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...clear message to the regime of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini that the episode at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran had still not been resolved as far as the Reagan Administration was concerned. The six-day hijacking had come to a dramatic end early last week when three Iranian security officers disguised as a physician and cleaning crew slipped on board the grounded Airbus and rescued nine hostages, including two Americans, who were found tied to their seats. Four Arabic-speaking hijackers, thought to be linked to the same pro-Khomeini Lebanese Shi'ite terrorist groups that some...
...formal relations with the Arab country after a 17-year estrangement. To mark the event, President Reagan and Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz met at the White House. Iraq broke its ties with the U.S. in 1967 in protest of U.S. support for Israel in the Six-Day War with Arab nations. For the past two years Iraq has reduced its support for international terrorism, tempered its opposition to Israel, and tried to balance its longstanding military and political connection to the Soviet Union with overtures toward...
...support a call by Jordan's King Hussein at the meeting for an overall Middle East peace conference. But the group reiterated their rejection of United Nations Resolution 242, which the King had suggested as the basis for such a conference. Passed in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967, the resolution calls on Israel to return occupied Arab territories in exchange for recognition of its right to exist...
HOSPITALIZED. Engelbert Humperdinck, 48, British crooner (Release Me, After the Lovin'); for severe fatigue and bronchitis after he collapsed in his dressing room during a six-day engagement at the Westbury (N.Y.) Music Fair; at Massapequa General Hospital, in North Massapequa, N.Y. He was released the following day...
...month, the FAA issued a stern warning to the airlines: either voluntarily reschedule flights at the six most congested airports (Atlanta's Hartsfield, the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, Chicago-O'Hare and Denver's Stapleton) or the FAA would do it for them. A special immunity from antitrust prosecution was granted so that the air carriers could meet. Representatives from about 50 domestic and 15 international carriers last week began a six-day session in Crystal City, Va., outside Washington, to work out new flight schedules. Ordinarily highly competitive...