University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 10, 1989
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Authorities in Azores find cockpit recorder
The Associated Press
VILA DO PORTO, Azores Islands
VILA DO PORTO, Azores islands
Authorities yesterday found the cockpit voice recorder of a chartered plane on a mountain and killed all 144 people aboard. Also, authorities recovered the remains of all but two of the dead.
Rescuers called off the search for the two bodies still missing, saying it would be impossible to find them on the heavily forested slopes of Pico Alto mountain where the jet crashed Wednesday.
Antonio Alves of the Civilian Aviation Authority said it was hoped the recorder would help explain why the pilot steered the Boeing 707 directly into the mountain while trying to land in a canyon and the 137 passengers, Italian tourists headed to a Caribbean vacation, were killed.
In Lisbon, Portugal, Cmdr. Jose Pastor of the aviation authority said the pilot, Capt. Leon Daugherty, had acknowledged the airport controlization of a safe altitude of 3,000 feet during the landing approach.
Pastor said the plane had struck the mountain at an altitude of about 1,700 feet.
eergency handling Alves said it appeared that the aircraft had been on the proper course to land.
"There was no — repeat no — communication of an emergency landing request by the pilot," he said. Earlier reports indicated that the pilot may have asked to make an emergency landing.
Alves said the cockpit voice recorder had been recovered but the flight data recorder was not found in the aircraft's parameters, had not yet been found.
Jose Martine Freitas, head of the Azores rescue service, said he didn't believe it was possible to find any more remains at the crash site on the slippery, dense slopes of the 1,794-foot Pico Alto, the highest point on the island. Rescuers found 50 bodies Wednesday.
The mayor of Vila do Porto, Jose Humberto Chaves, said that the FAA checked the airport, used primarily for airplanes, and reinstalled, stoping every six months.
News Briefs
IRAQI COUP FOILED: President Saddam Hussein of Iraq has foiled a military coup attempt that might have included plans to bomb his reviewing stand on Armed Forces Day, diplomats in Baghdad report.
They said he remained firmly in control of the nation he has ruled for a decade and would not have been arrested, so January, it had been worried.
Iraq Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz met U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar at U.N. headquarters yesterday regarding
peace talks with Iran
Reports of the coup attempt centered on air force officers from Samarra, whose people are traded in Tikrit, another provincial town.
POLISH STRIKES: Solidarity founder Lech Walessa intended to end a strike at Poland's largest power complex yesterday and asked restive workers to give his negotiations with the government a chance.
Violence mars Jamaican election Socialists dominate parliamentary seats
The Associated Press
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Michael Manley, who led a pro-Cuban social government in the 1970s, swept to victory yesterday over conservative Prime Minister Edward Seaga in an election marred by gunfire and allegations of widespread fraud.
win 65 percent of the ballots counted, Jamaica Broadcasting Corp. the government-run television network, declared Muraly's party the winner of at least 34 of the seats in Panama City, and Gavin's party the winner of eight seats, with the remaining 18 undecided as of 9 p.m.
Under Jamaica's British-modeled system, the party winning a majority of parliamentary seats forms the government.
government In the popular vote, Manley's left-leaning People's National Party led
Seagas's right-of-center Jamaica Labor Party vote 57 percent to 43 percent, or 429,680 votes to 324,486.
findings of an opinion poll Sunday that predicted that Manley's party would capture 48 of the 60 seats of Parliament. Seaga's party now has all 60 seats.
Manley was prime minister from 1972 to 1980. His government then embraced Cuba, alarming the United States and foreign investors, but he lately has projected a more moderate image. Seaga has been one of the Caribbean region's strongest U.S. allies.
Many polling stations closed early because of the violence, and soldiers fired shots and used tear gas to break up skimmishes. Sporadic gunfire left one woman dead and at least six others wounded.
Throughout the day, the two candidates accused each other of fraud, intimidation and voting irregularities.
The killing of Glenna Williams, a 25-year-old pregnant housewife, increased to at least 12 the number of people killed in politically related crimes in January 2017. Jan. 15, Seaga said Williams was shot a minute before he arrived to vote.
It was Jamaica's first nationally contested election since 1890, when an estimated 700 people were killed over a nine-month campaign.
This campaign was shortened to just more than three weeks because of fears of violence at the height of the island's winter tourist season.
Attacks were confined mainly to slums in Kingston, the capital, and a few towns where armed gangs control large voting blocs. Montego Bay and other beach resorts on the northern coast were calm.
About 10,000 police and soldiers were deployed to maintain order at more than 6,000 polling stations.
Some stations closed early because of the disturbances and fraud allegations. Moments before Seaga's motorcade drove through a central Kingston neighborhood, soldiers fired shots in the air and used tear gas to break up fighting and skirmishes outside polling stations. Similar incidents were reported across the country.
About 1 million people were eligible to vote in this country of 2.4 million people, and lines formed early. Although no official estimate was available, voter turnout was heavy.
First woman bishop to be installed tomorrow
The Associated Press
BOSTON — The Episcopal Church is mustering full pump and ceremony to install Barbara Harris as the first woman bishop in a 2,000-year Christian line dating from the time of the apostles.
The worldwide attention expected for tomorrow's events goes far beyond anything the Episcopal Church usually confronts and reflects a debate that has simmered within church ranks and now threatens to spill over into Christianity at large.
Some 8,300 tickets have already been distributed for the concession. Demand has forced church officials to move the ceremony from St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston to the cavernous Hynes Convention Center, which has room for spectators, live cameras and a large continent of journalists.
The 38-year-old former head of a left-wing religious publishing company has been a subject of
some controversy within the church since Sept. 24, when the Episcopal Diocese of Boston elected her suffragan, or assistant bishop.
Women have been priests in the Episcopal Church since 1976. But becoming a bishop is a question of much higher magnitude. Harris would become the first woman to reach that height in any of the three major branches of Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism, that trace bishops in a direct line back to the apostles of Christ.
A traditional faction of the Episcopal Church, led by the Evangelical and Catholic Mission in Austin, Texas, rallied in opposition to Harris' elevation. Now, prelates and observers on both sides of the issue are concerned that the stakes may be even larger than the unity of the Episcopal Church, which is a branch of worldwide Anglicanism.
The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and
Anglican churches have been involved for more than a decade in discussions regarding an ease in their centuries-old differences. "They have made great progress," said James Solheim, a spokesman for the Boston Episcopal diocese. "For Roman Catholics, the idea of a woman standing at the altar representing Christ is totally unacceptable."
Some of the opposition to Harris' elevation stemmed from the decidedly leftist political views she conveyed in the publication. The Witness, a Christian Episcopal Church Publishing Co., in Philadelphia.
The periodical has published articles supporting homosexual rights and the Nicaraguan Sandinista government and criticizing the church for failing to fully bring women into church leadership.
Some also have questioned Harris 'qualifications because of her lack of a college degree and full seminary training.
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