agreement.
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., the rank
ing Republican member of the Senate
Foreign Affairs Committee, has said
he opposes all forms of arms control
with the Soviet Union. Helms is ex
pected to lead extreme conservatives
in killing the pact.
Shultz, in the CBS interview, sought
Turkish leader claims
victory in elections
By EMEL ANIL
Associated Press Writer
AP Laserphoto
ANKARA, Turkey Premier Tur
gut Ozal claimed victory for his Moth
erland Party with nearly half the
votes counted yesterday in Turkey’s
first civilian-run general elections
since the military ceded power in
1983.
Speaking briefly with reporters.
Ozal said he was certain his party had
maintained its parliamentary major
ity.
Running second was the main oppo
sition Social Democratic Populist
Party, which was making substantial
gains in the 450-seat, one-house Par
liament. It is led by Erdal Inonu, a
nuclear physicist-turned-politician.
With 45 percent of the ballots count
ed. the Motherland Party had 36
percent of the vote, according to state
radio and television. It said the Social
Democrats had 24 percent, followed
closely by the center-right True Path
Party of former Premier Suleyman
Demirel with 20 percent. Demirel
was ousted by the military in 1980.
The other four parties in the race
were below the minimum 10 percent
nationwide required for entry in Par
liament, but voting for them was
cutting into support for the three
larger parties.
The Moslem fundamentalist Pros
perity Party was doing well in east
ern provinces and former premier
Bulent Ecevits Democratic Left Par
ty was dividing the Social Democrat
vote in some industrialized Western
provinces.
Unlike the 1983 elections that
brought Ozal to power, yesterday's
balloting was open to all legally es
tablished parties. Former leaders
previously barred from politics by
the military were running at the head
of new parties.
Ozal called yesterday's elections a
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weather and to accommodate passengers from other
flights making connections, he said.
Ships from France, Mauritius. Taiwan and Japan were
taking part yesterday in the search. Spotter planes also
were in operation. The South African air force said it
would send two helicopters today to join the hunt, cen
tered about 100 miles northeast of Mauritius.
Venter said a life raft and inflatable dinghy were found,
but that all aboard were presumed to have died.
“Efforts are now concentrated on locating the black
box” or flight data recorder, he said.
The black box will send a signal for about 30 davs, said
Venter.
Airline officials said late Saturday that a baby carried
onto the plane had not been on the passenger list, raising
the number aboard to 160. But Cecile Taljaard, a
spokeswoman for South African Airways, said yesterday
that the baby had been listed and the total aboard was 159.
Among those aboard were 71 South Africans, including
19 crew members; 47 Japanese: 30 Taiwanese; two
Australians; two Mauritians; two from Hong Kong, and
one each from Holland, Britain, West Germany, Den
mark and South Korea.
Tinus Jacobs, the airline's office manager in Taipei,
said South African Airways was offering transportation
and accommodation for relatives of passengers who
wanted to travel to Mauritius this week.
He made the offer after relatives gathered at his office
asking to be taken to Mauritius immediately.
to reassure conservatives about the
"What you have in verification is
successive sets of layers of being able
to keep track of possible places where
violations might take place," the
secretary said. “It begins right now
as both sides exchange data on what
they have in these missiles. The data
that we have from the Soviet Union
are credible in the sense that they are
very much in line with our own intelli
gence estimates."
Shultz said there is a possiblity that
the Soviets will cheat, but em
phasized that the chances are slim.
“I think if it occurs it would be in
very small proportion,” he said.
“And the incentive to cheat under all
these circumstances is small. Never
theless. it s possible."
Earlier in the program, Sen. Steve
Symms, R-Idaho. a member of the
Senate Armed Services Committee,
said he will probably oppose the U.S.-
Soviet accord even after a close study
of the pact.
“Is it better to have the defense
there and be strong and keep your
peace through strength or sign a
piece of paper with the Soviets, who
are masters of camouflage, conceal
ment, deception. They've been cheat
ing on all past agreements.” Symms
said.
“Why is it that all of a sudden we’re
being asked to ratify a treaty with the
same bunch of bandits that have been
cheating on all their past treaties?’’
he asked, and later added that he
would be “amazed if I were for it
from what I know about it now."
year ahead of schedule to capitalize
on the political stability and econom
ic growth he helped foster.
Apart from a few skirmishes, vot
ing at the nation's heavily guarded
polling sites was calm and orderly,
news agencies reported.
Hurriyet News Agency said sup
porters of Motherland and the center
right True Path Party clashed with
sticks and stones in the southeastern
province of Siirt. Five people were
injured, it said.
In the eastern province of Bitlis, a
ballot box official died of a heart
attack trying to separate two groups
fighting with knives, the semi-official
Anatolia News Agency reported. It
said three people were injured in the
fight.
No other election-related violence
was reported.
Turkey, a nation of 52 million peo
ple. has about 26 million eligible
voters. Turnout was high. Those who
do not vote are fined 12.500 Turkish
lira ($l3).
Polls closed at 5 p.m. Unofficial
results were expected to be in Tues
day. Votes are counted by hand so
official results will take a week to
compile.
National election officials ordered
several editions of the daily Gunaydin
newspaper confiscated. They said it
violated an election-day ban on pub
lishing anything intended to influence
voters by reporting on expected price
increases.
According to the latest public opin
ion poll published Saturday, voter
support for Ozal's conservative eco
nomic policies slipped to 36.3 percent
from 39.4 percent two weeks ago.
The poll, with a 2 percent margin of
error, was conducted by the general
ly reliable PIAR polling agency.
It projected that Motherland would
keep its majority and with it another
five-year mandate.