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Ice crystal may have caused crash
OMAHA — An ice crystal in the
hydraulic system of a medical heli
copter may have caused it to crash
* while taking off from the University
of Nebraska Medical Center, a
spokesman for the company that owns
the chopper said Thursday.
Federal Aviation Administration
and National Transportation Safety
Board officials are investigating the
crash, which occurred just after 5 p.m.
Wednesday. Pilot John Oldham, 41,
and flight nurse Pete Labosky, 32,
received minor injuries in the fiery
crash. Both were released from the
Medical Center Thursday, said hospi
tal spokesman Tom O’Connor.
There were no passengers aboard
the SkyMed helicopter when the crash
occurred. The SkyMed chopper was
being moved to nearby Clarkson
Hospital to allow another medical
helicopter to land with a patient.
The helicopter’s control stick
thrust backward as the craft reached
an altitude of about 25 feet, said Russ
Spray, vice president of Rocky Moun
tain Helicopters Inc. of Provo, Utah.
Rocky Mountain owns the helicopter
and leases it to a group of Nebraska
hospitals.
When the stick moved backwards,
the helicopter nosed upward and
rolled, then touched down on its tail
and burst into flames, Spray said.
“It was not pilot error,” Spray said.
“It was like losing the power steering
on your car. It may have been one of
those rare occurrences when an ice
crystal forms in the hydraulic sys
tem.”
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Reagan to ask for $50 million
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan will ask Congress next week
to approve close to $50 million for the
Nicaraguan Contras, a senior admini
stration official said Thursday.
The request is expected to be sent
to Capitol Hill Tuesday; the House
will vote on it Feb. 3 under an agree
ment between the White House and
the Congress last month.
To increase the prospects for con
gressional approval, Reagan said
Wednesday that less than half of the
request will be for military equip
ment.
“The majority of the aid that I will
be requesting from Congress is for
non-lethal assistance to keep the free
dom fighters a viable force until
democracy is irreversible in Nicara
gua,” Reagan told a group of backers
at the White House.
Supporters and opponents agree
that the vote is likely to be extremely
close, with the outcome hinging on
about 50 House members who could
decide either way.
Iraqi warplanes strike Iran
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iraq said its
warplanes flew500milestobombkcy
Iranian oil installations in the Persian
Gulf on Wednesday in the first long
range air raid this year.
Iran said its forces crushed four
Iraqi attempts to retake captured terri
lory in mountainous Kurdistan and
killed or wounded 500 Iraqis.
The official Iraqi News Agency
said “columns of black smoke” cov
ered Lavan Island after the air strike at
12:20 p.m.
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Hart denies allegations of illegal contributions
WASHINGTON — Gary Hart denied Thursday allegations of
possibly illegal campaign contributions, while his Democratic rivals
sharpened their rhetoric on the budget and taxes.
Hart, in New Hampshire, spent most of Wednesday answering
questions about a newspaper report that his campaign had accepted aid
that skirted federal limits on contributions. Asked Thursday about
further details provided by former staffers, he said, “No, no, it’s not
true.”
In Iowa, meanwhile, on the day after the Democrats’ second debate
in a week, Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri continued the sharp
rhetoric that has marked recent Democratic discourse.
Woman charged in connection with suicide
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A woman believed to be the only
mother ever charged in connection with her child’s suicide was sen
tenced Thursday to a year in jail, two years of community control and
three years of probation.
“Taking your daughter to a naked bar and watching her dance is not
a proper thing to do — or acceptable,” Broward Circuit Judge Arthur
Franza said before he sentenced Theresa Jackson, 41.
Miss Mancini puther mother’s .357 Magnum in her mouth and pulled
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Israel eases curfews on Gaza strip refugee camps
JERUSALEM — Israel eased curfews on some Gaza Strip refugee
camps so Palestinians could go to work Thursday, and assigned more
police to an Israeli highway where Arabs threw firebombs at a school
bus.
The bombs missed the bus and did not explode.
A visiting Red Cross official said there appeared lobe no critical food
shortages in refugee camps under curfew, which supported the Israeli
position. U.N. officials who administer the camps in the occupied
territories challenged his statement.
Defense Minister Yitnak Rabin’s decision to have soldiers beat
protesters instead of firing on them brought this comment from the State
Department: “We are disturbed by the adoption of a policy by tiie
government of Israel that calls for beatings as a means to restore or
maintain order.”
Millions in USSR to be laid off in next 12 years
MOSCOW — About 16 million Soviets will be laid off by the year
2000 under Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s reform drive, and some people are
already worrying about a return of mass unemployment, Pravda said
Thursday.
The account in the Communist Parly daily gave more hints of the
widespread concerns raised by Gorbachev’s drive for “percstrioka,” or
the wholesale revamping of the Soviet economy and society.
Along with a more effective use of the labor force, the Soviet
Communist Party general secretary has said an increase in retail prices
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