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Tuesday • April 18, 1995 The Battalion • Page 7 Air Force jet crashes close to residential subdivison □ The crash killed all eight people on board while trying to land at an airport in Alabama. ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (AP) — An Air Force jet headed for Texas crashed Monday in a wooded area while trying to land at the airport in this east ern Alabama town. All eight people on board were killed. Fire Chief Ronnie Betts said there were multiple casualties but would not say how many. CNN said all eight people on board the jet were killed. The plane was trying to make an uplanned landing at the Alexander City airport when it crashed near a subdivi sion 4 miles from Alexander City, said Lt. Frances Sconi, a spokeswoman for Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. The plane had been en route to Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, said Lt. Col. Johnny Whitaker, a spokesman for Randolph. He said the jet, which had tak en off from Andrews, was based in Randolph and was carrying a crew of two and six passengers. A Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that both military and civilian personnel were aboard the plane. The plane did not appear to strike any homes when it went down around 6:30 p.m. “It sounded like an earth quake when it came over our house,” resident Miranda Wyckoff told the Alexander City Outlook. Wyckoff said she heard three explosions, including one as the jet plunged to the ground. Betts said the plane broke into pieces. “Not much is intact,” he said. Defense Department spokesman Kenneth Bacon in Washington said the plane was a C-21, a military version of the Learjet executive aircraft. Alexander City is a textile- based community of 15,000 about 40 miles northeast of Montgomery. Russell Corp., a nationally known manufacturer of athletic uniforms, is head quartered in the town and is the leading employer. Nations debate decision on nuclear future □ Discussion has cen tered around peaceful nuclear technology in renewal of the Nu clear Non-Prolifera tion Treaty. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world’s nations Monday opened a month-long debate over renewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the flawed but vital centerpiece of global arms control. The United States and other nuclear powers want an indefi nite and unconditional exten sion of the 25-year-old treaty, designed to block the spread of atomic arms. But some in the Third World prefer periodic short-term ex tensions, tied to concrete progress toward general nu clear disarmament. Opening the conference, Secre tary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali sidestepped the issue of in definite-vs.-limited extension, but urged the nuclear powers to move toward eventual elimination of nuclear arms. “No more testing. No more pro duction. ... Reduction and destruc tion of all nuclear weapons and the means to make them should be humanity’s great common cause,” the U.N. chief declared in the prepared text of his address. The nuclear-weapons states are progressing slowly toward a comprehensive treaty banning nuclear tests, and are planning negotiations to cut off produc tion of bomb material. Boutros-Ghali also called on the nuclear powers to strengthen the limited assurances they have given non-nuclear weapons states that they will not be subject to nuclear attack. The first day’s agenda also in cluded addresses by Secretary of State Warren Christopher and by Hans Blix, head of the Interna tional Atomic Energy Agency, which administers the treaty. The 178 signatory govern ments are committed to prevent ing the spread of nuclear weapons beyond five nations that acknowledge having them — the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China. The treaty also guaranteed nations the right to develop peaceful nuclear technology un der international oversight. The treaty is credited with lessening the likelihood of a nu clear free-for-all in the world. But its failures are well- known: Three nations that did not sign it — Israel, India and Pakistan — have developed nu clear-weapons capability. Two that did sign — Iraq and North Korea — are suspected of having tried to build nuclear bombs. Many non-nuclear nations complain, too, that the five nu clear weapons states have balked at meeting the treaty’s “Article VI” commitment — to move in good faith toward total disarmament. The treaty had only a 25-year guaranteed run. The pact itself specified that in 1995 the signa tories would have to decide whether to extend it indefinitely, or for a fixed period or periods. Some in the Third World want to renew it for only a limit ed term, and to tie later exten sions to further progress in re ducing nuclear arsenals, comple tion of a nuclear test-ban treaty or other conditions. The dispute between those who have weapons and those who don’t is reflected in a still- unresolved debate over proce dures to use when the exten sion question comes to a vote in early May. sj- 211 University 268-DAVE 326 George Bush Dr. 696-DAVE * PIZZAWORKS * We're Always Rolling! Carter Creek Center 846-DAVE 919 Harvey Rd. 764-DAVE Call DAVE for = Fasf Fresh Delivery Dave's Delivery Deal $5.99 Medium 1 Topping Pizza is now accepting applications for Summer 1995 and Fall 1995 Reporters • Columnists • Feature Writers Sportswriters • Photographers Graphic artists • Page Designers Cartoonists • Copy Editors • Office Clerks NO JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE NECESSARY ALL MAJORS SHOULD APPLY If you like writing, photos or just want to get involved^ up ply at the Bait. 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