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Inc. cramming W The Battalion ORLD Thursday • September 18,19 fhursdi Search efforts continue foi bodies, debris in wreckage WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — With hopes of finding survivors all but gone, search and rescue crews slogged though heavy fog and strong wind Wednesday for bodies and wreckage from the weekend crash of U.S. and German military planes. An overnight search by three U.S. C-130s equipped with special night- vision equipment turned up only one small piece of wreckage, Lt. Col. Stony Steenkamp of the South African air force said Wednesday. There has been no hint of any sur vivors since faint distress signals were detected Sunday and early Monday. Officials had no plans to stop the search, however. “The search will continue as long as necessary,” Steenkamp said. “There is no thought yet of putting it off.” The two planes were carrying 33 people when they vanished Saturday over the cold treacherous waters off Namibia’s coast. The German Ttipolev 154 was heading from Ger many to South Africa, while the American C-141 was flying from Namibia, a coastal country north west of South Africa, to Ascension Is land in the south Adantic. Searchers have recovered only one body — that of an unidentified woman — which was taken to a morgue in Windhoek for examina tion. Three women were among the 24 people aboard the German plane; all nine aboard the American plane were men. Germany was sending a special ized PC3-Orion search aircraft Wednesday, German Maj. Gen. Ger hard Back said in Windhoek. “We hope for better results,” he said. Searchers on Thesday found de bris from a U.S. cargo plane in the same place where they found rem nants of a German aircraft, confirm ing that the two military planes col lided about 115 miles west of Cape Fria on the Namibian coast. The French frigate Florial had joined two Namibian vessels that have been collecting debris since Monday. The Pentagon has said early in formation indicated the planes were (lying at an altitude of about35; feet when the crash took place, corridors often are shared, but pi; traveling in opposite directions supposed to fly at different altitit Pentagon spokesman Kenn Bacon said the two aircraft wen different radio frequencies, he did not know why. O.V. Plichta, Namibia’s mini for works, transport and comttii cation, denied Namibia was ai hut said officials ar e "dismayed’ safety elsewhere in Africa. He cited a report several moi ago by the International Fedeta; of Airline Pilots Association and International AirlineTtansport, ciation that declared large pan the continent’s air-traffic control tern seriously deficient. Officials also were tryingtodt mine why the planes’ disappear was not reported to rescued for almost 24 hours. Other Namibian officials said didn’t know the German pi coming because they had ceived a flight plan. Group seeks fines against Philip Morris PARIS (AP) — A French group has filed suit against Philip Mor ris, accusing the tobacco compa ny of failing to clearly warn smokers about the dangers of cigarettes and asking the court to issue $21.7 million in fines. The National Committee Against Tobacco Addiction said executives for Philip Morris’s German and Dutch subsidiaries will be summoned Thursday to a court in Quimper in western France. A spokesman for the group, Pascal Melihan-Cheinin, said Philip Morris uses the phrase “ac cording to the law” in warnings on its cigarette packages, imply ing that smoking may not neces sarily be harmful to health. The group also argues the warnings are too faint. A lawyer for Philip Morris in France said France does not forbid reference to its law in the warning and does not stipulate how bold the lettering needs to be. In June, a Paris court ruled in favor of a similar lawsuit by the group, deciding that French to bacco maker Seita had not prop erly printed health warnings on its packages. Envoy, five American killed in Bosnia crasl PROKOSKO, Bosnia-Herzegov- ina (AP) — A U.N. helicopter slammed into a fog-shrouded mountain in central Bosnia and burst into flames Wednesday, killing a top international envoy, five Americans and six others in the worst accident to hit the peace keeping effort in Bosnia. Those killed included German envoy Gerd Wagner, a deputy to top peace mediator Carlos Westendorp, and British diplomat Charles Mor peth. The others who died were not named pending notification of next of kin. Four Ukrainian crew members of the U.N. helicopter — an Mi-8 leased from Ukraine — survived the crash, two of them with light in juries, German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said. The crew managed to escape through the shattered glass nose of the craft but was hindered from helping passengers because of fire and thick smoke. Wagner and his delegation, which included members from Westendorp’s office as well as U.N. employees believed to be police monitors, left Sarajevo for Bugojno ( pronounced BOO-goy-no) this morning, said Alexander Ivanko, a U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo. According to one Ukranian crew member, the weather was fine when they left Sarajevo, but they encountered “dense fog” vvesto: jnica, 20 miles east of Bugojno U.N. spokesman Liam McDoi When the pilot attempted to altitude, the helicopter crashec the mountain and burst flames, McDowall said. n air Foul play is not suspectedii crash but an investigation was derway. The crash appeared simila one in April 1996, when a plane rying U.S. Commerce Secretan Brown plowed into a mountain heavy storm while travelin; Dubrovnik, Croatia. Brown an others aboard were killed. 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