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Buoy anchored to warn shipping
Ships locate sunken oil rig
United Press International
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland
— Two scientific vessel$ appear
to have located the position of
the oil rig Ocean Ranger, which
sank Feb. 15 on the Grand
Banks losing its entire 84-man
crew.
The Canadian Coast Guard
ship Bartlett has anchored a
fluorescent orange buoy in the
area where the oil rig had been
anchored, 175 nautical miles
southeast of St. John’s.
A Notice to Shipping issued
Tuesday in St. John’s said the
buoy was located “4,000 feet
from the Ocean Ranger well
head position” and was equip
ped with a whistle, a radar
beacon and a white flashing
light.
Coast guard spokesman Gor
don Butler said the buoy was
placed “on the edge of the rig’s
anchor pattern” to give Mobil
Oil Canada vessels plenty of
room to work in the wreckage
area.
The scientific vessels Polaris
V and Balder Cabot resumed
their search for the rig late Sun
day. Mobil spokesman Mel Pine
said, however, that the company
would not issue further data to
the news media.
“Whatever information we
can get is going directly to gov
ernment, and will come out
when the results of their inquiry
investigation is released,” Pine
said Tuesday.
The Polaris was trying to lo
cate the rig on sonar, and mini-
submarines aboard the Balder
Cabot were to be used to con
duct a visual inspection of what
ever was left of the platform.
A local new^s report indicated
the Polaris had determined that
the Ocean Ranger was upside
down in about 300 feet of water,
with her drilling derrick ripped
off, but Pine would not com
ment on the story.
In Calgary Tuesday, an ex
pert on drilling rigs said the fed
eral government should estab
lish clear-cut responsibility for
safety inspections of offshore oil
drilling rigs to try to prevent the
“mundane human errors”
which cause most oilrig acci
dents.
W.G. (Kit) Carson, visiting
professor at the University of
Calgary, said there were similar
ities between the Ocean Ranger
disaster and the 1980 North Sea
sinking of the Alexander L.
Keilland rig which claimed 123
lives.
The latter was caused by a
faulty weld in a supporting strut
which was concealed by a layer
of paint.
“If the cause of the Ocean
Ranger disaster was anything
like the Keilland,” Carson said,
“we’ll see it was perfectly avoid
able.”
Carson, author of a book on
North Sea accidents, said he wms
angry at the federal govern
ment’s “lackadaisical attitude” to
the problem of oilrig safety.
“Industry and government
officials will create a red herring
if they rush off and blame the
disaster on the environment,”
he said. “Most accidents of this
kind are caused by mundane hu
man error coupled with the
most appalling kind of design
fault.”
Jury still probing judge’s slaying
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO —A federal
grand jury Wednesday heard
testimony about the 1979 assas
sination of U.S. District Judge
John H. Wood Jr., while the 5th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
upheld the conviction of repu
ted drug kingpin Jimmy
Chagra.
Wood, known for his tough
sentences, was trying Chagra’s
case when he was gunned down
outside his San Antonio town-
house on May 29, 1979. Federal
prosecutors allege Chagra hired
convicted hitman Charles Har-
relson for the shooting.
The 5th Circuit Court in New
Orleans announced Wednesday
they upheld Chagra’s 30-year
sentence and $100,000 fine on
charges of smuggling, conspira
cy and running a continuing cri
minal enterprise.
Assistant U.S Attorney
LeRoy Jahn, who was present at
the grand jury session Wednes
day, said she had argued the
Chagra appeal, based on pret
rial publicity, last October.
“Mr. Chagra became a fugi
tive and that’s what delayed the
appeal,” she said.
Chagra was convicted in Au
gust 1979 of conspiracy to im
port marijuana and cocaine,
operating a continuing criminal
enterprise and aiding and abet
ting the possession of cocaine.
He received a 15-year concur
rent sentence and a $25,000 fine
on the aiding and abetting
charge, but the New Orleans
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appeals court overturned the the third to investigate Wood’s
fine. slaying, would return indict-
Published reports last ments within 30 days, but feder-
weekend hinted the grand jury, al prosecutors and the FBI have
refused to confirm or deny the throughout the morning. The
reports. panel met last month lor one
Witnesses believed to be con- day and interviewed an attorney
nected with^Harrelson appeared for a key figure in the case.
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DALLAS — Police dismissed
the antics as monkey business.
North Dallas residents went
I a P e -
The cause of the ruckus was
Deena, a trained chimp who
escaped her van and went on a
neighborhood spree Tuesday,
stealing mail, ringing doorbells
and trying to invade a bridge
game.
Lucile Middleton found ‘
Deena when answered her door
bell.
“1 opened my door and there
stood the chimp, about as big as
a big police dog, and half a
dozen kids trying to get the
package it had taken out of my
mailbox,” Middleton said.
“1 hey were ail chasing each
other around and she was hav
ing a blast.”
Deena tried to join a bridge
game at Dorothy Balfour’s
home.
“One of the women at the
game looked up and said, ‘I
think the doorknob is turning,”’
Balfour said. “I said, ‘Don’t wor-
f} It’s only my husband.’
"Just as I got to the door, the
monkey had opened it and was
coming in,” Balfour said. “I got
the door and just kind of shoved
her out. She was real nice about
U. It kind of livened up my
bridge club. But I’d never mis
taken a monkey for my husband
before.”
1 he f ugitive was finally taken
into custody by her owner, Mike
Slower, who operates Rent-a-
Chimp, a firm that provides
chimpanzees for entertainment
31 parties.
It was really a show,” Middle-
ton said. “It isn’t every day you
a big old chimp shuffling
around on all fours stealing peo-
P'e s mail and ringing their
doorbells.
I m a creationist and I don’t
'relieve in evolution, but after
feeing that chimp. I’m starting
to think about it some.”
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there’s work to do. And the ones
who stick around deserve
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