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MADRID (UPI)—A Scandina
vian Airlines System (SAS)
jetliner hijacked in Sweden by
Yugoslav terrorists landed at
the heavily guarded Madrid
airport today.
Spanish aviation sources said
the hijackers indicated by radio
that they intended to refuel and
continue to an undisclosed
location to the south.
The jet left Malmo, Sweden,
with the three terrorists, six of
their countrymen whom they
were able to free from Swedish
jails by threatening to blow up
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Guerrilla lawyers
want out of case
BONN (UPl)—Three West
German lawyers appointed to
represent three Palestinian
guerrilla survivors of the
Munich massacre said Friday
they were trying to get out of
defending the Arabs in court. It
left legal proceedings against
the guerrillas in doubt.
Gerhard Sieber, one of the
three attorneys appointed by
the Munich state court to
defend the guerrillas, said he
had asked to be relieved of his
mandate for health reasons.
“I have been sick and I am
incapable of defending the
Arab,” Sieber said.
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cf SIOO,OOO in ransom.
The Swedish government
agreed to the ransom to save
the lives of 83 hostage
passengers who were left in
Malmo. The plane touched
down at 11:44 a.m. (6:44 a.m.
EDT).
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The SAS E>C9 jetliner took off
from Bulltofta Airport in this
city in southern Sweden early
today and headed for an
Rolf Dahms and Werner
Goetz, the other two lawyers,
also voiced dissatisfaction with
the mandate.
They said they were seeking
relief from the assignment
“because of the emotional
climate” surrounding the affair.
Under West German law,
only West German lawyers can
represent a defendant in court.
A Justice Ministry spokesman
said that under certain circum
stances a foreign attorney could
participate in a trial only as “a
guest of the court” if he were
sponsored by a West German
lawyer.
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unknown destination to the
southwest with four crew
members, the terrorists, the six
freed prisoners and the money
in Swedish kroner aboard.
Government officials said they
believed no European country
would accept them.
The 16-hour drama began
when the three men, believed
members of a separatist
movement demanding indepen
dence of Croatia from Yugosla
via, took over at pistol point the
flight from Goteborg to Stock
holm. It ended after Swedish
Premier Olof Palme and his
cabinet agreed to the demands
during an nightlong session, “to
save the lives of 90 people.”
The three guerrillas said they
would blow up the plane if
seven prisoners, including two
convicted political assassins,
were not freed.
In Four Separate Jails
The prisoners who were in
four separate jails in Sweden,
were brought to the airport by
helicopter. One refused to be
exchanged.
After lengthy discussions with
the control tower, personally
conducted by Justice Minister
Lennart Geijer, three prisoners
walked to the plane and got
aboard and about half the
passengers were let out. The
other three prisoners walked
aboard later.
At that point the hijackers
demanded 1 million Swedish
kroner as “damages” for the
imprisoning of the six priso
ners, two of whom had been
convicted of assassinating Yu
goslav Ambassador Vladimir
Rolovic in Stockholm last year.
Deadlines to blow up the
aircraft were set, and post
poned. The Swedish cabinet at
first balked at the added
demand for money then told the
hijackers to wait until they
could get money from a bank.
The hijackers agreed to
accept 500,000 kroner instead of
one million.
Two unarmed policemen car
ried the money in two bags out
to the aircraft in open bags so
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LAKE GEORGE, N.Y.—Two lovely “chauffeurs” inflate a
tire on a 1933 Duesenberg owned by millionaire amusement
park owner Charles Wood of Lake George. The car, formerly
owned by film star Greta Garbo, was purchased by Wood for
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, September 16, 1972
the hijackers could see they
contained money.
Then the front door of the
jetliner opened slowly and the
remaining passengers aboard
the plane streamed out.
The DC9 taxied away and
took off at 8:54 a.m. (3:54 a.m.
EDT).
The captain, Bo Wrenfeldt
told the tower he was ordered
to fly to the German coast and
would then turn southwest.
Another
signs
for race
Homer G. Williams, director
of the Griffin Police Depart
ment’s Youth Community
Center, has qualified to run in
the November election for the
Griffin-Spalding County School
Board, Post Five.
Williams joined incumbent
John West and James K. Davis,
a building contractor in seeking
the post.
Four other board incumbents
who have qualified are: Post
One, W. G. Blakeney; Post Two,
Miss Anne Hill Drewry; Post
Three, Russell Smith; and Post
Four Ed Stallings.
Qualification deadline for the
election is noon, Sept. 29.
Williams is a sergeant with
the Griffin Police Department
and heads their juvenile
division.
He and his family live at 404
Lakewood drive, Griffin.
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“We complain too much about
those who don’t vote and too
little about those who do vote
without proper preparation.”
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Newsmen surround Kissinger in Paris as he leaves for home.
Kissinger reports to Nixon
By HELEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Dr.
Henry A. Kissinger returned
Friday night from secret peace
talks in Paris and trade
negotiations in Moscow. The
White House said he would
report to President Nixon
today.
Secretary of State William P.
Dumpsters
arrive here
Some of the dumpster con
tainers for the new Spalding
County garbage pick-up service
have arrived.
The truck which will pick up
the garbage form the containers
is due here next week.
When the dumpsters are
painted and the truck prepared
for service, the county will begin
the garbage service.
The starting date has not been
determined.
$90,000, reported the highest figure ever spent for a car at
auction. The car, along with several other old time autos, will
be on display at Gaslight Village, Wood’s Lake George
tourist attraction. (UPI)
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Rogers also was scheduled to
sit in on the meeting with
Nixon for briefings on the
Vietnam peace parley and
breakthrough trade discussions
with Soviet Communist Party
Chairman Leonid I. Brezhnev
and Foreign Minister Andrei I.
Gromyko.
The President’s chief foreign
policy adviser landed at An
drews Air Force Base just
before midnight Friday to
complete a week-long mission
that took him to Munich,
Moscow, London and Paris.
Juvenile judge clears
youngster of murder
CUMMING, Ga. (UPI) - Ju
venile Court Judge Sam Burtz
has cleared 15-year-old Steven
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Kissinger made no comments
at the airport.
Before flying home, Kissinger
met in Paris Friday with North
Vietnamese politburo member
Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy,
chief of North Vietnam’s
delegation to the peace talks.
There was no comment from
either side on attempts to
break the negotiating deadlock
and the drive to reach a peace
settlement.
North Vietnamese sources
said Tho explained to Kissinger
the latest Viet Cong proposal
Morgan of murder charges in
the slayings of his parents last
spring but placed the youth on
probation as a “deprived
child.”
Burtz heard the case behind
closed doors on Sept. 5-6, en
tered his ruling Thursday and
made it public Friday.
The youth was one of five
persons charged in the slayings
last April of Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Morgan.
Another son, Michael Morgan,
24, his wife, Hollis Wingo Mor
gan, 22, and Robert Howard, 25,
Junior Samples
trial set Nov.
CUMMING, Ga. (UPI) -Trial
date for Junior Samples, ac
cused of public drunkenness and
disturbing the peace, has been
set for Nov. 20.
The date was set at a hearing
here Friday.
Samples, a star on the tele
vision program “Hee - Haw,”
was represented in court by a
lawyer and did not show up
personally.
Samples and his manager,
James Gibson, were arrested in
August. Authorities said Gib
son was arrested for «<rH W
for a tripartite government of
national concord in South
Vietnam, not dominated by any
side.
According to reports, the
United States and the Soviet
Union have agreed that the
Russians should pay SSOO
million to settle their old World
War U debts under Lend-Lease.
The two countries are said to
be nearing a compromise on
repayment of the loan over 25
years at a low interest rate,
probably 2 per cent.
were convicted in the slayings
and received death sentences.
Robert Shaw, 25, received two
death sentences in the case.
Burtz said in his ruling that
“the court finds there was not
sufficient legal evidence pro
duced to authorize the court to
find beyond a reasonable doubt
that Steven Morgan committed
the act charged against him—
to wit: A wilful and knowing
participation in a plan or
scheme with others to murder
his parents.
while under the influence of al
cohol and that Samples was ar
rested when he showed up at
the jail to bail him out.
Deputy Sheriff Norman Pep
pers said Samples appeared at
the jail “better than half
plastered and running at the
mouth.”
Trial date for Gibson has
been set for Dec. 1.
Samples claimed at the time
of the incidents that he was ar
rested for supporting a losing
candidate for sheriff in the Aug.
fl Primary.