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Portugal — Exhausted firefighters using steel cables and bulldozers pried apart the burned and twisted wreckage of two trains Thursday to save injured passengers and retrieve the bodies of at least 46 people killed in Portugal’s worst rail way disaster. More than 100 people were in jured when an express train carrying hundreds of migrant workers to France crashed head-on Wednesday evening with a local train near this town in the mountains of central Portugal. The wrecked coaches derailed, rolled down a 33-foot embankment and burst into flames that spread to an adjoining pine forest The fire raged for nearly 12 hours and the neat was so intense that more than 10 hours after the blaze was extinguished, the area re mained hot and workmen needed heavy industrial gloves to handle the metal equipment. they were not certain exactly what happened. Five hundred firefighters con verged at the site. They worked through the night to rescue survi vors and free the charred bodies pinned inside the crushed coaches. Officials said they still were un sure exactly how many people were aboard the two diesel-powered trains. It was behind schedule and earlier reports suggested the collision oc curred when the express train did not wait for the oncoming Coimbra- bound local train to move onto a sid- “We know it was a human error that caused this tragedy, but we are not sure who was responsible — a signal man on the ground or the err gine driver of one of the trains,said Antonio Queiroz Martins, president of the Portuguese Railroad. More than 500 firefighters, 100 ambulances, ah force helicopters, paramilitary police and the Portu guese Red Cross converged on the disaster site between Mangualdeand Nelas in the mountainous Serra De Estrela region, 150 miles northeast of Libson. mg. But investigators of the state-run Portuguese Railroad said later that “People were being burned alive, shouting, jumping from the car riages and dying at the train win dows,” said one survivor, 37-year- old Duarte Santos Correia. Former narc plunges to death from plane Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Andrew Carter Thornton II, a former nar cotics officer and suspended lawyer who plunged to his death from a plane holding $14 million worth of cocaine, had a history of drug and arms involvement across the nation. “I’m glad his parachute didn’t open,” said Brian Leighton, an assis tant U.S. attorney in Fresno, Calif. “I hope he got a hell of a high out of that (cocaine).” He once prosecuted Thornton on a marijuana trafficking charge. The body of Thornton, 40, a na tive of Paris, Ky., was found Wednesday on a driveway in Knox ville, Term. He was heavily armed, carried 77 pounds of cocaine in an Army duffle bag, and was attached to a parachute that had failed to open. A key that investigators found on his body bore an identification num ber matching that of a plane that crashed while on autopilot earlier that morning, 60 miles away, Knox ville Detective Allen Hale said Thursday. Thornton joined the Lexington police in 1968 and stayed for nine years. In 1981, The Lexington Herald quoted sources as saying Thornton had set up the depart ment’s intelligence squad. Police Chief John McFadden veri fied Wednesday that Thornton served on the department’s narcotics squad from 1970 to 1973. Four years later he was among 25 men accused at Fresno, Calif., in a theft of weapons from the China Lake Naval Weapons Center and of conspiring to smuggle 1,000 pounds of marijuana into the United States. Numerous news reports in 1981 and 1982 linked the ring, which in cluded several former Lexington po licemen and other Kentuckians, to a larger group known as “The Com pany.” Thornton wasn’t charged in the China Lake weapons case, but was indicted at Fresno on one count of conspiracy to import a controlled substance and one count of conspir acy to distribute a controlled sub stance. Man shoots ex-wife in classroom Associated Press SELMA, Ala. — A man walked into a nurses’ class at George C. Wallace Stale Community Col lege on Wednesday, shot nis ex- wife to death and wounded two others before surrendering, the mayor said. Mayor Joe Stnitherman said the man, identified by police as Earl Jerome McGehee, 28, killed his former wife, Connie McGe hee. Stnitherman said a woman stu dent in the classroom was se riously wounded by the gunfire and another woman student ‘ ap peared to have been pistol- whipped.” When the shooting erupted, he said, “the rest scrambled out, left their belongings and just got out.” The two-year college has 1,400 students and leaches both voca tional and regular junior college coursewot k. Have you tried Stuffed PLezea from 6* ‘MZZ&T'PMI 303 WUNIVERSITY- 846-1616 Battalion Advertising All Recognized university organizations please pick up Aggieland ’86 Contracts In Student Finance Center boxes or in Rm 011 Reed Mc Donald. Contract deadline to reserve space in the yearbook is October 8. F T face Geo opei ago. T ute t T bent tang A and trad and ln g£ Bi touc victo dogs a To the p Al kins aectt howt “I mud ago said hook I thii best t “T AJ rill at “T but i bama bama tear c built Geor “T fense Geor] They fensn Th plete All-A Si M If you past few Texas A, campaigi urday. 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