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Officials said 65 rig workers sur vived, 16 bodies had been recovered and 150 people were missing, in cluding two lifeboat men who van ished into the flames while on a res cue mission. Survivors told of having to choose between trying to survive the flames in hopes aid would come and plung ing 150 feet into a blanket of burn ing oil that covered water cold enough to kill. “It was a case of fry and die or jump and try,” said Roy Carey, 45, whojumped. Rescue pilots described flames up to 400 feet high. The fire still flickered nearly 24 hours later. Prime Minister Margaret Thatch er’s government promised “a very, very deep and far-reaching inqviirv.” Questions arose about safety sta- dards in the high-risk industry, and opposition politicians claimed safety was neglected. Occidental Petroleum, owner of the Piper Alpha platform, said it be lieved a gas leak was to blame, but days or weeks would be needed to determine what caused and ignited it. Occidental said the three-quarters of the 649-foot-high rig was de stroyed. Derek Ellington, a 45-year-old rigger, said he was in a workshop near the control center when he heard the scream of “two gas leaks almost simultaneously, and about 30 seconds later there was the first ex plosion. It wiped out the control room and that was it. Our nerve cen ter was gone.” Andrew Sneddon, a university lecturer on offshore engineering in Aberdeen, said: “We can only as sume there was a leak of some sort. Basically, you are sitting on top of two highly flammable products — oil and gas. A leak or a spill is a poten tial hazard. It is extremely difficult to say what could have set it off.” The number of men still missing and the dim prospects for finding them alive seem certain to make the Piper Alpha explosion the worst oil rig disaster, surpassing the 123 deaths when the Alexander L. Kiel- land platform capsized in Norway’s North Sea waters in March 1980. World briefs Secretary urges need for drought bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Agri culture Secretary Richard E. Lyng met with six farm-state gov ernors Thursday and emerged saying the need for legislative ac tion to provide drought relief has now become urgent. “There’s a need to do some thing, it would probably take leg islation to do that and there’s a need to do it with some urgency,” Lyng told a news conference fol lowing the session with governors and key lawmakers. Lyng’s call for swift action was in marked contrast to past re marks that Congress should hold off on fashioning a drought relief package until it is certain of the extent of the damage wrought by sizzling temperatures and a short age of rainfall in the Farm Belt. Participants in the meeting at offices of the National Governors’ Association said they reached broad agreement on almost all fronts. They said farmers need more assurance that Congress will act this year and that there fore bill drafting should begin quickly. Bill-drafting sessions could start as early as next week in both the House and Senate Agricul ture committees, said the chair men of those panels. Mourners gather for dead in Tehran TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Pall bearers Thursday paraded 76 flag-draped wooden coffins through Tehran’s streets, where thousands of mourners shouted their anger at the United States for shooting down an Iranian jet liner and killing all 290 people aboard. “No compromise! No surren der! Fight with America!” shouted waves of marchers, who carried wreaths, anti-American posters and golden-framed pho tographs of the victims. The mass funeral started with a fiery speech from Iran’s presi dent, Ali Khamenei, who mocked American statements on the inci dent and calling for revenge. “The case is not closed in the opinion of those who are seeking retribution,” he said, referring to a remark by President Reagan that no more could be said about U.S. responsibility after one of its missile cruisers shot down the Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf on Sunday. Of the 290 people on the jet, 66 were children. There were 38 foreigners aboard. Not all the bodies were in Teh ran. Some were still in a refriger ated warehouse the gulf port city of Bandar Abbas, where relatives tried to identify loved ones. Infant health goals won’t be met ATLANTA (AP) — Most of the nation’s top goals for babies and pregnant women — includ ing a hoped-for reduction in the infant mortality rate — will not be met by the 1990 target date, fed eral health officials said Thurs day. “It’s certainly sobering and concerning,” said Dr. Ann Koontz, a specialist with the Health Resources and Services Administration in Rockville, Md. “This indicates that we have some significant problems relating to maternal and infant health.” The government in 1979 pub lished its 1990 health objectives for the nation, including 13 top- priority goals relating to preg nancy and infant health. Only three of those 13 goals are likely to be met, the national Centers for Disease Control said Thurs day in its weekly report. The GDC, using National Cen ter for Health Statistics data, pro jects that the infant mortality rate — infants dying before age 1 — will be 9.1 per 1,000 live births. Demonstrator killed in ethnic turmoil first MOSCOW (AP) — The death of a demonstrator in a monthslong ethnic dispute was reported Thursday in the south ern republic of Armenia, whose residents continued a strike that has devastated the area s econ omy. The government newspaper Izvestia said a resident of the Ar menian capital of Yerevan, Kh. Zakharyan, was seriously wounded on a highway Tuesday and died later in a hospital. It said a criminal investiation had begun. Izvestia reported that a “major part” of Armenia’s industry, con struction and transportation re mained idle Thursday. The Armenian press agency said Zakharyan was hit by a plas tic bullet fired by Soviet forces shortly after thousands of dem onstrators mobbed Yerevan’s in ternational airport on Tuesday to demand that aviation workers join the strike. The report Thursday was the first of Soviet forcep using guns against demonstrators since the peaceful protests in Yerevan be gan in February. 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