Vol. 99, No.38 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday October 19, 1988
Crash kills 130 in India
Jet explodes during landing
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — A Boeing 753 slammed into the ground and exploded today as it attempted to land at a fog-ensuthed airport in central India, killing 130 people. The plane said. Five people survived.
The Indian Airlines jet was en
the Indian Airlines jet was en
the final approach near Almadina air
port when it crashed, said J.D. J.
Rao, operations manager for the
aircraft.
The twin-engine aircraft struck the ground while trying to land in a heavy fog at 7:40 a.m. (9:10 p.m. CDT yesterday), but the cause of the crash was not known, said G.K.walsh, police inspector at the airport.
The aircraft apparently had made more than one attempt to land, he said.
The jet was carrying 129 passengers — five of them children — and a six-member crew from Bombay to Ahmedabad. Rawal said 130 bodies had been recovered. Five survivors were released, and the bodies and were expected to live, he said.
Airline officials said several foreigners were among the dead, but they did not know their nationalities.
they are not aware their mistakes There were conflicting reports about the crash
Mammohan Singh, general director of police at the airport, said the aircraft barely missed a shanty舟屋 in the explosion and rushed from their houses in panic. Wreckage and bodies were scattered over a mile, he said.
An Ahamadabad airport controller said the jet had started its final approach when it crashed near an
industrial area and exploded. No one on the ground was hurt, he said.
The plane exploded on impact, said the controller, speaking on condition of anonymity. Raval, however, said the plane exploded in the air.
News reports said the aircraft fell from the sky, hit a tree and then a high-voltage power line and exploded.
The aircraft, acquired in 1971, is one of the oldest in the airline's fleet.
Indian Airlines, the domestic carrier, has come fire recently for its use of a drone that captured the record and frequent delays. Today's crash was the 16th by an Indian airliner in recent months.
The last Indian Airlines crash occurred in 1976 and was the first to be onboard survivors. An investigation showed the pilot forgot to lower the plane's landing gear.
Boeing 727s have come under increasing scrutiny since an Aloha Airlines aircraft broke apart in April while in flight and made a miraculous recovery. The company missed from the tail of the fuselage. A flight attendant was killed.
This week, National Transportation and Safety Board officials revealed that cracks were found on a Continental Railway 377 as it was.
The Alba plane was No. 132 off the Boeing assembly line and the Continental plane was No. 170. Both were built in 1969.
The Indian Airlines plane was the 271st of the assembly line and company records indicate it was delivered in April, said Toni Cole of Boeing in Seattle.
Please see CRASH, p. 11, col. 5
Lines formed at the Burge Union yesterday as students registered to vote. Sherri Sweers, Green River, Wyo., junior, explains the registration process to Kristan Clark, Overland Park freshman.
Long lines characterize registration
Kansan staff writer
By David Stewart
So many students turned out to register to vote at the Burge Union for the last day of registration.
At 4:55 p.m. yesterday, Brook Menees, body student body, told about 50 people that some of them would not be able to register by the 5 p.m. deadline at the Burpee Union.
However, Menees said, they could register until 9 p.m. at the county clerk's office at 10th St., Suite 2284.
About 30 people were turned away.
Those who were turned away left without complaint, except for two people who tried to help.
still want you to vote."
"It's nothing personal," Menees said. "We
Mees said that Burge had to meet the 5 p.m. deadline because a county worker had to take the registration forms to the Douglas County Courthouse.
Mees said that Friday, Monday and yesterday were the busiest registration days. At 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., yesterday, lines of about 100 people waited to register.
"It's been like this all day," Menenes saun.
Patty James, county clerk, that people had been streaming through her office all day yesterday to meet the registration deadline.
Although the turnout for registration was high, James said she didn't know whether it would beat the record for 1984, which was around 40,000.
"I don't know whether we'll top 1984, but it will be close," she said.
Kelli Milligan, campus director of Associated
Keith K. Kamau, estimated student registration
at Kelli Milligan.
Milligan attributed the high turnout to a more accessible registration and to members of an ASK team who lectured classes, encouraging students to vote.
Milligan said that the turnout disproved Milligan that students were apathetic about volunteering.
Menees said that people who worked in the Student Senate office had been deported to Mexico.
Snow Hall project two months off schedule
Kansan staff writer
Bv Mark Fagan
is the 62nd calendar day past the deadline.
Work on the Snow Hall renovation project is two months behind schedule, and it could cost the general contractor more than $300 million of facilities planning official said yesterday.
Jim Midgik, campus director of facilities planning, said the contractor, Keesler Coss, will provide the management and portion of the $1.2 million phase one of the project by Aug. 18. Each calendar day that goes through the phases of the project.
"Whatever the final settlement is on, that would be deducted from their base contract, Maday said. He said officials has not decided whether to penalize the contrator.
However, Larry Kitzman, owner of the general contracting firm, said the delay was due to a contractor's contract was essentially finished, and that delays were caused by changes in the renovation.
Possible penalties, known as liquidated
damages, would be decided by a group of four parties involved with the project: facilities planning, the state architect's office, construction patents P.A. of Lawrence and the contractor.
Modig said such a decision would not be reached until after the contract was completed. He said phase one would be finished in about two weeks.
Two weeks from today would be 76 calendar days past the phase one deadline. At $300 a day, the contractor could be charged $22,800.
The four groups involved began a walk-through inspection of the project yesterday and will complete it today. Moid said the contractor would not be issued a "certificate of substantial completion," which was released when the project count, until the project passed inspection.
Modig said the certificate would be issued only after all requested changes in the system were made.
He said the entire project should be fin' shed by fall 1990
the north wing of Snow were completed. They will house computer science and math class.
Kietzman said the fourth and fifth floors of
"They could have moved all of their computers in already," he said. "Everything, safety-wise, has been completed. They could move in there now."
Kietzman said work was delayed by changes in the plans. He said his firm had received 30 changes during the past four months.
As part of the Black Student Union's 20th anniversary, Bridgett Mitchell, Topeka freshman, sings with the Inspirational Gospel Voices. The group performed last night in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Anniversary inspiration
One year after Black Monday investors still wary of market
By Daniel Niemi
Kansan staff writer
Please see SNOW. p. 11, col. 5
One year after the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 508 points, people still are wary of investing in the stock market. Lawrence stock brokers and KU faculty said yesterday.
"I think people are more cautious and primarily interested in income investments such as bonds and CD's and investments with more defensive characteristics," he said.
"People are still a little gun shy," said Jack Gaumnitz, professor of business. "Even though the market has risen, they don't know how realistic the prices are and are saying, 'Could it happen again?'"
Edmonds said that there were some good values in stocks because most investors were avoiding stocks, causing prices to be lower than normal. Also, company stock prices have gone up, indicating a probable rise in stock prices.
Bonds and certificates of deposit are recognized as safer investments compared to the stock market because
Steve Edmonds, office manager for Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood Inc. 647 Massachusetts St. said investors were
Stephen Hill, manager of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.
900 Massachusetts St., said stock market investors were cautious, but starting to return.
"People who invest in stocks now and look back in five years will be glad they invested."
"Enough time has passed for people to start investing again," he said. "The amount of time that has passed indicates stability in the market and that there won't be drastic changes.
Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, said the association's stock was up 16% in April.
"We're pretty much back to normal," he said. "We were worried about dividends holding up and they did."
Seymour said that the stock market crash limited contributions over the past year because many gifts are made in appreciated stocks and many of those stocks last money. He said that contributions now were back to
Appreciated stock is stock that is worth more than the purchase price.
Gaumnitz said the crash did not meet doormasters' expectations and would have less impact over time.
"Economists said the crash was about going to guarantee a slow-down and a recession, and it didn't happen," he said. "With passage of time, you think less and less about the crash."
Barges delayed for whales' rescue
BARROW Alaska - Eskimo whale wielding chain saws donated by the National Parks for holes three beleged whales trapped two weeks in bick ice hearths
The Associated Press
The Eskimos on yesterday cut three holes 75 yards apart in a line leading away from the larger of two small breathing pools the California coast have used since being stranded in the southern Sea while migrating south.
The rescuers, who received a telephone pap talk yesterday from President Reagan, hope the new holes will influence the endangered mammals to move in the direction they must travel if they are ever to escape their habitat.
Meanwhile, a long-shot attempt to free the whales with an icebreaking barge was delayed until today.
3. Alaska Army National Guard Squadron helicopters have been reinforced with new airborne barge from Prudhoe Bay, an oil field about 200 miles southwest, in a tricky situation.
Standard Oil of Alaska donated three chain saws, and planned to send a digging machine by helicopter to speed the work.
The trip, which is expected to take 25 to 40 hours, was to have started at the base of the barge but stuck in the ice and was slowed again by refuelling. The barge was moved a short distance from its source, but one of the helicopters encountered it.
Fire at ATO fraternity damages dining room
By a Kansan reporter
The Alpha Tau Omega house,
1537 Tennessee St., suffered
damage from a fire last night
in the fraternity's dining
room.
Fire Chief Jim McBswain said that the alarm went off at 1:24 a.m. and that the first unit responded at 1:28 a.m.
"Due to the alarms, everybody got out safely," Mswain said. "We were able to complete extinguishment without any harm."
He said that the fire moved up the walls, but that the fire was not severe because the fraternity's manager brought it under control.
McSwain said that they ruled the fire as an accident but were still investigating.
Dan Keller, Leawood senior and house manager, started extinguishing the fire that he said started in a coffee pot.
"I grabbed the sprinkler and put it out," Keller said. "Then 1 shut off the alarm."
"The one good thing was that everybody took the alarm seriously and got out," he said.
The fraternity members were able to stay in the house last night.
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