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tmmmmmaummmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmm 3// Austin woman gives $65,000 AIDS causing unrest, fear Yeoman's Coogs won't need to aid rebels in Nicaragua in prisons around country any divine providence in '85 — Page 4 — Page 5 — Page 5 H Tne Battalion Vol. 80 No. 190 GSPS 045360 6 pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 14,1985 ose o signs of more survivors in JAL wreckage Associated Press ^ MT. OSUDAKA, Japan — Res cuers who saw a hand move in the Iwreckage of a JAL plane Tuesday found Four people alive, apparently the only survivors from a jumbo jet that crashed on this remote moun tain with 524 people aboard. It was the world’s worst single-plane air di saster. Part of the vertical tail fin of the Boeing 747SR was found 90 miles away, along a route the plane fol lowed before veering off course. In- Ivestigators said that might explain why the pilot lost control of the Ja pan Air Lines jet, which crashed Monday shortly after takeoff. : Searchers told reporters at the Arsonists set Mandela’s home on fire Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Arsonists set fire Tuesday to the home of Winnie Mandela, wife of South Africa’s imprisoned black leader, and she accused security po lice of setting the blaze, i Mandela said the country’s white government has “declared war on tne oppressed people of this coun try.” ‘‘It is the local security (police) branch sent by their bosses, Man dela told reporters as she inspected the charred remains of her posses sions at the gutted house in the black township ofTirandfort. “What they are trying to destroy is a symbol of resistance, the wife of Nelson Mandela said. He is leader of the outlawed African National Con gress and since 1964 has been serv ing a life term on convictions of plot ting sabotage. Mandela was in Johannesburg when the fire broke out. Police blamed the fire, which gutted her home and an adjoining clinic, on “unknown arsonists.” Elsewhere in South Africa, police reported renewed violence in a half dozen black townships and six more people killed. According to figures compiled by the South Alrican Insti tute of Race Relations, 604 people have been killed in nearly a year of racial violence. Speculation that the government plans concessions to the black major ity were dampened when Cabinet minister Gernt Viljoen was quoted as saying there was no question of al lowing the nation’s 24 million blacks to have joint political representation with whites. Cooperation and Education Min ister Gerrit Viljoen told an evening meeting that under coming political reforms “the white will exchange his former position of dominance and only decision-maker for one of part ner.” But, he added, laws would protect white “residential areas, schools and politics.” President P.W. Botha is to address the governing National Party con gress on Thursday. The state-con trolled radio quoted Viljoen as rul ing out a common voters’ roll and saying segregation of schools and housing will continue. Viljoen is minister of cooperation ana educa tion. The fire at Mandela’s home de stroyed virtually everything in the gutted buildings. The attack came a week after po lice raided Mandela’s home in pur suit, they said, of rock-throwing demonstrators. Mandela’s lawyers kept her at an undisclosed address in the Johannesburg area after the Aug. 6 raid, saying they feared for herlife if she returned to Brandfort. Mandela, herself a prominent na tional figure, has lived in Brandfort since 1977 under a state order ban ishing her there. Visiting U.S. Rep. Stephen Solarz reported after meeting Botha this week that the South African presi dent compared the jailing of Man dela with that of Nazi war criminal Rudolph Hess, still held in Spandau prison in Berlin. densely wooded crash site there were no further signs of survivors from Flight 123, a summer holiday- season run from Tokyo to Osaka. Its crew reported shortly before the crash that a rear door was broken and they could not control the plane. The survivors were a mother and daughter, another young girl and an off-duty stewardess. Rescuers said debris had shielded them after the crash. Among the passengers were 21 foreigners, including six Americans. The large piece of tail fin was found at sea, about 90 miles south east of the crash site along the path the jumbo jet followed before veer ing sharply north. A pilot cannot control lateral di rection without the vertical rudder, but can control altitude by varying engine thrust, said Ryo Saji, another JAL spokesman. Leaders of the search party said they still had not found the in-flight voice recorder, which might provide some clues to the crash. There was no immediate explana tion why the rudder piece had fallen into the sea. Aviation specialist Ku- nio Yanagida told Kyodo News Serv ice the broken door might have popped out and snapped off part of the tail fin. Some of the 2,000 rescuers at the crash site were lowered from heli copters. Others climbed for four agh a ridge on 5377-foot Mt. Osudaka where the crashing plane left an L- shaped swath of destruction. “Some of the search teams saw a hand moving in the debris,” said To- kuo Kurosawa, a volunteer from nearby Uenomura, about 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. Shinji Watarai, general manager of public relations for JAL, told a news conference the four survivors “were found inside the body of the plane. They were seriously wounded and could not move by themselves.” He said they were in the 54th of theplane’s 60 rows. The survivors were taken by mili tary helicopter to the hospital in the nearby town of Fujioka. Television pictures showed two of them on stretchers, dirty, battered and ban- daged. They were identified as Mrs. Hi- roko Yoshizaki, 35; her daughter, Mikiko, 8; Keiko Kawakami, 12, and Yumi Ochiai, 26, the off-duty stew ardess. Rescuers said they found about 50 bodies, most of which had not been identified. The 21 foreigners on the passen- g er list were six Americans, two West Germans, two Italians, one Briton, two people believed to be Indian and four believed to be Chinese residents of Hong Kong, JAL spokesman Ge offrey Tudor said. The Americans listed were Ed ward Anderson, 47, of Englewood, Colo., and Michael Hanson, 40, of Aurora, Colo., both employed by Stearns Catalytic Co. of Denver; Ward Wallach, 26, a student from the Los Angeles area, and three members of a family named Kim — Mrs. Okja Kim and two males, Christopher and Scott, whose home addresses were not given. Watari said there was no indica tion from the pilots of an explosion before the crash, but the airline has tightened security procedures. Kyodo, the news agency, quoted police as saying two callers identify ing themselves as “radicals” claimed to nave blown up the plane. Gas production halted in wake of chemical leak Fish Out of Water Photo by Scott Sutherland country Assembly Tuesday. Associated Press INSTITUTE, W.Va. — Union Carbide Corp. announced Tuesday it is temporarily suspending produc tion of aldicarb oxime, the poison gas involved in a chemical leak that injured 135 people, and acknowl edged its computer tracking system never was programmed Tor the chemical. “I am sure if we had used the sys tem correctly, it would have worked better,” said company spokesman Thad Epps. The tracking system erroneously told workers that Sunday’s leak was contained over the Institute plant site. Carbide has blamed it for a 20- minute reporting delay that allowed a toxic chemical cloud to settle on nearby homes before warning sirens sounded. “We substituted a chemical with close to the same components,” Epps said. “We got reasonably good pro gramming. ’ The production halt was an nounced as a delegation of top fed eral officials, including Environmen tal Protection Agency Administrator Lee Thomas, inspected the plant. “After looking at the operation, I have a heightened sense of ur- S :ncy,” Thomas said after viewing e tnree gaskets that failed, sending a toxic cloud of aldicarb oxime over houses nearby. “There needs to be more atten tion given by plant personnel and more focus on the actual chemicals involved,” he said. “Also there could be more safety equipment installed in case of another incident here or elsewhere in the future.” The company has acknowledged in an internal report that aldicarb oxime is capable of causing cancer, infertility, and “irreversible” nerve damage. But company officials said Tues day that residents were exposed only to low levels of the gas during Sun day’s leak and they disputed reports that the chemical is as toxic as methyl isocyanate, the gas that killed 2,000 people last year at Bhopal, India. Tne Institute plant also is the only U.S. producer of MIC. Union Carbide said it was halting the use of aldicarb oxime until offi cials know how the accident oc curred. Despite the production halt, Epps said that aldicarb oxime is only one- tenth as deadly as MIC when tested on laboratory animals. Epps said he could not say what would constitute a toxic dose for hu mans. Nearby residents exposed to the gas need not fear long-term health problems, said Vernon N. Houk of the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. “There’s no long-term toxicity once exposure is stopped,” he said. Gas prices expected to fall as much as 10 cents Associated Press WASHINGTON — Consumers can expect to pay at least a nickel and maybe as much as a dime a gal lon less for gasoline by Christmas as a surge of imports forces U.S. refin ers to reduce profit margins and cut wholesale prices. Both government and private economists agree that gasoline im ports are having more of an effect on reducing the price motorists pay at the pump than OPEC’s inability to halt a continuing gradual erosion in crude oil prices. The Energy Information Admin istration, a statistical and analytical arm of the Energy Department, pre dicts in its latest “Short-Term Out look” published this week that retail gasoline prices will fall from an aver age $1.22 a gallon in June to $1.13 by the first quarter of 1986. Wholesale prices already have dropped a nickel a gallon in the last montn. And the lower prices that first began appearing in the North east, the Gull Coast and West Coast markets are beginning to make their way inland, according to private ana lysts. Normally, residential heating oil prices could be expected to begin ris ing this month as homeowners fill their tanks for the winter. But even that is not occurring this year. The EIA says consumers this fall can expect to pay about 3 cents per gallon less, or $1.02, for home heat- ingoil than they did a year ago. The sayings on gasoline and home heatim prices diets residential crease an average 4 percent for all of 1985 and another 4 percent next year — to an average $8.33 per 1,000 kilowatt hours. Natural gas, the other primary fuel for keeping homes warm in win ter, is expected to cost slightly less than it did during the coldest months last season. Death certificate changed Just 24 years later... Associated Press AUSTIN — A judge ruled Tues day that an Agriculture Department official yvhose death 24 years ago was linked to former President Lyndon Johnson by a convicted swindler was the victim of murder, not suicide. State District Judge Peter Lowry said it was “clear and convincing ’ that the 1961 gunshot death of Henrv Marshall was not self-in flicted and ordered Marshall’s death certificate changed. At the time of his death, Marshall was investigating Billie Sol Estes, a flamboyant Yvest Texan who claimed close ties to Lyndon B. Johnson. Estes eventually was con victed of fraud over a non-existent fertilizer business. Marshall’s body had been hit five times with shells from a bolt-action rifle, but local authorities had called the death a suicide. Marshall’s widow, Sybil Marshall, who had tears welling in her eyes, was unable to comment after the verdict, which followed a day-and- half hearing. Assistant Texas Attor ney General Lou Bright unsuccess fully argued that there wasn’t any new evidence to justify changing the cause of death . Marshall died in a central Texas cotton field in 1961. A local justice of peace ruled suicide. There were five .22-caliber rifle wounds in his side, a cut on his head and a 15 percent concentration of carbon monoxide in his lungs. Phil Paschall, former Robertson County district and county attorney, testified Tuesday that he presented the 1961 death to a 1984 grand jury because he had heard “rumors” it wasn’t suicide. Former Texas Ranger Capt. Clint Peoples, who investigated the 1961 slaying, said Monday there was no a uestion that Marshall was mur- ered. He said there was evidence of “a terrific struggle” at the death scene. House Speaker tori Associated Preas AUSTIN Gib lidu sistant, former Rep. Neal T. "Buddy” Jones. ' Lewis said Rep. Gordon “Doc” Arnold Jr., D-Terrell, would re place Jones, who will practice law in Austin. A special election will be called to choose Arnold’s successor in the Legislature, Lewis said. AmofcLSS, isa 1971 graduate of Baylor University. Officials appointed Associated Press AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White on Tuesday reappointed former White House press secretary George Christian, who now is ah Austin political consultant, to the Texas Historical Commission. Lunelle Anderson of San Mar cos, assistant to the president of Southwest Texas State Univer sity, was appointed to the com mission, and Virginia Long of : Kilgore was reappointed. whose term expired. The three new terms extend to Jan. 1,199 L