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Rescuers
mudslide
By CARL MANNING
Associated Press Writer
BOGOTA, Colombia They were
told no one was left alive, but the
rescuers worked on, filthy and ex
hausted. They reported finding 13
more survivors yesterday under the
lake of slime that covers Armero’s
homes, farms and thousands of dead.
The RCN radio network reported
the rescue of the 13 people who clung
to life despite six days trapped in
what had become a stinking, oozing
grave for their neighbors.
RCN said 22 people were found
alive Monday. The mud that rushed
down the mountain after the Nevado
del Ruiz volcano erupted last
Wednesday killed 25,000 people in the
verdant Andes valley.
“There are no survivors to rescue,”
the Colombian Red Cross director,
Carlos Martinez, told a news confer
ence yesterday. But government offi
cials say rescue efforts will continue
until they can be certain of that.
The economic destruction also was
enormous. Agriculture Minister Rob
erto Mejia Caicedo said the vast
expanse of gray mud covered about
50,000 acres of farmland, and more
than 15,000 head of cattle were buried
with their owners.
Small tremors were recorded yes
terday inside the Nevado del Ruiz,
which belched fire and. ash that
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melted part of its snowcap and cre
ated the mud avalanche that brought
chaos to the valley.
Scientists monitoring the volcano
said they would have to study seismo
graph charts and watch for a continu
ing pattern of shocks to tell if another
eruption is imminent.
In Manizales, 25 miles west of the
three-mile high volcano on the
opposite slope from the major de
struction two dozen scientists mon
itored the shuddering mountain.
Tuesday’s shocks may indicate
lava movement inside the volcano,
Fred Fischer of the U.S. Geological
Survey told The Associated Press.
The eruption may have resulted in
the lava being pushed along a fault
line running under the Nevado del
Ruiz, he said, but there are no defi
nite signs that another eruption is
imminent.
Bands of knife-wielding robbers
roamed among the hundreds of ca
davers on the 15-foot-deep mudflat
and among the ruins of houses that
were once the town of Armero.
Broadcast reports from the valley
have told of bandits ripping rings
from the fingers of dead bodies and
carting away televisions, radios and
other household goods.
Some bodies have been buried in
mass graves, and a few others have
been burned, but scores of cadavers
remain scattered throughout the val
ley.
SAFER THAN THE SUN!
Italy seeks arrest of Abbas
By JOHN WINN MILLER
Associated Press Writer
GENOA, Italy International arrest warrants have
been issued for PLO official Mohammed Abbas and
several of his top aides, charging them with murder
and kidnapping in the Achille .Lauro hijacking, a
prosecutor said yesterday.
The United States has accused Abba's, head of a
faction of Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organi
zation, of mastermiftding the Oct. 7-9 Mediterranean
ordeal in which an American passenger was killed and
thrown overboard.
Abbas, whose present whereabouts were not known,
previously denied he was involved in the hijacking.
At an impromptu news conference, Deputy Prosecu
tor Luigi Carli also told reporters that one of the four
accused hijackers had admitted killing Leon Klinghof
fer of New York City.
Carli announced that arrest warrants containing
charges of murder and kidnapping have been issued
for 16 suspects in the hijacking.
The warrants include four Palestinians accused of
taking over the ship after it left Genoa, three suspected
accomplices who are also in Italian custody and nine
whose whereabouts are unknown, Carli said.
Abbas and several of his aides in the PLO’s Palestine
Liberation Front faction are among the nine fugitives.
When reporters asked Carli whether Abbas could be
considered the mastermind of the hijacking, he re
plied, “Yes, you could say that.”
One day earlier a Genoa court convicted five of the
suspects in custody on charges of possessing weapons
and explosives used in the takeover of the Italian
luxury liner, including the four accused hijackers.
The five convicted Monday are Youssef Magied al-
Molqi; Mohammed Issa Abbas, a close confidant and
distant relative of Mohammed Abbas; Ahmed Marrouf
al-Assadi; Ibrahim Fatayer Abdel-Latif and Bassam
al-Ashker. They were sentenced the same day, receiv
ing prison terms ranging from four to nine years.
The prosecutor said that al-Molqi, the self-styled
leader of the four accused hijackers, had admitted
killing Klinghoffer.
Carli said the murder and kidnapping warrants for
all 16 were issued over a month-long period, the latest
last week. The trial based on those warrants will will
probably be held next spring and suspects not in
custody will be tried in abstentia, he said.
Mohammed Abbas, the Palestine Liberation Front
leader, helped negotiate an end to the hijacking on Oct.
9 and was with , the four accused hijackers aboard a
flight out of Egypt when U.S. jetfighters forced the
plane down in Italy. Italian officials said they had no
grounds to hold Abbas and allowed him to leave the
country, despite U.S. protests.
The seven others still at large are:
• Abdul-Rahim Khaled, alias Abu Amar, who held
the rank of colonel in the Palestine Liberation Front
and scouted out the ship on earlier cruises, Carli said.
o Ziad al-Omar, a front official who bought tickets
in Genoa for the four accused hijackers, according to
Carli.
• Abu Ali Kazem, one of Mohammed Abbas’ body
guards, who accompanied the hijackers in Italy, said
Carli.
• Abu Kifah and Mohammed al-Khadra, described
by Carli as close associates of Mohammed Abbas. The
prosecutor said the two men delivered a red Renault 9
carrying automatic rifles and hand grenades to the
four hijackers when the car landed in Genoa aboard a
ferry from Tunisia.
® Mohammed Jarbua, who Carli said had planned
to board the ship with the other hijackers in Genoa.
® Yussef Hisham Nasser, accused by Carli of help
ing the hijackers in Italy.
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state news briefs
Parents back board's AIDS policy
PITTSBURGH (AP) —• Parents and civil rights activists have
supported the Pittsburgh School Board’s policy to treat potential
AIDS victims on a case-by-case basis and allow most to remain in
classrooms and jobs.
“This is 1985, not the 13th century. A person infected with AIDS
should not be sent to a leper colony,” Ellen Doyle, a parent of two
public school children, said at a hearing Monday night.
The school policy notes there is no evidence showing acquired
immune deficiency syndrome is transmitted by casual contact.
The policy, drafted by the district’s AIDS Task Force, would
exclude children from normal classes if they might bite or scratch
but says parents and school workers would not be told AIDS victims
were in school.
The policy also calls for monitoring the patient’s condition, with
few people to be informed of the illness. Board President Jake
Milliones said he expects it will be approved next week.
House scuttles major LCB reform
HARRISBURG (AP) The fight over the Liquor Control
Board’s future took a new turn yesterday, with a House committee
erasing a major reform approved by the Senate almost seven
weeks ago.
The House Liquor Control Committee, on an 18-0 vote, gutted a
portion of a Senate bill that would transfer the LCB’s enforcement
powers to the attorney general.
The Republican-controlled Senate, meanwhile, was poised to
approve yet another bill that would transfer enforcement opera
tions to the attorney general’s office. <
Under a law requiring the periodic review of most state agencies,
the LCB will go out of business next year unless the Legislature
acts by Dec. 31 to renew it. An escape clause would give lawmakers
another year to act if a compromise is not reached.
Under an amendmentd introduced by Rep. Terry Punt, the
committee would recommend by July 1,1987, what agency should
enforce the liquor laws.
“We want more time,” said Punt, D-Franklln. “We don’t have
the facts.”
Goode reveals plan to rebuild police
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Mayor W. Wilson Goode, calling his
police department “in crisis” and determined to end “deep
seated” corruption, yesterday unveiled a major program aimed at
finding a new commissioner to reorganize the 7,000-member force.
The police have been hit hard by a four-year-old FBI investiga
tion that already has convicted 26 officers, including a deputy
police commissioner, of taking bribes to protect illegal gambling
and prostitution.
The department’s reputation also suffered after its failed assault
May 13 on the headquarters of the radical group MOVE. In that
confrontation, a bomb dropped from a helicopter killed 11 people
and destroyed 61 homes.
It led to the resignation last week of Commissioner Gregore
Sambor. Goode, who appointed Sambor when he. took office 23
months ago, said he would not be rushed into appointing a
successor.
“We can’t afford at this time not to have the right person in that
job,” Goode told reporters. “My goal is to find the very best person
available, whether inside or outside the department.”
He said the plan includes selective use of lie detector tests for
officers assigned to vice units. Goode also said he had written to
District Attorney-elect Ronald Castille to explore the feasibility of
creating a unit within the district attorney’s office with jurisdiction
over police corruption.
nation news briefs
Regan: women wouldn't understand
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - White House chief of staff Donald
Regan struck a nerve Tuesday among feminists outraged by his
comment that most women wouldn’t understand the issues at stake
at the U.S-Soviet summit in Geneva.
Regan said he expects the activities of first ladies Nancy Reagan
and Raisa Gorbachev to hold high appeal, especially among
women.
“They’re not-., going to understand (missile) throw-weights or
what is happening in Afghanistan or what is happening in human
rights,” Regan told a Washington Post reporter in Geneva on
Sunday. “Some women will, but most women believe me, your
readers for the most part if you took a poll would rather read the
human-interest stuff of what happened.”
“Absolutely unbelievable,” said Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-
Colo., a 13-year veteran of the House Armed Services Committee
who said she could probably teach Regan a thing or two about
defense.
“It’s hard not to laugh,” said Irene Natividad, chairwoman of the
National Women’s Political Caucus. “All the gender gap polls in ’B4
showed that peace was the No. 1 women’s issue. We’re the ones
bearing the sons who would go to war.”
White House officials said they had heard no criticism of the
remarks.
Challenge to nuclear policy rejected
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A federal appeals court yesterday
rejected a computer manager’s suit seeking to prohibit a U.S.
policy of “launch-on-warning” the firing of nuclear missiles
when computers show the nation is under nuclear attack.
The suit was filed by Clifford Johnson, a computer manager at
Stanford University’s Information Technology Services, and
backed by a group called Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility.
They contended the United States and its allies have been
developing launch-on-warning capability, which they said would
allow a nuclear war to be “declared” by computers violating the
constitutional responsibilities of Congress and the president and
endangering international peace in violation of the United Nations
Charter.
The suit did not say the policy has been implemented, but said it
was implied in the U.S. deployment in Europe of Pershing II
missiles, which can reach the Soviet Union in minutes.
Judges Warren Ferguson, William Norris and Charles Wiggins of
the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that since Johnson did not
claim launch-on-warning had been adopted as official policy, his
suit raises only an abstract question and must be dismissed.
The Defense Department has denied that launch-on-warning is
official policy but has refused to say whether the technology is
being developed.
world news briefs
Huricane Kate sweeps
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) The 100 mph winds of Hurricane
Kate knocked out telephones, electricity, gas and television in Cuba
yesterday and sent nine-foot waves crashing into the Havana
waterfront. Tens of thousands of people were reported evacuated.
First reports received by telephone in Puerto Rico said there
were no known fatalities, but damage to Havana, the capital city of
2 million, could be extensive.
The storm hit Havana about 1:30 p.m., two hours before it had
been expected. Civil defense authorities on Tuesday afternoon
evacuated areas in Havana expected to be hit hardest.
News reports said 138,000 people had been evacuated throughout
the island. Schools were closed in all of Cuba’s 14 provinces, as
Kate’s winds cut off electricity, gas, and most telephone service in
Havana.
President Fidel Castro ordered all civil defense personnel on
alert for “possible widespread damage,” the news reports said.
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