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Page 14 • Wednesday, September 9, 1998 World italion Investigators say recovered fragments of SwissAir cockpit show heat damage Yeltsin delays chirk for prime mini i(m HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Investigators have detected signs of heat damage on fragments of Swis sair Flight Ill’s cockpit, evidence that could help determine why smoke billowed around the pilots before the jetliner crashed. Vic Gerden, the chief crash in vestigator, said Tuesday that signs of heat stress have been found so far only on wreckage from the cockpit, not from the passenger cabin. “There are some signs of heat ing on some of the small pieces of the wreckage retrieved,” Gerden told a news conference. “The lim ited amount of wreckage retrieved to date indicates this area of heat stress is in the cockpit.” He refused to speculate on the extent of the damage or the exact cause of it. 'The most crucial area is not the last six minutes, as some may think, but prior to those six minutes” — Vic Gerden chief crash investigator Gerden also expressed hopes of gaining valuable data from the plane’s recovered flight-data recorder, even though it stopped working during the final six minutes before the plane crashed into the At lantic off Nova Scotia on Sept. 2, killing all 229 people on board. Flight 111 crashed more than an hour after taking off from New York, bound for Geneva. “The most crucial area is not the last six minutes, as some may think, but prior to those six min utes,” Gerden said. The recorder, retrieved by divers 190 feet underwater, might show how systems aboard the plane failed between the pilots’ initial distress call 16 minutes before the crash and when the machine shut off, he said. Investigators hope to get further information from the plane’s cock- pit-voice recorder, which is still on the sea bottom. A signal from that recorder has been detected, but bad weather Tuesday forced a one- day halt in diving operations. The divers were expected to re turn to work Wednesday, support ed by a new arrival from the Unit ed States — the Navy salvage and rescue ship USS Grapple. The Grapple helped with the un dersea recovery of wreckage of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island in 1996. It has a team of more than 30 divers on board, as well as equip ment for lifting large wreckage from the seabed. Divers are trying to confirm if three large pieces of wreckage found near the flight data recorder are sections of the plane's fuselage. Also on hand is a 16-member U.S. Navy team from Panama City, Fla., which has brought ad vanced sonar and imaging equip ment to provide greater detail of the ocean floor. Taliban refuses to hand over bin Laden Afghanistan says accused mastermind behind embassy bombings safe despite U.S. missile threats KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Osama bin —Af^Viomctan and Sudan in retalia- eauip thousands of Muslim fig Laden, enemy No. 1 in the United States, has a home in Afghanistan as long as he wants it — even if his presence invites another barrage of U.S. Tomahawk missiles. A top Taliban official, Abdul Sattar Paktis, strokes his gray-streaked beard and speaks of the man accused of masterminding bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as an old friend and honored guest. ‘Let me tell you something about Osama, he didn’t just come to Afghanistan. He has been here for the past 14 years off and on,” Paktis, the Taliban’s protocol officer, said in an inter view Monday with The Associated Press in Kab ul’s war-damaged foreign ministry. “He is our guest and we will never force him out,” he said. The United States fired Tomahawk cruise missiles into Afghanistan and Sudan in retalia tion for the Aug. 7 embassy bombings, which killed 258 people and wounded thousands. In Afghanistan, two alleged terrorist training camps were hit Aug. 20, including one believed to have been operated by bin Laden. He was not harmed in the attack. Bin Laden’s threats against Americans and U.S. interests worldwide have turned Ameri can embassies and consulates in several coun tries, including neighboring Pakistan, into vir tual fortresses. Bin Laden, probably in his 40s, is the son of a Saudi construction magnate. Shortly after Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in Decem ber 1979, he joined the Afghan struggle against Moscow, gaining a reputation for brav ery and determination. He is estimated to have spent more than $200 million to recruit and equip thousands of Muslim fighters. His hatred of America seems to stem from out rage about America’s warm relations with Israel, and fury over the 500,000 U.S. troops deployed in his homeland of Saudi Arabia in 1990 and 1991 to help drive Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. He con sidered that a desecration of his native soil. Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban religious army, al ready a virtual pariah in the world because of its radical interpretation of Islam, says it doesn t share bin Laden’s burning hatred of the U.S. “We want very much to have very close re lations with the international community,’’ Pak tis said. “We never expected this of the United States because of our very long friendship with them against the Russians.’’ The Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan for 10 years before being forced out by U.S.- backed insurgents. MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Yeltsin hesitated Tuesday over ramming through his unpopular choice for prime minister, while opposition and religious leaders warned that the political standoff could spark civil war in Russia. The nation’s top clergyman expressed fears of unrest, pray ing publicly before Russia’s holi est icon for divine protection against "misfortunes, sorrows and internecine war.” Yeltsin conferred with top aides at his country home amid grow ing speculation he may choose a compromise candidate to stave off a showdown with the Commu nist-dominated lower house of parliament, the State Duma. Up to now. Yeltsin had insist ed that acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin was his only choice, but the Duma on Monday rejected Chernomyrdin for a second time. Yeltsin, who is known for trampling over his po litical opponents, has compro mised before in the face of pop ular anger, which has been building rapidly. 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