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Backup in seaway adds up for shippers
MILWAUKEE — Great Lakes port officials said yesterday that a collapsed lock wall that halted navigation on the St. Lawrence Seaway could mean huge losses for shippers as they scramble to find other means of transport.
The blocked seaway is preventing ships carrying the Midwest grain harvest from reaching the eastern seaboard.
Clearing the Welland Canal, a key shipping link between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario near Therold, Ontario, could take weeks. St. Lawrence Seaway Authority officials said.
Soviet students walk
SUNDSVALL, Sweden — Two Soviet students who walked 650 miles from northern Russia sought political asylum yesterday in the Swedish town of Sundsvall, police said.
"The men have walked all the way from Russia. They said they did not like the Soviet system," Jan Bruselle, chief for the immigration police at Sundsvall, 175 miles north of Stockholm.
The men, aged 21 and 22, are students from the Soviet Union. They spent several weeks walking from northern Russia, through Finnish Lapland and into Sweden, Brussel said.
Governor won't run
LINCOLN, Neb. — Gov. Bob Kerrey, a rising star in state and national Democratic circles, announced yesterday that he had decided against seeking re-election, but declined to say whether he would leave politics permanently.
"I have reached the decision not to seek re-election," Kerry told a news conference called to announce his $28.3 million package to offset a projected state budget deficit.
New stamp issued
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service yesterday issued a commemorative stamp exhorting Americans to "Help End Hunger" on the eve of worldwide observance of World Food Day.
From staff and wire reports.
Bodv identified as Klinghoffer
WASHINGTON — A body that washed up near Tartus, Syria, has been positively identified as Leon Kinghoffer, an American killed by the blackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, a State Department spokesman said today.
United Press International
The body washed ashore Sunday — four days after the four Palestinian hijackers of the Achille Lauro reuphandered to Egyptian authorities.
U. S. experts were sent to Damascus, Syria, to examine the body, and the State Department said fingerprints were sent to the Syrian capital to aid in the identification of the body.
Witnesses said the hijackers shot Klinghoffer in the head Oct. 8 then dumped him — still in his wheelchair — into the Mediterranean off the Syrian coast.
A State Department spokesman said the experts confirmed that the
The spokesman said he had no information on how the body was identified. He said an autopsy would be done "soon" and that, when it was dead, Kingloffers' body would be returned to the United States for burial.
body was that of Klinghoffer, 69, an invalid from New York.
There was no immediate word on the identifcations on the identification top of the file.
Meanwhile, Italian authorities pressed the investigation into the Achille Laurio hijacking and said they believed about 15 terrorists were probably involved in planning and carry-ing out the attack.
Four Palestinians jailed in Spoleta, Italy, have been charged with hijacking the Italian luxury liner — with 511 people aboard — Oct. 7 off the coast of Port Said, Egypt, and killing Klinghoffer.
Reagan administration officials said a federal grand jury would be convened to indict the four on U.S. charges for the hijacking and the killing of Klinghoffer.
Investigating magistrates from Genoa, Italy, and Syracuse, Sicily, worked to assemble evidence for the trial of the four. Italian investigators said they were working on the theory that about 15 terrorists planned and carried out the attack
the luxury liner yesterday, riding out in naval launches to meet the ship in the Straits of Messina near Sicily.
Investigating magistrates boarded
Secretary of State George Shultz, during a NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday, chided Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andretti for Italy's release of Mohammed Abbas, a Palestine Liberation Organization official the United States has said was the mastermind of the Achille Lauro attack.
White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes, traveling aboard Air Force One with President Reagan yesterday, said all governments in the Middle East have been advised that the United States will pursue Abbas.
Committee offers help to military
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A new congressional study recommends several revisions in the U.S. military hierarchy and proposes replacing the Joint Chiefs of Staff with an advisory panel whose members no longer have ties to their service.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to use the study as the starting point for fall hearings on military reforms.
"The system is broke, and it needs fixing," said Goldwater.
Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., and Sam Nunn of Georgia, the panel's senior Democrat, paved the way for presentation of the report with two weeks of development, with the nation's military apparatus.
At the Pentagon, where officials have yet to see the full report, spokman Robert Sims said the general conclusions that reforms are needed, "don't match with our recent experience," a reference to the successful interception of an Egyptian civil airliner last week.
The study points out 34 problems at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill and offers 91 recommendations, most of which could be handled administratively but some of which would require legislation.
Marine copter crash kills 15
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1985
From Kansan wires
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A Marine "Sea Knight" helicopter taking part in an assault exercise from the USS Guadalacean crashed into Onslow Bay and sank yesterday, killing eight people on board, a Marine official said.
The wreckage of the CH-4D helicopter was found yesterday afternoon in the bay about 1,500 yards offshore of the sprawling Camp Lejeune Marine Base, said Maj. Don Kappel, a Marine spokesman in Washington.
"Divers have been able to peer into the wreckage and see the bodies," Kappel said. "The notification to the
It was the third worst helicopter crash in Marine history, the official said.
families is going to be that they did not survive."
The bodies recovered several hours later and were taken to the U.S. Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune.
The four survivors of the crash were rescued by military divers. All were listed in good condition three aboard the Guadalcanal and the other at the hospital at Camp Lejeune.
Gunney Sgt. John Simmons, a Camp Lejeune spokesman, said the worst helicopter crash in Marine history was in Korea in March 1984 and took 18 lives. He said 17 Marines died on May 6 when a chopper crashed off the Japanese island of Yakushima.
Kappel said he didn't know how or
Officials it crashed at 5:07 a.m. CDT after taking off from the Guadalcanal, an assault helicopter ship used for beach assaults.
why the helicopter crashed. He said an investigation would be conducted
The helicopter plunged into Onslow Bay after leaving the shin.
The CH-46 is the principal assault helicopter of the Marine Corps and also is used extensively by the Navy to carry cargo and passengers between ships and shore facilities.
Marine Corps authorities said that no other CH-46 crashes were reported in 1984 and the first three months of this year, but that two of the helicopters crashed in 1983 and three in 1982. Officials said they did not know whether anyone died in those crashes.
Execution set for black S. African activist
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President Pleter Bobe yesterday refused to grant a new trial to convicted murderer and black activist Benjamin Molise and set his hanging for Friday despite fears that the execution would spark race riots.
Shortly after the announcement, police opened fire on a mob of mixed-race or "colored" students in the township of Athone, near Cape Town, killing three people and wounding 11, police said.
One of the dead was identified as a
15-year-old boy and two of the seriously wounded were brothers, 8 and 10.
A police spokesman said the mob was stoning a delivery vehicle when police arrived and opened fire with shotguns.
Reporter for the Cape Times newspaper said, however, that the police were hidden inside boxes on the back of a flatbed truck, and when the students began stoning the vehiculars they uped and opened fire with shotguns.
students threw firebombs at police cars after a police tear-gas canister started a fire that killed one black man. Police wounded at least nine.
In the black township of New Crossroads, near Cape Town,
Molise's lawyer announced that Botha had rejected her appeal for a new trial for her client, who was convicted of killing a policeman, and had set the execution for Friday morning.
The anti-apartheid African National Congress, of which Moloise was a member, issued a statement from its exiled headquarters in Zambia in which it appealed to the world community to pressure South Africa to halt the execution.
Study says AIDS virus reversible
United Press International
STANFORD, Calif. — Fewsearchers said yesterday that a woman who tested positive to the AIDS virus apparently recovered from the infection, suggesting that people exposed to the disease may not be lifelong carriers.
The report, published in this month's Annals of Internal Medicine, marked the first challenge to the thought that people infected with AIDS can transmit it for the rest of their lives.
The case indicates that an AIDS infection "may be reversible in some circumstances."
Dr. William Robinson of Stanford, principal author of the report, stressed that the results do not mean that the woman was cured of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, since she had never been ill with the disease.
He said that "although this is a single instance where the human body has recovered from contact with the AIDS virus, the case suggests that avoidance of repeated exposure to LAV (the AIDS virus) may sometimes result in recovery of normal immune function."
According to the report, the woman's husband, a 35-year-old hemophilia, developed AIDS from a previous sexual contact and he was his wife through sexual contact.
In January 1984, the 33-year-old unidentified woman from the Santa Clara Valley, developed swollen lymph nodes, a symptom of AIDS infection that often is a an early indication of the fatal disease.
Doctors notified the woman of the test results. She underwent regular tests and in April 1984, scientists found that her lymph glands had returned to normal, antibodies produced by the body to fight the AIDS virus had vanished and cells of her immune system appeared healthy.
Subsequent tests have continued to show no trace of infection.
Her husband died in September 1984.
"I'm not sure this outcome is as rare as people must think. The focus has been on people who have gone in the other direction, who have taken the disastrous course and gone on to develop AIDS," Robinson said.
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