Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R000400040001-3 CPYRGHT ing place with Iran,” Shultz told:a news ‘confer- | term ended that day. : P Ox tt Group Holding U.S. Hostages Warns Against Interference Previous cabinet, leaving the country with twp sued Nova Boustany — rival administrations but no president: French suggestions that U.N. Protection bi Provided for Lebanon’s legislators when the convene to vote for a.new president have bee] welcomed by Christian politicians and criticized by Moslems allied with Syria. . The Revolutionary Justice group charged tha there was “a NATO-Iraqi-Israeli scheme” intend]. ed to partition Lebanon-and to compromise ‘yr BEIRUT, Oct. 6—A shadowy group holding at least two Americans hostage warned tonight that their safety is in jeopardy. if foreign “colonial” powers interfere in Lebanese politics—a veiled reference to France, ° Today’s statement by the Revolutionary Jus- tice Organization came. three days after the Is- lamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine re- } ia and other struggling regimes.” “ teased an Indian-born U.S, resident aten held. Western diplomats here and in Damascus s captive with three other Americans, amid hopes | the United States has been wor! king with France that more hostages will be freed before the U.S, . and other European powers to steer Lebanon out residential election next month. “ot the crisis, PO : ao ae P The statement was accompanied by a photo- |. The Revolutionary Justice Organization also graph of Joseph James Cicippio, 57, the acting | has claimed responsibility for the abduction two | comptroller of the American University of Bei- took : caise of Edward Austin Tracy, a writer and » who was kidnaped near his faculty apart- |} aan . | eet Hi Pile on nape, two years nd part : The photograph it released today showed Ci- “We shall use all kinds of methods and cards to cippio, wearing a dark track suit, smiling and foil the plots of international quarters,” the state- rookeg a 2 Blanket with nis hands ris ap. He ment said. “This includes the safety of hostages :. Nine Americans aré stil bein hal d hosta e int which will be at the heart of our plans for coun- Lebanon. Mithileshwar Singh 2 professor at Bel. terattack.” nn , . toca: ich intelj [tut University College, was released this week gene camdestine | “said apneats which losely after: 20 months of captivity, raising-hopes for linked to Islamic Jihad and other militant, pro- : Se of his American colleagues—Robert Tranian Shiite Moslem groups, lashed out at “the the same time arrogant attempts of colonial intervention” to |” Washington Past staff writer John Mo Gashko “internationalize” Lebanon's‘ current - political reported from the United Nations: aoe errench Foreign Minister Roland Duras has ie etary of State George P. Shultz today de- i ‘ ied that the United States is secretly negotiatin Admini i i -for- proposed that U.N. troops supervise the election byith Iran for the release of un erica h ostages in Seabee nation Presitont Rey me arms ior. of a new president by Lebanon’s parliameat. The ébanon, and he said that individuals claiming: to | 'Pharge of Iran policy. Since then, Shultz said, the position has been vacant since Sept. 22, when speak for the U.S. government are misrepresent- | Pnited States has followed a policy’ of dealiig hard-line Christian Opposition to two pro-Syrian ng themselves and should “butt out.”. . 1 With Iran only indirectly through third countrigs. candidates blocked Parliament from electing a “There are no discussions, no diréct talks tak -| | Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akba elay3ti, Successor to President Amin Gemayel, whose ~ who, like Shultz; has been ‘attending? the’ tw eneral Assembly meeting here, said at a.ser rate news conference, “[- categorically. déby here is’ any negotiation between “the. Unifd Piates and Iran and no talks about ‘the hostages 1 Photo delivered to Bei ut newspaper yesterday = shows American hostage Joseph James Cicippiog= ME “There are always individuals who nominafe themselves to. get: involved,” he added, “To fe extent that they do,so,:they misrepresent thefh- individuals who so rgp- resent themselves in‘one'way or another. Inno way do they. represent. the United States.” =: : Frankly I wish they would butt out,” he said, ked. if secret’ talks’ might be taking. place ithout his knowlédge, Shultz noted that after nce in response to persistent’ rumors that the In what he called a move to avert a ceastitu- eagan -administration or representatives of tional vacuum, Geniayel named a Christian-led ice President Bush are offering money’ or military cabinet to assume executive power. But eapons to win freedom for nine Americans held he Moslems have continued to recognze the y ,axtremist Lebanese Moslem groups. deny it totally.” “ . . Fd ¥ CPYRGHT CPYRGHT Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R000400040001-3