NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 20, 1993
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South Dakota governor killed in Iowa plane crash
The Associated Press
DUBUQUE, Iowa — A plane carrying South Dakota Gov. George Mickelson and seven other people crashed in eastern Iowa after reporting engine failure yesterday. There were no survivors, a sheriff said.
Mickelson's body wasn't immediately identified. However, Dick Vohs, an aide to Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, said the airplane's passenger list included Mickelson.
Janelle Toman, press secretary for Mickelson, confirmed Mickelson was on the plane.
Rose Marie Ambrosy, who owns the farm where the plane crashed, said no one on the ground was hurt.
Other victims included two South Dakota state commissioners and
Roger Hainje, director of the Sioux Falls Development Foundation.
Mickelson, 51, a Republican, was serving his second term. He was elected governor in 1986 and won another four-year term in 1990. He also served six years in the South Dakota House, where he was sneaker in 1979-80.
The plane was returning to South Dakota from Cincinnati when it crashed after reporting engine trouble.
The twin-engine turboprop had been headed for an emergency landing at the Dubuque airport when it struck a barn and silo about 15 miles southwest of Dubuque about 4 p.m., said Sandra Campbell, a representative at the Federal Aviation Administration regional office in Kansas City, Mo.
The Mitsubishi turboprop plane is registered to the Department of Transportation of South Dakota.
"The pilot reported a lost engine and lost pressurization. The aircraft then was handed off to the Dubuque tower for clearance to land. It was the nearest location," Campbell said.
"It was cleared to land. About a minute after the last transmission, the Dubuque tower reported to the sheriff the aircraft was down on the ground."
Heavy rain was reported in the area at the time, but the FAA said it had not determined if it was a factor in the crash.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were en route to the crash site.
Holocaust survivors return to Poland
World leaders visit Warsaw ghetto on anniversary of Jewish uprising
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — As survivors and world leaders hailed the courage of the Warsaw garrison uprising in 50th anniversary ceremonies yesterday, the rebellion's last living leader questioned whether its lesson had been learned.
"The struggle we put up half a century ago in Warsaw reminds me of what is going on now in the former Yugoslavia." Marek Edelman told the Zycie Warszawy sapper. "The main analogy is the passiveness of the world."
Israeli President Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Polish President Lech Walesa led the commemoration.
But the official events were only a backdrop to the excruciating memories, miracles of survival and hope for future generations offered by the Jewish ghetto survivors returning from around the world.
"Most of my family was killed during the uprising and their memory is precious to me," said Australian Boris Kaplon. "That is why I came."
Walter Ckyert of Detroit saw the place where his three brothers and two sisters died for the first time since World War II. He escaped the uprising to the shelter of a Catholic woman and spent weeks in a closet.
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Fifty years ago yesterday, German soldiers surrounding
the barbed-wire and brick walls of the Jewish ghetto prepared for its final liquidation. Instead, the first armed civilian uprising was under way against the Nazi occupiers in Europe.
The courage of the approximately 1,000 Jewish fighters who held out against the German tanks for nearly a month was honored yesterday.
"We cannot forget the past but at the same time we look forward to a better world, to better relations between people, for the elimination of the remnants of fascism, Nazism and movements." Rabin said after meeting with Polish President Jacek Palaszczuk.
With only light arms and homemade grenades, the fighters forced the Germans into house-to-house combat.
In the end, about 7,000 died in the uprising. Most of the uprising leaders committed suicide in their surrounded bunker on May 8, 1943, with a few escaping through sewers.
The last 40,000 Jews in the ghetto were deported, bringing the death toll to more than 400,000 from Warsaw, which had had the largest prewar Jewish community in Europe. In all, 3 million of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust were from Poland.
The uprising's anniversary has been given special significance in newly democratic Poland, still confronting anti-Semitism even with only a few hundred practicing Jews among 38 million Catholics.
A year of exhibits, films and discussions are being offered to promote reconciliation between the Catholics and Jews who have shared the country with a complex mix of acceptance and hostility for 1,000 years.
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