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17 apparently killed in 2 military crashes
HARLEM, Mont. — Twomilitary
cargo jets collided after refuel ing dur
ing a training flight and crashed, ap
parently killing all 13 aboard, au
thorities said Tuesday.
In another Air Force crash Monday
night, a B-l B bomber on a low-level
training flight crashed into a cliff and
exploded in western Texas. The fate
of the four crewmen was unknown. It
was the fourth crash of a B-1B, de
signed to deliver nuclear bombs, since
September 1987.
The causes of both crashes were
unknown.
In Montana, the wreckage of the
two C-141B cargo planes was strewn
over 21 square miles of the state’s
north-central prairie about 30 miles
south of the Canadian border.
Nine bodies had been found by
midaftemoon, said Col. Dick Fanjoy,
vice commander of the 43rd air
refueling wing at Malmsirom Air
Force Base in Great Falls.
The planes crashed late Monday
while on a training mission with two
other C-14IBs and a Washington Air
National Guard KC-135 tanker, said
Ray Martell, a spokesman for
McChord Air Force Base near
Tacoma, Wash., where the transports
were based.
“A great, big piece fell out of the
sky. It looked like a meteorite,” said
Brenda Mohar, a teacher from Turner,
northeast of the crash area.
The KC-135 had finished refueling
the cargo planes before the collision,
said Lt. Col. Joe Jimenez, a spokes
man for Fairchild Air Force Base near
Spokane, Wash., where the tanker is
based.
Master Sgt. David Jones of
McChord said it was loo early to say
what caused the collision, but no
mechanical problem was suspected.
Weather also wasn’t believed to have
been a factor, Fanjoy said. Federal
Aviation Administration spokesman
Lee Fryer in Seattle said the weather
was clear at the altitude the planes
were flying, 24,000 to 27,000 feet.
Large sections of the planes lay on
the scorched prairie, including about
two-thirds of one fuselage that ap
pcared lohavc fallen intactandcrackcd
open like an egg. Some wreckage was
about a mile from a farmhouse.
Mike Bachmeicr, police chief in
Harlem, about 10 miles from thccrash,
said there were “bodies all over.”
Six people were on one of the
planes and seven on the other, said
Gloria Rayford, spokeswoman for the
62nd Airlift Wing at McChord.
The four-engine C-141 Starliftcris
used to ferry large loads of equipment
and troops. It can carry 120 people.
In western Texas, the B-1B bomber
crashed and burned on a ridge be
tween 6,185-foot Capote and Needle
peaks in a rugged area of the Sierra
V ieja Moun tai ns, about 20 m i les south
of Valentine.
Wing span: 159 ft. 11 In.
Length: 168 ft. 4 in.
Source: Jane's All The World’s Aircraft AP
Somalian relief workers press for military security
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Reliefofficials
on Tuesday urged the United Nations to quickly
authorize more military muscle to guarantee
that aid reaches hundreds of thousands of starv
ing Somalis.
As the U.N. Security Council debated
whether to take up a U.S. offer of a force of
30,000 to deliver the food, some of the officials
worried that an influx of foreign troops could
spark retaliation against foreigners.
Somali gunmen will feel that their liveli
hood is threatened.
“This is a very complex society with very
tough, proud people divided into competitive
clans,” said Brigitte Doppler of Doctors With
Swift action a must, they say, to reach famine areas
oul Borders. “None oflhc relief agencies know
how their programs will work under military
mobilization.”
Without security, said Per Hammcrstcdl of
U.N. Operation Somalia, the relief operation is
pointless.
“Why should we stay here when the food is
looted and we can’t even bring it oul of the
harbor?” he said.
In London, Nicholas Hinton, director gen
eral of the relief agency Save The Children,
said any U.N. military operation in Somalia
must be part of a five-year international com
milment to rebuild the shattered African na
tion.
Hinton said a suggestion that soldiers “can
somehow simply go in, clean the place up and
get out in two weeks is ridiculous.”
By U.N. estimates, at least 300,000 people
have died from the combined effects of drought
and warfare this year and another 2 million are
threatened.
As much as half the 200,000 metric tons of
food del i vered to the Horn of A frica nation have
been stolen by bandits. At least 12,000 metric
tons arc stored at port warehouses but cannot be
delivered because of banditry in the area.
On Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali recommended using military
force to guarantee food deliveries, in what
would be the first full-scale armed U.N. inter
vention to support humanitarian activities.
In Washington on Tuesday, House Speaker
Thomas Foley, D-Wash., told reporters the
United States is very close to sending ground
troops into Somalia.
“I think the circumstances warrant it,” Foley
said.
A major force from the United States or any
other country would likely encounter little or
ganized resistance from marauding warlords.
Economic signs
up strongly, but
analysts wary
WASHINGTON—New reports
Tuesday showed the government’s
chief economic forecasting gauge,
construction spending and manu
facturing all up strongly.
The Commerce Department’s
Index of Leading Economic Indi
cators rose 0.4 percent in October,
the biggest gain in five months.
The department also said construc
tion spending in October advanced
robustly for the second consecu
tive month, reaching the highest
level in two years.
Since the economy lapsed into
recession in July 1990,analysLs have
been burned twice by prematurely
predicting a return to better limes,
once in mid-1991 and again early
this year. Each time a dip or a stall
in activity prevented the economy
from attaining a self-sustaining re
covery.
Of the index’s 11 forward-look
ing indicators, the most positive
was a 13.7 percent drop in average
weekly unemployment benefit
claims, the steepest since Decem
ber 1982.
George Stcphanopoulos, a
spokesman for President-elect
Clinton, said no decision has been
made about whether the improving
economic outlook would cause
Clinton to scale back a planned
short-term economic stimulus
package.
“We’re encouraged by the news
we’ve seen over the last several
weeks and we hope it continues,”
Stcphanopoulos said. “But... we
just can’t tell yet whether or not
we’re going to have a real, long,
sustained recovery with job growth
and income growth.”
Five other indicators in the lead
ing index were positive. Two were
neutral and three were negative.
The other positive indicators
were:
• An increase in the average
work week of manufacturing em
ployees.
• A jump in unfilled orders at
factories, a sign that manufacturers
are not as easily keeping up with
new orders and may need to hire**,
soon.
• A rise in orders for business
equipment and buildings.
World AIDS Day observed Tuesday around globe
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onsiraiors in Santa Claus costumes
danced around a giant condom in
Town Hall Square.
In Russia, doctors gave free con
sultations at the Moscow Satire The
ater. And in Brazil, protesters called
for more government funding.
World’s AIDS Day was observed
Tuesday in a variety of ways, from
whimsical demonstrations to solemn
vigils demanding more funds to fight
the deadly disease.
Hundreds of marchers in Banjul,
Gambia, converged to hear speeches
and pray for people with AIDS. The
West African nation’s health minis
ter, Landing Jallow Sonko, warned
that AIDS may increase child mortal
ity rales by as much as 50 percent in
much of sub-Saharan Africa in the
1990s.
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Tnere is a rapidly expanding portion of the popula
tion that is mobile and affluent... who patronize
prostitutes or use drugs.
— Kean
World Health Organization official
On the eve of World AIDS Day,
Indian screen stars marched in
Bombay and urged people to “have
fun, but don’t forget Nirodh,” a popu
lar condom.
The World Health Organization
has said about 2 million people in
Asia could die of acquired immune
deficiency syndrome by the year2000.
In Tokyo, Japanese baseball star
Sadaharu Oh joined other celebrities
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handing out information packets at a
rally in the Ginza shopping district.
In Beijing, World Health Organi
zation official Bernard Kean told a
gathering at the Great Hall of the
People that the Chinese government
must do more to educate people about
the disease.
At a prison in the Polish city of
Wroclaw, 43 inmates infected with
hunger strike, demanding regular
medical checkups.
Protesters gathered outside City
Hall in Riodc Janeiro to demand more
money for people with AIDS. A local
theater held a premiere of the film
“Venus of Fire,” which aims to
eroticize condom use.
In Britain, demonstrators gathered
outside the prime minister’s office to
demand appointment of a minister for
AIDS.
A 17-foot replica of a condom
lowered nearby at Nelson’s Column
in Trafalgar Square.
In Israel, a condom dispenser was
installed for the day at Israel’s parlia
ment building as part of the public
awareness program, and radio sta
tions told people where to get free
tests to see if they arc infected.
U.S. plane hit; Bosnian airlift suspended
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
— The humanitarian airlift to Bosnia
was suspended Tuesday after small
arms fire struck part of the steering
system of a U.S. Air Force transport
plane on its landing approach to
Sarajevo.
Bosnia’s president urged “deci
sive stands” by Islamic states to aid
his country.
The C-130 Hercules that was shot
in the rudder while approaching the
Bosnian capital wasablc to land safely,
unload its relief supplies and return to
Zagreb, Croatia, said Peter Kessler, a
spokesman for the U.N. High Com
missioner for Refugees.
Kessler said the airlift to the
Bosnian capital was likely to remain
suspended at least through Wednes
day while U.N. liaison officers inves
tigate the source of the shooting.
Twenty flights carrying food, medi
cine and other relief supplies were
scheduled to land Tuesday in Sarajevo,
but only 10 arrived before the airlift
was suspended.
Earlier, Bosnia’s army command
had accused the Serbs of shelling the
airport runway overnight “with the
intention of destroying the radar sys
tem and thus slopping the humanitar
ian flights.”
More than 17,000 people have been
killed in the fighting, the Bosnian
Health Ministry reported Monday.
Bosnia’s Muslim President, Alija
Izetbcgovic, appealed for Islamic soli
darity and action at a conference ol
the 47-member Organization of Is
lamic Conference in Saudi Arabia.
“International resolutions have re
mained empty words and the lime ha
come for decisive stands,” Izctbcgovi*
told foreign ministers in Jiddah.
Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd called
for an end to a U.N. arms embargo on
Bosnia that has crippled Sarajevo’*
defenders.
The Bosnian army commander said
in a newspaper interview that his
forces were “preparing intensively”
for an offensive to break the Serbian
siege on Sarajevo, site of the 1984
Winter Games.
In an interview in Monday’s edi
tion of the Oslobodjcnjc newspaper,
. Bosnian army chief Gen. Mustafa
’ Hajrulahovic said his forces lacked
materiel but were “now capable of
some offensive movement.”
Parts of Sarajcvocamc under heavy
shelling, Bosnian radio reported. It
said Serb artillery was continuing “a
bloody orgy of destruction” in Olovo,
a town northeast of the city.
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Yeltsin sidesteps impeachment attempt
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Yeltsin survived an impeachment at
tempt by hard-liners at the rowdy
opening of Congress on Tuesday and
then proposed a compromise to trim
presidential powers but continue mar
ket reforms. <
His proposal drew strong opposi
tion. Early voles indicated that nei
ther Yeltsin’s supporters nor oppo
nents had the strength to force through
their ideas, leaving them groping for
middle ground that would avoid a
stalemate.
Yeltsin urged lawmakers to resist
i the champions of “hard-line Bolshe
vism” who threaten to “divide the
society, to set the executive and leg
islative branches against each other in
a final clash, lo weaken ihc stale and
breed chaos.”
His proposal was aimed at generat
ing new momentum for his economic
reforms by preventing the Congress
of People’s Deputies, dominated by
hard-liners elected before the col
lapse of the Soviet Union, from hob
bling the more radical Cabinet.
Hard-liners want to slow the eco
nomic changes and drop acting Prime
Minister Yegor Gaidar. Gaidar was
scheduled to speak Wednesday.
In an hour-long speech in the Grand
Kremlin Palace, Yeltsin accused law
makers of putting ‘‘their own ambi
tions, careers, demagoguery and cheap
political effects above the truth, the
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interests oi the people and the slate.
Outside the Kremlin, several hun
dred demonstrators carrying red Com
munist hammcr-and-sickle banners
pushed through a police line and en
dured /jcto temperatures to chant anti
Ycltsin slogans as lawmakers crossed
Red Square.
Hundreds of pro-reform coal min
ers also shouted at deputies as they
entered Spassky Gate.
Yeltsin’s compromise proposal
drew sharp criticism from the 1,041 -
member body. Even reform lawmak
ers said prospects were slim for the
plan, which would preserve many of
the sweeping powers Yeltsin has held
since the failed hard-line coup in
August 1991.
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