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-Balloonists land in 1 France,

PARIS (AP) — Three U.S.
adventurers, the first
balloonists. to conquer the
Atlantic, set thelr gian
silver craft down ‘Thursday
evening in a wheattield near
the French town of Evreux,
68 kilometres weat of Paris,’
completing a joueney’ that

has defeated other men for
more‘than a century.

The trio—Larry Newman,
31, Ben }Abruzzo, 48, and
Maxie Anderson,mi4, all af
Albuquerque, N.M.—put
theirba loon Double Eagle IL
down at? 1:30 p.m, Ioeal time

(1:15 p.m. EDT) on a
’ beautiful, cloudless evening,

. shortly before dusk.

«Spectators waiting at a
nearby highway rushed to
the bailoon to congratulate
the three.

The balloonists apparently

"Terrorists hold seven
hostages in Chicago

_ CHICAGO (AP).— Two
Croatian terrorists
with guns and explosives .
seized eight hostages at the
West German Consulate
teday, police said. One
hostage was later released.

Officials. said
terrorists— believed to bea
man and a woman—want
freedom for .. Stjepan
Bilandzic, a Croatian na-
Honalist-leader imprisoned
in West Germanx and facing
extradition to Yugoslavia.

The switchboard operator prisa

at the consulate—on the 10th
floor of a Michigan Avenue
building in the downtown
area—said the terrorists
were threatening to. shoot

y armed .

ber and the other hostages.
One hostage, reached by
telephone, was asked if the
seven. were in danger.
: “Yes, we are, very much,"
‘was the res a)
Asked whether anyone

the: mad been, injured, the

switchboard operator said:
“Not yet, but it doesn't look
. She sald she was
ing allowed to use the
switchboard because the
terrorists wanted to place a
call to-a West German
n. ,
HOSTAGES THREATENED
“They're threatening to
shoot everyone,” she told a
reporter. ‘I can’t talk
anymore, they're’ all

Dominican military
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SANTO DOMINGO (AP)

—. President Antonio Guz-'

man kept his inauguration
guests waiting while he
purged the Dominicjn
military command in his
- first official action.

, Guzman swore In four new
commanders Wednesday as
US. State Secretary Cyrus
Vance and the other guests
waited in another room at
the national palace.
Dominican and U.S. sources
said the new military chiefs
were _. viewed “more
favorably” by the U.S. than
the old hierarchy.

It was pressure by. the

Amiama Castillo to com-
“mand the navy.

Gen. Nivar Seijas was
chief of the national police
during the election and is
believed to have been the
instigator of the attempt to
nullify Guzman's election.

Maj.-Gen. Enrique Perez y
Perez, the army
staff, was not replaced,
apparently because he is
trusted by Guzman and his
associates in the Dominican
Revolutionary party. .

The new president in his
inaugural speech said his
administration will bring a
“new attitude’ toward the

United’ States and other law.

countries on May 17 that
forced a military group to
back off after It stopped the
counting of-the vote In the

presidential election when
Gurmant
Freie a

rumors oe et ‘Guman would,
make- some military
changes, he hae not been
expected to act so quickly.
BRASS REPLACED
His changes included Maj.-
Gen. Rafael Adriano Valdez
Hilario to replace Juan Rene
Beauchamp Javier as
cabinet secretary of the
armed forces, Brig.-Gen.
Ramiro © Matos Gon-
fip.gformer director ofnfor-
estry services, replacing
_ Maj.-Gen. Nit Rafael Nivar
Seijas as commander of the
ist Milltary Brigade in Santo
Domingo; Gen, Mario Imber
Megregor to command the
airforce and Gen, Francisco

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service of the fatherland and
rot for illicit enrichment,”

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holleringnat police.”

Police cordoned oft
Michigan Avenue as scores
of persons lined.up for a
Pompeii exhibit at the Art
Institute. of Chicago across
the street,

Various Croatian
nationalist’ groups have
demonstrated from tlme to
ime demanding that the
region known as Croatia be
made independent from

widely-
publicized incident occurred
in 1976, when five members
of a Croatian extremist band
hijacked a Chicago-bound
airliner from New York,
whiem hopscotched its way
to Paris where they even:

tually surrendered.
New York City
policemen was killed when a

bomb’ the group left in a
locker at Grand Central
Terminal exploded. All five
are serving prison terms.
Last Monday, two bombs
were planted in mid-
Manhattan and a letter at-
tached to one device said it

had to landiin daylight. for
safety reasons. Witnesses
said the balloon had visibly
deflated, appearing more
likea tapered, creased silver
exclamation; point than a
sphere.

The Double Eagle IT bad
crossed the French coast at
10:20 am, [EDT, passing
over Le Havre. .

Viewed from a helicopter,
the L1-storey balloon coasted
gracefully through the sky
over farmlands, nudged
along by a 24-kilometre-an-
hour wind. ihe men were
clearly visible in the red-
and-yellow i gon
dola,ynbundled in coals
against the biting cold but
apparently relaxed.

In a brief radio con-
versation with reporters at
Le Havre airport shortly
before the balloonists lan-
ded, one of the trio said: “If
weather conditions stay {fa-

vorable we will try to go as-

far as possibje to establish
the maximum of records.”
The trio already has set
new time and distance
records for balloaa flight...

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journey completed

The balloon completed the
Atlantic crossing at 10 p.m
Wednesday (5 p.m. EDT).
Shannon Airport reported
earlier in the day, reaching
the southwest coast of
Ireland 121 hours and 18

minutes after the 37-metre .

high, helium-filled bag took
off last Friday night from
Presque Isle, Me., near the
Canadian border.
MEDAL AWAITS TRIO
The French youth and
sports ministry said it waldd
present a gold medal Uo the
trio, and the U.S. Serfate ‘in
Washington passed Va

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space since non-dirigible
lighter-than-air craft are
banned, the officials said.
But they appeared to be
willing to make an exception
for this record-breaking
flight.n

One air traffic controller
told a French radio station
that air traffic on the
balloon’s likely path has
heen diverted for the safety

of the trio.
Among those radioing con-
gratulations to the

balloonists as they eased
‘through the skies at barely
, more than 48 kilometres an

resolution praising ‘their-“hour were the crews af two

accomplishment. 2

49 9 000-kilometre-an-hour
Officials of-the Paris'* (1; 250-m

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Airport Authority were’ sonic jetliners speeding from
preparing for the balloon to*2 London and Paris to New
land at Le Bourget Airport ‘) York.

north of Paris, where’

Charles Lindbergh landed-:

the Spirit of St. Louis on May
21, 1927, after the first solo:
flight across the Atlantic
Ocean. But they said
landing request had beg 0
received, fo
Legally, the balleon should

not be allowed in Paris-air.

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Tt was the 16th attémpt to
cross the Atlantic by bailoon,
and the 16th: from west to
east, The last previous at-
tempt, and the closest to
being successful, was made
two weekf ago by Britons
Donald. Cameron and
Christopher Davey, who
‘ditched 117 nautical miles

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day in ballooning history and -
we congratulate them,”
Davey said today.

_ Seven persons died in pre-
vious attempts.

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