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le Auburn mo ^BILASILI A, Brazil (AP) — An air force jet car-
fter its 31-3 » mg Brazil’s land reform minister and seven
ler people exploded Tuesday night after tak-
aoners were nan-} off in the Amazon jungle.
>f 58 ballots casi Offic ials said there was little hope anyone sur-
panel of sports ,'ed.
adc asters and The minister, Marcos Freire, four top ranking
td ref orm ministry officials and a crew of three
oma received re aboard the small plane when it exploded
) 1,054 for V^rtly after takeoff from the Carajas iron ore
t thr ee lirst-ph ne in the northern state of Para, according to
6-12 victory me air force statement,
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lo. 3 UCLA, at The wreckage of the plane, identified only as a
San Diego Sta: > 2129, came down after the explosion about
rhichhad 947p "ee miles from the airstrip, the air force
ilv movement in tetnent said.
le when Aubi Military rescue teams were sent to search for
r flip-flopped I’vivors, but there was little chance anyone
>otie spot tofot ■‘Id st iH be alive after the explosion, the
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The cause of the explosion was not known, the
air force said.
Freire, 56, and the others were returning to
the capital of Brasilia after a visit to Belem, Para’s
capital.
With Freire were Jose Eduardo Viera Raduan,
34, the president of the National Institute of
Land Reform, and Dirceu Pesoa, the secretary-
? ;eneral of the Land Reform Ministry, the air
orce said.
Freire was the third land reform minister in
two years. He took office June 5, following the
resignation of Dante The Oliveira. Before that,
Freire had been president of the Federal Savings
Bank.
On Friday, Freire and Viera met with report
ers in Rio De Janeiro and expressed optimism
that the government’s agrarian reform program
would succeed.
There have been delays and pressures from
the conservative Rural Democratic Union led by
wealthy landowners opposed to any kind of land
distribution program.
When President Jose Sarney took office in
1985 after 21 years of military rule, he promised
sweeping changes in land distribution among the
people.
In Brazil, a country larger than the continental
United States, 1.6 percent of farmers own more
than half of the land.
Sarney pledged to distribute 88 million acres
of land among 1.4 million peasants over four
years.
So far only about 20,000 peasants have bene
fited.
Freire and Viera said last week they were con
fident that the constituent assembly presently
drawing-up a new constitution would approve an
agrarian reform plan.
Only large unproductive land would be expro-
piated and distributed to landless peasants under
the plan.
ast flurry of preparations under way
o welcome pope on upcoming visit
tond fen cons,
c, Washington — The Sunbelt cities that will
lessee. Arizona . et J> 0 p ( . John Paul II bustled with
ime, Michigan iy||y Tuesday, as Miami’s arch-
gh, Alabainhop blessed a rosary dangling
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nnessee, Notrt
Cal and a
d Georgia for? >m a skyscraper, workers spruced
in Slate, Pitt i the streets of Columbia, S.C., and
t the newcomfl ;ws decorated a huge outdoor al-
c Texas AiM‘inSan Antonio.
Cal and Honda Everywhere along the pontiff’s
in State mow ate, plans were being completed
a 27-13 victor.'the tightest possible security. Po-
Cal. Pitt beaiB'5, National Guardsmen and Secret
-17, and Alaba rvice agents were arranging to di-
ithern Mississipf rt rush-hour traffic, weld man-
l&M fell out alle les shut, station sharpshooters on
SU, and Forida afs and even make airliners
i. Fla. lowawasi mge course,
the Hawkevesb
ssic opener to “This will certainly be the biggest
the week beforc nbined law enforement effort in
—uth Florida’s history,” said Jack
Kippenberger, special agent in
charge of Miami’s Secret Service of
fice.
The pope arrives in Miami on
Thursday afternoon for a 10-day
tour of nine cities. From Miami, he
flies to Columbia, then New Orleans,
San Antonio, Phoenix, Ariz., Los
Angeles, Monterey, Calif., and San
Francisco. His final U.S. stop is in
Detroit, but before heading back to
Rome, he will visit Fort Simpson in
Canada’s Northwest Territories on
Sept. 20.
In Miami on Tuesday, Arch
bishop Edward A. McCarthy blessed
the rosary draping the Falls, a down
town office building just north of the
route the pope’s bulletproof car will
follow Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Cuban exile ac
tivists delivered a parchment peti
tion with replicas of 70,000 signa
tures to the archdiocese. Roberto
Pimental of Cubanos Desterrados
(Cubans without a home) said the
petition urges the pope to lash out at
Cuban President Fidel Castro’s per
secution of the Roman Catholic
Church.
While in Miami, the pope, who
survived a May 1981 assassination
attempt in St. Peter’s Square in
Rome, will be protected by 2,000
Dade police officers, 1,000 Miami
officers, 2,400 National Guardsmen,
900 state troopers, scores of Secret
Service agents and a contingent
from the Vatican’s own Swiss Guard.
They’ll be equipped with high-pow
ered rifles, bomb-sniffing aogs,
9mm semi-automatics and pistol-
grip grenade launchers.
In Columbia, city workers have
trimmed trees, cut grass and re
paved streets along the pope’s mo
torcade route from the airport to the
University of South Carolina foot
ball stadium. City spokesman John
Spade said that for the next two
days, workers would concentrate on
sweeping the streets.
Spade said the city also was build
ing a torce of business, license and
zoning inspectors to enforce the ban
on the sale of souvenirs along the
motorcade route. “We’re going to
crack down on that,” he said.
In New Orleans, workers at the
University of New Orleans tested the
sound system for a papal Mass with
30-second bursts of religious music
and set up some of the 1,725 porta
ble toilets to be clustered around the
site.
In San Antonio, crews placed ban
ners on twin 150-foot altar towers at
a 144-acre site for an outdoor mass
on Sunday that is expected to draw a
half-million people.
Mike Lanford, an architect with
Alamo Architects, which designed
the site at Westover Hills, said car
peting and altar furniture will be
placed later in the week as well as a
helium-oxygen-filled plastic cloud
that will hover 20 feet above the
pope, to shield him from sun and
rain and provide the illusion of a
cloud.
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iP 6 ? to host pope
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RK (AP) — Raini
U.S. Open tenia;• NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pope
uesday, halting ohn Paul II will speak to admin-
arterfinal betwe strators from the nation’s 232
ena Sukova anJatholic colleges and universities
ide-Kilsch. t the only predominantly black
ad won the fkchool in the bunch — Xavier
liling 1-2 in dieJniversity.
vripour stopped . “I am not sure there’s another
I Tennis Cente Catholic college in the United
itates that has our diversity in
round men's irjudent and faculty,” Norman
d-seeded Stefar i'Tancis, the first lay president of
ed Jonas Svensihe 72-year-old school, said.
, with Edberglt;: The faculty and staff are about
set. ia lf black and half white and at
had stopped ; sa st 40 percent of the faculty
> resume when members are women. Whites
itruck shortly 5Bake up 12 percent of the 2,000
brecast called : tu dents attending classes on the
t the day atampus near a poor black neigh-
•orhood called Gert Town,
ernoon, tournau Xavier began in 1915 as a high
tot made a dec ^hool founded by Katherine
call off the da -^exel of Philadelphia, who had
>rganized the Sisters of the
n to the Sukova-IMsed Sacrament to teach blacks
h, second-seedf Indians. It is the only college
lova was schet° gjow from that order.
Gabriela Sabair, Tor decades, Xavier’s main
rterfinal Tuesdi Unct »on as a college was to edu-
th-round men'sr a ^ e teachers for segregated
heduled to t* cnool systems.
»erg-Svensson, r Graduates include seven of the
)etween No. 3)!'! n * te d States’ 11 black Catholic
nseeded KenFIJ** s ^°P s — one °f thom Francis’
Mecir and Brother, Bishop Joseph A. Fran-
forde, and l«. ls °[ New f k ’NJ.
isnokov and l The y als « 1 1 nclude Ne u w ^r-
sans first black mayor, the first
xj a ^j'lack to hold a seat on the New
Ham Man<llil»j 0, ; k . . Sl ° ck E * cha "S.?. an f the
. , . trst black president of the Amer-
u <lin " ,llilc! can Pharmaceutical Association.
Brad Gilbert
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Corporation hosts 27,000 visitors
for 11-day computer sales pitches
BOSTON (AP) — The sultan of
Oman’s personnel director was there
Tuesday. So were four gentlemen
from the Taiwanese national Bureau
of Investigation, as well as the chief
of a data center for an Indiana
maker of diesel engines.
They were among the first of
27,000 guests from 25 countries ex
pected to go computer shopping at
Digital Equipment Corp.’s 11-day
sales pitch called DEC World ’87, the
largest trade fair in city history.
About 15,000 Digital workers also
were on hand.
While they were checking out the
goods at the World Trade Center on
Boston Harbor, the ocean liner
Queen Elizabeth 2 came rolling up
alongside, one of two ocean liners
summoned by Digital to help accom
modate guests.
The event is costing Digital about
$20 million but is expected to bring
in $1 billion in contracts, Digital
spokesman Elizabeth Slattery said.
Boston and surrounding commu
nities are expecting to make some
money too. The exhibition is ex
pected to bring $26 million in direct
spending, with a multiplier effect
that could pump up to $55 million
into the area’s economy.
To put visitors in a buying mood,
there was soft lighting, soft couches
and potted plants.
There were queues of men and
women in pin-striped suits waiting
for lunch passes on Tuesday, and
more lines to book their berths on
the QE2, where one of the 930
rooms normally costs $180 a night,
per person. The other vessel, the
Star Ship Oceanus, has about 1,100
rooms.
Mary Jo Anderson, front office
manager of The Bostonian Hotel,
said rooms in the city are scarce. She
said her 153-room hotel was full for
most of the next two weeks and that
a check of her computer showed
space available at only five of 30
other hotels in the city.
“I expect the others will be filled
by tomorrow,” Anderson said.
Digital, a leading supplier of net
worked computer systems, will dis
play 400 of its models during the
show, and also plans to unveil new
products company officials say
should help the company maintain
its record earnings pace.
By midday, Hassan Al-Raessi
looked fazed by all the possibilities.
“It’s just too much,” said the man
in charge of the 13,000 employees
for Sultan Quaboos ben Said of
Oman. He was accompanied by the
sultan’s computer expert in a search
for equipment to keep a better ac
counting of the royal household.
Each participant in DEC World
received a password to try out one of
the dozens of computers on display.
With that key the person could
check for messages on the DEC
World’s electronic mailbox, order
materials on Digital equipment, re
view the scheduled events and see a
list of Boston attractions.
Oil prices plummet below $19 a barrel
because of world supplies speculations
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices
dropped below $19 a barrel for the
first time in nearly two weeks Tues
day, pressured by speculation that
world supplies are continuing to out
strip demand.
The downward move was accele
rated by nervous traders unloading
contracts they had held over the
weekend in anticipation that prices
would remain within the $19 range,
analysts said.
Among refined products, October
contracts for wholesale unleaded
gasoline settled at 49.40 cents per
gallon, down 0.77 cent from Friday,
while wholesale heating oil closed at
50.85 cents per gallon, down 0.98
cent.
Meanwhile, the International En
ergy Agency, a group representing
21 Western oil-consuming nations,
said in Paris Monday that August
production by the Organization of
Petroleum Countries totaled 19.7
million barrels daily.
The figure, which jibes with other
recent estimates, is 3.1 million bar
rels a day more than OPEC’s official
aggregate quota.
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FRONT END
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$34.00 6 Cyl.
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