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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 12,1987

One of three gulf raids

Iraqi jets attack tanker

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) jet fighters today hit a Panamanianregistered tanker with an Exocet missile, setting the vessel ablaze and killing two crew members, Persian Gulf-based marine salvage executives reported. The tanker was identified as the 21,166-ton Marianthi, managed by the Greek shipping company Anastassiou. It was attacked about 60 miles south of the Iranian port of Bushehr, the executives said. They spoke on condition of anonymity. The nationality of the dead crewmen was not immediately confirmed, but they were believed to be Greek, the executives said. The raid on the Marianthi came as U.S. Navy warships were escorting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf. It followed weekend strikes that devastated one Iranianchartered supertanker and left an unexploded Exocet missile in a second. Iraq reported today that its war-

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planes attacked a ship in the gulf and four oil and industrial targets deep inside Iran. The official Iraqi News Agency, in a report monitored in Cyprus, said the targets on the Iranian mainland included an electric plant and oil refineries in the city of Esfahan, 250 miles east of the Iraqi border. Other jets blasted an oil pumping station in the southwestern Iranian town of Tanki Feni, oil installations in Khoramabad and a communications center in Ilam, Iraq said. Khoramabad and Ilam both are in the western province of Lorestan, near the Iran-Iraq border.

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The agency quoted a military spokesman as saying that at noon warplanes raided a “large naval target off the Iran coast.” The term is generally used by official Iraqi media when referring to attacks on tankers ferrying Iranian oil. The U.S. Navy was escorting four Kuwaiti vessels flying the American flag through the Persian Gulf to the Mina Al-Ahmadi, Kuwait’s main oil loading terminal. The convoy, including two gas carriers and two tankers, began its 550-mile journey early Saturday and was reported halfway through the gulf when today’s Iraqi raids were announced.

200,000 march on D.C. for gay rights Sunday

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON stration reminiscent of the civil rights demonstrations of the 19605, 200,000 gay Americans and a diverse coalition of supporters marched here Sunday, calling for more federal money for AIDS research and treatment and for an end to discrimination against homosexuals. Many demonstrators said they had come to rekindle the spirit of the 1963 march on Washington led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to seek the kind of political and social agenda that gave birth to the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Those laws banned racial, religious or ethnic discrimination in housing, employment, education and public accommodation. The U.S. Park Police said about 50,000 people had gathered by 1 p.m. for the march past the White House

'Miracle she's still alive'

Flea market lion mauls 8-year-old girl

HOUSTON (AP) An 8-year-old girl mauled by a lion on display at a flea market is battling for her life today and, if she pulls through, faces years of follow-up treatment. Roxanne Maria Hernandez suffered a cracked skull, leaving part of her brain exposed after she was attacked Saturday by a 300-pound lion, which was described by a veterinarian as undernourished and was later destroyed. The lion was being led through the flea market on a chain by its owner, Gary Durkovitz of Houston, said police Lt. C.W. Driskell. Durkovitz had operated a booth foi three months at the Texas Flea Market, where shoppers could have their picture taken with exotic snakes and the lion, said Driskell. “The lion knocked over an ornament and became excited,” said Brian Mason, 27, who said he saw the attack.

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The United States began escorting 11 Kuwaiti tankers through the oil shipping lanes in July to protect them from attack by Iran, which accuses Kuwait of aiding Iraq in the 7-year-old Iran-Iraq war. Iraqi jets fired two Exocet missiles Sunday at another ship off the coast of Iran. The 239,435-ton Liberian-flagged Rova was set ablaze and severely damaged, according to gulf-based shipping sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Two crewmen were killed and four others were missing, the sources said. The raid was one of three attacks Iraq said it carried out Saturday and Sunday against tankers along the Iranian coast. The shipping sources said another target was the Merlin, a 215,925-ton Cypriot-flag tanker chartered by Iran. An Exocet missile slammed into the ship but did not explode, they said. The sources confirmed that Iraq struck a third time, but they could not identify the vessel.

and a rally near the Capitol. By 5:30 the Park Police put the total at 200,000, explaining that it took the afternoon to make an accurate count of the marchers, who were spread over a five-square-mile area. Organizers, who said 300,000 people marched, said it was the biggest gay rights march ever, exceeding one in Washington in 1979 that drew 79,000. “We are here today to show America and the world that the gay movement is larger, stronger and more diverse than ever,” said Buffy Dunker, an 82-year-old grandmother who announced 10 years ago that she was gay. “We are sending a message to our leaders here in Washington that gays are a united force that will have to be reckoned with. And we will be persistent and unrelenting in our pressure.” Organizers had hoped for as many as 500,000 participants Sunday.

“The little girl walked by, and he knocked her down. He grabbed her and started dragging her across the floor. She was screaming and everybody started running around. ” A security guard accompanying the lion and its owner fired a shot into the animal with a .44-caliber handgun, but the blast didn’t stop the attack, Driskell said. “That seemed to aggravate the lion, and it grabbed her by the head,” he said. “He then shot the lion again, and they still had trouble getting it to release the little girl. ” Roxanne underwent more than six hours of surgery Saturday night at Hermann Hospital, where she was listed today in critical but stable condition. A second operation was scheduled for today to repair a wound near her right temple where a 2- by 2-inch piece of bone is missing, said Roxanne’s father, Joel Hernandez.

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DRUMNADROCHIT, Scotland (AP) A $1.6 million hightechnology hunt for the Loch Ness Monster didn’t arouse Nessie, but a tiny sonar blip may keep the world guessing about the legendary beast. Nessie enthusiasts were undoubtedly disappointed that the three-day sonar sweep of the murky loch which ended Sunday turned up no flippers, humps, heads or tails. Organizer Adrian Shine said he could not deliver the “media monster” the prehistoric reptile that is a favorite conception of Nessie. “Nobody really believed in that anyway, did they?” asked Shine, who has spent 14 years doing research on the loch. But the 38-year-old London salesman told a news conference Sunday night he was more encouraged than ever because of three sonar contacts with large objects that may have been moving in the 750-foot-deep waters. Darrell Lowrance, president of Lowrance Electronics Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., which supplied the echo sonars for the simultaneous sweep of the loch by 20 motor boats, said he was surprised by the strength of one contact at about 620 feet. The blip depicted an object that looked like an inverted V. Lowrance said the three sonar contacts were stronger than those from the largest pike or salmon found in freshwater lakes like Loch Ness, “and remind me of what you get from large, saltwater fish, sharks, grouper of 200 to 400 pounds or possibly marine mammals such as seals.” Hotel owner Ronnie Bremner, who founded the Loch Ness Center and has a vested interest in promoting the 1,400-year-old Nessie legend, said he isn’t convinced it’s a big fish, “Unlike Adrian, I’ve seen it and I still go for the media monster,” he said. “To me, this (sear-

“It’s a miracle she’s still alive,” Hernandez said. Roxanne was conscious and responded to family members through hand motions, said hospital spokeswoman Theresa Kowpak. Hernandez, a carpenter who lives on the outskirts of Houston, said he would like to see criminal charges filed against Durkovitz. “Only an idiot would take a lion in a crowded place with people and kids, endangering them,” he said. Police turned the case over to the Harris County district attorney’s office for presentation to a grand jury, said Sgt. A.D. Moore. Durkovitz could not be reached for comment Sunday. A man at the leasing office of Texas Flea Market refused to speak to reporters on the advice of his attorney. City health officials and a Houston Zoo veterinarian called in after the attack injected the lion with

'Entitled' to shot at presidency, Bush says j

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WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President George Bush is formally kicking off his candidacy for president, saying, “I am entitled” to a shot at the No. 1 job. Bush, who served two terms in the House and held key appointive positions during the Nixon and Ford administrations, was traveling to Houston today to launch his second campaign for the White House. It was in his hometown of Houston that Bush on May 26, 1980, surrendered the GOP presidential nomination to Ronald Reagan after a sl6 million, two-year campaign. Bush, who has been traveling extensively around the country in recent months and has raised more than $lO million for his campaign, told supporters in New Hampshire over the weekend that ‘‘you’re going to see a tiger unleashed.” Appearing before a crowd of about 3,000 people in Greenfield, N.H., on Saturday, Bush previewed the campaign, saying there would be no ‘‘radical swings away” from President Reagan’s policies, but promising a “new emphasis” on some issues.

Tiny sonar blip may keep world guessing about 'Nessie' forever

ch) just enhances the whole position.” One million tourists spent some $250 million annually in the Loch Ness-Inverness area. More than 4,000 eyewitnesses have reported sighting Nessie in modern times and monster hunters have used everything from breadcrumbs to submarines in an effort to track it. Shine said he believes Operation Deepscan will spark more scientific and technical research in the loch “in addition to the silliness.” He said he wants to continue studying fish and temperatures in the loch. Bremner said the 300 journalists from around the world who traveled to this beautiful loch in the Scottish Highlands to cover Operation Deepscan were the largest media contingent ever assembled at Loch Ness. While nobody got a glimpse of Nessie, Shine debunked one of the most famous supposed pictures of the monster, a photo taken in 1975 by the Academy of Applied Science in Concord, N.H. The gargoyle head in the picture turned out to be a rotting tree stump 22 feet below the surface of the loch. The head of the Academy of Applied Sciences, Robert Rines, said in a telephone interview that he was not discouraged about the photograph. His group hopes to test the waters of Loch Ness next summer, using a special Navy sonar system that could search the lake from one place. Rines, a physicist and patent attorney, said the equipment in Operation Deepscan lacked the power to accurately probe the lake’s depths. He said despite the latest probe’s findings he believed reports from people claiming to have seen Nessie. “I felt everybody can’t be a liar or a fool or a publicity seeker,” he said.

tranquilizers and taped its mouth so it could be taken from the scene. However, while being loaded into a truck, the animal reared and slashed the arm of Dr. Karen Kemper, a veterinarian with the city’s Bureau' of Animal Regulation and Care. She said the animal was later killed and its head sent for laboratory analysis to see whether it suffered from rabies. She said the 2‘ 2 -year-old African lion was several hundred pounds underweight. “It had poor nutrition, dermatitis, marks on its teeth from poor nutrition,” she said. Ms. Kemper said a city ordinance requires that exotic animals such as • tigers, lions and wolves be kept at least 300 feet from the nearest * habitation including the owner’s. “You surely can’t walk them through a shopping center on a; chain,” she said.

“I am entitled in an unfettered; fashion to spell out my priorities for; the United States of America as we; move into the ’9os,” he said. Bush, who said he was “all fired; up” for his presidential campaign, joins Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., Pat Robertson, Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Pierre S. du Pont as formally declared candidates. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, considered Bush’s toughest rival for the Republican nomination next year, is scheduled to get into the race formally next month. Bush had a full week of campaign activities scheduled, including trips to Chicago and Los Angeles. Bush has experienced some set-; backs in recent weeks as he has approached formal entry into the GOP! sweepstakes. He finished third; behind Robertson and Dole in a; straw poll of Republican Party ac-; tivists in lowa. He also lost a major fight over the Michigan Republican Party’s selection process for the state’s 77 delegates to next sum-! mer’s GOP convention in New Orleans. *;