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Monday, October 27,1986/The Battalion/Page 11 -rrp T-. World and Nation hai jetliner accident injures 63,9 seriously ii/lm/iomi KlOKYO (AP) — A Thai Airways Ijetliner lost cabin pressure and be gan swaying violently after passen gers heard a loud bang, and police ;$aid a hole three feet in diameter was found in the cabin floor after an jiergency landing. They said 63 ople were hurt, nine seriously. Police spokesman Kunio Otsuka Isaid the bang sounded shortly after 8 p m. as the A-300 Airbus was fly ing at 33,000 feet, about 145 miles west of Osaka International Airport. He said the cause of the noise and drop in pressure was not known. I He told the Associated Press in a s telephone interview that the hole 4was found in the rear cabin floor af ter landing, but refused to elaborate. ■Ht’s too early to tell,” he said when asked if there was an explo sion. He said some people were hurt when the cabin pressure dropped and they were tossed around, and others were hurt when the plane braked sharply in landing. Yujiro Miyoshi, a Transport Min istry official at the airport, said 247 people, including 14 crew members, were on Flight 620 from Bangkok to Osaka via Manila, the Philippines. He said the plane radioed at 8:19 p.m. that it had a loss of cabin pres sure and wanted to make an emer gency landing. The airport cleared a runway and had ambulances and Fire trucks standing by when the airplane, zig zagging somewhat, landed at 8:40 p.m., Miyoshi said. Tokuo Nakajima, another Trans port Ministry official at the airport, said, “The plane came to a halt at the end of the runway and its captain ra dioed that he could not taxi the plane to the ramp of the airport l fom Landn t in the second! rung at lib: m Dorseu'i mi touchdw aids and got ling dav in 4 !() yards on!: in passes fori cl on seven ol ms against tk linebacker L| 1 knee iniim Leagi Mint expects scramble for gold coins I WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Mint, caught off guard last week by the puolic clamor for its new American Eagle gold coin, expects to suffer an embarrass ment of riches Monday when ypalers scramble for the limited RP^- ■The first general-circulation _J\J.S. gold coin in more than a hall-century has proven to be a ^definite winner with the public. Government officials hope to capitalize on that interest by un veiling a sister silver bullion coin Wednesday. ■The gold coin went on sale Oct. 20 The next day red-faced offi cials at the Mint had to announce sales were being suspended be cause the supply of 800,000 coins had been snapped up. nThe Mint hastily put into oper ation a back-up plan in which it will hold sales each Monday and will allocate the available coins among the 25 primary dealers. j|iFor the sale Monday, the Mint will offer 152,000 ounces of gold coins, all that its bullion deposi tory in West Point, N.Y., has been able to produce in the past week, working 24-hour shifts, seven days a week. JS^The Mint is not selling the Coins directly to the public, but is instead distributing the coins to ■hmM 25 primary dealers worldwide who then resell the coins to a net work of precious metal dealers, coin shops, brokerage firms and banks. NAtCOWO tost w i t ft Centro! ondoy’s&M American hostage to spend birthday in Lebanon again WASHINGTON (AP) — Ameri can journalist Terry Anderson is thought to be spending his 39th birthday in a small, airless room somewhere in Lebanon today, and wondering after more than 19 months in captivity whether he’ll ever see his family, friends and country again. It’s the second time Anderson is marking a birthday in captivity, and he can probably look forward to cake, a taste of ice cream and French pastry cups, according to a man who shared a room with him for a year. Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, 51, a Roman Catholic priest who was released in July after 19 months in captivity, said the Lebanese captors usually provided a little treat for the American hostages on their birth days. “They made birthdays special,” he said in a recent telephone interview. “They would stay with us and have our cake and ice cream with us. They would buy French pastry cups.” When the guards fraternized with their captives, they insisted the Americans wear blindfolds, Jenco said. Sweets were a treat for the cap tives, whose fare normally consisted of bread and cheese and, occasion ally, fruit and vegetables, Jenco said. Jenco has said he was held with three other Americans in a small room: Anderson, the Associated Press’ chief Middle East correspon dent, David Jacobsen, 55, of Hunt ington Beach, Calif, and Thomas Sutherland, 55, of Fort Collins, Colo. The Rev. Benjamin Weir, who was freed in September 1985, was confined with the men for a time. The men, who were moved around Lebanon, were locked in a windowless, 12-foot-by-15-foot room, Jenco said. They are thought to be guarded by members of Is lamic Jihad, a loosely knit radical Lebanese Shiite organization with ties to Iran. The Jihad claimed last October to have killed another American hos tage, William Buckley, but his body was never found and some U.S. offi cials believe he may have died ear lier, perhaps under torture. The captors demand that Kuwait release some of the 17 prisoners charged in the 1984 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies there. Three other Americans have been seized in west Beirut over the past two months, but Islamic Jihad has denied involvement in those kidnap pings. Last year, on his 38th birthday, Anderson was allowed to watch a Beirut television broadcast of a vi deotape made for him by his family, said his sister, Peggy Say of Batavia, N.Y. ew therapy form reduces hizophrenia relapse rate JpRLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A new form of therapy for Hives of schizophrenics has dramatically reduced the , w relapse rate of the schizophrenics in the first nine r»0rK5Dl|™ hs a f ter their discharge from the hospital, a new 'net M(D“ s ‘ ud y tlias shown - „ , In families receiving the therapy, “parents were less -1 . Zojpkfly to be critical or guilt-inducing to the patient,” said i/r-i-Hof the study’s authors, Jeri Doane, a psychologist at IU, MS. the Yale Psychiatric Center in New Haven, Conn. s Jnlcontrast, schizophrenic patients were almost cer- -- jo relapse and return to the hospital within nine /\f|.l»§h s when the new form of family therapy was not ~ n to ’ families with negative emotional climates, esaid. Schizophrenia has typically been treated with a corn- nation of drugs and individual therapy for the pa- ent, but without therapy for the patient’s family, said oane, The new style of family therapy was developed by an Failoon of the University of Southern California in k)s Angeles, with whom Doane has collaborated on a tries of recent studies. “It’s a radically different approach to the family the rapy of schizophrenia,” Doane said in an interview Sat urday during the annual meeting of the American As sociation for Marriage and Family Therapy. “You teach them basic facts about the illness, its course, prognosis and causes,” she said. “But more im portantly, the treatment focuses on providing the fami lies with tools for managing the patient’s illness.” Carol Anderson, a family therapist at the University of Pittsburgh who has developed her own family the rapy for schizophrenia, said of Doane’s work, “I think the methods have great value.” The researchers studied 36 families of schizophren ics— 18 in which the new therapy was used with family members and 18 in which therapy was given only to the schizophrenic patient. In both groups, drugs of the cat egory called neuroleptics were given to the patient. The 18 families in which neuroleptics and only indi vidual therapy were used were found to experience a significant rise in emotional tension, Doane said. “If you neglect to do this (new therapy) you’re not just leaving people where they are,” she said. DFT LENSES \R SOF Honor student, class president sues for remedial school tuition versityDf' BOSTON (AP) — Karen Morse s voted president of her senior s and student council president id was elected to the National onor Society. She captained the rl’s soccer team and won letters in o other sports. But for nine years neither her tea- icrs nor her friends knew she ildn’t read. Now the young woman voted the udent with the “most school spirit” suing her high school in Henniker, Hi to cover bills at a special school 'here she caught up on learning. Karen says she was labeled “learn- g disabled” in the ninth grade. But tot until the end of her junior year f t 1983 was she diagnosed as yslexic. I She got as far as the ninth grade only by cheating, she said during a visit to Boston. “I did a lot of taking other kids’ papers, erasing their names. It was a question of survival,” said Karen, now a 20-year-old college freshman. After school authorities discov ered her reading problem, she com plains, they did little more than as sure her she wasn’t stupid. “There was no remedial work at all.” Her reading was still extremely poor, but she made it into the Na tional Honor Society in her senior year because her dyslexia was taken into account. A special tutor was called in to teach her six days a week. Although she gave a speech at her class’ graduation, Karen did not for- _ mally graduate so Henniker High School would pay her tuition at the Landmark School of Beverly, which specializes in helping dyslexics. 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