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Wednesday, October 2, 1985/The Battalion/Page 13 3n illustrious! % e propic rairdthentt by a md a Heisiri running lour yean i d a ung tocoadu liama. mian and Br MacDoweli (ball standw II. a past Arf inducted.' guard, vtasst al aable Plait named toil 'Land’52. WC asatadt AO. After Pi- in Ai-M, k the U.S. Nan NFL'sCrcs McDowell an IIv inducted: nball game. K )owell / i i \ World and Nation Pentagon accusing Czechs U.S. Army helicopter attacked Associated Press \ WASHINGTON — A U.S. Army helicopter flying a routine surveil lance mission along the West Ger man border was attacked without provocation over the weekend by a Czechoslovakian jet fighter, the Pen tagon disclosed Tuesday. The jet, described as a high-per formance L-39 fighter, fired two to four rockets at the helicopter but failed to hit it and then flew back across the border to Czechoslovakia, said Pentagon spokesman Robert B. Sims. The American helicopter was carrying two crewmen, neither of whom was injured. The United States filed a strong protest over the incident on Mon day, Sims said. He declined to an swer questions about whether the Czech government had responded to the protest or offered an explana tion for the attack. The State Department also re fused to discuss the protest. The incident occurred Saturday at 1 p.m. local time, or 7 a.m. EDT, north of the German city of Fre- yung, near the village of Finsterau, in airspace about one mile inside West Germany. “The attack, which took place in side Federal Republic of Germany airspace in clear weather, was ob served and confirmed by two sepa rate groups of German civilians,” Sims added. He said the helicopter was an Army AH-IS Cobra gunship, as signed to the 2nd Armored Calvary Regiment at the Feucht Army Air field outside Nuremberg. Helicopt ers from that regiment routinely fly daily surveillance missions along the border and there was no reason for the attack, the spokesman said. “It’s routine border reconnais sance to see if there is a change in fortifications along the border or an increase in troop concentrations and so forth,” Sims said, adding Ameri can pilots were under strict rules not to move any closer than 100 meters — or 330 feet — of the border. Although the spokesman said he knew of “no unusual tension in the region,” he added that Czech or other Warsaw Pact aircraft routinely violate German airspace in the re gion, which lies in southeast Ger many near the borders with Austria and Czechoslovakia. The incident on Saturday was the 17th such incursion since April, but the first in which an American air craft was fired upon, he said. The Cobra is an older type of heli copter gunship that saw extensive service in Vietnam. The Pentagon declined to say whether the copter involved in the weekend incident was carrying any missiles. Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 1985. There are 90days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On Oct. 2, 1835, the first battle of the Texas Revolution took. :e as American settlers de- 'eated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River. On this date: in 1780, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, In 1809, Indian political and ■ iritual leader Mohandas K. tndhi was born. 1919, President Woodrow suffered a stroke chat left him partially paralyzed. In 1941, German armies began Operation Typhoon, an all-out dnve against Moscow. In 1950, the comic strip “Pea nuts," created by Charles Schulz, was first published. In 1962, the television pro gram “The Twilight Zone” made its debut on CBS. In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a member of the US. Supreme Court, the black to lie appointed to the court. Ten years ago: President tier- aid R. Ford welcomed Japan’s Emperor Hirohtto to the United States. The Japanese leader indi cated regret over his country’s role in World War 11 and said he hoped his visit would contribute to friendship between the two countries. Five years ago: The U.S. House of Representatives voted to expel Rep. Michael J. Myers, D-Pa., who was convicted of brib ery and conspiracy in connection with the FBI’s Abscam probe. One year ago: President Rea gan said that as commander-in- chief he was fully responsible 1<» the Sept. 21) bombing of the U.S. Embassy annex in suburban Bei rut. Soviet kidnapping victims’ fate in Beirut still unclear Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon — A tele phone caller said Tuesday that two of four kidnapped Soviet Embassy employees had been killed, hut intel ligence sources said they were alive and the purported abductors pro duced photographs of them. The instant photos, in color, showed all four Soviets with guns at their heads. An accompanying mes sage said they would he killed unless a Syrian-backed offensive against fundamentalist Moslems in the northern port of Tripoli was called off. The photos were delivered to a Western news agency in Beirut with the statement which said: “We will start carrying out the death sentence on the first hostage at 9. p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) sharp unless the atheistic cam paign against Islamic Tripoli stops.” But as the deadline passed, there was no indication whether any action had been taken. Leftist militias backed by Syria, the Soviet Union’s main ally in the Middle East, have cornered fighters of the f undamentalist militia Islamic Unification in Tripoli, the port city 50 miles north of Beirut. Two of the men in the pictures were identifiable as the kidnap vic tims from pictures in their residence permits, photocopies of which were circulated by the kidnappers earlier in the day. Lebanese authorities veri fied that the permits were authentic. The telephone caller, claiming to speak for the f undamentalist organi zation Islamic Holy War, said earlier Tuesday that two of the Soviets had been killed, but Lebanese intelli gence sources said they were alive and had been held in west Beirut since they were seized there Monday in two separate abductions. The intelligence sources told The Associated Press all the Soviets were alive and that intelligence knew where they were in west Beirut, the Moslem sector of the capital. They said two were being held by the Hezbollah, or Party of God, and the others by Islamic Holy War, or Jihad Island. Both are fundamental ist Shiite Moslem groups. The anonymous caller said the two Soviets killed were the commer cial attache and the embassy doctor. When they were kidnapped Mon day, police identified the commer cial attache as Oleg Spirin and the physician as Nikolai Versky. A representative of the news agency said the same man had called several times during the day with statements. The intelligence sources said they could not do anything about the ab ductions because west Beirut is con trolled by militias. Experimental drug helps prevent AIDS virus from multiplying in tests Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — An experi mental drug stops the AIDS virus from reproducing and attacking blood cells in the laboratory, and ini tial tests show it can be given safely to AIDS victims, researchers said Tuesday. “I think this is very promising,” said Dr. Hiroaki Mitsuya of the Na tional Cancer Institute. “This is one of the most potent drugs” against the AIDS virus, he said. “T he advan tage of this agent is that it is less toxic in vitro,” or in the test tube, than other experimental AIDS medicines. T he new drug, known chemically as azidothymidine, has been code named compound S by its devel oper. The effort to treat AIDS has been stymied by the difficulty of attacking viruses in general and the virus that causes this lethal disease in partic ular. The new drug works by short- circuiting the chemical process that the virus uses to make copies of itself inside human white blood cells. Reports on experiments with the drug by Mitsuya and others were presented at a meeting of the Ameri can Society for Microbiology. Currently there is no effective treatment for acquired immune de ficiency syndrome, and victims often -die of so-called opportunistic infec tions, attacks by germs that healthy people easily ward off. More than 13,000 Americans have gotten the disease, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that the number will double over the next 13 months. Experts caution that more work will be necessary before they can say whether compound S will play any role in the treatment of AIDS. “No therapeutic claim has been made,” said Dr. Samuel Broder of the cancer institute. “I am cautiously optimistic that the virus can be de feated. And I am cautiously opti mistic that this drug can be devel oped, ”he added. Airliners still safest way to travel, official says Associated Press WASHINGTON — While ac knowledging problems in air safety, the chairman of the National Trans portation Safety Board said Tuesday that airliners are still “the safest way to travel” and the public should not be unduly alarmed by the rash of aviation accidents this year. But NTSB Chairman Jim Burnett told the Senate Commerce aviation subcommittee that the Federal Avi ation Administration has failed to respond to changes brought on by airline deregulation, including the rapid increase in the number of i small airlines and increased air traf fic. He said FAA inspectors are too | few in number and often have “a very gentlemenly” relationship with I the airlines they are supposed to : monitor. Breakdowns in commu- -nications and coordination among FAA Administrator Donald Engen disputed sugges tions that the rash of accidents reflect a less safe aviation system.“We’re keeping the system safe. I will not allow the system to become unsafe. ” air traffic controllers, especially in towers of busy airports, also remain “very disturbing,” he said. The hearing was called to exam ine a variety of air safety issues against a backdrop of an unprece dented string of airline accidents worldwide that has claimed more than 1,600 lives this year. FAA Administrator Donald Engen also disputed suggestions that the rash of accidents reflect a less safe aviation system. “We’re keeping the system safe, I will not allow the system to become unsafe,” Engen told the subcommit tee, promising to “bear down” on airlines to assure that they follow federal air safety regulations. But Engen rejected a suggestion that the FAA might have to restrict the number of planes allowed into the air, saying he has “found no rea son to constrain” traffic and pre ferred “to let air commerce flow freely.” The FAA plans to hire another 1,000 controllers over the next two years, but several witnesses agreed Tuesday that the problem stems not only from the number of controllers, but their lack of seasoning. “Taking care of peak traffic (loads) takes seasoned controllers . . . and it’s certainly-not a yet a seasoned force,’’ said Larry Jones, who headed a detailed examination of the FAA’s air traffic control system after more than 10,000 controllers were fired for staging an illegal strike in 1981. “I don’t see why the (air traffic control) system shouldn’t be under more stress today,” Jones said, not ing that airlines still focus many of their flights into congested airports during peak travel hours. 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