oh ‘Assad’s government, called on Sl of. the ela
:-Naflonal ‘Reglatance. Front .to: turn. their guns ‘agaipst
o “nd of ol wi haa at all | levels"? iit Lebanon:

"Blane bh paca to Havana?

on “NEW YORK (CP): _ A ‘hijacked Eastern Airlines jéitines
go with 95. peopile. aboard landed at LaGuardia Airport early
bg = ‘today after being. hijacked: to Cuba’ during the night.:

’., Bastedn Flight 4i4,.an Airbus A300, landed at LaGuardia, _
“. Its original destination, at 6:16. m. EDT, an airport official
“paid.

Paclfic:in a rowboat —

“thelr cotintry to: the te dev eo

“Al Thawra, - the. newspaper

The plane,, on a Aight from Miami; was diverted ta Cubs

by a man ‘threatening to explode ; an’ incendiary bomb..

In. Havana, ‘Don -Beson, press officer: for .the U.S.
‘diplomatic mission in Cuba; said-a crew member told him

ee “The. “tate radio, atte Dan “aid ‘the ‘Parliament, fudictal. al Lee into his fs soverament eandye

“that, at-10:15 pat, EDT Tuesday a man with a, Spanish

” accent entered one of the plane's washrooms and shouted:
a “Tell: the. captain ‘T want to: go to Havana and see my,
|: family? © >

* The hijacker, identified as New Qrleans-resident Nelson

. Betancourt, said he had an Incendiary. bomb and would set

i ‘fire to. the plane if his instructions were not obeyed.
‘The pilot then-turned the plane south’ and landed at the

‘Jose Marti Airport in Havana about 11 p.m.

The hijacker surrendered ta Cuban security | forces. ' The
. passengers were allowed to go into the terminal building ,

: where they ate, drank and bought souvenirs: .

None of the 84 passengers or crew of 11 on the fight WAS

hurt. Those aboard the wide-bodied Airbus treated it uke “gq

+. lark, ” " one- passsenger said later.

U.S. officials said early today that the hijacker had run

- down an aisle shouting, Cuba! Cuba’! He locked himself

ina washroont after pulling from. a.red flight bag a small. -
-ylal that he said. contained explosives, FRI agent Jim.
’ Freeman sald after. interviewing passengera'in Miami... - |; .
--. Officials described Betancourt as a shipyard worker: who .
said hée-wanted to be reunited with his family in Cuba.
. Tuesday's.was the first hijacking. since: armed sky
;- Marshals were returned. to some commercial, flights, last:
/Thonth, r me
d. “Don’t take me to Miami, " "Freeman quoted the man; as’. ob
q saying..“If it's not Havana; Vl blow the-plane up...

Eastern Flight 44 returned to: Miami International:
Airport at 2: 0 am. after the 40 minute flight from Havana, _

said Eastern spokesman Bob Christian.
FBI, the jetliner took off again for New York's LaGuardia
original passengers aboard, Freeman said.

months, began about 0 minutes after the European made
jet departed from. Miainitlae.9:45upaiv The pilot ruittgeld

. “aid said hie’ was going to Havana;?‘Chitstlan- said: | -
§. The hijacker was’ ‘taken into custody by Cuban’ police, :
= Freeman said,

* He said Betancourt was about 55 and had lived in: ‘the -
f United States for three years, desperately trying | to Bet his ©
* mother and other retatives out of Cuba. -

“He said he thought this was ithe only sway,” to see his

' family, Freeman sald:

At :45a.m. after the passengers: were questioned by the neg
Airport with anew crew and ali but about three of: the- _

The hijacking, the second for an Eastern Hight in two |

Betancourt was: very polite througout the hijacking,

Freeman said.

Saul Grundwerg of Scaradale, N ¥., said there was no’

panic. Everyone thought it was a° ‘lark. wo

: ‘The Federal:Aviation Administration enitounced May 27. :
thet armed Bky marshals: were returning to: ‘commercial ,

airliners after three planes were ‘hijacked int ‘May,

_ The plainclothes marshals were to. be Portela on fandomly : -

-Rower disappointed

MELBOURNE, ‘Australia AP. — one trip’ across the

escaping ‘with his life in stormy seas off Australia. .
“Tam disappointed about losing the boat and not making -

forthe last . 0 nionths.
"repeatedly broached

’._ Bird, with

Pacifi¢ solo end

sheets In 295 days, -

Since the’ “year old ‘London photographer sivoked out of |.
San Francisco Bay in the fog Aug. 2; .BIRD HAD MADE: -

HIS. BED: IN’. THE | “METRE, : ‘PARTIALLY.

well, nearly across,—-is enough, |
thank you; says Péter Bird, who counts among hia triumphs,

it all: the way, but belleya me, I won't be trying it again, an
Bird said Tuesday after ‘his first night's sleep, between

ENCLOSED’ Hele on ‘Beliannla ase tried to become : the -

firet person to’ row alone across the Pacific Ocean. ©.
Australia — the end of a °4,484 kilometre voyage = was In

. sight Monday ‘when Bird “asked -the’ navy. patrol ‘boat
Bendigo to rescue him fromty stormy seas that threatened to .

dash him. against thé: Great Barrier Reef,’'a- nearly
inpenetrable. ridge of coral‘ along the eastern coasti.

“Here 1am, standing on the bridge of the Bendigo alive
and still: in one piece, and W lot can be said for.that,” the.

ativenturer told a Feportér who bad valled him by: radio
telephone,
Bird was- about.

 kllometres ‘from the reef sind 5.

government. defeated two oppost

chosen fights in and out af Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West ;

Palm Beach, Key West and Puerto Rico. .; VO
Eastern spokesman Dalton James said he did. net kaow

whether-a sky marshal was aboard Tuesday’ 5 ilight,-

” ‘The sky. marshal, /program, prompted by the- ‘hijacking -,
‘heydey.of the early 970s, was reactivated in 980 to atop.a’
-rash of air piracies blamed on Cuban refugees who. wanted

to return home. That mission ended after several months. »
- ‘The marshals were ordered back onto U.S. planes after”
three commercial jets were hijacked to Cuba on: douthern

Florida routes in May. Three other | hijackings ocourred thia:

“year-in the. United States.

On May 20, a man claiming to have e explosives forced ai, :
Eastern jet to Cuba from its Miami New -York:-route. :

Passengers said it appeared the man had several: aticka ‘of:

- dynamite; but FAA officials-snid later there was.no: bomb.
‘The ‘two other May ‘hijackings were on: Capitol; ‘Air's
Flight 2” from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami eid then to

Chicago. -

“No passengers ever: have been. hurt on a.  iecing fo
ve Cuba, FAA officials said.

Shamir spoke’ in an ariny Radio’ jatérview « tunsasy while
‘newspapers. “were reporting _ that Israel's ‘palitical’.and ©

“military leaders‘are Stowing more convinced that the army: ‘
‘should pull ‘back its ‘troops., Israeli soldiers ‘have: been’ the’ -

target of escalating guerrilla altacks: recently.

the United States, ‘the foreign minister said;

Shainir did nothapeetty tow, far pou the Israli may
back: * :

7 Israel’ ‘Television reportéd that ralltary sources ‘al

consideration of tedeployment will. not: include Israitl: ;
forces in the Bekaa Valley, where Syrians’ are entrenched
‘, opposite Israeli positions. a :
‘# The Lebanese ‘parliament approved: on Tuesday ©

Israeli: Lebanese troop withdrawal agreement negotliited”
“oby U.S, State Secretary George Shultz. But the pact won't’:
‘ be implemented until ‘Syria and the Palestine ‘Liberation:
;- Onganlzation agree to. ®. pull their. forces out. of Lebanon. , a

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Kilometres from Cape Weymouth when he: ‘abandoned: the ‘ .

boat and his quest,

“‘T'd day he would have preferred to get fo the fnainland ape
but I'm Certain we Gdn persuade him he's rowed the Pacific” |
and he’s reached Australia, ” Joon Bird Bald aa she waited an
; for ler sof to come. ‘to land.

“Dye lost some weight, but Leet great, * * sald sinha latrepid . |

rower. “At the moment} ‘tim

jist enjoying being alive. _

“"It’4 a pity about-the boat, a tragedy, but Tdid manage tot

save thy logs’ and film.” !

“Atroctous” weather claimed what had bee

“ky Pee ee

“Even when the boat was ow
turned sideways tn: ves ‘behin

Bendigo end finafly broke up, Mild Gude: Allan Brécht,

'’ head of the navy, base at Culttis;-where Bird. Was taken,
: Derdk King as his parttiér, rowed across. the ~
. Atlantic in 974, Blrd’s earlier attempt, in 980, to cross the.
when his mahogany boat-was smashed i

upon a Hawalian beach during bad weather.:

complete the crossing.”

‘ MeWhirter said the previous distance record: wan net. by

Anders Svedlund of Sweden, who lett Chile on June 2, 974,
and rowed 8 days to Samoa. The Guinness Book doesn’t

séy, and McWhirter didn’t know, how may kilometres oo Ue
. Svedlund stroked.” -* .

ee nce”

_ Norris wmeWhirier,,editor of the Guinness Book of World
- Records, told: The Associated Press in London that.Bird’s |. on
solo voyage was a “great suctess, een though he didn't ee

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