Section A · Page 7 The University Daily Kansan Nation/World Tuesday, April 11, 2000 Marine Osprey crash still under scrutiny The Associated Press MARANA, Ariz. — The Pentagon won't fly the Marine Corps' four remaining Osprey aircraft until investigators determine what caused a fifth to crash during a nighttime training mission, killing all 19 aboard. One grieving mother said her son died as "a guinea pig for these new airplanes." Marine officials said the MV-22 tiltrotor Osprey did not have a black-box voice recorder but did carry a flight data recorder that federal investigators would study. Investigators spent Sunday reviewing the crash site at Marana Northwest Regional Airport about 30 miles north-west of Tucson but released few details. There was no immediate indication to what caused the Saturday crash, said Capt. Rob Winchester, a Pentagon spokesman. The flight data recorder has not yet been removed from the wreckage. The father of one of the victims, Staff Sgt. William Bryan Nelson, said his son considered the plane experimental and that it frequently encountered mechanical problems. "He told me it was so fragile," said William D. Nelson, whose son was among four crew members based at Quantico, Va. "He didn't think it was very ready to fly vet." Breaking into tears several times during a phone interview from her home, Patti Weaver said her son, Cpl. Adam Neely, 22, of Winthrop, Wash., left behind a 2-year-old stepdaughter and a pregnant wife. "I my heart just breaks when I think about these young men who have so much to give," Weaver said. The Osprey, similar to a turboprop, is part of a new generation of aircraft scheduled to replace all of the Marines' primary troop-transport helicopters. The military began flying the aircraft six months ago despite lingering questions about costs and safety. Military officials said the downed aircraft was in the process of shifting its propellers from airplane function to helicopter mode when it went down about 500 yards from a runway. It was one of two Ospreys simulating the evacuation of civilians from an embassy in a hostile country, said Marine Lt. Mark Carter, spokesman for the Yuma air station. Authorities said the victims included the four crew members from Quantico, Va., 14 Marines from Camp Pendleton, Calif., and one from Marine Corps Air Station-Miramar in San Diego County. Also on board was Keoiki Santos, 24, of Grand Ronde, Ore. His mother, Christina Mercier, said her son had voiced concerns about riding in the Osprey. "He was really, really nervous about the whole thing," she said. "He was a beautiful, high-spirited, true Marine. He didn't want to just go into the service for four years. He enlisted to be a career man, and they killed him. They wanted him to be a guinea pig for these new airplanes." Pentagon representative Capt. Aisha Bakkar-Poe said Sunday that the Marine Corps' four other Ospreys would not be flown until they could fully assess what happened. The planes will not be considered grounded, which would require an order from Naval Air Systems citing an official cause. Four Osprey, including the one that crashed, are based in Yuma, and another is based at the Marine Corps Air Station in New River, N.C. World Bank prompts protest Opponents want policy changes The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Ratcheting up their protests in advance of the world finance ministers' meetings this weekend, demonstrators yesterday briefly blocked a street near the World Bank headquarters. Police said seven protesters were arrested, including some who chained themselves to a rental truck blocking that thoroughfare on the building. - Pennsylvania Avenue — and others who tried to hang a banner A small group of some 20 demonstrators chanted as police cleared the road, which remained blocked for about 45 minutes by the peaceful protest. The demonstrators taken into custody offered no resistance, said Police Chief Charles Ramsev. A banner on the truck read, "World Bank plunderers the planet — no more $$$ for oil gas and mining." "The World Bank is funding oil mining and gas drilling and continues funding projects which increase our dependence on fossil fuels and increasingly destroys indigenous land," said Jillian Frumkin of Ozone Action. protesters demanded the phase-out of financing for oil, gas and mining projects. They also said World Bank's drilling and mining projects left a trail of environmental damage, increased poverty and severe social disruption in poor countries. With still-fresh memories of the destruction at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, Ramsey said his officers were prepared, but the response would be up to the protesters. "The demonstrators will determine how we react to this, but one thing he's for certain, we're not going to allow property damage and fires and those kinds of things," he said. Peruvians suspect election fraud The Associated Press LIMA, Peru — Alberto Fujimori, Peru's iron-fisted president, was within a hair yesterday of a majority of votes needed to win an unprecedented third term and avoid a runoff against an upstart contender, early official returns showed. Alejandro Toledo, a U.S.-trained economist who had appeared to be headed toward a second-round showdown with Fujimori, has complained of election fraud. short of the 50 percent plus one he needs. But yesterday, with just under 40 percent of the ballots counted, the first official results indicated Fujimori had 49.8 percent, while Toledo took 40 percent. Exit polls and unofficial vote tallies by independent monitors on Sunday had indicated Fujimori likely would The national elections board released the results after delaying them for more than 12 hours. The board had promised to release first results Sunday night. The delay raised suspicions among Fujimori's opponents that the government might attempt to tamper with the outcome. The doubts led to violent street protests early vesterdav. Toledo led 4,000 demonstrators to the presidential palace to protest any attempts at vote tampering. Protesters lobbed rocks into the courtyard and onto balconies of the building, and six people were injured before police were able to disperse the crowd with tear gas. transparencia, an independent citizens group monitoring the elections, said monitors had discovered prefiled ballots favoring Fujimori and his party. Transparencia's electricity and phone lines also were cut, and its computer system was attacked Sunday by a mysterious virus. Vote-rigging accused in country of Georgia The Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia — Foreign observers sharply criticized Georgia yesterday for violations during its presidential elections, which incumbent Eduard Shevardnadze won by an enormous margin. mountainous republic of 5 million people. Shevardnadze denied that there was tampering with the count, which showed him with more than 80 percent of the vote in this "I didn't need any vote-rigging," he said. "I had broad popular support." But Nikolai Vulchanov, head of the election observer mission in Georgia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, listed several grievances. "There were more ballots cast than registered," he said at a news conference. "Also, many polling stations were located on the premises of executive bodies of power. At some of the stations there were policemen inside — they should be outside." Shevardnadze, who is widely respected abroad for his years as Soviet foreign minister under Mikhail Gorbachev, is eager to move his economically suffering country closer to the West. But the criticism of the elections could cast a shadow on his aims. 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