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City warns that water
may become discolored
There may be some
discoloration of water in
scattered parts of the Griffin
water system in the next few
days. A city spokesman
reassured water customers that
the discoloration is nothing to
become alarmed about.
The discoloration may occur
in isolated sections of the city’s
water system when workmen
open fire hydrants to run tests.
The tests are one phase of the,
city water system study which
Hijackers blow up plane
after freeing hostages
CAIRO (UPI) — A Japanese
Air Lines 747 hijacked five days
ago in Europe landed today in
Benghazi, Libya where the air
pirates released their 154
hostages unharmed and then
destroyed the $25 million plane
with hand grenades which
exploded “like a string of
firecrackers.”
'The Middle East News
Agency said the four hijackers
were arrested by Libyan police.
It said two of them were Arabs,
one was Japanese and the
fourth “looked like a Euro
pean.” A fifth hijacker, a
woman with an Ecuadorian
passport, was killed when her
hand grenade exploded last
Friday.
Japan Air Lines said there
were 133 passengers and 21
crew members aboard the
plane and that it had dis
patched a relief plane to fly
them to some European city,
Rome or Paris.
The motives of the hijackers
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No contamination
began several months ago.
The city plans to open the fire
hydrants starting tomorrow.
The tests will last for a week or
10 days and will take place at
points throughout the entire
water system.
Although it is anticipated that
no difficulty will be encountered
in the majority of cases, it is
possible that the water may
become discolored in certain
situations, a spokesman for the
in the five-day drama remained
a mystery.
Early in the hijacking they
said they sought the release of
Kozo Okamoto, 24, a Japanese
kamikaze guerrilla serving a
life sentence in Israel for an
attack on Tel Aviv’s Lod
Airport which killed 26 persons
in May 1972. Israel said it
would not release Okamoto and
the hijackers never mentioned
Okamoto again. Nor did they
make any attempt to bargain
the plane and passengers for
money, officials said.
(The Israeli newspaper Ye
dioth Ahronoth said Libyan
leader Col. Moammar Khadda
fy either suggested the hijack
ing or gave his blessing to it to
avenge the Israeli downing of a
Libyan airliner Feb. 21 that
killed 108 of the 113 persons
aboard.
(It said Khaddafy had
proposed to Egypt shortly after
the downing that a suicide
attack be carried out on Haifa
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Light and Water Department
said.
The department asks that
residents report such cases
(Discoloration) as soon as they
are noticed. The reports can be
made by phoning 227-2213.
The spokesman emphasized
that the discoloration is not an
indication that the water is
contaminated; however, it
may be unpleasant to some
people. He warned that
discolored water should not be
as revenge, that the Japanese
hijackers referred to them
selves as the “Saints of Mt.
Carmel” —Mt. Carmel is in the
Haifa vicinity —and that “they
went to Libya when everything
else went wrong.”)
The giant red-and-white Japa
nese 747 landed at Benghazi at
8:30 p.m. (2:30a.m. EDT) after
a three-hour 35-minute flight
from Damascus, Syria, where it
refueled during the night. As
the plane approached the
airport, a hijacker told the
control tower if they did not get
permission to land, “we will
blow up the plane in the air.”
Two Arab nations earlier had
refused the hijackers permis
sion to land.
A JAL official in Tokyo said
a special DCB aircraft the
airline had sent to Dubai, a
Persian Gulf sheikhdom where
the airliner spent most of its
time during the long hijacking,
left today for Benghazi to pick
up the freed passengers and
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used for laundry purposes.
According to the Light and
Water Department, the
discoloration will be caused by
rust-like deposits in the older
water mains which may
become disturbed and mixed
with the water in mains when
the tests are made.
Efforts will be made to clear
the situations as soon as
possible after reports of
discoloration are received.
crew.
In Paris, a JAL official said
the destroyed plane was in
sured against all accidents,
“including hijacking.” He
added that all the passengers
were “in excellent heatlh, but
they are, quite naturally, tired.
There is only one woman who
has suffered a slight injury to
her eyebrow.”
The explosion started in the
cockpit and all what was left of
the plane were the wings and
the gutted fuselage with “Japan
Air Lines” written on the side,
witnesses said.
First word of what happened
to the jet and its more than 140
hostages, most of them Japane
se, came from the Middle East
News Agency.
It said:
“Cairo airport received a
telephone call from Benina
airport (at Benghazi) today
saying the hijacked Japanese
plane was exploded after it
landed at the airport. The
hijackers carried out the
explosion operation after
releasing all passengers from
the plane. The operation was
carried out at 9.30 a.m.” —2:30
a.m. EDT.
After the explosion, the
agency said, the airport was
closed to all traffic.
The explosion ended a har
rowing adventure that started
Friday when hijackers com
mandeered the plane over the
Netherlands after it took off for
Tokyo byway of Anchorage,
Alaska.
One hijacker, a woman, died
when a hand grenade she was
carrying exploded. The other
hijackers — reportedly there
were five altogether—forced the
crew to fly them across Europe
and much of the Middle East.
On board, Japanese officials
said, were 133 passengers and a
crew of 21.
The plane arrived at Beng
hazi after a haphazard flight
that took the plane and its
hostages over much of the
Middle East. Two Arab coun
tries earlier refused to let the
plane land.
The plane left the Persian
Gulf sheikhdom of Dubai late
Monday after 94 hours in the
burning sun surrounded by
security forces. The hijackers
said they would blow up the
plane there if anyone tried to
seize it or them.
From Dubai, the plane flew
to Damascus for more fuel,
stayed there nearly 3 % hours,
then took off again headed
west.
During the long drama,
Japanese airline officials and
Dubai authorities said the
hijackers made no demands for
money or freedom for jailed
Palestinians.
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ST. LOUIS—A rescue worker looks out from the cockpit
(top, center) of this Ozark Air Lines turbo-prop that
crashed in a residential section here Monday and killed at
Ehrlichman defends Nixon;
denies every charge by Dean
WASHINGTON (UPI) - John
D. Ehrlichman, a former top
aide to President Nixon, denied
today “every charge of illegal
conduct on my part which has
been made” during the Senate
Good buyer demand
on tobacco market
ATLANTA (UPI) - The state
Agriculture Department has
predicted “good buyer demand’ ’
at the opening today of 28 flue
cured tobacco markets in Geor
gia and Florida.
A department spokesman said
this year’s crop of about 118
million pounds will be some
12 million pounds less than last
year and prices will depend on
quality due to the heavy
spring rains that stunted a fair
portion of the crop.
Last year the crop brought
$95.6 million at an average
price of 85.62 cents per pound
Nixon is the first president
in 166 years to get subpoena
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Richard Nixon became the first
President in 166 years to be
served a subpoena when he
refused to surrender tapes and
documents related to the
Watergate affair. The constitu
tional confrontation resulting
almost certainly will end up in
the U.S. Supreme Court.
Nixon formally refused to
provide the recordings and
documents Monday to the
Senate Watergate Committee
and special Watergate prosecu
tor Archibald Cox. He said he
was withholding the material to
protect the independence of the
presidency and because its
release would not settle the
“central issues” in the Water
gate probe.
The committee and the
prosecutor immediately served
Nixon with subpoenas seeking
to gain possession of the
material. But White House
aides made it clear Nixon
would refuse to comply with the
subpoenas, opening the way for
court tests.
It was the first time a
subpoena had been addressed
to a President since Thomas
Jefferson received one in 1807.
Jefferson was asked to furnish
documents in connection with
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Watergate hearings.
In a 30-page statement he
prepared for his appearance
before the panel, Ehrlichman
criticized another deposed
White House aide, John W.
at the 23 Georgia markets and
five in Florida.
About 60,000 acres of the
leaf were planted in Georgia
this year, 3,000 more than last
year when the allotment was
raised by 10 per cent.
The flue-cured tobacco mar
ket committee recently revised
its purchase plan, and now al
lows each buyer to purchase
380,000 pounds daily in the
second and third week of sales,
and 360,000 pounds a day dur
ing the fourth and fifth weeks.
The old plan allowed daily
purchases of 260,000 pounds.
the treason trial of Aaron Burr, ]
and he did so.
Cox said Nixon’s stand was I
“without legal foundation.” ’
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D- '
N.C., chairman of the Senate 1
investigating committee,
strongly denounced Nixon’s I
action. Ervin said he deeply 1
regretted Nixon’s stand because '
he believed “the Watergate I
tragedy is the greatest tragedy i
that this country has ever <
suffered.” 1
Ervin said he had hoped the '
tapes would “shed some light 1
on that crucial question: How 1
did it happen that burglars
were caught in the headquar- I
ters of the opposition party with '
President’s campaign funds in i
their pockets and their hotel 1
bedrooms...” 1
“And I don’t think the people I
of the United States are i
interested so much in the <
abstruse arguments about the <
separation of powers or execu
tive privilege as they are in i
finding the answer to that 1
question,” Ervin said.
Ervin, who is considered the <
Senate’s chief authority on the ’
Constitution, said he believed
the doctrine of separation of
powers could not be applied to '
“alleged illegal activities or I
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Dean 111, and defended Nixon’s
conduct of the Presidency.
It was Dean who gave the
most damaging testimony con
cerning high White House
involvement in the Watergate
scandal, including allegations
that the President himself knew
of the cover-up of the burglary
and bugging of Democratic
National Headquarters.
Dean testified last month for
five days. Ehrlichman said in
his statement:
“Mr. Dean began his state
ment with a somewhat superfi
cial but gallery-pleasing
repetition of the old story about
fear and paranoia in the Nixon
White House.
“Why, Mr. Dean wondered,
was there all that overplayed
concern about hippies coming
to Washington to march peace
fully down Pennsylvania Ave
nue.
“Mr. Dean’s explanation is
simply that we were all
suffering from advanced forms
of neurosis, and nothing else—
political campaign activities.”
Nixon said in a separate letter
that he had decided a meeting
with Ervin agreed to earlier
would serve “no useful pur
pose.”
“At long last I’ve got
something I agree with the
President on in connection with
this matter,” Ervin said. “If
the President doesn’t think that
any useful purpose can be
obtained by our meeting
together, I will not dissent from
that view. So I won’t ask for
the privilege of visiting the
White House.”
Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr.,
the committee’s Republican
vice chairman, said he agreed
to the issuing of the subpoena
because he felt the material
was “essential” to the investi
gation. He said he was unhappy
it was “necessary for us to
come to the brink of a
constitutional confrontation.”
Nixon’s attorneys must an
swer the subpoenas in U.S.
District Court in Washington at
10 a.m. Thursday. It was
expected the issue eventually
would go to the Supreme Court.
The court is in recess until Oct.
1, but the chief justice may
convene the court for a special
term on extraordinary issues.
Inside Tip
Watergate
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some strange White House
madness. He suggests he was
the only sane one in the
bunch.”
Os Nixon, Ehrlichman de
clared: “From close observa
tion, I can testify that he is not
paranoid, weird, psychotic on
the subject of demonstrators or
hypersensitive to criticism.”
“He is an able, tough
international politician, prac
tical, complex, able to integrate
many diverse elements and to
see the interrelationships of
minute and apparently disas
sociated particles of informa
tion and events,” said
Ehrlichman.
“It’s hard to keep a secret
from someone you love.”
Nixon was conferring with a
group of New England lawmak
ers in his oval office when the
subpoenas were served and
accepted by his attorneys in the
executive office building next
door to the White House. Sen.
John O. Pastore, D-R.1., de
scribed the President as
“drawn but spunky.” Nixon
was released from the hospital
Friday after being treated for
viral pneumonia.
The Senate committee voted
unanimously to issue the
subpoenas. Rufus E. Edmisten,
an aide to Ervin who handed
the subpoenas to White House
counsel Leonard Garment, told
reporters that “we had a nice
friendly chat. The papers are in
their hands now and the
committee will be waiting.”
Cox sought eight specified
sections of the tape recordings.
News of their existence electri
fied the Watergate hearings
last week when FAA Adminis
trator Alexander Butterfield, a
former presidential aide, testi
fied that Nixon has automati
cally recorded conversations in
his offices since the spring of
1971. The White House claims
Nixon has now shut off the
system because it has beer
“compromised” by disclosure.