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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 22, 1991
Reports differ about cause of media magnate's death
The Associated Press
LONDON — A pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Robert Maxwell yesterday denied a news report quoting him as saying a paper under the publisher's left ear could have been caused by an injection.
"The perforation could have been caused by a syringe filled with some mortal substance. We certainly haven't rued out the possibility of foul play." Dr. Carlos was at the National Toxicological Institute was quoted as telling the London Evening Standard yesterday.
The pathologist was quoted as saying he omitted any mention of the puncture and other marks on Maxwell's body in his preliminary report because he assumed they were inflicted during the rescue operation, but changed his mind after consulting the rescue team. The newspaper report did not say whether any traces of any substance were found in the perforation or his bloodstream.
But the Spanish news agency EFE later quoted Lopez de Lamela as saying the Evening Standard report was absurd and unreasonable. EFE quoted him as saying it was totally false that he suggested Maxwell could have been poisoned.
Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Lopez de Lamela at his office were unsuccessful.
The preliminary autopsy report
had said Maxwell apparently died of natural causes, but the exact cumstances of his death remained unclear. No evidence has emerged to support speculation that the death was the result of foul play.
Last week, the Guardian newspaper quoted an unidentified source who took extensive notes on the confidential autopsy documents as saying lawyers found that Maxwell had a tiny perforation or 'issure below his left ear that was one millimeter wide.
Maxwell, 68, who headed a multinational publishing empire, disappeared from his yacht while cruising off the Canary Islands on Nov. 5. His body was recovered later that day. The forensic reports from a Nov. 7 autopsy have not been released.
Among the Maxwell family's private holdings are the Daily York and the English-language weekly newspaper The European week.
The Maxwell empire, which includes two publicly traded companies, has about $4 billion in debts.
At the time of his death, Maxwell was suing journalist Seymour Hersh, whose new book "The桑士 Option" alleged that Maxwell had close links to the Mossad, Israel's spy agency.
Maxwell, a Czechoslovakian-born Jew whose parents died in the Holocaust, was buried in Israel at Mount Megherzu. He was a loyal friend of the Jewish state.
Frenchman rows solo across Pacific
The Associated Press
ILWACO, Wash. - A French adventurer arrived at this small fishing village yesterday, ending a 6,300-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan.
Gerard d'Aboville held up his oars in greeting as he floated past the docks at this town on the southwestern tip of Cape Town, where flags flew from his 26-foot rowboat.
D'Abboville, 42, was cheered by a crowd that included family, friends and French journalists as he eased his grip on the rope after several days after he began his grueling voyage.
The U.S. Coast Guard escorted d'Aboville across the Columbia River where river currents collide with ice near our resplendent coast the coast yesterday approached the coast yesterday
He remained in the boat after he docked, hugging his wife, Cornelia, who had climbed aboard.
morning, he celebrated with a glass of red wine.
D'Aboville had been scheduled to arrive as early as 9 a.m., but his progress was slower than expected in waters known for dangerous currents and tricky winds. He came in shortly before noon.
On Wednesday, d'Aboville spoke by radio with his wife and parents. He sounded exuberant, said Christophe Hebert, a member of his support team. "He said he was really happy to arrive, very hard for him the last few days."
The Frenchman's personal physician, Jean Yves Chauve, said he was in good health.
D'Aboville set out from Choshi, Japan, on July 11 in a bid to become the second person to row alone across the Pacific. He had set a course for San Francisco but headed farther north to escape a troublesome current and to shorten the journey.
His boat capsized at least 34 times. On Tuesday, it flipped several times in 80 mph winds and 28-foot seas about 70 miles offshore. He suffered a cut on his forehead and in nured his back.
Peter Bird of Britain rowed about 9,000 miles from San Francisco to Australia in 1982 and 1983. D'Aboville's west-to-east journey was considered more difficult because of the ocean currents.
The adventure was sponsored by Sector Sport Watches, a Swiss company.
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Boat of fleeing Haitians capsizes; 16 confirmed dead
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Sixteen Haitians drowned and 119 others were missing after a boat carrying about 200 refugees capsized on the eastern tip of Cuba. Cuban news organizations reported yesterday.
weretending tothesurvivors
Prensa Latina, the official Cuban news agency, said Cuba had mounted a land, air and sea rescue operation after the boat capsize Tuesday night. The vessel sank with 119 people were missing and 60 people were known to have survived.
The Cuban coast guard saved about 60 people from the turbulent waters between Haiti and Cuba, reporter Anna Peralte of Radio Havana told WINZ radio in Miami.
Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, said they had no details but were investigating.
More than 1,400 Haitians住 U.S. Coast Guard cotters were being moved to the area around the U.S. Sase at Guanamano Bay to enable the cutters to continue rescuing Haitians at sea.
The agency said Cuban rescue teams
The flight of Haitians is partly the result of a hemisphere-wide embargo imposed against Haiti after the military staged a coup there on Sept. 30.
State Department representative Margaret Toutiwah said Haitians faced great danger in attempting to flee by boat. She cited as an example a 40-foot vessel overloaded with 238 people, rescued by the Coast Guard last week.
"It carried no life jackets, no flares, no radio, no beacon, no charts, no navigational equipment," she said.
Such incidents have prompted the coast Guard to estimate that only half of the incidents are due to overfishing.
The Coast Guard has ceased returning Haitians to their homeland for the time being in compliance with a tempory order issued by the Coast Guard on Tuesday by a federal judge in Miami.
U. S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins yesterday denied a government motion to cancel the restraining order. He scheduled a hearing for Wednesday on a motion for a permanent injunction to succeed the restraining order.
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