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Salvadoran leader’s daughter,
university student still missing
Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —
Security forces recovered a stolen
red van used to kidnap President
Jose Napoleon Duarte’s daughter
and another woman, an official said
Wednesday.
But, despite a massive search,
there were no clues about the vic
tims’ whereabouts or fate.
Julio Adolfo Rey Prednes, the
president’s closest adviser, said
Wednesday that a second woman
was kidnapped along with Mrs.
Duarte Duran. He identified her as
Ana Cecilia Velleda, 23, a university
student and a secretary at the radio
station run by the president’s daugh
ter.
Officials said that lues Guadalupe
Duarte Duran, 35, was kidnapped
when she drove up to the New San
Salvador University, where she at
tends classes. Six'armed men in civil
ian clothes surrounded her car, shot
and killed the driver and wounded
one of her bodyguards.
Witnesses, who asked not to be
identified for reasons of safety, said
Fugitive
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — World War II
ended Wednesday for Sgt. Georg
Gaertner of Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel’s Afrika Korps, who sur
rendered in tears 40 years after flee
ing a prisoner-of-war camp in New
Mexico.
Gaertner, 64, who lives near
Denver under the name Dennis
Whiles, has written a book, “Hitler’s
Last Soldier in America,"’ published
Wednesday to coincide with his sur
render to the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service.
His book, published by Stein 8c
Day, was written with Arnold Krarn-
mer, a history professor at Texas
A&M University, author of “Nazi
Prisoners of War in America.”
He was the last of 2,000 escaped
German prisoners of war to be re
captured in the United States. He
has been married to a U.S. citizen
for 21 years.
INS Western Regional Director
Harold Ezell, who joined Gaertner
and his attorneys at a San Pedro
news conference, said he would
probably remain in the United States
out that deportation proceedings
would begin anyway.
“We feel that someday he will be
able to become a citizen of the
United States,” Ezell said.
Gaertner said: “I consider my
presence here today to be my most
precious act of my freedom.”
He wept as he described his 1945
escape from Fort Deming in New
Mexico, and the “horrors” of 40
years as a fugitive.
the men dragged Duarte Duran out
of the Toyota and took her away at
gunpoint in the waiting van.
Rey Prendes said police recovered
a red van which the kidnappers used
to get away from the university. He
said the van was found by police late
Tuesday at La Rabida, a lower mid
dle-class neighborhood in the south
eastern part of the capital.
A presidential source said the van
was one of four vehicles that gun
men, who claimed they were guerril
las, stole at gunpoint a few hours be
fore the kidnapping.
Security officials described the
kidnapping as one of the boldest ur
ban actions since the June 19 ma
chine-gun attack on two sidewalk
cafes that killed 13 people, including
four U.S. Marine guaras.
One presidential security officer
said “it was certainly the guerrillas”
who kidnapped Duarte Duran, but
none of the five groups that make
up the Farabundo Marti National
Liberation Front rebel coalition
claimed responsibility.
Neither did rightist death-squads
“You envision close calls all the
time,” he said. “You watch everybo
dy”
It was only two years ago that he
confided his past to his wife.
Yet, Gaertner said, “during my
freedom, I have lived my own ver
sion of the American dream.”
He said he escaped because he
knew Soviet troops had taken his
hometown of Schweidnitz, and
feared he would be placed in a slave
labor camp if sent back. He crept un
der a fence on Sept 21, 1945, and
hopped a westbound freight train
that took him to San Pedro.
Ezell said the FBI and INS had
forgotten about Gaertner, whose file
was dosed in 1976, until his attor
neys, Ronald T. Oldenburg of Ha
waii and Michael-John Biber of Los
Angeles, contacted them and ar
ranged the surrender.
Gaertner was “the FBI’s longest
outstanding fugitive,” Biber said.
The former POW said he re
vealed his past to his wife, Jean, only
after she threatened to leave him in
1983. He said marital problems
arose when he balked at taking jobs
in Hawaii as a construction estimator
and archictectural consultant on mil
itary installations and overseas,
which would have required a pass
port.
“Her bags were packed, and the
taxi was waiting,” Gaertner said.
“Faced with that, I told the truth to
her. She didn’t spurn me.”
“I’m so relieved,” his wife said of
his surrender. “I would not have
urged him to do this if I was not con
fident he would remain free.”
operating in* the country declare
their involvement.
Members of Duarte’s Christiaa
Democratic administration cod-
tacted Roman Catholic Church lead
ers, asking for help in locating
Duarte Duran.
President Reagan sent a message
to the Duarte family, offering to
provide whatever help was needed
in tracking down the kidnappers,
White House spokesman Lam
Speakes said in Washington.
The witnesses said Duarte Duran
was apparently unhurt when she was
carriea away.
Duarte Duran, the oldest of die
president’s six children, is the
mother of three children and studies
public relations and advertising at
the university. She is divorced.
She also directed Radio Liberty,a
rivate broadcasting station in San
alvador, and managed Duane's
successful presidential election cam
paign last year.
Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes,
Duarte’s closest aide, described the
president as “verv shaken but ven
firm.”
Titanic dead
could have
been saved
says scientist
Associated Press
WASHING ION — The man
who led the expedition that
found the sunken liner Tiunic
said today he has “no doubt” the
big loss of life could have been
averted if another ship, the Cali
fornian, had moved to rescue the
passengers.
Robert Ballard, chief sdentist
of the U.S.-French team, said the
Californian was “inside of 10
miles, perhaps as close as four
miles,” when the Titanic began
foundering after striking an ice
berg on April 14, 1912, and
“there is no doubt it could have
gone in there and rescued those
people.”
The captain of the Californian,
Stanley Lord, reported he was too
far from the doomed liner to
help. Another ship, the Carpa-
thia, did steam to the area and
helped rescue about 700 of the
Titanic’s survivors. More than
1,500 perished.
Ballard declined to be specific
about his evidence that the Cali
fornian, a Leyland liner, was
nearer the Titanic than it
claimed, except to say that Lord
“didn’t report his position right."
The Californian’s role in the di
saster has been debated for years.
Ballard, in a press briefing at
the National Geographic Society,
released new photographs of the
Titanic, some showing great de
tail, such as unbroken plates and
wine bottles.
The Titanic was found Sept. 1
by Ballard and other American
and French scientists aboard the
U.S. Navy research vessel Knorr,
about 560 miles off Newfound
land in 13,000 feet of water.
Nazi P.O.W. turns himself in
to U.S. immigration officials
Satellite survives encounter with comet
Associated Press
GREENBELT, Md. — A hardy
little satellite glided unscathed
through the tail of a comet and tem
peratures of one-half million de
grees Wednesday, in the first on-the-
spot sampling of a comet in human
history.
“From the human perspective,
from the project point or view, from
the scientific perspective, mankind’s
first encounter with a comet has to
be ranked an unqualified success,”
NASA scientist Edward J. Smith
said.
The satellite, called the Interna
tional Cometary Explorer, met Gia-
cobini-Zinner 44 million miles above
Earth and spent 20 minutes travel
ing through a tail 14,000 miles wide.
Its mission was to sample space
plasma, the electrically charged mat
ter that occupies most of the limitless
void.
Fears that dust might cloud the
spacecraft’s electricity-producing so
lar cells and reduce its ability to
transmit data proved groundless. So
did worries that even a gravel-sized
particle could change the direction
of the satellite’s antenna away from
Earth.
“It looks like very little happened
to it,” flight director Robert Farqu-
har, who had given the satellite only
a 50-50 chance, said at the Goddard
Space Center.
The preliminary results showed
that the comet was preceded by
some sort of shockwave, much like
that of a boat plowing through wa
ter. But scientists who had predicted
there would be such a nowshock
were puzzled.
“We see some kind of phenomena
which looks like it’s associated with
shock and yet we’re having difficulty
identifying the shock,” Smith said.
“In this shock-like region, condi
tions were very turbulent and you
really couldn’t get a very good han
dle on exactly what the situation was
because things changed so rapidly,”
he said. “But after a while things set
tled down and we saw a hot electron
lasma at temperatures up to about
all a million degrees fora while.”
He said then there was a rapid
drop in the temperature. Coming
out of the electrically charged tail of
the comet there was a stable distribu
tion of electrons for a while and then
things got more disturbed.
Some scientists had thought that
the comet, making a turn around the
sun every 6'/a years, would have little
influence on its space surroundings
But the first-hand encounter
showed, one scientist said, that
“there is a particle accelerator in the
sky.” Particle accelerators, also called
atom smashers, speed partides
along, then smash them to expose
what they are made of.
The five-foot-tall satellite was
launched in 1978 to study the solar
wind — charged particles that
stream from the sun. After complet
ing that task, it was diverted to the
“geotail” of Earth — measuring the
wake of the solar wind after it
curved around the planet.
When it appeared early in the de
cade that the United States would be
the only major space power not to
send a probe to Halley’s comet next
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