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WORLD & NATION
Thursday, October 11,1990
Air accidents in Saudi increase;
official soldier death toll now 24
“Nobody is jumping from one
aircraft with a sweaty brow
and flying off in another.”
— Capt. Jack Giese,
Air Force spokesman
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — After two
months in which military officials marveled at the
low rate of accidents among American forces in
Saudi Arabia, a sudden spate of air crashes has
left four dead and eight missing.
The official death toll for Operation Desert
Shield rose Wednesday to 24 when an Air Force
F-l 11 fighter-bomber crashed on a training mis
sion in the Arabian Peninsula, killing both crew
members, U.S. military spokesmen said.
The plane was the fourth U.S. military aircraft
involved an accident in three days. But an Air
Force spokesman, Capt. Jack Giese, said there
was no single factor linking the crashes.
He said that while pilots were training inten
sively, they were not being subjected to extra
stress or fatigue that might affect cockpit perfor
mance. In some cases, however, they were flying
longer than normal hours.
“Standards on crew rest and flying hours are
factored into the training schedule,” Giese said.
“Nobody is jumping from one aircraft with a
sweaty brow and flying off in another.”
A summary issued by the U.S. Command on
Wednesday said 23 Americans had been killed in
accidents and one Marine died of a self-inflicted
wound since the deployment began following
Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait.
The toll included 13 Air Force crewmen killed
in the Aug. 29 crash of a C-5A cargo plane in
Germany. The aircraft was carrying supplies des
tined for U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf.
Two pilots were killed Monday in the crash of
an Air Force F-4 Phantom reconnaissancejeli
the southern Arabian Peninsula, also during
training exercise. That plane was partofanlr
bama Air National Guard unit.
Just hours earlier, two Marine Corps UH-llt
licopters, each carrying four crew metp
crashed over the northern Arabian Sea while*
a night training mission.
Navy spokesmen said voice and radar coni®
with the helicopters was lost just before dawn,ii
miles from their ship, the amphibiousassaultai.
rier USS Okinawa.
Search vessels found debris but no sign (ft
crew members, they said. The search for sum
vors was suspended Wednesday, but the eigl
were still listed as missing.
The swing-wing F-l 11, known by itsnicknat
“The Aardvark,” was assigned to the 48thTacii
cal Fighter Wing, based at Royal AirForceBas
Lakenheath in England. The unit was deploys]
to Turkey early on in the U.S. military buildup
Slain singer’s song sends message of peace
World remembers John
NEW YORK (AP) — John Len
non’s worldwide message of peace
was delivered Tuesday as his song
“Imagine” was played simulta
neously for 1 billion people in 130
countries to celebrate what would
have been his 50th birthday.
“A dream we dream alone is only
a dream, but the dream we dream
together is reality. Happy birthday,
John. The world is better today for
sharing a time with you,” Yoko Ono
said at a United Nations ceremony
before the playing of “Imagine.”
The slain former Beatle himself
issued a call for harmony in a taped
message that served as an introduc
tion to the music.
“We all want peace, whatever sort
of job we have. ... Think of your chil
dren. Do you want them to be killed
or don’t you? And that’s the choice
we have in front of us. War or
peace,” said Lennon, whose son
Sean turned 15 Tuesday.
None of the other Beatles at
tended the U.N. ceremony, but a
tribute came from Lennon’s old
songwriting partner, Paul McCart
ney, who released a live version of
the Beatles’ tune “Birthday.” The
song, originally on “The Beatles,”
more commonly known as the White
Album, is the first Lennon-McCart-
ney single released by a member of
the four-man band since the Beatles
broke up in 1970.
“The release date and John’s
birthday is just a happy coincidence,
but it’s also a nod and a wink to my
old mate,” said McCartney, 47.
Other observances were held
from Liverpool to Moscow to Los
Angeles. In Liverpool, Lennon’s
hometown in England, fans gath
ered at the former site of the Cavern
Club, where the Beatles were discov
ered.
More than 1,000 radio stations
and networks from 50 countries
broadcast the 10-minute event.
U.S. Armed Forces television and
radio beamed it to 80-plus other
countries. MTV televised the “Imag
ine” video in 25 countries, Andrea
Smith, a spokeswoman for the net
work said.
In Moscow, about 1,000 Soviets
gathered at the Moscow Electrical
Lamp Factory’s cultural hall to listen
to Lennon’s music, snap up his al
bums and posters and reflect on his
life.
Lennon was shot to death by a de
ranged fan outside his Manhattan
apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980.
Shuttle Discovery lands safely;
flight boosts morale at NASA
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Shut
tle Discovery sailed out of orbit and landed Wednesday
after a four-day flight that boosted NASA’s confidence
and sent a spacecraft on a five-year mission to explore
the sun’s poles.
“If you criticize our mistakes, then you must also ac
knowledge our successes,” space shuttle director and
former astronaut Robert Crippen said after completion
of the first shuttle flight in nearly six months.
“I’m elated,” he added. “It’s been a long hot summer.
I’ll tell you that. It’s nice to be back flying again. It is a
high day for us.”
About 5,500 spectators cheered as Discovery touched
down at 8:57 a.m. CDT, just seconds before the sun
rose over hills to the east. It was the third smallest
crowd for any shuttle landing open to public viewing.
“Congratulations on a picture-perfect mission,” Mis
sion Control’s Brian Duffy told the five astronauts.
The astronauts stepped out of the shuttle into sun
shine 57 minutes after the landing. Shuttle commander
Dick Richards, pilot Robert Cabana and mission special
ists Bill Shepherd, Bruce Melnick and Tom Akers then
prepared for ajet ride home to Houston.
Discovery’s 1.7 million-mile flight was the first since
April — the longest gap between shuttle missions since
they resumed after the 1986 explosion that destroyed
Challenger and killed seven crew members.
The latest flight helped bolster morale at the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, which
has been plagued by hydrogen fuel leaks in the shuttles
Columbia and Atlantis and by a flawed mirror that se
verely impaired the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Tele
scope.
Six hours after they lifted off from Cape Canaveral,
Fla., on Saturday, Discovery’s astronauts deployed the
Ulysses spacecraft on its 1.86-billion-mile mission to
study the sun’s high latitudes and poles.
Ulysses “seems to be working perfectly well,” said
Roger Bonnet, director of scientific programs for the
European Space Agency, which operates the $250 mil
lion solar explorer in ajoint mission with NASA.
Bonnet praised the $750 million mission as “a symbol
of future cooperation between Europe and the United
States.”
About an hour before touchdown. Discovery’s twin
braking rockets fired, allowing the shuttle to plunge out
of orbit and dash through Earth’s atmosphere.
The shuttle’s twin sonic booms cracked loudly, wak
ing Santa Barbara and Ventura residents as Discovery
crossed the coast and descended toward the 15,000-
foot-long concrete runway 22 on Rogers Dry Lake in
the Mojave Desert.
Gulf residents
prepare for
tropical stom
MIAMI (AP) — Somewomd
owners hauled their boats frai
Gulf Coast harbors Wednesdaia
an expanding Tropical Slots
Marco climbed up the edgeoltkt
Florida peninsula with 45 mpl
wind, heavy rain and eroa#
tides.
“We’re prepared, as preparei
as we’re going to be," Sanibelto
rina owner Myton Ireland saidal-
ter pulling nine boats, all40fta
or longer, onto land. “Ifwenii
too late and then it blows W
we’re in trouble.”
Mar co could gain sotJ
strength, but not enough to read
the hurricane threshold of’!
mph, said forecaster Bob Case*
the National Hurricane Centetf
suburban Coral Gables.
“Coastal flooding and bead
erosion will probably be the mat
problem that it will produce,'Ii
said. “The further north the Si
tern goes, the closer it will gets
the coast.”
But aside from the possi
damage, Case looked at Marcos
beneficial for the drougt:
parched region.
“We’ve got a tap on thetrop
ics,” he said. “We've got a mat
anism here where we can briif
tropical air up over the south®
eru United States and Havel
mechanism squeeze it like foi
would a sponge.”
The storm sat 50-75 miles oil
the coast Wednesday aftenw
but was expected to resumei
northwesterly heading later s
the day. That would put the®
ter ashore Thursday night orb
day between Apalachicola ti
the Big Bend, a lightly populate!
region where the peninsulajoirs
the Panhandle.
At 3 p.m. EDT, Marco was®
tered at latitude 25.1 degree
north, longitude 82.6 degree
west, or 70 miles northwest o'
Key West. Storm warnings veil
in effect from the Dry Tortif!
through Key Largo, incluij
Florida Bay.
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Bargain hunters comb
Exxon’s clean-up gear
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) —
Bargain hunters by the thousands
descended on an Anchorage indus
trial lot Tuesday to pick through
acres of gear unloaded by Exxon af
ter two summers of oil-spill cleanup.
“You really realize the size of the
spill by all the garbage that came out
of it,” said Anchorage aviation me
chanic Rod Meeks, who bought two
outboard boat motors at the auction.
Many failed to find the deals they
had hoped for, however, and
blamed it on the crowd.
“We were looking for anything,
but there’s too many people bidding
high,” said Doug Parr, a construc
tion consultant who flew to
Anchorage from Seattle for the
three-day sale. He hoped prices
would come down after the first day.
It looked like the day before
Christmas at the world’s biggest bar
gain basement.
Parked cars lined the roads for
miles in all directions. Ritchie Bros.
Auctioneers International, which
bought the merchandise last month
from Exxon Corp. for a price
Ritchie officials would only describe
as “millions,” ran shuttle buses into
the site.
There, an auctioneer was driven
through the throngs in a booth atop
a truck, stopping here to sell dozens
of all-terrain vehicles, there for pal
let after pallet of brand-new fishing
nets, somewhere else for containers
filled with flotsam, from lifejatk
to tables and chairs.
Half the yard seemed filled*
boats — aluminum skiffs, inflaii
power boats. Inside a hangar,pJ
reached to the ceiling contained#
door thermometers, clothing, (I
kitty litter.
The site was just one of ilf
filled with surplus merciiaiiJ
from the Exxon Valdez oil!
cleanup effort.
The tanker ran aground in.f
ka’s Prince William Sound ini’
1989 and spewed nearly 11ml
gallons of crude oil in the nal
biggest oil spill. Exxon crews noil
that summer and this onetotk
shorelines, and plan to returni*
spring for a shoreline survey.
Exxon of ficials said they d!
sell any equipment that could
used for additional clean-up.
Ritchie Bros, wouldn’t say#
much it expects the merchant
bring, although an early estirrt
$ 10 million is said to be low. Nfl
8,000 potential bidders had sif*
up by midday Tuesday.
A 1966 turboprop floatplane*
an old Esso tiger painted on ii!
sold for $435,000 to an undisdo
bidder. New, the plane would'
about $700,000, several air-taxi!
pany officials in the crowd said
Four used television sets sold
$2,000 — a price some frustr#
buyers said was too high.
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