King’s flagship raised from watery grave
PORTSMOUTH, England (AP) — The
fragile skeleton of King Henry Vlll's flag
ship — the Mary Rose — was lifted from
its watery grave Monday, 437 years after
it sank in battle with the French
On July 19, 1545, Henry watched from
the battlements of Portsmouth as the
pride of the English fleet slipped beneath
the waves and carried 660 of its 700
crewmen to the bottom of the English
Channel.
More than four centuries later, in a
driving rain, Henry’s descendent Prince
Charles and television viewers across
the nation watched intently as the hulk
rose from the deep at the culmination of
history's most ambitious underwater ar
chaeological excavation.
As it broke the water's surface, the
Mary Rose was welcomed to the 20th
century by a cannon salute from nearby
Southsea Castle and the toots of fog
horns from dozens of pleasure craft
Divers and some 2,000 spectators on
shore cheered
A short time after the Mary Rose ap
peared, a steel pin in its lifting frame
sheared off, snapping a cable and caus
ing the frame to slip and tear away a
10-foot-long chunk of timber
"I was slightly horrified," said Charles,
who has made 10 dives to the wreck!
including one on Sunday "But I thought
the best thing to do was to be British and
not panic.” The prince, chief patron of
the Mary Rose Trust, sipped tea and
huddled with crewmen on the deck of a
diving vessel
Officials said the damage to the
framework would be repaired
The Tudor warship was placed aboard
a barge for transport into Portsmouth
harbor where it goes into drydock with
the HMS Victory, battleship of Lord Nel
son, Britain's greatest sea hero. Even
tually the Mary Rose and 17,000 artifacts
reclaimed from the wreck will be the
centerpiece of a new maritime museum
in a Portsmouth suburb
No one knows exactly why the Mary
Rose went to the bottom The 91-gun
carrack. named after Henry's sister Mary
Tudor, and flagship of the 100-ship fleet,
sank during a battle with a French ar
mada of overwhelmingly greater force
The battle was inconclusive
Three years ago. the Mary Rose Trust
was set up to raise funds — $6 84 million
— and oversee the recovery and display
of the vessel and contents
Reagan faux pas
airs on networks
NEW YORK (AP) — The White House declined comment
Monday on whether Pres Ronald Reagan s remark during a
microphone test that Polish officials are "lousy bums" should
have been aired by the broadcast networks
Robin Gray, a White House press aide, said Monday there
was "no comment" on the airing, which was first done by
NBC News and then repeated by ABC News after Reagan's
regular Saturday radio address
The White House had sought initially to bar the remark
from being broadcast, spokesmen for ABC and CBS said
In a microphone test conducted by White House Signal
Corps technicians before the radio address, Reagan called
the Polish government "a bunch of no-good lousy bums"
His remark did not go out over the air but was heard in
network studios
Reagan did not repeat the characterization during the
telecast address itself, but it was to become the focus of news
reports on Reagan's decision to cancel Poland s most
favored trade privileges after Poland banned the Solidarity
trade union.
ABC and CBS. which asked for permission to air the
remark, say they were denied such permission by the White
House on grounds that pre-broadcast comments about
sensitive subjects were not to be used
NBC News went ahead without asking for permission and
aired a tape of the Reagan's comment on its Saturday
evening newscast
We never asked for permission on the theory that not
only was it a good statement but also that the Signal Corps
had opened the line," said Mary Lou O'Callaghan, NBC's
manager of news infoimation "It was in the public domain as
far as we were concerned "
After NBC aired the remark, ABC News, which was
initially denied permission, got the go-ahead from Deputy
Press Secretary Peter Roussel and used a tape of the remark
on its 11 p m. newscast.
The AP Radio Network, which did not have a tape of the
pre-broadcast remark, quoted the Reagan remark in a
summary of the president's speech filed by reporter Frank
Sesno
Salvadoran leftists overrun town
SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador
(AP) — Seven hundred leftist
guerrillas overran a 100-man
army post and occupied a
nearby town 50 miles north of
San Salvador, killing at least
nine troops, officials said Mon
day
An army commander said
A-37 fighter planes and Huey
helicopters bombed and strafed
the area, but the rebels appar
ently still held the town 24 hours
later
A military spokesman said five
soldiers, including the base
commander, Lt Vicente Melen
dez, were killed when the big
guerrilla force attacked the
army base on a ranch Sunday.
He said four national guards
men were slain when the guer
rillas seized Las Vueltas, a
nearby town of 5,000 people.
There were 100 soldiers, and
they fought until their munitions
gave out," said an army spokes
man. Only 30 have reported
to their garrison We don't know
whether the rest are dead, cap
tured or fled into the
mountains."
He said 15 of the 30 were
wounded
Officials said the guerrillas
were equipped with grenade
launchers, machine guns and
automatic rifles
Operations to retake the area
were delayed by mines blocking
the road from Chalatenango,
the capital of the province.
Guerrillas also dynamited a
power line near Aguilares, 22
miles north of San Salvador,
overran a civil defense post in
r
the town and raided an army
post south of the town, a local
army commander reported
No casualties were reported
in those attacks, but the explo
sion blacked out the northern
part of San Salvador province
and Chalatenango province,
with a total of some 400,000
inhabitants. A power company
official said electricity should be
restored within 24 hours
bquatters battle police
over housing shortage
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
(AP) — Police battled young
demonstrators in the streets of
Amsterdam all day Monday after
officers cleared out a downtown
office building where squatters
had been protesting the city's
housing shortage
At one point rioters reached
the U S Consulate and tore
most of the double security
fence down, despite the efforts
of 100 police deployed around
the mission Police said the
demonstrators hurled paint and
rocks at the building, which was
closed for Columbus Day, but
made no attempt to enter
Mayor Wim Polak took un
precedented emergency mea
sures, empowering police to ar
rest on sight anyone suspected
of carrying a weapon or dis
turbing the peace.
Amsterdam's elegant mu
seum quarter erupted in
violence when youths and
others protesting the chronic
housing shortage swarmed
around a three-story building
where squatters had held out all
year.
rat Oils losing weight
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -
Fat soldiers at Fort Bragg are
winning their battle of the bulge,
a base surgeon says.
Maj. Harold Timboe of the
Army's 82nd Airborne Division
said all but one of 125 soldiers
involved in a program called
“Lifestyle" have lost weight.
Overweight soldiers were put
on 500-calorie meals in March.
They must sign in at a special
mess hall or face discipline from
commanders. The troops also
have b3en counseled weekly
and given daily exercise.
Food at the Lifestyle mess hall
consists of fruits and vegeta
bles, a salad bar with more than
a dozen ingredients and a
selection of baked or boiled
meats and steamed or boiled
vegetables.
Timboe said about 250 of the
base’s 16,000 soldiers were
identified as overweight.
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