Eight more missing
Holiday tragedy claims four lives
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)—Winds up to 86 miles an hour swept Lake Pontchartrain, overturning Fourth of July boats and driving water knee-deep onto nearby roads. Four persons drowned and the Coast Guard searched Sunday for eight others still missing.
Aaron Morgan Sr., 26, his son Aaron Jr., 3, and a daughter Patricia Ann, 4, of Westwego, La, drowned when high waves swamped their small boat at the
edge of the lake. Three other members of the family were rescued by police. A fourth man, Arthur Loyeane, 46, of New Orleans, drowned when his boat capsized.
"Ive been yachting for 25 years," said Dr. Norman Hunt of New Orleans, "and never in a hurricane have I seen waves like that. The wind was blowing so hard the froth on tops of the waves was like fog."
Hunt's 47-foot house cruiser with 12 persons aboard was slammed into a seawall. The party donned lifejackets and were pulled to safety by persons ashore.
"I thought the end of the world had come for us," said Mrs. William Wally of Vicksburg, Miss. She was one of 17 persons trapped on the sky ride at Pontchartrain Park when it broke down during the high winds.
Israeli Phantoms downed
By United Press International
Egyptian air defense unitsSunday shot down two more of Israel's supersonic Phantom jet fighter bombers over the Suez Canal front and two Israeli airmen were captured, a military spokesman in Cairo reported.
Israel said one warplane was lost during daylong raids on Egyptian missile sites and artillery positions along the waterway.
Heavy artillery duels also were reported across the canal as well as on the Israeli Jordanian front. In Jordan itself, a leftist Arab guerrilla organization charged Jordanian intelligence agents tried to assassinate one of its leaders and warned it would strike back with an "iron fist."
The Egyptian spokesman said two Phantoms were "destroyed and their pilots were captured" during raids by 16 of the U.S. made warplanes in the central sector of the canal during the afternoon. It was the second time in less than a week that Egypt has reported two Phantoms downed in the area.
The Cairo spokesman did not say how the planes were shot down nor did he indicate the fate of the other two pilots. The Phantom jet usually is manned by a two-man crew.
"Our air defense heroes have destroyed the legend of the Phantom—the best weapon America gave to the Israeli aggressors
Last Tuesday, Egypt reported two Phantoms and two Skyhawk jets were shot down and three Israeli airmen were captured. Israel admitted lost two planes to SAM2 missiles but did not identify them by type.
for use against the Arab people," the Egyptian spokesman said.
Irish women march, order men to stay home
The Israeli spokesman, in reporting the loss of one warplane during the day, did not say whether it was downed by missiles or conventional antiaircraft fire.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI) — Thousands of women, ordering their men to stay at home, marched past baffled army troops into the riot wrecked Roman Catholic Falls Road district of Belfast Sunday to deliver food and milk to residents of the stricken area.
The women—about 1,000 at first, then another 2,000 strong in a later march—pushed baby carriages loaded with coffee, butter and milk around army barricades and carried arm loads of other groceries. They sang "We Shall Overcome" and waved the tricolor flag of the Irish Republic.
Senate liberals attempt to trim NASA'S budget
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senate liberals in a bipartisan effort hope to prune the space budget and halt work on the space shuttle.
They plan to offer an amendment to the independent agencies appropriations bill which would slash NASA's $3.3 billion budget by 20 per cent or more than $600 million.
The amendment also would eliminate $100 million earmarked for research and design of the space bus designed to shuttle astronauts between earth and an orbiting laboratory in space.
The amendment is considered part of a year long effort by liberals to cut spending on military space and the supersonic transport (SST) and to beef up domestic programs.
Among the measures slated for action are the so called Newspaper Preservation Act, legislation covering the mailing of unsolicited credit cards, the Mental Health Centers Construction Act, and proposed changes in House rules affecting lobbying and campaign contributions.
Consideration of the amendment highlights congressional action this week. The Senate and House return Monday after a brief Independence Day recess.
The House has scheduled a heavy docket of bills for the first three days of the week.
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But he reported that targets attacked in the central and southern sectors of the canal included the Soviet supplied SAM2 missile sites as well as as artillery positions. The SAM2 sites have been a prime objective of Israeli air attacks since Wednesday.
Soldiers, who at first cocked rifles and looked as though they would stop the procession, instead let it pass. They stood by quietly as the women moved aside tall iron barriers erected by the army after rioting Friday night that left five persons dead and scores injured.
The women said they were from other Roman Catholic areas of Belfast and that the food march was intended as a "demonstra- tion of solidarity" with Catholics in the Falls Road district.
Roadblocks were in force throughout the embattled 20-block riot area and prior to the women's march the troops had been carefully screening every one who passed through five entry points into the district.
As the marchers surged up the street, they were joined by women of the Falls Road area. Shouts of "We want justice" rang from the crowd.
The Israeli spokesman said "one Israeli warplane was hit by ground fire and the two crew members abandoned their aircraft and parachuted into Egyptian territory."
Cairo later identified the Israelis as Capt. Zamir Amouz and Ist Lt. Levi Tovames.
The Egyptian spokesman also said 24 Phantoms and French made Mystere jets attacked along the northern sector of the canal during the morning but reported no Egyptian casualties in any of the raids.
Firemen rescued the people suspended 45 feet above the ground for a half hour. Several were treated for minor injuries or shock.
"It looked like a brick wall of wind hit us," said Albert Ohliger of New Orleans. He said a huge wave slammed his outboard motor boat into a concrete breakwater near Seabrook bridge. Four persons swam to shore from the boat.
Shannon Bircher, 17, said the life jacket was torn from her back by the howling winds and she held to a small boat while it broke up beneath her.
"The waves kept throwing me off the boat, but my boyfriend grabbed me and held me," she said. Persons ashore threw lines to save three persons on the boat. The act was repeated several times as stranded boats screamed for help.
"When I pulled in, people were screaming, they were hanging onto their boats and to the seawall," said Lt. William Bliss of the Orleans levee board police. "One swell picked up a boat and threw it over the breakwater."
The Coast Guard said it would continue its search of the lake until the missing persons were found.
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