Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 104, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 January 1981 — Page 3

Guerrillas may have caused blast at Nairobi hotel

Nairobi, Kenya iap) Speculation mounted today that radical Palestinian guerrillas may have bombed a Jewish- . owned Nairobi hotel in apparent retaliation for past Kenyan help for Israel. The death toll in the New Year’s Eve blast and fire climbed to 19, including one American, with eight other Americans still missing. ; The Palestinian theory was raised Thursday by Arab sources in Beirut, Lebanon, who are familiar with guerrilla strategy and claimed Palestinian radicals hold two grudges against the Kenya government. One stems back to the government’s 1975 transfer of five suspected Palestinian terrorists to Israel. The five men three Palestinians and two West Germans were arrested in Kenya and accused of plotting to blow up one of Israel’s El A 1 jetliners at Nairobi. The suspects, alleged members of Dr. George Habash’s Popular Front for the •Liberation of Palestine, are believed to be still in Israeli prisons. The Arab radicals also were enraged by the unofficial assistance Kenya provided during Israel’s daring hostage rescue raid at Uganda’s Entebbe airport on July 4, 1976. After freeing the hostages from PFLP guerrillas at Entebbe, the raiders were allowed to refuel their aircraft in neighboring Nairobi before returning to Israel. The Arab sources said either or both of the incidents could be grounds for a Palestianian reprisal, such as the bombing of a Jewish-owned target in Kenya. Spokesman for the radical Palestinian organizations in Beirut refused to comment on the speculation.

Quayle, Bayh spent $2 for every Senate vote cast

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana voters who cast their ballots in the 1980 U.S. Senate race were the most expensivelycourted constitutents in the nation. Republican Sen-elect Dan Quayle and Democrat Sen Birch Bayh spent $2 for every vote counted by election workers. Their total campaign expenditures topped $4.5 million. Despite the high rolling campaigns. neither man reached the top of the list reserved for the heaviest spenders, although both ranked highly. Bayh, with expenditures of $2.4 million, ranked second on that list. Quayle, with $2.1 million in expenses, was fourth, according to a national publication. Figures in the Indiana secretary of state’s office show both candidates ended the latest reporting period with some cash on hand. Bayh had $150,000 and

Indiana bankruptcy filings set new record

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - It’s not an economic record to be proud of, but Indiana residents flocked to the bankruptcy courts in droves during 1980. The Indianapolis and Evansville federal districts tallied 7,820 bankruptcies, up more than 800 from the previous record set in 1975. The previous record was 7,004 filings, a figure that dipped to 5,436 in 1977. But it started climbing again, and in 1979, 6,-560

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Kenyan authorities indicated Thursday that they suspect terrorists were responsible for the explosion and fire at the landmark Norfolk Hotel, but they gave no possible motive. Observers said there was nothing in recent Kenyan events that gave grounds for a solid theory. G.G Kariuki, President Daniel Arap Moi’s top security aide, called for calm while police work to “bring the culprits to book.’’ Army demolitions experts picked through the rubble at the 76-year-old stone and wood-timber hotel, which was sealed off by police. Police Commission Ben Gethi put the toll at 16 dead and 85 injured, most of them non-Ken-yans. However, other police sources said there were 12 dead, and Mrs. Jack Block, wife of one of the two brothers who own the resort, said searchers reported finding 19 bodies. No official list of victims was available, and authorities said the task of identifying bodies and notifying relatives was going slowly bacause many of the victims were badly burned. The U.S. Embassy said one American was killed, eight were missing and eight were injured. The only Americans identified so far were W.C. “Pat” Quinn, his wife, Donna, and their two children, Noah, 11 and Julie, 15, all of Hudson, N.H. They were reported in satisfactory condition after suffering extensive burns and cuts. The hotel, which has counted former President Theodore Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway among its guests, was packed with New Year’s Eve revelers when the blast ripped through the main dining room, a lounge, kitchens and some upstairs guest rooms.

Quayle $140,000, although both were short of outstanding debts. Political expenses cover a variety of items including advertising„printing and mailing, phone banks, and transportation. The U.S. Senate race in Indiana was expensive, but the highest cost per voter distinction fell to the 3rd District where incumbent Democratic Rep John Brademas was defeated by Republican John Hiler. More than $1 million was spent in that race where 189,108 voters went to the polls. That translates to $5 per voter. Brademas’ final report of 1980 showed $623,380 spent this year. Hiler spent $378,129. Both had about the same amount of money left at the end of the campaign. Final stastistics aren’t in yet for the state races from governor on down, and it may become

persons and businesses made their way to bankruptcy court. However, some court officials say those figures are misleading because of recent changes in filing procedures, which could boost the total to more than 10,000 filings. Economics are at the heart of every bankruptcy, but there are apparently a multitude of other factors affecting the overall reasons bankruptcies are filed.

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The Soviet Union's TU-144 supersonic jetliner, shown here boarding passengers for its maiden flight in 1977, has been taken out of service and returned to its builders for testing. The 140-passenger aircraft, Russian counterpart

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Soviets take SST out of service

MOSCOW (AP) - More than three years after Soviet officials triumphantly inaugurated passenger flights on their TU--144 supersonic jetliner, the problem-plagued plane is out of service, back in its builders’ hands and still undergoing tests, Soviet officials say. A spokesman for the Soviet Ministry of Aircraft Production claimed this week that the tests are “coming to an end,” and that the 140-passenger plane could be back in service “soon.” But he declined to predict when regular flights will resume. and references to the supersonic jet were missing from official congratulations to airline workers published last Monday in the Soviet press. The spokesman, speaking with The Associated Press, as-

impossilbe to put an exact dollars and cents cost on what little presidential campaigning was done in Indiana. However, the candidates for Senate and Congress reported 1980 expenses of more than $7.8 million. The cost of state and local races will push that figure over $lO million. The figures do not include financial help received by candidates from national political groups. The breakdown of expenses by congressional district included: District 1: Democratic Rep. Adam Benjamin spent $23,757 and had $30,174 on hand. A letter from his Republican oppo-

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serted that the safety of the plane, a prototype of which crashed spectacularly at the 1973 Paris Air Show, “now has been assured.” But Western specialists say they still suspect that the plane has problems that could affect flight safety. Only this, they believe, could account for the lack of mention of the plane in the Soviet press and the absence of more demonstration flights. The aircraft industry spokesman, however, asserted that the TU-144’s problems now are basically economic. The plane’s Western rival, the BritishFrench Concorde, has also suffered from high operating costs. The slim, needle-nosed Soviet craft was once expected to beat the Concorde into passenger service, but was finally inaugurated as a passenger jet on

nent Joseph Harkin said he recieved less than $5,000 in contributions. District 2: Democratic Rep. Floyd Fithian spent $238,475 in defeating state Sen. Ernest Niemeyer, R-Lowell. The GOP candidate showed expenses of $53,429. Distrtict 3: Republican John Hiler spent $378,129 to defeat Democratic Rep. John Brademas, who reported expenses of $623,380. District 4: Republican Dan Coats spent $196,717 and defeated Democrat John Walda, who spent $83,821. Walda had an additional $20,000 in debts. Districts: GOP Congressman Elwood Hillis spent $162,266 and

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of the British-French Concorde, has experienced numerous design problems. A prototype of the plane crashed spectacularly at the 1973 Paris Air Show. (AP Laserphoto)

Nov 1, 1977, 21 months behind its rival. Previously, it had carried mail and cargo. The new passenger service was presented with great fanfare, and foreign journalists were invited on a 2,000-mile wine-and-caviar demonstration flight from Moscow to Alma Ata in Soviet Central Asia. Reporters aboard said the flight was smooth, but some said vibration noise forced them to communicate by writing notes to each other. The aircraft’s designer, Alexei Tupolev, said at the time that the aircraft had already been tested in 2.5 million miles of flying and that noise inside the cabin would be reduced. Fears for the safety of the aircraft date from the Paris Air Show incident, when a prototype exploded in the air as

beat Democrat Nels Ackerson, who spent $105,222. Ackerson’s debt was $22,533; Hillis listed no debts in his latest report. District 6: Democratic Con gressman Dave Evans spent $277,257 while Republican Dave Crane spent $380,558. Evans had $37,652 left, while Crane had $9,532. Although Evans is the official winner, a recount is underway. District 7: GOP Rep. John Myers spent $114,792 and had $76,5127 left. Democratic state Sen. Patrick Carroll of Bloomington, the loser, spent $48,242 and still had debts of $10,972. District 8: GOP Rep. Joel Deckard defeated Democratic state Sen. Ken Snider of Deck-

30,000 spectators looked on. Thirteen people, including six crewmen, were killed and flaming wreckage destroyed a dozen homes in the Paris suburb of Goussainville. No major accidents since then have been reported, and the plane flew for a time between Moscow and Alma Ata after the 1977 inauguration. Flights were later suspended, however. Eight to 20 of the aircraft are now believed to exist. In June, 1979, the Soviet press said a new version of the craft had made a test flight to Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East and that the new plane would soon go into production. Since then, almost nothing has been said about the plane, except that one aircraft was given to an aviation museum last March for display.

er. Decker spent $166,817 and Snider $136,935. District 9: Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton spent $97,118 and had $26,667 after defeating Republican George Meyer Jr. Meyer’s expenses were not available. District 10: Democratic Congressman Phil Sharp reported expenses of $1576,378 in defeating Republican William Frazier, who spent $240,686. District 11: Democratic Rep. Andrew Jacobs Jr. spent $36,049 in regaining seat. He had $3,881 on hand. Republican Sheila Suess reported expenditures of more than $155,000, although her final report had not been filed.

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1980 was safest year ever for America's airlines

WASHINGTON (AP) - The year just ended was the safest one in history for America’s lo-cal-service, trunk and flag airlines, as measured by the number of fatal accidents and deaths, the government says. In all of 1980, those airlines had one fatal accident in which 13 persons were killed, according to figures published Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA figures cover the scheduled domestic airlines that are certified by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Those serving short distances are known as local-service operators, those with longer domestic routes are called trunk carriers and those with international flights are flag carriers. The record for 1980 involving the three types of carriers is the best since 1933, when 17 deaths were recorded, and for fatal accidents since 1928, when one such crash was recorded, the agency said. It is a sharp decline from 1979, when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed in Chicago o May 5, killing 271 persons aboard the plane and two on the ground. The total of fatalities that year was 353, it said. “This is a record of which the airlines and the FAA can justly be proud,” said FAA Administrator Langhorne M. Bond in a statement accompanying the figures. “But we must guard against complacency. Our goal must continue to be the complete elimination of accidents.” The only fatal accident in 1980 occurred June 12 near Valley,

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Neb., when a twin-turboprop Swearingen Metroliner operated by Air Wisconsin lost power in both engines while flying in a severe thunderstorm. The agency reported that flag and trunk carriers have gone 14 months without a fatal crash The most recent accident where lives were lost for these carriers was in Mexico City on Oct. 31, 1979, when a Western Airlines DC-10 skidded off a runway that was closed for repairs and slammed into a storage building. Seventy of 87 per sons on board and one on the ground were killed. The 14 months represent the second-longest stretch without a loss of life in the history of modern aviation. The only longer period was an 18-month span between February 1964 and August 1965. The FAA observed that 1980 was the first full calendar year in which there was no fatal crash involving a large jetliner. By agency computation, the airlines flew some 250 billion passenger miles enough to take every person in the country on a flight of more than 1,GOO miles.

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