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McKenzie Says Oil, Gas Leases Not Binding most of the 140,000 acres are under water. The company needs the leases because they are adjacent to more valuable lands, according to Anthony Abatiell. Neither James nor his son An thony were prepared to discuss spe Prom Pago 1 A banders Up cific legal issues Friday, so they jirill be dressed at a hearing to be Ijeld and deal with oil companies that are interested in exploring for oil, McKenzie said. Anthony Abatiell said McKenzie "doesn't know what he is talking about." The state-owned lands are of little interest to oil companies because In two weeks. ft UNITES ST ATM By 1 0 Votes 6S.

Recount Puts v.vr-' 2 From Pag 1 A Thursday petition requesting their involvement. I rv 5i Terrill Bouricius, who will become an alderman April William Clark, co-chairman of the state organization, and Michelle Weiss were chosen from six candidates. The others were Ion Laskaris, Robin Lloyd and Seth Lipschutz. The board walked from City Hall to the courthouse at 9, and milled about nervously for a half hour. Once in the room, members were split into three groups, each of which was to count two wards.

Cameras clicked as the first seals were broken on the leather and canvas bags holding the paper ballots and machine tallies. The bags had been locked in the courthouse vault since the day after the election. The Sanders campaign had asked a judge to have them confiscated from City Hall. Each group took more than one hour to add the machine tallies and the paper ballots. A few discrepancies were found.

In Ward 3, a machine tally of 59 votes for Paquette had been read as 54. The mayor also picked up two votes in Ward 2. Paper ballots, both with his name checked, had been stuffed into the bag of Ward 3 tallies and not counted. The board took a break after counting Wards 1, 2 and 3. With Paquette gaining, Sanders' supporters looked nervous.

The only other changes came when Paquette picked up one vote in Ward 4 and five in Ward 5. Sanders' paper ballot total dropped from 21 to 16 when they were recounted. There was no explanation for the discrepancy. A single Ward 5 paper ballot was challenged, but all board members voted to disqualify it for having marks for both Richard Bove and Sanders. Paquette also lost a vote in Ward 5.

The total gave Paquette seven additional votes and Sanders five fewer, for a final tally of 4,030 to 4,020. FrM Prtu Photo by ELAINE ISAACSON JOYCE DESAUTELS HANDS OUT BALLOTS helping her Is Alderman Robert Sweeney Bove had 1,091 and Joseph McGrath had 139. Each of them picked up one new vote. The recount for Ward 6 paper ballots, which had been left unsealed and packed in an open cardboard box, did not change the tally. After the recount, a few Sanders supporters broke into applause.

William Sessions, Sanders' attorney, said he was satisfied. "The vote total tells us Bernie won by 10 votes. The election is over." "The last two weeks have been living hell," said Sanders supporter John Franco said. "Before today we really couldn't savor it." Steven Goodkind, one of three ballot watchers for Sanders, joked that the 10-vote victory showed a campaign "with no waste. It was lean and mean." Allan Bruce, Paquette's attorney, declined to say whether the mayor will contest the election further.

He said he needs to talk to Paquette once he finds out where he is. Disappointed Democratic aldermen, still strong supporters of Paquette, said they want to meet Sanders. The close results also showed, they said, that every vote counts. The Classic American Silver Sterling Silver One of life's most treasured possessions, crafted by the master silversmiths at Reed Barton. Select the silver of your dreams from 13 exquisite designs.

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Diplomatic sources said the Syrian mediators were trying to persuade the hijackers to allow the exchange to be made in Syria'. They said the crew of the hijacked jet was extremely fatigued and the jet needed maintenance. A Pakistani diplomat said his government had agreed to allow members of the hijackers' families to fly to Pakistan and to sell their property in preparation for exile. The hijackers demanded this part of the agreement be guaranteed by the Syrian government, the United Nations and the human rights organization, Amnesty International, based in London. WHAT IS SURLINOTON TALKING AiOUTt Cnck Mooo't Mourlct'l column Sundays tn mt Living lection of ttw FrM Prn.

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They were dressed, he said, in the traditional baggy pants of their Pakistan homeland. The hijackers killed one hostage, a Pakistani diplomat, during a stop in Kabul, Afghanistan, last week. Aviation's longest uijack was that of an Israeli El Al plane to Algiers in 1968 which lasted 39 days. Diplomats of Pakistani President Zia ul-Haq's military govern-men1, worked all day Friday to ar 2 when a trio of heavily armed Pakistanis seized the jetliner on a domestic flight in Pakistan, would end this weekend. Khan told reporters Pakistani officials and nurses would fly with the freed prisoners to Syria.

Airline spokesman said 11 members of the hijackers' families also would be on board the plane. Libya confirmed that it would be the eventual destination of the freed prisoners. "Libya has agreed to receive the plane for motives of humanity and to save the lives of the human beings on board the hijacked plane," the official news agency JANA said. It was not immediately clear how the hijackers would get to Libya after the release of the hostages. Syria and Libya are close allies and last September agreed to unify their two states.

Pakistan agreed to the barter Thursday only minutes before the threatened execution of the three Americans. The hostages spent their 12th day cooped up in the cabin of the hijacked Pakistan International Air Former Afghan Seeks New Trial 2" From Page 1 A contest the fact that there may been a mistake by the DEA." The mixup in identification was not introduced at the trial, Brocato said later, because at that point it would have been Khalje's word against the report of the Drug Enforcement Administration. U.S. District Judge James S. Holden denied Khalje a new trial.

Then, saying there had been "strong human instincts involved in the commission of this crime" and noting he was thus "inclined toward leniency," the judge placed the Afghanistan man on a year's probation. "I believe the defendant was motivated by the concern for both his family in the U.S. and his family in Afghanistan," the judge said. He also said he would consider making a special recommendation to immigration officials that Khalje not be deported. to get a new trial.

The evidence came to light last month while Khalje was awaiting sentencing following the November conviction. A probation officer assigned to complete a presentence report on Khalje discovered that while Khalje was getting married in Baltimore in early 1978, the man federal drug agents were looking for was in the Middle East Checking further, probation officer James Dean noticed the confusion apparently arose because the drug dealer has a similar name. Entering the country illegally was the only way Khalje could clear his name and reunite his family in Baltimore, argued lawyer Frank Brocato. 'There has to be an escape valve in circumstances where a terrible injustice has been done," he told the judge. "How else is he going to right the wrong? "For two years he beat his head against the wall and everbody says, So They treated him like a piece of furniture," said Brocato.

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