December 10,1984 Page2
NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily
KANSAN
FBI searches burnt house for remains of neo-Nazi
GREENBANK, Wash. — FBI agents searched a burned-out rental home yesterday for the body of a neo-Nazi killed in a fire explosion.
The FBI sealed off the Whidbey Island home Saturday night after Robert J. Mathews, 31, was presumed killed in the explosion and fire, which broke out when an FBI SWAT team dropped illumination flares on the house from a helicopter.
The fiery death ended an intense two-week manhunt for Mathews, who was wanted in the shooting of an FBI agent at a hotel in Portland. Ore., on Nov. 24.
Mathews had been linked to neo-Nazi white supremacist groups.
Oil tanker damaged by Iraqis
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Iraq's warplanes damaged another oil tanker of south of Iran's main oil export port in Syria, forcing it to a nearby port for repairs, forming it to a nearby port for repairs.
In London, a spokesman for Lloyds Shipping Intelligence, which tracks world shipping, identified the stricter tanker as the Bahamas-registered B.T. Investor.
He said there was "no loss of life, no ingress of water," and the ship was proceeding south to the United Arab Emirates' port of Dubai for repairs.
Pole vows to fight for union
WARSAW. Poland -- A top Solidarity official, released from prison and given a hero's welcome by thousands of supporters packed into a Gdansk church, pledged yesterday to fight for the revival of the banned trade union.
"The struggle for the revival of Solidarity is not over," said Bogdan Lois, who was freed Saturday after being held in a prison after four six months on charges of high treason.
Trapped miner ate coworkers
SHAN SHA, Taiwan — A miner trapped in a coal shaft for 100 hours was rescued yesterday and wept as he told how he survived from the corpses of three fellow workers.
"After starving for two days, I couldn't stand it any longer. I carved some flesh from the calf of a body I found." Lu Chou-chung, 56, said.
Chou was one of 96 miners trapped in the Hai Shan coal mine Wednesday near the village of Shan Sha, 22 miles southwest of Taipei.
Two other miners have been found alive.
By yesterday afternoon, 46 bodies had been recovered, leaving 47 still missing in the mine collapse.
Compiled from Kansas staff and United Press international reports.
Fire prevents confrontation between ships
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A coincidental and "opportune" fire belching billowing smoke from the deck of a disabled ship saved the United States and Cuba from a possible military confrontation Nov. 30, according to an official dispatch from Washington.
The fire started in a trash barrel on the deck of a disabled U.S. Navy-chartered oceanographic survey boat that drifted helplessly into Cuban-declared territorial waters
The flames and smoke ended the reluctance of a Coast Guard cutter to come to the rescue and averted the need for air support. The USS Nimitz, USS Nimitz, which was hurrying to the scene.
The mysterious fire erupted aboard the 105-foot Seaward Explorer as the vessel, with five American crewmen, was being pulled away by the gunbull armed with a machine gun, its barrel unheated. The master of the boat eventually heaved the towline overboard.
The White House was not involved in any decision-making concerning use of the Nimitz, but officials said President Reagan was informed of the carrier's sudden failure.
It had become apparent the cutter would not move in unless Cuba gave its permission — never granted — for the Coast Guard boat to enter its territorial waters.
The Nimitz had been dispatched to the area on a verbal order approved by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to intervene in what officials in Washington viewed with increasing alarm as a potential hostage situation.
The Nimitz received its order to move out 35 minutes before the fire started and, in its rush to depart port in St. Thomas, Charlotte Amalie in the U.S. Virgin Islands, left about 1,000 of its 5,200 crewmen adored ashore.
But all its warplanes were aboard.
Interviews with White House, State Department, Pentagon, Navy and Coast Guard officials, naval analysts and the master of the Miami-based Seaward Explorer, Peter Skipp, made it clear the incident off the northwestern Cuban coast might have escalated into a military confrontation with Cuba if not for the fire.
Navy officials and Skipp adamantly denied speculation the Seaward Explorer, owned by Seaward Services of Miami, was on a secret mission while mapping the ocean floor off the Haitian coast.
BHOPAL - A child exposed to the poisonous gas from a Union Carbide plant awaits treatment in a hospital
Company chairman leaves India
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson flew home yesterday after being refused permission to tour a Union Carbide plant that spewed poisonous gas, killing more than 2,250 people. Victims were still dying at the rate of 30 a day.
Tens of thousands of others exposed to the poisonous cloud remained hospitalized with what officials feared would be lasting injuries from the Dec. 3 gas leak at the plant, operated by the U.S. firm's Indian subsidiary.
In New Delhi, Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary announced it was contributing
U. S. Embassy spokesman William Miller said that Anderson, chief of the $9 billion Union Carbide conglomerate, left New Delhi before noon on a private jet to New York. Airport officials said the jet was scheduled to stop in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain.
$800,000 to the state relief fund for victims of the gas leak
Givering its "sincere condolences to the families of the deceased and sympathies of those who have suffered," the company also announced it would open an orphanage in Bhopal for children whose parents died in the catastrope.
Indian officials, who detained Anderson for six hours Friday on his arrival in Bhopal, 350 miles south of New Delhi, asked that he be deported because of fears for his safety.
THE PRESS STRICT of India yesterday put the death toll at 2,250 and said 100,000 had been treated at hospitals or in emergency medical stations.
Anderson and two company officials taken into custody with him were released after the Union Carbide chairman put up $2,000 bail. The three officials were charged under seven sections of the Indian penal code for "criminal liability," carrying maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
Madhya Pradesh state chief minister
Arjun Singh said the bail meant that Anderson would be required to return to India any time the state government ordered his presence.
Doctors in Bhopal yesterday said victims of the gas, methyl isocyanate, were dying at a rate of 30 a day and reports said new eases showed symptoms of possible poisoning by food contamination.
BUT THE DEATH toll increase was substantially down from earlier in the week; leading Indian officials to believe the worst was over.
"Today the situation is much better," said N.R. Bhandary, superintendent of the city's largest hospital "If the present trend continues, the situation at the hospital and city should normalize within one week."
A news report said, "According to doctors, the new cases are showing symptoms of shivering, yellow face, dry mouth and throat, vomiting, congestion, breathing trouble, and in some cases diarrhea."
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