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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.
Meanwhile, a General Accounting
Office survey of 5,000 working con
trollers concluded that most believe
they are handling too many air
planes during peak hours and that
the heavy workload is “adversely af
fecting the safety of the system.”
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