Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 79, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 December 1983 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 7,1983
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At least 90 dead in Madrid collision
MADRID, Spain (AP) Two Spanish jetliners collided on the ground in heavy fog today as they prepared to take off from Madrid, touching off a fiery blast and killing about 90 of the 135 people aboard, civil defense officials said. The accident occurred 10 days after a Colombian jet cfashed near Madrid, killing 181 of the 192 people aboard, and six years after the worst crash id aviation history the crash of two jumbos on the ground in heavy fog in the Canary Islands, which left 582 dead. Involved in today’s collision were an Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727 on its way to Rome with 84 passengers and nine crew members aboard and a DC-9 of Aviaco, a Spanish domestic airline, with 37 passengers and five crew aboard, on its way to Santander in northern Spain. 'The officials said the DC-9 was hit near its fuel tank, and
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all aboard were killed. Officials said about 47 were killed aaoard the Boeing. There was no official word on the cause of the accident, but Iberia and airport sources said the collision occurred as one or both airliners were accelerating in preparation for takeoff. Sources said they believed the Boeing 727 was traveling about 100 mph. The DC-9 was said to be destroyed in the crash and ensuing explosion and its wreckage scattered over more than a mile. “All we can see is a mass of wreckage, seats and screams coming from all sides,” said one radio reporter at the scene. Several hours after the collision hundreds of rescuers were seen combing through the steaming wreckage, wrapping parts of bodies in gray plaid blankets. Transport Minister Enrique
Shiite threat at root of blockade
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Secret Service blocked White House entrances with sandfilled dump trucks after receiving reports that Shiite Moslems planned to blow up the Washington fuaici in Wednesday editions. The newspaper, quoting unidentified sources, said police in Manassas, Va., received an anonymous letter warning that Shiites planned to ram the State Department headquarters on Thanksgiving-Day with a truck filled with explosives.
Baron, who controls commercial aviation in Spain, left a session of the Cabinet and went to the airport. Barajas Airport was closed to all incoming traffic today because of the fog. A number of flights were diverted to other Spanish airports, but some outgoing traffic was permitted to take off. An hour after the 9:45 a.m. (3:45 a.m. EST) collision, visibility at the airport was reportedly less than 130 feet. “We all heard the explosions, but no one could find the planes,” said Antonio Rodrigo, a baggage handler for Iberia who was loading an aircraft at the time of the collision. “We ran out towards the noise. A survivor had to lead us to the wrecks.” Noted Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros had been scheduled to take the DC-9 today, but changed his mind.
The Secret Service then received information, possibly from foreign sources, that the Shiites planned to blow up the White House, the Post said. Jack Smith, a spokesman for comment on the Post story “We have never discussed any of our intelligence,” he said. “It doesn’t do us any good to air that in public.” He called the report “sheer speculation.” Trucks laden with sand were placed at White House entrances on Thanksgiving Day.
Shuttle tests dispute Nobel Prize-winning theory
c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service HOUSTON - A Nobel Prizewinning theory about the physiology of the inner ear was shaken Tuesday in a test conducted by scientists aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Tuesday’s finding was an early product of a mission that is expected to provide significant advances in astronomy, solar physics, atmospheric studies, biology and materials processing. The inner ear study was a sidelight to research into the broader issue of the human body’s adaptation to space. The discovery, which came literally in the flickering of a crew member’s eye, was made as the Columbia, carrying the Spacelab research facility, was
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Flynt's sentence is 60 days (c) 1983 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO - Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, warned that the court would “tolerate no histrionics,” was found in contempt of court Tuesday and sentenced to 60 days in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Chief US. District Judge Frank J. McGarr found Flynt, who recently shouted obscenities at U.S. Supreme Court justices, in contempt for spitting and swearing at him. Flynt was appearing before McGarr to determine if he should be held in contempt for his actions Monday before U.S. Magistrate Olga Jurco. He threw a Soviet banner at Jurco’s bench, missing her by inches. He also hurled a string of obscenities at her. The appearance before Jurco followed Flynt’s arrest Sunday at O’Hare Airport, where he was charged with violating a federal court order prohibiting him from leaving Los Angeles County. Tuesday’s contempt hearing before McGarr began with a stern warning from the judge that he would not tolerate Flynt not addressing the court in a normal manner. Flynt, with Chicago lawyer Stephen Zucker advising him, made numerous motions, including requests for medical and psychiatric examinations, dismissal of the contempt petition, requests for his own lawyers from Los Angeles. Flynt also asked that McGarr bring in FBI officials to discuss his naming the source of a controversial tape in which a U.S. agent purportedly threatens automaker John Z. De Lorean during a drug investigation of De Lorean. When McGarr refused to therapist, Elinor Gibba, into ttie courtroom, Flynt spewed a string of obscenities at the judge and spat at him. Flynt, who is wheelchairbound because of an assassination attempt in 1978, was wheeled from the courtroom while still swearing at the judge.
SHUTTLE HIJINKS: Owen Garriott, Rob Parker and Brewster Smith
in its eighth day of flight. When warm air and then cool air were injected into the ears of Dr. Ulf
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Eileen Napoli is one of the lucky ones. The Glen Ridge, N.J., five-year-old already has a Cabbage Patch Kid doll and doesn't have to hope Santa can still find one this Christmas. (New York Times photo).
SIO,OOO surprise
Missing ulcer operation funds turn up in liquor cabinet
(c) 1983 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO Linda Manzano, who thought she was out SIO,OOO, got a pleasant surprise when the cash turned up in a liquor cabinet of a Northwest Airlines plane in the Phillipines. And because of an honest wuHtui m mu mnmm unwi who auiiruiiy handed in the unsealed cash-stuffed envelope, Manzano’s brother will be able to have an expensive ulcer operation. Manzano, 40, a suburban Berwyn jewelry store operator, says this is the story that has transformed her Christmas season from one of misery to
Merbold, one of the Spacelab crewmen on the Columbia, his eyes invariably flicked in the
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one of happiness: On Nov. 28, her cousin, Glorina Cazabal, was at O’Hare Airport on a Northwest Airlines jet bound for the Phillipines. Cazabal was on her way home after a vacation here. Manzano was late in arriving to bid (arewell to her cousin and to hand her a bulKy white sealed business envelope crammed with SIO,OOO in SIOO bills. All passengers already were on board, and no visitors were allowed inside. After much hesitation, Manzano gave the envelope to Northwest ticket agent Mary Majzner, who assured Manzano she
direction of the source of the changed temperature. They should not have done so in
Cabbage Patch popularity setting up 'custody battle'
c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service ATLANTA - Those Cabbage Patch Kids, the Christmas season’s fought-over big seller, are of disputed parentage. The dolls are the object of a custody battle between Xavier Roberts, a Georgian who says he is their creator, and Martha Nelson Thomas, a Kentuckian who says he took the idea from her. The dolls’ runaway popularity is new, but the conflict is not. Thomas filed suit against Roberts on Jan. 29, 1980, saying she was the originator of the soft sculpture dolls. Federal District Judge Charles Allen ruled last year in Louisville, Ky., that Roberts had used elements of her idea, but since she had not copyrighted her doll, there was no infringement. Still pending before the court is Thomas’s claim of unfair competition. That claim raises the basic contention that Roberts stole Thomas’s idea. Paula Osborne, president of the company that produces the cloth versions of the Cabbage Patch Kids and licenses the soft plastic models, acknowledged that Roberts had seen sculptures by Thomas and others but denied the idea was stolen. “He was the first to come up with this unique look,” Osborne said. “It’s not a copy of Martha Nelson’s.” According to Thomas, Roberts sought her out in 1976 at a crafts fair in Berea, Ky., and told her he wanted to sell her dolls at a gift shop he managed in Helen, Ga. She said she agreed but that the two subsequently quarreled over prices and she withdrew her dolls. Court records in Kentucky contain a letter Roberts wrote in 1977 to Thomas saying he would “carry your type of dolls, either made by you or someone else.” Jack Wheat, Thomas’s attorney, said Roberts testified on March 22, 1982, that he was “inspired” by Thomas’s work. “We tried to copy them as little children,” he testified, according to Wheat. “We kept experimenting with Martha’s.” Osborne says Thomas’s complaint is emotional. “I think the whole thing is just jealousy and envy on Martha Nelson’s part,” she said. “There have been soft dolls around for a long time.”
would get it to her cousin. Majzner then gave the envelope to a stewardess to pass along to Cazabal. After the plane took off, Manzano went home and called her brother in Manila and told him to expect the envelope and its contents For about 24 hours she felt her worries were over. “I was relieved until I received a long distance call from my brother who told me that Glorina didn’t get an envelope,” Manzano said. “Then I called Glorina and she told me she didn’t get any envelope from a stewardess.” Fearing she would never see
space, if the theory that explains why a standard earproblem test works was correct. In announcing the discovery, mission officials also said they still planned to let the astronauts and scientists remain in orbit an extra day, with the landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., set for Thursday at 10:58 a.m., EST. The theory that is now being disputed was the basic explanation for the effectiveness of a common clinical test used in diagnosing the dizziness caused by a malfunctioning inner ear. In the test, the doctor applies warm water to one ear and then cool water to the other ear and observes resulting eye movements that indicate the in-
Ling-Ling said to be 'seriously ill'
WASHINGTON (AP) - LingLing, the National Zoo’s female giant panda whose rocky love life has captivated America, is “seriously ill” with kidney failure and her chances of recovery are poor. Robert Hoag, special assistant to the zoo director, said Tuesday night Ling-Ling is suffering from kidney dysfunction and severe secondary anemia. “Her kidneys are impaired and ultimately may fail,” Hoag said. “We have a seriously ill panda. Her prognosis for recovery is poor.” Hoag said blood tests taken Tuesday afternoon showed the 12-year-old panda “to be extremely anemic and there is evidence of kidney failure.” He said that as of Tuesday night, veterinarians had ruled out a kidney transplant or dialysis.
her money again without help, she came in tears to the Chicago Sun-Times with her problem. “The most important thing is that my brother will still be there sick and we won’t be able to do anything to help,” she said weeping. “They may think I’m stupid tout all I toad in mind was"* to help my brother.” The next day she learned that a cleanup person in Manila had found the envelope, which had been unsealed, in the liquor cabinet of the plane. “I hope this will be the start,” she said. “God gave me a good Christmas present this year.”
ner ear’s response. People with the malfunction tend not to respond. Dr. Rudolf von Baumgarten, the principal investigator for one of the Spacelab experiments, explained that the theory about the response, known as the Barany effect, held that the thermal stimulus created convective currents in the fluid of the inner ear’s semicircular canal. These currents were believed to make the body think it was moving in one direction or another, thus causing the ear’s balancecontrolling vestibular organs to react accordingly. If they did not, doctors took this as a sign that defects in the organs are probably responsible for the bout of dizziness.
Hoag said Ling-Ling was anesthetized Tuesday afternoon and given a transfusion of blood from Hsing-Hsing, the zoo’s male panda, “to boost her critically low red blood cell count.” He added that she was being treated with antibiotics as well. “Ling-Ling’s medical con- . dition is much more serious than her general condition indicates,” Hoag said. “We hope it can be treated. However, her prognosis for recovery is poor ... Her condition is not something that can last forever.” Hoag said Ling-Ling’s problem was first discovered on Nov. 25. She was lethargc, didn’t eat and passed blood in her urine. “The day before she was active and appeared to be in good health,” Hoag said.