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Tanker slams into bus; 24 die
LEQUILA, Mexico — A gas tanker trailer broke 1006 from its cab while rounding a curve yesterday and slammed into a double-decker passenger bus, killing at least 24 people and seriously injuring 10 others, authorities said.
The impact of the crash hurried buries more than 50 yards from the site of the crash.
The spokesman said the accident occurred at a 4 a.m. The passenger bus was traveling from Guadalajara to the Pacific port of Mazatlan.
Mayor missing from election
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Mayor Donald Frush vanished several days ago in the midst of his re-election campaign, and no one seems to know where he is, a city spokesman said yesterday.
Less than three weeks before the city election, town officials and campaign workers do not know the whereabouts of Frush. 54.
The mayor has not been seen at City Hall since Feb. 25 and last talked to LeRoy Metz, his campaign manager, and Judy Chambers, the city's community relations director, March 1.
Police delve into beer abuse
MUNICH, West Germany — Police are investigating allegations that at least 40 breweries are flouting West Germany's 569-year-old "pure beer" law by adding chemicals to the nation's favorite beverage, officials said yesterday.
The weekly Stern magazine said some breweries were adding foaming and sterilizing agents just like their foreign competitors, whose beers were banned from West German bars because they offended the law forbidding impure beer.
The law specifies that only yeast, malt, hops and water can be used to produce beer for western Europe's top beer-drinking nation, whose population drinks more than 35 foaming gallons per capita every year.
Team starts trek to North Pole
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — With hundreds of miles of treacherous polar ice pack ahead of them, four Americans trudged off from a barren Canadian arctic island yesterday on an epic try to become the first to walk to the North Pole.
The team of adventurers set off from Ward Hunt Island, about 400 miles northwest of Thule, Greenland, on a planned 9-mile-a-day trek across the desolate ice pack.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
U.S. drug agent's body identified
Bv United Press International
MEXICO CITY — The beaten, bound bodies of two men discovered at a ranch have been positively identified as those of Enrique Camarenha Salazar, kidnapped U.S. Drug Enforcement agent, and a Mexican pilot, the U.S. Embassy said yesterday.
Camarena, a Mexican-born U.S. citizen, and his friend, Alfredo Zavala Velar, a pilot for the Mexican government and the DEA, were kidnapped within hours of each other Feb. 7 in Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco.
"The bodies have been positively identified as those of Carmena and Zavala," a U.S. official said.
He said U.S. Ambassador John Gavin would issue a statement and add more details. The Mexican federal attorney general also called a news conference in Guadalajara, 300 miles northwest of Mexico City, where the bodies were taken.
A PEASANT DISCOVERED the bodies, stuffed in plastic bags, late Tuesday on the
outskirts of the El Mareno ranch some 240 miles west of Mexico City in the western state of Michoacan.
The ranch was the scene of a shootout Saturday in which five suspected drug traffickers and a Mexican police agent were killed.
The bodies, found tied at the ankles and wrists, were taken from the ranch to the civilian hospital of Zamora, about 210 miles west of Xemal City, for identification.
Maria Guadalupe Ruiz, representative of Michoacan's state attorney general's office in Zamora, said that the bodies showed signs of severe beating and that they had been cut in several places by what appeared to have been wounds, said the bodies had no signs of bullet wounds.
Ruiz, who filed an official report after viewing the bodies at the Zamora hospital, said the men had been dead for 20 to 25 days.
"I SAW THEM when they brought them in," hospital guard Jesus Grajeda said. "They were decomposed and I saw that they
were badly beaten. They brought them in a police car from here in Zamora."
Shortly after news of the bodies' discovery yesterday, DEA agents flew by helicopter from Guadalajara to aid in their identification for the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara said.
Ruiz said peasant Antonio Navarro found the bodies about 300 yards from a highway on the outskirts of the El Mareno ranch near the town of La Angostura.
U. S. and Mexican officials said Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city, had become Mexico's main transit point for illicit drug traffic to the United States. The bodies were discovered some 69 miles south of Guadalajara.
Camarena, a 10-year DEA veteran, was kidnapped only yards from the U.S. Consultate by suspected drug traffickers and had not been heard from since.
Despite a $50,000 reward for information leading to Camarena's release and a chumpdown at border checkpoints, U.S. officials said they had few clues.
Rights chairman called Reagan lackey
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Rep. Parren Mitchell yesterday accused Clarence Pendleton, chairman of the Civil Rights Commission, of being a Reagan administration lackey for condemning affirmative action as immoral and calling black leaders racist.
Mitchell, D-Md., who is black, walked out of a commission hearing on affirmative action after making a short statement protesting Pendleton's speech Tuesday that criticized many civil rights supporters as racists. Pendleton is also black.
"Neither do you deserve any response to the questions, nor do you deserve any recognition, nor do you deserve any respect," Mitchell told Pendleton.
Mitchell joined the nation's civil rights organizations in boycotting the two-day hearing on affirmative action and employment quotas for minorities.
PENDELTON, HOWEVER, appeared unruffled by Mitchell's statement.
"I respect his right to say what he wants to say. I would only hope that he would respect my right to say what I have to say," Pendleton said.
At the last minute, civil rights groups refused to participate in the hearing because Pendleton and the commission's vice chairman, Morris Abram, had issued a statement in January calling support of affirmative action immoral and discriminatory.
reached a conclusion about affirmative action.
Abram and Pendleton insisted that their statement did not signal they already had
action.
In a separate statement, Abram and John Bunzel, a member of the commission, called the boycott by civil rights groups a "sad manifestation of the state of a once glorious movement."
"Their action is petulant and unworthy of the founders of the civil rights movement who successfully led it while it gained the respect of America," Abram and Bunzel said.
The dispute over the affirmative action hearing is the latest in the accelerating war between civil rights groups and the reconstituted commission, which last year was reformed by the Reagan administration and has since supported the administration's position on a number of civil rights issues.
33 Americans ordered to leave Lebanon
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JERUSALEM — Thirty-three Americans working with U.N. peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon have been withdrawn to Israel because of fears of an attack by Muslim guerrillas, officials said yesterday.
Timur Goksel, chief spokesman for the United Nations Interm Force in Lebanon, confirmed that U.N. officials had ordered the Americans not to report for work at the force's offices in the Lebanese border village of Naquira.
The order from UMN headquarters in New York on Friday affects 16 American UMN military observers and 17 U.S. civilian employees, Goksel said.
"There was no direct threat or reports received from the field by UNIFIL," Goksel said.
sail.
Shite fighters have mounted increasing guerrilla attacks against Israeli occupation forces in southern Lebanon, and Israel has responded by cracking down to protect its troops.
Goksel said the American workers who were ordered out of Lebanon normally
commuted to Naqura from the northern Israel town of Nahariya.
"It was only prudent advice and a safety precaution," Goksel said of the withdrawal of the Americans. "It was a temporary measure for the time being, and no decision has been taken to reassign them."
The American observers belong to the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, based in Jerusalem since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Its observers are posted in the Golan Heights, the Sinai peninsula and southern Lebanon.
Soviets to equal Star Wars plan, Ukranian says
By United Press International
But he told a news conference attended by the Soviet delegation and the host congressional group that Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, as "Star Wars" is properly called, would only prompt an offensive counterstroke.
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union will deploy more nuclear missiles to counter the "Star Wars" defensive system, a Politburo member said yesterday on the eve of his meeting with President Reagan.
ever he meeting with Vladimir Shcherbitsky, the leader of a visiting Soviet parliamentary delegation, said his countrymen wanted to join with the United States in preventing a nuclear war and stopping the arms race.
"We'll be forced to take adequate measures and, first of all, to strengthen our strategic system," Shecharitsky said, speaking from an interpreter.
SHCHERBITSKY, THE leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party, said the three days of talks with House and Senate members emphasized the threat of a nuclear war.
"We clearly and definitely expressed that our point of view is to prevent the arms race in space and (achieve) its cessation on Earth," he said. "It is not only our personal view, it is the will of all the Soviet people."
in the Soviet and American people join their efforts in the struggle for peace, nuclear threats can be averted," the official said.
He said the challenge meant a special urgency for the Soviets and gave them a special responsibility.
The 33-member delegation represents, the nominal Soviet legislature, and it is visiting in response to a tour by a U.S. congressional group in 1983.
The Soviet delegation and host congressional group displayed cordiality during three days of talks, receptions and dinners, but on the Senate floor, Sen. Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H., brushed off the Soviet delegation as members of a "so-called" legislative body and the Soviet parliament as a "rubber stamp."
Humphrey said the time had come to break through "the tinkling of cocktail, glasses and camaraderie" accompanying the visit of the delegation.
He denounced the Kremlin for violations of human rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and for "the crimes against humanity that characterize the invasion of Afghanistan and the continuing occupation."
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