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Thursday, September 4, 1986 / University Daily Kansar
News Briefs 79 found dead;319 still missing from sunken Soviet cruise ship
MOSCOW — Helicopters, planes and tugboats searched the Black Sea yesterday for survivors from a Soviet cruise liner that sank Sunday after colliding with a cargo ship.
Soviet authorities said Tuesday that 79 bodies had been recovered and that another 319 people were missing and feared drowned, trapped inside the submerged hull of the 17,000-ton liner Admiral Nakimov, which was virtually sheared in two when a cargo ship hit it Sunday night. The cruise liner, packed with 1,234 Soviet vacationers and crew members, sank within minutes.
Soviet maritime officials said they would continue with the search as long as there was the slightest chance of finding any survivors in the 60-degree waters, 8 miles off the Black Sea port of Novorossysk. The ship was on its way to the holiday resort of Suchi.
A Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that he had no news of anyone being found alive since Monday despite calm seas and clear weather in the search area.
The Pytor Vasev, only slightly damaged in the collision with the cruise ship, picked up scores of the 836 known survivors, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said.
The captains of both vessels survived the collision and are the focus of a government investigation into the accident, the newspaper said.
World Airways halts services
OAKLAND, Calif. — World Airways, a pioneer in cut-rate fares, will stop all passenger service Sept. 15 to concentrate on charters and maintenance — a move that will cost 1,500 employees their jobs, officials said yesterday.
Jerrold Scout Jr., chairman of the airline, said the action was taken because World's scheduled routes were unprofitable. He said the company wished "to concentrate its resources on profitable charter and aircraft maintenance operations."
World tickets for scheduled flights after Sept. 15 will be honored by Pan American World Airways, Presidential Airways and United Airlines, Scout said.
World will continue to operate five DC-10 aircrafts on its commercial charter and military charter flights. Four other DC-10 aircrafts will be returned to United, which leased them to World earlier this year.
The airline was one of several airlines that hit rough flying in recent months as a result of the air fare wars that have followed airline deregulation. Frontier Airlines filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code last week and Eastern Airlines announced plans earlier this week to lay off more than move.
Typhoon kills 21 in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Wayne crept away from the Philippines yesterday after its third assault on the country, leaving at least 21 people dead and hundreds homeless.
A 17-year-old student was electrocuted in Manila, police said, and the Red Cross reported a drowning in the nearby fishing town of Navotas, bringing Wayne's death toll to 21.
The Social Welfare Ministry said the typhoon had affected about 355,000 people in 62,258 families. Most fled their homes at the height of flooding and went to evacuation centers. Many have returned to their homes after floods subsided, the ministry said.
President Corazon Aquino declared an emergency in metropolitan Manila to speed up rehabilitation effects
The presidential palace compound remained under knee-deep water yesterday, and workers rowed to their offices in aluminum boats.
Wayne formed Aug. 17 in the South China Sea, which rarely spawns typhoons. The next day it veered toward Taiwan but returned to the Philippines a second time on Aug. 23. A low pressure area forced the storm to
return to Taiwan, where it killed more than 50 people. Wayne then met typhoon Vera and changed course, hitting the Philippines for the third time on Aug. 27.
Lawsuits filed in plane collision
LOS ANGELES — A noted personal injury attorney yesterday announced the first damage suits in the collision between an Aeromexico DC-9 and a small private plane that killed all 67 people on both planes and at least three on the ground.
"We have four of them, and we'll probably have a lot more," attorney Melvin Belli said.
"We're suing Aeromexico, the people on the small plane, the United States, the state (of California), the owners of the plane or planes involved and various individuals," he said.
Belli said the suits would be filed tomorrow in U.S. District Court.
He said the federal government would be a target of the suit because of the role the control tower played in the collision.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Coroner began releasing positive identifications of the people killed in the crash Sunday.
The official death toll from the disaster remained at 70 - 64 on the DC-9, three in the Pipe Archer 28 and three on the ground. The number of victims on the ground was expected to rise as the coroner released his list.
Rights group attacks Rehnguist
Red Cross spokesman Stan Schwartz said yesterday that 15 people still had not been accounted for.
WASHINGTON — An important national civil rights coalition stepped up its attack yesterday on Chief Justice-designate William H. Rehnquist, arguing in a report that he has opposed equal justice for minorities.
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights issued its report a week before scheduled Senate debate on the nominations of Rehquist and of Antonin Scalia as a Supreme Court associate justice.
The Leadership Conference, composed of 185
organizations, said its main reason for opposing Rehnquist's nomination was his 35-year record "of opposition to the fundamental principle of equal justice under law."
Supreme Court spokeswoman Toni House said there would be no comment on the study, entitled "The Case Against William Rehnquist: A 35-Year History of Hostility to Victims of Discrimination and Unanswered Questions of Candor and Sense of Propriety."
The report reviewed Rehgnquist's career as a private citizen, a Justice Department official during the Nixon administration and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court the last 15 years.
Guam's governor faces charges
AGANA. Guam — A federal grand jury yesterday indicted the governor of Guam, his assistant chief of staff and four other people on charges of extortion, bribery, wire fraud and witness tampering in an alleged kickback scandal.
Gov. Ricardo J. Bordello, 58, faces 12 counts in the indictment, issued three days before he faces a tough Democratic primary fight against House Speaker T C. Gutierrez in a bid for a third, four-year term.
Prosecutors contend Bordello, who is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 12, solicited as much as $200,000 in kickbacks to fund his campaign war chest in exchange for his approval on contracts.
Before his indictment, the governor of the island territory, which is administered by the United States, said he was the victim of a "political lynching party" supported by Republicans and government officials in Washington.
Bordallo was indicted on four counts of bribery, two of extortion and one each of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit extortion, attempted extortion, fraud by wire, conspiracy to obstruct justice in trying to coerce witnesses into lying and witness tampering in trying to influence testimony.
From Kansan wires.
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