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Two Indian passenger planes crash in bad weather
AHMADABAD, India — A Boe
ing 737 jetliner and another Indian
passenger plane crashed in bad
weather within two hours of each
other Wednesday, and authorities
said 164 people were believed killed.
The Indian Airlines jet was trying
to land in heavy fog at the western city
of Ahmadabad when it slammed into
a tree, hit a power line and crashed.
All but five of the 135 people aboard
were killed, and three of the survivors
were in serious condition with bums
and broken bones.
About 1 1/4 hours later, a 30-year
old Fokker Friendship propeller plane
leased by Indian Airlines to the do
mestic carrier Vay udoot hit the side of
a hill in eastern India during a severe
rainstorm, and all 34 people aboard
were feared dead, officials said.
Indian Airlines Flight 131, was
flying from Bombay with 129 passen
gers and six crewmembers when it
crashed at 7:40 a.m. on its final ap
proach to Ahmadabad airport, about
500 miles southwest of New Delhi.
Federal Aviation Minister Shiv
Raj Patil said the death toll of 130 was
the worst in the carrier’s 26-year his
tory. It was the airline’s 16th major
accident.
The government-run airline,
which flies to 73 airports in India and
to nine other countries, has come
under fire for allegedly failing to
maintain pre-flight safety proce
dures.
The cause of the crash was not
immediately known, but one airline
official who spoke on condition of
anonymity said the airline suspects a
technical malfunction complicated
by bad weather.
Patil said he did not rule out sabo
tage and ordered an investigation
headed by a high court judge.
A recording between the pilot and
the Ahmadabad control tower gave
no indication of trouble. Rescue
workers found the flight data and
cockpit voice recorders in smoldering
wreckage and blood-stained debris.
The Fokker Friendship crashed
into a 1,400-fool hill near Guwahati
airport, about 960 miles east of New
Delhi. It was nearing the end of a
flight from Silchar, about 112 miles to
the southeast
The plane, made in 1958, reported
zero visibility, then lost contact with
the Guwahati control tower two min
utes before the 8:55 a.m. crash, said
C. Das, the top civil administrator for
Guwahati district
All 31 passengers and three crew
members were feared dead, he said.
The crash site, in a dense forest, could
not be reached because of rain.
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suicide bomb kills 7 Israeli soldiers near uooa r ence
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■ MblULLA, Israel —A suicide
car bomb exploded Wednesday near
Israel’s ‘‘Good Fence” border cross
ing in $otfth Lebanon, kilting seven
Israeli soldiers and wounding eight
others aixcl two Lebanese civilians,
the military contfnapd said.
“ In Beirut, the Islamic Resistance
claimed responsibility. The same
coalition of pro-Iranian fundamental
ist-groups claimed responsibility for a
car bomb mat wounded three Israelis
in August.
The military wing of Hezbollah,
the Party of God militia based in
Beirut, also claimed responsibility,
according to Middle East Television,
a Christian-run station. Hezbollah
belongs to Islamic Resistance.
The TV report, monitored in
Metulla, said, “The car bomb tore
apart a minibus full of soldiers.”
mme Minister inznax anarnir
and other Israeli leaders vowed to
retaliate.
Maj. Gen. Yossi Peled, head of
Israel's northern command, told a
news conference the bomb exploded
300 yards north of the border at 1:25
p.m. (7:25 a.m. EDT) as two groups of
army vehicles passed each other, one
headed home and the other into Leba
non.
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ful “nothing remained of the car
bomb.”
An Israeli officer, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said a white
Toyota truck, driven by an Arab
“apparently from Hezbollah,” ex
ploded amid two convoys totaling
seven vehicles.
“The commanders got out to talk.
groups of vehicles and exploded,’’ he
said.
The blast left a crater more than IS
feet wide. Witnesses said the attack
vehicle was unrecognizable.
Israel created the “Good Fence” in
1976 to provide medical and other aid
to refugees from Lebanon’s civil war.
It is used today mostly by Lebanese
workers who travel to Israel daily.
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Candidates trade charges; polls favor Bush
Democrat Michael Dukakis com
plained bitterly Wednesday that his
record has been distorted by the
Republicans and said “that seems to
be what the Bush campaign is all
about.” George Bush accused his ri
val of “a rather unrealistic view of
America’s role” in foreign affairs.
The Democratic presidential
nominee traveled by bus through
small farm communities of Illinois
and Missouri, aiming for the rural
vote and charging Bush with favoring
“corporate operators” over family
farmers.
Bush, flush with a new batch of
good-news polls, called for bipartisan
congressional agreement on foreign
policy, concerns. He promised to
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convene an early summit of NATO
allies if elected president
Dukakis flashed anger when he
was shown a Republican brochure
attacking him as soft on crime.
The brochure said that a convicted
Illinois mass-murderer, John Wayne
Gacy, would be “eligible for weekend
passes'* in Massachusetts, under
Dukakis’ prison furlough program. It
asserted that “murderers and rapists
and drug pushers and child molesters
in Massachusetts vote for Michael
Dukakis.*’
“Friends, this is garbage,”
Dukakis said, holding aloft the item
mailed by Republicans. “This is po
litical garbage.”
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With Democrats urging him to
step up his responses to Bush’s
charges, Dukakis said: “My positions
are being distorted on a number of
these issues. That seems to be what
the Bush campaign is all about.”
On the one-year anniversary of the
1987 stock market crash, a rumor
about the presidential race was
blamed in part for a sudden afternoon
drop in the stock market. The rumor
making the rounds of Wall Street was
that the Washington Post would pub
lish on Thursday a story potentially
damaging to Bush.
“There is no such story,” said
Robert Kaiser, assistant managing
editor for national news at the Post.
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t*rijle
and a meal of fish-He^^o«p, but
the exercise was attacked by par
ents as too harsh.
The voluntary field trip over the
Columbus Day weekend was in
tended to give juniors and seniors
a* Wheaton North High School a
taste of criminal-justice systems,
including—for volunteers—that
of an imagined Third World coun
try.
Many of the students and some
parents praised the experience. But
one parent said she hadn’t realized
when she gave her son written
permission to participate that he
would be bog-tied ana left alone in
a room for 21/2 hours for refusing
to eat fish-head soup.
“This is not anything ! would
have signed a consent for,” said
Connie Northrop at a school board
merging Monday. Her son was
among the 34 students who partici
pated in the mock, 2?-hour lockup
at Wheaton College.
“This is an outrage. The word
’outrage* doesn't even begin to
touch how 1 fceV* said another
parent, Kay McKeen, whose teen
age* dida’i participate but whose
concern prompted her to address
ibenoeL
Trie Board of hai
asked school administrators to re
evaluate the program, arranged by
American government teacher
DavidOliphant, and report buck by
Nov. 14, board Piosidcm femes
Catt^aW Wednesday.
fbe intent of the program was
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to have the young people learn and
gai n an appreciation for our system
of democracy and our system of
laws,” Carr said.
"Also to give them somewhat of
an understanding of what it would
be like to be in prison other than
perhaps in Du Page County Ex
ample: a Third World situation,"
he said.
"I believe conceptually it's a
very good one (program), but we
certainly cast improve on our com
munication on some of the specif
ics" of what students were to be
subjected to.
Among those specifics were
strip-searches, handcuffs, fish
head soup and chants of “y ourethe
scum or the earth" and "you’re
dinx”
the simulation was held on the
fifth floor of the 3illy Graham
Center la connection with the
Christian college’s Institute ft*
Prison Ministries
It was supervised by Institute
Director Don Soasno, who acted as
"warden ” and two Wheaton Col
ksge students, who acted as
^ShSents from the college have
participated in simulated lockups
through the sociology department
since 1983. Other high school stu
dents have gone through it, and it
has been the topic of feature stories
in the Chicago Tribune and the
Chronicle of Higher Education.
School Superintendent Richard
Short said of Oliphant, whom he
and Carr both described as an out
standing teacher. “The objectives
that he had were all satisfied. My
concern, and that of the parents,
was that he went beyond experi
ences reasonable for high school
students. Particularly when the
parents were not fully aware of
what was going to happen/'
But students who participated
were almost unanimous In their
praise.
“I’m shaking. I’m so angry at
these parents,** senior Kelly Kyter,
18 said at a recent meeting on the
exercise. “It's not that J ever
wanted to go IP prison Bui now 1
have a view os what these (incar
cwned) people went through- 1
learned afout myself.
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