University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 9, 1988
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Rescue parties reach quake-stricken areas
BEJIING — Army rescuers and medical teams finally reached crumbled villages in a remote area near Burma yesterday where China's worst earthquake in more than a decade killed at least 930 people last weekend.
The Associated Press
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Official Beijing radio said that more than 100 people had been rescued from the rubble of collapsed buildings but many more were believed to be trapped.
It said that 1,000 soldiers were involved in the rescue operation and that the central government had allocated $53.6 million.
nucleated $900 million Sunday night's temblor registered 7.6 on the Richter scale, indicating a quake of tremendous destructive force. It was centered in Lancang and Menglian counties of Yunnan province, about 240 miles southwest of Kunming, the provincial capital.
More than 170 aftershocks had been felt by yesterday afternoon but
heir strength was declining, said Li Xianhou of the State Seismology Bureau in Beijing.
About 14 counties were affected, covering 16,000 square miles in a long corridor near Yunan's southwestern frontier with Burma. Officials said they did not know the population of the mountainous, jungle-covered region, most of whose residents are farmers of the Lahu, Va and Dai minorities.
Lancang county alone has 400,000 people,the Civil Affairs Ministry said.
Information on casualties and rescue work was sparse and most government offices refused to answer reporters' questions, but the Civil Affairs Ministry told the U.N. Development Program and World Food Program offices in Beijing more than 890 people were killed. The two agencies said the ministry did not request assistance.
FBI continues search in virus investigation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A lawyer for Robert Morris Jr., the Cornell University graduate student who has become the focus of a computer virus investigation, said yesterday that he probably would not decide this week on whether his client should talk to the FBL.
the FBI. The FBI pressed forward with its criminal investigation, and the Justice Department is considering obtaining a search warrant or grand jury subpoenas for documents at Cornell, which could help shed some light on the computer virus incident, federal law enforcement sources said.
Charles Steinmetz, an FBI spokesman, said Monday that the preliminary inquiry of the computer virus incident was being upgraded to a full-scale criminal investigation and that the bureau was examining possible violations of the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act of 1986.
and Alabama.
The law carries a one-year maximum prison term on conviction for intentionally gaining unauthorized access to a computer used by the U.S. government and affecting the operation of the computer. The law also carries a five-year maximum prison term for intentionally gaining unauthorized access to two or more computers in different states and preventing authorized use of such computers or information.
computers of more than The virus paralyzed more than 6,000 university and military computers nationwide last week.
ters hardwired.
A computer virus is a tiny program that invades data processors and disrupts the normal operation of the machines. A virus duplicates itself, spreading into other programs in the computer. The virus infects one computer after another as users share floppy disks or link up over telephone lines.
Services break air safety records
WASHINGTON — Despite a series of crashes involving high-performance jet fighters, the armed services enjoyed their safest aviation year ever in fiscal 1988, the Pentagon said yesterday.
The Associated Press
ng $5000. The previous record for aviation safety was set by the four services a year ago, when they reported a combined rate of 2.21 per 100,000 flying hours based on 164 serious mishaps.
The current performance reflects a 35 percent reduction in major accidents since 1982, with an increase of 4.9 percent in flying hours, from 6.9 million to 7.27 million hours, the Pentagon said.
yesterday. The Navy, Marine Corps and Army each set individual records for aviation safety, and the Air Force came close to matching its all-time best, the Pentagon said.
Combined, the four services flew almost 7.3 million hours during the year ending Sept. 30, experiencing 137 so-called Class A accidents. That amounts to a rate of 1.88 mishaps per 100,000 flying hours, the standard military measurement.
A Class A mishap is one in which there is a fatality or damage exceeding $500,000.
entagon said.
The number of fatalities reported
B-1 bomber crashes; entire crew ejects safely
The Associated Press
ABILENE, Texas — A B-1 bomber crashed yesterday, and all four crew members ejected safely, one man getting out seconds before the crash, the Air Force said.
said.
"All of them were taken to the Dyess hospital and are in good condition," said Air Force spokesman Linda Gellnerne of Dyess Air Force Base, where the long-range military bomber was based. The plane crashed about 3:30 p.m., roughly eight miles northwest of here.
Lou Paules of Abilene, Texas, who witnessed the crash, said the plane appeared to be making a normal flight away from the base
when smoke started coming out a left engine as the craft was circling.
by the Air Force, Marine Corps and Army declined from 119 in fiscal 1987 to 103 in fiscal 1988.
"At first there was just a puff of smoke, then fire," said Paulsen, who was about two miles away. "It looked like it started to go out, then it flared up big."
to 183 in fiscal 1968.
The Navy could not say how many aviators died in fiscal 1988, said Lt
it flared up bp.
When it hit, the plane exploded in a fireball 10 stories high. White smoke could be seen for more than 20 miles, filling the sky west of Abilene, witnesses said.
Ambiente, Whitworths. The crew's dramatic escape was captured by a television film crew.
The plane went down a couple of miles north of Interstate 20 in an open field. Emergency and rescue vehicles were at the scene less than half an hour after the crash.
just a few years ago. The new fiscal year statistics were ballyhooed at the Pentagon yesterday about the same time that an Air Force B-1B bomber crashed
near Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The crash was the second involving a production model of that new long-range bomber.
Janet Mescus
While the news was good, the Navy and Air Force each reported some problems in fiscal 1988 with one of their jet fighters. The Navy lost five F-14 Tomcats during the month of September alone and at least six for the year, although the Air Force lost 23 F-16 Fighting Falcons.
Service officials said a month ago there was no common thread among those accidents.
On a service-by-service base, the Pentagon said the Army set a record safety rate of 1.84 serious mishaps per 100,000 flying hours in fiscal 1988. The Navy's set a record of 2.08 per 100,000 flight hours, and the Marine Corps' set a record of 3.18 per 100,000 flying hours.
The Air Force experienced 1.63 serious mishaps per 100,000 flying hours, slightly worse than its all-time best of 1.53 set in fiscal 1986.
Setting aside the statistical rates, the Army experienced 32 serious aviation accidents in fiscal 1988 compared with 38 in fiscal 1987; the Navy had 37 compared with 49 the year before; the Marine Corps had 14 compared with 20 and the Air Force had 54 compared with 57.
News Roundup
POLISH WORKERS STRIKE: Workers in two shipyards in Gdansk, Poland, went on strike yesterday in support of the doomed Lenin Shipyard, and they defied an appeal by Solidarity leader Lewa. Lewa to go back to work. Wales, meanwhile, said he might begin talks about the government even without receiving a guarantee by the authorities for the continued operation of the yard — the birthplace of the banned trade union.
baned trade union.
IRAQ, IRAN EXCHANGE PRISONERS: Iraq joined Iran yesterday in offering to begin immediately the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners captured during their 8-year-old war. But the foreign ministers of both countries made it clear after another meeting with N.U. mediator Jan Eliasson that there was no progress in efforts to consolidate the truce that took effect Aug. 20.
ISRAELI MILITIA KILLS PALESTINIANICS: Israel's surrogate militia killed three Palestinian guerrillas Thursday in south Lebanon and pro-Syrian leftists said they expected Israeli
retaliation for an attempt to assassinate the militia's commander. Police said the dead guerrillas were members of the Fatah-Revolutionary Council led by terrorist Abu Nidal.
tionary Court.
JUSTICE EXCUSES MARCOSES:
A Supreme court justice yesterday temporarily excused former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imela, from obeying the grand jury subpoena. Justice Thurgood Marshall granted an emergency request by the Marcoses, who are seeking to stay out of jail on account of court charges.
contempt-of-court charges:
SAKHARO UNDERGEOES TESTS: Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov underwent cardiovascular tests yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to determine if he needed to be given a pacemaker before he returns to the Soviet Union. A spokesman for the 67-year-old physicist and Nobel laureate, making his first visit to the West, said there was no immediate word on the results of the tests.
FAST ENDS: In Washington, eight advocates for the homeless yesterday ended 48-day.
water-only fasts staged as a protest over funding cuts in government housing programs. Carol Fennelly, a community force behind the capital city, a community for Creative Non-Violence shelter for the homeless, was the first to break the fast, at 8 a.m. CDT. She then checked into Howard University Hospital, where she was listed in serious condition after undergoing a series of tests that revealed a dangerously low blood potassium level.
ABDUCTED INFANT STILL MISSING: A Little Rock, Ark., woman whose newborn baby was abducted from a hospital by a phony nurse went home yesterday, and authorities said they were closer to finding the frail infant. The mother, Annette Thomas-Jones, appealed to the woman who took the baby to "call a friend, call the police, call a minister and tell them." I've done something wrong." Ten-day-old Christopher Michael Jones was born six weeks premature. Doctors have said he could die if he did not get proper medical attention.
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