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Wednesday, March 16, 1994
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U.S. gunship accident kills seven
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya—Seven crewmen who died when a U.S. gunship crashed off Kenya might have tried to parachute too late. Rescue teams searched the waters offshore yesterday for a missing crewman who reportedly had jumped clear of the aircraft.
Lt. Col. Mike Gannon, speaking from the scene, said six crew members had survived, including three who had stayed in the Spectre gurship when it ditched in the Indian Ocean late Monday 75 miles north of Mombasa and just 200 vards offshore.
Army Col. Steve Rausch, a U.S. representative in Mogadishu, said the AC-130H gunship had taken off minutes earlier from Mombasa's MoI International Airport for an "Eyes Over Mogadishu" surveillance mission.
The parachutes of some of the dead were deployed and floating in the sea. One parachute has on the tail of
"One parachute hung on the tail of the aircraft," said Gannon.
At the Pentagon, representative Kathleen deLaski said that President Clinton and Defense Secretary William Perry "are aggrieved to find that this has happened at such a late date in the general deployment of a large scale of soldiers."
Other parachutes were deployed, indicating that the dead crewmen might have attempted to jump when the aircraft was too low over the water, he said.
The crush came as U.S. troops wound down their mission in Somalia. All troops are due to be withdrawn by the end of the month.
The names of all 14 crew members were withheld pending notification of their families. The plane and its crew were from the Air Force's 16th Special Operations Squadron, based at Hurlburt Field in Florida.
The survivors were in good condition, Gannon said. Three were flown to a hospital on a U.S. Navy ship off Mogadishu and three were taken to Mombasa.
At least one AC-130 patrols Mogadishu nightly in case U.S. ground forces need support against Somali migrants.
Mandela kicks off ANC campaign with rally
The Associated Press
MMABATHO, South Africa — The African National Congress and the government will act against anyone who stands in the way of South Africa's first all-race election, Nelson Mandela led cheering crowds yesterday.
Mandela was kicking off the ANC's campaign in Bophuthatswana, where the South African government and the ANC worked together last week to out homeland leader Lucas Mangone, who had opposed the vote.
About 35,000 jubilant supporters cheered Mandela at Independence Stadium, one of the many extravagant government structures on which Mangoe had spent money at the expense of his inmooveried people.
The crowd was the largest ever to attend a political rally at the stadium.
"Mymere presence here is proof that in Bophutchatawana there is now free political activity," Mandela said. Throughout the day, ANC banners had been posted in Mnambatho, the first campaign posters in the region.
Mandela said Mangole's ouster should send a signal to others opposing the April 26-28 vote that the ANC and the South African government were determined to ensure free campaigning and voting nationwide.
The Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party has threatened to disrupt the election unless it gets an autonomous or sovereign Zulu kingdom. On Sunday, 3,000 Inkatha members prevented the ANC from holding a rally at a sports stadium in Natal Province, which includes the traditional Zulu homeland.
"The demand for free and fair elections is very strong, and I think what happened here is to go send a message" to other areas, Mandela told reporters. Without singing out any particular group or region, he said that acting to ensure a free vote "may require measures that are not necessarily similar to measures that were taken" in Bophutthatswana.
Mandela announced that he would meet Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini during a campaign swing through Natal on Friday.
Rabin seeks strategy to get Arabs to talks
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin offered yesterday to speed up Palestinian self-rule but ruled out compromises in Jerusalem as he appealed to the Arabs to reopen Mideast peace talks.
Rabin gave no ground to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, who is holding out for a U.N. Security Council resolution to challenge Israel's control of Jerusalem.
Rabin then met with Secretary of State Warren Christopher on the stalemate that threatens to permanently derail peace talks between Israel and four Arab parties — the Palestinianis, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
Rabin is hoping his talks here will produce a strategy for coaxing Syria to resume its negotiations with Israel.
President Clinton met with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Geneva, Switzerland, in January, and has telephoned him recently in an effort to rescue the negotiations.
Rabin, meanwhile, said, "tall upon him once again to walk the extra mile in order to meet us on the road to peace."
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