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Iranian missile hits oil terminal
in Kuwait; six reported injured
KUWAIT (AP) — An Iranian
Silkworm missile hit Kuwait’s off
shore supertanker oil terminal
Thursday, setting it afire and
wounding several people, officials
reported. None of the U.S.-flagged
tankers the Navy protects was in the
area.
It was the third Iranian missile at
tack in a week on the sheikdom
nestled between Iraq and Saudi Ara
bia at the head of the Persian Gulf.
The Kuwait News Agency quoted
officials as saying five people were
wounded and one remained hospi
talized. Shipping and diplomatic
sources said casualties were low be
cause no ships were loading at the
Sea Island terminal nine miles off
shore and fewer than the usual 20
men were on duty.
Iranian leaders have threatened
retaliation for a U.S. Navy artillery
attack Monday that destroyed two of
Tran’s offshore oil platforms. The
shelling was a response to an Iranian
missile attack last week that hit one
of the reflagged Kuwaiti tankers
near the sheikdom’s coastal oil facili
ties.
The missile strike came hours af
ter Iraq reported its second attack in
24 hours on a tanker in Iranian wa
ters. Tehran radio confirmed one of
the raids.
news agency. The government
lodged a formal protest.
London insurers raised their Per
sian Gulf rates later Thursday to
0.75 percent of the value of a ship’s
cargo, double the rate before the lat
est round of attacks on shipping by
both sides began in Septemoer.
Rates have risen steadily since the
Iran-Iraq war started in September
1980.
Sheik Salem al-Sabah, the defense
minister, said the Chinese-made mis
sile was fired from southern Iraq’s
Faw Peninsula about 50 miles away,
which is occupied by Iran.
He said Kuwaiti forces on a
nearby island detected the launch,
but he did not reveal whether they
tried to shoot the missile down.
Pentagon officials in Washington
said the missile definitely was a SI-
worm and it appeared the damage
was extensive.
They said the closest of the two
U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in tlitii
home waters — the damaged Sea
Isle City and the Gas Princess—"waj
10 miles away.”
In addition to the missile that
struck the U.S.-flagged Sea Isle City
on Friday, another a day earlier hit
an American-owned tanker flying
the Liberian flag- Both rockets were
believed to be Silkworms launched
from Faw.
One official said the Reagan ad
ministration was concerned aboui
the latest attack, but no U.S. retalia
tion was being considered because
“our policy is still quite clear: weare
there to protect American-flag
ships.”
A defense ministry spokesman de-
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scribed the Sea Island attack as "a
new Iranian aggression” in a
ried
statement carried by the official
Kuwaiti officials said the fire at
Sea Island was put out but gave no
details of the damage. Shipping and
diplomatic sources said it was “had.”
1 he 12th convoy of
tankers and U.S. Navy escort vessel:
left Kuwait earlier this week. Ike
Pentagon said it sailed through ike
Strait of Hormuz into the Gulfol
Oman T hursday.
U.S., Soviets resolve dispute
over West German missiles
MOSCOW (AP) — Secretary of
State George P. Shultz and Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard A. She
vardnadze “basically resolved” a dis
pute over West German nuclear mis
siles Thursday in talks both sides
described as productive.
The two, holding their third
round of negotiations this year, were
trying to settle the last sticking points
in a treaty to scrap intermediate-
range nuclear missiles.
But no date was set for a third
summit meeting between President
Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev, at which such a treaty
could be signed. Soviet spokesman
le subject
Gennady Gerasimov said
never came up.
Both sides agreed in principle to
the missile accord during Shevard
nadze’s visit to the United States.
Shultz is to meet with Gorbachev
on Friday and review the findings of
eight U.S.-Soviet working groups
that have tackled such issues as hu
man rights and chemical warfare.
The dispute over U.S. nuclear
warheads on 72 West German mis
siles appeared settled last month, but
was revived by Soviet negotiators in
Geneva.
Basically, the Soviets insisted that
the warheads, which can be fired
only with U.S. permission, be in
cluded in a prospective treaty to
scrap all U.S. and Soviet interme
diate-range missiles.
West German Chancellor Helmut
Kohl had offered to dismantle the
missiles after the pact was ratified
and to return the warheads to the
United States.
A U.S. official, briefing American
reporters on condition of anonym
ity, said the dispute now was “ba
sically resolved” in line with last
month’s formula.
Referring to Shultz’s scheduled
meeting Friday with Gorbachev, the
official said, “I don’t think this will
be a problem by the end of the day."
But he said some other issues still
were in the path of a treaty, includ
ing whether Soviet inspectors would
be permitted to inspect the disman
tling of U.S. cruise missiles in West
Germany, Britain, Italy and Bel
gium.
Nor would the official predict if a
summit date would be set during
Shultz’s two-day visit.
Noting that the verification prob
lems and missile-dismantling sched
ules are still outstanding, he said,
“I’m not prepared to predict they’ll
be all ironed out by Friday night,”
when the talks were scheduled to
break up.
And yet, assessing four hours of
talks between Shultz and Shevard
nadze, the official said "the talks
were very good today. People are
really working at solving problems.”
Taxi drivers
equip cabs
with 'hot seat
PARIS (AP) — Parisian tin
drivers, already armed agains;
hostile clients with a measure of
arrogance, savvy and an occa
sional dog, may soon be equi|r
ping their cabs with hot seats.
Packing 52,000 volts, “le siete
qui brule,” or “the seat that
burns," is designed to thwart
those who try to attack cab driv
ers.
With the push of a discreet!'
placed pedal, the taxi driver can
send the electricity coursing for
one second througn the back sear
stunning the passenger with ajolt
to the back of the neck.
Five prototype cabs with the
seats already are cruising the dtv.
and a cabbies’ union leader hopes
it will be available to all drivers
who want it by the end of the
year. There already are 100more
hot seats on order.
Russian poet earns Nobel Prize in literature
STOCKHOLM (AP) —Poet Jo
seph Brodsky, who calls his Russian
heritage and the freedom he found
in America “the best possible combi
nation,” won the Nobel Prize in liter
ature Thursday.
Brodsky was exiled from the So
viet Union as a “parasite” in 1972
and is now a U.S. citizen. He was
cited by the Swedish Academy for
creating poems “imbued with clarity
of thought and poetic intensity.”
He writes in both his native Rus
sian and in English and his works
have been translated into more than
a dozen languages.
Brodsky left school at age 15 and
once said he was educated at “the
University of Gulag.” He spent 18
months in a Soviet labor camp chop
ping wood, hauling manure, break
ing stones — and writing poetry.
“I belong to Russian literature but
I am an American citizen and I think
it’s the best possible combination,”
Brodsky told the Associated Press
Thursday.
He lives in New York’s Greenwidi
Village and has taught at several
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American colleges and universities
At 47, Brodsky is one of the
youngest writers to win the literature
prize, the world’s most prestigious.
He said that in the United States
he was “left alone to work in a far
more sensible fashion than I was in
Russia. I was more free. I still am.”
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Labor Department fines contractors for building collapse
WASHINGTON — The Labor Department OSHA, which waited lor the technical report
assessed a record $5.11 million in fines Thursday from the standards bureau before issuing fines,
against contractors for a half-built Bridgeport, cited Texstar Construction Corp. of San Antonio
Conn., apartment building that collapsed and with 238 instances of alleged willful violations for
killed 28 workers in April. A small bracket that using lifting brackets that did not meet federal
bent under heavy pressure triggered the disaster, standards. The bureau requires that they be able
investigators said.
to hold 2 Vs times the anticipated load.
Arnold Bai, an attorney for Lift Frame, vowed
to appeal the fine, saying the company disagrees
with much of the report.
Donald Emmanuel Jr., 25, son of a victim, said
after learning of the fines, said, “We’re angry
and someone has got to pay for taking 28 lives.’
“We found a serious disregard for basic, fun
damental engineering practices,” said Assistant
Labor Secretary John A. Pendergrass, chief of
the Occupational Safety and Health Administra
tion.
Fines for the April 23 collapse of L’Ambiance
Plaza, the worst U.S. construction accident of the
decade, are nearly double the previous OSHA
record fine.
OSHA and the National Bureau of Standards
said builders failed to conduct stress-analysis tests
to discover if the lifting brackets, steel pieces
about 4 inches by 12 inches, could hold up a stack
of concrete floors being inched into position.
Pendergrass said the “unacceptable design de
ficiencies” easily could have been detected with
“rudimentary engineering analysis.”
The company was fined $2.52 million.
TPMI-Macomber, the primary contractor and
project manager, was cited for identical willful vi
olations because it was contracturally responsible
for overall health and safety at the site, OSHA of
ficials said.
The enterprise, a joint venture of TPM Inter
national of Darien, Conn., and B.H. Macomber
of Boston, was fined $2.48 million.
The balance of the penalties was assessed
against Lift Frame Builders of Elmsford, N.Y.,
$104,000; Fairfield Testing Labs of Stamford,
Conn., $10,000; and Preforce Corp. of New
York City, $ 1,000.
Spokesmen for the two major contractors de
clined immediate comment, saying they have not
had time to receive and review the documents.
Texstar, responsible for lifting the floors, had
problems with the brackets twice before atL’Am-
biance and at a Stamford, Conn., project, Pen
dergrass said. But he said company officials
failed to take action.
The plate, part of a steel collar embedded in
the concrete slabs, holds metal rods attached to
hydraulic jacks atop steel columns. Under the
lil t-slab method, the jacks hoist stacks of 320-ton
concrete floors into position, with the plates
holding the rods in place.
Charles Culver, the standards bureau’s chief
investigator for L’Ambiance, said the building
should not have collapsed, but that inadequate
engineering throughout the structure made
other parts unable to hold the extra weight.
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