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Page 3 The Herald, Friday, September 30, T977 Safer rof optimistic Natural gas hassle continues By ELMER W.LAMMI WASHINGTON (UPI) Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker said today the chances are "no more than 50-50" for an end to the natural gas bill stalemate which has knotted the Senate in anger and frustration for two weeks. Democratic Leader Robert Byrd, interrupting a meeting at which he was attempting to work out a compromise to end the filibuster, told reporters, "It is always darkest before the dawn." When the Senate opened business for the day, the filibuster was back in swing. Baker, Byrd and their staffs along with other senators sifted through a stack of 378 remaining amendments to see which are serious and which are intended only as filibuster ammunition. "We will compare the stacks and decide which to act on first," Baker said. At the opening of the session.

Baker asked to dispense with the reading of the journal, but filibusterer James Abourezk. objected, starting the day's delays. "The world ought to know we were ready to vote last night." Abourezk said. "We are ready to vote today." He said a counter-filibuster by Sen. Russell Long, "is being conducted in behalf of the oil and gas industry in order to increase the gas and oil bills." Over and over again during the fourth long day of debate Thusday, Byrd proposed ways the Senate might vote on the key issue.

And each time there was an objection, either from Abourezk or Long. "Why can't the senators who want to argue stay and work out an agreement now. while the rest of us go home to bed?" asked Sen. William Scott, at one point. There are two principal proposals pending.

The first, by Sens. James Pearson, and Lloyd Bentsen, would immediately lift price ceilings on newly discovered onshore gas and in five years for offshore gas. The second, by Byrd and Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash, would increase gas prices, but retain federal controls.

Terrorists free four hostages; ransom deadline cannot be met The first two of 22 remains of Americans killed in the Vietnam war are carried by casket bearers onto a U.S. Air Force transport jet today for return to home soil. A two-member State Department delegation and a joint U.S. military honor guard stand at attention. (UPI Photo) Vietnam returns bodies of 22 U.S.

war victims Dacca airport. "We are not going to set any more passengers free, whether they are sick or not," Japanese officials quoted one of the hijackers as saying. The Egyptian said he tricked the terrorists into releasing him and his wife when she began vomiting by telling them he was a doctor and that his wife had contracted cholera. The terrorists, who commandeered the Paris-to-Tokyo jetliner Wednesday over Bombay, released five U.S. residents Thursday, including an ailing yoga student studying in India and actress Carole Wells "We will keep cool," one of the hijackers told airport authorities.

"But we cannot wait beyond the deadline." Itsuko Narita, a Japanese woman hostage released today, said the hijackers struck two men aboard the DC8 plane when they tried to get up from their seats. The hijackers also changed seating arrangements on the jet so that men sat near the windows and women and children were on the aisles. In addition to Miss Narita, the terrorists released an Egyptian couple and an Indonesian woman from the Japan Air Lines jet parked in an isolated area of By ALAMGIR MOHIUDDIN DACCA, Bangladesh (UPI) -Japanese Red Army terrorists freed four more hostages from their hijacked jet today but the Japanese government said it could not meet the guerrillas' latest execution deadline for 142 remaining hostages. They reinforced their threat with a slogan: "Remember the Lod airport incident," referring to a 1972 Red Army machinegun attack at Israel's Lod International Airport in which terrorists killed 22 persons and wounded scores of. others.

None of the nine Americans still aboard the craft was released. The hijackers told the airport control tower again today they were determined to go through with their threat to kill their hostages one by one if their demands are not met. The five gunmen were not yet aware that Japan will miss the 6 p.m. EDT deadline for paying a $6 million ransom and releasing nine terrorist prisoners, nor that three of the prisoners refused to leave their cells. The new threat was relayed to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, but Japan said it would miss the terrorists' deadline by at least seven hours.

authorities as Tucker Gougelmann, reportedly a CIA operative killed in the final months of the war. The State Department mission escorted the body of a Vietnamese man to Hanoi. A spokesman said the body being returned to Hanoi was mistakenly identified as an American and was one of the 12 bodies turned over to the Leonard Woodcock-led mission to Vietnam last March. There are an estimated 2,500 Americans listed as missing in action in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. State Department officials said of that number only 1,800 are known to have died during the Indochina war.

The officials said the remaining 700 are the ones the U.S. government has asked for an accounting from the Vietnamese. CLARK AIR FORCE BASE, Philippines (UPI) A State Department mission arrived in Hanoi today and departed with the remains of 22 Americans killed in the Vietnam War, Air Force officials said today. Air Force officials said the mission's C141 Starlifter transport jet arrived in Hanoi at 10:31 p.m. EDT Thursday and left at 4:15 a.m.EDT today.

Frank Sieverts, the State Department official coordinating prisoner-of-war and action programs, said before his departure from the Philippines his team would accompany the remains Saturday to Honolulu after an overnight stay at Clark Air Force Base. The bodies will be identified and their names released in Honolulu except for one civilian, who was identified by Vietnamese burgerW IoueenJ Ue Con Reofftj Hijacker demands broadcast time be broadcast immediately over Radio Europe No. 1 and Radio Monte Carlo, the two chief French commercial radio stations, police said. of the 100 persons. These included 94 passengers and a crew of six.

The seventh crew member, a stewardess whom the hijacker shot in the arm, was allowed off the Air Inter plane along with six passengers, one of them an infant, reducing the original 107 persons aboard to an even hundred. Police said the hijacker demanded 12 minutes of air time and wanted a radio station car with transmitter driven alongside the plane at Orly airport. He said only one person could be in the car. The hijacker further said a microphone should be attached to a rope which he would lower from the cockpit so that he could broadcast a pre-taped message. He demanded that the message By ROLAND TYRRELL PARIS (UPI) A lone hijacker armed with a pistol and grenade seized a French domestic jetliner today, shot a stewardess and forced it to return tdParis where he demanded radio time to broadcast a political message.

He threatened to blow up the plane with 100 persons aboard. The hijacker described as tall, blond and about 45 also demanded a full load of fuel for an undisclosed destination. He said if there were any false moves he would blow up the Caravelle twin-jet airliner and all 100 persons still aboard. He also said that if his demands for fuel were met and his message was broadcast, he would release 50 1 Wm Where Is Ann? ANNUAL SHOOT For BEEF HAMS Sunday, October 2 at the SCHNELLVILLE CONSERVATION CLUB 1st Choice Half Beef Closed Match at 3 PM HAM SHOOT BEGINS AT 12 NOON KITCHEN OPENS AT 1 1 AM You arm invited! Ph.317-825-2115 CITIZENS OF CAMBRIDGE CITY, INDIANA IN SEARCH OF ANN HARMEIER.