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Mozambique president killed in plane crash
By LAURINDA KEYS
Associated Press Writer
KOMATIPOORT, South Africa
President Samora Machel of Mozam
bique, who led his Marxist nation
through 11 crisis-ridden years of inde
pendence, was killed when his plane
crashed into a rainswept South Afri
can hillside.
Marcelino dos Santos, No. 2 man in
Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo party,
said in a nationwide radio address
that Machel, 53, and other senior
officials died in the crash of the
presidential plane Sunday night just
across the border in South Africa “in
circumstances not yet clarified.”
South Africa said all but 10 of the 39
people aboard were killed.
The first official confirmation by
Machel’s government came more
than 12 hours after dos Santos said in
his first announcement on the radio
that the president's jet had not re
turned on schedule from Zambia. The
radio played solemn music through
out the day.
He said last night that a GO-day
period of national mourning had been
declared.
The Soviet-built plane crashed 200
yards inside South Africa’s frontier
with Mozambique about 30 miles
south of this border town, said the
South African foreign minister, R.F.
Botha.
South Africa’s Bureau for Informa
tion said the Soviet pilot and nine
other people survived the crash.
Among the senior officials killed was
Transport Minister Luis Alcantara
Santos, it said.
Machel’s body was brought to Ko
matipoort by truck and flown to Ma
puto, the bureau said at a temporary
office it established here.
Earlier reports put the death toll at
27, but two more bodies were found in
the wreckage' of the twin-engined
Tupolev 134 A jet, it said.
In Lisbon, the Portuguese news
agency ANOP quoted official sources
and aviation experts it did not identi
fy as saying the crash was caused by
human error. It did not elaborate.
Machel’s death left Mozambique
without a leader at a time of wors
Cleveland Police haul a protester to a paddy wagon after about 40 demonstrators tried to block the entrance to
NASA’s Lewis Research Center yesterday.
Demonstrators protest SDI
research; 93 are arrested
By The Associated Press
Demonstrators protesting the “Star Wars” missile
defense program blocked streets and sidewalks yester
day in Atlanta, Washington, Cleveland and Sunnyvale,
Calif., and police arrested 93 people.
The demonstrators, members of a group called No
Business As Usual, said the Strategic Defense Initia
tive, popularly called Star Wars, is a first step to World
War 111.
In Atlanta, about 100 people turned out for a protest
at Georgia Tech, which is engaged in various defense
related research projects.
“We expect that our researchers will proceed with
this type of research in the firm conviction that their
work will be broadly beneficial,” said a statement
from acting school president Henry C. Bourne Jr.
The all-day demonstration included a “die-in” and a
ening drought, increasing attacks by
anti-Marxist rebels and growing con
flict with South Africa.
Prime Minister Mario Machungo
and dos Santos, who is the secretary
of Parliament, are expected to share
decisions until a successor is chosen
after the funeral, expected sometime
next week.
Both are considered candidates
along with Joaquim Chissano, who
was prime minister in a transitional
government before independence
from Portugal in 1975 and has been
foreign minister since.
It was in Komatipoorl that Machel
and President P.W. Botha signed the
1984 Treaty of Nkomati, which is the
name of the river here and means, in
Swazi, a cow with a calf and lots of
milk.
The agreement was hailed as the
start of an era of friendly relations.
After signing it, Machel also made
overtures to the West for investment
and met with President Reagan in
Washington.
State Department spokesman
Charles E. Redman said the news of
Machel’s death caused “profound
regret.”
Secretary of State George P. Shultz
had met Machel “and had great re
spect for him,” Redman said, adding
that “we extend to the government
and the people of Mozambique the
deepest condolences of the American
people.”
Machel’s powerful personality was
widely regarded as the glue that held
Mozambique together in the face of
severe hardship for its 13.4 million
people.
A journalist in Maputo said: “The
city is calm, there is a sense of shock
and loss among those who have heard
the news. People seem to be talking
about the situation, but there is no
hysteria.”
There was no indication of foul play
in the crash, but the United Demo
cratic Front, South Africa’s largest
anti-apartheid coalition, said South
Africa’s recent verbal attacks and
diplomatic measures against Mozam
bique “give us reasonable grounds to
suspect South African involvement in
this plane crash.”
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Soldiers remove a coffin containing the body of Mozambique’s President
Samora Machel from the wreckage of a plane that crashed en route to
Alfred Nzo, general secretary of
the African National Congress guer
rilla group, said in Denmark that the
ANC had similar suspicions.
Botha would not speculate on the
cause of the crash. He said South
Africa had proposed a joint investiga
tion with Mozambique and foreign
aviation experts should take part.
“We look at this as very harmful
and damaging” to relations, the for
eign minister said, and when he saw
Machel’s body, “I just thought to
myself that the time has come for all
“pledge of allegiance to SDI.” “There were no arrests
and nothing non-peaceful,” said Tech spokeswoman
Jill Sewell Rice.
There was a brief attempt to slow morning rush hour
traffic, but that was halted by police.
In Washington, about 50 protesters chanted “We’re
the future, not the bomb!” outside the building that
houses the main SDI offices and the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
Officer Thomas Randolph said 27 were charged with
disorderly conduct, but one was also charged with
assaulting a police officer, a felony.
Police at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. in Sunny
vale arrested 45 people on charges of disrupting traffic
into the Silicon Valley defense plant after a march by
about 100 protesters.
One person was arrested for assault on a police
officer, a felony, police said.
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peace, because he was a man of
peace.”
Botha said the plane circled near
Maputo but could not land because of
the weather, then flew toward South
Africa and struck a slope just across
the border, about 45 miles from the
Mozambique capital. The wreckage
was strewn over grasslands for 200
yards.
Air Force Gen. Denis Earp said the
plane went off South African radar at
7:16 p.m. Sunday, but the Bureau for
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By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press Writer
MANAGUA, Nicaragua The left
ist Sandinista government brought
Eugene Hasenfus before a tribunal
court yesterday and formally
charged him with violating public
order and security.
Hasenfus was brought into the
small courtroom and moments later
written charges were presented by
Justice Minister Rodrigo Reyes. The
court’s president, Reynaldo Monter
rey, then read them aloud and they
were translated to English by an
interpreter.
If convicted, the 45-year-old Ameri
can faces up to 30 years in prison. He
was captured Oct. 6 by government
troops after surviving the shooting
down of a plane ferrying supplies to
Contra rebels.
Hasenfus’ wife Sally arrived at the
courtroom, which was packed with
journalists, just before the court ses
sion began. She was accompanied by
U.S. Consul Donald Tyson.
Hasenfus’ Nicaraguan lawyer, En
rique Sotelo Borgen, also attended
the session. Portions of it were broad
cast on the government’s Voice of
Nicaragua radio.
Earlier, Hasenfus’ lawyer had crit
icized the government for denying
Shamir sworn in
JERUSALEM (AP) Yitzhak Shamir, leader of
Israel’s right-wing Likud bloc, was sworn in yesterday
to replace Shimon Peres as prime minister and vowed
to increase Jewish settlement of occupied Arab territo
ries.
Shamir and his 24-member Cabinet took their oaths
after the Knesset, or Parliament, debated for four
hours and then gave Shamir an overwhelming 82-17
vote of confidence. There were three abstentions in the
120-member Parliament.
Under an unprecedented 1984 coalition agreement
between Peres’ left-leaning Labor Party and Shamir’s
Likud, Peres takes Shamir’s previous job as foreign
minister.
The 71-year-old Shamir said a “supreme priority” of
his government would be to funnel funds into increased
Jewish settlement of occupied Arab territories.
“The (national) economy will be based not only on
solid economic principles, but also on the Zionist
values which must be our guide, among them the
supreme value of settlement throughout the Land of
Israel,” he told the Knesset as he presented his new
government.
Increased Jewish settlement in the occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip, where 1.4 million Palestinians
live, could antagonize peace efforts with Jordan. Israel
captured the West Bank from Jordan and Gaza from
Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war.
Shamir said he favors peace talks with Jordan but
refuses to accept Jordan’s demand for an international
peace conference. Both Jordan and Kuwait yesterday
repeated calls for a peace conference to be attended by
the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council
and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
AP Laser Photo
Maputo from Tanzania. The plane crashed 32 miles south of the South African
border and 45 miles west of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique.
Information said later that it crashed
at 8:50 p.m.
A survivor reported hearing “a
sound” on board a few minutes before
the crash, Botha said, but its signifi
cance was not known.
Claire Robertson of The Star of
Johannesburg was at the scene and
said the bodies remained in the broil
ing sun for hours, awaiting the arri
val of the Mozambican delegation led
by Security Minister Sergio Vieira.
She said Machel’s body was cov
ered with a white sheet and protected
American charged
him access to his client before court
proceedings began.
“Hasenfus is in a legally indefen
sible position because he has been
unable to see his attorney or his
family before the trial,” Sotelo Bor
gen said yesterday.
Hasenfus, of Marinette, Wis., was
captured a day after a C-123 cargo
plane was shot down by Sandinista
troops. Three others aboard, two
Americans and a third still not identi
fied, were killed.
The cargo plane was ferrying sup
plies to U.S.-backed Contra rebels
who are fighting to overthrow Nicara
gua’s government.
Hasenfus’ wife and his brother,
William, arrived in Managua Sunday
night and were met by U.S. Embassy
officials at Augusto Cesar Sandino
International Airport. They did not
speak to reporters.
The People’s Tribunal is a judicial
body created in 1983 to prosecute
people accused of counter-revolution
ary activity. Each panel consists of a
lawyer and two lay people, all gener
ally active in Sandinista organiza
tions.
In Washington, State Department
spokesman Charles Redman said the
tribunals were set up for the purpose
of circumventing due process in or
der to persecute political opponents.
By EARL BOHN
AP Business Writer
PITTSBURGH USX Corp. and the United Steel
workers said yesterday they will resume contract
bargaining today for the first time since 22,000 union
members stopped work at the nation’s largest steel
maker 11 weeks ago.
The two will face the same issues that deadlocked
talks when their contract expired at midnight July 31,
triggering the work stoppage.
USX is trying to cut production costs at its steelmak
ing USS Corp. subsidiary by using non-union contrac
tors for mill jobs and by trimming wages and benefit.
James McGeehan, bargaining leader for 56 local
unions, said the use of non-union labor remains the
biggest issue in the contract dispute, followed by
company demands for employee wage concession
totaling $3.30 per hour.
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from the sun by a black umbrella.
“(The plane) hit the ground, went
up again and reared over. It was a
gruesome sight,” Botha told report
ers at Komatipoort.
Soon after the Nkomati treaty was
signed, Mozambique began accusing
South Africa of continuing to aid anti-
Marxist rebels in violation of it.
Rebels of the Mozambique National
Resistance increased attacks in the
countryside, ravaging the economy of
one of the world’s poorest countries.
Redman also said the only visit to
Hasenfus by a U.S. Consular officer
took place on Oct. 10.
“We don’t consider that visit to
have been a proper one,” Redman
said. “We’ve demanded that the Ni
caraguan government accede to our
repeated requests for a consular visit
consistent with its treaty obliga-'
tions.”
Former U.S. Attorney General
Griffin Bell volunteered last week to
defend Hasenfus, but Nicaraguan law
requires that the chief defense lawyer
be a Nicaraguan. Bell said in Atlanta
that he would leave for Managua on
Thursday.
Sotelo Borgen was asked by Bell to
take the case.
During the initial proceedings, the
government’s charges will be read
against Hasenfus. His attorneys then
have three days to prepare a defense.
After that, the proceedings normally
last eight to 12 days.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Alberto
Fernandez said, “The Sandinistas’
real concern is the propaganda” va
lue of the trial.
U.S. officials have denied accusa
tions ( by the Sandinistas and
statements Hasenfus made to report
ers that CIA employees organized the
flights to supply the rebels with mili
tary hardware.
USX, USW scheduled
to resume bargaining
The work stoppage, which was 81 days old yesterday,
is the first against USX, formerly U.S. Steel, since a"
landmark 119-day walkout in 1959 involving all the
leading steelmakers and 500,000 union members during
boom times for the industry.
The current dispute comes amid oversupply and
heavy financial losses. About 45,000 USW members,
including about 23,000 who had been laid off, are
involved in the industry’s only work stoppage.
After a three-month break, fifth-ranked Armco Inc.
renewed contract bargaining in Pittsburgh yesterday
with representatives of its 7,000 USW employees.
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USG Executive Assistant Bob
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