state/nation/world Although a Spanish charter DC•10 crashed yesterday, the U.S. government says the DC•10 is dependable and safe DC-10 is safe, FAA says By MIKE FEINSILBER Associated Press Writer The U.S. government says the DC-10 is as safe as any plane in the air and its maker says the most thorough investigation in aviation history proved that the jetlin er is "a well-designed, dependable aircraft." Nonetheless, yesterday's crash of a Spanish charter DC-10 with 393 people reported aboard reawakened memories of the airplane's troubles. And the European crash probably caused shudders in the headquarters of airlines that fly the DC-10 and at the McDonnell Douglas Corp. in St. Louis, which has been making the wide-bodied jet since 1970 The DC-10's worst crash was also the worst in American history and it made such an impression on the flying public that some passengers started boycot ting flights flown by that airplane. More than a year after that crash, Fortune maiazine commented that the term DC-10 "has burrowed into the language as a synonym for air disaster in much the same way that 'Central Park' has come to stand for urban crime." The crash occurred at Chicago's O'Hare Internation al Airport on May 25, 1979. The left engine of an American Airlines DC-10 ripped away from its wing as the aircraft took off. The plane rolled uncontrollably and plunged to the ground. The crash killed 273 people. After that crash and two others in 1979 involving DC 10s, in Mexico City and Antarctica, the public generally perceived the plane as one to avoid —even though the blame for those other two crashes was unambiguously assigned to procedural, not structural or mechanical, errors. Nor was public confidence in the DC-10 enhanced when Trans World Airlines began advertising its jets Britain reverses Falkland decision LONDON (AP) Britain, re versing an earlier announcement, said late yesterday that mutual financial sanctions with Argentina would not be lifted immediately, because of legal delays in Buenos Aires. Earlier in the day, the British Treasury said the sanctions, im posed in April when the two nations went to war over the Falkland Andropov waiting in Soviet wings WASHINGTON (AP) Yuri Andropov, head of the Soviet se cret police, has emerged as the leading contender to succeed Leo nid Brezhnev once the Soviet pres ident dies or steps down, a top U.S. official said yesterday. Richard Pipes, a Soviet affairs expert on the National Security Council, portrayed Andropov as a hardliner who would have a less tolerant attitude toward dissidents than Brezhnev. Pipes commented during an ap pearance before the National In ,terreligious Council on Soviet Jewry. The Reagan administra tion generally has remained silent on the Soviet succession struggle, and Pipes' remarks represented a departure from that policy. Pipes said Andropov has been "spreading rumors that he is a liberal." But he predicted that the "situation would get much worse for Jews and everybody else" if Union urges Thornburgh to declare economic emergency By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG Surrounded by union leaders, the state AFL-CIO president yes terday urged Gov. Dick Thornburgh to de clare an economic emergency in Pennsylvania and support worksharing leg islation to ease unemployment. "Action must be taken and it must be taken now to get Pennsylvania back to the Lockheed L-1011 and the Boeing 747, competitors of the DC-10 —as the planes "people prefer most." As for the Chicago crash, the National Transporta tion Safety Board, after a six-month investigation, came down hardest on the maintenance procedures used by American Airlines' ground crews. The board found the crash was caused by a 10-inch crack in the pylon, the structure connecting the engine to the wing. And the crack, the board decided, resulted from the airline's improper use of a forklift to remove and re-install an engine and pylon as a single unit, contrary to the procedure recommended by McDonnell Douglas. When similar cracks were found in other DC-10s, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all 137 of the jetliners operated by U.S. airlines. They remained grounded for 38 days while the pylons were inspected. The FAA ordered that they be rigor ously tested regularly. Design changes were made in the plane, primarily to provide safeguards even if an engine were damaged. Subsequently, the FAA declared the DC-1.0 to be a safe airplane and McDonnell Douglas bought television time. to underscore that finding. "The DC-10 has been tested and researched and examined as no other aircraft ever has been, and as a result it has been conclusively vindicated," the copro ration said. "There is no longer any reason for anyone to question the DC-10's airworthiness and dependability." The DC-10's troubles, especially following the Chi cago crash, caused airlines to cancel orders and the tailspin in business has hurt the company financially. yesterday's accident in Spain, wherever blame is ultimately placed, will not help. Islands, would be lifted at midnight last night London time (7 p.m. EDT). But less than an hour before midnight a Treasury spokesman made another announcement: "There has been an unexpected delay in Buenos Aires caused by legal procedures which the Argen tine government need to take. Andropov succeeds Brezhnev. Speculation about a possible successor to Brezhnev, 75, has heightened in recent months be cause of indications his health has been failing. Pipes' description of Andropov, 67, as a hardliner is not universal ly shared in the U.S. government. Some experts say that under An dropov's 15-year tenure at the KGB, there has been a marked easing of political repression. Asked about the succession is sue in an interview two weeks ago, Secretary of State George Shultz said, "I find, after listening to experts talk about how that may come out, that they don't know much more about it than I do, which is not much." According to published reports, Andropov has presided over Soviet spy operations in the West and had a role in monitoring the imposition of martial law rule in Poland. work," Julius Uehlein, president of the 1.5- million member labor group, wrote in a letter to Thornburgh. Uehlein also asked the governor to "loan the import of your high office" to a workshare bill pending in the House, saying the concept has succeeded in California and Western Europe. Under worksharing, a company planning to lay off 20 of its 100 workers would keep them and go to a four-day work week. On the 41: 4 0 1 ik:414.,,,,,,, , ,,,,.., , ,1'i1 , :. "The United Kingdom is there fore taking the steps necessary to maintain the UK's restrictions for the time being until the Argentine government has issued a revised timetable for the removal of their restrictions." The spokesman gave no indica tion how long it might take Argenti na to sort out the legal procedures. Israeli TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Israeli warplanes attacked Syrian and Palestinian positions in central Lebanon yesterday for the fourth time in five days, acting on the government's threat to punish Syria for alleged cease-fire violations in Lebanon. The military command said Israeli bombers struck at Palestinian targets in Syrian-held terri tory in a wide swathe about 18 miles east of Beirut, then returned safely to base. The planes hit guerrilla headquarters, armored vehicles, SAM-9 truck-mounted anti-aircraft missiles and Katyusha rocket launchers in the areas of el Matar, Chtaura, Dahr al-Baider and Sultan Ya kub, the command said. Israeli officials in Jerusalem called the attacks a warning to Syria not to violate a cease-fire, but added that Israel had no desire to fight a war with Syria. A day earlier Prime Minister Menachem Be gin's government said it held Syria responsible for the violations and would not allow a war of . - AP Laserphoto warplanes attack Fourth attack on Syrian and Palestinian positions in five days fifth day, all 100 employees would collect partial unemployment benefits. At a Capitol press conference, Uehlein said worksharing would remove an esti mated 100,000 of the state's 600,000 jobless from the unemployment rolls. "All that is required is legislation permit ting unemployment compensation funds to be used in this fashion. Let me emphasize that there would be no need for additional, funds," Uehlein told reporters. Reagan asks for new definition of By MICHAEL PUTZEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON President Rea gan asked Congress yesterday to bar defendants like the man who shot him, John W. Hinckley Jr., from pleading innocent by reason of insanity. But Reagan shook his head "no" when asked if Hinckley's acquittal in June triggered the revival of an earlier administration attempt to restrict the insanity defense. If it had been law at the time, Hinckley could not have met the insanity test. The ' administration proposal, which also contains provisions to make it harder to escape conviction because of tainted evidence or to appeal to federal courts after con viction in state courts, has practi cally no chance of passage this year. Presidential counsellor Edwin Meese 111 conceded the legislation probably wouldn't even reach the floor in the current session of Con gress. He denied it was timed sim ply to win favor in this campaign season. In a brief statement to reporters, Reagan said the administration hopes to "simplify the justice sys tem and make it more likely that those who commit crimes pay a price." Associate Attorney General Rudolph W. Giuliani explained that the bill would limit the use of the insanity defense by redefining in sanity to the extent that the govern ment would have to prove only that the defendant had the knowledge Tough luck town Estes Park, Colo. has had its share of weather problems recently. A freak snow storm plied 4 inches of the powdery white stuff on Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday. Dale and Maggie Koosmann and their niece Roxanne Stanislew wait for park rangers after a weather•related auto accident. attrition to develop. Israel warned Syria against permitting Palestinian guerrillas in Syrian-held territory to launch attacks on Israeli troops in Lebanon. The military command counted 98 violations of the cease-fire in eastern Lebanon since July 23, which killed 12 Israeli soldiers and wounded 20. Nine others have been captured. Israeli forces invaded Lebanon June 6 in a drive against Palestinian guerrillas, and 2 1 / 2 months later the guerrillas were evacuated from their Beirut stronghold and scattered throughout the Arab world. But the military command said 4,000-5,000 Palestinian fighters were within Syrian lines in the Bekaa Valley. "The terrorists are establish ing a new deployment of forces in the Bekaa to replace their strongholds in southern Lebanon," the command said. The Palestinian attackers operate "with Syri an knowledge, protection and full consent when they go attack our forces, and Israel cannot and intent to commit a criminal act. The insanity defense could still apply "in a situation where a per son didn't know what they were doing, someone who had the mental age of a 2-year-old or believed that they were shooting at a tree when in fact they were shooting at a human being," Giuliani said. "It would not apply in all those situations where a person claimed they couldn't con trol their behavior, or they heard voices or they had some religious impulse to commit a crime." He added that the redefinition would - eliminate the vast majority of insanity pleas in federal criminal cases. Such cases are relatively rare, because most violent crimes are violations of state, rather than federal, law. Giuliani predicted the measure would practically eliminate the pa rade of psychiatrists testifying be fore a jury as to the defendant's state of mind at the time a crime was committed. Should the administration propo sal be adopted, that testimony would be more likely to be heard only by a judge during the pre sentencing procedures following a defendant's conviction. Another major section of the bill would tighten what is known as the exclusionary rule, which provides that prosecutors may not introduce at trial evidence that was gathered illegally. "The exclusionary rule has never helped an innocent person," Meese said. "The only people that have been helped by the exclusionary "We would simply be using those funds to subsidize and encourage employment rath er than unemployment. In the process, we would alleviate some off the fears and insecurity that impede our efforts toward economic recovery," he said. For its part, Uehlein said, the AFL-CIO will step up efforts to initiate job programs and direct unemployed union members to the social services they need. Uehlein, flanked by leaders of several The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Sept. 14 insanity rule are necessarily guilty because it reverses convictions where they have already been proven guilty." The rule, however, grows out of the Constitution's prohibition of un reasonable search and seizure. The administration bill would permit the use of any evidence gathered by police who thought at the time time were acting legally, even if a judge later determines they exceeded their authority. White House documents accom panying the bill said, "The exclu sionary rule often operates to divert a cruiminal trial from a search for the truth into a search for minor police error." Although fewer than 3 percent of convictions are overturned on the strength of the exclusionary rule and the change would only apply, to federal cases, officials said it would be particularly useful in federal narcotics cases. Although the constitutionality of all three major parts of the legis lation likely would be subjected to court tests if the bill is ever adopted, the provision that raises some of the stickiest legal questions is one seeking to limit a convict's right, to seek federal court review of his conviction in a state court. By setting a one-year limit for seeking a writ of habeus corpus from a federal judge and by bar ring review of claims the defendant never sought to raise in state court, the administration hopes to end what the documents called "end less opportunities to second-guess state court judges and juries." Lebanon agree to this," the command said. The Syrian forces were sent into Lebanon under Arab League mandate to end the 1975-76 Lebanese civil war between Christians and an alliance of Moslem leftists and Palestinian guer rillas. Speaking in Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Yitz hak Shamir said Israel would press Lebanon to conclude suitable security arrangements be tween the two countries despite the continued presence of the Syrians in Lebanon. Shamir gave no hint of what such an arrange ment might entail, but Israel has said it will not withdraw any forces from Lebanon until the Syrians do so. Shamir acknowledged, however, that the prob lem of securing Israel's northern border, the originally stated reason for the invasion of Leb anon, "will become much smaller after we settle matters with Syria." statewide unions, said the $99 billion tax signed recently by President Reagan has a section authorizing worksharing and federal help in setting up state programs. The state House bill, stalled in a commit tee since last October, would not mandate worksharing, according to Uehlein. Compa nies, employees and unions would have to agree to the concept and indications are that many companies aren't ready to accept it. PAM:3 ®MI En MI AP Laserphoto in MD state news briefs Thornburgh releases personal returns HARRISBURG (AP) Gov. Dick Thornburgh released his per sonal federal income tax returns for the past five years yesterday, just as he did in his first campaign for governor. In the past five years, the Thorn burgh family earnings were $448,- 156, and the Thornburghs paid a total $155,879 in state, federal and local taxes over the period, according to the governor's elec tion campaign director Robert Asher. . "I believe that the voters de serve to have a full and complete financial disclosure from anyone who holds or aspires to hold the office of governor," Thornburgh said in a statement. A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Allen Ferrara pleads guilty to conspiracy SCRANTON. (AP) For mer Pittston City Clerk Anthony A. Ferrara, who resigned last week after 20 years in office, pleaded guilty yesterday to help ing to rig eight elections in the city. Ferrara entered his plea in fed eral court here 2 1 / 2 hours after a grand jury indicted him on a sin gle count of conspiracy. ' The in dictment alleged that Ferrara took part in rigging eight elections from May 1978 through May 1981: The indictment was the eighth in the past two months yielded by a federal investigation into vote fraud in the Luzerne County com munity. The same probe has also resulted in 13 indictments in the Luzerne County communities of Plymouth and Exeter. nation news briefs Anti-abortion filibuster unbroken WASHINGTON (AP) Senate conservatives failed yesterday for the second time in four days to break a liberal filibuster against proposed anti-abortion legislation. The vote was 45-35, with forces led by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., falling 15 votes short of the 60 needed to limit the abortion debate to 100 hours. In a similar vote last Thursday, Helms missed obtaining cloture the parliamentary term for cut ting short a filibuster by 19 votes. Although conservatives gained four votes yesterday; the increase was mainly due to the return of senators absent last week, not any genuine change in sentiment. With the filibuster nearly two weeks old, Senate Majority Lead- Military starts to fill medical spaces WASHINGTON (AP) -- While the military still lacks all the medical personnel and hospital beds it would need in wartime, a top Pentagon health official says the armed forces have been able to start filling gaps criticized last year by a congressional agency. Dr. Jay Biscard, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for medical readiness, said the Penta gon has "taken a number of steps" to correct problems outlined by the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency. The main thrust of their pro grani- has been to recruit doctors ' and medical students to fill gaps in world news briefs Soviets cut back from grain imports WASHINGTON (AP) Despite another poor harvest, the Soviet Union is cutting back on grain imports from last year's record levels and this year's expected demand, the Agriculture Depart ment said yesterday. Officials said the Soviet Union is expected to import about 44 mil lion metric tons of grain in the international marketing year which began on July 1, down 2 million from what had been ex pected. Imports last year rose to a re cord 46 million metric tons and the department had forecast an equal amount would be needed in 1982- 83. "The Soviet grain import pro- 4 Americans seek missing soldiers BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Four Americans flew yesterday to Laos on the first private mission to try to discover what happened to hundreds of U.S. servicemen miss ing in action during the Vietnam war. The group left' Bangkok for four days of talks with officials before heading to Vietnam for eight days of talks with officials there. All four members had relatives who were captured or killed in Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia. A U.S. official here said a total of 2,500 Americans are listed as unaccounted for in the three coun tries. Ertel, Thornburgh's Democratic opponent, said the congressman files a financial disclosure form each spring. "We think discloure and ac countability are fine things," said Ertel spokesman Ira Cooperman. He said he did not know whether Ertel would release his income ta'c returns, which are more complete than the statement filed by mem bers of Congress. In his 1978 campaign for gover nor, Thornburgh released his in come tax returns for five previous years. They year he was elected governor, Thornburgh earned $111,034, and his income dropped nearly $26,000 when he took office in 1979. Thornburgh's taxable in come last year was $82,363. All 21 persons indicted in the three municipalities have pleaded either guilty or no contest. The 64-year-old Ferrara, a Dem ocrat, is the highest Pittston offi cial indicted so far. The other seven include two women, both Republicans, and five men, all Democrats. • The Pittston officials were in dicted variously for conspiracy, mail fraud and concealing an ille gal act, in connection with the rigging of three primary elections, two general elections and one spe cial election. Agents from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Feder al Bureau of Investigation said they are continuing the probe into voting irregularities with additio nal indictments expected. er Howard H. Baker, Jr., R-Tenn., said yesterday he is determined to resolve the abortion debate by late this week and movelon to other subjects. A third cloture vote scheduled for tomorrow was expected to be the critical test of whether liberals can continue to block a vote on the anti-abortion measure urged by Helms. Under the Helms proposal, Con gress would find that the Supreme Court erred in 1973 when it legal ized most abortions. The measure would also provide for a direct Supreme Court review of any new abortion cases, including anti abortion proposals enacted by state legislatures in defiance of the 1973 decision. the reserve forces, the key short age cited by the GAO, Biscard said. If the nation went to war, the armed forces would have only half the medical personnel it needed, the GAO found in the June 1981 report. Biscard agreed with the judgment. "We had very signifi cant deficiencies," he said. The ready and reserve forces have about 15,000 doctors, com pared to the more than 27,000 that would be needed during wartime. Of those 12,000 still needed, about 5,000 would have to be surgeons, he said. gram has been slow to develop this year as reported grain purchases to date total only slightly over 5 million tons," the report said. "Canada and Argentina have ac counted for most of the early sea son grain sales to the Soviets." Grain shipments to the Soviet Union from major foreign sup pliers dropped in July to the lowest monthly level in two years, and August shipments "may not be appreciably larger," the report said. According to department re cords, no significant amounts of U.S. grain have been bought since March, although American farm ers have produced record supplies and prices have dropped. The fates of 554 U.S. military personnel and nine civilians are unknown in Labs alone, the official said, adding that most were in aircraft that were shot down. The official said authorities pos sess conclusive photographic and other evidence that Laos held at least three prisoners of war about whom nothing has been heard. George L. Brooks, head of the American group, said earlier he had indications from authorities that they would be taken to a crash site in Laos. 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