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Rescuers offer
‘very little hope’
in oil rig disaster
ABERDEEN, Scotland (AP) —
Rescuers abandoned hope Thursday
of finding more survivors of an ex
plosion and towering fire that con
sumed the Piper Alpha platform
and killed up to 166 people in the
world’s worst oil rig disaster.
Ships continued combing the
North Sea’s frigid waters, but when
asked whether the rescuers had
given up hope, Energy Department
minister Peter Morrison said: “To be
honest, yes. At this stage there is
very little hope indeed.”
The rig owners said the probable
cause of the conflagration was a gas
leak, which a survivor said was
“screaming like a banshee” seconds
before the blast Wednesday night.
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
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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.
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Administration in Rockville, Md.
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maternal and infant health.”
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lished its 1990 health objectives
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Demonstrator killed in ethnic turmoil
first
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