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Monday, September 12, 1994
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Crash site clean-up takes toll on workers
Crews rotate duties to alleviate stress
The Associated Press
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — The physical rigors are only part of the demands shouldered by recovery crewstoiling at the site of a catastrophic plane crash.
Inoculations against hepatitis and tetanus are required before putting on protective body suits, rubber boots, gloves and face masks.
There's also the psychological strain of sifting through the disintegrated airliner to find what fragments remain scattered over a two-square-mile area.
"We deal with death and injury on a day-to-day basis. But when it gets to a scale like this, it definitely comes into focus. Unless you've been there or seen it, it's hard to describe," said Steve Bailey, a Beaver County paramedic who has assisted in the recovery work since USAir Flight 427 crashed Thursday night.
"Most of us have a mechanism to deal with it. We'll probably talk about this one for a while," he said.
Talking about it is one of the best ways to defuse the time bomb of stress, according to mental health experts.
Psychological debriefings at a makeshift center inside a mall restaurant are as much a part of
the daily routine for recovery workers as a water break or a hot meal.
Recovery worker Mike New with Medic Rescue of Beaver County unwinds at the end of the day by talking with his wife, also a paramedic, or his mother, a firefighter.
"As long as you talk about it, it helps people cope," New said.
Recovery of the remains is expected to be completed tonight. They are placed in body bags and stored in refrigerated trucks for transport to a temporary morgue.
There are three 20-person crews retrieving remains from a wooded hillside six miles northwest of the Pittsburgh International Airport, the destination of the doomed flight.
Crews are rotated every two hours to give them water and rest, and a respite from what is a dirty, smelly task. Some of them smear fragrant balm on their upper lip to mask the.
The hills are so steep that crews rappel into two ravines to lift remains by baskets attached to ropes.
"It takes a special breed," said John Kaus, the Allegheny County fire marshal who supervises the work crews and helped in the recovery of bodies from the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. "They're caring people, but they have that toughness, that extra layer."
Cause of USAir plane crash remains under speculation
The Associated Press
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — The possibility that a jet engine thrust reverser or a misfunctioning rudder caused the deadly crash of USAir Flight 427 is merely speculation, investigators cautioned yesterday.
National Transportation Safety Board member Carl Vogt urged people not to read too much into the discovery that one of six devices that activate thrust reversers on the right engine of the Boeing 737 was found in a deployed position.
"In the event of an inadvertent deployment of the thrust reversers you would expect to see some reaction in the engine, and we don't see that," Vogt said.
Thrust reversers are used to slow a plane after it lands and can only be deplowed by the pilot.
A cautionary note also was sounded by John Nance, an air safety analyst in Seattle and 20-year commercial airline pilot.
"Anyone ... who jumps to a conclusion or even a preliminary conclusion based on early evidence is going to be embarrassed later." Nance said, "I've been there."
Nance said the possibility of a problem with the right engine's thrust reverser didn't make sense because witnesses said the plane dipped left.
The jet crashed Thursday night six miles from Pittsburgh International Airport as it was preparing to land. The plane plunged 6,000 feet in 23 seconds, hit the ground at more than 300 mph and killed all 132 people aboard.
Boeing representative Steve Thieme said no problems ever have been reported with thrust reversers on Boeing 737s.
"We'll assist the NTSB in any way we can to help determine the cause of this crash," he said.
Violence breaks out in Rwandan camps
The Associated Press
GOMA, Zaire — The United Nations issued emergency safety guidelines yesterday to all foreign aid workers in eastern Zaire after violent clashes in Rwandan refugee camps left up to 10 people dead and scores injured.
"We are reaching a very critical security situation," said Albert J. Kuiper, the security adviser to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Goma. About 1.2 million Rwandan Hutu refugees have taken shelter in eastern Zaire.
The strict new regulations call for aid workers to travel only in groups, keep the radio security channel always open, park vehicles for quick departure and not run in panic.
Kuiper said he was against bringing in U.N. protection.
"I don't want to bring an army here. In a situation like this, they are bound to open fire, and if that happens, it will be our end," he said. "This place is so lawless that our own soldiers will be killed the moment they empty their ammunition."
"I saw lots of soldiers firing and a mob of refugees attacking them with stones," said Wendy Driscoll, one of 12 aid workers stranded by the violence. They spent the night in a Swedish-run shelter 21/2 miles from the Kibumba camp, which now holds
On Saturday evening, thousands of Rwandan refugees clashed with Zairian soldiers in Kibumba, the largest camp in eastern Zaire. Witnesses and U.N. radio reported seeing up to 10 bodies.
340,000 Rwandan refugees.
"It looked like a running battle between the refugees and the soldiers," said Driscoll, a CARE-USA aid worker from Atlanta.
The trouble in Kibamba, 13 miles northwest of Goma, started Saturday afternoon when some Zairian soldiers tried to seize a Rwandan-owned car.
Infuriated refugees drove soldiers away with sticks and stones and took one of the soldiers hostage.
The soldiers returned with reinforcements. Witnesses said the soldiers first had fired in the air and then into the crowd.
"Our field staff saw at least two bodies and lots of patches of blood," said an aid official of the World Food Program. "A 1-kilometer stretch of road was littered with stones," he said, speaking condition of anonymity.
But U.N. radio reports from field staff, monitored by The Associated Press, spoke of up to 10 bodies of refugees in the camp.
Another refugee mob detained a Reuters television news crew in the camp for several hours yesterday and accused them of spying.
Cuba prepares to curb tide of boat people
"We were very near to death," said Reuter cameraman Andrew Njorge. "The mob chanted death threats after accusing us of being spies."
Njorge and soundman Antony Njuguna, both Kenyans, were asked by a group of Hutu militiamen to show their passports. "For two hours it was like facing death," Njuguna said. They were later released.
The Associated Press
metal into the surf.
HAVANA — The ranks of boat people fleeing Cuba dwindled yesterday as police banned the building of homemade rafts and prepared to halt the exodus altogether.
"We're lucky, we're the last," said Maria Rodriguez, munching bread while her fellow rafters hauled their vessel of inner tubes and welded
Cuba and the United States settled their differences last week over the thousands of Cubans who have fled hunger and poverty in their communist country this year.
Under the deal reached Friday, the U.S. administration will admit at least 20,000 Cubans a year. In return, Cuba promised to halt the flight of boat people and gave rafters until tomorrow to remove their crafts.
They ignored vessels already on the rocky beach, and rafts were still being launched into the ocean.
S&Ls still lobbying to break into piggy bank
But police stepped up patrols yesterday near Cojimar, a Havana neighborhood that has been one of the main departure sites for the raffers. A few officers strolled along the shore to make sure no one brought more boats onto the beach.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Just as the savings and loan industry is enjoying its most robust health in years, its lobbyists have begun quietly campaigning for one more multibillion-dollar installment of taxpayer aid.
the Depression, is scheduled to finish by the end of next year. It will have spent $92 billion.
The Resolution Trust Corp., the agency created in 1989 to clean up the nation's worst financial mess since
According to the congressional General Accounting Office, that it is $13 billion less than the $105 billion it was given.
But Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, said the bad news that was S&Ls want a sizable portion of the leftover money — even though only one had failed so
far this year and the industry so far had earned $2 billion in profits.
After the RTC is history, a new Savings Association Insurance Fund, financed by S&L-paid premiums and managed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., will be responsible for paying for failures.
At midyear, it had $1.7 billion, but that is only about one-fifth of what it ought to have by law.
Pope preaches in Croatia
The Associated Press
ZAGREB, Croatia — A frail but determined Pope John Paul II pushed ahead yesterday on his pilgrimage of reconciliation to the former Yugoslavia, urging Croatians to make peace with Muslims and Serbs.
A crowd of at least 800,000 people turned out for an open-air Mass at a race track in Zagreb, capital of predominantly Roman Catholic Croatia. It was the only stop on what the pope had planned as a wider tour to help heal the wounds of three years of bloodshed in the former Yugoslavia.
But he repeated a promise to visit Sarajevo, a trip he hoped to make last Thursday, "as soon as circumstances allow." The pope spoke briefly with Sarajevo Archbishop Vinko Pulicj at the Zagreb airport yesterday evening before boarding
the jetliner that returned him to Rome.
Walking with a cane since breaking his leg in a fall in April, the 74-year-old pontifit appeared haggard during a morning meeting with President Franjo Tudjman and the three-hour Mass that followed.
"He's in good spirits, but his leg is bothering him," said the Rev. Roberto Tucci, chief organizer of papal trips.
The pope used an elevator to reach the altar, avoiding the 27 stairs the other celebrants climbed. State television said nearly 1 million faithful were on hand for the Mass held under a blazing sun, though organizers said the figure was closer to 800,000.
About 3,000 of them were handicapped, most of them young men who had lost limbs or been seriously wounded during Croatia's 1991 civil war.
Award given in Kennedy's name
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, who led investigations into the faltering savings and loan industry and U.A.S. aid to Iraq, received the Profile in Courage Award yesterday at the John F. Kennedy Library.
"He and I came from different worlds, but we traveled a common path; we shared the same goals," said Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who entered Congress the same year Kennedy became president.
"For me to receive any recognition in his name is a greater honor than I could have ever dreamed."
the president's children, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, presented the silver lantern award, which honors people who have shown political courage. The annual ceremony was postponed from May 23 — the day former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was buried.
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