Cable Briefs

Press, 8 May 1980, Page 8

Cable Briefs

16-year-old hijacker A Portuguese airliner hi- . jacked to Madrid with 91 people aboard returned to Lisbon yesterday and the young hijacker, reported to be only 16, was taken away by the police. No-one was hurt. The hijacker’s mother, who called him “a good boy,” said the runaway had paid for the first-class ticket he used to board the plane with money his taxi-driver father had given him to pay the insurance premium on the cab. —Lisbon. Bishop’s son shot A mysterious vendetta against Protestant Church leaders in Iran took a new turn in Teheran yesterday when an unidentified gunman shot dead the 24-year-old son of Hassan Dehgani, the Anglican Bishop of Iran. Bahram Dehgani was found slumped" in the front seat of his borrowed car. Bishop Dehgani narrowly survived an assassination attempt last October at his home in Isfahan and shortly afterwards left for Cyprus. Six days ago, gunmen shot and badly wounded his secretary, Jean Waddell, while apparently looking for the Episcopal Bishop of Teheran, who lives in the same ing.—TeheranBodies return The remains of American servicemen killed in the failed American hostage rescue mission in Iran have arrived in-the. United States from Zurich aboard a United States Air Force Cl4l transport plane. The Pentagon announced in Washington that a brief; solemn ceremony was held at the base in memory of the . eight dead men.—Washington. Second boinb

A home-made bomb has been set off outside offices of the Muslim Students’ Association in France in the Latin Quarter of Paris: There were no casualties and damage was minimal. One report said an extreme Rightist group had claimed responsibility. A powerful home-made -bomb went off earlier this, week outside an annex of-the-Lib-yan Embassy in Paris causing widespread damage. A previously unknown Jewish activist group, claimed responsibility.—Paris.