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Tuesday, October 18,1988
World/Nation
Ugandan airliner crashes near Rome
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ROME (AP) — The pilot of a Uganda
Airlines jetliner tried at least twice to
land in thick fog before it crashed into
houses and trees early Monday, killing
30 of the 52 people aboard, officials and
passengers said.
Authorities said the fog and a possible
misunderstanding between the pilot and
the control tower at Leonardo da Vinci
Airport may have caused the crash,
which also injured the 22 others aboard
the Boeing 707.
Many of the injured were in critical
condition with burns, fractures and
shock. Wreckage was strewn for a half a
mile. Only one of the seven crew mem
bers, the steward, survived.
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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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. Oct. 18
8:30 p.m. Rudder 301
For Information Call David Shelton 696-2664
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