Thursday, November 13, 1986
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By The Associated Press
31 feared dead in ferry accident
MONTROUIS, Haiti Relatives of
the passengers on a crowded ferry boat
that sank off La Gonave island gathered
on the beach here Wednesday to await
word of their kin. At least 131 people
drowned or were missing and feared
dead, officials said.
The ferry, the 50-foot-long wooden
Oque Lele, sank shortly before noon
Tuesday about a mile from the wharf in
Anse-a-Galets on La Gonave.
Tuesday was market day on La Go
nave. Most of the passengers on the
ferry, which shuttles between Mont-
rouis on the mainland and La Gonave,
were on their way home with goods they
had bought to sell on the island.
"We think it (the ferry) was over
crowded, Anais Chavenet, a spokes
woman for the Information Ministry,
said in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian cap
ital. It was not immediately known how
many people the privately owned ferry
wa authorized to take on.
Chavenet said the cause of the acci
dent was not known.
The Coast Guard recovered 20 bodies
and 111 people were missing and pre-
pad. said Christian Theodore,
director of the National Disaster Relief
Agency in Port-au-Prince. Nineteen peo
ple survived, he said.
Isnel Angrand, a government official
on La Gonave, said there was not
enough equipment to conduct a proper
search and rescue operation.
The only helicopters in Haiti, the
poorest country in the Western Hemis
phere, belong to the army, and their
use is restricted. No charter planes or
boats were available for hire Wednes
day morning.
In Brief
Company unveils space station simulator
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Martin Marietta Corp., an aerospace company
competing for NASA's space station contract, Wednesday unveiled a
full-scale functional model of an orbiting crew module.
The 43-foot-long cylinder-shaped compartment is equipped with 18
computers, crew work stations, and environmental control and communi
cations systems.
Officials said the computers can simulate events that could occur in
space, such as equipment malfunctions, and allow engineers to test
design concepts that will be proposed for NASA's space station.
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ZURICH, Switzerland Switzerland conceded
Wednesday to top officials from countries along
the Rhine that a misunderstanding delayed an
international alert for 24 hours after a disastrous
toxic spill from a chemical plant fire.
Swiss President Alphons Egli told the meet
ing that Switzerland was ready to discuss dam
age claims by countries affected and that he
hoped they could be settled without legal action,
said a West German delegation spokesman.
About 30 tons of agricultural chemicals
insecticides, herbicides and mercury-containing
fungacides washed into the Rhine on Nov. 1
when firefighters doused a blaze at a Sandoz
chemical plant warehouse near Basel, Switzer
land, and caused an environmental crisis.
A 25-mile-long slick of chemicals drifted
downstream along the 820-mile Rhine, killing an
estimated 500,000 fish and eels, harming other
aquatic life and endangering drinking water.
The Swiss statement about the alert delay was
distributed at a closed-door meeting called by
Switzerland in response to strong criticism for
its handling of the emergency.
Attending were envionment ministers from
France, West Germany and the Netherlands.
Luxembourg and the Common Market also sent
representatives.
Major topics on the table were requests for
further information from Switzerland and ways
to tighten cooperation in future emergencies.
Basel authorities said the international Rhine
pollution emergency center at Mannheim, West
Germany, assured them it was aware of the spill
hours before actually sounding an alarm. The
statement did not explain the misunderstanding.
Dutch Waterways Minister Neelie Smit-Kroes
reportedly told the meeting her government's
administrative costs alone for dealing with the
disaster totaled about $300,000.
Sandoz spokesman Edgar Fasel was quoted
Wednesday as dismissing a report cited by the
Greens, the West German environmentalist party,
which said a Swiss insurance company warned
Sandoz management five years ago of safety
lapses at the plant.
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WASHINGTON If changes in U.S. immigration laws fail to
stem the current flow of aliens, a population group said Wed
nesday, Hispanics, Asians and blacks could account for more
than half of all Americans a century from now.
"If illegal immigration remains high and annual immigra
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would drop to just under 50 percent in 2080," said the new
study by the private, non-profit Population Reference Bureau.
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Hispanic and 2.0 percent were Asians and others.
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whites could shrink to 49.8 percent of the population by the
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Researcher:
Alzheimer's
drug effective
; BOSTON An experiemental drug
-for Alzheimer's disease significantly
: improved the memories of 16 of 17
senile people treated in a study, and
may be the first effective therapy for
this devastating illness of old age, a
researcher says.
The drug is not available for routine
use. Until researchers learn more about
it, the medicine will be given only to
small numbers of people enrolled in
carefully controlled studies, said Dr.
William K. Summers, who directed the
study.
Summers said that his findings are
encouraging but still preliminary, and
he stressed that the drug does not cure
Alzheimer's disease. Instead, it eases
the symptoms of the disease, much as
insulin controls diabetes or L-dopa
relieves Parkinson's disease.
The results were published in Thurs
day's New England Journal of Medicine.
The experimental drug, called tetra
hydroaminoacrine, or THA, was disco
vered in 1909 and first given to Alzhei
mer's victims in a pilot study by
Summers eight years ago.
