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.
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