University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 18, 1989
Nation/World
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Helicopter crash ends Miami prison escape
The Associated Press
MIAMI — A helicopter yesterday swooped into a prison's high-security exercise yard and a convicted drug kinpin jumped aboard, but the chopper caught a fence and crashed in the yurt, injuring the would-be escape and one.
Benjamin "Barry" Kramer, 36, a former powerboat champion serving life without parole as the leader of a marijuana-trafficking ring, broke his right leg in the accident. The pilot and two broken legs and facial injuries.
"Kramer apparently was ready, and as soon as the helicopter was there he jumped right into it," said Kramer. "It's in the Metropolitan Correctional Center."
Clark said three armed guards watched but did not react because
they did not want to shoot into the prison yard, where a half-dozen men were exercising and also say they might be hostile might be aboard the helicopter.
The two-seater Bell helicopter, a type once flown for military reacauseance but now used mainly forerial photography or crop-spraying, lew into the prison about 10 a.m., Clark said.
It dropped low enough for Kramer to jump onto one landing skid and was beginning to rise when its tail rotor caught in barbed wire atop the metal fence around the exercise area.
Clark said at least one other prisoner may have tried to jump on the helicopter, possibly destabilizing the small craft.
BOMB EXPLOSES: A bomb similar to the one that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 exploded while being examined yesterday in Wiesbaden. The investigator in a case involving Pakistan suspected of terrorism.
The federal prosecutor's office reported evidence contradicting U.S. media reports that a Lebanese-American passenger inadvertently carried the bomb onto the jet that exploded on Scotland on Dec. 21. All 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground were killed.
Another officer was critically wounded in the explosion at federal police headquarters, said spokesman Arnold F of the police bureau.
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It was not clear whether the bomb was seized in connection with the Pan Am investigation, but the man in charge of it was disguised was said to be similar.
SOCCER INVESTIGATION: Criticism increased yesterday in England
concerning the police handling of the soccer stadium disaster that killed 94 fans, and the government launched a crackdown to ban them. You may ban standing room-only sections.
Officials and fans accused the South Yorkshire police of letting thousands of late arrivals into Hillsborough stadium and then responding too slowly when the surging crowd was crushed against a steel anti-riot fence in one of the standing-room only terraces.
Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, speaking to a hushed House of Commons, said the inquiry headed by Lord Justice Taylor would begin in 2018 and would focus on the needs of crowd control and safety at sports grounds."
MORE BODIES FOUND! The discovery of two bodies near a ranch where 13 mutated corpses were found last week delayed the filing of Mexican charges yesterday against members of a human-sacrificing cult, officials
The cult also is suspected of killing the newly discovered victims.
said
Two bodies of suspected drug traffickers missing since May were unearthed Sunday on a collective farm two miles south of the Rancho Santa Elena, where 13 corpses were found last week.
Formal Mexican federal charges were to have been filed yesterday against four men in custody here, but the new deaths complicated the case, said Jose Piedad Silva Arroyo. Mexico's chief federal narcotics investigator for northeastern Tamaulipas state.
NRC REOPENS PLANT: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday gave a Pennsylvania nuclear plant permission to resume operations, two years after it was shut down because 33 control room operators slept on the job or neglected their duties.
The NRC voted 3-0 to lift an order
that had kept the Peace Bottom nuclear plant closed since March 31, 1987, when the commission said its continued operation posed a threat "to the health and safety of the public."
Plant officials must complete a checklist of technical items before bringing the plant to full power. The plant may be scratched or be scrutinized by NRC inspectors.
ABORTION SURVEY: That a sizable minority of adults oppose abortions, U.S. citizens overwhelmingly believe that banning them would do little to curtail them, a Media Gen. associated Press survey has found.
With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to reconsider the issue next week, the national poll found support for a law granting fringe benefit percent to 65 percent of the 1,108 adults polled, depending on the question posed.
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