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HEADLINE: U.S. Seeks To Extradite Terrorist To
Sweden
DATELINE: NEW YORK
BODY:
Federal officials began proceedings Friday to
extradite a Croatian terrorist to Sweden,
where he was freed from prison in 1972 at the
demand of airline hijackers.
An extradition warrant was filed in Manhattan
against Miro Baresic, 29, who is being held by
immigration authorities pending further
proceedings on Sweden's request for his
return.
Baresic, who had been living in Paraguay, was
turned over to American officials in Asuncion
last July for prosecution on charges of
fraudulently applying for a U.S. entry visa.
Late Thursday, a jury in U.S. District Court
acquitted Baresic of the visa charges.
However, he was immediately detained by
immigration authorities pending extradition
proceedings.
The Croatian nationalist had been serving a
life prison sentence in Sweden after he was
convicted in 1971 by a Stockholm Court of
murdering Vladimir Rodovich, a Yugoslav
ambassador to Sweden.
After hijackers of a Scandinavian Airlines
System jetliner demanded and obtained his
release, Baresic and another freed Croatian
prisoner went to Paraguay and became citizens.
Baresic, using the name Toni Saric, became a
lieutenant in the Paraguayan army. Federal
officials said he later worked for Paraguay's
diplomatic service and in 1977 and 1978 served
as a bodyguard and interpreter for Mario
Lopez-Escobar, Paraguayan ambassador to
Washington.
The American charges against Baresic stemmed
from his 1977 application in Paraguay for a
U.S. entry visa. He was accused of using a
false name and of filing false statements to
obtain the visa.
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HEADLINE: HOW UNHAPPY MINORITIES UPSET
EUROPE'S CALM
HIGHLIGHT:
From Britain to the Balkans, minority groups
that long have crusaded for a better deal are
becoming more and more militant. Some are
secessionist-minded; their goal is
independence. Others want autonomy - with
special economic, political, even religious
rights. Some, like Britain's 1.5 million
blacks and Asians, simply seek an end to job
discrimination, police brutality, substandard
housing. Not at minority groups are up in arms
aginst the majorities in their countries.That
goes for the 30,000 Lapps in Northern Finland,
Sweden and Norway; 300,000 people of Swedist
atraction - 6.5 per cent of the population -
in Finland; 30,000 Germans in Southern
Denmark. Other countries have similar
minorities, some more resentful than others of
their cultural or language status. In the
Netherlands, for example, the influx of
refugees from South Molucca, in what is now
Indonesia, and Surinam, a former Dutch colony
in South America, has created tensions which
are beginning to test traditional Dutch
tolerance and patience. A survey by U.S. News
& World Report bureaus turns the spotlight
on grievances that Americans rarely read about
until they erupt in civil war as in Northern
Ireland, or guerrilla attacks, as in Spain.
BODY:
BRITAIN: Breakup Ahead
TALK OF BREAKUP no longer is a laughing matter
for the 56 million people living in the United
Kingdom. Independence for Northern Ireland,
Scotland and Wales is not just around the
corner, but nationalism in those areas is a
political reality that must be dealt with.
Northern Ireland is still ruled from London,
and British troops still try to keep warring
Catholics and Protestants apart. But
underneath the surface, in a country that is
two-thirds Protestant and one-third Catholic,
a fundamental change is taking place.
Traditionally, Protestants cling to the tie
with London. The Catholics just as strongly
favor annexation by Eire.
Now, there is a growing feeling among both
groups that the ultimate answer to the
bloodletting that has been going on for almost
a decade may be an independent Ulster. The
attraction springs partly from sheer weariness
with years of bloodshed - 1,700 dead in seven
years and average of one murder a day during
1976 - and partly from a feeling that London
lacks the means and will to keep up its
involvement. It seems probable to many in
Ulster that the 14,000 British troops will
soon leave.
Would independence bring peace to Ulster? Many
people doubt it, believing the result would be
a bloodier war.
Restive Scots. Scotland is much less volatile,
but the emotions of nationalism are stirring.
There, the Scottish National Party attacks
England as a "colonial power" and demands
independence for the 5.2 million Scots.
Scotland last had a Parliament of its own in
1707, when it was agreed the two nationsl
would merge, with Scotland being given
recognition in Westminister, the seat of
Government.The British Government has just
introduced a bill that would give Scotland,
and Wales, too, separate assemblies with
lawmaking and spending power in such fields as
education and welfare. But there is less than
satisfying to the militants, who demand
complete separation.
A powerful spur to the independence movement
is the discovery of North Sea oil in Scottish
waters. As part of the United Kingdom,
Scotland by the 1980s probably will be assured
of oil revenues worth 700 million dollars
annually. But if Scotland were independent, it
would enjoy earnings of between 5 and 7
billion dollars a year.
While Scots wonder why they should remain tied
to a financially sinking England, the
debt-ridden London Government cannot afford to
let them go, taking all that oil money with
them.
The nationalists already have drawn up
position papers on a Scotish foreign policy
and formation of separate armed forces. Most
Scots still balk at going that far, but the
nationalists hope to gain majority backing
before 1990. The Scottish National Party won
over 30 per cent of Scottish votes in the
British general election in October, 1974 - a
huge jump from its meager 2.5 per cent in
1964.
Mood in Wales . Welsh nationalists are
embarked on the same breakaway route as the
Scots, but the nationalist party, Plaid Cymru,
so far has managed to win only about 11 per
cent of the voters among the 3 million Welsh.
Yet the party chief, Gwynfor Evans, predicts
the dissolution of the United Kingdom by 1995
and assures his followers: "No national
movement in history ever failed after becoming
as strong as we are today."
The Welsh are keen to revive their native
language, which has been almost totally
displaced by English.
They also brush aside London's statistics
purporting to show that more money in
proportion to population is being spent in
Wales on health and education than in England.
The Welsh insist that 400 years of rule from
London has left them poorer.
They want their own parliament in Cardiff,
with full power to shape the Welsh economy.
London refuses to go that far, but is offering
a smaller measure of self-rule.
YUGOSLAVIA: Tito's Night
FOR 84-YEAR-OLD PRESIDENT TITO and his
Communist Government, the strong separatist
movement among Yugoslavia's 4.4 million
Croatians - one fifth of the total population
- is the Trojan Horse inside Yugoslavia.
In neighboring Hungary are Russian troops that
Tito and others fear can be used to support
Croat demands for a state of their own or,
more likely, use Croat separatism as an excuse
for a Russian invasion to "save" Yugoslavia
from disintegration.
Croat separatism is not an idle dream. Most of
Yugoslavia's several thousand political
prisoners are Croatians. Many are accused of
having had contacts with Russian agents.
Croatian exiles constantly agitate for a
separate state. In September, 1976, Croatian
terrorists succeeded in drawing worldwide
attention to their demands by skyjacking a
U.S. airliner flying from New York to Chicago,
and forcing it to go to Paris, where the
terrorists finally surrendered.
Most Croatians are Roman Catholics and, unlike
the 8 million Serbs whose historic and
religious ties are with Moscow, they look to
the West, not the East.
Croatia is one of Yugoslavia's two
most-advanced industrial areas. A majority of
the 1 million Yugoslav migrant workers in
Western Europe are Croats, and their
remittances plus earnings from tourism on the
Adriatic Coast help make Croatia more
prosperous than other parts of the country.
Croatians argue that they could do even better
if they had a nation of their own, instead
taxed by Belgrade to subsidize Yugoslavia's
less developed regions.
AUSTRIA: Border Friction
AUSTRIA WORRIES over its Slovenes, about
20,000 of them living mostly in Carinthia,
close to the Yugoslav border.The fear is that
the Slovenes, who take on German-speaking
extremists in demonstrations and fights, might
someday trip this country into a conflict with
Belgrade, where the Slovenes have powerful
friends.
The Austrian Slovenes complain about
discrimination and Vienna's failure to live up
to pledges to protect their language and
culture. They have promises of support from
Yugoslavia, where many fought with Tito's
partisans against the Germans during World War
II. After Hitler's defeat, Slovenes set about
killing German-speaking Austrians who had
collaborated with the Nazis.
Bitterness lingers on both sides. In
mid-November, 1976, a monument to anti-Nazi
Slovene fighters was blowun up by unidentified
terrorists, and railroad tracks in Carinthia
were bombed. Extremists pulled down road signs
in Slovene and German that had been erected in
villages with Slovene minorities.
Amid all the tension, the Austrian Government
sought to take a census of Slovenes,
explaining it would be a step to assure the
minority of its cultural and language rights.
But many Slovenes boycotted the census, saying
they feared it would lead to reprisals by
German-speaking neighbors.
SPAIN: Unity Endangerd
THE 750,000 BASQUES in Spain have chafed under
Spanish rule for centuries. Their languages
has nothing in common with Spanish, and they
consider themselves a race and a nation
distinct from Spain and its 34.7 million
people.
The Basques are as much of a headache to King
Juan Carlos as they were to Francisco France
during the Generalissimo's four decades of
absolute power.
Basque demands for self-rule, marked by
massive strikes and violence, met with brutal
repression under Franco. The Basques responded
with more terrorism. Their militants claimed
responsibility for assassinating Franco's
Premier, Adm. Luis Carrero Blanco, in 1973,
and for numerous political kidnappings and
murders. In mid-December, 1976, leftist
guerrillas with Basque links kidnapped Antonio
Maria de Oriol y Urquijo, the fourth-ranking
official in the Spanish Government and a
right-wing Basque.
In 1975, citizens of Guernica, the Basque town
that was destroyed by Hitler's Luftwaffe
during the Spanish Civil War, celebrated
Franco's death with champagne toasts.
Now the Basques are demanding that Madrid
restore rights they held in centuries past -
to tax, maintain law and order and administer
justice, as well as to use their own language
more freely and promote their own culture.
Bitter Catalans. Spain's other troublesome
minority, the 5.1 million Catalans, also
opposed Franco in the civil war. But they
prefer peaceful demonstrations to terrorism.
Catalans live in the country's industrial
heart - the Northeast region around Barcelona
- and complain bitterly that Madrid derives 22
per cent of the nation's revenues from
Catalonia and returns only 11 per cent.
In mid-January, the Government took steps to
deal with some minority complaints. It
announced that Basques now may freely display
their own flag and gradually will be given the
right to use the Basque language.
That may not be enough to heal all the old
wounds. A Basque lawyer says: "We fought 40
years for freedom and we'll fight another 40
if we must."
FRANCE: Touch of Terror
MILITANT CORSICANS and Bretons seeking
self-rule have caused some deaths and millions
of dollars in property damage. They upset many
of France's 53 million people.
A Corsican commando blew up an Air France
airliner in September, 1976. Two months later
extremists destroyed two French television
vans.
The Corsican nationalists are only a small
minority of the Mediterranean island's 220,000
people. Yet they want a separate republic, as
Corsica was for a time before France acquired
it in 1768.
Corsicans speak a language closer to
Portuguese than to French. A further irritant.
The islanders are poor, and they resent the
presence of French settlers from Algeria who
used Government grants in 1962 to buy land and
plant vineyards. The Corsicans say the wine
the latecomers produce gives Corsican wine a
bad name. The separatists have attacked French
winegrowers' homes, as well as banks and
stores.
The Bretons of Western France are Celts, but
only a handful among the 2.5 million living in
Brittany are separatists. These pattern their
actions after the militant branch of the Irish
Republican Army. They've blown up Government
buildings Army barracks.
French Basques, numbering about 120,000, have
a core of separatists, but are less violent
than those in Spain. A Paris official says:
"The Basques are nto a French but a Spanish
problem."
Basques who cross from Spain into France
create tension between the Governments of the
two countries. They welcomed King Juan
Carlos's visit to Paris in October, 1976, with
a series of bombings in the French capital.
Among their targets: the headquarters of
Interpol, the international police agency.
HOLLAND; A Color Problem
HOLLAND HAS A MINORITY problem with
difference: Many of its nonwhite citizens want
to leave the country. They are baiting the
Dutch to help them set up an independent
republic, separated from the rest of
Indonesia.
Thousands of Asians from the former Dutch East
Indies settled in the Netherlands after World
War II. Their presence has created tensions
and evoked violence. Militants among the
35,000 South Moluccans clamor to be returned
to their homeland in Southeast Asia.
In purusing their aims, South Moluccan
terrorists have attacked the Indonesian
Embassy in The Hague, hijacked a train,
plotted to kidnap Queen Juliana, and have
taken hostages. Four deaths resulted from
these activities.
Since Surinam achieved independence in
November, 1975, about 150,000 - almost half of
the young nation's population - have arrived
in Holland and are Dutch citizens.
Unemployment among them is high, for few speak
Dutch well enough to hold jobs. Racial tension
between the South Moluccans and the Surinamese
is rising.
SWITZERLAND: Peaceful Change
TRADITIONALLY PEACEFUL SWITZERLAND has a
smoothly functioning federal system of Cantons
which enjoy considerable autonomy. Each of the
three major language groups in the country -
German, French and Italian - has its own radio
and television network, and the German
stations also carry programs in a fourth
language - Romansch.
Yet demands by French-speaking Catholics in
the Jura Mountains close to the French border
for secession from the mainly German-speaking
Protestant Canton of Bern have been
accompanied by occasional riots and
bombings.The separatists are likely to get
what they want, a Jura Canton within the Swiss
Parliament and in the Swiss embassies in Paris
and Brussels, which the militants occupied
forcibly, a Swiss commission decided in 1969
that Jura voters should have a say about their
region's political future. The question of
autonomy was voted on in 1974, and separatism
won a majority of the popular vote. Jura may
become the 26th Swiss Canton within three
years.
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1 , Withdrawal of British troops and
independence for Ulster would probably lead to
even bloodier fighting among armed civilians.
WIDE WORLD
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June 19, 1977, AM cycle
LENGTH: 440 words
BYLINE: By BORIS STEFANOVIC, Associated Press
Writer
DATELINE: BELGRADE, Yugoslavia
BODY:
A blackout reportedly caused by drained
aircraft batteries enabled Yugoslav securities
men to overpower an armed Bulgarian and put a
bloodless end to his hijacking attempt,
authorities said Sunday.
The 22-year-old hijacker, auto mechanic
Tsankov Dimitrov, commandered the Bulgarian
Antonov 22 turboprop plane with 49 persons
aboard on a domestic flight over Bulgaria on
Saturday, put a gun to the head of a
stewardess and demanded that he be flown to
Munich or London, officials said.
The plane put down for fuel at Surcin airport,
10 miles north of Belgrade, and sat on a
runway for two hours while security men
negotiated with the hijacker.
"As negotiations were in progress the lights
on the plane suddenly went out, because of
drained batteries, and this made possible
overpowering of the hijacker without any harm
done to the passengers," said airport security
chief Zika Jovanovic.
Dimitrije Cavajev, 37, the plane's captain,
gave a slightly different version of the
incident. He said the stewardess persuaded the
hijacker to give up his gun with the promise
that he would be taken to Western Europe
aboard another plane.
It was then that Yugoslav security men seized
him, the pilot said.
The hijacker, wearing a grey suit and with his
hands manacled behind his back, was led away
by police for questioning.
The 45 passengers and four crew members flew
back to Bulgaria on Sunday morning.
Security at Surcin airport, closed for three
hours because of the hijacking, had been
stepped up because of the 35-nation conference
in Belgrade, reviewing compliance with the
Helsinki agreement on European security.
Yugoslav and Bulgarian diplomats said the
hijacking was not connected with the
conference. They also said the hijacker was
not linked to Croatian nationalists seeking
independence for Croatia, a part of
Yugoslavia.
Croatian terrorists living in the United
States hijacked an American plane on a flight
from New York to Chicago last September and
forced the pilot to fly them to Paris, where
they surrendered to French authorities.
In another development, a bomb exploded Sunday
morning on a train passing through Ljubljana,
Yugoslavia, en route from West Germany to
Greece. The blast killed one passenger and
injured eight others, including two Finnish
students.
Police said the bomb was planted on the train
outside Yugoslavia, and there was speculation
it was placed by Croatian terrorists.
Last week in New York, Croatian militants
broke into the Yugoslav mission to the United
Nations, wounded a Yugoslav guard and
scattered leaflets demanding independence for
Croatia before surrendering to police.
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HEADLINE: Croatians Release Chicago Hostages
BODY:
Two Croatian terrorists released six hostages
in Chicago Aug. 17 and surrendered to
authorities 10 hours after seizing the West
German Consulate in the city. [See 1977, p.
642A2]
The two Croatians had demanded the release of
Stefan Bilandzic from a West German prison.
Bilandzic, a leading Croatian nationalist, was
serving a life sentence in West Germany for
attempting to assassinate the Yugoslavian
consul general in Dusseldorf.
(Croatian nationalists were fighting
Yugoslavia to gain independence for their
region. Croatia was currently one of the six
republices that formed Yugoslavia.)
The siege in Chicago began in the morning of
Aug. 17 when the two terrorists, described as
Croatians from the Chicago area, entered the
building on South Michigan Ave. where the
consulate was located. They demanded to talk
to the consul general, who was not in the
building, and then pulled out pistols. One of
the men also claimed to have a bomb in his
briefcase. Eight persons in the office were
taken hostage.
The building was surrounded by police, who
started negotiations with the Croatians. One
of the terrorists' first demands was to speak
to Bilandzic in West Germany. They said they
wanted to block his possible extradition to
Yugoslavia because they feared he would be
killed by Yugoslavian authorities. They
threatened to explode the bomb they carried if
their demands were not met.
Two of the hostages were released early in the
siege, including the daughter of the consul
general.
A court ruling in West Germany earlier in the
week, opening the way for Bilandzic's
extradition to Yugoslavia, apparently provoked
the Coatian's seizure of the Chicago
consulate. The Yugoslavs had demanded
Bilandzic's extradition and that of seven
other Croatians held in West Germany in return
for the extradition of four West German
terrorists held in Yugoslavia. [See p. 438E3]
Police in Chicago and West Germany credited
Ivan Bilandzic, brother of the imprisoned
nationalist, for bringing about the surrender
of the two Croatians. Bilandzic entered the
consulate and spoke with the two men for 90
minutes before their surrender.
In other events connected with Croatian
nationalism:
* More than 200 Croatian exiles demonstrated
in Cologne Aug. 13 to protest a West German
high court ruling that permitted the
extradition of Stefan Bilandzic.
* Croatian terrorists planted two bombs in New
York City Aug. 14 and demanded the release of
Stefan Bilandzic from West German custody.
Neither of the two bombs exploded. One was
found on a window ledge in a United Nations
building and the other in a locker at Grand
Central Station.
Notes found with the bombs denounced "the
terroristic ways of Yugoslavia dictatorship
and its genocide of Croatians." Police said
the bombs were large and well-made.
* An armed group of 19 Croatians was arrested
by Australian police in a remote camp about
250 miles south of Sydney, it was reported
Sept. 5. The Croatians had weapons, maps of
their homeland and instructions on planting
land mines.
The West German government announced Sept. 13
that it would refuse a Yugoslavian request for
the extradition of three Croatians wanted in
Yugoslaiva for terrorism. The three were among
the eight Croatians sought by the Yugoslavian
government in exchange for the four West
German terrorists captured in Yugoslavia.
The West Germany decision was expected to make
the Yugoslavs less likely to return the West
German terrorists.
A West German court decided that there was
insufficient evidence to justify the
extradition of two of the wanted Croatians.
The third Croatian, Stefan Bilandzic, was
still under investigation by West German
police, and therefore could not be returned.
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December 5, 1979, Wednesday, AM cycle
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HEADLINE: Manager of Blast-Torn Shop Arrested
On Weapons Charge
DATELINE: NEW YORK
BODY:
The Yugoslavian sales manager of a travel
agency torn apart by a Croatian terrorist bomb
was arraigned Wednesday on charges of
possession of a weapon and stolen property.
Police said further bomb blasts threatened by
the terrorists after Tuesday's explosion never
occurred. They were awaiting analysis of
materials recovered at the bomb site for
possible connections with previous Croatian
terrorist blasts.
Croatian nationalists are seeking separation
of Croatia from Yugoslavia, which was formed
after World War I by the merger of several
Balkan states.
Nadjo Balac, 29, of Manhattan, was being held
in lieu of $10,000 bond and pending surrender
of his resident-alien registration card.
Balac, sales manager of the Jet and Cruise
Travel Agency, in Queens, was charged after
police at the bomb site said they saw him
packing a box containing a loaded .22-caliber
gun. Investigation showed the gun was stolen
seven years ago on Long Island, said police.
Deputy Inspector Joseph DeMartino, head of the
city's Arson Explosion Squad, said it appeared
that Croatian terrorists targeted the agency,
owned by Yugoslavian Vlaho Rudenjak, because
"some people feel that his contact with
Yugoslavia is detrimental to the Croatian
cause."
He said police found similarities to previous
Croatian bombings but could not say with
certainty that this bombing was connected with
them because of dissimilarities in the signing
of a communique.
The terrorists called news agencies about an
hour after the blast and directed them to a
locker in Grand Central Station. A letter
there identified terrorists as the Croatian
Liberation Fighters and warned of other bombs
if demands for an end to economic aid to
Yugoslavia were not met.
The bomb slightly injured two agency employees
and a police officer who came to their aid,
according to police. The blast nearly
demolished the stairway in the three-story
building and blew out windows of a
ground-floor jewelry store.
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ABSTRACT:
W Ger reptdly remains main sanctuary of
Croatian terrorists who have been organizing
bombings and shootings to harass Tito Govt
over yrs; about 12,000 Croatians reptdly
received pol asylum as 'anti-Communists' in W
Ger since World War II; many are members of
Croatian exile orgns which have remained
active; their common goal is a separate
Croatian natl state; key figure in movement is
Dr B Jelic, who heads Croatian People's
Assembly, 1 of several postwar continuations
of Ustasi movement, most extreme of Croatian
nationalists; most of funds for his orgn
reptdly comes from blackmailing over 500,000
Yugoslavs working in W Ger.
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August 14, 1972, Monday
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ABSTRACT:
Yugoslav Premier D Bijedic accuses Australia
and Austria of having tolerated terrorist and
sabotage training by Croatian emigres, known
as Ustashi, for action against Yugoslavia,
speech in Bosnia-Herzegovina; charges
Australia with allowing Croatian terrorists to
train for raid into Yugoslavia about 2 mos ago
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September 26, 1972, Tuesday
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ABSTRACT:
US Sec of State Rogers, asking UN on Sept 25
to convene meeting in '73 to act on
international terrorism, cites Sept 15
incident in which 90 Swedes were held hostage
by Croatian terrorists
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April 2, 1973, Monday
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ABSTRACT:
Fed and state policemen raid about 80 homes of
Yugoslavs in Sydney, Australia, on Apr 1 in
move against alleged Croatian terrorist
activity; 13 persons are charged; operation
followed statement in Australian Parliament
last wk by Atty Gen Sen L K Murphy, in which
he accused several Croatian orgns and number
of individuals of running Australian-based
terrorist operation against Yugoslav Govt;
Yugoslavia has charged Australia is being used
as training ground for Croatian secessionists,
who return to Yugoslavia and commit acts of
terrorism; Murphy's statement came after he
led invasion of offices of Australian Security
Intelligence Agency on Mar 16 and sealed safes
and took papers related to Croatian
activities; repercussions of Murphy's action
on Australian pol situation noted.
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ABSTRACT:
Pol storm appears imminent in Australia over
official actions against alleged Croatian
terrorists in Australia who oppose Yugoslav
Govt; conservative majority in Australian Sen,
over opposition of Prime Min G Whitlam's Labor
Govt, last wk voted to conduct com inquiry
into circumstances surrounding raids by police
on about 80 Croatian homes in Sydney area in
Apr; probe is certain to focus on role of
Whitlam's Atty Gen, L K Murphy, who ordered
raids; earlier, Murphy led Fed police in
seizure of documents on Croatian activities
held by Australian Secret Intelligence Orgn;
in rept to Parliament, Murphy has accused 7
Croatian orgns and number of individuals of
running terrorist campaign against Yugoslav
Govt led by Tito, appearing to confirm
Yugoslav protest to Australia last yr charging
Australia is being used as training base by
Croatian secessionists
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September 12, 1976, Sunday
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BYLINE: BY ROBERT E TOMASSON
JOURNAL-CODE: NYT
ABSTRACT:
Croatian terrorists who hijacked
NY-to-Chicago Boeing 727 surrender at
Charles de Gaulle Airport, Roissy, France,
on Sept 12 and free 60 passengers and crew
members who had been held captive for 30
hrs. Surrender follows 12-hr stalemate in
which French authorities blew out plane's
tires and said they would not allow it to
take off under any circumstances.None of
passengers or crew members had been
apparently injured. Soon after drama ended
US Amb to France Kenneth Rush said hijackers
were given option of returning to US for
trial. Expressed belief they would accede to
returning to US. Hijackers, while on ground
at Paris airport, were reptd to have
demanded to speak by telephone with Pres
Ford, Sec Kissinger or Amb Rush. White House
issued statement saying that 'since Rush is
in Paris, he is person most appropriate to
communicate with plane'. Ford meets with
Transporation Sec William T Coleman and FAA
Admr John McLucas and orders investigation
of boarding procedures in effect at La
Guardia for hijacked flight. Incident revd.
Map of flight's detoured route. Illus (L).
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September 12, 1976, Sunday
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LENGTH: 148 words
BYLINE: BY JAMES F CLARITY
JOURNAL-CODE: NYT
ABSTRACT:
Surrender of Croatian terrorists who seized
TWA 727 and landed in Paris, France, Sept 11
follows arrest on Sept 12 of 1 of hijackers.
Hijacker, woman who is not identified by
French officials, left aircraft to telephone
contacts in US to verify texts of Croatian
hijackers' anti-Yugoslav statement had been
publicized in US. Earlier US Amb to France
Kenneth Rush talked by radiophone at airport
with Croatian terrorists who had hijacked
plane. Released passenger William Knudson
comments. Interior Min, headed by Michel
Poniatowski, who is personally directing
French actions, confirms rept by French press
agency that 'in no circumstances' would plane
be allowed to leave airport. In reponse to
another of hijackers' demands, US reporter is
allowed to approach plane with copies of
photostats of US newspapers that had published
texts of terrorists' grievances and demands
(M).
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September 12, 1976, Sunday
SECTION: Page 23, Column 1
LENGTH: 82 words
BYLINE: BY JOSEPH B TREASTER
JOURNAL-CODE: NYT
ABSTRACT:
FAA investigators believe weapons used by
Croatian terrorists in hijacking TWA
727--handguns, explosive materials and
possibly submachine gun--was planted on
aircraft before passengers began boarding.
View developed as some of released passengers
reported to investigators that they had seen
terrorists picking up weapons that had
apparently been secreted in various places on
aircraft and after screening devices at La
Guardia Airport has been checked and found to
be working properly (M).
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June 15, 1977, Wednesday, Final Edition
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HEADLINE: Croat Terrorists Held in N.Y.
Shooting
BYLINE: By William Claiborne, Washington Post
Staff Writer
DATELINE: NEW YORK, June 14, 1977
BODY:
Three Croatian terrorists shot their way into
the Yugoslav mission to the United Nations
today, wounding a guard and then staged a ruse
in which they had police believing for two
hours that a woman hostage was being held
behind barricaded doors.
In an almost comic opera ending to the seige,
the terrorists abandoned their ploy of using a
falsetto voice to deceive police, and
surrendered meekly.
The police, in turn, then scattered the scores
of reporters waiting outside the Fifth Ave.
building by drawing their weapons in response
to a report that a Yugoslav mission employee
had broken out a machine gun.
Amid shouts of "get the window closed, get out
of here!," camermen and reporters beat hasty
retreats in every direction, while the police
deftly spirited the Croatians away in squard
cars.
Police never confirmed the machine gun rumor.
Police said the last-minute flurry of gun
wielding and shouting was designed to prevent
possible attacks on the terrorists by persons
in the large crowd surrounding the mission.
The drama began shortly before 2.30 p.m. when,
police said, three armed men burst into the
four-story mission at Fifth Avenue and 67th
Street after coolly walking past a uniformed
New York City policeman standing guard
outside, without arousing his suspiciouns.
Deputy Police Chief Francis McLoughlin said
when the terrorists entered a foyer they shot
a Yugoslav chauffeur, Radiomir Medich, 58, who
was standing guard inside. Wounded in the
abdomn, Medich later was reported in fair
condition at Lenox Hill Hospital.
McLoughlin said the gunmen then bolted
upstairs to a third-floor office, pursued by
New York City Patrolman John Gavin, who heard
the shot while patrolling outside on the
sidewalk.
The terrorists barricaded themselves in the
office, which police said was apparently empty
at the time, and began throwing hundreds of
leaflets into the street below. The leaflets
demanded independence for Croatians, whose
territory was annexed in 1918 along with that
of Serbians, Slones and other South Slavs, to
form the kingdom of Yugoslavia.
The terrorists hauled down a Yugoslav flag and
shouted to police that they wanted some of the
leaflets delivered to the U.N. Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim. The police complied.
For the next two hours, members of the police
department's hostage negotiating team talked
to the terrorists through the barricaded door.
McLoughlin said that at one point, the
negotiators heard what they thought was a
woman's voice, although he said it seemed that
the "woman" had a gag over her mouth.
Assistant FBI Director J. Wallace LaPrade, who
was at the scene, and New York Chief of
Detectives John Keenan later concurred that
there was no hostage in the office, and that
the terrorists probably had faked a woman's
voice.
"They had to surrender eventually and they
did. The police negotiators convinced them the
only thing to do was come out of there,"
LaPrade said.
In a circus-like atmosphere, hundreds of
passersby and reporters crowded closer and
closer to the front entrance of the small
mission building, which is wedged between two
luxury high-rise apartment buildings in the
fashionable East side neighbourhood.
Casually clad youths riding tenspeed bicycles
and one man carrying a miniature poodle shoved
their way along with reporters closest to the
door as rumors circulated that the gunmen were
about to be led outside.
Some Yugoslac employees inside shouted, "Kill
them. They'll never get justice." A police
official at headquarters said later, "Somebody
thought they saw 3 machine gun at the window,
but we're not confirming that."
The incident was the second time in a year
that Croatian nationalists have carried out a
terrorist act in New York City. Last September
a TWA jetliner with 86 passengers was hijacked
at Kennedy Airport and taken to Paris by five
Croats.
GRAPHIC: Picture 1, New York police carry
heavy equipment into Yugoslav mission to the
United Nations after three Croatians invaded
it and barricaded themselves in an office. AP
Picture 2, A Croatian terrorist, one of three
who shot their way into the Yugoslav mission
to the U.N., is led away by New York police
after surrender. UPI
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August 15, 1978, Tuesday, Final Edition
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HEADLINE: 2 Bombs Fail to Explode At U.N. and
Grand Central
BYLINE: From news services and staff reports
DATELINE: NEW YORK
BODY:
Croatian terrorists yesterday planted dynamite
bombs on a United Nations window ledge and in
a locker in Grand Central Station to demand
the release of Croatian accused of the trying
to kill the Yugoslavian ambassador to West
Germany, police said. Neither device exploded.
The notes found with the bombs claimed that
they were planted by a group that seeks the
separation of Croatia from Yugoslavia.
Chief of detectives James Sullivan called the
group "very well-schoolde bomb-makers."
A U.N. spokesman said the bomb found on a
window ledge on the Dag Hammarskjold Library
was "enough to blow up the library."
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September 13, 1976, Monday
SECTION: Page 18, Column 1
LENGTH: 62 words
BYLINE: BY LESLIE MAITLAND
JOURNAL-CODE: NYT
ABSTRACT:
Article on NYC Police Sgt Terence G McTigue,
who was seriously injured during attempted
detonation of bomb planted by Croatian
terrorists in Grand Central Terminal locker.
Recalls McTigue's 16-yr career as top
demolition expert. Patrolmen's Benevolent Assn
pres Douglas Weaving comments. Meanwhile,
Police Dept makes funeral arrangements for
Officer Brian Murray (M).
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September 13, 1976, Monday
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JOURNAL-CODE: NYT
ABSTRACT:
French Interior Min Michel Poniatowski, in
Quotation of the Day on hijacking by Croatian
terrorists, says 'Only an attitude of firmness
can end this kind of odious blackmail'. Por.
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September 15, 1976, Wednesday
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ABSTRACT:
Thousands attend Sept 14 burial rites for NYC
Police Office Brian Murray, who was killed in
blast of bomb planted by Croatian terrorists.
Rev John Donnelly officiates at mass, held at
St Agnes Cathedral, Rockville Centre, NY, and
delivers eulogy. Mourners include Murray's
widow Kathleen and 4-yr-old son Keith, Mayor
Beame, FBI Dir Kelley, NYC Police Comr Codd
and TWA pres Edward Meyer. Officer Henry
Dworkin and Deputy Inspector Fritz Behr, who
also were injured in blast, arrive by
ambulance. Sgt Terence McTigue remains in
Jacobi Hosp in critical condition. Illus (L).
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August 20, 1978, Sunday
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ABSTRACT:
Six hostages held at West German consulate
in Chicago (Ill) are released due to chance
meeting between priest and man seeking
support for his jailed brother. Two Croatian
terrorists, Mile Kodzoman and Bozo Kelava,
had seized consulate to dramatize their
demand for release of fellow-Croatian
Stjepan Bilandzic from a West German jail.
Two were persuaded to surrender by Rev Paul
Maslach of St Jerome Croatian Church in
Chicago and Bilandzic's brother Ivan, who
happened to be visiting Maslach at time of
seizure (M).
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HEADLINE:
Terrorist Worked As Ambassador's Bodyguard
Here;
Ambassador's Bodyguard Was Croatian Terrorist
BYLINE:
By Christopher Dickey, Washington Post Staff
Writer
BODY:
From 1977 through 1978, Paraguay's ambassador
here employed as his personal bodyguard an
international terrorist convicted of killing
Yugoslavia's ambassador to Sweden in 1971.
Miro Baresic, 28, a karate expert with a hot
temper who was sprung from a Swedish prison in
1972 as part of a ransom demand by airline
hijackers, used the name Toni Saric when he
escorted Paraguay's Ambassor Mario
Lopez-Escobar around Washington.
U.S. authorities did not know his real
identity at the time, State Department sources
said yesterday.
Baresic left the Paraguayan embassy after he
was accused of assaulting a motorcyclist
during a minor traffic incident here in March
1978. He avoided arrest by claiming diplomatic
immunity.
In recent months, Baresic has become a target
of a major federal investigation into acts of
terrorism by right-wing Croatian separatists
against Yugoslavians in the United States and
elsewhere. He and another Croatian terrorist,
both of whom were turned over to U.S.
officials by the Paraguayan government in
Asuncion last week, are being held in New York
on charges of obtaining U.S. visas with false
information.
Lopez-Escobar said yesterday that he had no
knowledge of Baresic's background or real name
while Baresic worked here. "He was sent by the
government of Paraguay," Lopez-Escobar said.
"He came here, I accept him, that's all."
It is not clear to what extent other
Paraguayan officials knew of "Saric's"
background. Robert B. Fiske Jr., the U.S.
attorney in New York City who is heading the
investigation, recently emphasized the
"important assistance and cooperation" of the
Paraguayan government in securing the return
of Baresic and fellow terrorist Ivan Vujucevic
to this country.
But the authoritarian regime of Paraguayan
president Alfredo Stroessner has long been
accused of harboring right-wing fugitives,
including Nazi Josef Mengele, who supervised
the murder of 400,000 people at Auschwitz.
Baresic is reputedly a member of the Ustashi
movement, which sided with the Nazis in World
War Ii. The group wants to make Croatia
independent from the rest of Yugolslavis.
Since the early 1970s the group has focused
most of its terrorist activities on Yugoslavs
living abroad.
Croatian terrorists were implicated in or took
credit for a series of assassinations and
assassination attempts ranging from West
Germany to Paraguay in the first half of the
decade. In 1972, they took credit for blowing
up a Yugoslav airplane over Czechoslovakia,
killing 29 people. In 1976, they hijacked a
Trans World Airlines flight from New York to
Paris.
Last month the Federal Bureau of Investigation
attributed several more recent violent acts to
the Croatians, including three bombings, two
murders and numerous death threats. There were
also numerous extortion demands, an FBI
spokesman said, in which victims were told to
mail their money to an address in Paraguay.
Baresic and Vujicevic were at the vanguard of
this wave of violence. In April 1971, Baresic
was one of two terrorists who shot and killed
Yugoslavia's ambassador to Sweden, Vladimir
Rolovic. The same year Vujicevic participated
in an armed assault on the Yugoslav embassy in
Stockholm.
Both were convicted. Baresic was sentenced to
life imprisonment and Vujicevic to 3 1/2
years. But fellow Croatian radicals hijacked a
domestic Swedish airline flight in September
1972, and the Swedish government released
seven terrorists, including Baresic and
Vujiceivic, to comply with their demands.
Baresic and Vujicevic went with the hijackers
to Spain, where they were held briefly before
going to Paraguay, according to sources close
to the investigation.
Lopez-Escobar said yesterday that Baresic was
"absolutely not" involved in terrorist
activities while he worked in Washington from
September 1977 through November 1978.
The ambassador did say that there was an
incident in which his bodyguard hit "a Negro
young man."
The young man, Metrobus driver Jesse Blac, 26,
is the son of Alma Black, District Del. Walter
Fauntroy's D.C. office manager.
In March 1978, Jesse Black said, he was riding
his motorcycle home from work on Massachusetts
Avenue when a limousine the ambassador was
riding in pulled out from in front of the
Paraguayan embassy, forcing him into the
oncoming traffic lane. Black pulled in front
of the car and stopped at which point "Saric"
got out, Black said.
"It was like he jumped up and kicked me . .
.kicked me off the bike," Black said. When he
was down on the ground, Saric kicked him
again.
Black was taken to a hospital and treated for
bruises and sprains before being released. His
mother, on hearing the Paraguayan explanation
of the incident to the police -- that Baresic
was only protecting the ambassador and was
covered by diplomatic immunity -- decided to
pursue the case with the State Department.
As a result, in July 1978, "Saric" reluctantly
paid Jesse Black $1,000 in damages.
The worst part of the incident, said Alma
Black, was that "I felt like if me or my son
had been in P araguay, they would have just
locked us up and thrown away the key.
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Picture, Miro Baresic, who worked for
Paraguay's ambassador here, is a terrorist
convicted of killing an ambassador.
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HEADLINE: Croatian Group Says It Bombed
Yugoslav Envoy's Home Here
BYLINE: By Timothy S. Robinson, Washington
Post Staff Writer; Washington Post staff
writer Art Harris contributed to this article.
BODY:
A group of Croatian nationalists claimed "full
responsibility" yesterday for a Tuesday
morning bombing at the Northwest Washington
home of the Yugoslav charge d'affaires.
In a two-page typewritten letter mailed to The
Washington Post and other news media, the
group, "Croatian Freedom Fighters," said it
carried out the "action in Washington, D.C. as
a sign of protest against the Yugoslav
government" and its treatment of the Croatian
movement's supporters. The letter, postmarked
Tuesday, was in Croatian.
There were no injuries in the 4 a.m.,
explosion at the home of acting Yugoslav
ambassador Vladimir Sindjelic on Quincy Street
NW.
The FBI has been investigating "the
possibility that the bomb was planted by one
of the anticommunist Yugoslavian terrorist
splinter groups" that have claimed credit for
previous acts of violence, an FBI spokesman
said shortly after the blast.
Yesterday's letter appeared to come from one
such group.
The letter demanded, among other things, an
"urgent investigation into the case of Miro
Baresic" and that a Swedish doctor be allowed
to visit Baresic in a Swedish prison.
Baresic, a 29-year-old karate expert who was
released from a Swedish prison in 1972 as part
of a ransom demand by Croatians who hijacked
an airliner, worked for the Paraguayan embassy
in Washington in 1977 and 1978 under a
different name.
Later he became a target of a major federal
investigation into acts of terriorism by
right-wing Croatian separatists against
Yugoslavs in the United States and elsewhere.
Baresic went to Paraguay in 1978. Later he and
another Croatian terrorist there was
extradited to the United States, and spent
about a year in a New York jail before being
deported to Sweden last month.
"We are turning attention of the American and
world public and governments to the decision
of the command of Croatian liberation forces
that actions toward Croatian fighters and
nationalists will no longer be tolerated . .
.," the letter said.
The group said it would continue to make its
demands "until the creation of a Croatian
state."
Since 1971, when the Yugoslav region called
Croatia lost some of its autonomy, there have
been a number of attacks against Yugoslav
government personnel and installations abroad.
Croatian terrorists were implicated or claimed
involvement in a series of assassination
attempts in various countries, ranging from
West Germany to Paraguay, in the first half of
the decade. In 1972 they claimed
responsibility for blowing up a Yugoslav
airliner over Czechoslovakia, a blast in which
29 persons were killed.
In April 1971, Baresic himself pleaded quilty
in Sweden to the assassination of the Yugoslav
ambassador to Sweden earlier that year.
Croatian nationalists also hijacked an
American jetliner bound for Paris in 1976.
During that incident a New York City policeman
was killed when he tried to disarm a bomb
planted in Grand Central Station by Croatians
in connection with the hijacking.
A New York City police report earlier this
year listed 60 "significant" acts of terrorism
by Croatians worldwide since 1962. At least 50
persons have died in such incidents since
1972, the report said.
One State Department official has theorized
that the bombing of Sindjelic's home here was
"an attempt to throw a shadow" on President
Carter's scheduled trip to Yugoslavia next
month. Carter is scheduled to visit the
country -- to underscore continuing U.S.
support for Yugoslav independence following
the death of President Tito -- on the way to a
meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization in Turkey.
President Tito died May 4 after a long
illness, and was replaced by a new collective
government.
The State Department official said the agency
had warned Sindjelic and other Yugoslav
diplomats about possible targets to their
safety because of a State Department fear that
Tito's death might prompt an outbreak of
anti-Yugoslav government violence.
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HEADLINE: AROUND THE NATION;
3 Arrested in Cleveland In Alleged Terrorist
Plot
BYLINE: AP
DATELINE: CLEVELAND, Sept. 15
BODY:
Three Cleveland men have been arrested after
the exposure of an alleged plot by Croatian
terrorists to kill two people in Ohio and one
in New York, according to United States
Treasury agents and the Cleveland police.
The police identified the men as Vinko
Logarusic, 34 years old, also charged in the
1979 bombing of a Cleveland travel
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agency; Milan Butina, 32, a carpet layer, and
his brother-in-law, Gaines Buttrey, 24, a
welder.
The three were charged with conspiracy to
commit aggravated murder and were being held
in bail of $15,000 each. Treasury agents and
members of a Cleveland Police Organized Crime
Field Intelligence section confiscated $3,000
from Mr. Butina and Mr. Buttrey, the
authorities said. The money was allegedly paid
to the men to kill someone, they said. No
information was released about the three
alleged targets for murder.
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HEADLINE: BOMB SHATTERS WINDOWS IN COURTHOUSE
DOWNTOWN
BYLINE: By LEONARD BUDER
BODY:
A pipe bomb exploded early yesterday afternoon
in the sub-basement of the New York State
Supreme Court Building in lower Manhattan,
halting trial sessions and forcing out 2,000
employees, jurors, lawyers and others. There
were no injuries.
The explosion ruptured water pipes and
shattered some ground-level windows facing the
street. The noise was heard on the fifth floor
of the solid seven-story building at 60 Centre
Street, and the impact was felt on the top
floor, the police said.
A caller identifying himself as a member of
the Croatian Freedom Fighters telephoned
United Press International in New York City at
9:45 A.M. and warned that a bomb would go off
somewhere in the city ''at half after 12.''
The blast occurred at 12:45 P.M. The caller
did not identify the building.
About 45 judges were working when the
explosion occurred, with perhaps a dozen
conducting trials. Those presiding halted
their cases and quickly joined the exodus from
the 53-year-old building.
'Could Have Been Disaster'
''It was a miracle no one was hurt - it could
have been a disaster,'' said Norman Goodman,
the County Clerk. He said 40 or 50 employees
were working in basement rooms not far from
where the bomb went off.
Judge E. Leo Milonas, the deputy chief
administrative judge for New York City courts,
said: ''If this had been Monday, there would
have been maybe 3,000 people in the building,
so we were lucky.'' Monday is the start of a
new court term.
Judge Milonas said the worst damage consisted
of a broken pipe that caused flooding in the
sub-basement. ''We plan to have that repaired
by evening and will be open for business again
on Monday,'' Judge Milonas said.
Reference Made to Arrests
As soon as the explosion went off, uniformed
court officers rushed from room to room
ordering an evacuation. The caller who claimed
responsibility for the bombing said his group
was ''protesting the American Government's
ignorance and approval of Yugoslavian
persecution of Croatian dissidents.''
''This is a time for Americans to celebrate
the liberation of American hostages from
Iran,'' the caller said. ''But don't forget
there are many innocent Croatians in American
jails now kept locked up just to please the
Yugoslavia dying regime.''
The news organization said the caller made a
reference to the arrest last month in the New
York metropolitan area of seven persons
accused of being Croatian terrorists.
Shortly after the bomb exploded, WCBS Radio
said it had received a call from a person
identifying himself as a member of a Puerto
Rican terrorist organization and claiming
responsibility for the bombing.
Timing Mechanism Attached
James T. Sullivan, the city's chief of
detectives, said investigators thought the
bombing was the work of a Croatian group. He
said the explosive device was a pipe bomb with
a timing mechanism that was attached to a
foot-long propane gas tank.
Chief Sullivan said the device had been placed
in a metal gutter beneath a four-inch water
pipe that was suspended from the ceiling.
Reports of the explosion brought police and
fire units and members of a special
antiterrorism unit to the scene. Justice
Bentley Kassal, who was in his chambers at the
time of the blast, gathered up his papers and
later, as he stood on the front steps outside
the building, signed documents while waiting
for word on whether the building would be
reopened.
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March 29, 1981, Sunday, Final Edition
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LENGTH: 34 words
BYLINE: From news services and staff reports
BODY:
Five men described as members of a Croatian
terrorist group have been convicted on federal
charges of plotting to bomb a number of public
buildings in New York City and to murder a
political opponent.
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SECTION: First Section; Around the Nation;
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LENGTH: 22 words
BYLINE: From news services and staff reports
BODY:
New York officials say Croatian terrorists
appear to have been responsible for the
bombing at the Statue of Liberty this week.
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ABSTRACT:
US Federal officials begin proceedings to
extradite Croatian terrorist Miro Baresic to
Sweden, where he was freed from prison in '72
at demand of airline hijackers. Baresic had
been serving life sentence after being
convicted in '71 of murdering Vladimir
Rodovich, Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden (S).
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