UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 26, 1996
7A
11 dead in ship mutiny
Sailors overpower rebels; Japanese guard intervenes
TOKYO — Japanese patrol boats yesterday reached a tuna ship where mutineers apparently killed the South Korean captain and 10 crew members before being overpowered and locked up by other shipmates.
Tomohiro Inami, representative for Japan's Maritime Safety Agency
in Tokyo, said the Japanese coast guard was waiting for foreign officials to work out legal and diplomatic arrangements before making arrests.
Officials were interviewing crew members as the 294-ton ship drifted about 330 miles south of Tokyo Bay, Innami said. The suspected muteiers remained locked in a cabin.
"Right now, we're getting so many different stories on what happened out there, it's going to take a while before we know what went on," Innami said.
The Honduras-registered Peskamar-15 was reported missing earlier this month with 24 people on board.
Police said that in the ship's last radio communication, made on Aug. 3, Capt. Choi Ki-taek said Chinese crewmen were refusing to work, and his ship was returning to a Samao base to get replacements.
The mutineers dumped the bodies into the sea.
Maritime police in South Korea said the Chinese crewmen staged the mutiny, but authorities did not disclose a motive.
The survivors eventually overpowered the mutineers and locked them in the cabin, police said. The Chinese crewmen apparently were trying to steer the ship toward China, but it ran out of fuel and drifted.
Indian pilgrimage turns deadly
The Associated Press
SRINAGAR, India — Tens of thousands of pilgrims stranded near a Himalayan shrine moved to safety yesterday in helicopters, trucks and on foot as floodwaters receded.
PressTrust of India news agency reported that 160 people had died while Kulbhushan Jandiyal, a government representative, confirmed 116 dead.
About 80,000 pilgrims had been filing to and from a cave honoring the Hindu god of destruction. They were trapped along the 30-mile path Thursday when a freak snowstorm and torrential rains hit the route at various
points.
Thousands remained stranded yesterday. But snow had melted and waters had receded enough to allow rescuers to reach several pockets of pilgrims.
The trekkers most at risk were at the highest elevation, near the village of Pajnantri, about 1 1/2 miles from the Aamarnath cave honoring Shiva.
Pilgrims there — many of them from lowlands and unaccustomed to cold weather — were huddled inside torn tents and around small fires. Muslim villagers gave the Hindu pilgrims tea, food and blankets despite tensions between the two ethnic groups.
Most people apparently died of exposure. Thirteen people reportedly died of heart failure.
Heavy fog, rain and low clouds hampered helicopter flights until yesterday. Roads near the cave were blocked by floodwater or nearly 1 1/2 feet of snow.
Authorities called off the annual pilgrimage on Friday, telling Hindu worshipers who had not already left to stay at home.
The pilgrimage, which began Aug. 16, includes a 185-mile bus ride and a three-day, 30-mile trek up to the cave. Usually, fewer than a dozen pilgrims die each year from exertion or accident.
Clinton approves FDA regulations on nicotine
THE NEWS in brief
WASHINGTON — No more Joe Camel in Rolling Stone magazine. No more Marlboro Man on roadside billboards. No more cigarette vending machines in grocery stores.
President Clinton hopes to cut teenage smoking by ending the
advertising images that portray tobacco use as fun, sexy and glamorous — and by making it harder for teens to illegally buy tobacco.
Clinton approved Food and Drug Administration regulations on Friday that declared nicotine an addictive drug and identified cigarettes and smokeless tobacco as the devices that deliver it.
The move gives the FDA authority to curb the sale and promotion of tobacco, just as the FDA regulates the sale and marketing of heart valves or insulin pumps.
The Associated Press
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