state/nation/world Soviet official admits pilots made a 'mistake' By The, Associated Press EDINBURGH, Scotland A Soviet official acknowl edged yesterday that Soviet pilots made a "mistake" in the downing of a South Korean airliner. He said they wrongly identified it as a military reconnaissance plane and wouldn't have shot it down if they had known it was a commercial flight. He repeated the allegation that the Korean Air Lines jumbo jet was on a spy mission. It was the first Soviet admission of error in the destruction Sept. 1 of the Boeing 747 and the 269 people aboard after the plane was intercepted over the Soviet island of Sakhalin. • "Of course, it was a mistake in the sense that the pilots • took this plane for a reconnaissance plane," the official, • Viktor Linnyk, said in English in an interview with the • British Broadcasting Corp. The BBC identified him as an adviser to the Soviet leadership and one of the nine ✓ . members of the Soviet delegation to an Edinburgh University conference on East-West relations. Another member of the Soviet delegation, Viktor • Afanasyev, editor-in-chief of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda, on Sunday criticized Soviet military leaders for waiting six 'days before they ad . mitted the airliner was shot down. Linnyk, who the BBC said is a consultant to the Communist Party central committee's department of • internal information, said the pilots who intercepted KAL Flight 007 "never thought it was a civilian plane. If they did, the decision would have been totally different. I . ' am absolutely certain of that," . • He repeated earlier Soviet contentions that there was : "strong evidence" the Korean plane was on a spy mission but added, "Had we known (it was civilian), we Democrats push .$3.5 billion jobs By CLIFF HAAS • : Associated Press Writer • WASHINGTON Democrats muscled a $3.5 billion public serv : ; ice jobs bill through the House yesterday, resuming their efforts • to undo President Reagan's do . . ; mestic spending policies. The measure calls for about • ' 500,000 jobs to be created through a program of grants to local goy '', ernments for community im • provement projects and • public school repairs. It would provide • work mainly for people out of work for more than 15 weeks or who have exhausted their benefits. After various Republican at tempts to dilute the measure were turned aside, it passed on a virtual party-line, 246-178 vote. There were 227 Democrats and 19 Repub licans Voting in favor while 144 Republicans and 34 Democrats voted against it. However, the measure has little chance of becoming more than a symbolic gesture because Repub lican leaders who control the Sen ate's legislative agenda have shown no interest in the bill, and if it passed both houses of Congress it would be a likely candidate for a presidential veto. In two days of sometimes heated partisan debate, Demo crats and Republicans argued over the need for the program and reviewed their differences over the Reagan administration's eco nomic program. Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins, D- Calif., the chief sponsor of the measure, said its passage would send a message to the nation's unemployed "that we are con- A group of students in Manila throw rocks at police yesterday in an attempt to force their way across a bridge leading to the presidential palace. Ten people were killed and about 200 injured. The rioting, which took place in both poor and wealthy neighborhoods until late into the night, was the bloodiest anti-government demonstration in President Ferdinand E. Marcos' 18-year rule. The violence marked the one month anniversary of the assassination of Marcos' chief political rival, Benigno Aquind. cerned about their plight and that we are willing to take the essential first step to put them back to work." Rep. Robert S. Walker, R-Pa., called the measure "a rewarmed version" of unsuccessful attempts to deal with unemployment such as the Comprehensive Employ ment Training Act (CETA), add ing "that people do not want government-sponsored kinds of jobs. They do not want jobs that are created as a make-work kind of project." Rep. Parren J. Mitchell, D-Md., replied that people "in my district are saying, 'Get me any kind of damn job you can get me. , Sweep ing floors, hauling garbage, any thing.' When Rep. George W. Gekas, R- Pa., tried unsuccessfully to amend the legislation so that the money could not be spent if the Treasury secretary certified it would add to the budget deficit, it touched off a lengthy argument over various administration policies. The measure was first designed as a $5 billion plan, but was trimmed on the House floor to $3.5 billion on a 414-0 vote to bring it in line with a budget outline Con gress adopted earlier this year. The legislation includes provi sions that: -80 percent of the money goes for community improvement pro jects, 20 percent goes for repairs of educational facilities. —The maximum wage for par ticipants would be $230 a week, or $11,960 a year. —The program would be re duced as the national unemploy ment rate declines. wouldn't (have shot), never, no even though it was spying." He noted American admissions that a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane was operating over the north Pacific at same time the Korean plane flew over the Kamchatka peninsula, which is studded with top-secret Soviet military bases. Linnyk said the presence of the U.S. plane made Soviet interceptor pilots "trigger-happy." "The fact was that the U.S. reconnaissance planes were flying over the area all the time," he said. "They were about to monitor the would-be tests of the Soviet intercontinental missiles. And the tension that the (Sovi et) pilots in that area are telling about is so intense, is so high, that I was not surprised they reacted in this trigger-happy manner " American officials have aid the Korean aircraft should have been easily distinguishable from the recon naissance plane, a military version of the Boeing 707, which is half as large as the 747. BBC correspondent Tim Sebastian reported that Brit ish delegates to the conference told him Soviet officials had, in the closed-door discussions, expressed regret over the incident. Sebastian said the British "have reason to believe that Moscow may even change its position, give a fuller version of events and perhaps even in future make some gesture of compensation." He did not elaborate. The three-day conference, at which the United States and other Western nations were represented, ended yesterday with a news conference at which Afanasyev said concerning the plane incident, "I could explain things to you here many things you know and some that you don't." for bill Sandbagging it U.S. Marine PFC Bruce Herbig, 18, from Syracuse, N.Y., finds a comfortable place to get some reading done at Charley Co, located at the edge of Beirut airport. Herbig lies between sandbags and a load of equipment stacked up, Tuesday morning. He refused to elaborate but said, through . an interpret- the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, dis er, "Soviet-American relations have never been as low puted, the Soviet contention that the airliner was spying. as they are now. And of course it worries us, it worries "It is just intellectually insulting to suggest that the the Soviet people." United States needs to use civilian planes for intelligence American delegate Eugene Rostow, former director of purposes," he declared. U.S. finds plane wreckage By EUGENE MOOSA Associated Press Writer WAKKANAI, Japan U.S. searchers may have located "cru cial portions" of the downed South Korean airliner, a Japanese official said yesterday, but the fleet of Soviet vessels continued to domi nate the search near the crash site in the Sea of Japan. A lone American destroyer, the Callaghan, operated as 20 Soviet ships with two minisubmarines scoured international waters.north of Moneron island, off Sakhalin, Rear Adm. Masayoshi Kato of the Maritime Safety Agency told a news conference. Kato said the United States "lagged behind" the Soviets in the search for the airliner's flight and voice recorders the so-called "black box" that might tell how 10 dead in Manila uproar By DAVID BRISCOE Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines The bloodiest anti-govern ment rioting in President Ferdinand E. Marcos' 18- year rule rocked Manila yesterday, leaving at least 10 people dead and nearly 200 injured by official count. The violence exploded after a peaceful demonstra tion by about 500,000 Filipinos in front of Manila's central post office exactly one month after the assassi nation of Marcos' chief political rival, Benigno Aquino. Street fires and rallies continued late into the night in both poor and wealthy Manila neighborhoods, but the worst violence was on Mendiola Bridge leading to Marcos' palatial residence. Nearly 1,000 youths shouting "Ninoy, Ninoy," Aqui no's nickname, threw stones and charged police lines, set afire two buses and a dredging crane and threw homemade bombs into police ranks. Police at first retreated but then fought back with clubs and gunfire, clearing the rioters and thousands of other students off streets in the university district, about a half-mile from the palace. The dead were identified as two firemen, two ma rines and six civilians, the government said. It said at least 50 riot troops were injured, including a brigadier general hit by shrapnel from a bomb. Injured civilians, including five reporters covering the riots, suffered cuts and bruises and wounds from shrapnel or bullets. AP Laserphoto Rioters in a neighboring district looted and burned a government food store where goods are sold at dis counted prices. and why Korean Air Lines flight 007 strayed into Soviet air space before it was shot down by Soviet war planes on Sept. 1. He added, however, "there is a possibility that the United States has located crucial portions' of the aircraft far away from where the Soviet fleet is operating." He did not.elaborate. In Washington, Pentagon duty officers said they had no informa tion about U.S. vessels locating crucial wreckage. Pentagon officials in Washington said the Navy salvage tug Narra gansett twice picked up and lost the pinging signal emitted by the plane's flight data recorders, which were carried in the tail of the air craft. A Pentagon spokesman said the signal was heard in internation al waters about 2,500 feet deep. Pentagon sources said yesterday Boy has birthday inside sterile home • By PAUL RECER Associated Press Writer HOUSTON -- A boy who must live in a plastic bubble because his body has no defense against germs celebrated his 12th birthday yes terday with a family party, choco late cake and . a Roman Catholic communion using a sterilized waf er. The boy, known only as David, never has been touched by a bare human hand. He was placed into a sterile isolator moments after birth and has spent his entire life inside a plastic bubble, breathing filtered air and playing with toys sterilized by chemicals. He could die from infection if exposed to germs that are harm less to people with normal im mune systems. A spokeswoman from Baylor College of Medicine, which over sees David's care, said the boy is in excellent health, physically and emotionally. At 4 feet, 8 inches and 72 pounds, he is a little larger than the aver age boy his age, said spokeswo man Susannah Griffin of Baylor. "He is a little lanky," she said. "But he's very similar to any other 12-year-old boy. He's.inquisi live and he's very intelligent." David spends most of his time in a four-chamber bubble that fills the living room and dining room of the home he shares with his paren ts and 15-year-old sister. He at tends school by telephone, participating in sixth grade four hours daily. A tutor also visits his bubble two hours daily. Recent tests showed David to have a superior IQ and the schol- Marcos went on national television during the rally to say he was more saddened than angered by opposition criticism. His palace later issued an appeal 'for calm and promised continued dialogue and "maximum tolerance" in dealing with demonstrators. Mendiola Bridge was the site of a 1970 student riot in which four youths were killed. A popular protest song in Tagalog, the Philippine language, calls Mendiola "the road where you can find our freedom." At the height of the rioting, youths posted a sign reading "Ninoy, you are not alone. We are with you." It was signed UNIDO, for the United Nationalist Demo cratic Organization, which organized the Manila rally and others throughout the country. The opposition called it a "Day of National Sorrow," but for Marcos it was officially "Thanksgiving Day," the 11th anniversary of his declaration of martial law which lasted eight years. Schools had been dismissed for the observance. In the modern suburb of Makati, Manila's business hub, thousands of office workers poured into the streets for the third time in a week to join the call for Mardos' resignation. Others hung "Ninoy" banners from high-rise win dows and dumped confetti into the district's wide boulevards as hundreds of cars flew yellow ribbons and honked disapproval of the government. Aquino's widow, Corazon, told the post office rally, "I will not allow fear to top me. Regardless of cost, I will defend freedom." Many of the signs blamed Marcos or his wife, Imelda, for Aquino's death and chastized a government commission which is investigating the killing. The Daily Collegian Thursday Sept. 22, 1983 that the Navy ship had not re-estab lished contact with the recorders, but was still searching. There were unconfirmed reports that the Soviets had found the re corders, but Pentagon sources were skeptical. The Soviet government informed the Japanese on Tuesday it would hand over "items and documents" next Monday that its searchers recovered. It said delivery would be made at Nevelisk, on the west ern coast of Sakhalin. Fifteen Japanese ships and a South Korean vessel were also searching in the Sea of Okhostk and the Pacific southeast of the crash site. They have recovered several mutilated bodies and a large amount of wreckage and debris from the airliner carried there by the currents. astic abilities of an eighth grader David suffers combined im mune deficiency, which means his body cannot produce two types of white blood cells T-cells, which ward off infection, and B-cells, which produce antibodies against germs. Doctors say he is the oldest person with the condition to sur vive without treatment. David's parents lost an earlier son to immune deficiency and it was discovered during prenatal testing that David would have it, too. Doctor's planned to keep him alive in isolation long enough to transplant bone marrow which makes white blood cells from his sister, but the plan was aban doned when it was found the sister had an incompatible blood type. David's supervising physician, Dr. William Shearer, said a bone marrow transplant remains the only treatment for the boy, but it is not now feasible without a match ing donor. Clothing, bedding, toys, food containers and books are passed into the boy through an airlock. The items must be chemically sterilized before he receives them. David, isolated from germs, has never had an illness or even a tooth cavity. Ms. Griffin said he has had one medical emergency when he swallowed two coins at age 6. Doctors, using instruments through a gloved porthole, dis lodged the coins. He swallowed them and both were passed seve ral days later with no problems, Ms. Griffin said. ' As a toddler, he was able to walk in the back yard wearing a isola tion suit designed by NASA. Refundable bottle deposits proposed HARRISBURG ( AP) A statewide farmers' group yesterday urged Pennsylvania to become the 10th state to establish refunda ble deposits on beverage containers. Keith Eckel, president of the Pennsylvania Farmers' Associa tion, said bills proposed in both the House and Senate would reduce the damage to farm machinery and livestock caused by roadside litter. Farmers pay a high price for the damage, he said. Middletown farmer Ronald Koop said he spent about $l5O this year to replace tractor tires punctured by discarded bottle's and cans. In 1976, a $1,500 cow died after eating pieces of a metal can that went through a hay shredder, he said. The proposed legislation would impose a 5-cent deposit on all beverage containers sold in the state and would prohibit detachable metal tabs on cans. Central's admission policy defeated PHILADELPHIA (AP) The six girls who broke Central High's 147-year all-male tradition will be joined immediately by other "academically qualified females" under an injunction yesterday that bars the Philadelphia school board from denying admission because of sex. Common Pleas Judge William Marutani, who three weeks ago issued his ruling affecting America's second oldest. public high school, struck down the single-sex policy on grounds it violated the state and federal constitutions, which guarantee equal opportuni ties for all persons. While the school board hasn't yet decided whether it will appeal to a higher court, it admitted the six girls when classes began a week ago. About 1;100 boys are enrolled at Central. More than 30 other females, nearly all students at neighboring Philadelphia High School for Girls, have since indicated they also want to go to Central. Two women astronauts selected SPACE CENTER, Houston ( AP) Two more women astronauts both of them physicians and both of them mothers have been picked to fly on space shuttles next year, the space agency announced yesterday. Dr. M. Rhea Seddon, 35, will be a mission specialist on a June flight and Dr. Anna L. Fisher, 34, will be a mission specialist on a flight in August: Both also are married to astronauts. Ms. Seddon, married to astronaut Robert Gibson, last year became the first astronaut to give birth. Mrs. Fisher, married to astronaut Dr. William Fisher, became a mother last summer. Another woman astronaut, Judith Resnick, is scheduled to fly early next year. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, who flew as a mission specialist last summer on the seventh shuttle mission. Court orders patient be treated KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A state appeals court yesterday ordered immediate medical treatment for a preacher's 12-year-old daughter who suffers from deadly bone cancer, despite her father's claim that the family's religion forbids use of medicine. A Tennessee Supreme Court justice later refused to block the order until the case could be appealed, allowing doctors to begin treatment of Pamela Hamilton as soon as they are ready. Associate Justice Frank F. Drowota, who flew to Knoxville to hear the request, denied the stay after hearing a deposition from the girl's doctor that said her condition had worsened. Dr. Frank Haraf said the girl will live only three more months unless she receives immediate chemotherapy and radiation treat ments. The football-sized Ewing's sarcoma tumor that has de stroyed much of her upper left leg bone has moved into her hip and may break through the skin, he said. Even with immediate treatment, doctors say her chance of survival is less than 50-50. Soviets send letters to countryman MOSCOW ( AP) More than 2,300 Soviets have written "horri ble" letters to Andrei Sakharov attacking him for a commentary on nuclear war that was published in the United States, the dissident's wife told Western reporters. Yelena Bonner said she believed the letters were genuine and added that she and her husband have been harassed by residents of Gorky, the closed city to which Sakharov was banished Jan. 22, 1980. "Our life in Gorky is terrible," Mrs. Bonner said in a recent interview here. "People scream at us in the streets and they paste stickers on our car that have dirty and rude messages written on them." She repeated her fears for Sakharov's health and said the Soviet Academy of Sciences, to which Sakharov belongs, still refuses to hospitalize him in Moscow as he has requested. Sakharov, 61, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has suffered two slight heart attacks. Sakharov, a physicist who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, earlier this year wrote a commentary backing U.S. plans to build the MX missile and NATO plans to deploy U.S. medium-range nuclear rockets in Western Europe. Buyer of fake Hitler diaries released HAMBURG, West Germany (AP) The reporter who bought the bogus Hitler diaries for Stern magazine was released from jail yesterday and "completely cleared" of suspicion in the case, his attorney said. Attorney Holger Schroeder told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that Gerd Heidemann was released from investigative custody because of a routine judicial. review. Schroeder said his client was "completely cleared" of allegations he helped Nazi regalia dealer Konrad Kujau forge the 62 hand written volumes and kept part of the $3.75 million paid by Stern magazine. Also yesterday, a Stern editor said an internal probe of the diary affair had failed to turn up any evidence that Heidemann knew the books were fakes. .. . stock report Market retreats, Volume,Shares ends record high 106,594,430 —_-_—_. Issues Traded =-- ---:. NEW YORK (AP) The 1,975 ----.. stock market retreated yes- terday, ending a brief stay at a Up , record high in the Dow Jones 707 industrial average. Brokers said an upswing in Unchanged _ interest rates helped encour- 410 age traders to cash in on some _ of the market's recent gains. Down --.. Dow Jones's average of 30 858 industrials, up 15.25 Tuesday to a new high, dropped back • NYSE Index 5.90 to 1,243.29. 97.46 - 0.42 Volume on the New York • Dow Jones Industrials Stock Exchange totaled 91.28 cp 1,243.29 - 5.90 million shares. Star, Dangerflet_ week see Leanora and Matt performing their nationally acclaimed "Caught in the Act." Tonight: 9:30 p.m. THE HIPP Ar,oo Behind The Deli on Heister Street. Mil 0161 , ,J 1 ,,A, . MICHAEL'S CLOTHING CO. CORNER OF FRASER ST. & CALDER WAY The Daily Collegian Thursday, Sept. 22, 1983-7 OPEN TONIGHT UNTIL NINO CERRUTI HENRY GRETHEL DESIGNS 238-4050 (c j ita OF Ii JOHN C 4= v CD C
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