University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 18, 1988
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Commuter plane crashes but all passengers survive
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — A commuter plane with one engine ablaze as it crash landed on Friday, careened into three boarding ramps and stopped just short of a passenger concourse, according to airport tower tapes.
"I think they were extremely fortunate," National Transportation Safety Board member Joseph T. Nall said late Saturday.
from Seattle to Spokane survived,
and no one on the ground was injured. Of the 19 people described by hospital officials as injured, four remained in hospitals, and two were in serious condition yesterday.
All 40 people aboard the Horizon
Air de Havilland Dash 8 en route
Bork's VCR rental list spurs action
Investigators have an unusual video tape of the plane's landing from an airport camera. They also found a panel that fell from the plane's burning right engine while it was turning to return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where it had taken off just moments earlier for Spokane.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Viewer privacy, which suddenly became an issue when Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's videocassette rental choices turned up in print, would be protected under a bill passed by Maryland's General Assembly.
The Associated Press
Legislation on the issue is pending in and in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
The Maryland bill, which awaits the governor's signature, is thought to be the first enacted in the nation
that would penalize a retail video establishment for violating a viewer's privacy.
It would impose up to a $500 penalty and a maximum six-month jail term on anyone who released information about what a person purchased or rented for use on a home videocassette player.
Last year, a Washington publication's story listed the movies Bork and his family had rented from a local movie rental shop.
The story showed that the Bork
family had a penchant for mystery movies and raised questions about whether such information should be made available, particularly in cases of X-rated movie rentals.
The Maryland law sets up exceptions for authorized law enforcement personnel, collection agencies, or individuals designated by the customer.
Video industry representatives say video can also as a privacy protection measure.
The Iowa Senate voted Tuesday to
add a video privacy amendment to an uncontroversial bill expanding the confidentiality of public library records. One of the federal bills has been in the House Judiciary Committee since Oct. 21, 1987, and a Senate bill remains in draft form. The Senate version sets up civil, rather than criminal, penalties and allows a video customer to seek up to $2,500 in damages.
Airline checks extend to Continental
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Transportation Jim Burnley said yesterday that the department would expand its airplane-to-airplane inspection to a second Texas Air Corp. subsidiary, Continental Airlines, beginning today.
The planned inspection will come less than a week after the Federal Aviation Administration began checking Eastern Airlines, a major
carrier in the Texas Air empire — the nation's largest airline company. The FAA also slapped Eastern with $823,000 in fines for violating safety regulations.
News Roundup
"We're going to extend the ramp and intensive inspections that we began on Eastern last Wednesday to Continental as well," Burnley said on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press."
The Transportation Department head said that the inquiry would be similar to the Eastern investigation.
DEMJANJUK VERDICT TODAY: John Demjanjuk, who has spent the past 19 years fighting charges he was the notorious Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible," faces a verdict today in his 14-month-long court battle in Israel. The retired autopsy team found that a man operating gas chambers that killed 850,000 Jews at the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1942 and 1943.
KUWAIT HOSTAGES THREATENED: A passenger aboard a hijacked Kuwait Airways jumbo jet, now in Algiers, Algeria, said yesterday that about 35 hostages on the plane faced certain death if Kuwait refused to release 17 convicted terrorists. Since the Bangkok-to-Kuwait flight was hijacked April 5, the hijackers
have demanded the release of the 17 extremists, jailed for bombing the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait in December 1983. Kuwait has rejected the hijacker's demands.
JEWISH VICTIMS HONORED: More than 5,000 Poles paid homage to the heroes of the Jewish Ghetto Uprising at an unantioned rally in Warsaw yesterday then retraced the route of condemned Jews to the deportation site for the Nazi death camps.
TRAPEZE ARTIST DIES IN FALL! A trapeze artist fell to her death yesterday in Hialeah, Fla. hitting the floor of a circus tent headfirst before about 900 horrified spectators, police said. Belinda Amundis, 31, of Sarasota was performing alone without a net about 17 feet above center ring of Circus USA when she missed a maneuver.
DUKE CALLED RACIST: About 300 people staged a protest at Duke University Friday, saying there were not enough black faculty members and calling the prestigious school a "racist institution." About a dozen speakers at the demonstration accused the prestigious school of "institutional racism" and of giving janitorial and food service workers inadequate pay raises.
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