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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
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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
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■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.
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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|.lȤh 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.
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Honor student, class president
sues for remedial school tuition
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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.
After a year at Landmark, the
special school recommended she
spend another year there to prepare
for college. However, Henniker’s
school district refused to pay for it
and mailed Karen her diploma last
spring.
Her family is suing the school for
the $17,000 they paid in tuition dur
ing the second year.
She’s now a freshman at Salem
State College and works part-time at
Landmark coaching lacrosse, soccer
and other sports.
Ruling in the suit, the New Hamp
shire State Court said mailing the di
ploma was not a form of due process
and ordered a new hearing by the
state Department of Education.
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building. So the plane had to be
pulled to the ramp.”
The pilot did not say why the
lane could not taxi to the ramp, Na-
ajima said.
Several passengers said in inter
views on the Japan Broadcasting
Corp. that they heard a loud bang
while the plane was in the air.
The plane began to sway, tossing
around bags and shoes and causing
some stewardesses to fall, they said.
“It was just like thunder,” one of
them said. “The impact was so sharp
I thought all the windows were
going to be knocked out.”
Yoshinobu Kido of the Osaka Fire
Department said injured passengers
were taken to hospitals in fire de
partment ambulances. He said
names and nationalities of the in
jured were not immediately avail
able.
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