University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 27, 1988
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Ten killed in helicopter crash during Marine Corps exercise
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The Associated Press
GILA BEND, Ariz. — Two Marine Corps helicopters crashed in the desert during a night training exercise, killing all 10 people aboard, the military said yesterday.
Lt. Mary Baldwin, a marine spokesman, said she had no details on the cause of the crash Tuesday when whether the two airships had collided.
The search and recovery were hampered because of fear of unexploded ammunition at the site on an island in the Gulf of Mexico, because of its remoteness, officials said.
The helicopters went down about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday approximately 125 miles southeast of the Marine Corps Air Station at Yuma, officials said.
the two helicopters, a Boeing CH46 with four men aboard and a Bell UH-1N with six men, were taking part in the final training exercise of a vehicle the Yuma base for weapons and tactical instructors, baffle spokesmen said.
Crew members were using night-
vision goggles that take light from the moon and stars and intensify it, said Gunnery Sgt. Hal Wheeler, a spokesman at the base.
Right wing gains seats in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Far-right white candidates died well yesterday as South Africans of all races, voting simultaneously for the first time, elected segregated municipal councils nationwide.
The Associated Press
Anti-apartheid activists, in defiance of state-of-emergency regulations, had urged a vote boycott. Turnouts ranging from 10 to 43 percent were recorded in major black townships.
we heavily guarded by security forces. No serious violence was reported, although police said scattered arson and stone-throwing attacks. $ \textcircled{d} $ occur.
Black and white polling stations
President P.W. Botha's National Party faced a fierce challenge from the extreme-right Conservative Party in white communities, many of which experienced their first partisan local elections after decades of Nationalist dominance.
civital capital. The Conservatives and nationalists evenly split the first 20 wards — out of 42 — for which results were announced.
night-wing candidates opposed to integration of beaches won two seats from incumbents on the traditionally liberal city council in Durban.
In Johannesburg, the country's largest city, the National Party gained outright control at the expense of liberal candidates. The Conservatives won their first council seat even by decisively beating a
Nationalist candidate in Mayfair West, a blue-collar ward where non-whites have been moving in violation of segregation laws.
The most important white battleground was Pretoria, the administra-
"This shows our people reject the government's move to the left," said the Conservative victor, Hendrick Classen. "We want white areas."
PARIS — A French pharmaceutical company will stop distributing a pill to induce abortions because of its ties with Iran. The company and above offloads said yesterday.
In Soweto, where more than 2 million blacks live, election officials said 8,097 people voted by 7 p.m., in addition to 20,000 votes cast in advance.
Sales of abortion pill to end
The Associated Press
The pill is an anti-hormone that works against the female hormone progesterone, which is vital to a normal pregnancy. The new drug blocks implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterine wall.
the pharmaceutical company. Roused Uclaf, said the decision to stop worldwide distribution of the highly effective pill, known as a bivouocat, is one of a boycott against their products, especially from the United States.
News Roundup
The new drug is not a do-it-yourself, morning-after pill that can be purchased at the supermarket and taken at home. It must be used under supervision of medical specialists in a hospital.
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O'CONNOR RELEASED AFTER SURGERY:
O'CONNOR RELEASED AFTER SURGERY:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was released yesterday from Georgetown University Hospital, five days after undergoing surgery for breast cancer. O'Connor returned to her home in Chevy Chase, Md., and was in good condition, said Supreme Court spokesman Toni House. O'Connor, 58, reportedly underwent a mastectomy in which a breast and the lymph nodes under the arm were removed. No details of the operation have been confirmed. She is expected to return to the bench Monday when
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the court ends a two-week recess
ISRAELI ATTACK PALESTINIAN BASES:
Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian guerrilla bases at Sidon and Beirut yesterday, killing at
SOVIETS CONFREN DEFIICIT: The Soviet parliament will confront a dilemma when it convenes today: the need to slash an enormous budget deficit while soothing public anger over empty store shelves. The 1,300 deputies of the Politburo are members of numtising speeches in their two-day autumn session before unanimously approving the annual budget and development plan.
least six people, including a man identified as a senior PLO commander. A family of six and three other people were missing and feared dead under the rubble in Mieh Mieh, a refugee camp outside Sidon that suffered the greatest damage. Police said all people were wounded, all
Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday it has proposed a $150,000 fine against the Nebraska Public Power District for alleged safety violations at its nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska. The NRC said NPPD failed to assure that electrical equipment at Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville could work under harsh conditions such as high heat or flooding if an accident happened at the plant.
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SHIPWRECK VICTIMS REACH SAFETY: More than 140 people who abandoned a ship sunk by Typhoon Ruby swam or rode lifeboats for hours in mountainous seas to reach safety on small islands, officials said yesterday.
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