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THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1979
Ships rescue yachting
survivors: 13 killed
United Press International
PLYMOUTH. England — Naval
vessels working off the west coast of
Britain Wednesday rescued Admi-
ral s Cup race survivors from scores
of disabled yachts, battered by a
fierce Atlantic gale that killed more
than a dozen yachtsmen.
Race officials said 13 people died
in international racing’s worst disas
ter when the storm, with only 30
minutes warning by radio, slammed
into the fleet of 330 yachts compet
ing in the Fastnet race early Tues
day.
Eleven of the dead were British
and the 12th was identified as F.H.
Ferris, an American living in Lon
don and skipper of the Ariadne. The
nationality of the 13th was not im
mediately known.
Among those to finish the 605-
mile race unharmed was Ted
Turner, owner of the Atlanta Braves
baseball team and skipper of the
1977 America’s Cup winner.
Courageous.
Turner crossed the finish line
aboard his yacht Tenacious at 10:30
p.m. Tuesday, 79 hours after he
started from Cowes, to take the
overall lead on corrected time.
Former British Prime Minister
Edward Heath, captain of Britain’s
Admiral’s Cup team had radioed an
SOS Tuesday but was reported safe
Wednesday and attempting to finish
the race.
Rescue helicopters and surface
vessels were “working flat out” to
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help yachtsmen and disabled boats
still in the sea between England and
Ireland, Irish officials said.
Winds of 65 mph and massive
seas caught the yachts Tuesday as
they sailed from the Isle of Wight
around Fastnet Rock and back to
Plymouth in the final leg of the Ad
miral’s Cup five race series. There
were 55 Admiral’s Cup yachts from
19 nations among the fleet of 330
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by early Wednesday said 24 yachts
sank or were abandoned and 84
boats returned to port.
A Coast Guard spokesman at
Land’s End said 249 yachts were ac
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Plymouth said 171 people were re
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Many of the yachts continued the
race. The Argentine yacht Acadia,
on charter from its U.S. owners, was
the first Admiral s Cup entry over
the finishing line early Wednesday.
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MORONG, Philippines — It was just a quiet fishing town before
work started on the nuclear power plant. Now the fish have disap
peared and the still-unfinished project is the center of a national
controversy.
“The fish moved away two years ago when workers began construc
tion on the plant,” 18-year-old villager Teodora Santos said. “Fisher
men now have to go farther out to sea to find fish.”
Westinghouse Electric is building the $1.1 billion plant for the
Philippines government in the economically backward town of
Morong on the World War II battleground of the Bataan Peninsula,
19 miles from the Subic Bay Navy Base and U.S. 7th Fleet repair
yard.
Last month, President Ferdinand Marcos suspended work on the
plant because of his fear of a repetition of the Three Mile Island
nuclear accident near Harrisburg, Pa.
He threatened to scrap the project altogether unless assured by
Westinghouse that the plant will not imperil Morong’s 10,000 fisher
men and farmers and other nearby towns.
A three-member panel was appointed to determine whether
adequate safeguards have been taken to avoid a repeat of the Three
Mile Island incident. Westinghouse officials say there is only a “re
mote possibility” of such an accident and hope to resume construction
shortly.
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safety, criticism of the project snowballed.
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The Morong project has been wracked with controversy from ’■<
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Philippine nuclear deal by paying huge commissions to a “crom
Marcos. The furor died after Westinghouse said there was noth::-
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Even without the controversies, construction is nearly a yearly
hind schedule. Government sources said further delay is ahead he
cause of the refusal of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
issue Westinghouse an export license for the plant.
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