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University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Tuesday, April 1, 1986
44 killed in crash of Mozabican plane
LISBON, Portugal — A Mozambican air force transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the northern city of Pemba on Sunday, killing 44 civilians and government officials, Purdueuces news agencies reported yesterday.
TOKYO — In the fourth such attack in one week, four homemade rockets were fired yesterday at the palace where leaders of important industrialized countries will meet in a May economic summit.
Five other passengers among the 49 people aboard were listed as gravely injured, according to an official statement.
Nation/World
None of the rockets exploded, police said, but one officer was burned when the truck from which the rockets were launched exploded in flames.
There was no immediate word on whether any foreigners were aboard the plane.
Summit site attacked
"Hundreds of guards have been added at possible targets around the capital.
School beef withheld
DALLAS — The Department of Agriculture has placed a hold on ground beef produced by five companies for the country's school lunch program, pending tests for the program, platroller, officials said yesterday.
The department is running precautionary tests on beef in Texas from Leonard and Harral Packing Co. of San Antonio, Supreme Beef Processors of Dallas, Laredo Packing Co. of Dallas, and Tucson Packing Co. of Mercedes, and in Los Angeles from Service Packing Co.
Adults rate veggies
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Forty percent of adults rate broccoli and cauliflower as their favorite vegetables, according to a poll of over 7,800 visitors at Walt Disney World.
Poll results indicated that men preferred peas and beans over broccoli and cauliflower, 34 percent to 29 percent, but 49 percent of women voted for broccoli and cauliflower.
Brussel sprouts rated badly with only 5 percent of the vote.
From Kansan wires.
Third quake jolts northern Calif.
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — A strong pre-dawn earthquake on an obscure faultline jolted residents awake in communities 200 miles along the northern California coast yesterday, injuring six people and causing minor damage.
The 5:55 a.m. tremor, the third in the San Francisco area in three days, registered 5.3 on the Richter scale. Scientists saw no special significance in the sudden activity.
The quake swayed high-rise buildings, sent dishes crashing to the floor and slid furniture as it shook the communities along the coast and 100 miles inland. It also snapped power lines in the San Jose area, leaving about 10,000 residents without electricity.
Its epicenter was placed in an uninhabited area 12 miles southeast of Fremont, near San Jose. It occurred on an unnamed fault 8 miles east of the Calaveras Fault.
Most people described the quake as a rolling shake that lasted several seconds.
San Jose police officer Glen Smiley, shaken from his sleep, said, "It was a rather rude awakening. There was a rumbling and a roll, then an abrupt bump and a couple of more rolls."
"It was a good jolt," said a resident in Walnut Creek. "The walls were creaking. The doors swung open, and the animals were running around."
The quake caused high-rise buildings in San Francisco to sway. A woman in a mobile home in San Jose said it knocked over a bookcase, spilling books and glassware all over her floor.
"My antique glassware is all over the place, and my patrol hurt himself falling off his perch," said
Bruce, Bolt of the University of California-Berkley Seismological Center said he saw no relationship between the weekend's activity and the idea that earthquakes usually strike in the spring.
loot that earthquakes usually strike in the spring.
"When we look at the statistics of earthquake occurrence, we don't find any cycles associated with the seasons," he said.
"Volcanic activity is going on all the time and so is earthquake activity." Bolt said.
He also said there was no apparent link with the eruption of Augustine Volcano in Alaska.
A man who scraped his head while diving under a table and a woman who injured a toe stumbling out of bed were treated for minor injuries at Fresno State Medical Center. The treated at ALEXIAN Brothers Hospital in San Jose,
Two strong aftershocks with magnitudes of 3.6 and 3.1 followed the quake. There were 200 smaller
On Saturday, a quake with a magnitude of 4.0 struck the Berkeley-Oakland area along the Hayward Fault and was followed by a temblor of 2.2 magnitude Sunday.
The best known northern California faults — fissures in the earth's crust where earthquakes occur — are the San Andreas, which caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; the Calaveras and the Hawward.
Robert Darragh, a Berkeley research assistant, said the quake was centered about 6.7 kilometers under the earth's surface, which he said was about average.
Alaskan volcano spits ash on town
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Augustine Volcano exploded yesterday with its biggest eruption in 10 years, spewing ash and volcanic debris in a plume eight miles high.
The small community of Homer,
population 3,000, felt the brunt of
Augustine's wrath when the ash-
cloud blackened the sky at day
nine.
Although the wind should have blown ash away from Homer, about 70 miles northeast of the volcano, Augustine's explosion was so great that meteorologists think it might have changed the direction of the wind.
The eruption was the biggest since Augustine began a series of eruptions early Thursday, geophysicist John Power said. "It was the largest we've observed," he said. "But since the blast it's been very quiet. A lot of pressure was released."
An minor earthquake registering 2.8 on the Richter scale was measured at the time of the huge eruption, and the barren, un-rugged Augustine Island when the 4,025-foot volcano sits kept shaking.
But Power said he thought continued seismic activity might be caused by the force of avalanches cascading down the volcano.
ice, mud flows or Augustine's specialty the thick, hot streams of ash and gas known as pyroclastic flows.
Any of these could crash into the waters surrounding Augustine and, with enough force, create giant waves that could batter fishing villages 70 miles away in 30 minutes. Power said, expert volcano watchers report no waves have been generated yet.
New ash clouds could threaten Kodiak, an island community of 6,000 people about 100 miles south of the volcano.
The avalanches could be snow and
"The sun was dimly visible over Kodiak." National Weather Service
While Homer and Kodiak appeared to be getting an ash dusting, a headline in yesterday's Anchorage Times celebrated the shift in winds this way: "Anchorage Gets Blue Sky — Not Ash."
meteorologist Shoji Takasuki said, adding that Kodiak's ashy haze was expected to get worse.
Winds blowing out of the north were expected to keep Anchorage free of ash for the immediate future. Anchorage is 180 miles northeast of Augustine.
Homer, which received weekend ashfall, also was spared further ash when the winds changed.
20,000 S. African blacks defy ban. attend memorial
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa About 20,000 blacks defied a ban yesterday to attend a memorial for a Communist Party leader who died in exile, and an activist announced resumption of a regional boycott of white businesses.
The memorial for Moses Mabhida, a black nationalist who died March 8 in Mozambique, was held at a soccer stadium in Zwide, a black township outside the Indian Ocean city of Port Elizabeth.
Security forces took positions near the stadium, but a reporter said they did not interfere, despite a government ban on outdoor gatherings. Anti-apartheid violence often has followed such mass funerals or memorials.
Mkhulesi Jack, a prominent anti-apartheid activist, announced during the four-hour service that a black consumer boycott of white-owned businesses in Port Elizabeth would resume April 7.
a four-month boycott last year severely affected white businesses.
Breathed says he's well in interview with Opus
United Press International
"Bloom County" cartoonist Berke Breathed gave an exclusive interview to one of his creations, Opus the penguin, discussing his airplane crash and his work.
Breathed put his tongue so far into his cheek it's a wonder he could talk at all for the interview, which was published in the Washington Post.
Breathed said his spine, broken in the crash two months ago, was
Yesterday marked Bloom County's return to the comic sections, which Breathed called a hafen for the lazy and strange and the last refuge for mediocrity.
healing, which prompted Opus to ask whether he was well enough to "give Diane Sawyer a back rub and still reach around and lick her nose."
"I imelda Marcos was really smart, she would have dumped Ferd and snuggle up to Jim Davis ("garfield" cartoonist)," he said.
Gabriel del Rio, adviser to the Communications Ministry, announced at the airport there were no survivors. Del Rio said ministry officials who flew over the site in a helicopter plane still was in flames at the time.
Airliner crashes; 166 dead
A Mexicana Airlines spokesman said the crash was the worst in Mexican aviation history. The previous highest toll was 79 killed June 4, 1979, when a Mexican Boeing 727 rammed into a mountain near Monterrey in northeastern Mexico.
The jetliner crashed near the town of San Miguel del Alto, 80 miles northwest of Mexico City, minutes after taking off from Benito Juarez International Airport for the Pacific Coast Highway. The plane was Mazatlan as well as Los Angeles.
Airline spokesman Eduardo Kurt said only two passengers, the son and daughter of the pilot, were bound for Los Angeles. The rest, including a still undetermined number of foreigners, were heading to Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan.
MEXICO CITY — A Los Angeles-bound Mexicanana Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 166 passengers and crew crashed into a deep canyon in the Sierra Madre mountains yesterday, killing all aboard in what the airline called the worst disaster in Mexican aviation history.
Kuri said the recovery of the bodies was difficult because the plane crashed into a deep canyon in the rugged mountains, which was at least nine miles from the nearest road. He said it would take at least 24 hours to recover all the bodies.
Soldiers, firemen and volunteer rescues from the two surrounding states headed to San Miguel del Alto, where they loaded bodies onto stretchers to be carried out by pack animals and helicopters, Mexican television reported. Mexicana officials said the bodies would be taken to Morella, Michoacan for identification.
United Press International
A local radio reporter said the plane split into two sections when it crashed. Debris was scattered over a one-half mile area near San Miguel del Alto, which is near Maravatio in the state of Michoacan.
MAIN ENROLLMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATES SUMMER AND FALL 1986 (Graduate Students see page 2 of the Timetable)
CAUTIONS
- Advising and Dean's Approval Stamp Periods END EARLY (April 11). Make an appointment EARLY to see your advisor.
- No Early Add/Drop. Plan your schedule well! List a good selection of alternate courses.
KEY DATES
- Enrollment Card Pickup. March 26 and 27: College of Liberal Arts And Sciences. (Kansas Union Ballroom); Applied English Center (204 Lippincott). April 1 through April 4: All other schools, see Timetable, page 2.
- Advising Period.
April 1 through April 11: For your school see Timetable (page 2).
April 7 through April 11: Preprofessional co-advising.
- Dean's Approval Stamp.
April 1: First day.
April 11: Last day.
- Enrollment Center Open. April 7 through April 23: At the time printed on your enrollment card.
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