Moslem victims retrievqd from jet COLOMBO, Sri _,anka (UPI) Rescue i earns dropped from helicopters struggled through rain soaked jungle yesterday to bring out the bodies jof 191 persons killed when a chartered Dutch DC 8 jetliner Hying Moslem pilgrims to Mecca smashed into t e side of a mountain It %%as the second aviatlon disaster in The four-engine j \\ as carrying 182 pas and a crew of nine We'' %%hen it struck a shee ‘‘all at 1.000 feet, 81: east ot 'Colombo on the republic of Sri Lank: merly Ceylon. A witness said the exploded like "a fireball" just after t had received permis make a refueling desci Bandaranaike Airport Officials at Colombo's international airport said the pilot did not repok any trouble before the crash. But V.V. Nlayandi, a clerk It a tea plantation near the cr. sh site, said the plane was fl ing low before it hit the cliff. "It looked to be-in t I üble," he said. "We thow.ht the engine was maki g an unusual noise. Minutts later the plane came clashing clown.•• IRA suspects nabbed LONDON (UPI) 7 ' Police hunting Irish Republican Army bombers seized up to a dozen more suspects in a series•of predawn raids yesterday and brought 21 Irishmen to court on murder or bomb charges. The arrests brouOt to more than 30 the number of persons nabbed in what the police described as their, biggest and most productive nationwide crackdown on the newly outlawed IRA, Forl3•-eight persons have been killed and more than 400 wounded in Britain in a two year wave of bombings attributed to the organization which is triving to drive British troops out of Northe n Ireland. - In a speech to 1" arliament, however, Northern Ireland §:cretary Merlyn Rees yesterday reaffirm •d the government's determination to ketp the British army in Northern Ireland a. the only guarantee against a civil war b-tween Protestants and Roman Catholics in he province. Eight of the Irishm court facet. inurder c bombings All were possible attack by tacks. n who were brought to l arges arising out of the eavily guarded against ritons irate at the at- class-mate"' Features built-in and external mikes, auto level ording, tone switch Includes earphone, carry strap REALISTIC P AM-FM STEREO RECEIVE SYSTEM Compact st Qua trayox inputs Mati systems !rep receiver with Recorder phone I hed speaker to College, Pa. MA TANDY CORPO' 'TION COMPANY Investigators at the scene were searching for the "black box" flight recorder which could give some clue to the reason for the accident. The impact left a bright white scar on the face of the dark rock cliff which was visible for miles when the fog The crash site, surrbunded by dense jungle, was ac cessible only by helicopter and rescue operations were hampered by bad weather for hours. Late in the day, helicopters managed to reach thescene and dropped rescue teams to fight their way through the jungle. The plane had taken 4f five hours before the crash from Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, carrying a, group !of In donesian Mdslems to Mecca, the holiest of Moslem cities, in Saudi Arabi& worst ,istory. 1 tliner ngers esday 1 r rock miles island for- Although the rescue teams brought back a few bodies, officials said they had not yet been able to reach the area where the main wreckage was believed to lie. Officials said four teams of investigators two from the Netherlands and two from Indonesia were trying to determine what caused the crash, the first major air disaster in Sri Lanka. • plane giant e pilot _ ion to nt into A spokesman--for the charter firth, Martin Air, a subsidiary of KLM' Royal Dutch Airlines, said the pilot may have lo'st control during the landing approach. "It appeared that somehow the plane got out of control when it was at a height of 4,000 to 5,000 feet but I cannot draw any conclusions from this," the spokesman said. 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"Mr. Sprague has served this city with distinction for 17 years," Fitzpatrick said in a brief statement that ignored the dispute that triggered the discharge. It all erupted this week after published allegations that Fitzpatrick improperly intervened in a case last July involving Joseph F. Nardello, Jr. Fitzpatrick agreed to probation and disregarded Sprague's recommendation and that of the prosecuting D.A. for a 2 1 2-to-5 year sentence. Patrick Michael Hill and Gerrard Patrick Conlon, both 20 and both born in Belfast, appeared at a magistrate's court in Guild ford, 30 miles south of London, charged with murdering a teen-age girl soldier who died with four other persons in a barroom ex plosion two months ago. The pair had not been identified for security reasons prior to their four-minute hearing. The judge ordered them held for another week. Six' of the 17 Irishmen who appeared at Birmingham's Victoria Law Courts face charges they murdered one of 20 victims of two tavern explosions in the city Nov. 12 that also injured 183. The other 11 have been held on a variety of bomb-related charges. All 17 were ordered held for another seven days. At London's Old Bailey, police searched everyone, including judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys, entering the courtroom for the trial of two Irishmen charged with plotting to cause explosions. A great awl mar pillariiinall."11111.11.11111111,'1 • 10 51 Noir A COMPACT AUTO 8-TRACK PLAYER 4995 Fits most any car' Thumbwheel volume balance tone coptrols See Our Complete Line Of Car Speakers SAVE $lO 4100011 ; • /I RADIO SHACK i r "SLIDE RULE" f CALCULATOR" Reg. 79.95 6895 Solves simple -4' i math to scientific problems! FloOng decimal, change sign key. 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Sprague said he was called into Fitzpatrick's office and asked • to submit • his resignation. When he refused, Fitzpatrick fired him, Sprague, said. Sprague spoke to newsmen less than an hour after his ouster and said he wasn't sorry that he spoke out Wednesday against his boss. "It is time someone stands up and says what the truth is," Sprague said, his voice blunt. -1 \'l. ...., ---- -N , .,:_,64..., oi ~, ~,i ; - - _ i ..-,--.. N, --,, • "•,‘ ..... --; t. ..,,. , / \,--- - - • • ..(,. _ i 6. -;. _ , , 4 ~,, %, , •:,- ---, ~ - -- - - 1 i 4 ' ' r:, , ' f ;• , • 4 ,- \ 4 6. 7 •)' ~,,.: L. / i i..... r/ en pipers p ping... 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I was not going to avoid questions about them because if I didn't an swer them it made me a participant with him in his wrongful sta..2ment." After that Fitzpatrick asked Sprague to quit, and Sprague said, "I told him I, would not, so he told me I was through, immediately," Sprague said he had no plans for the near future except for a Dec. 19 court appearance in nearby Media when he will oppose Boyle's appeal for a new trial on the three murder convictions. -- j " - -%'‘V • , ,
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