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University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 31, 1988
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Worker dies in fire
3 burned by liquid asphalt from explosion
The Associated Press
WHITING, ind. — A fire at an oil refinery caused a tank as big as a house to explode yesterday, killing one worker and seriously injuring three when liquid asphalt they placed their clothing, authorities said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire and explosion shortly before 2 p.m. at the Amco Oil Co. refinery's No. 3 axidizer unit, which makes industrial asphalt, said Else Sims, an Amoco spokeswoman.
The refinery's firefighting crew controlled the fire within a half-hour, she said. "The fire has been contained in one small area of the refinery and no outside assistance was necessary."
Two of the injured workers "were covered with tar from their heads down to the tips of their toes. We had to cut all their clothes off with a cast
saw", said Dr. Michael Pepper, an emergency room physician at St. Catherine's Hospital in East Chicago. He said the three were airlifted to the burn unit at University of Chicago Hospital.
"Most of them had two or three layers of clothes on because of the cold weather, so it burned right through their clothes," Pepper said.
All three were alert when they arrived at the East Chicago hospital despite having tar up to a half-inch thick covering their bodies, Pepper said. When the tar was peeled away, it took off the skin underneath.
Two of the workers were in critical condition, one with third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body and one with burns over 60 to 70 percent of his body. A third worker was in serious condition with third-degree burns over 30 to 40 percent of his body.
U.S. ship to leave Gulf
The Associated Press
MANANA, Bahrain — The United States plans to withdraw its first warship from the Persian Gulf this week, U.S. sources said yesterday, in a move that reflects confidence in the Iran-Iraq truce.
The sources said the vessel would leave, barring a last-minute change in plans. It would be the first warship withdrawn since Iran and Iraq
The 3,600-ton missile frigate, the USR Rodney M. Davis, will be detached officially tomorrow, said the sources on condition of anonymity. It will sail for its home port in Yokosuka, Japan, they said.
agreed to an Aug. 20 cease-fire in their eight-year war.
In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Mike Stepp refused comment.
U.S. aid funds stolen, report says
The corruption scandal, which may also have involved some Thai businessmen, was reported in yesterday's Washington Post and confirmed in other sources, who declined to be identified by name.
WASHINGTON — Military officers in Thailand siphoned off about $3.5 million from a cover CIA program to aid non-commercial rebels in Cambodia, jeopardizing the program for a time last summer, according to intelligence sources and a published report.
The program, one of several Reagan administration initiatives to bolster anti-communist forces in conflicts around the world, has since been cleaned up but is operating at reduced levels. More rigorous accounting procedures are in place, the newspaper reported.
The Associated Press
The agency then tipped on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which sent a four-member audit team to Thailand. The team, part of a beefed-up independent auditing capability instituted by com-merce commissioner Doka, Oka, and co-chairman William Cohen, R-Maine, confirmed the existence of the scheme.
Turtlenecks
The report said CIA officers in Thailand first turned up evidence that money had been skimmed from the covert aid program, which totaled $12 million in revenue. The median civilian rebels operate from neighboring Thailand.
increase support to resistance forces opposing Vietnamese troops inside Cambodia.
After a debate within the intelligence panel it was decided to continue the program, but to reduce the amount of U.S. support to $8 million in the current year and to institute strict procedures for making sure the money is spent for its intended purposes - non-lethal items and training.
The team's report back to the intelligence panel on July 12 sparked disagreement over whether the covert support should be continued, the Post Department document detailing the developments.
At the time, the administration was seeking to
The audit team later returned to Thailand to review how new controls were working, and found "solid evidence" that proper accounting was in place, the Post reported.
The covert program in Cambodia, begun in 1982 or 1983, had until then provoked little controversy and had received far less public exposure than similar administration programs to support anticommunist rebels in Nicaragua, Angola and Afghanistan.
News Roundup
Sunflower, 804 Massachusetts
CHICAGO MAYORAL RACE CROWDED: Chicago alderman Timothy Evans, a protege of the late Harold Washington, declared yesterday that he would run for mayor. Evans is joining a crowded Democratic primary field that includes Aldermen Edward Burke and Jonathan McGrath, an alderman Alosius Majerczyk, former parks chief Ed Kelly, and Eugene Sawyer, the acting mayor.
shut down automatically at 8:50 a.m., said Gordon Tomb, a spokesman for plant operator GPU Nuclear Corp.
KEG EXPLOSION KILLS MAN: An empty keen thrown onto a campfire at Danbury, N.H. exploded yesterday, killing a man at his 21st birthday party in the second such death reported this month. The victim was Chris John Widebech of Northborough, Mass.
WICHTA PAPER PICKS DUKAKIS: Michael Dukakis has won the endorsement of a newspaper that never in its history had supported the Democratic candidate. The Wichita Eagle-Beacon endorsed Dukakis yesterday, saying that he "seems uniquely prepared to deal with the crises certain to confront the next president." Dukakis also has been endorsed by the New York Times, Kansas City Times and Philadelphia Enquirer. Vice President George Bush has been endorsed by Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Denver Post and Boston Herald.
REACTOR SHUT DOWN: The lone operating reactor at Three Mile Island made an unscheduled shutdown yesterday for reasons believed to be linked to the plant's non-nuclear turbine system, a spokesman said. The Unit 1 reactor
soon returned with engine problems.
FRENCH SAILORS KILLED: A French fishing vessel caught fire early yesterday and port authority officials. The ship left the Coruna, Spain Saturday after unloading its cargo, but it
UTILITIES SUBJECT TO STANDARDS: In a decision dismaying to power companies throughout the country, the U.S. government has told a Wisconsin utility that planned repairs to a coal-burning power plant will subject it to strict air pollution standards for new plants. Utilities are worried because they fear the resulting backlog of hundreds of plants. If so, utilities they might have to close old plants, forgo needed repairs or incur huge expenses to meet the standards.
SOVIET PROTESTERS ARRESTED: Police arrested at least 50 people who gathered in Moscow and Leningrad yesterday to demand freedom for hundreds of people the protesters say in prisons and psychiatric hospitals for their beliefs, a dissident said. The protests came just days after Soviet officials reportedly promised to release all political prisoners.
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