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Tuesday, November 4, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Helicopter crashes in Alaska; accident kills all six aboard
KODIAK. Alaska — A low-flying Coast Guard helicopter crashed on a tiny deserted island while trying to reach an isolated village on a medical mission, killing all six passengers aboard, officials said yesterday.
1,5 km Siskorky HH-3F chopper plowed into Ugak island late Saturday on its way to the village of Akhoki.
The wreckage was found along the beach of the uninhabited, rugged island that rises out of the North Pacific about 40 miles south of the town of Kodiak on Kodiak Island, Farmer said.
Names of the victims were not released.
The chopper, from the Kodaiak Coast Guard station at the north end of Kodaiak island, was flying at an altitude of 480 km.
Bad weather may have forced the plane to fly lower, but circumstances of the crash were still a mystery, Farmer said.
The medical evacuation team was on its way to the village of Akhiok, a tiny settlement of about 90 Aleut people without a doctor on the southern end of Kodiak Island. The team was to pick up a man suffering from seizures and fly him to a hospital.
At daylight yesterday, two Coast Guard helicopters and a cutter went to Ugak to look for survivors.
Freed hostage in good condition
WIESBADEN, West Germany — Freed hostage David Jacobsen emerged from 17 months in captivity a few pounds lighter but apparently in good emotional and physical shape, doctors said yesterday.
"Although Mr. Jacobsen is tired, our initial impression is that he is physically in very good condition," Col. Ken Moffett, commander of the U.S. Air Force Regional Medical Center at Wiesbaden, told a news briefing.
The 55-year-old Huntington Beach, Calif., native, who had been administrator of the American University Hospital in Beirut before he was kidnapped May 28, was freed Sunday morning by his Shiite Muslim captain.
Jacobsen was freed by his captors near the abandoned U.S. Embassy compound in Muslim west Beirut and taken by U.S. officials to the new embassy in Christian east Beirut. From there he was flown by a U.S. Navy helicopter to Larnaca, Cyprus, where he boarded the State Department-chartered plane for Wiesbaden yesterday.
Moffett said Jacobsen spent yesterday afternoon undergoing physical and stress evaluation at the University of Iowa.
Moffett said most of the tests would be completed today and Jacobsen could leave for home in a couple of days.
Abortion clause unconstitutional
PHOENIX. Ariz. — The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional yesterday an Arizona law prohibiting the state from doing business with any organization involved with abortion.
Although the court did not hear arguments in the case, it affirmed a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the ruling is binding on lower courts across the United States.
Chief Justice William Rehquist and Justices Byron White and Antonin Scalia noted they would have heard the case, while Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a former justice of the Court, said she did not participate in the case. No reason was given.
At issue was a two-paragraph footnote the Arizona legislature attached to the appropriations for the Senate.
The footnote not only prohibited the spending of state money for abortions, which the Supreme Court has upheld, but also prohibited giving state funds to any groups involved in such activity even if the money was not used for abortion-related services.
Planned Parenthood in Arizona brought suit charging the regulation was vague and an unconstitutional restriction on their freedom of speech since it forced them to choose between state money or the constitutional right of free speech.
The Hercules C-130 crashed at 7:25 p.m. Sunday as it prepared to land at the Zahedan airport near the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, the official Iranian news agency IRNA said.
A U.S.-made Iranian military transport plane crashed into a mountain in southeastern Iran, killing all 103 Iranian soldiers on board. Tehran radio said yesterday.
103 die in Iranian plane crash
Investigators reported the U.S. made air force plane had a faulty altimeter, the radio said.
Minutes before the crash the pilot asked the Zahedan control tower for free landing permission, saying he took full responsibility. Tehran radio said.
The tower gave permission because the pilot had enough visibility and sufficient altitude above the runway, the radio said. But the tower told the pilot to stay on feet when approaching the airport, the radio said.
The aircraft hit a mountain 7 miles east of Zahedan, which is about 690 miles southeast of Tehran. All the troops, including several officers, and crew members were killed.
The crash was the worst military air disaster since Sept. 29, 1981, when a Hercules transport plane crashed near Tehran, killing four top military figures, including the defense minister and the armed forces chief of staff. Sabotage was suspected in the 1981 crash.
Black S. Africa envoy sworn in
WASHINGTON — Edward Perkins was sworn in as the first black U.S. ambassador to South Africa yesterday, and said he would make America's intolerance of foreigners clear to that country's white minority government.
Perkins said he accepted President Reagan's nomination to the post "as an American who believes we should not stand as cheerleaders on the sidelines of a sports game," and he should have the courage to engage ourselves in them.
Secretary of State George Shultz, in remarks to several hundred people attending the State Department ceremony, said the "festering debate" over policy toward Pretoria had led to Congress's overriding Reagan's veto and enacting strong economic sanctions against South Africa.
Perkins, 58, a career diplomat who has been ambassador to Liberia since July 1985, noted similarities between South Africa and the United States.
"Our nation was forced in a struggle against colonial rule." Perkins said, "the abolishment of slavery, the establishment of the rights of labor, extension of civil to all Americans and the fight for women's rights."
Perkins is not Reagan's first choice for the job, although the president wanted to name a black envoy to make clear U.S. displeasure with South Africa's official policy of strict racial segregation.
S. African convicted of treason
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A judge yesterday convicted a white 28-year-old former newspaper reporter of treason after she admitted putting bombs in three police stations on behalf of the outlawed African National Congress.
Lawyers said Marion Sparg, a former Johannesburg Sunday Times reporter, faces sentencing today or tomorrow. Treason carries a minimum five-year prison sentence and a possible death penalty.
Sparg is the third white woman convicted in the past three years of supporting the outlawed ANC and the second to admit a direct role in the movement's 25-year guerrilla campaign against white rule.
Sparg, arrested March 7, said in a written confession she fled to neighboring Botswana with two Marxist colleagues in Johannesburg May 30, 1981.
She said that under ANC guidance, she received military training in Angola and was assigned to special operations for the Umkonto we Sizwe — or Spear of the Nation — military wing of the ANC.
She said she was aided by other white and black ANC members in smuggling limpet mines into South Africa from neighboring Lesotho.
Sparg said she placed bombs in restrooms at police stations in East London and Johannesburg and at Johannesburg's police headquarters early this year. No one was hurt in the explosions.
From Kansan wires.
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Tuesday, November 4, 1986 7-9 p.m.
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