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Crash survivors had common plea: 'Make me warm!'

By BI D NEWMAN c. 1982 Cox News Service WASHINGTON When stewardess Kelly Duncan of Miami arrived at the hospital after her Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the icy Potomac River, her head was bleeding, she was “almost hysterical” and she struggled with doctors who wanted to take warm blankets off her shivering body to examine her. “She (Miss Duncan) wanted to be wrapped up and made warm," said Dr. Jerry Engh, who treated Miss Duncan, 23, when she and other survivors reached the National Orthopaedic Hospital in Arlington, Va. Wednesday evening. "And, of course, we're trying to unwrap them (the survivors) to look for injuries and they’re trying to be wrapped up and covered and we’re pulling the sheets off and the blankets off and they're pulling them on and it can be a difficult thing. in attempting to question her, as I guess all people would in that situation, being extremely cold, she didn’t want to bother with questions." he said. The conditions of Miss Duncan and four other passengers who survived the crash continued to improve Friday as new details surfaced about their rescues, treatment and injuries. Doctors said it does not appear that any of the four survivors from the plane who were at Orthopaedic Hospital will have permanent injuries, though Engh said that the crash may leave "tremendous emotional scars" such as "fear of travel" in some of the survivors. They said all four that are in the Virginia hospital were in satisfactory condition, including Priscilla Tirado, whose husband. Jose, and two-month-old son were killed in the

13 hurt in Berlin explosion BERLIN (AP) An explosion shattered a Jewish restaurant in West Berlin on Friday, injuring 12 adults and a child. Police began an investigation but refused immediate comment on what caused the explosion, and details were sketchy. A spokesman who declined to be identified said that police, after their first inspection, said there could have been an explosion in the central heating system of the building in the British sector of the divided city, or a bomb may have been tied to a radiator inside the restaurant. Neighbors called police and the fire brigade for help after they heard the explosion and saw two large window panes shatter in the ground-floor Mifgash-Israel Restaurant in the West Berlin district of Wilmersdorf. Rescuers rushed the victims to nearby hospitals.

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A slippery Dallas, Tex., sidewalk provided a perfect sliding path this week for Bo Sartain, 13, and his sister, Sophie, 15. The pair used cookie sheets as makeshift sleds after

crash. Mrs. Tirado, the most seriously injured of the survivors, is in skeletal traction with a pin through her broken leg, doctors said. Burt Hamilton, who had successful surgery Thursday on his broken leg, also is recovering nicely, as are Joe Stiley and Jeanette Bigelow. But none of the survivors at the Arlington hospital is expected to be released until sometime next week, at the earliest, doctors said The survivors were visited Friday by First Lady Nancy Reagan and a hospital spokesman said they have gotten thousands and thousands of calls from well-wishers as well as others who have survived plane crashes and who wanted to offer support. Lots of letters, cards and some flowers also have arrived, the spokesman said. Patricia Felch of suburban Washington, a crash survivor who is being treated at Washington Hospital Center, remained in serious but stable condition, a spokesman there said. She is suffering from a fractured right leg and wrist and an injured lung, as well as exposure. She is the secretary to Stiley. The two were on their way to St. Petersburg on a business trip. Miss Duncan, visited by several family members as well as a boyfriend, John Worton, 26, of Key West, was taken out of the intensive care unit Friday and placed in a regular hospital room, a spokesman said. She was described as being in good spirits but has so far refused to talk to reporters. “She is a very attractive girl for what she has been through,” said John Leek, 28, a District of Columbia fireman was participated in the dramatic rescue of Mrs. Tirado and who saw Miss Duncan Friday about midday. “She’s in fine shape.”

a winter storm moved through north central Texas, leaving a coat of ice in its wake. (AP Laserphoto)

FTC cereal makers case goes snap, crackle, pop C. 1982 N.Y. Timo« Vows CorirSoo *„ __j ■■ .. ~ . .

c. 1982 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission voted Friday to dismiss a 10-year-old antitrust case in which the commission’s staff had charged the nation’s three largest cereal makers with operating a “shared monopoly” in violation of federal law. The commission agreed to dismiss the case against the Kellogg Co., General Mills and the General Foods Corp. by a 3-to-1 vote. This antitrust case, generating 20,000 pages of ri6co> JOES UTV St. Rd. 42 & in Cloverdale 795 3667 Mexican and American Food Offering Daily Lunch Special between 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. Open Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sat. 12 noon-9 p.m.

arguements and costing the goverment $5.9 million, was the last of the big antitrust cases pending this year. Friday’s ruling was foreshadowed last September, when an administrative law judge ruled in favor of the cereal makers. The judge, Alvin L. Berman, ruled that the commission staff had failed to prove its charges and recommended that the commission dismiss the case. His decision represented an unqualified rejection of the staff’s attempl to broaden the

Reagan pressed to approve tax hikes

c. 1982 N.Y. Times WASHINGTON Republican leaders of the Senate pressed President Reagan Friday to accept a $45 billion package of tax increases to bring the federal deficit down in the next two years. They said a decision by Reagan on the matter was “imminent.”

But Miss Duncan was not in such fine shape when she came to the hospital in an ambulance Wednesday night after spending 15 to 30 minutes in the river after the plane hit the 14th Street Bridge, which was jammed with bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic, and then plunged into the 32-degree water. Four motorists were killed on the bridge. “Kelly came in and she had blood on her head,” said Engh, the first doctor to treat her at the hospital. “It (her wound) was superficial. It was not an open wound. “She was in a state of shock, I think more emotional shock than anything. She was probably the most vocal of all the patients, in almost hysteria when she arrived ... It wasn’t anything that she was saying. She was just terrified, I think. I wouldn’t call it blatantly hysterical, but she was just obviously terrified.” Engh said every patient who came in wanted the same thing. “Every patient that was alert, all they wanted to do was be made warm,” the doctor said. “They weren’t complaining of their fractures. It was just, ‘Make me warm. Make me warm.’ That’s what they wanted. “She (Miss Duncan) was obviously soaking wet and extremely cold, all curled up trying to keep warm. And, of course, the rescue people had covered her with blankets but her wet clothes were on underneath. ’ ’ Engh said Miss Duncan remained in the emergency area for fewer than five minutes before she was taken to X-ray for more tests. She was there for about 10 minutes, he said. “After the initial business of getting her warm, she was fine,” Engh said. “I saw her in the ICU a little bit later and she was being warmed and she was quiet and relaxed ”

Other pilots saw ice on Air Florida jetliner

WASHINGTON (AP) - Divers pulled another eight bodies from the frozen Potomac River on Friday, but failed to retrieve voice and flight recorders that could substantiate mounting suspicions that a buildup of ice caused the Air Florida jetliner crash which took 78 lives. Francis McAdams, head of the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, said the Boeing 737 waited 45 to 49 minui.es between its last deicing and its takeoff Wednesday afternoon. Ice on an airplane can alter aerodynamics, add too much weight and jam wing and tail flaps. “Any time there is visible ice ... under the circumstances, it’s a definite issue,” McAdams told reporters Friday afternoon. McAdams, one of five mem-

Heiress remains in coma Jurors seated in von Bulow trial for attempted murder

NEWPORT. R.I. (AP) Sixteen people were seated as potential jurors Friday in the trial of Claus C. von Bulow, accused of twice trying to murder his heiress wife with insulin and barbiturate injections. Judge Thomas H. Needham stressed that all the potential jurors still could be excused before the trial gets under way, meaning that testimony may not begin for some time. Needham recessed the trial until Monday, when defense and prosecution lawyers begin exercising peremptory challenges, which permit them to reject prospective jurors without stating a reason. ‘‘Each side has eight (peremptory challenges), so,

reach of antitrust law to include practices that business leaders regard as ordinary and lawful. The staff, however, appealed Berman’s decision, since he had ruled against every major point of law presented. In the complaint, the commission staff said that the three cereal companies had acted as though they were one loose monopoly, setting prices for products among themselves, saturating the market with scores of their products to the exclusion of competition and refusing to sell “private labels”

After an hour-and-fifteen-minute session with Reagan at the White House, the senators said the president had still not made a final decision on whether to include tax increases in his budget. But their arranged appearance before reporters in the White House press room was another sign

bers of the National Transportation Safety Board, said a Braniff pilot saw ice on the 737 jet just before it took off, and one investigator said the pilot was several hundred feet away. Thursday night, McAdams said the plane was de-iced for the second time during its stop at National Airport between 3:10 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. It was cleared for its takeoff run at 23 seconds after 3:59 p.m., making the interval 45 t 049 minutes. NTSB spokesman Ira Furman said later the time given by McAdams for the second deicing was based on “an assumption” that the pilot did not receive a third de-icing before takeoff. The assumption is based on the fact that the plane left the departure gate at about 3:16 p.m., Furman said.

theoretically, each of you could be excused and we could have 16 different people try this case,” Needham told the panel the product of four days of preliminary screening by lawyers. The state alleges von Bulow, 55, twice tried to kill his wife with the injections during Christmas visits to their Newport mansion in 1979 and 1980. Martha “Sunny” von Bulow, 50, lies in a coma in a New York City hospital and is not expected to recover. She suffers frrom a low blood sugar condition called hypoglycemia. The defense contends she brought on the coma herself by indulging in sweets and alcohol.

to large retail chains. Thomas J. Campbell, the Reagan administration's new head of the commission's antitrust division, withdrew the staff’s appeal late last year. Friday, the commission, after giving the staff two more weeks to review the case, officialy dismissed it. All three Republicans, James C. Miller 3d, Patricia Bailey and David Clanton, voted for the dismissal, while the commission's sole Democrat, Michael Pertschuk, voted to hear the appeal.

that Reagan was prepared to overcome his own personal misgivings and approve some sort of “revenue improvement” measure. “Nobody wants to advocate tax increases,” said Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. “But we're concerned

Priscilla Tirado, one of only five survivors of Wednesday's crash of an Air Florida jet into the Potomac River, clings to a life preserver lowered by rope in this dramatic Associated Press photo, blurred by a heavy snowstorm. Mrs. Tirado is reported in satisfactory condition.

Air Florida has said it believed there were two deicings. McAdams and other investigators cautioned, as they have before, that they could not say whether the interval between de-icing and takeoff was too long, because the amount of ice on the plane would depend a great deal on the weather. The weather has not yet been analyzed closely, they said. Though most attention has been focused on icing, investigators Friday night continued to caution that many other things could have caused the crash and the determination of what did depends heavily on the flight recorders, which have not yet been recovered. Some of the other things investigators want to examine

Prosecutor Stephen R. Famiglietti, while posing his standard questions to a prospective juror, brought up the motive the state attributes to von Bulow. Noting that he is not required to prove there was any motive, Famiglietti said testimony will show von Bulow was in love with another woman at the time his wife lapsed into a coma. “Also the state is going to introduce evidence that, in addition to being in love with another woman, the defendant also stood to gain a great deal of money through the death of his wife,” he said. Mrs. von Bulow, heiress to a Pittsburgh utilities fortune, has an estate estimated at $35 million.

Among the cereal producers’ practices challenged as illegal were their prolific development of new brands to pre-empt competition and shelf space in supermarkets; their refusal to sell products under “private labels" to retail chains and their acceptance of “price leadership,” whereby one company, Kellogg, set the prices for the group. The commission complaint did not charge any conspiracy in the original complaint, but the issue was raised in the trial.

about the deficit in ’B3 and 84.” Also advocating tax increases were Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., the majority leader, and Sen Pete V. Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee “A decision is imminent," Baker said. “I think that within the next few days you will have a decision by the president."

are the state of the engines and fuel and whether slush had built up on the runway. McAdams said he expected the crumpled tail section containing the recorders to be raised from the icy Potomac on Saturday. It was not raised Friday because divers wanted to make sure no more bodies were in the tail, where eight bodies were found during the day, he said. The Boeing 737 hit the 14th Street Bridge seconds after it took off during a snowstorm, hit several vehicles on the crowded bridge, then plunged into the! Potomac, 100 yards short of a second span. Seventy-four of the plane’s 79 oassengers and crew members -vere killed, along with four people in vehicles on the bridge.

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PHILIP CLINE Ex-busboy guilty in Hilton fire LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP> Philip Cline, a former busboy, was found guilty of murder and arson Friday for starting a fire that killed eight people and injured 200 at the plush Las Vegas Hilton last Feb. 10. Prosecutors, repeating an earlier statement, said they would seek the death penalty for the 24-year-old defendant when the District Court jury returns for the penalty phase of the trial Wednesday. The verdict came after seven days of deliberation Cline shifted nervously as he waited for the jury to return and dropped his head when the court clerk read "guilty" on one count of arson and “guilty” on eight counts of first-degree murder. Ashen-faced, Cline was steadied by defense attorney Kevin Kelly as he left the packed courtroom. Kelly, tears streaming dowry his face, returned a few minutes later and said his client had “broken down” after leaving the courtroom. The lawyer declined further comment pen» ding completion of the penalty phase. Cline had worked at the hotel only two days prior to the blaze*