Friday, December 13, 1985
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Daily Nebraskan
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DC-8 crashes, all 258 Idlle
GANDER, Newfoundland A DC-8
charter full of U.S. soldiers returning
from the Middle East crashed and
exploded Thursday near Gander Inter
national Airport, killing all 258 aboard
and scattering gifts and weapons across
snow-covered woods.
Families and friends learned of the
disaster as they assembled for a brass
band welcome at the headquarters of
the 101st Airborne Division at Fort
Campbell, Ky.
Cause of the 6:45 a.m. (4:15 a.m.
CST) crash remained under investiga
tion, but the White House said prelimi
nary reports showed no indication of
sabotage or an in-flight explosion in
history's eighth-worst aviation disaster.
The charred cockpit voice and flight
recorders were recovered and wiil be
taken to Ottawa for analysis, said Peter
Boag of the Canadian Aviation Safety
Board, who was directing the investiga
tion. The charter flight operated by Arrow
Air of Miami carried members of the
101st Airborne who were being rotated
home after six months service in the
multi-national peacekeeping force in
Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
Celebration shattered; relatives wait
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - A homecoming celebration Thursday for 250
soldiers was shattered by the crash of a chartered DC-8 jet in Canada,
leaving friends and relatives to hope that their loved one was on another
flight.
"Right now, the assets of Fort Campbell are geared for one thing,
helping the families," said Maj. James Gleisberg, a public information
officer at the base.
No next-of-kin had been officially notified, he said, because a roster of
the victims had not been compiled. Once that is done, it could take up to
two days to notify all families, he said.
By midday more than 200 people crowded a gymnasium where a gala
welcome had been planned for the members of the 3rd Battalion, 502nd
Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division, Air Assault.
Through its storied history of combat in World War II and Vietnam, the
division had never suffered more deaths in one day, military historians
said.
Military authorities said it might
take a day or two to notify all the next-of-kin,
as long as a week to positively
identify remains.
CBC television showed debris smol
dering in. the snow beneath tall ever
greens in sparse, hilly woods where the
plane went down about a half-mile from
the runway near Gander Lake.
Canadian Transport Minister Don
Mazankowski said the plane climbed
no higher than 1,000 feet before crash
ing. At Fort Campbell, base commander
Maj. Gen. Burton D. Patrick told a news
conference an Army team would help
transfer remains from Newfoundland to
Dover Air Force Base in Delaware,
where identification of the bodies could
take up to a week. A temporary morgue
was established at the airport, Boag
said.
Hoch to run for governor
LINCOLN Nancy Hoch, an NU
regent who lost a close Senate race to
incumbent J. James Exon last year,
said Thursday she would seek the
Republican nomination for governor.
"Our workers have been kind of
chomping at the bit" to get started on
the campaign, Hoch said.
She said finance and political com
mittees already have been set up, and
that she plans to make a formal
announcement of her campaign next
week.
In Omaha, campaign political direc
tor Steve McCollister said Hoch tena
tively plans to make her announcement
on an 11-city swing through the state
next Thursday and Friday.
"She'll hit five or six one day, five or
six the next," McCollister said. The
itinerary has not been set, but it will
include Omaha, Lincoln and Grand
Island, he said.
Hoch's campaign committee,
Nebraskans for Nancy announced her
candidacy in a flier that Nebraska
newpaper publishers received in the
mail Thursday.
The flier included a sketch of an
elephant, symbol of the GOP, and a
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Hoch
headline that read, "Nebraska Needs
Nancy Hoch Republican Governor."
"Committees will be formed shortly
to elect Nancy Hoch the next governor
of Nebraska," the flier said, asking
recipients to volunteer for the cam
paign. Hoch has been getting "literally
hundreds" of inquiries on whether she
would run, and people were holding off
political decisions pending the an
nouncement of her plans, McCollister
said.
"The flier's purpose was basically to
hold the supporters" and to begin
sounding the campaign's theme, he
said. Hoch made a brief statement in
the flier. It said in part: "It's time to
move Nebraska forward. We must take
the great resources we have in our peo
ple and state and build Partnerships
for Tomorrow."
Hoch said she returned to Nebraska
on Wednesday night with her husband
after visiting their daughter and her
family in Mexico.
Nebraskans for Nancy was the name
of Hoch's campaign organization when
she ran for the Senate last year. She
defeated several candidates to win the
GOP nomination but lost a close race
to Sen. Exon, D-Neb.
Hoch is the fourth Republican to
announce a bid for the governorship.
Wausa farmer Paul Rosberg, Louisville
minister Everett Sileven and state
Treasurer Kay Orr are the others.
Kermit Brashear recently resigned
as chairman of the state Republican
Party and has said he will decide soon
whether he will run.
Gov. Bob Kerrey, a Democrat, is not
seeking re-election. Several Democrats
are considering a run for the nomina
tion. Only state Sen. Marge Higgins of
Omaha has announced her candidacy.
Congress ends work on interim bill
WASHINGTON Congress, unable
to agree on a multi-billion dollar fund
ing measure for the full fiscal year,
whisked through a stopgap bill Thurs
day needed to tide many federal agen
cies over for the weekend and prevent
disruption of government services.
At the same time, administration
officials reported progress in their
efforts to cajole Republican lawmakers
into reviving proposals for major over
haul of the tax laws the top item of
President Reagan's second-term domes
tic agenda. Even so, Rep. Richard
Gephardt, D-Mo., told reporters, "The
bill's not dead yet, but the patient is on
the table and dying."
The stopgap spending measure re
placed an existing bill due to expire at
midnight, and was approved first by a
voice vote in the House. The Senate
quickly followed suit, with Sen. Mark
Hatfield, R-Ore., chairman of the
Appropriations Committee, saying that
the alternative could be the "furlough
ing of federal employees" if the federal
till ran dry.
With the end of the congressional
session clearly in sight, House and
Senate negotiators also made headway
on a compromise long-term farm bill,
and labored on a measure to cut federal
deficits by as much as $80 billion over
the next three years.
Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole
said it would be an "abdication of every
thing we've done all year" if Congress
left town without finishing work on the
spending cuts. But others said agree
ment would be difficult, since many of
the proposed cuts involve domestic
programs.
A compromise bailout for the Farm
Credit System also was on a short list of
year-end legislation.
Weary lawmakers looked forward to
the end of the session as Reagan, act
ing without ceremony, signed land
mark legislation designed to force a
balanced budget by 1991. That bill was
cleared by Congress on Wednesday
after months of wrangling.
Pilgrims trek to Virgin's shrine
MEXICO CITY They came on their
knees, in rickety buses in processions
marching to tattered trumpeters
tens of thousands of pilgrims gathering
to renew their faith where the Virgin is
said to have appeared to a peasant 400
years ago.
The Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe,
Dec. 12, is a very special one every year
in this predominantly Roman Catholic
country, but this one has extra mean
ing. Many of the supplicants prayed to
Mexico's patron saint for friends or rel
atives among the 7,000 people killed in
September's great earthquake.
There was a festival atmosphere at
the Basilica of Guadalupe on the city's
north side despite the somber nature of
some of the prayers.
Families who had traveled long dis
tances spread makeshift picnics of tor
tillas, rice and beans.
Indian peasants in Aztec ceremonial
dress performed rain dances that
existed long before the Virgin Mary is
said to have appeared to a startled
peasant near where the basilica stands.
Vendors hawked wares of all des
criptions, including pictures of the
Virgin in plastic frames for the equival
ent of 50 cents.
The faithful began arriving Wednes
day night. Clatering buses carried them
from the provinces. One group walked
60 miles carrying a five-foot-high floral
tribute, accompanied by trumpeters
and a few other musicians.
Many pilgrims crawled the last mile
or so on their hands and knees, the
traditional sign of penance and devo
tion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
9,000 jailed in S. Africa in '85
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Police have jrlkd nearly 9,000
people this year in their attempt to quell rioting against white rule,
including many children end teenagers who have been beMen or confined
with criminals, a monitoring group said Thursday.
"Never in the recent history cf South Mica fcss repression been
greater," the Detainees Parents' Support Committee said. . ..
Witnesses said police used rubber whips and clut-3 on about 150 white
people who held a candlelight procession Wcdncsdsy night in Cape Town.
Police began using such methods last week to disperse groups of people
holding candles in protest of arrests under the state of emergency
imposed on riot-torn black and mixed race districts.
Contadora negotiations suspended
CARTENGA, Colombia The Contadora group has suspended nego
tiations on a peace agreement for Central America for five months at
Nicaragua's request, Colombia's foreign minister said Saturday.
Nicaragua officially proposed the suspension on grounds that new
governments which take office in Guatemala and Honduras in January and
in Costa Rica in April could change policy toward the negotiations, the
Colombia foreign minister, Augusto Ramirez Ocampo, told the Associated
Press. :-
He spoke during a meeting of the General Assembly of the Organization
of American States.
Increase in retail sales cited
WASHINGTON Retail ealcs reteded slltly h November from :
their record fall the month before, but the r,- Iri U zzcc:-X increase
f still left doubts ancr4 many analysts about just how; good sChrfstmas C
SMThe Commerce Department reported Thiirsd ifcdt sales climbed to
$115.9 billion last month, an increase cf $1.3 tililoa ever tha depressd
October level
Sales had fallen 4.2 percent in October, tha tlfcst monthly decline on
record, as car sales plummeted by 17.2 percent ctcr deciers stopped most
cf the cut-rate financing incentives which hed spurred a frenzy of
buying in August and September.
With Americans holding a record amount of personal debt, many
analysts have expressed fears that consumer spending will show little
strength in the months ahead. Because consumer spending accounts for
almost two-thirds of overall economic activity, these analysts believe the
economy as a whole will be lackluster in coming months.
However, the Reagan administration said the November sales gain was
pointing to the stronger economic growth it believes is on the horizon.
Study suggests advantages in merger
LINCOLN Combined schools for the deaf and blind can save money
and serve students well, according to a nationwide survey done by an
assistant state education commissioner.
But some functions should remain separate and there may be more
merger problems with parents and teachers than students, Bob Kellogg
found in his review of eight of 1 1 states that have both facilities on the
same campus or close to each other.
Keller 3 assistant education commission for the School for the Deaf
in Omaha and the School for the Visually Handicapped in Nebraska City.
There was a strong feeling among those surveyed that blind people
might loss money for their programs, Kellers said, since the number of
students end the budget for the visually handicapped are smaller than for
a deaf school.
That en be overcome, Kellogg and those questioned said, by separat
ing pregrrsmmg and portions of the budget. Parents of pupils at the
School for the Visually Impaired in Nebraska City have expressed similar
concerns.
Actress Anne Baxter dead at 62
NEW Y0I3C Anne Baxter, who played a too-faced schemer in "All
About Eve" and won an Academy Award as a pitiable drunk in "The
Razor's Ed3," died Thursday of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 62 and
had been acting on stage, screen and television for 43 years.
Baxter had been starring in the weekly television series, "Hotel." The
show's producer, Aaron Spelling, said earlier this week that she would not
be replaced.
The actress collapsed Dec. 4 while walking on Madison Avenue and was
admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital, where she died at 10:50 a.m. Thursday
without ever regaining consciousness, her hv.ycr, Henry A. Perles,
announced
"Anne Baxter's death is a shattering shock to all cf us who loved her
and had the privilege of working with her," Spelling siid in Los Angeles.
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