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UN Panel Asking More Time on Hostages Treaty Daily Xf WE-Sun, llobbs, N.M.--Sun.. Aug. 21.1977--Page 23 UNITED NATIONS. A I'nited Nations uunmittei- j.i-1 up to draft an international outlawing the taking of hostages has failed to meet its firs! deadline and is asking (he General Assembly for an extension into 1978. The 34-nation Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an in Convention Against the Taking of Hostages was established last Dec.

15. Its orders from the 1976 General Assembly were to "make every effort" to present the text of a treaty to (he 1977 session, scheduled toopen Sept. 20. Tin- panel ended its three- month first session Friday without having approved any treaty language. As expected, the main drawback has been the volatile nature of the subject.

As one observer put it. "One man's hostage taker is another man's freedom fighter." West Germany initiated the hostage effort and proposed a treaty text. Other countries have put forward a dozen Quake-Caused Landslide Kills 32 Persons on Island JAKARTA, Indonesia (Al'j Tremors generated by a powerful earthquake in the eastern Indian Ocean touched off a landslide that killed 32 persons on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the government reported Saturday. They were the first deaths reported since the quake, possibly the strongest ever recorded, struck between Indonesia and Australia at 1:11 Jakarta time, 2:11 a.m. EOT on Friday.

The Indonesian Meteorology Department pinpointed the epicenter at a point in the ocean 931 miles southeast of Jakarta. Sumbawa. one of closest major land masses to the center, is 500 miles southeast of Jakarta. The quake also rattled tall buildings as far away as Perth, Australia, 1.300 miles south of Jakarta, and tremors rippled along the length of the Western Australian coast. Seismographic monitoring stations around the world reported the strenghth of the quake at between 7.7 and 8.9 on the Hichter scale.

Seismologists in Vienna reported a reading of 8.9 and said it vvns wns "one of the strongest (junkcs in recorded history." However, they acknowledged a energy waves may have distorted their reading. Authorities said after-shocks buffeted Indonesian islands all day Friday. One official said inadequate communications with remote islands in the Indonesian archipelago have hampered efforts to access quake-related damage and injuries. Muchson Surachman. a deputy director of Department of Social Affairs, said his agency was still trying to establish contact with some of the islands A spokesman for the Meteorology Department reported damaged buildings and at least one injury on the tourist island of Bali, about 300 miles northwest of the epicenter.

A powerful quake struck that island last year, killing more than 1,000 persons. There were reports of higher than usual waves, but no immediate indication that the quake had triggered a major tidal wave, often the most dangerous effect of earth tremors in this part of the world. A reading of 8 on the Hichter scale is rated as a "great" quake, capable of tremendous damage. Every increase of one number in the Richter measurement means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Therefore a quake measuring 8.5 is 10 times stronger than one that measures 7.5.

Appointments On City Agenda At Lovington LOV1NGTON Lovington City Commission will consider board appointments at its regular meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow, according to City Clerk Peggy Mann. At the group's July 11 meeting, Eddie Richardson resigned from his post on the city's personnel board, and the filling of that vacancy will be one of those appointments under discussion. Other commission business will include miscellaneous matters and payment of the monthly bills. Mrs.

Mann said. amendments. Discussion so far has not gone beyond the first few articles in the 14-artiele text. On its last day. the panel adopted by unanimous consent a report that spoke of "some progress," and a West German resolution recommending that the assembly "request the Ad Hoc Committee to continue its workinlS78." The West German delegate.

Ambassador Kuediger von Wechmar, said he was "highly satisfied," and convinced the assembly will grant an exten sion. The German text applies only to hostage taking on an international scale. It would require country that had ratified the treaty to prosecute or extradite anyone that detained another person to force action from a a i a i a organization or corporate body. Algeria, Guinea. Lesotho, Libya and Syria proposed amendments to hostage taking by U.N.- i i a i movements "in the process of national liberation" from colonial, racist and foreign rule, and a Syrian amendment added "foreign occupation." The amendments apparently were aimed at the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which has been recognized by the United Nations and has observer status in the world body.

Palestinian guerrillas have taken hostages on numerous occasions, usually to try to force Israel to free Arab prisoners in its jails. The same countries, upset over Israel's B71 airborne invasion of Entebbe airport in Uganda to rescue Israeli hostages from pro-Palestinian guerrillas, proposed an "Entebbe clause" to ban the threat or use of force against any country on grounds of hostage rescue Two Youths From Texas Charged Here Two Texas youths, one 20 from Arlington, and one 19, from Andrews, were arrested by Hotbs police about 10:30 p.m. Friday after Officer Mike Mann observed their car moving in an erratic manner. The two were stopped in the 300 block of East Broadway and a search of the vehicle revealed an ice chest containing 11 bottles of beer and a plastic bag containing a substance which tested positively as marijuana, police said. The 20-year-old was charged with possession of marijuana, being a minor in possession of alcohol and careless driving.

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