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ZEEBRUGGE, Belgium - En
gineers tried Sunday to right a
capsized British ferry in an effort to
retrieve the bodies of 82 people
believed trapped in the half-submerged
vessel off the Belgian coast.
Relatives of passengers, mean
while, went to a makeshift morgue
in a basketball court to identify the
5;5 bodies recovered so far. Of the
."43 passengers and crew, 408 sur
vived. The Herald of Free Enterprise fell
m its port side outside this port
about 15 minutes after departing
Friday night for Dover, England.
On Sunday, two salvage ships
carrying giant cranes moved in on
the stricken vessel. The unrecovered
corpses were presumed trapped
under heavy debris or in sections of
the boat inaccessible to divers.
The operation was suspended at
nightfall, after about three hours.
Officials said Sunday it was ex
tremely unlikely anyone was still
alive inside the vessel and that it
was too dangerous for divers to try
to retrieve bodies before the ferry
was righted.
"We cannot get more bodies out
of the vessel without killing some
body," said Lt. Stephen Wild, a
British Royal Navy diver.
"The prime concern is to gel. the
ship upright," said Paul Ellis, a
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spokesman for the ferry's owners,
Townsend Thoresen. "It will be a
matter of weeks, rather than days."
Belgium and Britain have launched
inquiries into the cause of the
sinking.
"We have accepted that it is
something to do with the (bow)
doors," said a company spokesman
in Dover, Paul Ovington. 'That is.
how the water rushed in because
there is no other hole in the ship."
Unofficial speculation focused on
the possibility that the huge bow
doors through which cars and trucks
are loaded onto the ferry were left
open after departure. Shipping offi
cials in Zeebrugge have said the
doors which normally are above the
waterline are sometimes left open
to clear the area of exhaust fumes.
Officials said 22 bodies were
identified, but would not release
names or nationalities.
Flags were lowered to half-staff in
Zeebrugge and near city hall. ,
The captain of the ship, David
Lewry, 46, was in intensive care with
a punctured lung after falling the
width of the ship when it tipped
over, his lawyer, Graham Bridge,
told reporters. '
Israeli ministers demand
inquiry in Pollard spy case
JERUSALEM Three Cabinet min
isters on Sunday demanded an official
probe into the Pollard spy scandal,
which one minister said has caused
"unprecedented damage" to U.S.-Israeli
ties.
But the government blocked public
discussion by referring the debate to a
secret Cabinet committee.
The Cabinet has no right to hide
information from the government," said
Communications Minister Amnon
Rubinstein, one of three ministers who
asked for an inquiry at the weekly
Cabinet session.
Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former U.S.
Navy analyst, was sentenced Wednesday
to life in prison for selling classified
U.S. military information to Israel.
Rubinstein told reporters after the
two-hour meeting: "As a member of
government, 1 want to know, not
security secrets, but about the respon
'The Cabinet has no
right to hide informa
tion from the
government'
Rubinstein
4 ... this matter
requires far more than
just a discussion, it
requires a full investi
gation of what
happened
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hold the debate within a 10-member
forum of senior ministers who meet
behind closed doors. He said no date
was set for the meeting, but the
committee's next regular session is
scheduled for Wednesday.
Prominent legislator Abba Eban
criticized the Cabinet decision, saying
sibility for this totally unjustified, "this matter requires far more than just
totallv irresDonsiblv act that caused a discussion, it requires a full inves-
unprecedented damage to our relations
with the United States and also to
American Jewry."
Israeli leaders have said the decision
came from lower echelons in the defense
ministry. But Pollard alleged in a pre
sentencing document that the "highest
echelons" in Israel's government were
aware of his mission, and new questions
arose last week after his alleged
recruiter was promoted.
Cabinet Secretary Eliakim Rubinstein
said the 25-member Cabinet voted to
tigation of what happened."
Eban, who chairs the legislature's
Foreign Affiars and Defense Committee,
said Defense Minister Vitzhak Rabin
would brief the panel's subcommittee
on intelligence this week on the affair.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin would
brief the panel's subcommittee on
intelligence this week on the affair.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir,
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and
Rabin all oppose further inquiry into
the affair, the Israeli media reported.
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PTL's Tammy Bakker being treated for drug dependency
FORT MILL, S.C. Christian televi
sion personality Tammy Faye. Bakker,
who lias been absent from her daily
broadcast for two months, is being
treated for drug dependency, the PTL
ministry disclosed Friday.
Mrs. Bakker and her evangelist hus
band, Jim, announced recently that she
could be away from the show for up to a
year.
He blamed the problem on an over-the-counter
allergy medicine his wife
has been taking since their daughter
was born 17 years ago and on tranqui
lizers doctors prescribed to reduce
nervousness the medication caused.
Pri'?y, PTL had said only that
Mi-. ras recovering from pneu
mmn f complications from medi
cine siie took after getting sick recently.
Mrs. Bakker was hospitalized in
January at Eisenhower Medical Center
in Rancho Mirage, Calif. PTL said.
Mrs. Bakker said that megadoses of
over-the-counter medicine had caused
her to go days without sleeping and to
suffer hallucinations.
At one point, she said, she tried to
leave a private plane while it was in the
air because she saw bugs crawling on
the floor and people on the wing.
Tower panel, Meese adviser reach different conclusions
WASHINGTON An in-house adviser to Attorney
General Edwin Meese, in an opinion issued shortly after
disclosure of the U.S. arms sales to Iran, said the White
House did not violate congressional reporting requirements
and that an oral go-ahead from President Reagan was
sufficient for one of the shipments.
The legal opinions by Assistant Attorney General Charles
J. Cooper, which back the Reagan administration's handling
of the arms sales, are sharply at odds with the conclusions
leached by the Tower commission.
One legal opinion by Cooper concludes there was no
violation of a requirement under the National Security Act
for timely notification of Congress when the administration
failed to tell key congressmen about the arms sales.
The Tower report concluded that notification appeals to
be a requirement. The report says Congress should have
been notified shortly after Reagan's Jan. 17, 1980, written
authorization for the arms sales failed to gain the expected
release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon.
The administration never did notify Congress, and the
deals with Iran didn't become public until last November,
about 15 months after the shipments began.
A second opinion by Cooper concludes that it was
sufficient legally for Reagan to have given oral authorization
for one of the arms shipments, that took place in November
1985 involving the CIA.
The Tower panel said it doubled an oral go-ahead was
sufficient.
The disagreement reflects a longstanding division be
tween Congress and the administration about proper
notification.
Congress to battle over Contra
WASHINGTON Congress is facing its first battle of the
year over aid to Nicaragua's Contra rebels, a fight that also
will provide a measure of how well President Reagan has
regained his political footing on Capitol Hill.
At stake this week is the final, $40 million installment of
the $100 million aid package for the anti-Sandinista
fighters that Congress passed last year.
Even if the Democrat-controlled House and Senate vote
to block the $40 million payment, a Reagan veto could still
ensure that the Contras get the funds. But lawmakers on
both sides of the emotional issue are looking beyond this
skirmish to the larger issue of future U.S. policy in Central
Amelia.
When Reagan formally requested the final $40 million
last week, he also certified to Congress that there was no
reasonable chance for a near-term diplomatic settlement of
the region's problems without the military aid to the rebels.
Democrats attacked that finding.
The House will vote Wednesday on a Democratic proposal
to place a six-month moratorium on any aid to the Contras,
including the $40 million, while the administration prepares
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When the matter goes to the Senate, perhaps as early as
Thursday, the moratorium proposal probably will be bypassed
for procedural reasons in favor of a simple resolution of
disapproval of the $40 million aid installment.
Even if Democrats can achieve a majority, they admit
they cannot muster the twe-thirds vote needed to override a
certain presidential veto. -