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large naval targef hit in Gulf
Major Iraqi strike unconfirmed
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iraq said
Wednesday its forces destroyed a
“large naval target” in the Persian
Gulf in what would be the third
strike at Gulf shipping this month
and the second in as many days.
Iraq has generally used the term
“large naval target” to refer to oil
tankers, but the assault was not im
mediately confirmed by shipping
sources. Iraq said it took place near
the Iranian coast.
“Iraqi warjets and warships last
night (Tuesday) destroyed a large
naval target ... in the northeastern
end of the Gulf’ the Iraqi military
communique said.
Britain, meanwhile, formally
blamed Iran for an attack Tuesday
that slightly damaged the British su
pertanker Renown off the coast of
Bahrain, half-way down the Gulf.
The ship docked Wednesday at Du
bai in the southern Gulf.
More than 40 neutral vessels were hit in the first six
months of this year in an expansion of the nearly
four-year-old Gulf war.
Renown had been chartered by
the Dutch salvage company Smit In
ternational to rescue a $45-million
cargo of crude from the Swiss-
owned tanker Tiburon, crippled in a
Gulf attack three weeks ago.
“The government have made it
clear that this deliberate, unpro
voked and wholly unjustified attack
is totally unacceptable,” Foreign Of
fice Minister of State Richard Luce
told the British Parliament.
The Foreign Office summoned
Iranian First Secretary Abdul Ghas-
san Moktari, the highest ranking of
ficial available, to receive the protest
in a 35-minute meeting Wednesday.
Reporting to Parliament, Luce
said Britain “deplores this incident
and indeed all attacks on shipping in
the Gulf area. They are further
proof of the need to see an early end
to the continuing conflict between
Iran and Iraq.”
Iraq reported raids on another
five “naval targets” July 1, although
only two ships were reported hit by
shipping sources. More than 40 neu
tral vessels were hit in the first six
months of this year in an expansion
of the nearly four-year-old Gulf war.
Most of the ships were struck by
Iraq, which declared a blockade of
Iranian ports in February. The
United States recently sold Saudi
Arabia 400 advanced Stinger anti
aircraft missiles to help it defend
Gulf shipping against retaliatory at
tacks by Iran.
But Iran warned Tuesday night
the weapons would be turned
against the United States and its
friends in the Middle East.
The Iranian news agency IRNA
quoted Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, the
hard-line speaker of the Iranian par
liament, saying “Moslem revolution
aries would one day use (the mis
siles) against those imperialists.”
Kuwait meanwhile deported an
other 40 Iranians, bringing the total
number of Iranians deported from
the small Gulf state to 1,180 since
March, Tehran radio said.
Kuwait, which has a substantial
Shiite Moslem minority, began de
porting Iranians and fundamentalist
Moslem suspects after Islamic ex
tremists blew up the U.S. Embassy
and other buildings in Kuwait last
December.
Slouch
by Jim Earle
“Don’t ever get a haircut from a barber who)
trying to watch TV at the same time. ”
Highway Killers’ appeals rejected, face electric chair in 2 states
collapses,
harms one
United Press International
United Press International
FORT WORTH — A 50-foot sec
tion of an inner city highway, which
lost one of its supports after a trailer
broke loose from the truck pulling it,
collapsed and smashed a car
Wednesday, injuring the driver, of
ficials said.
“It pretty well crunched the whole
car,” Fred Keish, director of the
city’s emergency management office
said.
A killer who buried his victim al
ive faced death in Georgia’s electric
chair a few minutes after midnight
early this morning and in Florida,
authorities prepared to carry out the
nation’s first double execution in 19
years a few hours later.
All three men were hoping last-
minute federal appeals would save
them. The supreme courts of Flor
ida and Georgia rejected their ap
peals Tuesday.
Ivon Ray Stanley, a high school
dropout with an IQ of 81, was to be
come the 21st man executed, and
the second in Georgia, since the Su
preme Court dropped its ban on the
death penalty in 1976.
He was to be strapped into the
electric chair at Jackson Diagnostic
Center south of Atlanta shortly after
midnight.
David Leroy Washington, 34, was
to die in the electric chair at Florida
state prison near Starke at 7 a.m.,
and Jimmy Lee Smith, 30, was to fol
low him a few minutes later.
Florida has already executed six
men since 1976, more than any
other state.
Stanley and Washington are
black; Smith is white.
A federal district court in Pensa-r
cola rejected Smith’s appeal on
grounds of mental incompetency
and incompetent counsel late
Wednesday and papers were imme
diately filed with the 11th Circuit
Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
Stanley was taken to the “death
watch” cell next to the death cham
ber at noon Wednesday, and author
ities said he made no last requests.
In Florida, officials said Washing
ton and Smith were in holding cells
about 12 feet apart next to the death
chamber. They could not see each
other but could communicate if they
wished. Apparently they had little to
say to each other, according to
prison spokesman Vernon Brad
ford.
He said Washington ordered a
last meal of fried shrimp, fried
oysters, French fries, hot rolls, lem
onade and vanilla ice cream, and
planned to meet with a steady series
of lawyers, ministers and family
members during the night.
Stanley and another man,]*
Edward Thomas, 28, were come
of the robbery-murder of Qfe
Floyd, a prominent Bainbridp.;
insurance man who was roir
beaten, shot and buried afe
1976.
Thomas is still on Georgia’sii
row.
Smith asked for filet mignon, a
quart of chocolate milk, tossed salad
with French dressing and grapefruit
juice. Bradford said Smith was hop
ing his mother would visit him be
fore he died.
"He’s innocent. As a childhtt
always looking to help soifH
said Eliza Yulee, the grandmoK
who reared Stanley, as she bn*’
back tears at a news confereiK|
Atlanta City I lall Tuesday.
Eldora Caffey, a 25-year-old Fort
Worth woman, was rushed to John
Peter Smith Hospital where she was
being treated for minor injuries. A
hospital spokeswoman said Caffey
was in good condition.
Keish said the noon-time disaster
occurred after a truck, traveling in
the south-central part of town, lost
the water trailer it was pulling. The
trailer rammed one of Loop 820’s
supports, sending a two-lane, 50-
foot section of the commuter high
way to the roadway below.
‘Serial murderer’ added to FBI most wanted list
United Press International
No other injuries were reported.
State highway officials predicted it
would take four to six months to re
place the section of road, Keish said.
WASHINGTON — The FBI
Wednesday added suspected “serial
murderer” Alton Coleman to its list
of “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives,” in
tensifying a manhunt for the suspect
in a Midwest murder-robbery spree.
FBI official Oliver Revell de
scribed Coleman as a “very, very vio
lent criminal on a spree.” He is
wanted as a suspect in the murders
of four young victims and the disap
pearance of a fifth.
Officials said Coleman also was
wanted in connection with a series of
abductions and rapes beginning in
February in Chicago.
Revell said Coleman was a sus
pected “serial murderer” — people
who travel from community to com
munity picking their victims seem
ingly at random. Serial murderers
are different from mass murderers
who kill all their victims at once.
He said Coleman has approached
young mothers with children, offer
ing to take care of them. Revell also
said Coleman has “tied up and aban
doned some of his victims” without
killing them. Most of his victims have
been black.
Coleman, who was last seen in To
ledo, Ohio, four days ago, is believed
to be traveling with a companion,
Debra Denise Brown, 21.
Revell described Coleman as
“street savy” and said he mainly
works in inner city black areas. He is
known to have a “violent temper.”
Wilder had been placed on the list in
April. Wilder, also considered a “se
rial murderer,” was fatally wounded
in a shootout in New Hampshire.
Although the FBI’s list of “Ten
Most Wanted Fugitives” usually con
tains only 10 names, Revell said they
added Coleman to the list because of
his recent crime spree.
Although Wilder was charged
with kidnapping one young woman,
authorities said they believed he was
responsible for six other disappear
ances or murders.
• The Feb. 28 rape of a 14-'
old girl in North Chicago, 111.
• The May 29 kidnapping
young Kenosha, Wis., girl, *1
partially decomposed body was
covered a month later in Waufa
III.
Revell said Coleman was
bit as dangerous as Wilder.”
‘every
The FBI last held a news confer
ence to announce that Christopher
Coleman is wanted or is a suspect
in the following cases;
• The abduction and rape of
young girls in Gary, Ind.,onJi
in which one of the girls was
gled.
• The June 19 disappearait
Donna M. Williams, 25, onedi!
ter she was repor tedly seen will
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Mine disaster
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Dying sta
Taiwan search parties find bodies of 33 miners, rescue 18 survivors measuret
United Press International
JUI FANG, Taiwan — Search
parties Wednesday retrieved the
bodies of 33 miners and rescued 18
survivors of a fire that swept
through a northern coal mine, col
lapsing shafts and trapping 124
men.
Mine officials said 73 men were
still buried in the Mei Shan coal
mine 30 miles northeast of Taipei
for a second day, despite round-the-
clock efforts to bring them out of the
mine alive.
Relatives keeping vigil outside the
mine entrance burst into applause as
rescue workers brought out the 18
survivors on coal-carrying carts. Po
lice said they were immediately
rushed to nearby hospitals.
The workers pulled out 33 bodies
from the 7,200-foot deep mine,
which partially collapsed after a fire
erupted Tuesday.
“I am very, very happy to be able
to come back,” said Wu Long-
Cheng, 37, the first of the miners to
be rescued from Mei-shan, a me
dium-sized mine which produces
5,000 tons of coal a month.
“Considering the heat, smoke and
physical exhaustion, these miners
have survived for more than 24
hours in the tunnel,” said Chang
Hsien-Ming, Jui Fang Miners Hospi
tal Deputy Director.
Doctors at the provincial Keelung
Hospital said the survivors appeared
to be weak from long hours without
food and water, but otherwise in fair
condition.
Although hampered by erratic
power supply and carbon-monox
ide, rescue teams extinguished the
fire in the mine and stepped up ef
forts to free the trapped miners.
Rescue workers had earlier said
“an unknown number of the
trapped miners were alive.”
shrinking
United Press International I
Leftist
blow up train near capital in El Salvador
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —
Leftist guerrillas blew up a train
traveling to the capital although
there were no reports of casualties,
train officials said Wednesday.
The train, hauling cement from
western Santa Ana province to San
Salvador, was derailed by a guerrilla-
planted dynamite charge at Tuesday
night near San Jeronimo, 16 miles
north of the capital, train company
officials said.
The engine and some of the cars
were destroyed in the blast, but
there were no reported injuries and
there were no reports of fighting be
tween rebels and Treasury police as
signed to guard the train, a train
company spokesman said.
There was no immediate report of
the cost of damages.
Guerrillas stepped up their “eco
nomic sabotage campaign” Wednes
day on the Pan American and
Coastal Highways — the country’s
two main east-west routes — vir
tually paralyzing traffic.
In San Miguel, the country’s third
biggest city, bus dispatchers said
only one bus left Wednesday morn
ing, venturing to the nearby provin
cial capital of San Francisco Gotera.
Thousands of travelers were
stranded by the guerrilla threats to
attack any vehicles traveling the
country’s major highways. Guerrillas
machine gunned two buses and four
cargo trucks Tuesday, authorities
said.
Military units were placed on a na
tionwide state of alert Tuesday at the
start of a renewed sabotage cam
paign on national transport. Despite
hundreds of troops patrolling high
ways traffic was minimal in five of
the country’s 14 provinces.
A similar guerrilla campaign less
than a month ago left destroyed
some 120 vehicles.
AUSTIN — The rate at
dying star contracts has been*
sured for the first time by a if* 1
University of Texas astrononW
was announced Wednesday. 8
Dr. Donald E. Winget, asC
professor of astromomy, saiti^
tended observations of a pultf*.
star proved that the star is ^
shrinking at a rate predicted''
theory published by Winget ini*.
The observations were madq
UT’s McDonald Observatot 1
West Texas during 100 nightsj
the past five years since the stall
first discovered by Dr. f.T. Md
at the University of Arizona.
The star is a member of a'
class of dying stars, much ® ( |
sun, which have exhausted
store of fuel and are now shrint
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