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University Daily Kansan, October 4, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Hot-air balloon explodes; four of nine aboard killed
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A colorful, 12-story tall hot-air balloon exploded in a ball of flame yesterday at a festive international ballooning event, killing four passengers and injuring three others.
The deaths were the first in the 11-year history of the Albuquerque International Hot-Air Balloon Fiesta but the event's shaken president, John Davis, told listeners: "We are going to go on."
The fire began after the 140,000 cubic foot striped balloon — named El Lobo Grande — landed from a mass liftoff of hundreds of ballons during the festival. Of the nine people aboard the balloon, only two escaped death or injury.
Authorities told the balloon was owned by Joe Gonzales and his wife, Terry. Gonzales, 41, was one of the injured. Ann Speer, 34, and the third injured victim were all hospitalized. Hospital officials said the third person — a 33-year-old man — asked not to be identified.
A man who was taking photographs of the balloon at the time said it was on the ground for a few minutes when it suddenly rises quickly.
Two killed in Arkansas train crash
NEWPORT, Ark. — Two men were killed yesterday in a predawn collision of two freight trains on a remote stretch of Missouri Pacific track.
A third man was injured in the collision near Newport in northern Arkansas.
Rescue workers cut a road into the remote section of track where the accident occurred and fought for seven hours to extinguish a burning fire.
Authorities recovered the bodies from the burned engine after a crane was brought in to lift it. Both men seemingly burned to death, police said, but autopsies will be performed.
Identities of the two men, both engineers in the Union Pacific engine, were not immediately released.
A Missouri Pacific freight was attempting to clear the mainline track for the oncoming Union Pacific train but the Missouri Pacific train did not make it on the siding in time.
World-famous swami dies in India
NEW DELHI, India — Hindu swami Muktananda Paramahansa, revered as "Haba" by 80,000 disciples including many Americans, died on Wednesday.
Muktananda, as he was known to his followers, died Saturday while meditating in his temple in Ganeshnur, his spokesman said.
Muktanda founded nearly 300 temples worldwide that taught his form of Hinduism's Siddha Yoga, or Divine Consciousness. Last rites will be tomorrow in the Ganeshpur temple.
Since 1970, Muktananda has made three world tours to teach meditation and preach that through concentration and reflection a person's innermost self will be discovered to be the same self that resides within everyone.
Muktananda is the author of more than 30 books, including "Does Death Really Exist?" and "Mystery of the Mind."
FBI foils $15 million extortion plot
BAYTOWN, Texas — The FBI arrested two more suspects yesterday in concession with a multi-bomb-extortion plot against Gulfport.
Credit: Cedar Bayou County Police
FBI spokesman John Joyce said John Marvin McBride, 46, and Jill Bene Rire, 34, both of Durango, Colo., were arrested in Durango. Joyce was charged with kidnapping a 17-year-old girl.
Two other Durango residents, Theodore Duane McKinney, 45, a pack-saddle guide, and Michael Allen Worth, 34, a private investigator, were arrested Friday in Apache Junction, Ariz., trying to collect a $15 million ransom demand.
They were charged with violation of the Hobbs Act, which prohibits criminal interference with interstate commerce, and jailed in Phoenix in lieu of $1 million bond each.
Swedish navy looks for foreign sub
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Swedish navy and coast guard vessels searched yesterday for what they thought was a foreign submarine off Sweden's eastern coast, site of one of the country's most restricted naval bases, a navy spokesman said.
Commander Borje Johansson of the defense staff said the search began Friday afternoon and was centered in the Stockholm Archipelago, a chain of hundreds of small, scenic islands in the Baltic Sea near Stockholm.
One of the islands, about 20 miles south of Stockholm, is the site of one of Sweden's most sensitive and restricted naval bases, Musko. The navy has been carrying out military maneuvers in the area for the last few weeks.
"We have received several tips within the last few days" pointing to the presence of a submarine, Johansson said.
A Soviet U-137 submarine ran aground near another sensitive naval base at Karlskrona last November.
NRC warns of reactor wall damage
WASHINGTON — The reactor walls of some nuclear power plants are becoming dangerously brittle and will need "modifications" to protect against a major accident, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff warned in a recent report.
The draft report found no imminent danger and recommended against ordering immediate changes at any reactors. But it urged the commission to set up a detailed system to examine the situation at each facility and may be the potential for a rupture in the wall that holds the atomic core.
"The staff concludes that some plants will require hardware and procedural modifications in the near future," said the report, presented Friday to the commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.
Each year, as reactor walls are bombarded by radiation from the core, their temperatures rise and they become more susceptible to
Men's briefs ads aimed at women
NEW YORK — As athletes, Jim Palmer, pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, and Tim Tintinhous, pole vaulter aiming for the 1984 Olympics, do not compete against each other. But they are rival pinups in the Great Undeclared Underwear War.
In order, they are being more They are featured in ad campaigns aimed at the feminine reader and viewer because women buy as much as 70 percent of the men's underwear sold in this country.
Palmer has been baring his hairy chest for more than two years in Jockey ads.
Klein has a photograph of Hintinhous lying in the sun and wearing nothing but a bikini brief. The picture appears on posters placed in New York bus stop shelters.
Hintinhous, a new, ah, face, is starring for designer Calvin Klein
"Women love the ad," Klein said. "The bus stop shelter people tell me that people are breaking the glass and stealing the posters. They report 35 such cases already."
Armed raiders ambush Israeli troop bus
By United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — An armed band ambushed an Israeli troop bus near Syrian-held lines in eastern Lebanon yesterday, killing six soldiers and wounding 22 others before escaping, the Israeli military command said.
The attack occurred on the Beirut-Damascus highway, 400 yards east of the town of Aley, less than 4 miles from the city. A man armed in the eastern Beka Valley
The attack on the bus, a civilian Israeli bus pressed into military duty, was carried out with light automatic weapons and bazookas or rocket-propelled grenades, the military command in Tel Aviv said.
It was not immediately clear if the attack will complicate U.S. efforts to persuade both Israeli and Syrian forces to withdraw from Lebanon. U.S. envoy Philip Habib, who ended a two-day visit to Damascus, wamed a plea from Syria to withdraw simultaneously with Israel's 70,000 troops.
ISRAELI TROOPS blocked off the highway and scoured the area through the night for the killers. Flares used to aid the search parties could be seen at the site, where U.S., Indian and French force-keeping forces guarded the steets.
On the outskirts of the Lebanese capital, Israeli troops with a snoper truck and an armed armored dug in 250 yards from U.S. Marine positions at Beirut airport in defiance of a U.S. call, Israel's incursion into the hindwail of Israeli forces from the city.
U. S. Marines continued the delicate
Col. James Mead, commander of the Marine force, said 150 types of ammunition, from at least 15 countries and on back as World War I, had been found.
task of clearing old explosives from the airport area a problem that has stalled development of the 1,200 bomb-taking partitions taking place multinational peace-keeping force.
In Haifa, Israel, officials displayed 5,000 tons of weapons and ammunition it seized from the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israel has captured
SENIOR ARMY officers in Tel Aviv gave Defense Minister Ariel Sharon a tongue-lashing over the massacre of Palestinian civilians in Beitur but their criticism stopped short of demanding his resignation, reports said yesterday.
An army spokesman denied a London Sunday Times report that the entire Israel general staff, led by chief of staff Ahmad Abu al-Dawlah, demanded Sharon step down last week.
enough military weapons to outfit a 15,000-man division.
In a short statement, the spokesman
acknowledged a meeting took place last week between Sharon and the general staff but "nevertheless, whatever the nature of the meeting things they said ,... is totally wrong.
"Tough words were spoken at both meetings regarding Sharon, but they were less so during the meeting Sharon and their newspaper Yediot Ahroneh reported.
Contrary to the Sunday Times report, there was no call for Sharon to quit, the independent daily Maariv said, and criticism of him was "restrained".
Teen-ager recounts Beirut massacre
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A 12-year-old girl was the only member of her family to survive the massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Chattia.
The girl, who is not identified for her safety, watched her mother, father, brother and grandmother die at the hands of the Christian Phalange militiamen during the massacre Sept. 17-19.
Late afternoon Thursday, she and her friend were outside the shelter 'behind the fence.'
"There were people jumping down. I ran with my friend to the shelter and I told my neighbors and family we saw these Phalange people.
"They went toward the soldiers carrying white handkerchiefs, saying,
'We want peace.' They started shooting at our men and the women and children started screaming. I ran and hid in the bathroom.
"THEN THEY shot all my friends — children, women, everybody who was with me." she said.
Later, she saw men go into Chatila and start shooting people. They brought captured women and children and put them next to her home after killing them.
A man asked her if she was a Palestinian. When she answered "yes," he swatte at her, she said.
"My cousin is nine months old. The soldier shouted, 'Why is he crying?' I'm fed up with his voice!' So he shot him in the shoulder.
"I started crying, I told him this the only member of my family left. He
took him and cut him from his legs into two parts."
THE NEXT MORNING, men came into the camp to collect the bodies and took them to the stadium and put them in holes. Then they came and took the rest of the people who were alive to wait at the stadium playground.
"I saw the soldiers coming back, shooting at the people who stayed in the yard. Some of the people started running to hide with me."
The girl asked the Israelis for protection. They took her and her friend downtown and she took her to the police because she had been shot in the finger.
"Now I am living with my aunt, not in
Cuba anymore. What can I do?
"Where my aunt goes, I go. I have no future."
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