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Among the survivors was a British passenger who said he and his wife, holding their 8-month-old son, jumped from the wreckage moments before it went up in flames. The jet missed the runway by several hundred yards. It tore through a wooden house, clipped a garage, demolished a brick house under construction and plowed through the parking lot of a car rental agency, destroying 75 cars, au thorities said. Only one injury was reported on the ground in the town of Fiumicino, 21 miles southwest of Rome. An occupant of the wooden house, Carlo Satta, 30, was hit on the nose by a beam as he slept in bed. The majority of those aboard were Ugandans. The British Embassy in Rome said the passenger list included the names of seven or eight Britons, includ ing a dual national. Two Nigerians were listed among the injured. By early evening, airport authorities said they did not have all the names and nationalities of the dead. Flight 775 began at London’s Gatwick airport late Sunday and was headed for Entebbe Airport in Uganda after a sched uled one-hour stopover in Rome. The Italian news agency ANSA said the jet was making its third attempt to land at the seaside airport when it crashed at 12:31 a.m. It did not cite any source. himself upside down in his seat and still strapped in by his seatbelt. The commander of Rome Province's fire department, Guido Chiucini, who helped coordinate the rescue, said the control tower and the pilot might have misunderstood each other since the land ing was begun at a very low/altitude. He did not elaborate. But the air traffic contHtw' n-ri said there was no misunderstand! also provided no details. A spokesman for the airport adr. tration said on condition of ajonjt that tape recordings of conversataj. tween the tower and the crew m turned over to authorities. Authorities also reportedretrieraji flight data recorder. World Briefs But one survivor said a flight atten dant told him shortly before the crash that the aircraft made one attempt to land, was forced to circle because of the fog, and was about to try another land ing. The passenger, John Harigye, former Ugandan ambassador to the Vatican, told reporters from his hospital bed that he next felt a violent collision and found Supreme Court may convict man for burning flag WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su preme Court agreed Monday to consider reinstating a criminal conviction in the freedom-of-expression case of a protes ter who burned an American flag at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals last April threw out the conviction of See related story, page 1 Gregory Lee Johnson, who had been sentenced to one year in jail and fined $2,000. Johnson was arrested on Aug. 22, 1984, while participating in a demonstra tion against the Reagan administration and the Republicans. The protest had culminated with a rally in front of Dallas City Hall that in cluded political chants and the flag burn ing. Johnson was convicted by a jury of vi olating a state law banning the dese cration of a venerated object. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said, “Given the context of an organized demonstration, speeches, slogans and the distribution of literature, anyone who observed (Johnson’s) act would have un derstood the message that (he) intended to convey. The act for which (he) was convicted was clearly ‘speech’ contem plated by the First Amendment.’’ The state court said the Texas law against flag desecration is too broad be cause it seeks to curb expression likely to cause “serious offense.’’ Police officers who arrested Johnson said they were seriously offended by the flag burning. There also was testimony that the charred fragments of the flag were col lected by an employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who was so upset that he later buried the flag’s remains in his backyard. But the state court said seriously of fending someone is not the same as incit ing to riot — an activity that permits re straints on free speech. “One cannot equate ‘serious offense’ with incitement to breach the peace,’’ the state court said. The state court also rejected argu ments by law enforcement officials that the anti-desecration statute legitimately preserves the flag as a symbol of unity. Pact assures U.S. of Pacific military bases WASHINGTON (AP) — Final agreement was reached today on a military pact between the United States and the Philippines that en sures continued U.S. use of crucial Pacific air and naval bases while boosting American aid to the Asian nation. “It is a very important achieve ment,’’ Charles E. Redman, the State Department spokesman, said. Negotiators for the two govern ments worked on final details until a few hours before the ceremony. “We have reached basic agreement,” Red man said, saying no details m left over for negotiators to grappii with later. The agreement covers use of Jt two largest U.S. military outposs abroad — Clark Air Base andSiik Bay Navy Base — and four small: installations. On Sunday, Manglus said the pj; included $481 million in annualps ments, other U.S. concessions, agreement on nuclear weapons si U.S. hacking for a bond pro® aimed at reducing the Phil $28 billion debt. Rescuers make f inal ef f ort to save whales BARROW. Alaska (AP) — Three young whales trapped by ice were battered and bleeding and appeared to be weakening Monday, while a huge military helicopter prepared to tow an ice-breaking barge hundreds of miles in a last-ditch effort to free them. Rescuers used chain saws to keep two small breathing holes open in the 6-inch thick Arctic Ocean icc, but freezing temperatures threatened to close them. The whales became trapped nearly two weeks ago while migrating south to warmer waters. The endangered California gray whales, about 24 to 30 feet long. were bleeding and battered from:a ^ tiniKillv hashinp info fhp iaoo^. tinually bashing into the jaggs!t and were exhausted from swii against the ocean currenltom place. WAS1 el cal ■prenal iy to r eased gfXpaver "“The ion hi to t men- eive a ser irmat Idy co: he p otit tryin [eh pr rovii car But it tan Jeep ptervic Tn ‘Our lefl avc ba ien i am said ‘ ‘They don’t look as spiy.aix! movements arc diminished.' M orris of the National Mannefclf ics Service said Monday. ‘Hie whales were trapped abcc | miles northeast of this InupiatEii village. They were only a fe»c dred feet offshore in 45 feet of with their largest breathing holeim 10 feet bv 20 feet. -pagi |‘As i: ter is Sc iity o he n ien i ince lemit; |e, or lealtf 240 arrested in peace demonstration WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1,000 demonstrators created a com muter nightmare Monday but failed to achieve their goal of blockading the Pentagon during a boisterous pro test of American policies toward El Salvador. Authorities said about 240 men and women were arrested and reported scattered episodes of fights between police and demonstrators. The demonstration, sponsored by a coalition of six peace groups, began at 5 a.m. EDT and extended into early afternoon. The protesters suc ceeded in forcing Defense Depart ment workers to abandon the huge parking lot south of the Pentagon — which normally accomodates 3,700 cars — and to run a human gauntlet through selected entrances to get to m led, their offices ^H)lcm Glenn Flood, a Pentagon spc'PDjLc man. said, “They didn't shutiil^lc 0111 the building; they just createdahl inconvenience and long walks Police arrested several when they sat in aroadloblockrl itary bus from entering the pahj lot. One demonstrator sprayed: paint across the front of a bus. M ters then pushed one Defense LB) live Service officer to the tnuK when he tried to arrest thedeirT tor and beat the officer before officers rescued him. Used lyer \ Other protesters went to a r-ML ., ,i c.l .o a helicoptei^ i ^ the Pentagon, where they [ i n Wao In crosses hearing the names otpsi »| ^ who have died in El Salvador Er.. ■ ew th Workers find large cracks in jet lung WASHINGTON (AP) — A foot-long crack and 29 smaller cracks were discov ered by chance on a Continental Airlines Boeing 737 recently in roughly the same area where a similar Aloha Airlines jet broke apart in flight last April, officials said Monday. Metallurgists from the National Trans portation Safety Board were examining the 30-inch section of the aircraft where the cracks were found along a “lap joint,” or section where the outer metal skin overlaps, near a window of the first- class section. NTSB Chairman James Kolstad said the chilling discovery was made by Con tinental workers Oct. 5 when they began stripping paint from the 19-year-old Boeing 737 to prepare it for repainting. Kolstad, in a speech delivered to an aviation group in Montreal, called the discovery frightening in part because the cracks were found by chance and be cause they were in the same general area where the Aloha plane broke apart. But Federal Aviation Administration officials cautioned against comparing the Aloha incident and the cracks found on the Continental plane. One FAA official, speaking on condi tion of anonymity, said the cracks on the Continental jet were found at a point lower on the aircraft near a window and where there apparently had been repair work performed by a previous owner of the plane. The Aloha incident, which remains under investigation by the NTSB, is widely believed to involved cracking caused by corrosion, but corrosion does not appear to have been a factor in the cracks on the Continental aircraft, this official suggested. An FAA spokesman. Bob Buckhorn, said the agency expects to issue a new di rective soon to airlines broadening the inspection requirements on older Boeing 737s in search of cracks including in creased use of testing by high-frequency electronic equipment. The new rule also will require that the planes be stripped of paint when being inspected, he said. A spokesman for Continental said the airline inspected all 42 of its older Boe ing 737s within 72 hours alter the foot- long crack was discovered when the plane was being prepared for repainting at the airline’s Los Angeles repair fa cility. He said no cracks were found in any of the other planes. “This appears to be an isolated inci dent,” Continental spokesman Ned Walker said in Houston. Walker said the plane, which was built in 1969, had undergone a visual inspec tion for cracks last May 20 in accordance with a directive from the FAA and no cracks were found then. According to the safety board, the Continental plane had about 55,446 take offs and landings. This was considerably fewer than the 89,000 cycles attributed to the Aloha Boeing 737 involved in last April’s incident in which a 20-foot sec tion of the plane’s roof ripped away dur ing flight. A flight attendant was swept to her death, but the plane miraculously landed safely with passengers and flight atten dants clinging to their seatslotK In the being sucked through the gapiKS playoffs The Aloha 737 was the 152ii Uague r Boeing assembly line, while its tefensiv ncntal jet was No. 170. Both we to play in I'XW and were among (heM fe li which a so-called “cold bondici ftetime css was used to fix sections d "'hich w sheets onto the fuselage. *ason a Shortly after the Aloha incid Playoff £ FAA required airlines to condaalHouse inspections of more than 200ol(l! lio fail Those aircraft with more iharpe fre takeoffs and landings were ref^ toc next visually inspected for cracks, wfiCollin with more than 50,000takeoffs** cjoun ings were to undergo inspeewp peri high-frequency electronic equip' an Ptessure< Although the Continentalpltf |p. the foot-long crack was foi more than 50,000 cycles theeiM inspection w'as not required oc4 tion of the aircraft where thecal was discovered, Walker saidi pp | visual inspection of that secM'H^X plane showed no crackinglasl College Republicans AGGIE G.O.P. Presents local Candidates Randy Sims, Gary Norton County Commissioner County Commissioner Hub Kennedy County Attorney Tues. 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