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Reagan blasts Sandinistas
$270 million in aid needed as insurance for peace, he says
WASHINGTON — President
w Reagan, warning he won’t be fooled
by Sandinista “facades of freedom,’
asked Congress on Wednesday tc
approve S270 million in Contra aid as
an insurance policy for peace in Nica
ragua.
Reagan, in a toughly-worded ad
dress to the Organization of Ameri
can States, lauded recent steps taken
toward peace under a regional ac
cord.
But he also said the pact is “only a
beginning” and described a series of
steps the leftist Sandinista govern
ment in Managua must take in order
to assure that U.S. military aid to the
* Contra rebels ends.
“Full, free and fair elections and
the open society that alone can make
them possible, including full human
rights and expulsion of all Soviet and
Cuban forces — these must be the
bedrock of conditions upon which
any further agreement with the
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Sandinistas is built,” Reagan said.
Although House Speaker Jim
Wright, D-Texas, had said Reagan
ha^ little chanccof obtaining renewed
military aid, the president lectured
Congress against abandoning the
Contras after supporting them in the
past.
“It cannot just walk away,” he
said. “I have made a personal com
mitment to them — and I will not
walk away.”
Reagan termed the aid package
“the essential guarantee that the
Sandinistas will live up to the demo
cratic conditions of the Guatemala
Accord,” the peace pact signed in
August by five Central American
nations, including Nicaragua.
The president said he would “re
quest and fight for” the S270 million,
18-month aid package, which ad
ministration officials have said
would go forward before the Nov. 7
case-fire date called for under the
regional peace accord.
“Once a cease-fire is fully in ef
fect, only that support necessary to
maintain the freedom fighters (Con
tras) as a viable force will be deliv
ered,” Reagan pledged. “Then we,
and they, will be watching to sec how
genuine the democratic reforms in
Nicaragua arc.”
Air Force grounds B-B fleet
to check crew escape system
WASHINGTON — The Air Force
on Wednesday grounded its fleet of 68
new B-1B bombers for a brief inspec
tion of the planes’ crew ejection sys
tem following a recent crash in which
only three of six crewmen on the
aircraft were able to escape.
In a statement, the service’s Strate
gic Air Command said “this precau
tionary inspection is an outgrowth of
the Sept. 28 accident” at a training
range in eastern Colorado.
The inspections will require only
about two hours per plane and are
beginning immediately, meaning the
planes will be returned to service
quickly, SAC said.
“The Strategic Air Command is
performing a precautionary, one-time
inspection of each B-1B aircraft’s
emergency escape system prior to the
aircraft’s next flight,’’ the statement
said.
“Air Force maintenance personnel
are performing the inspections... and
each aircraft will be returned to flying
status upon completion of the inspec
tion.”
The Associated Press reported last
week that the Air Force, in investigat
ing the crash, had begun trying to
determine why only three of the six
crewmen on the plane ejected from
'Tippled aircraft,
jurces said at the time the Air
* urce was concerned because, based
on initial reports, it appeared that at
least four and possibly all six of the
crewmen should have been able to bai 1
out safely.
The three who ejected escaped
with minor injuries, but the other three
went down with the plane and were
killed.
The B-1B, is manufactured by
Rockwell International in El
Scgundo, Calif.
In Brief
Major banks raise prime lending rate
New York — Several major U.S. banks raised their prime lending
rates to 9.25 percent from 8.75 percent Wednesday, about a month after
the banking industry lifted the day rate a half percentage point.
The new level is the highest in more than a year and a half. Major
banks have raised their prime rates four times so far this year in response
to an increase in market rates, which have increased the banks’ cost of
borrowing money and paying interest on deposit accounts.
Monkey complicates Soviet space mission
MOSCOW —- Yerosha the space monkey has freed a paw and started
doing his own experiments aboard a Soviet spacecraft, causing scien
tists to consider cutting short the 12-day mission.
“Our bright one, as it turns out, freed his left front paw from the
restraint on the chair, and with its help began joyfully investigating
everything around,” said a Tass report carried by the newspaper
Sovictskaya Rossiya. The flight is aimed at testing the effects of
weightlessness on animals.
Syrian diplomat shot and killed at his home
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Syrian Second Secretary Antanios Hanna
was shot and killed around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in front of his home
in Brussels, police reported.
Shortly after the shooting, an anonymous caller to the Belgian News
Agency Belga claimed responsibility for the “murder of a Syrian secret
agent” on behalf of Syrian “mujahedeen” (holy warriors).
Summit date will be set this month, official says
WASHINGTON—A date for a summit meeting between President
Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will be set while Secre
tary of State Ge orge P. Shultz is in Moscow for meetings Oct. 22-23, said
Viktor P. Nikonov, a visiting member of the Soviet Politburo.
Nikonov is in charge of Gorbachev’s drive to rejuvenate Soviet
agriculture. He is generally considered a Gorbachev protege.
Wild animals should be food, not attraction
HARARE,Zimbabwe— A United Nationscxperi Wednesday urged
African governments to use wild animals for food instead of reserving
them for foreign tourists to see.
"All forms of wild animals have potential as sources of meat from
frogs to rodents to large animals and birds,” said Emmanuel Asibcy, a
Ghanaian representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization.
He spoke at a conference designed to encourage governments to
promote greater wildlife conservation at a time when many species of
animals are threatened with extinction.
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Shark herd attacks refugees;
rescuers fail to save money
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic
Doomed refugees from a sinking boat
thrashed w ildly in the bloody water to fend off
more than 40 fren/ied sharks, but officials
Hying above them could do nothing to save
them, authorities said Wednesday.
Estimates of the number of people killed
Tuesday when the overloaded boat capsi/cd
ranged from 70 to more than 100. Officials said
some of the missing may have made it to shore
and lied; many bodies were expected to surface
later.
Survivor Eddy Ventura said 168 Domini
canscrowdcd onto the old 50-foot wooden boat
about 4 a.m. Tuesday that was to smuggle them
to Puerto Rico, the more prosperous U.S.
commonwealth 100 miles across the shark
ed™41 Mona Channel, at a cost of S3(X) to
S500 each.
“Most of those who made the trip were
women, and hardly anyone knew how to
swim, said Ventura, 39. He said he Hoatcd 3 1/
I
2 miles to shore clutching an empty gasoline
lank.
Eugenio Cabral, civil defense director of the
Dominican Republic, said scores of bodies
probably would surface and float to shore.
“That takes about 48 hours,” he said. “I
expect that between today and tomorrow,
bodies will begin appearing in large quanti
ties.”
By Wednesday afternoon, 32 people had
been rescued, said hospital officials in Nagua
and Caprera on the northeast coast ol this
C arribcan nation, which shares the island ol
Hispaniola with Haiti.
Four bodies had been brought to shore,
C abral said, and he thought tw oolhers had been
recovered. He put the number of passengers at
100-150 and said about 30 people probably
made it to shore but fled to avoid arrest.
“We would have ... about 70 missing," he
said. “I would not say there is no hope. I have
faith that there arc still people alive."
I Tired pilots sleep in flight
LUiNUON _ British airline pilots on
long-haul flights say their entire crews have
fallen asleep at the controls because of
strenuous work schedules, researchers rc
Undcr a 5-ycar-old confidential report
ing program, one-third of almost 800 British
pilots who disclosed problems affecting
their performance mentioned a demanding
work schedule and the fatigue it caused, said
Roger Green and Roy Skinner of the Royal
A’rForcc Institute of Aviation Medicine.
The researchers quoted a range of pi lots
— ci her flying alone or with a large crew
in helicopters, freight or passenger aircraft
— who said they had mxided off while the
automatic pilot did the flying.
Green, an aviation psychologist, and
Skinner, a retired military pilot, said pilots
on long-distance night flights complained
mosioflcnabouidifficuliy in slaying awake.
Some specified being unable to sleep in
noisy hotels between night flights,enduring
long stopovers at congested airports, or
becoming complacent in cockpits that are
highly automated and where key chores
become “unavoidably soporific."
Writing in the October issue of The Log,
the British Airline Pilots Association
monthly journal, the researchers quoted one
pilot on a long-haul aircraft who said he and
his crew were delayed unexpectedly for 12
hours at an airport.
During the subsequent flight, because of
the delay, all ol us were extremely tired," the
pilot wrote.
During the cruise we all fell asleep, only
W0*CCn ^ l^c Much (speed) warning
bell, he added. “At the constant power
setting, the aircraft had slow ly accelerated,
causing the bell to ring. 1 estimated we were
all asleep for about 20 minutes. Fortunately,
we were between reporting points.”
The_researchers remove identifying de
tails of such eases, including the kind of
auplanc invoked and si/c of crew from their
published reports.
