__ Workera’ self-_ By AP—REUTER A Japanese jetliner com- mandeered by five heavily- armed hijackers holding more than. 25 hostages refuelled in Kuwait earl today and then took off aga nm, heading in the direction of Damascus, Syria, the Japanese foreign ministry said in Tokyo. _ Hij ackers | The ministry said the hijackers released seven hostages in Kuwait, which reversed its earlier decision not to allow the plane to land. Shelkh Saad ai-Abdullah alSabah, Kuwait's interior _and defence minister, said his coun reed to allow the nlane ‘ land after receiving a distress cail from the pilot saying he was running out of fuel. He said the seven released hostagés inelude four Japanese, two Australians and one New Zealander. He did not identify them by name. The jetliner landed here at 1:44 a.m. (6:44 p.m. EDT Sunday) after a seven-hour flight from Dacca. The Japanese hijackers bad ordered the plane to fly to the Middle East. on Sunday after holding it for 5% days at the Dacca air- port in Bnagladesh. The Japanese forelén id ot ministry 5a destination of the plane was the herald -Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass ‘ { VOLUME 71 NO. 106 Price: 20 cents MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1977 oe Weather Overnight lows will be around zeto degrees Celcius. Monday's high is expected to reach 12. The eky will cloud over in the afternoon with ossibility of showers bvernight, the. Industrial democracy not for B.C. VICTORIA (CP)The kind of industrial democracy which is working in West Germany should not be considered an export item for other societies, Klaus Bohr, West German em- -bassy official, told a British Columbia conference on industrial democracy Saturday. He said that Canada would find its own way of overcoming the con- tradictions and tensions found in all industrialized societies. Bohr described industrial democracy in Weat oor many aS a type of co- determination and said that dt reguited from specific German historical and socio-economic conditions. History would show that codetermination—trying to streamline free enterprise and make it more human— would be an alternative to other systems such as nationalized industries state: bureaucracies and adminlgtration. 7 ~~ James Matkin, provincial deputy labor minister, said that B.C, was experientin ° peace in its industria relations because of a new eqilibrium in the balance of er, UNEMPLOYMENT A FACTOR He said the provincial labor : code and labor relations board were partly reaponzible for the greater stability in collective bargaining. High unem- ployment was another reason for labor peace. Matkin said radical changes to the collective bargaining system are not necessary but decision- should be broad- ened at all levels to boost employee morale, dignity and sense of worth. He also said that in- dustrial democracy had been oversold, causing the public to believe that it is a panacea for labor strife. - He said an experiment in industrial democracy at Kootenay Forest ucts in which a forklift driver and a millwright were appointed to the board of td directors was inconclusive. The ment worked well, he said, but because management changes were made at the same time it is not known which change reulted in the improved conditions, He said results of another experiment in industrial de- mocracy conducted at B.C. Rail were disappointing. the Kitimat-S structions from directors. letter be written to Munici Curtis ask that Thom area, be ared a develo e report can be p agreeable, and the matter monthly meeting... Report planned on organizing Thornhill ; Herald Staff A report on the feasibility of Thornhill becoming an organized are will be prepared by administration staff at tikine Regional District on in- The issue came up at Saturday’s board meeting when Thornhill Director Les Watmough pment area. . ; question of Thornhill’s status has long been an issue with residents of both Thornhill and Terrace. Various alternatives offering amalgamation with Terrace have been countered by suggestions for in- dependant status for the communi dministration asked the move be deferred until a ared, a suggestion Watmough found was tabled until the next suggested a Affairs Minister Hugh , How an unorganized ity. Retiring Douglas still after Liberals PARKSVILLE, B.C. (CP) T.C, (Tommy) Douglas, in an address marking another step toward retirement from active polities, said Sunday that the New Democratic Party isn't the military con- scription proposed recently by efence Minister Barney Danson. “We put the Liberal government on notice,” Douglas told a nominating convention to choose his potential successor. “The NDP won't let the Liberals use the misery and frustration of the unem- ployed as an excuse to ose military con-. ription.” = - Douglas said the Trudeau record ‘“‘stinks to high heaven.” It was an absolute disgrace that a country like Canada had one million unemployed. . “Trudeau had claimed to have wrestled inflation to the ground but it sure got up in a hell of a hurry.” Trudeau had done more “to destroy national unity in - 10 years “than any other Canadsan prime minister” In 1968, the Parti Quebecois had eight per cent of the vote when prime minister ridiculed P proposals for more flexibility for Quebecwithin the constitution. Today, the PQ had 52 per cent. Trudeau was the most minister financially since the Second World War and the devices and policies being used today or enly were ly reminiscent of the sterile, useless federal action chosen to attempt to solve the Depression of 1929-1931. “We've learned nothing.” $s The Terrace Reds skated to glory in hockey action Saturday, but Kitimat _ $6 million and nowhere to go et off hostages, not known. It said the plane took off at 3:57 a.m. (9:57 pm. EDT Sunday) after more than two hours on the ground. A spokesman said the seven were released because they were ill. Airport sources in Kuwait said the plane would robably head for the South emeni capital of Aden. AIDED OTHER HIJACKERS In the past, Kuwait has anted several bands of ijackers, mostly Palestinians, safe conduct to other countries willing to accept the terrorists, such as Yemen or Libya. The hijackers of the JAL } aircraft said earlier they wanted to go to a friendly HARLTIA WENT VICTORIA B “revolutionary” country. The _hijackers are members of the ultra-leftist Japanese Red Army, which is reported to have links to the Beirut-based Popular Front for the Liberation -of Palestine (PFLP), a radical guerrilla group. Captured Red Army members have told authorities they received training in Yemen and Lebanon. Three members of the band were responsible for the 1972 bloody massacre at Lod airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, in which 26 persons were killed by machine-gun fire. HIJACKED OVER INDIA The terrorists com- mandeered the Paris-to Tokyo JAL flight over India ats Haan tN! oe Nips last Wednesday 13 minutes after the plane made a stopover in Bombay. In the course of round-the- clock negotiations witt Bangladesh. authorities in Dacea, the hijackers freed 118 of their hostages in exchange for $6 ion in ransom and six “comrades” freed from Japanese jails. The hijacked plane left Dacca with the freed “comrades” and the ran- som money. A JAL relief plane left for Dacea from Tokyo early today to help evacuate the released passengers and crew. ost = of tea ssengers are expected to iy to Bangkok later today en route to Tokyo. ee ee Aas Northmen took their revenge in a following game Sunday. Story, page 5. take on fuel Taking advantage of the hijack siege, rebel military icers staged a bloody but shortlived cou in Bangladesh early unday in which dozens were killed. The uprising temporarily halted negotiations between the terrorists and Bangladesh officials but the lane left the airport later unday. ‘This is the third time a hi- jacked airliner has landed at Kuwait this year. In June, Kuwaiti troops overpowered a Lebanese cripple who hijacked a Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on a flight from Beirut to Baghdad. 5 ate ie ee Inquiry be MONTREAL (CP) — A rovincial commission of nquiry begins public hearings today into an illegal police break-in at the Montreal office of a leftwing news agency, the Agence de Presse Libre du Quebec. Headed by Jean Keable, a Quebec City lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for the Parti Quebecois in the 1973 provincial election, the commission was appointed in June—five years after the raid. The break-in was staged bi ob the RCMP, Quebec provincial police and ontreal police the night of Oct. 6-7, 1972, the anti-terrorist squads. The case made headlines last May when RCMP Chief Supt. Donald Cobb, Quebec rovincial police Inspector. ean Coutellier and Mon- treal police. Det.-Capt. Roger Cormier admitted authorizing the raid and pleaded guilty to charges of ailing to obtain a search _ Warrant. For the last two months, Keable and his staff have been sifting through reams of confidential police documents and questioning hundreds of potential wit- nesses. ALSO FEDERAL INQUIRY To complicate the matter, the Quebec hearings are likely to overlap with a Burden of guilt ' planned federal inquiry into CMP activities. _ Since his appointment, Keable has studiously avoided pate and a a page opening speech a pm. EDT today will be his st official word on the course the inquiry will take. But it is assumed that Cobb, Coutellier and. Cor- mier will be key witnesses, It is reliably reported that another witness will be Robert Samson, the former RCMP antiterrorist officer who revealed his personal involvement in the raid during trial on an unrelated charge last year. Five years after the fact gins into RCMP break-in He now is serving a seven- year prison term after being convicted of setting a bom at the home of a Montreal. supermarket executive. A key question is how far the commission will go in tracing the break-in back to RCMP headquarters in Ottawa and the federal solicitor-general’s office. CAN CLOSE DOORS If the hearings become too sensitive, Keable has the power to hold a closed-door session. But another possibility is that federal Solicitor- General Francis Fox can block the preduction of certain documents on the ounds that national secur- _ ity, foreign relations or federalprovincial relations are threatened. Judge Roger Vincent of sessions court granted unconditional discharges to the three officers following their guilty pleas last June, citing defence contentions that the raid was prompted fears of a violent “an- niversary celebration” by separatist terrorists. The break-in came two years and a day after the ront de Liberation du Quebec kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross and triggered the October crisis of 1970. - Ugandan prisoner forced to murder 20 inmates Tales of horror continue to flow out of Idi Amin’s Uganda. Few, however, match that told to The Associated Press by a former bank ‘clerk who now is a refugee in neigh- . poring Kenya. Here is his story of his ex-periences in Amin’s prisons. ‘By BRIAN JEFFRIES NAIROBI (AP) — Jacob Mugisha . 4s. a 36-year-old Ugandan reiugee now li in this Kenyan capltal. There is little to mark him out from the thousands of other Ugandans who have sought sanctuary in Kenya to eacape the rule of Idi Amin. But Mugisha says that until the end of his days he will carry a burden of guilt from the more than one month he spent in one of Amin’s prisons where, he says, he was forced to batter to death more than ’ 90 of his fellow prisoners, one of- them a friend. Although ‘independent con: firmation of his account is not _available, various internatione human rights agencies have es- mated that as many as 100,000 ' since Ugandans have been brutally killed Amin ge: power in a military coup in January, 1971. There have been persisten reports that Amin’s police and security men force prisoners to kill each other, Mugisha says that at the rison of Amin’s much-fearec lic Safety Unit (PSU) on the . Kampala-Jinja road, about three miles from Kampala, this is the most iavored form of killitig. The PSU, the military police and Amin’s secret police, the State Research Bureau, are the three organizations of terror though which Amin maintains his power. ACCUSED OF THEFT Mugisha said he was arrested by the P U on April 20, 1975, while on vacation from his job as a clerk at Barclays Bank in Kampala, and accused of helping to steal the uivalent of $20,000 from the bank. e said he was put in a cellblock he described as an oblong, black building with a courtyard in the middle, surrounded by 8 compound e Ugandan capital of: . and saw police with cut off from the rest of the prison by a wire fence. Two days later, he said, he was selected along with three other prisoners he named them as Fred usoke, Tom Galabuzi and a Mr. Lutymanga. . “One of the cells in the block is reserved for those who have been chosen to die," Mugisha said. “We were taken to the cell and at about 9:30 p.m. the camp killer (Corporal Nyanzi) came with two policemen. ey started calling us out one by one into the courtyard and then the - compound. Musoke was the first to be called. Then they called my name. “I went out and was told I had been called to kil] Musoke with a heavy, thick iron bar, I looked round machine-guns guarding us. I was shocked to see at I was going to have to kill my friend. BEATEN ON HEAD “JY was ordered by the killer in a loud voice to beat him on the head. Thats shat I did. I beat him to en . “Then they brought Galabuzi who was employed by the ministry of works. I did the same thing to him. After that they also brought Lufymanga and I also killed him." “Before I left Naguru on May 24, 1975, I killed more than 20 people,’ Mugisha said. “Every night I was g one or two people. There were other prisoners doing the same jab. But I did the most. “Nobody can know what it is to have the choice of either killing or being killed. I hate to think what I have done." More than 200 people were killed in this way during his time in the camp, Mugisha estimated. He said his worst memory is of killing Musoke, whom he described as being 17 years old. Musoke was accu of stealing money, but denied this. After his month as a camp killer, Mugisha said, he was taken before a court In Kampala and sentenced to one year in Luzira prison after pleading guilty to stealing the bank money. Before he completed his sentence, he said, he was able to raise about $600 to buy his freedom. He said fled to neighboring Rwanda but returned to Uganda last year. TAUGHT SPORTS After his return, he was employed as a sports teacher at St. Henry's College at Masaka, about 80 miles south of Kampala. The school closed for vacation Aug. 26, but before he left the headmaster, Joshus Mulondo, told him the senior cricket team was to play a team from the army Sept. 6. The pupils in the team were told to report to the school by Sept. 4 but only six turned up, he said. He called on the army sports officer, Capt. Muhammed Seruwagi, to request a postponement of the match, but ruwagi marched him in front of Maj. Nasur Abdullah, governor af Uganda's Central province, who accused him of “bringing politics into sport.” He was ordered ordered to return to the school under mili- tary escort.and bring the six pupils back with him. “Back at Makindye we were ali badly beaten and then crammed in a cell with about 40 other people, in- cluding members of the Express football club, which was banned earlier this year," he said. On Sept. 10, he and the students were taken before the jail’s com- manding officer, a Col. Gabriel, he said. In front of them, lying on the floor bleeding badly, was Mulondo, the headmaster of St. Henry’s. TOLD TO LEAVE “Gabriel said he was going to free us, but we and the other team members should play the match without fail on Sept. 13," Mugisha said. “We were taken back to the school where I told the students to pack up and go home if they wished remain alive. “Before we left we learned that Mulondo’s bedy was taken out of Makinilye to an unknown place. I am. almost cortain he is dead. “Because of this experience I fled to Kenya." >