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Investigators say recovered fragments
of SwissAir cockpit show heat damage
Yeltsin delays chirk
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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.
The president has one more
chance to win approval for his
prime ministerial pick. If the
Duma refuses to confirm the can
didate, Yeltsin must dissolve the
legislature and call parliamentary
elections within three months.
Communist Party leader Gen
nady Zyuganov said Thesday
that if Yeltsin continued to de
mand approval of Cher
nomyrdin, Russia's crisis would
deepen. “A mistake for the pres
ident and his team can cost the
country’s civic peace. This is a
very high price,” Zyuganov said.
He added that disbanding the
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