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Tuesday, November 17. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Gulf storms stall clean-up efforts following two days of tornadoes
PALESTINE, Texas — Brutal storms with heavy rain and high wind hit the Gulf Coast from East Texas to Mississippi yesterday, causing new damage and stalling efforts to clean up the wreckage left by killer tornadoes.
Storms that began Sunday had killed 11 people and injured more than 200 in Texas and Louisiana. Damage from the tornadoes was estimated in the millions of dollars.
Iran attacks U.S. ship, 3 others in a reprisal
At least 16 Texas counties reported damage from an estimated 20 tornadoes from Sunday to yesterday, Department of Public Safety spokesman David Wells said.
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iranian speedboats attacked a U.S.-owned supertanker and three other ships in the southern Persian Gulf in response to Iraqi air raids last week on Iran's shuttle tankers, shipping officials reported yesterday.
A tornado that struck Caldwell on Sunday "lasted about three minutes, but it felt like an hour," said Diana Telschow, 28. "The back door looked like a breathing monster; it just wanted to suck us out."
Three of the raids were in daylight yesterday and were the most in one day since Revolutionary
Guards in speedboats shot up five ships Sept. 2. The fourth attack was said to have occurred early Sunday.
Shipping executives in the gulf had predicted Iranian attacks on neutral shipping in reprisal for a week of Iraqi air raids, said to be as many as 15 attacks. Four attacks were confirmed independently.
Bishops urged to oppose contraceptives
WASHINGTON — America's Roman Catholic bishops were urged by one of their national leaders yesterday to step up their battle against the "morally objectionable" practice of public school health clinics handing out contraceptives and giving abortion counseling.
of their annual meeting, got a first look at a lengthy statement that would declare their opposition to such practices.
The statement, which will be put to a vote by the 300 bishops Thursday, calls for federal and state governments to outlaw school dispensing of contraceptives as morally wrong.
The bishops, on the opening day
Study says genetics fight heart disease
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A study of monkeys helps explain why women resist heart disease better than men. Female primates make more copies of a genetic blueprint that leads to the removal of fat from blood, scientists said yesterday.
Child-bearing also may protect women from heart disease by widening their coronary arteries, according to another study presented at the American Heart Association's annual scientific meeting.
Guardsmen hope to reap what they sow
JUNEAU, Alaska — "On Attu,
there's a woman behind every tree,
" is an old saying in the Coast
Guard, which keeps 24 men on
remote duty at the westernmost
island of the 1,100-mile Aleutian
chain.
single tree on the island.
The catch was: There wasn't a
But now there's a glimmer of hope, with some 200 seedlings taking tenuous root in the tundra. Guardsmen said they spent three days last summer planting the donated seedlings.
Officials investigate crash
The Associated Press
It could be months before the cause of the crash is determined, authorities said. As many as 50 investigators may be involved in the next seven to 10 days, said Bob Johnson, chief of National Transportation Safety Board Denver. It was the deadliest crash in the 58-year history of the airport.
DENVER — Flight recorders pulled from the twisted remains of a Continental Airlines DC-9 were flown to Washington yesterday to determine what caused the jet to crash during a snowstorm, killing 27 people and injuring 55.
The twin-engine plane was taking off at Stapleton International Airport on Sunday afternoon when it flipped upside down and broke into three pieces as it slid half a mile down the runway. At least nine survivors remained in critical condition yesterday.
Flight recorders could hold key to Denver runway wreck
"There were like three separate explosions," passenger Robert Linck said. "After the first explosion, there was a ball of fire shot up through the
Snow had been falling most of the day in Denver and airport officials said visibility was low. The east-west runways were closed because of the storm, including that of Flight 1713, which was scheduled to arrive in Boise at 2:28 p.m., minutes after it actually started its takeoff.
Flight 1713 originated in Oklahoma City, stopped in Denver and was brought by an snowstorm. It was en route to Dallas, daho, when it crashed at 2:16 p.m.
seats in front of me, engulfing four people in front of me."
The plane's two black boxes, containing cockpit voice and data recorders, were recovered "with no evidence of external damage," said a spokesman in the NTSB office in Washington, D.C.
The catch was: There wasn't a From The Associated Press.
The cockpit voice recorder will allow investigators to review exchanges between the crew in the seconds before the accident.
The fuselage broke into three main pieces and many of the passengers were trapped inside. The plane came to rest about 2,500 feet from the end
of the 10,000-foot-long runway with bodies, injured passengers and wreckage strewn between two run ways.
Rescue efforts were hampered, bad weather, blinding snow, darkness and ice on the roads and runways. Some survivors were trapped in the wreckage up to six hours.
The twin-engine DC-9 was off the ground just seconds when the accident happened, passengers said.
Dr. Norm Dinerman of Denver General Hospital, who helped coordinate crash site treatment efforts, said the fact that any passengers emerged alive was due to "tremendous luck, divine providence and the fact that the airplane had not gained a lot of altitude."
Airport spokesman Richard Boulware described the scene as a "jungle gym of mangled metal." There was a gaping hole in the fuselage "big enough for a one-car garage," he said.
Wright says Reagan's attitude unfair toward Central America
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Jim Wright yesterday accused the Reagan administration of treating Central Americans as inferiors and suggested that his involvement in regional peace efforts fills a vacuum left by Reagan's effort to diplomatically freeze out the leftist Nicaraguan government.
The harsh talk followed a meeting between Wright, Reagan, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and other top administration officials that failed to agree on differences over Wright's personal involvement in the peace process.
said at a luncheon with reporters after the White House meeting.
"Perhaps if they had an open door policy to people in Central America, those people would go to see them instead of coming to see me." Wright
The Reagan administration "sometimes gives the unfortunate impression that it looks upon people in Central America as inferiors, by scorning them, lecturing them, holding them up to public ridicule, refusing to face them," he said. "I guess I'm just more egalitarian than they are."
Wright had sought the meeting with Reagan after he was heavily criticized over the weekend about his direct participation in meetings last week with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, mediator Nicaraguan Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo and leaders of the Contra rebels.
During the hour-long session with Reagan and his top advisers, Wright sought to reassure them that he was not trying to usurp the administration's diplomatic privileges but was only urging openness on all sides to keep the peace effort alive.
to come up with a cease-fire plan to meet the requirements of a fivenation Central American peace accord signed in August.
The combatants, with Oando y Bravo as intermediary, are seeking
White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater said Reagan used the meeting to point out "the confusion that arises and the misleading impressions that can be left if members of Congress, without coordination with the Executive Branch, involve themselves in complex negotiations with foreign heads of government."
Conflicts may snag summit
The Associated Press
With Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbache due to arrive here Dec. 7, four treaty issues are not settled. These include safeguards against cheating as well as a Soviet proposal to follow the accord with negotiations apparently designed to impose restrictions on U.S. jet planes in Europe.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and the Soviet Union will be faced with a series of choices, including postponement of the scheduled summit meeting, if a treaty to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles is not ready to be signed by the end of the month, a State Department official said yesterday.
Chief U.S. negotiator Max M. Kampelman is discussing these sticking points in Geneva with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Yuli M. Vorontsov. The summit is only three weeks away.
If the remaining issues are resolved, it will take U.S. and Soviet negotiators about another week to prepare and agree on treaty language. General Secretary Gorbachev is due to arrive here Dec. 7 and have talks with President Reagan Dec. 8-10.
"It's possible that the treaty won't get finished unless there is Soviet willingness to face up to some issues," the official said. "Whether you decide to have the summit without the treaty, I don't know. You might end up postponing it."
Even if the treaty is not ready, the official said, there are a number of serious issues for Reagan and Gorbachev to discuss.
"I think it would be a close call," the official said. "You don't want to set these summits up so they are arms control summals."
And yet, U.S. and Soviet negotiators, not Reagan and Gorbachev, should be dealing with the unsettled treaty issues. "We shouldn't be trying to negotiate Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces at the summit," the official said. "It should be handled by the experts."
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